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The state tax department launched a review Tuesday of allegations that President Trump committed fraud by dodging millions of dollars in taxes over the course of several years.
The state tax department launched a review Tuesday of allegations that President Trump committed fraud by dodging millions of dollars in taxes over the course of several years.
Kaci Hickox was placed in quarantine under a policy announced on Friday by New Jersey governor Chris Christie and New York governor Andrew Cuomo, which requires anyone flying into the states after having contact with Ebola sufferers in west Africa to be subject to mandatory isolation for 21 days
1st development: much-needed quarantine is now in place, but only in two states. That leaves 48 others where the disease can enter much more easily.
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Hickox had sharp criticisms of the additional restrictions. She wrote: "This is not a situation I would wish on anyone, and I am scared for those who will follow me."
Okay, it sucks to be quarantined for 3 weeks. You know what sucks more? Killing a few thousand innocent people because you were allowed to recklessly spread a highly contagious disease. I'm sorry for your inconvenience Ms. Hickox, but you volunteered to expose yourself to the most deadly contagion on the planet. It has already killed numerous doctors and nurses. That has been the main transmission pathway taking it across long distances.
Now I hope the authorities are not mistreating anyone, but the basic fact of quarantining is not cruel or unusual punishment. Quarantined people should be put up in nice accommodations and given access to communications and whatever luxuries make the stay comfortable. But they should not be allowed to risk the public's safety after dealing directly with ebola patients. There's no wiggle room here.
She is angry because she isn't showing symptoms–yet. Well that's how it works, and she above all should know that. If we are to contain this pandemic we need to take strong actions to prevent new people from becoming infected. Common sense, finally, after reckless incompetence has guided the policy for almost a year.
development 3: The government, Obama in particular, likes to hide behind the empty slogan "science." The actual science has shown there's a 12% chance that 21 days is not long enough. That crucial science is missing from pretty much all news coverage so far.
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"Only 6 percent of US hospitals are well-prepared to receive a patient with the Ebola virus, according to a survey of infection prevention experts at US hospitals conducted Oct. 10-15."
"Craig Spencer, a 33-year-old emergency room doctor, returned from Guinea more than a week ago and reported Thursday coming down with a 103-degree fever and diarrhea."
So how many people can you pass a bug to in a week? More to the point, all it takes is one who doesn't know he/she's been contaminated with Ebola to start an epidemic here in the US.
A Doctors Without Borders doc who was treating Ebola patients should have been QUARANTINED, not allowed to run around New York City. But, that would make TOO MUCH FUCKING SENSE!!!
I am disgusted with the mindless obfuscators who have been ignoring reality to score political points almost as much as with the White House and CDC.
Perhaps this species is just too fucking stupid and crazy to go the distance?
by KIM NICOLINI
I saw my first film of the new year last night – The Central Park Five, a documentary about the five black and Latino boys who were falsely accused, bullied into confessing, and then served time for the rape and beating of the Central Park Jogger back in 1989. After serving 6-13 years in prison, the boys were exonerated of the crimes when the true rapist confessed and his DNA matched that found on the crime scene.
Certainly this film is a devastating story of racial injustice and the failure of the American criminal system. The film was made by famed PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns based on a book by his daughter Sarah Burns, and it largely focuses on the stories of the surviving boys (who are now men), their families, and archival footage.
The police, lawyers, and District Attorney involved in the case refused to participate. They are included in the documentary via archival footage, including the videotaped confessions which were extorted from the boys, four of whom were fourteen years old at the time of the crime and one who was sixteen.
During their 30 hours plus of interrogation, they had no legal representation, no child advocates, no social services presence, and no contact with their parents and family. They eventually confessed, being fed the details by the cops, simply to "make it stop." Their confessions were inconsistent, full of errors and mistakes. None of the boys' DNA was found at the crime scene; likewise, none of the DNA of the victim was found on the boys, though the crime was brutal and bloody. The boys were convicted on the sole evidence of the false confessions that were forced out of them by the brutal interrogation of the Central Park Precinct detectives.
Certainly this is a tragic tale of race in this country. It is particularly resonant after recently seeing Django Unchained. (I'll be publishing my essay on that film next week). What is most interesting to me is how this incident was used by the media and governing forces as a catalyst event to propagate and reignite racial fear in this country. The terminology used to reference the boys by the so-called liberal media was as dehumanizing as that of the Jim Crow south. The boys were referred to as a "wild pack" who were "wilding" and terrorizing white people. They were spoken and written about as if they were wild animals, something less than human.
I remember the incident well. I was a woman jogger at the time, and I recall how this single incident framed a new Environment of Fear which was based on the threat of the black man against the white woman. It is the same fear that was propagated during Reconstruction (post Civil War America), when it was within the economic interest of white power to keep black men demonized.
It must be noted, that the Central Park Five event occurred in the wake of the ongoing fallout from the economic recession following Reaganomics. During hard economic times, the country likes to find a scapegoat for the economic chaos and despair that permeates the environment. In the case of the Central Park Five, the media, police and government forces created Wilding and the fear of Blacks in Packs. Also, it must be noted that censorship of black music was instituted at this time.
Certainly demonizing "the racial other" is nothing new in this country, but I see the Central Park Five incident as a kind of historical pivotal moment in the Post Civil Rights Era when American governing forces began re-escalating its reign of terror on people of color, immigrants and the disenfranchised (see the institution of the Patriot Act and Homeland Security for evidence). We have to remember that this country and its economic base were largely founded on racial demonization and dehumanization. Slavery was the economic backbone of early America. When the slaves were freed, many of them ended up packed away in housing projects such as those that tower the streets of Harlem. When housing projects didn't work to contain America's Big Ugly History, prisons were expanded and race was largely criminalized. This trend has not stopped to this day and certainly played a role in the Central Park Five.
To me, the most tragic part of the film is that when the boys are finally exonerated of their crimes, they greet this news with a kind of quiet and devastating resignation and acceptance. Certainly they are happy to no longer have to be "registered sex offenders" for the crimes they never committed, but there is also a sense that they feel that "this is just how things are in this country." And the sad truth is that this is how things are in this country.
One boy who is now a man says with tears in his eyes (I paraphrase), "I will never get those years of my life back. No prom. No high school. They have been taken from me, and I will always have this hole or gap in my life where those years were stolen." Yet, he also seems to accept it as a fact of life in America, a country that was founded on "stolen lives," the legacy of which still largely lives and breathes up in Harlem where these boys lived.
It is a sobering and sad film. It is also critical to revisit this case to remember what it stood for as emblematic of the paradigm shift that occurred during the Reagan years and continued as we moved into the era of ultra conservatism that continues to dominate our political landscape today. We have not come a long way, baby. Not by a long shot.
Kim Nicolini is an artist, poet and cultural critic living in Tucson, Arizona. Her writing has appeared in Bad Subjects, Punk Planet, Souciant, La Furia Umana, and The Berkeley Poetry Review. She recently published her first book, Mapping the Inside Out, in conjunction with a solo gallery show by the same name. She can be reached at knicolini gmail com.


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Boys Basketball Tuesday Scoreboard, 1/24/17
Class A North
Freehold Boro 51, Manalapan 40
Senior Jermaine Moore scored 14 points on four three-pointers and the Colonials (2-13, 2-7) downed the Braves (2-12, 0-9) for the second time this season. Senior Justice Jubilee and sophomore Quincy Davis each added 11 points, with Davis also hauling in 11 rebounds.
CBA 62, Howell 44
Sophomore Liam Kennedy scored a game-high 18 points and the Colts (10-5, 5-4) beat the Rebels (4-10, 2-7) to sweep the season series. Senior Lucas Waraksa added 13 points for CBA, while junior Nasiem Brantley led Howell with 15.
No. 8 Marlboro 57, Colts Neck 45
Senior P.J. Ringel scored 18 points to go with 10 rebounds and five steals as the Mustangs (10-4, 7-2) pulled away to beat the Cougars (8-6, 5-4) for the second time this season. Junior Dylan Kaufman added 13 points for Marlboro.
Junior Dan Gaines led Colts Neck with 18 points and junior Ben Bosland added 11 in defeat.
No. 3 Freehold Twp. 67, No. 6 Neptune 39
Senior Bobby Weise and Ja'zeem Foster scored 18 points each to lead four Freehold Township players in double-figures as the Patriots (15-0, 9-0) hammered the Scarlet Fliers (9-5, 6-3) for the second time this season. Weise connected on four three-pointers in the first half and grabbed six rebounds, while Foster scored 14 points in the second half and added three steals.
Senior Steve Staklinski scored all 12 of his points in the first half, while senior Ryan Zyskowski added 11 points for Freehold Township.
Sophomore D.J. Jones led Neptune with 12 points off the bench.
Class A Central
Holmdel 46, Raritan 43
Senior Nick Harris scored a game-high 16 points and the Hornets (6-6, 5-3) edged the Rockets (5-9, 2-6) in a game that was tight throughout. Senior Mike Simurro added 10 points and junior Tim Zhou netted nine for Holmdel.
Senior Justin Black led Raritan with 11 points.
No. 4 Rumson-Fair Haven 59, Matawan 58
Junior Jack Solano was fouled on a three-point attempt with two second left and knocked down two of the three attempts to give the Bulldogs (12-1, 7-0) a narrow win over the Huskies (7-7, 4-4) just two days after Rumson narrowly lost to Roselle Catholic. The loss also snaps a five-game winning streak by Matawan.
Freshman John Buekers scored on a feed from junior Reggie Tawiah with eight seconds left to give Matawan a 58-57 lead before Solano came back down and drew the contact that led to the winning free throws.
Solano finished with 15 points while sophomore Ian O'Connor led Rumson with 17. Senior Tyler Pierson also poured in 15 points for the Bulldogs, who still have yet to lose against Shore Conference competition.
Senior Patrick Hennessy led Matawan with 17 points and junior Mike Dunne flirted fell just shy of a triple-double with 13 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists. Tawaiah finished with 14 points as well.
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Class A South
No. 5 Toms River North 69, Southern 63
Senior Jaden Rhoden scored 18 points and grabbed 10 boards to help the Mariners (15-1, 8-0) hold off the Rams (4-12, 2-7) and remain unblemished in Class A South. Junior Holden Petrick added 16 points and senior Darrion Carrington pitched in 14 points and seven assists. Senior Mike Husni also threw in nine points off the bench.
Senior Mark Valeriani led Southern with a game-high 25 points thanks to six three-pointers. Junior Jake DuBois added 15 points, four assists and three steals while junior Thomas Foster also scored 15 points for Southern.
Toms River East 60, Toms River South 52
Junior Zyaire Dorn scored 18 points and the Raiders (3-9, 1-8) topped the crosstown-rival Indians (4-8, 3-5) to earn their first win in Class A South. Junior Trevor Zabilowicz added 14 points and junior Nick Shortino pitched in 10 points, five rebounds and five assists. Junior Nick Silvia also contributed seven points and 14 rebounds and sparked his team with a big dunk in the fourth quarter.
Senior Jake Regan led Toms River South with 18 points and senior Jason Porter scored 12 in the loss.
Class B North
Wall 69, Middletown South 41
Senior Gene Scott scored 19 points and the Crimson Knights (7-7, 4-5) routed the Eagles (3-12, 2-7). Junior Steve Geis and freshman Quinn Calabrese each added 14 points for Wall.
Junior Ryan Purcell led Middletown South with 16 points.
Long Branch 56, Ocean 44
Junior Tyree Morris scored a game-high 23 points and the Green Wave (9-4, 7-2) beat the Spartans (10-5, 4-5) for their seventh straight win and moved into a first-place tie with Manasquan in B North. Senior Cascius Briggs also pumped in 18 points for Long Branch, which began the season 1-4 before beginning its current streak.
Freshman Jack Miller scored 16 points to lead Ocean while junior Andrew Seager netted 12 in the loss.
Middletown North 69, Monmouth 55
Sophomore Rob Higgins led a balanced offensive attack with 12 points, seven rebounds and seven assists as the Lions (9-6, 6-3) rolled to a win over the Falcons (2-12, 0-9).
Senior Matt Pinckney also scored 12 points for Middletown North and senior Marc Cerbo poured in 11 in the win. Senior Isaiah McDowell and juniors Sky Cherry and Dave Campbell all had eight points as well for Middletown North.
Senior Tyler Hawkins led Monmouth with a game-high 15 points.
Red Bank Catholic 55, No. 10 Manasquan 44
Senior Mike Conley stuck four three-pointers and scored a game-high 19 points to lead the Caseys (9-5, 6-3) to a key Class A Central win over the Warriors (10-5, 7-2). Senior Terence Calandrillo added 11 points and junior John Kelly poured in 10 for Red Bank Catholic.
Devin Jensen - the Shore's leading scorer entering play - scored just 10 points against the RBC defense Tuesday. Sophomore Brad McCabe also threw in nine points for Manasquan.
Class B Central
Keansburg 41, Henry Hudson 38
Junior Danny Vital scored 13 points and junior Paul Eckleberry put up 10 points and 20 rebounds to lead the Titans (7-5, 4-5) to a win over the Admirals (1-13, 1-7).
St. Rose 76, Asbury Park 43
Senior Brendan Hueth and junior Ethan Tombs each scored 14 points and the Purple Roses (9-5, 6-3) coasted to a win over the Blue Bishops (2-12, 2-7). Senior Billy Frost added 11 points and junior Sean Culley poured in 12 off the bench.
Class B South
Jackson Liberty 50, Pinelands 33
Sophomore Daniel Sofield scored 19 points, pulled in 16 boards and swiped three steals to lead the Lions (3-11, 3-6) to a win over the Wildcats (2-15, 1-8). Senior Nico Montano chipped in nine points and five assists for Jackson Liberty, while sophomore Anthony Diaz led Pinelands with eight points.
Manchester 54, Donovan Catholic 46
Senior L.J. Robinson scored a game-high 25 points to carry the Hawks (6-8, 4-5) to a road win over the first-place Griffins (8-6, 7-2). Junior Markese Davis and senior Zion Murunga each added eight points for Manchester.
Junior Joe San Fillippo led Donovan Catholic with 16 points and junior Anthony Silvestrone added 11 in defeat.


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#Zero is the biggest disaster of independent India after Demonetization and GST implementation. We will propose a bill unanimously in the parliament to stall the release of this film. Congress shall not bow down while innocent public are being tortured. #ZeroReview— RahuI Gandhi (@RahuIGandhl) December 19, 2018
Strict action to be taken against cinema owners if any cinema in Uttar Pradesh will run #zero.— Yogi Adityanath (@yogladityanath) December 19, 2018
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ITCHY-O returns to Summit Denver for Hallowmass 2019
57-member music collective celebrates fifth year of participatory performance and ceremony
DENVER, CO (July 10, 2019) – Multisensory group Itchy-O returns to the Summit Music Hall for their annual Hallowmass performance and offertory Thurs., Oct. 31 and Fri., Nov. 1.
Now entering its fifth year, the annual event packs all the otherworldly elements standard with an itchy-O experience – percussion, high-voltage, pyrotechnics, pandemonium – and invites the audience to take part in a sacramental shrine-building process.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a memento of someone past, present or future to offer up to an altar erected and attended by the ceremonial experts from Ritualcravt. These items will then be respectfully burned in a public All Souls After-Ceremony (location TBA) November 2nd also conducted by Ritualcravt.
A portion of proceeds from the show will also benefit Denver-based music education nonprofit, Youth on Record.
Fellow interdimensional travelers Magic Sword mix fuzzed-out electronic foundations into soaring anthems, while PPL MVR wield wild and destructive performances like an axe and are best described as "sasquatch rock." Magic Sword (10/31) and PPL MVR (11/1).
Presenters include Twist & Shout Records, Colorado Public Radio's Indie1023, Meow Wolf Denver, Do303, Suspect Press, Ritualcravt, and Birdy.
Service-Fee-Free Hard Tickets are available at Mutiny Information Cafe, City, O' City and online.
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ITCHY-O's 5th ANNUAL HALLOWMASS
Thurs., Oct 31 and Fri., Nov. 1
Summit Music Hall
w/Magic Sword (10/31), PPL MVR (11/1)
$25 advance, $30 day-of; $40 two-night pass
Doors: 8 p.m.
Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake Street, Denver, CO 80202
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Why not open up the Island of New Guinea?
THE Papua New Guinea National Research Institute has released its latest publication today for public discussion. The report titled: "Why not open up the island of New Guinea?" is an opinion piece by the PNG NRI Director Dr Charles Yala.
This article puts out for public discussion, especially within Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Indonesia, the idea of opening up the Island of New Guinea. It suggests that four Cities (three maritime cities and one hinterland city) and three Highways (North South, East and West, all passing through the hinterland city) as the core elements of the proposal to open up the island of New Guinea.
"The economic impact of this proposal would be significant for both PNG and Indonesia, because it links PNG and Indonesia to the fastest growing economies of the World: Asia to both the West and North, and Australia and New Zealand to the South," Dr Yala said.
Dr Yala stated that there are engineering, financial, social, cultural, political, economic, and security considerations for all who would be affected by this proposal.
"The proposal has the potential to develop an integrated economic community within this part of the world and place PNG and Indonesia, especially West Papua, on a path to sustained, broad-based growth and development. This proposal complements two other major projects: the Maritime Silk Road being advanced by China (China - Southeast Asia -Pacific Islands), and the Northern Australia Policy proposed by the Australian government for the development of the northern half of the Australian continent," Dr Yala said.
Dr Yala asserts that if this idea is progressed by PNG and Indonesia, it could be a good candidate project for the newly-established Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
"I am inviting genuine discussions with a view to progress this project because the potential economic gain for all inhabitants of the Island of New Guinea, and more specifically for the broader PNG community and Indonesia, in my view is significant," Dr Yala said.
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Merili's Wine tells the story of a young woman who appears to have the perfect life. But, everything changes after her parents are suddenly killed in a freak plane crash. She becomes a recluse and turns to alcohol.
Her friend Lisa becomes concerned and tries to get her back to her life. She invites her to a party and introduces her to Dan, a young and brilliant doctor. The energy between them is hot and fiery, sometimes out of control.
They live in a 'dream world' acting as if everything is fine that is until things begin to crumble-or do they?
This is an honest story about the struggle between addiction and sobriety. It's not an 'everything ends up beautiful in the end' story. But, it does end up 'real' and you'll find yourself falling in love with Merili and the characters she meets along her way in Hawaii where the book is set. This is an important book for our time and will have you crying as well as laughing at the absolute humanness of the story.
This story came to me after Dylan Roof murdered 9 people at Emanuel African Church in South Carolina for no reason. I couldn't get the story out of my head. I couldn't stop thinking about why would someone do this? What drives them? I'm not sure I got a clear answer. Prejudice runs so deep in our society, and it's difficult for someone like me to truly understand the impact one suffers but I gave it my best. I love this story and I hope you will too.
When Simone and her family are attacked by a car full of Southern white men, she determines to dedicate her life to change things for blacks in the South.
Chase, whose daddy smacks him when he roots for a black baseball player, turns inward and later turns to drugs to fights depression and loneliness. When these two find themselves intertwined in each other's lives, under circumstances no one could have predicted, what happens isn't what the reader might expect.
Forgiveness is the doorway to healing. Many of us spend our lives angry and full of resentment. In The Heart of Forgiveness you'll discover how to release the toxic negativity of anger and resentment from your life.
When I began writing this book, it was because I knew that I had to learn to forgive myself and others. The tools in this book will help you to focus more on your own needs and re-assess how you were looking at things. I hope this book becomes a tool for your life to change positively. Life is for loving, not for anger and hate.
In The Heart of Forgiveness, you'll find tools that you can begin using right away to begin to forgive others and yourself.
What does Jeff do that turns Bonnie's world upside-down? After all, he just wanted to be nice and have her over for dinner. But, what happened at dinner changes their relationship and brings challenges neither one of them anticipated. Now, things are getting interesting.
Bonnie's Surprise is a short story about two people who fall in love in the later part of their life. This sweet story shows how it doesn't really matter what age you are;
falling in love is an all-consuming ordeal. Bonnie is sure that her morals have been compromised when Jeff tries to kiss her. "I'm a good Catholic girl after all!" Jeff doesn't give up, and pursues Bonnie with all of his heart and soul. A great story to make you smile and feel good.
The Broken road is a compilation of some of Amara's work. It includes several of her short stories, poetry and previews of her two next works-Merili's Wine and The Prayer. This is a great read for those that wish for instant gratification. Amara's stories are poignant, colorful and have the ability to capture the reader's heart as they get to know her characters. This book is for those that anjoy stories about people who have to overcome obstacles in their lives, contemporary poetry, love and romance stories and a look into the lives of people who must look within themselves to discover what they are truly made of.


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Minutes for Confirmation
Thursday 5 August 2010
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Report 1
Portfolio: Governance
Establishment of a New Council Controlled Trading Organisation to Manage the Merged Operations of the St James Theatre Charitable Trust and the Wellington Convention Centre
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Report 2
Portfolio: Urban Development
Revocation of Previous Resolutions Relating to Inner City Land
Resolution to Exclude the Public
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Report 2 - Revocation of Previous Resolutions Relating to Inner City Land
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Pancakes are one of my favorite breakfast foods. You can customize them with different toppings. Strawberries and chocolate chips happen to be my favorite. I never said I eat healthy all the time! Purchasing pancakes from the store is far from budget friendly. A large bag of pancakes costs around $5 in the store. WhileRead more


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17% of the American people believe passage of the health care legislation will achieve the stated goal of reducing health care costs. Fifty-seven percent (57%) think it will lead to higher costs. SOURCE
Is the Democrat control Congress listening to the people? I can answer that very easy, NO! Do the Democrats care what the American people want, another easy answer, NO! So what are we the people going to do about it come election day? This voter will cast his vote to send them packing toward home with their tail between their legs! What will you do, be timid and roll over, play dead and take what ever they give you? Most likely, if not tell me I'm wrong!


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WE SAID IT under the headline, and we'll say it again – this here article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Proceed with caution.
The latest Star Wars film has been very contentious among diehard fans of the series – they particularly don't like the bit where Luke uses the Force to project a 'hologram' of himself into battle to fool Kylo Ren and buy the Resistance some time to escape.
According to these fans, in this completely imaginary space universe that some guy dreamed up, it simply isn't possible for someone to astral project themselves on to another planet.
Director Rian Johnson shed some light on the subject pretty easily yesterday by tweeting some pages from a sacred Jedi text (AKA an official reference book brought out in 2010).
Doppelganger, or similfuturus, permits a Jedi to create a short-lived duplicate of himself or herself or an external object that is virtually indistinguishable from the real item.
Well then. Back in our box.
Johnson has been gamely debating different plot points with fans since the film came out last month – he usually mines his knowledge of Star Wars to answer questions, but we like this reasoning of why Leia was able to use the Force to float through space:
Thank you Rian, you've answered most of our questions satisfactorily. (But we still want to know why Kylo had his top off in that scene. DM us.)
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How Visiting UC Davis Totally Changed My B-School Plan
First, let me give you some background of my thought process before applying to business school.
I was working full-time in human resources in Southern California and loving it. I didn't want to pause my career for school, so I applied to working professional (part-time) MBA programs in the area. The programs were great and exactly what I expected. But on a whim, I decided to apply to the UC Davis Graduate School of Management (GSM). It was located close to my family, and I thought it might be nice to be closer. Although I knew the school was reputable, I didn't truly entertain the idea because I didn't want to uproot my entire life in SoCal.
Fast forward to the first time I stepped into Gallagher Hall. I walked in the door and suddenly, the heavens opened up, and my life was complete. Just kidding. To be honest, I was relatively skeptical because I had pretty much made my decision to attend a part-time program. That skepticism disappeared very quickly.
It is a rare occurrence that I enjoy an interview conversation as much as I did on that day. The admissions director and I talked about everything ranging from the diverse student body and individual decisions on attending business school to some embarrassing moments and my obsession with my dog. Within minutes, we were having a conversation that was insightful, thought-provoking and even made me laugh!
Thought 1: Dang, the staff here is awesome.
Next on the agenda was talking to an MBA student ambassador. We talked about the ups and downs of business school, the class, the professors, etc. I learned so much from him and, best of all, he was real with me. I remember him saying, "Business school is hard, but you'll handle it if it's something you really want to do." As a skeptic, I was 100% prepared to see through his salesmanship and discover the truth. The feedback he gave me was genuine and raw. I was impressed with what he had to say about the program. So much of what he said has stuck with me over this last year.
Thought 2: It's refreshing to hear that from a student perspective, the program is worthwhile inside class, at the GSM, and out in the workforce.
After lunch, I had the opportunity to sit-in on an Investment Analysis class. As someone whose background is solely in human resources, this was new stuff for me. Again, I'm going to be honest with you, I did not understand most of what was being discussed, but what fascinated me was the dynamics in the small classroom. It wasn't a professor just lecturing at his students. It was a collaborative discussion between everyone in the class. There were lecture slides, but those were used to incite thoughtful questions and answers. I had never seen such valuable conversation in this setting before.
Thought 3: These professors know what they're doing and are truly preparing their students for careers in business.
I spent the next hour talking with students and touring the school. I took mental notes of the interactions between everyone to try and get a further feel for the GSM "vibe." People were having fun, joking around, having lunch, and working on group projects together. I could see the collaboration between the students and how much they enjoyed working with each other.
Thought 4: Environment? Check. Good culture? Check.
I went home and sat down to think about everything I had learned. It was a BIG decision to make. I evaluated what it meant for me to go to a part-time program down in SoCal vs. going to Davis. Like a true Type A, I put pen to paper and made a pros and cons list.


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Hunt Receives Award For Problem Gambling Prevention Education
Scott Hunt, Ph.D., Professor, School of Justice Studies was recently presented with an "Education Award" from the Kentucky Council on Problem Gambling (KYCPG) for his "dedicated, progressive leadership in education and treatment initiatives related to compulsive and problem gambling."
Hunt's Education Award nomination was approved unanimously by the KYCPG board in recognition of his contributions to outreach education furthering the KYCPG mission and was presented on Friday, February 5, 2016 at the Council's annual conference.
Left to right: Scott Hunt and Michael R. Stone, KYCPG Executive Director
The KYCPG, who's mission is to increase awareness of problem gambling, promote prevention and research, and advocate for the availability of treatment, presents up to four awards annually: Jim Cooke Leadership Award (for individual meritorious service), the Government/Education Award, the Industry Award, and the Media Award. All are based on merit and must be approved by the KYCPG Board.
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Orbea have updated their popular Orca Aero model for 2020 with new technology, a new look and new features.
Bicycling Australia are currently testing & reviewing the Orca Aero M21e Team D - a bike fitted with SRAM Force AXS 12-speed, Vision 40mm wheels, Hutchinson tubeless ready tyres and more.
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*Momma_B* Says:
This is my second's daughter's name. It's beautiful and strong. We call her Lexi or Lex for short, not Alex which sounds more masculine.
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My name is Alexandria nn Ali. My mom was adamant that I was NOT Alexandra
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I love this name! I wouldn't pick a name just for the nicknames, but look at the possibilities :)
Aria, Ally, Alex, Lexie--even Zandie, if you want, just to name a few! I'm most definitely using Alexandria for first or middle name if I ever have a daughter. I think it's strong and feminine. And a great name she can grow into.
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Well, there are about a dozen nicknames you can use in the name Alexandria! :D
And I like long names. I understand too many people don't understand long names when they read them, but it's really not that difficult. It's in my top 3 :)
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Its my name! Bella Mia is what my grandmother calls me :D yay i found it!!
Thepandaprincess223 Says:
This name in my eyes looks so much more appealing than Alexandra, sure she might from time get called Alexandra, but this name is still popular so that doesn't really bother me.
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The inner book and history nerd within me would probably make this a middle name because of The Library of Alexandria.
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I totally agree. Alexandra is lovely, and I also like Alexa, Alexia and even Alessia, but this 5-syllable version feels overblown.
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I like this name a lot more than Alexandra. I'm worried that 5 syllables is too much though. I never realised it was so popular! It's a very exotic name :)
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I think it sounds too fussy.
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Love this name, wanted to name son Alexander but didn't. I did however for my daughters middle name.
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The Kingston Hotel, or "The Kingo" as the locals call it is one of Canberra's original watering holes and has become one of the Canberra's most popular pubs. It has been the scene of political coups, espionage and the early deal makings that shaped the heart of the nation. Most recently, there has even been a push for the iconic pub to land a spot on the ACT heritage list.
President of the Canberra and District Historical Society Nick Swain said the hotel was associated with notable incidents in 20th century espionage, including the Petrov affair and the "faceless men" incident. The 36 faceless men saga saw the Labor Party's then leadership team of Arthur Calwell and Gough Whitlam photographed standing outside The Kingston Hotel in the dark of night waiting for members of the party's national executive meeting inside to instruct them on American plans to build a base in Western Australia.
The Kingo, understandably has become a cultural Canberra icon. There is a hardcore following as it has continued as the more traditional style of an Aussie pub rather than choosing to evolve into the more contemporary hipster bar; Attracting crowds from all walks of life. In the early years of Canberra's history it was illegal to buy alcohol between 1911-1928 and Canberrans used to travel over the border to Queanbeyan to get their stash. The Kingston Hotel was one of the first pubs to open after the law was abolished and has been serving the community for over 80 years.
Located five minutes from the Canberra CBD and Two minutes from Canbhol this pub takes a unique approach to the Canberra social landscape. The Kingo offers the iconic pub experience with boutique beers on tap, live sport and well-priced food options. There is no shortage when choosing a meal with two dining bistros and a "Cook Your Own" feature in The Steakhouse. Making this a must visit pub! Book your accommodation with Canbhol now!


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We built the fair booth for Immowelt in the style of a viral and very successful ad-campaign music video. From a sauna area with a tattooist over a cosy room to a palace with an adjacent terrace, all the individual living spaces from the 'film at the trade fair' were experienced by visitors who appreciated the overall effect and the attention to detail.
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1) In chapter three of Forensic psychology Reconsidered: A Critique of Mental Illness and the Courts, the authors provide a brief history of mental illness in America. Discuss the Ways in which the beginning treatment of the mentally ill in America reflects certain general aspects Of the current situation.
2) In chapter four of Forensic Psychology Reconsidered: A Critique of Mental Illness and the Courts, the topic of competency to stand trial is discussed. First, briefly identify the conceptualization of this topic and its importance in American jurisprudence and then identify and discuss the
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3) In chapter five of Forensic Psychology Reconsidered: A Critique of Mental Illness and the Courts, a variety of other pre-trial competency issues are discussed. Of particular focus is the issue of waiving the right to counsel. Discuss the various issues raised in the three Supreme Court rulings discussed in class related to the topic of the right to refuse assistance of counsel.
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Traditionally, mental illness was taken as a genre of religious punishment in America. Other times, it was seen as the possession of evil spirit or just a mere act. It was in the 1840's that some light was shed on this issue. An activist named Dorothea Dix urged people to understand mentally ill people and give them better living conditions that could foster recuperation (Polizzi & Draper, 2015). This was after the activist witnessed the disgusting condition in which these disadvantaged members of the community lived in. Worse was how the society treated them. Any wrongdoing that they perpetrated was taken as an intentional action. As a result, they were punished as same as perpetrators of sober mind.


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Students of the Month recognized by RASD Board
The Ridgway Area School District's monthly meeting began Tuesday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. following a short executive session.
Rita Buhite a Ridgway Area K-12 STEM teacher, gave a detailed introduction to the District's upcoming plan to integrate computer programming into every class level at both schools, in her "Dream Big" plan.
From Kindergarten to seniors, every class will have computer programming, digital citizenship and media designing built in as a standard part of the curriculum. By the fall, two AP-level computer programming courses, AP computer science principals and AP computer science, will be available for students at the high school with all grades incorporating digital learning and literacy as basic level classes.
Buhite also gave an overview of her newly-started Media and Design Computer Club which will be going to state competition as well as on a field trip to Google Headquarters in Pittsburgh in the next few months. The board members praised her efforts and promised to work with her on the implementation of all these programs across both schools.
Students of the Month were joined by high school Principal Thomas A. Podpora, FSG Principal Pam Yeager, Superintendent Heather McMahon-Vargas, and Board President Aimee Kemick. Olivia Frantz from grade four and Kaden Hoffman from grade five were recognized from the Elementary School, while Dixileigh Gorske from grade six and Matthew Dush from grade 11 were the winners from the high and middle schools.
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Chris Marker (French: ; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti.
His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais has called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man."[2] Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique...The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker."[2]
Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve. Always elusive about his past and known to refuse interviews and not allow photographs to be taken of him, his place of birth is highly disputed.[2] Some sources and Marker himself claim that he was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.[3] Other sources say he was born in Belleville, Paris, and others, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.[2] The 1949 edition of Le Cœur Net specifies his birthday as 22 July. Film critic David Thomson has stated: "Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct. I have since concluded that Belleville is correct – but that does not spoil the spiritual truth of Ulan Bator."[4] When asked about his secretive nature, Marker has said "My films are enough for them [the audience]."[2]
Marker was a philosophy student in France prior to World War II. During the German occupation of France he joined the Maquis (FTP), a part of the French Resistance. At some point during the war he left France and joined the United States Air Force as a paratrooper,[2] although some sources claim that this is a myth.[5] After the war he began a career as a journalist. He first wrote for the journal Esprit, a neo-Catholic, Marxist magazine where he met fellow journalist André Bazin. At Esprit, Marker wrote political commentaries, poems, short stories and (with Bazin) film reviews. He would later become an early contributor to Bazin's Cahiers du cinéma.[2]
During this time period, Marker began to travel around the world as a journalist and photographer, a vocation he would continue the rest of his life. He was hired by the French publishing company Éditions du Seuil as editor of the series Petite Planète (Small World). This collection devoted one edition to each country and included information and photographs.[2] In 1949 Marker published his first novel, Le Coeur net (The Forthright Spirit), which was about aviation. In 1952 Marker published an illustration essay on French writer Jean Giraudoux, Giraudoux Par Lui-Même.[2]
During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s. Around this time Marker met and befriended many members of what would be called the Left Bank Film Movement, including Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi, Armand Gatti and the novelists Marguerite Duras and Jean Cayrol. This group is often associated with the French New Wave directors who came to prominence during the same time period, and indeed both groups were often friends and journalistic co-workers. The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud,[6] who has described them as having "fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking", as well as an identification with the political left wing.[6] Many of Marker's earliest films were produced by Anatole Dauman.
In 1952 Marker made his first film, Olympia 52, a 16mm feature documentary about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. In 1953 Marker collaborated with Resnais on the documentary Statues Also Die. The film examines traditional African art such as sculptures and masks, and its decline with coming of Western colonialism. The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo, but was banned by French censors for its criticism of French colonialism.[2]
After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary "film essay" that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career. The film was shot in two weeks by Marker while he was traveling through China with Armand Gatti in September 1955. In the film, Marker's commentary overlaps scenes from China, such as tombs which, contrary to Westernized understandings of Chinese legends, do not contain the remains of any Ming Dynasty emperors.[2]
After working on the commentary for Resnais' film Le mystère de l'atelier quinze in 1957, Marker continued to form his own cinematic style with the feature documentary Letter from Siberia. An essay film on the narrativization of Siberia, it contains Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director, in the long tradition of epistolary treatments by French explorers of the "undeveloped" world. Letter looks at the modernization of Siberia with its movement into the twentieth century, but with a look back at some of the tribal cultural practices now receding into the past. It combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia with old newsreel footage, cartoon sequences, stills, and even an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine as well as a fake TV commercial as part of a humorous attack on Western mass culture. In producing a meta-commentary on narrativity and film, Marker uses the same brief filmic sequence three times but with different commentary—the first one praising the Soviet Union, the second denouncing it, and the third taking an apparently neutral or "objective" stance.[2]
In 1959 Marker made the animated film Les Astronautes with Walerian Borowczyk. The film was a combination of traditional drawings with still photography. In 1960 Marker made Description d'un combat, a documentary on the State of Israel which reflects on the country's past and future.[2] The film won the Golden Bear for Best Documentary at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.[7]
In January 1961, Marker traveled to Cuba and shot the film ¡Cuba Sí! The film promotes and defends Fidel Castro and includes two interviews with the Comandante. The film ends with an anti-American epilogue in which the United States is embarrassed by the Bay of Pigs Invasion fiasco, and was subsequently banned. The banned essay was included in Marker's first volume of collected film commentaries, Commentaires I, published in 1961. The following year Marker published Coréennes, a collection of photographs and essays on the conditions of Korea.[2]
Marker became known internationally for the short film La jetée (The Pier) in 1962. It tells of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel by using a series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of varying pace, with limited narration and sound effects. In the film, a survivor of a futuristic third World War is obsessed with a distant and disconnected memories of a pier at the Orly Airport, the image of a mysterious woman, and a man's death. Scientists experimenting in time travel choose him for their studies, and the man travels back in time to contact the mysterious woman, and discovers that the man's death at the Orly Airport was his own. Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.
La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles (and later for parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995). It also inspired many of director Mira Nair's shots for the 2006 film The Namesake.
While making La Jetee, Marker was simultaneously making the 150-minute documentary essay-film Le joli mai, released in 1963. Beginning in the Spring of 1962, Marker and his camera operator Pierre Lhomme shot 55 hours of footage interviewing random people on the streets of Paris. The questions, asked by the unseen Marker, range from their personal lives, as well as social and political issues of relevance at that time. Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary (spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version). The film has been compared to the Cinéma vérité films of Jean Rouch, and criticized by its practitioners at the time.[2] The term "Cinéma vérité" was itself anathema to Marker; he would never use it. It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work. It also won the Golden Dove Award at the Leipzig DOK Festival.
After the documentary Le Mystère Koumiko in 1965, Marker made Si j'avais quatre dromadaires, an essay-film that, like La jetée, is a photomontage of over 800 photographs that Marker had taken over the past 10 years from 26 countries. The commentary takes on a slightly different dimension than his previous commentaries by using a fictitious photographer have a conversation with two friends to discuss the photos. The film's title is an allusion to a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire. It was the last film in which Marker includes "travel footage" for many years.[2]
In 1967 Marker published his second volume of collected film essays, Commentaires II. That same year, Marker organized the omnibus film Loin du Vietnam, a protest against the Vietnam War with segments contributed by Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, William Klein, Michele Ray and Joris Ivens. The film includes footage of the war, from both sides, as well as anti-war protests in New York and Paris and other anti-war activities.
From this initial collection of filmmakers with left-wing political agendas, Marker created the group S.L.O.N. (Société pour le lancement des oeuvres nouvelles, but also the Russian word for elephant).[8] SLON was a film collective whose objectives were to make films and to encourage industrial workers to create film collectives of their own. Its members included Valerie Mayoux, Jean-Claude Lerner, Alain Adair and John Tooker. Marker is usually credited as director or co-director of all of the films made by SLON.[2]
After the events of May 1968, Marker felt a moral obligation to abandon his own personal film career and devote himself to SLON and its activities. SLON's first film was about a strike at a Rhodiacéta factory in France, À bientôt, j'espère (Rhodiacéta) in 1968.[2] Later that year SLON made La Sixième face du pentagone, about an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C. and was a reaction to what SLON considered to be the unfair and censored reportage of such events on mainstream television. The film was shot by François Reichenbach, who received co-director credit. La Bataille des dix millions was made in 1970 with Mayoux as co-director and Santiago Álvarez as cameraman and is about the 1970 sugar crop in Cuba and its disastrous effects on the country. In 1971, SLON made Le Train en marche, a new prologue to Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1935 film Schastye, which had recently been re-released in France.[2]
In 1974, SLON became I.S.K.R.A. (Images, Sons, Kinescope, Réalisations, Audiovisuelles, but also the name of Vladimir Lenin's political newspaper Iskra).[2]
In 1974 returned to his personal work and made a film outside of ISKRA. La Solitude du chanteur de fond is a one-hour documentary about Marker's friend Yves Montand's benefit concert for Chilean refugees. The concert was Montand's first public performance in four years and the film includes film clips from his long career as a singer and actor.[2]
Marker had been working on a film about Chile with ISKRA since 1973. Marker had collaborated with Belgian sociologist Armand Mattelart and ISKRA members Valérie Mayoux and Jacqueline Meppiel to shoot and collect the visual materials, which Marker then edited together and provided the commentary for. The resulting film was the two and a half-hour documentary La Spirale, released in 1975. The film chronicles recent events in Chile, beginning with the 1970 election of socialist President Salvador Allende until his murder and the resulting coup in 1973.[2]
Marker then began work on one of his most ambitious films, A Grin Without a Cat, released in 1977. The film's title refers to the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. The metaphor compares the promise of the global socialist movement before May 1968 (the grin) with its actual presence in the world after May 1968 (the cat). The film's original French title is Le fond de l'air est rouge, which means "the air is essentially red", or "revolution is in the air", implying that the socialist movement existed only in the air.[9]
The film was intended to be an all encompassing portrait of political movements since May 1968, a summation of the work which he had taken part in for ten years. The film is divided into two parts: the first half focuses on the hopes and idealism before May 1968, and the second half on the disillusion and disappointments since those events. Marker begins the film with the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin, which Marker points out is a fictitious creation of Eisenstein which has still influenced the image of the historical event. Marker used very little commentary in this film, but the film's montage structure and preoccupation with memory make it a Marker film. Upon release, the film was criticized for not addressing many current issues of the New Left such as the woman's movement, sexual liberation and worker self-management.[2] The film was re-released in the US in 2002.[9]
In the late 1970s, Marker traveled extensively throughout the world, included an extended period in Japan. From this trip, Marker first published the photo-essay Le Dépays in 1982, as well as using the experience for his next film Sans Soleil, released in 1982.[2]
Sans Soleil stretches the limits of what could be called a documentary. It is an essay, a montage, mixing pieces of documentary with fiction and philosophical comments, creating an atmosphere of dream and science fiction. The main themes are Japan, Africa, memory and travel. A sequence in the middle of the film takes place in San Francisco, and heavily references Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. Marker has said that Vertigo is the only film "capable of portraying impossible memory, insane memory."[2] The film's commentary are credited to the fictitious cameraman Sandor Krasna, and read in the form of letters by an unnamed woman. Though centered around Japan, the film was also shot in such other countries as Guinea Bissau, Ireland and Iceland.[2] Sans Soleil was shown at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival where it won the OCIC Award. It was also awarded the Sutherland Trophy at the 1983 British Film Institute Awards.
In 1984, Marker was invited by producer Serge Silberman to document the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran. From this Marker made A.K., released in 1985. The film focuses more on Kurosawa's remote but polite personality than on the making of the film.[10] The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival,[11] before Ran itself had been released.
In 1985, Marker's long-time friend and neighbor Simone Signoret died of cancer. Marker then made the one-hour TV documentary Mémoires pour Simone as a tribute to her in 1986.[2]
Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level Five (1996) and Immemory (1998, 2008),[12] an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou (French language version) and from Exact Change (English version). Marker created a 19-minute multimedia piece in 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City titled Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men which was influenced by T. S. Eliot's poem.[13]
Marker lived in Paris and very rarely granted interviews. One exception was a lengthy interview with Libération in 2003 in which he explained his approach to filmmaking.[14] When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offered a photograph of a cat instead. (Marker was represented in Agnes Varda's 2008 documentary "The Beaches of Agnes" by a cartoon drawing of a cat, speaking in a technologically altered voice.) Marker's own cat is named Guillaume-en-egypte. In 2009 Marker commissioned an to represent him in machinima works. The avatar was created by Exosius Woolley and first appeared in the short film / machinima, "Ouvroir the Movie by Chris Marker."
In the 2007 Criterion Collection release of La Jetée and Sans Soleil, Marker included a short essay, "Working on a shoestring budget". He confessed to shooting all of Sans Soleil with a silent film camera and recording all the audio on a primitive audio cassette recorder. Marker also reminds the reader that only one short scene in La Jetée is of a moving image, as Marker could only borrow a movie camera for one afternoon while working on the film.
Marker died on 29 July 2012, 91 years, to the day he was born.[15]
Roman Polanski, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Abdellatif Kechiche, Jacques Audiard
French New Wave, Jacques Demy, La Pointe Courte, Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras
Paris, United Kingdom, France, Levallois-Perret, Boulogne-Billancourt
Philippines, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Federico Fellini
French Indochina, Vietnam, World War II, Saigon, Hiroshima mon amour
Philadelphia, David Peoples, Terry Gilliam, Chris Marker, Brad Pitt
Ingmar Bergman, Cannes Film Festival, Metaphysics, Robert Bresson, Russian language
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Two organizations, Compeer Financial and the Wisconsin Farmers' Union, have just announced their sponsorship of a three-day course held April 23-25 in Madison, Wisconsin. The Making More From Milk course offers dairy producers an opportunity to explore various diversification options, and a chance to think about the future of their businesses and their families.
The Wisconsin Farmers' Union will offer three full course scholarships to their members. Their application form is online at http://globalcow.com/wi_farmers_union_scholarship/.
Compeer Financial is sponsoring $100 discounts to the first ten people who register. The special discounts are included online at the registration form at http://globalcow.com/making-more-from-milk/.
"The course comes out of a desire to provide real, solid information that leads towards some definite action for dairy producers—be they cow, goat or sheep milk producers," says one of the course organizers, Jill Stahl Tyler from Global Cow. "The speakers who talk to our group don't sugar coat their own experiences. They are very specific and blunt about the work they've put in—and they are relentlessly passionate about their commitment to dairying. We always hear comments back from participants that they never expected to hear such incredible honesty from everyone they talk to during this course. That information is just so valuable when they are dreaming about how to make more from their milk."
The course includes information from various perspectives, all of which helps a dairy producer think about what his or her niche might be. The focus is on looking into what might work for each specific participant.
The course encourages interactions and creates a supportive environment that often continues after the course concludes. After introductions and an overview of what value-added dairy might mean, the first visits are two "behind-the-scenes": a retail specialty cheese store and a restaurant that specializes in local foods. "We want the farmers to be able to see their potential products through the eyes of those who work directly with the consumer," notes the other course organizer, Karen Nielsen of Global Dairy Outreach.
The afternoon of the first day includes four dairy producers. All have found unique ways to bring their dairy products to market or bring tourists to their farm. The second day takes participants off-site, traveling to visit three locations where farmers have successfully found ways to add value to dairy and "make more from their milk". They include a goat farm and two cow farms, and their retail operations —and much wisdom from their experiences.
The final day looks at next steps: thinking about unique marketing positions, equipment and supplies, financial resources, grants, food safety and regulations, business planning and resources to consult as the course participants move forward with their plans.
"The course is a true highlight of our year," agree Nielsen and Stahl Tyler.
Complete details are available at http://globalcow.com/making-more-from-milk/.


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We are pleased to welcome Holmewood House School to My School Portal. We are also looking forward to developing their new school website. Holmewood House is a day and boarding prep school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Headmaster, Scott Carnochan, commenting on the school's decision to implement My School Portal and choose MSO as its new web developer, said: "The Portal marks a step change in home/school communications for our school and will ensure that we have a communication system fit for 2017 and beyond.
"We are confident that MSO have the right experience and expertise to support us with our long-term marketing communications objectives."


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I heard a lot about Shaolin martial art before but never seen it in my life.
This time I could see it right so close before my eyes. Every move was so fast and powerful. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a Shaolin student threw a tiny needle through a piece of thick glass, and popped a balloon behind the glass without shattering it (only creating a tiny hole)!! They call this martial art: Iron Finger. They can even make holes on a tree with their bare fingers!! For my own safety, I would not upset any Shaolin student - just joking.
The Pagoda Forest you see here it is at Shaolin Temple. It refers to the 228 stone or brick pagodas built from 791 AD during the Tang Dynasty through the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty. The levels, or storeys, on the pagodas must be odd numbers (from 1 to 7) and are based on the achievements of the Buddhist masters they were built for. The era the pagodas were built in affects the shape (round or square) and the number of sides (4 or 6). The pagoda forest in Shaolin stands at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain and is one of the largest pagoda forests in China. It was named a national scenic spot in 1996.
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Had the tour of the ground floor if the house. Great guide, being obviously enthusiastic, but never enough time to see everything, which is a shame as the history behind the items on display is fascinating and contemporary, being occupied still.
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Hand-Made Rosaries for Sale
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A great gift idea.
A timeline of the events and writings in first century Christianity.
Guest post from my wife, Suzan Sammons. Here are some ways to make your fasting spiritually and physically fruitful. (This is not medical advice*; I'm just a nutrition grad student 😁) 1. Any fast can be spiritually fruitful. Write down...
It has become popular in some Catholic circles to hope for universal salvation. But is this possible?
There are a lot of negative stereotypes associated with being a traditional Catholic, but I embrace the label nonetheless.
I have a new column on the Scripture readings of the TLM.
I recently recorded a video with Taylor Marshall on "How to Attend the Latin Mass." It can be intimidating for many, so hopefully it will help those who are interested.
2018 is wrapping up, and before it goes, I thought I'd look back at the top podcasts I did this year.
Over the years I've struggled with various health problems. Intermittent Fasting has helped me to overcome them.
Can a pope be deposed? That's the question I try to answer in this interview on Taylor Marshall's show.
My son and I have started a baseball-themed podcast.
Last week Nike released an ad featuring controversial former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. In case you were visiting Mars the past week, here it is: For those who might be unaware (would that be anyone at this point?), Kaepernick is a former...


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Hey everyone! Today my new song "Recovering Romantic" is officially released and out in the world!! You can listen to it everywhere here: http://smarturl.it/recoveringromantic
I'm so excited to share it with all of you. Hope it moves you. Give it a listen, and please share, save and add it to your playlists.
It's my first new song since 2015!
Big shout outs to the musicians and production team who put their hearts into this song: Howie Beck produced, mixed and played guitar, synth & extra percussion. Ian MacKay played drums, Dennis Mohammed played bass and Stacey Kaniuk sang harmonies. Stephen Koszler recorded it at Revolution Recording, and João Carvalho mastered it. Also, Jen Squires – Photographer took the photo!
What a journey it was to make this. It was the 4th song with the title "Recovering Romantic" that I wrote in 2017. I was really chasing it, but also being patient at the same time – which is probably how most good things happen. It finally began to come together when I was living in New Orleans that Summer. And here it is!


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Heavy storms are gone from North and Central Alabama tonight, and it's just muggy now. Expect temperatures in the low-70s overnight with a fair sky and light wind.
Some patchy fog could be very thick by sunrise Tuesday; visibility may be less than a mile for the morning commute (especially where heavy rain fell Monday afternoon).
A strong 'ridge' building in from the west squeezes down on the atmosphere for the rest of the week thinning out storms and cranking up temperatures. Tuesday's high of 92ºF is likely the lowest of the next 6 days; we may make a run at 100ºF before the week is finished.
The 'ridge' makes it HOT: Huntsville's hottest day so far this summer happened last week: 95ºF on Friday. This week looks hotter with several days of 95ºF+ heat; the 'feels like' temperature may go as high as 105-108ºF as long as the isolated showers miss your location through the end of the week.
Ridges often totally shut down thunderstorm formation in the summertime, but the ground is so wet that we could see a few isolated showers or storms that last a few minutes each afternoon. That ridge creates a sinking motion in the atmosphere that generally means hot, dry weather.
(In reality, it's warm air expanding from the middle of the atmosphere; the expansion downward is what caps off the storm formation.)
The ridge stays strong through the end of the week, but it will begin to lose some influence over the weekend; that brings up a better chance of some spotty (but potentially heavy) storms for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Track spotty storms with WHNT.com's Interactive Radar or swipe over to the radar feature on Live Alert 19!
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Micro-Plasma Turbulence Velocimetry (uPTV)
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AbstractNon-invasive methods are required to measure the turbulence in supersonic jet plumes in 3-D with high temporal and spatial resolutions. The turbulent supersonic jet plume changes rapidly both in space and time, and hence any viable approach must acquire the entire 3-D velocity field at even faster speed for comparison with the temporal and spatial velocity field solved in Large Eddy Simulations. Unlike conventional LIDAR scanning techniques, which cannot scan through the entire 3D volume of the jet plume fast enough, and also unlike particle imaging velocimetry, where added invasive"seeds"are required, the proposed Micro-Plasma Turbulence Velocimetry (uPTV) is designed to deliver simultaneous imaging of the entire turbulent of the jet plume without added seeds. A photon-counting imager is concurrently under development for optimal uPTV. During Phase 1, we will setup uPTV system, demonstrate uPTV concept on a limited-scale wind tunnel, and correlate the stereoscopic image data. The prototype is readily deliverable. In Phase 1 Option and Phase 2, we will construct, test and optimize a full-scale fieldable uPTV system for a typical jet plume, in laboratory setting, at the hanger and on the airfield, for delivery to DoD laboratory.
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Introduction from Peaceful Children, Peaceful World
Following World War I and the Great Depression leading into World War II, Maria Montessori made a dramatic plea for the pursuit of peace. In 1932, 7 years prior to the beginning of World War II and 29 years before the first human being journeyed into space, she addressed a convention at the international Office of Education in Geneva, notes taken from this meeting we're subsequently published in Italian as Education of Peace, and in 1943 an English translation, Peace and Education, was issued by the theosophical society in India.
With a vision rare for the early 1930s, Montessori predicted the space-age and the global catastrophes which could result from this new dimension in transportation and exploration. The conquest of gravity she felt would bring about changes comparable to a new geological or biological period. War between countries would no longer make sense and the necessary cooperation among nations could only be brought about by a higher level of human beings, free from self-serving greed and blind obedience to national leaders. Such Superior adults, she felt, could emerge only from children whose natural gifts were nursed in a new type of education.
In the 1930s Maria Montessori was in her sixties. Already distinguished with an international reputation for revolutionizing the education of the young child, she traveled to peace conferences and Brussels, London, Copenhagen and Utrecht to give voice to her convictions about the true meaning of peace and how to obtain it. Strengthened by her 30 years of success in bucking the traditional practices of child-rearing and pedagogy, Maria Montessori had the courage to pursue the Monumental task of reforming Humanity in order to establish peace and Justice in the world.
Overtime, our plan here in the near future, is to present significant excerpts from the Indian edition of Peace and Education, as they were edited by Aline D. Wolf, for clarity, style and gender; in which she took particular care to preserve their original meaning. The purpose of these passages is to make Montessori's insights on peace through education as well known as her ingenious classroom materials. Maria Montessori's words challenge all Montessori teachers: indeed they challenge all people who hope for peace in the world.Edited Introduction from Peaceful Children, Peaceful World – The Challenge of Maria Montessori


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October 9, 2013, Oakville, and Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (ISN) – PGA TOUR Canada Qualifying will take place in Canada and the US next spring, with three separate 72-hole tournaments set for Spring 2014.
Players will have an opportunity to qualify for the Tour at one of three sites, with fields of 132 players maximum teeing it up at sites in the Southeastern and Southwestern United States in April, and a Canadian site in May. The top 18 players at each site will earn exempt status for 2014, with players finishing 19th through 40th plus ties earning conditional status.
"By having three qualifying tournament sites next Spring, a tremendous number of players from around the world will have the opportunity to try and earn status for PGA TOUR Canada in 2014," said PGA TOUR Canada President Jeff Monday. "We look forward to seeing the next generation of players to make an impact on this Tour and beyond to the next level."
The dates, sites and entry fees for each Qualifying Tournament will be announced at a later date.
About PGA TOUR Canada
PGA TOUR Canada is a series of $150,000 events played across Canada. The leading five money winners at the end of each season earn highly placed status on the Web.com Tour for the following season. PGA TOUR Canada's mission is to deliver a PGA TOUR experience for our members, fans, volunteers and our partners in order to develop the future stars of professional golf & enrich the communities we visit.