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Nick Seddon PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
My name is Nick Seddon, I am a primarily a freelance Wedding and Event Photographer - however, I also cover Portraits and Domestic/Commercial Architectural photography I dedicate my time to producing beautiful images for people to enjoy in their home or workplace, for use on their websites and their business literature. I am passionate about photography and for giving an exceptional service. If you wish to engage my services for your own projects or requirements, please get in contact
DeanB Photography
DeanB is a Professional photographer with over 15 years experience. Covering the UK and Europe, DeanB is sure to provide a service to exceed your expectations. Fully accredited by the Association of Photographers and a full member of the Society of Photographers. I am a qualified commercial drone pilot (PfCO holder), will full insurance, indemnity and public liability. I offer a number of 'Off the shelf' packages for all areas of my business, but am equally happy to prepare a bespoke package for those looking for a slightly more individual offering.
Craig Travis Photography
We are a husband and wife photography team with many years experience of shooting weddings and events. We shoot weddings mainly throughout the North West and Yorkshire but do travel further on occasion. We cover all weddings large or small and have experience at many local venues. We shoot in a documentary style that is complimented by posed shots. We will always take on board idea and requests from the bride and groom and endeavour to capture all aspects of your big day. The images that we produce are beautiful, creative and unique, they will be enjoyed for many years to come. We offer a number of packages to cater for all budgets and requirements. A free engagement shoot is also given to all couples either in our studio or at a location of your choice. Additionally, we also make leather bound wedding albums, prints and canvases in our studio. These are all printed by hand. Please contact us to book your date! limited availability for 2017 / 2018.
Sugarbird Photography - Yorkshire Wedding Photographers
Simply beautiful, luxury wedding and portrait photographers offering truly gorgeous photography to last a lifetime. 'Naturally Beautiful and Creative Photography' Sugarbird's ethos centers around offering clients and businesses alike a unique and professional experience to create beautifully strong, engaging and emotional imagery.
richard linnett photographyCertificate of Excellence 2015
Wedding and portrait photography. In all m,y work I am looking to present people in a way that is unique to them. This means not just artistic and technical skill but also being people centred, listen to them and getting them to be themselves in front of the lens.
Polka Dot Studios
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Hello. My name is Andrew AB, and I am a full-time, award-winning professional photographer and film-maker with a wide variety of print, film and online experience. Although I have a background in performance and performance photography, I have enjoyed using my experience in other fields especially wedding photography. It'd take a while to talk you through the whole lot but among my achievements are: National Geographic, Photo of the day (5th Nov 2012) Photobox Guinness Book record-breaking photo competition- 80 Days around the world, Runner Up Official Photographer for Threshold Festival and Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival Documenting Emerging Talent Winners Bridie Jackson and the Arbour as they play Glastonbury Festival Winning the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral Hope Prize. In the past, my clients have included Disney, Redbull, the Royal Court Theatre, The University Of Liverpool, Sound City, Threshold Festival and Cambridge Summer Music Festival, North West Cancer Research. Most importantly, I absolutely love what I do. It's not about big jobs or small jobs, it's ultimately just about the magic of capturing a given moment. It's atmosphere, it's alchemy, it's awesome. Sorry if that sounds a bit nerdy. So, what's your project?
PJM PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
Our relaxed approach to Wedding Photography allows us to produce beautiful, natural, timeless images, all while making you and your guests feel incredibly comfortable. We are a husband and wife team and provide each couple with a highly individual level of service, resulting in stunning wedding photographs you will treasure forever. Your Wedding Day is one of the biggest days of your life and we class it as a privilege to be a part of it. We love everything about a wedding, from the bridal preparation, the look on the groom's face as he catches the first glimpse of his bride to be, the exhilaration and buzz of the guests, right through to the first dance and party celebrations. Once the official ceremony is over, we are happy to mingle like guests, catching those 'off the cuff' moments, emotions and details that tell the real story of your wedding day. When your vows have been made, the cake eaten, the party finished and the flowers have long since died, your Wedding Photography will be the one thing left from your special day. We're available for Wedding Photography throughout the whole of UK and also for Destination Wedding Photography too. ALL OF OUR WEDDING PACKAGES INCLUDE A FREE PRE-WEDDING SHOOT. We also an Open Photo-booth / Party-Prop Package which is ideal for Evening Celebrations/Parties. Our high-quality props make for lots of fun and laughter! Our Private Event Photography is available to capture those special events and occasions, whether it's a birthday party, christening, 18th, 21st, retirement, anniversary or any special life celebration. We capture the true essence of any event! You just concentrate on enjoying yourselves and we'll 'Capture the Moments' which you can treasure forever! Peace of Mind - We are fully insured for Public Liability & Professional Indemnity Insurance and also both possess a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Certificate.
R.W Photography
Fully qualified and experienced wedding photographer. Fun and bubbly character with an eye for capturing natural moments
I'm Jacqui a documentary wedding photographer specialising in weddings throughout Manchester, the north west and the UK. You may have heard of this style of photography described as wedding photojournalism or reportage photography? What does this mean? Well It's all just a very nice way of saying that I am very observant and capture your day as it really is. It's all about the real story telling of your day capturing all the fun, laughter, missed moments and all those little details you spent ages on. If you are looking for natural, relaxed images then you have come to the right place.
Forever Green PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
We LOVE our job. We tell people we have the best job in the world. For us being given the privilege and honour of shooting your wedding is the ultimate dream. Being invited to capture the most anticipated day in a couples life is so exhilarating. We know how important it is to get it right. Even now we look back on my own wedding pictures which captured the essence and mood of the whole event to perfection and that is what we offer my clients. We offer an initial face to face consultation to discuss what type of styles you like. No wedding is the same and no couple are the same so we will work to tailor the package and approach to meet YOUR needs. We believe in shooting candid and relaxed documentary style photography at weddings which captures the fun, emotion and sheer joy of a wedding in an unobtrusive way, but love to throw in some contemporary, fashion style shots for those couples willing to spare us a bit of extra time. We will accommodate your preferences and of course make time for those traditional wedding posed shots as well but we want to capture the essence of the day so want to dedicate as much time as I can to this. The day is yours, just let me know and we will tailor it. We love being creative so will aim to find some great locations within your venue to capture some cool photos of you being romantic, silly or just having fun. If the packages we offer aren't what you are after please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss a bespoke package. Who are we We are a husband and wife team who have been through the emotional roller coaster of planning a wedding and the emotion of the day itself so we get it! Married for 8 years with a deaf old dog Dilly, our flock of chickens and most recently our beautiful daughter Emily we are able to offer support, understanding and a helping hand where needed on the day to keep things running smoothly. We know most people hate having their pictures taken (Alex does, Viv's a bit more of a poser having done a drama degree many moons ago) so we make it as fun as possible. We are here to create stunning images and capture the day in a way that friends and family won't and that will be there to tell the amazing story of your day forever. Both middle children, but having totally different character traits, Viv is the crazily organised one who will most likely be replying to your enquiries and dealing with all the admin as well as lead shooter on the day. If you hadn't guessed it Viv is the control freak in the relationship. She loves good food (especially Italian food), was probably a mouse in a previous life given her crazy addiction to cheese, loves a nice glass of red wine and snuggling up on the sofa with a good book on a dreary day. Viv likes to be on the going and doing things……pretty much non stop. Viv was a keen runner pre little person arriving in our lives so now fits it in as and when she can. Super creative and receptive to our clients needs Viv ensures every client gets just what they want from their wedding photography. Alex is the more laid back of the two and the joker. He's always at the ready to settle the nerves of any groom with one of his jokes (ask him the bear joke if you dare!) and will put anyone at ease. Alex is second shooter and focuses on the candid shots throughout the day capturing those amazing moments from a distance so you get a true story of the day. Alex loves good food, very good wine (his parents met whilst working in a wine merchants many decades ago so he's been raised on the good stuff!), Terry Pratchett books, QI, Mock the week (and the likes of). Alex likes building things and working with his hands (which is handy since we bought our house a few years ago…it's a project outside!) as well as dabbling in making his home brew gins from our very own fruits. Together we love travelling when we get a rare opportunity to do that, and travel to Australia as often as we can to visit our much missed family. The most important thing is for us to get to know you and all about your big day so please do get in touch now.
Angela O'Neill Design & Photography
Professional photographer and fully qualified experienced graphic designer
Simon Wiffen PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
I'm Simon Wiffen, a professional commercial and corporate photographer specialising in commercial, architecture, corporate, music, portrait and events photography. Located between Leeds and Wakefield I'm perfectly positioned to provide commercial photography across the whole of Yorkshire and the surrounding area, including Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford, York, Harrogate and Sheffield. I can also travel further afield, depending on the type of job. I offer a tailored, personal service so get in touch and I'd be happy to discuss your requirements in more detail.
Opulent PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
Are you searching for an authentic style of photography for your big day? We offer our clients a full range of services that will suit their specific needs. Our main aim as your wedding photographers is simple, Capture naturally beautiful images that show the whole essence of your day, from the biggest moment to the smallest detail. Using two photographers allows us to capture your day from both angles. We capture the reactions of guests during the whole day whilst still capturing the amazing shots of the Bride & Groom during the ceremony, cutting the cake and the speeches etcFor more information, feel free to contact us.
Petal & Blush Artistry
Hello! I'm Natasha, a wedding photographer based in Darwen, Lancashire. I photograph weddings across Lancashire, Cheshire, the Lake District and beyond! I am happy to travel just about anywhere to photograph your wedding, so if you're thinking of having a destination wedding or elopement, I would love to have a chat with you! "WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY FOR UNTRADITIONAL COUPLES" The couples I absolutely love working with are the ones that really want to put their own stamp on their wedding day! I don't know what it is about most wedding traditions but I just find them so cliché - and dare I say it - boring! Why do non-religious couples want to get married in a Church? Why do you seperate yourselves from all of your guests by having a top table? Why do you forbid yourself from seeing your soon to be Hubby the morning of your wedding? It's a breath of fresh air when couples tell me they are planning their day solely around the two of them and what they love, regardless of whether or not it's 'tradition!'
Kissing Gate PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
Award winning professional photography with a relaxed and natural approach.
Louise Cuppello PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
Leading Professional wedding, family, portrait and commercial photographer based in the North West. Passionate to get the photos you want working to your budget, using professional Nikon equipment and photo editing software. featured in lots of uk wedding blogs and magazines.
Polaris Videography
We are a wedding videography company based in Cheshire and cover the North West and anywhere in the United Kingdom. Our applications are varied from aerial applications using drones, to ground applications such as handheld gimbals and tri pods. Please contact us is you have an unusual request for how you would like your special day filming. You'll never know if we can provide you with the service you require if you don't ask us. Our ethos is to capture the emotion of your day discreetly. Films are best created from natural footage captured in the moment without direction. We work hard to provide intimate, unobtrusive, personalised and a diligent service, helping to create those special and personal wedding day memories, that propel you right back into the moment to one of the most fabulous days of your life that you have taken so much time and care to prepare for. We remove any of your concerns by having a consultation to fully understand what is most important to you. You can then be rest assured that we will take on all the worries and concerns about capturing your big day. We feel it is important to tell the whole story of your wedding day and now you have found your perfect partner, let us capture your wedding day so you can watch and reflect upon it in years to come. Photographs will always be a good reminder of a wonderful day, but a magical film will encapsulate the essence and emotions of your wedding day. We understand the role and importance of photographers and the work they do. This is why we respect the work of your photographer, and are able to work alongside them, making sure we don't get in their way, and yet be able to get all the shots we need to provide you with a film that captures all the laughs, smiles, tears and emotions. We believe our wedding films are cherished through generations and are presented as such. That is why we use presentation cases of varying types and styles dependant on your taste. Each wedding is completely unique, and we approach each one differently. We listen to you and your needs, and what you would like to achieve from our services. We then create bespoke footage from your ideas, which then enables you to relive the day, share the smiles, laughter and tears of joy with family and friends over and over again.
Nick Shoot Photography
Photography services from weddings to corporate events.
Magill Photography
Our strength lies in our experience & people skills. We do what we love – telling the stories of who and what you love! We specialize in local and destination weddings and ready to capture your everlasting moments. Photography is not just a hobby, it is our life style. Contact us to receive our pricing brochure or to arrange a consultation. We would love to meet up over a cup of coffee, get to know you and learn all about your wedding details.Since everyone's day is so unique, we always offer to create a custom package just for you. Having a destination wedding? We are both avid travelers and are available for shoots internationally. To maintain our creative integrity and give the best possible product to our clients we only book a limited number of bookings each year.
Steve Potter PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
Portrait, Commercial, Model, Events, PR, Product and General Photography catered for. All major transport networks and International Airport readily accessible. Professional quality, service and response time to suit your business and personal needs. I always try and have fun with photography and why not!... Informal portraits a speciality. Affordable bespoke photography. I look forward to offering my services...Call for an informal chat. Regards Steve Potter 07890 490 851 email@example.com
Unit 8 Photography
Fashion, Portraits, Weddings & Events
Tony jones photography
Biztour Ltd
Biztour is an award-winning Google trusted agency providing businesses throughout the UK with Google Street View Trusted 360 virtual tours, just like Street View, for the inside of their business. We serve businesses across London, UK and Worldwide and have been working professionally in the virtual tour and panoramic photography industry for over 10 years. As Google Trusted Photographers, We are able to open up your business 24/7 to millions of potential customers across the world
Acceber PicturesCertificate of Excellence 2019
Hi, Hello and Welcome, thank you for visiting our page... I'm Becky! I am the owner and Head photographer at Acceber Pictures. I am a Professional Photographer based in the beautiful city of Liverpool. I have a BA hons in media studies (with a major in Digital imaging and graphic design.) At Acceber Pictures we love photography and we are here to cater to your needs; whether you want us to capture your BIG DAY, a celebration, a family portrait or a maternity session we have it covered. Our style is classic, simple and honest, we look to capture the smiles, the memories and a little of your heart. Our Mission Statement: 'Capturing moments to treasure for a lifetime.' We believe in creating a service that is tailored to our client. We value individuality and aim to show this in our images.' We promise to photograph with passion and professionalism, at a fair and reasonable price. Our hope is to have a personal connection with every client I work with.
Castle productions
There will be two photographers, we would be there all day for the bride and groom dressing, ceremony, reception, family photos and first dance the only part we don't shoot is when everyone is having food as the photos never look good with people eating, also we want the guests to be relaxed when eating. After the speeches we would set up a photo booth with props for the guest to use and take some fun photos. All the images will be fully edited and will come on a USB/CD. After the wedding and honeymoon we can arrange a meeting for you to pick photos for the wedding album and prints. I don't include wedding albums and prints in the price as it varies in prices. Please leave email address for my portfolio.
Chris Foster Photography
Chris Foster Photography was established in 2005 offering the following photographic services: Commercial; marketing, PR, advertising. Event; parties, dinners, ceremonies. Fine Art; for wall art in new builds, renovations, private homes. Editorial; news, magazines, journals. Weddings. Architectural. Nature. Since 2005 I have supplied all of the above to various clients including regional and national newspapers, the Co operative, MOSI, NHS, councils, charities and many more. Testimonials can be found on my website as well as many more examples of my work.
Life Reportage
Born in Italy from an Italian father and an English mother, Michael Valeriani has dedicated his life to photography. He studied in Italy at the European Institute of Design, in the USA at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and at the San Francisco Academy of Art, meanwhile becoming an airplane pilot. Even though his main art expression form is photography, he also produces a limited number of paintings and ceramic works. He has traveled world-wide along with his camera, capturing images that have been published on several magazines internationally. His work has been appreciated in all five continents, a goal in life that not many photographers can achieve. Former photographer for the Secret Services of the Italian Navy, he photographed a large number of personalities, among whom the King and Queen of Spain, and the President of Italy. He had been invited by the President of Algeria to take part in a diplomatic mission to illustrate Algeria to the world in all its beauty. Michael has followed his grandfather's footsteps - well known artist, whose work is visible on permanent exhibit at the "M. Valeriani Museum" in Latina, Italy. "I like to take pictures of whatever captures my attention. The particular thing about my photographs is that they are all real: nothing is set up or pre-planned; what you see is what happened in front of my eyes at that particular time and place. I don't plan to take good photographs; sometimes I amaze myself when I see the results. When I shoot I don't think much and at the same time I don't fully live that moment. I complete my visual experience only later when I look at the finished work. Photography is an extension of my vision and mind, it enables me to relive a moment over and over as intensely as the first time, when I wasn't really looking. I use photography to stop time and enjoy the pleasant visual experience later when it won't run away". Our fee structure is very simple, for weddings we offer three options: SMALL WEDDING £1500 1 photographer Unlimited number of pictures taken (often over 1000) 200 prints 20 enlargements (about A4 size) Digital correction and enhancement of every single image Wooden presentation box for your photos All your images on a CD or memory stick, watermarked and without licence to print MEDIUM WEDDING £1800 2 photographers Unlimited number of pictures taken (often over 1000) 300 prints 30 enlargements (about A4 size) Digital correction and enhancement of every single image 2 wooden presentation boxes for your photos All your images on a CD or memory stick, watermark FREE and with licence to print LARGE WEDDING £2800 3 photographers Unlimited number of pictures taken (often over 1000) 500 prints 50 enlargements (about A4 size) Digital correction and enhancement of every single image 3 wooden presentation boxes for your photos All your images on a CD or memory stick, watermarked and without licence to print EXTRA SERVICES Any extra service - if required - would be charged at £200 an hour, but this is entirely optional. For instance, some people like to have the photographer for an hour for the engagement party, or for the last dress fitting. I am based in Epsom (Surrey), so my prices are intended for weddings taking place within 20 miles from Epsom (measured with Google maps from Epsom Clocktower, KT19 8BJ). Anything over 20 miles will be subject to a transfer fee of £2 per mile.
Jane Ball Photography
A flexible approach to photography,in my mind is essential therefore I offer a relaxed informal shoot which is tailor made to my clients needs. I am a naturally friendly and outgoing person who is genuinely interested in people and the stories they have to tell. I do not operate from a studio, all my portrait photography is either done in the comfort of your own home or outdoors. I have a love of the landscape and seeing how people interact with their surroundings. I will always offer to photograph clients in their favourite place, maybe where they met, had their first date, where they got engaged or just a place which they love. The style of their shoot is very much their choice be it romantic country idyll or the gritty urban grunge look it is completely your choice. I always try to aim for a pre shoot meet to discuss clients expectations and also it gives me as the photographer and you the client to get to know one another a little beforehand so there are no awkward moments when it comes to the actual shoot. My newborn sessions always take place in your own home and I give up to 4 hours for a shoot to allow for feeding and settling a restless baby. Once the shoot is over I aim to have your photographs ready to view via a private, password protected gallery on my website within 8 weeks.Post production is done sympathetically in my own style using professional software. I offer colour and black and white photographs. These are supplied either on a personalised CD or memory stick .
Asma's Photography
Sarah Jane Edwards Photography
Creative and Contemporary Wedding Photographer based in the North West covering the Uk and abroad. I offer relaxed and reportage style photography, aiming to capture you day as it naturally unfolds resulting in stunning timeless images that transport you right back to a memory in a an instant.
Rob Crawshaw Photo
An excellent eye. The ability to paint with light. Meticulous attention to detail. The three essentials that go into to every photograph I take. I'm Rob Crawshaw, and I specialise in creating engaging imagery for architects, interior designers and all types of property people throughout the UK and beyond. Read more customer reviews and testimonials here - http://www.houzz.co.uk/browseReviews/robcrawshawphoto/rob-crawshaw-photo
Photography by LukeCertificate of Excellence 2019
Commercial photography and wedding photography throughout the UK You know it when you see it. The product shot that draws you in. The corporate portrait that projects personality and warmth; not just someone in a suit. The commercial photography that makes you sit up and say, "Why aren't my images like that?" As a commercial photographer I capture the true personality of your business. I find the qualities in your products and people that make them shine. Whatever your business does, I'll help you show it better. Corporate portraiture, fashion, product shots, architectural, advertising and PR: the right commercial photography can transform them all. It can increase click-through rates, and phone calls. It can drive sales and inspire loyalty. Talk to a commercial photographer who can help your business thrive.
FoubographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
Hi! I'm Sarah, I lead a photography business called foubography. I specialise in portrait and live photography and I design websites as well.
Tom Cottam
Camera Operator Live broadcast/livestreaming, corporate, documentary, music videos Specialist jib, gimbal and remote head operator
D E Corbett PhotographyCertificate of Excellence 2019
I am able to cover a wide range of photography such as wedding photography, baby & family photography, maternity photography, pet photography, headshots & portfolios, event photography, fashion photography, landscape photography, wildlife photography, action photography, sports photography, real estate photography, architecture photography, concerts, macro photography, food & travel, street photography, advertising photography & even stock photography.
Tom Holmes Photography
Commercial photographer based in Skipton, North Yorkshire covering the North, North East and North West of England. Using over 15 years of experience to produce the highest quality professional photography.
Salleh sparrow photography
Fashion, beauty and wedding photographer
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President Obama Signs 'Secret Directive' On Cybersecurity
from the it's-so-secure-it's-secret dept
The really troubling part in all of this is the really unnecessary level of secrecy. We keep being told scary bogeyman stories about online attacks without any evidence or proof. And now the President is signing a "secret" order allowing the military to do more in response? Without any real scrutiny, it's not difficult to see how these things expand unceasingly and are wide open for abuse. Given the NSA's track record here, it's inevitable that these efforts will be massively abused.

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Peaches wrote:Goddessmisca wrote:All girls like being told they are pretty.
I dunno, most girls I've been interested in seem to think that suggesting that they are in any way pleasant to look at is deep, hurtful sarcasm.
Maybe I need to find girls with better self-esteem...
cjburgandy wrote:the day Brandon Lee was shot, was the same day my hampster was brutally murdered and left on my spelling homework. It was the same day a family friend had a heart attack and died. A plane also blew up that day while in flight, the engine crushed a little old lady's leg while she slept in bed....
it was also my 11th birthday.
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WESTLAKE, OH (WOIO) - The Ohio Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended Westlake attorney Joseph P. O'Malley from the practice of law for concealing a felony (misprision), improperly influencing a judge and making a materially false statement to agents conducting a federal investigation into corruption in Cuyahoga County.
In its 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court adopted the findings of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline. However, the board recommended an indefinite suspension with credit for the time O'Malley had served under a prior interim suspension imposed following his conviction on related matters. The court determined, though, that the appropriate sanction shouldn't include credit for the earlier time served.
While working in 2008 as an independent contractor for his former boss, Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo, O'Malley had an employee of Russo's "complete" a previously submitted employment application to demonstrate that the employee was actually qualified for the job for which he had been hired. O'Malley was convicted of misprision of a felony in this matter.
Also in 2008, O'Malley represented two homeowners in a foreclosure action in his private practice. O'Malley was attempting to settle the case, but the court hadn't ruled on summary judgment motions, which had been pending for at least a year. He asked Russo in the spring or summer to tell the trial judge in the case to deny the motions because he wanted to go to trial for his clients. In July, the judge denied the motions as instructed by Russo. A conversation between O'Malley and Russo about this case had been recorded by federal authorities.
When FBI agents questioned O'Malley, he said he hadn't asked Russo for any help with his private practice cases. O'Malley was convicted of making a materially false statement.
The federal court sentenced O'Malley to four months in prison, a $10,000 fine, two years of supervised release, and 250 hours of community service. He has completed his prison term, has paid his fine, and at the time of the board's hearing was within five hours of meeting his community-service obligations.
The Supreme Court found that O'Malley's conduct undermined the integrity of the judicial system and, given that, he should not receive credit for the time he served under his interim suspension. O'Malley may apply for reinstatement after the two-year minimum period for an indefinite suspension and then only when he has completed all parts of his federal sentence, including his supervised release, the court said.
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text: Meet Farm Labor Needs with 'Freelance Farmers' February 27, 2013 09:32 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Rhonda Brooks Editor, Farm Journal MagazineEditorial Director, Farm Journal Media Email If finding good employees is a challenge for your farming enterprise, consider what one agribusiness recruiter says is a wave of the future: freelance farmers. They're independent contractors who travel around the country to help large-scale operators plant and harvest crops, according to Greg Duerksen, president of Kincannon & Reed, an agribusiness executive search firm based in Virginia. Such individuals are highly trained to run equipment; they're reliable, self-motivated and have sound judgment skills, notes Duerksen. He says he already knows of several Midwest farmers who have been able to capitalize on this type of short-term employee opportunity. "It requires you to change the way you think about hiring farm employees," adds Duerksen, who spoke during the Bayer CropScience Ag Issues Forum at the 2013 Commodity Classic. In the following video, Duerksen provides some additional ideas on how farmers might go about finding the next employee for their operation. For More Information Read more coverage from the 2013 Commodity Classic and associated events. Back to news


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Sammy Davis, Jr., (born December 8, 1925, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 16, 1990, Los Angeles, California), American singer, dancer, and entertainer.
At age three Davis began performing in vaudeville with his father and uncle, Will Mastin, in the Will Mastin Trio. Davis studied tap dancing under Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson but never received a formal education. After serving in the U.S. Army he became the central figure of the Mastin Trio, not only singing and dancing but also playing trumpet, drums, piano, and vibraphone; moreover, he was an accomplished mime and comedian. He encountered virulent racial prejudice early in his career, but he endured to become one of the first African American stars to achieve wide popularity.
Along with his extremely successful nightclub career, Davis was a popular recording artist, and he was successful on Broadway in Mr. Wonderful (1956) and in a 1964 revival of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy and in films, including Porgy and Bess (1959) and Sweet Charity (1969). He also appeared in a series of motion pictures with friends such as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, including Ocean's Eleven (1960), Sergeants 3 (1962), and Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). Davis wrote two autobiographical books, Yes I Can (1965) and Why Me? (1989).


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US court: Long interrogation OK before terror case
NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of an ex-Guantanamo detainee in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, in a boost to U.S. efforts to gain intelligence from terrorism suspects before prosecuting them.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani served as Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard after the al-Qaida suicide bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments that his long detention overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial. It concluded that he was properly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the attacks that killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans.
Ghailani's lawyer, Peter Quijano, promised a Supreme Court appeal. Ghailani had claimed he was tortured at a secret CIA detention site after his arrest in Pakistan in 2004.
"The government did not act expeditiously to afford Ahmed Ghailani a trial after subjecting him to enhanced interrogation techniques and then forcing him to languish for years at Guantanamo Bay," Quijano said in an email statement. "A claim of national security does not and cannot suspend and vitiate one's fundamental right to a speedy trial. Here, a delay of more than five years — during which the defendant was tortured to extract information — was constitutionally excessive."
The three-judge panel concluded Ghailani's right to a speedy trial was not violated.
The court seemed to embrace an opportunity to say that evidence necessary to prosecute in U.S. civilian courts and the legal rights of a defendant are not necessarily spoiled by efforts to obtain intelligence from terrorism suspects.
"This appeal presents a question bound to arise from the government's efforts to obtain actionable and time-sensitive intelligence necessary to thwart acts of terror, while still bringing those charged with committing crimes of terrorism against Americans to justice in an orderly fashion under the laws of our country," Circuit Judge Jose A. Cabranes wrote.
The 2nd Circuit noted that the Supreme Court "has repeatedly held that the government may purposely delay trials for significant periods of time, so long as, on balance, the public and private interests render the delay reasonable."
Ghailani, 39, had been transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006 and moved to New York City for trial in 2009.
He was convicted in 2010 of a single count of conspiring to destroy government buildings and was acquitted of 280 charges that he took part in the bombings. Prosecutors said he helped an al-Qaida cell buy a truck and components for explosives for one of the bombings. He is serving a life sentence.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had imposed the maximum sentence, saying that whatever Ghailani suffered "pales in comparison to the suffering and the horror" caused by the nearly simultaneous attacks.


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Why You Should Be Both Bear and Bull
If ever there was a time when playing both sides against the middle would seem smart, it's now. MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe joins Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... new highs ... people there ... the neater ... sexy times and eleven a ball ... Chuck Jaffe is with this is calm and MarketWatch's week ... conceded out there up above fourteen thousand yen ... shop the record chase back on the Dow above fourteen thousand ... is this the time though to be cautious or to be greedy ... well if you have both sides here you have ... the bulls ... running ... and the Bears massing ... and for most of us is individual investors were some were caught in the middle worry about both stampeded Mall ... so that's the problem that we got because look what you see individual investors going into the market ... and we saw record inflows ... last month the recent record inflows last month ... people moving out of bond funds into stock funds ... historically ... investors timing is terrible ... they always for some signal that like oh it's finally your look how much the mark again now while John banner made by IMA wonder selling low ... Citi got plenty of sentiment even as the market has been climbing the wall of worry ... that ... the more it goes up the closer we come ... to a point where it's gonna go down ... the prom is ... yet ... to Diageo Wall Street is buy low sell high ... individual investor the tablet that they do the exact opposite way what should they do ... well in this case are going to have to play both sides against the metal ... and it lasted for production of let's start with the idea that what people are talking about what they call a correction ... now ... when I started learning about the stock market a correction was actually a move ... from the market going back to apprehend of being wrong in either direction ... but today a correction is only used basically say that the market goes down at least ten percent ... well truthfully if the market is correct when it is going down ... does that mean it's incorrect ones going up ... because that's how twisted the thinking is here ... the truth is you have to be between both sides because yes you don't wanna miss out on the bullish rally all the things that we've seen that got them or get up to fourteen thousand level what's also have to guard against the fact that ... boy there are some real danger signs out there ... to have to split your money you have to diversify into all the things that people really dislike doing they'd rather go one put it all in when the markets going well forget it all out and avoid the pain ... you can do that and actually win with perfect timing here so yet ... to be diversify the sun was a was that mean that the rhyming you find some hot stocks and values and growth to buy bonds ... when we subject to investors ... the drive given as to how they're going to do it I mean they can be is a bullish saying how to divide up to ... a total stock market fund in a total bond market fund and then play with an asset allocation they could be you know fifty fifty sixty forty whatever what I think for most folks don't wanna get a little bit more complicated than that ... make sure that they have some exposure international maybe some ... that exposure to emerging markets and then decide ... how I want to do it so you gotta decided today groups like ... I want ... stocks with some portion of international and then of my international how much will be brought euro versus global verses ... emerging markets and then bond fund same thing ... not all bond funds are created equal you got the Treasury in all the things that are going on with Treasury funds it ... is that that creating a bubble and then you got corporate high heels that are also part of a bond fund rail ... so ... I think a first rate the broad comedy This between stocks and bonds and then you decide how you're going to diversify hundred ... that is complicated but to Kathy thank you very much appreciate time you reach out column on MarketWatch dot com


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Dumb Celebrity Quotes – Who Said This?
There are many things in this world unlike basketball games -- cooking, singing, knitting, doing your taxes and getting married for reality programming among them. And after his much-maligned wedding, this pro baller wisely observed, "It was totally different than being in a basketball game."


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A Huge Snake Tried To Get Inside of A Moving Car
There is a whole lot of NO in this story right now.
Well here's what happened... On Tuesday a delivery driver set out to make his deliveries, during that time he saw the unthinkable. A crazy poisonous snake trying to ride shot on on his passenger side window.
The driver gave all of the deets to ABC News and said... "It'd come out from under the engine bay under the bonnet, it was probably a bit warm there. It was sort of tapping on the window a couple of times, because it obviously wanted to get in."
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Switched On — 2013 Melges 24 U.S. National Championship Launches With 37 Entries At Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week
19 April 2013
Charleston, SC - The 2013 Melges 24 U.S. National Championship takes place this weekend in coordination with Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week, symbolizing over two decades of the very best in ultra-competitive, one design performance racing. Teams have traveled from more than 10 states across the USA, and giving the event a wildly international and diversified spin, others have converged from around the world to represent Bermuda, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and Norway.
As always, the robust fleet of thirty-seven have attracted some of the worlds greatest sailors including the young and vibrant 2011 ICSA National Champion and All-American skipper Taylor Canfield, multiple Congressional Cup and 2009 Melges 24 World Champion Chris Larson helming Scott Holmgren's 'Rosebud, World Champion crew members Richard Clarke, Mike Wolfs and Curtis Florence look to power-up Alec Cutler's 'Hedgehog, and highly decorated Moth World Champion, 2011 U.S. National Champion and 'Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Bora Gulari are just to name a few.
The fleet balances out perfectly with a heavy Corinthian Division. Of the thirty-seven teams racing in Charleston, thirteen have qualified for the heated all-amatuer running.
"It's incredible to see this fleet, standing strong in Charleston, at an event that continues to grow in participation." commented Circle 3 PRO Hank Stuart. "This is just one of many 2013 events that will enable teams to fine tune their efforts for the forthcoming World Championship in San Francisco, CA on September 30 - October 5, hosted by the San Francisco Yacht Club. More than two dozen boats are already registered for the Championship which gives great indication that it will be a big event."
The Official Website for the 2013 Sperry Top-Sider Melges 24 World Championship is online and registration is open.
Three days of racing is scheduled and the current weather forecast indicates the potential for perfect Melges 24 planing, breeze on racing conditions.
1.) Nate Duer, 'Balogney Blowout (C)
2.) Guy Mossman, 'Battle Rhythm
3.) Mike Krantz/Jeremy Tudor, 'Betty
4.) Derek Ratteray/Richard Thompson, 'Black Seal
5.) Dan McGraw, 'Blue Steel (C)
6.) Don Wilson, 'Convexity
7.) Cate Muller, 'Das Kleine Boot (C)
8.) Kevin Gillman, 'Giddy Up
9.) Curtis Jazwiecki, 'Gnarly Ruca (C)
10.) Alec Cutler, 'Hedgehog
11.) Tony Stanley, 'Hermes (C)
12.) August Hernandez, 'High Voltage
13.) Frank Davenport, 'Hocus Pocus
14.) Paul Hulsey, 'Hoodlum Racing (C)
15.) Rob Britts, 'Hot Mess (C)
16.) Roger Counihan, 'Just Add Water
17.) Bent Dietrich, 'Kleine Rainbow
18.) Chris Field, 'Leda (C)
19.) Catharine Evans, 'Mojito (C)
20.) Mike McGagh, 'Mojo
21.) Bruce Ayres, 'Monsoon
22.) Bora Gulari, 'New England Ropes/West Marine Rigging
23.) Ben Moon/Steve Liebel, 'New Wave (C)
24.) Mike Keefe, 'OXYJEN
25.) Jens Wathne, 'Party Girl (C)
26.) Argyle Campbell, 'Rock n' Roll
27.) Cary Seigler, 'Rocksteady
28.) Chris Larson/Scott Holmgren, 'Rosebud
29.) Marc Bailey, 'Screaming Mimi
30.) Dan Berezin, 'Surprise
31.) Stephen Boho, 'The 300 (C)
32.) Jeff Wittenberg, 'Tom Slick
33.) Todd McKenzie, 'Buckshot
34.) Marc Steyn, 'Vapour Trail (C)
35.) Ian Schillebeeck, 'Vollebak
36.) Alan Field, 'WTF
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April 10, 2012 10:52 ET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK--(Marketwire - April 10, 2012) -
Brookfield Office Properties Inc. (TSX:BPO)(NYSE:BPO) today announced that it has agreed to issue to a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Capital Markets and Scotiabank, for distribution to the public, C$125 million of senior notes (unsecured) ("notes") with an April 16, 2018 maturity date and a yield of 4.00%.
The notes have been given provisional ratings of BBB (high) (stable) by DBRS and BBB- by Standard & Poor's.
The net proceeds of the issue will be used for general corporate purposes, including the repayment of indebtedness.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities in any jurisdiction. The securities being offered have not been approved or disapproved by any regulatory authority nor has any such authority passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the short form base shelf prospectus or the prospectus supplement. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to United States persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
About Brookfield Office Properties
Brookfield Office Properties owns, develops and manages premier office properties in the United States, Canada and Australia. Its portfolio is comprised of interests in 108 properties totaling 77 million square feet in the downtown cores of New York, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, making it the global leader in the ownership and management of office assets. Landmark properties include the World Financial Center in Manhattan, Brookfield Place in Toronto, Bank of America Plaza in Los Angeles, Bankers Hall in Calgary, Darling Park in Sydney and City Square in Perth. The company's common shares trade on the NYSE and TSX under the symbol BPO. For more information, visit www.brookfieldofficeproperties.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. Although Brookfield Office Properties believes that the anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements and information are based upon reasonable assumptions and expectations, the reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information because they involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company to differ materially from anticipated future results, performance or achievement expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information. Accordingly, the company cannot give any assurance that its expectations will in fact occur and cautions that actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements and information include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions; local real estate conditions, including the development of properties in close proximity to the company's properties; timely leasing of newly-developed properties and re-leasing of occupied square footage upon expiration; dependence on tenants' financial condition; the uncertainties of real estate development and acquisition activity; the ability to effectively integrate acquisitions; interest rates; availability of equity and debt financing; the impact of newly-adopted accounting principles on the company's accounting policies and on period-to-period comparisons of financial results; and other risks and factors described from time to time in the documents filed by the company with the securities regulators in Canada and the United States, including in the Annual Information Form under the heading "Business of Brookfield Properties - Company and Real Estate Industry Risks," and in the company's most recent annual report under the heading "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Results." The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Anna May Wong and Asian American Popular Culture
Shirley Lim
Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905–February 3, 1961) was the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Wong broke the codes of yellowface in both American and European cinema to become one of the major global actresses of Asian descent between the world wars. She made close to sixty films that circulated around the world and in 1951 starred in her own television show, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, produced by the defunct Dumont Network. Examining Wong's career is particularly fruitful because of race's centrality to the motion pictures' construction of the modern American nation-state, as well as its significance within the global circulation of moving images.
Born near Los Angeles's Chinatown, Wong began acting in films at an early age. During the silent era, she starred in films such as The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first two-tone Technicolor films, and The Thief of Baghdad (1924). Frustrated by Hollywood roles, Wong left for Europe in the late 1920s, where she starred in several films and plays, including Piccadilly (1929) and A Circle of Chalk (1929) opposite Laurence Olivier. Wong traveled between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. In 1935 she protested Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's refusal to consider her for the leading role of O-Lan in the Academy Award–winning film The Good Earth (1937). Wong then paid her one and only visit to China. In the late 1930s, she starred in several B films such as King of Chinatown (1939), graced the cover of the mass-circulating American magazine Look, and traveled to Australia. In 1961, Wong died of Laennec's cirrhosis, a disease typically stemming from alcoholism. Yet, as her legacy shows, for a brief moment a glamorous Chinese American woman occupied a position of transnational importance.
Asian American Literature, U.S. Empire, and the Eaton Sisters
Edward Tang
The Eaton sisters, Edith Maude (b. 1865–d. 1914) and Winnifred (b. 1875–d. 1954), were biracial authors who wrote under their respective pseudonyms, Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna. Raised in Montreal, Canada, by an English father and a Chinese mother, the sisters produced works that many scholars have recognized as among the first published by Asian American writers. Edith embraced her Chinese ancestry by composing newspaper articles and short stories that addressed the plight of Chinese immigrants in North America. Winnifred, on the other hand, posed as a Japanese woman and eclipsed her older sibling in popularity by writing interracial romances set in Japan.
The significance of the Eaton sisters emerges from a distinct moment in American history. At the turn of the 20th century, the United States began asserting an imperial presence in Asia and the Caribbean, while waves of immigrants entered the nation as valued industrial labor. This dual movement of overseas expansion and incoming foreign populations gave rise to a sense of superiority and anxiety within the white American mainstream. Even as U.S. statesmen and missionaries sought to extend democracy, Christianity, and trade relations abroad, they also doubted that people who came to America could assimilate themselves according to the tenets of a liberal white Protestantism. This concern became evident with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and the Gentleman's Agreement (1907), legislation that thwarted Chinese and Japanese immigration efforts. The lives and writings of the Eaton sisters intersected with these broader developments. As mixed-race authors, they catered to a growing U.S. consumer interest in things Asian, acting as cultural interpreters between East and West. In doing so, however, they complicated and challenged American beliefs and attitudes about race relations, gender roles, and empire building.
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.
Childbirth and Breastfeeding in 20th-Century America
Jessica Martucci
By the end of the 19th century, the medical specialties of gynecology and obstetrics established a new trend in women's healthcare. In the 20th century, more and more American mothers gave birth under the care of a university-trained physician. The transition from laboring and delivering with the assistance of female family, neighbors, and midwives to giving birth under medical supervision is one of the most defining shifts in the history of childbirth. By the 1940s, the majority of American mothers no longer expected to give birth at home, but instead traveled to hospitals, where they sought reassurance from medical experts as well as access to pain-relieving drugs and life-saving technologies. Infant feeding followed a similar trajectory. Traditionally, infant feeding in the West had been synonymous with breastfeeding, although alternatives such as wet nursing and the use of animal milks and broths had existed as well. By the early 20th century, the experiences of women changed in relation to sweeping historical shifts in immigration, urbanization, and industrialization, and so too did their abilities and interests in breastfeeding. Scientific study of infant feeding yielded increasingly safer substitutes for breastfeeding, and by the 1960s fewer than 1 in 5 mothers breastfed. In the 1940s and 1950s, however, mothers began to organize and to resist the medical management of childbirth and infant feeding. The formation of childbirth education groups helped spread information about natural childbirth methods and the first dedicated breastfeeding support organization, La Leche League, formed in 1956. By the 1970s, the trend toward medicalized childbirth and infant feeding that had defined the first half of the century was in significant flux. By the end of the 20th century, efforts to harmonize women's interests in more "natural" motherhood experiences with the existing medical system led to renewed interest in midwifery, home birth, and birth centers. Despite the cultural shift in favor of fewer medical interventions, rates of cesarean sections climbed to new heights by the end of the 1990s. Similarly, although pressures on mothers to breastfeed mounted by the end of the century, the practice itself increasingly relied upon the use of technologies such as the breast pump. By the close of the century, women's agency in pursuing more natural options proceeded in tension with the technological, social, medical, and political systems that continued to shape their options.
Domestic Workers in U.S. History
Vanessa May
Domestic work was, until 1940, the largest category of women's paid labor. Despite the number of women who performed domestic labor for pay, the wages and working conditions were often poor. Workers labored long hours for low pay and were largely left out of state labor regulations. The association of domestic work with women's traditional household labor, defined as a "labor of love" rather than as real work, and its centrality to southern slavery, have contributed to its low status. As a result, domestic work has long been structured by class, racial, and gendered hierarchies. Nevertheless, domestic workers have time and again done their best to resist these conditions. Although traditional collective bargaining techniques did not always translate to the domestic labor market, workers found various collective and individual methods to insist on higher wages and demand occupational respect, ranging from quitting to "pan-toting" to forming unions.
LGBTQ Issues and U.S. Foreign Relations
Phil Tiemeyer
The impact of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) issues on U.S. foreign relations is an understudied area, and only a handful of historians have addressed these issues in articles and books. Encounters with unexpected and condemnable (to European eyes) sexual behaviors and gender comportment arose from the first European forays into North America. As such, subduing heterodox sexual and gender expression has always been part of the colonizing endeavor in the so-called New World, tied in with the mission of civilizing and Christianizing the indigenous peoples that was so central to the forging of the United States and pressing its territorial expansion across the continent. These same impulses accompanied the further U.S. accumulation of territory across the Pacific and the Caribbean in the late 19th century, and they persisted even longer and further afield in its citizens' missionary endeavors across the globe. During the 20th century, as the state's foreign policy apparatus grew in size and scope, so too did the notions of homosexuality and transgender identity solidify as widely recognizable identity categories in the United States. Thus, it is during the 20th and 21st centuries, with ever greater intensity as the decades progressed, that one finds important influences of homosexuality and gender diversity on U.S. foreign policy: in immigration policies dating back to the late 19th century, in the Lavender Scare that plagued the State Department during the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies, in more contemporary battles between religious conservatives and queer rights activists that have at times been exported to other countries, and in the increasing intersections of LGBTQ rights issues and the War on Terror that has been waged primarily in the Middle East since September 11, 2001.
New Women in Early 20th-Century America
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
In late 19th- and early 20th-century America, a new image of womanhood emerged that began to shape public views and understandings of women's role in society.
Identified by contemporaries as a Gibson Girl, a suffragist, a Progressive reformer, a bohemian feminist, a college girl, a bicyclist, a flapper, a working-class militant, or a Hollywood vamp, all of these images came to epitomize the New Woman, an umbrella term for modern understandings of femininity. Referring both to real, flesh-and-blood women, and also to an abstract idea or a visual archetype, the New Woman represented a generation of women who came of age between 1890 and 1920 and challenged gender norms and structures by asserting a new public presence through work, education, entertainment, and politics, while also denoting a distinctly modern appearance that contrasted with Victorian ideals. The New Woman became associated with the rise of feminism and the campaign for women's suffrage, as well as with the rise of consumerism, mass culture, and freer expressions of sexuality that defined the first decades of the 20th century. Emphasizing youth, mobility, freedom, and modernity, the image of the New Woman varied by age, class, race, ethnicity, and geographical region, offering a spectrum of behaviors and appearances with which different women could identify. At times controversial, the New Woman image provided women with opportunities to negotiate new social roles and to promote ideas of equality and freedom that would later become mainstream.
Politics of Reproductive Rights in 20th-Century America
Rickie Solinger
The reproductive experiences of women and girls in the 20th-century United States followed historical patterns shaped by the politics of race and class. Laws and policies governing reproduction generally regarded white women as legitimate reproducers and potentially fit mothers and defined women of color as unfit for reproduction and motherhood; regulations provided for rewards and punishments accordingly. In addition, public policy and public rhetoric defined "population control" as the solution to a variety of social and political problems in the United States, including poverty, immigration, the "quality" of the population, environmental degradation, and "overpopulation." Throughout the century, nonetheless, women, communities of color, and impoverished persons challenged official efforts, at times reducing or even eliminating barriers to reproductive freedom and community survival.
Between 1900 and 1930, decades marked by increasing urbanization, industrialization, and immigration, eugenic fears of "race suicide" (concerns that white women were not having enough babies) fueled a reproductive control regime that pressured middle-class white women to reproduce robustly. At the same time, the state enacted anti-immigrant laws, undermined the integrity of Native families, and protected various forms of racial segregation and white supremacy, all of which attacked the reproductive dignity of millions of women. Also in these decades, many African American women escaped the brutal and sexually predatory Jim Crow culture of the South, and middle-class white women gained greater sexual freedom and access to reproductive health care, including contraceptive services.
During the Great Depression, the government devised the Aid to Dependent Children program to provide destitute "worthy" white mothers with government aid while often denying such supports to women of color forced to subordinate their motherhood to agricultural and domestic labor. Following World War II, as the Civil Rights movement gathered form, focus, and adherents, and as African American and other women of color claimed their rights to motherhood and social provision, white policymakers railed against "welfare queens" and defined motherhood as a class privilege, suitable only for those who could afford to give their children "advantages." The state, invoking the "population bomb," fought to reduce the birth rates of poor women and women of color through sterilization and mandatory contraception, among other strategies. Between 1960 and 1980, white feminists employed the consumerist language of "choice" as part of the campaign for legalized abortion, even as Native, black, Latina, immigrant, and poor women struggled to secure the right to give birth to and raise their children with dignity and safety. The last decades of the 20th century saw severe cuts in social programs designed to aid low-income mothers and their children, cuts to funding for public education and housing, court decisions that dramatically reduced poor women's access to reproductive health care including abortion, and the emergence of a powerful, often violent, anti-abortion movement. In response, in 1994 a group of women of color activists articulated the theory of reproductive justice, splicing together "social justice" and "reproductive rights." The resulting Reproductive Justice movement, which would become increasingly influential in the 21st century, defined reproductive health, rights, and justice as human rights due to all persons and articulated what each individual requires to achieve these rights: the right not to have children, the right to have children, and the right to the social, economic, and environmental conditions necessary to raise children in healthy, peaceful, and sustainable households and communities.
Race, Gender, and Sex Education in 20th-Century America
Courtney Q. Shah
A concerted movement to promote sex education in America emerged in the early 20th century as part of a larger public health movement that also responded to the previous century's concerns about venereal disease, prostitution, "seduction," and "white slavery." Sex education, therefore, offered a way to protect people (especially privileged women) from sexual activity of all kinds—consensual and coerced. A widespread introduction into public schools did not occur until after World War I. Sex education programs in schools tended to focus on training for heterosexual marriage at a time when high school attendance spiked in urban and suburban areas. Teachers often segregated male and female students.
Beyond teaching boys about male anatomy and girls about female anatomy, reformers and educators often conveyed different messages and used different materials, depending on the race of their students. Erratic desegregation efforts during the Civil Rights movement renewed a crisis in sex education programs. Parents and administrators considered sexuality education even more dangerous in the context of a racially integrated classroom. The backlash against sex education in the schools kept pace with the backlash against integration, with each often used to bolster the other. Opponents of integration and sex education, for example, often used racial language to scare parents about what kids were learning, and with whom.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the political power of the evangelical movement in the United States attracted support for "abstinence-only" curricula that relied on scare tactics and traditional assumptions about gender and sexuality. The ever-expanding acceptance (both legal and social) of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender identity directly challenged the conservative turn of abstinence-until-marriage sex education programs. The politics of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation have consistently shaped and limited sex education.
Roe v. Wade
Mary Ziegler
Decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, Roe v. Wade legalized abortion across the United States. The 7-2 decision came at the end of a decades-long struggle to reform—and later repeal—abortion laws. Although all of the justices understood that Roe addressed a profoundly important question, none of them imagined that it would later become a flashpoint of American politics or shape those politics for decades to come.
Holding that the right to privacy covered a woman's choice to terminate her pregnancy, Roe and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, struck down many of the abortion regulations on the books. The lead-up to and aftermath of Roe tell a story not only of a single Supreme Court decision but also of the historical shifts that the decision shaped and reflected: the emergence of a movement for women's liberation, the rise of grassroots conservatism, political party realignment, controversy about the welfare state, changes to the family structure, and the politicization of science. It is a messy and complicated story that evolved parallel to different ideas about the decision itself. In later decades, Roe arguably became the best-known opinion issued by the Supreme Court, a symbol of an ever-changing set of beliefs about family, health care, and the role of the judiciary in American democracy.
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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Shannon James Diehl, 30, of 236 Forest Hill Drive, Denton, was charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny, three counts of felony larceny, two counts of injury to personal property, failure to appear on shoplifting concealment goods and felony breaking and entering, $20,000. $2,000 and $5,000 secured bonds, Feb. 21.
• Ronald Dale Shipwash, 33, of 610 Ball Road, Thomasville, was served with a fugitive warrant for a probation violation in Murray County in Georgia, $100,000 secured bond, Jan. 31.
• Samuel Jacob Freitag, 30, of 1610 Holloway Church Road, was charged with felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, $5,000 secured bond, Feb. 26.
• Jonathan Mitchell Porter, 30, of 323 Paul Drive, was charged with felony breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, felony larceny after breaking and entering and injury to personal property, $1,000 secured bond, Feb. 22.
The following larcenies more than $1,000 were reported to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department:
• Two televisions, jewelry and laptop valued at $2,100 were reported stolen from a home in the 4000 block of Old U.S. Highway 52 between 8 a.m. and 12:06 p.m. Wednesday.
• Jewelry items valued at $2,440 were reported stolen from a home on Lacy Hepler Road in Thomasville between Jan. 17 and 3:58 p.m. Tuesday.


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Discount grocer Aldi hosting job fair in Deerfield today
Just a quick note that the grocery store chain Aldi is hosting a job fair today in Broward County.
The company is looking for store managers from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Hilton Deerfield Beach/Boca Raton in Deerfield Beach. Applicants much apply in person.
Managers at Aldi start at $20/hour. A high school diploma or its equivalent is required for consideration for the job.
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Suggestion: Engineers Go On A Patent Strike
from the nice-idea,-but... dept
Stop filing patents. Refuse to sign employment contracts that give your employer sole title to your inventions. Don't participate in any due diligence efforts on patent portfolios.Basically, his argument is that most engineers recognize how harmful the patent system is, but are pushed into patenting by lawyers and management, and the only way to get the message out is to stop assisting with anything having to do with patents.
It's a nice idea, and if a lot of folks really got involved it might get some attention, but I have a hard time believing it could actually be effective. While many people do recognize the problems with patents, an awful lot either don't care or don't know enough to care about it -- and they'll just keep patenting away. It's similar to calls to "boycott" RIAA music or similar such things. It sounds good, but it's effectively impossible to make such a process really work in practice.


text: In the Shop: Air Tool Basics September 30, 2011 01:50 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Dan Anderson Farm Journal Columnist Email Air-powered tools lead a tough life on farms. They're used heavily for a day or two to change dozens of sweeps on a field cultivator or replace knife guards on a small grain platform, then left idle for weeks at a time. Making their lives even more difficult, the infrequent times they're intensely used are often under dusty, gritty circumstances. When they're not in use, air tools often get buried in the clutter atop workbenches or become a footrest on the passenger-side floorboard of a farm truck. While abuse and neglect can damage air tools, their greatest enemies are dirt and moisture. Air-powered tools have precision internal components that spin at thousands of revolutions per minute. Dirt and grit can do great harm to internal components spinning at high speed at close tolerances. Moisture is equally damaging because it interrupts the layer of lubrication that keeps those internal components from grinding themselves into metal filings. Make tools last longer. "Excluding" and "including" are the keys to air tool longevity. Excluding dirt and grit can be as simple as using your breath to blow dust and debris from the female coupler on air hoses before coupling them to air tools. In a perfect world, users would flush male and female air couplers with brake cleaner or contact cleaner every time they're connected, but few of us live in a perfect world. Between uses, especially if an air tool will be stored in a dirty environment, cap the male air inlet on air-powered tools. Auto parts stores offer packages of assorted rubber caps for vacuum lines. Select a rubber vacuum cap that fits snugly over the male air inlet to keep debris out of air tools. Moisture is the other villain. Every time air tools are connected to a compressed air delivery system, there is a risk of injecting moisture. Air is heated as it is compressed. When the heated air enters the metal storage tank or passes through distribution lines or hoses, the humidity in that heated air condenses on the cooler surfaces. Air movement from the storage tank and through delivery lines literally injects drops of condensed moisture into air tools. The first line of defense against moisture damage to air tools is to install water filters in the lines as close as possible to where the air tools are attached. The second defense, which is the "including" part of air tool maintenance, is to regularly add lubricant to the intake port of air tools. Special water filters/oilers installed in air lines accomplish both tasks automatically while an air tool is being used. I prefer to put a few drops of air tool oil in the air inlets of my air tools before every use so I know they're well lubricated every time I pull the trigger. If an air tool is going to sit idle for a few weeks between uses, add a few drops of lubricant to the air inlet when you're done using the tool. Just be sure to reconnect the tool to compressed air and hit the trigger a few times to distribute the lubricant throughout the tool so all internal components are protected while the tool is idle. It is important to use only lubricants that are approved for air tools. I can speak from (expensive) experience that penetrating oils such as JB-80 and WD-40 are not good for air tools. Those products are designed to evaporate and leave only a thin, minimal residue that is inadequate for protecting the high-speed, precision innards of air tools. Beware of air tool lubricants advertised to do more than lubricate air tools. Glen Simpson, a technical support representative for Stanley-Bostitch, warns that if an air tool oil brags that it cleans, degreases or drives out water, don't use it. These products may contain isopropyl alcohol or solvents that attack rubber O-rings and seals. The best oil is the one recommended by the air tool manufacturer. Finally, if the outside of your rubber air delivery hoses start to flake or crack, replace them. If the outside rubber is failing, so is the inside liner, thereby sending pieces of rubber into air tools to damage precision components. Cool Tool of the Month If air tools aren't available, arm power is the only way to break loose tight nuts or bolts. Snap-on Inc.'s ¾", 41"-long, one-piece breaker bar, pictured below, is no longer available, but combining the company's L8112A ¾" breaker bar head with its 36"-long L872RM handle and L872H 19" extension produces a 55"-long monster breaker bar that will break down and fit in many toolboxes. Back to news


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E. Idaho high school officials slow plans to remove Redskins logs; seeking public input
DRIGGS, Idaho – The top administrator at an eastern Idaho high school is standing behind his decision to drop the school's Redskins nickname, but is putting on hold plans to remove signs and logos from the school.
Teton County School District 401 Superintendent Monte Woolstenhulme has scheduled a forum next month to gather comment from parents, alumni and residents about the name change at Teton High School.
He also said he will seek feedback from leaders of the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Tribes.
The decision to delay comes amid criticism of the decision to change the school's longtime nickname.
A Facebook page called "Save the Redskins" had gathered more than 950 local and national followers since it was created Tuesday. Foes of the change have launched an online petition to keep the name.


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The Société Générale Group, one of the top-tier financial service groups in the Eurozone, had more than 70 different intranets based on Lotus Notes. The Google Search Appliance gave the group's 120,000 staff fast, simple access to all the relevant information stored in these sites. It took less than two months to install the system, index the database and make over 400,000 documents more accessible than ever.
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A Vest That "Hugs" You When You Get a Like on Facebook [VIDEO] [POLL]
Are "likes" on Facebook just not enough for you? What if you got a hug every time someone liked your picture or status update?
Well, looks like a hug could be in your future. Melissa Kit Chow from MIT Media Lab invented the Like-A-Hug vest for an art project. The vest is hooked up to your Facebook account.
The vest inflates when friends 'Like' a photo, video, or status update on the wearer's wall, thereby allowing us to feel the warmth, encouragement, support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs. Hugs can also be sent back to the original sender by squeezing the vest and deflating it.
The vest is just a Prototype right now, but it's been getting a lot of attention. Do people really need that much validation from others?
Hey, don't get me wrong, I like "likes" on Facebook just as much as anyone else but this is getting a little ridiculous!
like a hug HR 1 2 from Melissa Chow on Vimeo.


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China's Twitter, called Weibo, helps generate momentum for animal welfare
Word spread like wildfire when a group of police officers from a coastal city in southern China posted an appeal on their official Weibo account "@ Xiamen Siming Police Station" (Weibo is China's equivalent of Twitter).
The message—calling for laws to combat animal cruelty—was retweeted 34,000 times and more than 2,600 netizens enthusiastically commented in support of the appeal.
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"Enough is enough. We have had enough of the cruel treatment of animals. Over 100 countries in the world have adopted anti-cruelty laws.
Yet, there is no such legislation on mainland China to prosecute those who abuse animals intentionally.
We appeal for your support today.
By clicking with your mouse on Weibo, you can urge for the amendment of China's criminal laws and the promulgation of anti-cruelty legislation to ban acts abusive of animals, promotion of videos glorifying animal cruelty and abandonment of companion animals, a prosecutable crime."
This isn't entirely new. In recent years, Chinese citizens are increasingly getting their voices heard, bypassing the state-controlled media online and through social media.
Online exposés of abusive conducts to animals have created waves after waves of public condemnation, with many achieving substantive and sometimes immediate results, such as stopping planned mass-killing of dogs to blocking a business farming bears for their bile getting IPO on the stock exchange.
But what has touched me particularly about this posting is that the originators of this appeal are police officers. Many of them across the country are increasingly frustrated by laws that are antiquated, contradictory, or full of loopholes.
As is stated in the appeal, no laws exist to regulate people's behavior in their treatment of animals.
The Wildlife Protection Law, for example, does little to actually protect wildlife or its ecosystem. Rather, the law focuses more on the utilization of wild animals, particularly those "with economic, scientific and cultural value."
Under this law thousands of bears are kept behind bars, with their bodies surgically altered so people can tap their bile juice to mass produce into eye drops, teas, wines and shampoo.
Under this law, the mighty tiger—Asia's King of the jungle—is reduced to nothing more than pigs and cows, speed-bred and mass-raised, with their bones soaked into wine and their striped pelts made into rugs.
While the law prohibits the hunting and killing of protected species in the wild, the sale of parts and products from tigers and elephants are allowed with licenses issued by the same authorities tasked to protect wildlife.
Critics often cite "poor enforcement" as the reason for China hosting the world's largest illegal ivory market which is fueling the massacre of tens of thousands of African elephants. However, few recognize that unenforceable laws are the real problem.
China's domestic ivory market confuses consumers and provides cover for illegal ivory to be sold. Wildlife enforcement officers lament that the existence of parallel legal and illegal markets makes enforcement next to impossible. Once a piece of ivory is on the market, neither a consumer nor a law enforcement officer can differentiate whether it comes from legal or illegal sources.
While wildlife laws need updating and strengthening to adequately protect wild animals and their habitats, many domestic animals suffer without any protection at all.
Skinning animals alive for their fur, throwing live cats into boiling water, forcing water into pigs to increase their weight before sale, circulating video of crushing a kitten with a high heel…these are just a few of the animal abuse incidents that have generated widespread condemnation in China and around the world. Yet, without anti-cruelty legislation, perpetrators of these unspeakable cruel acts on animals go unpunished.
Take the notorious case of Liu Haiyang, a college student from China's prestigious Qinghua University, who poured acid onto bears at Beijing zoo. Liu could only be charged with "destruction of public property" which came only with a slap on the wrist.
Since 2011, proposals for changing China's Wildlife Protection Law and drafting anti-cruelty laws have repeatedly been tabled at the annual meetings of the legislative bodies.
Hopefully, this situation—tapping on the universal power of the internet—will build some momentum, for the upcoming sessions of the legislative congresses in March.
Having animal welfare legislation established and enforced in countries around the world is the mission of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
I know this is shared by an increasing number of Chinese people.
For example, in a Sina.com poll 80% of the respondents support the promulgation of anti-cruelty legislation in order to stop the wonton killing of dogs in the name of "rabies prevention."
Now it is time to urge for China's leadership to realize that there is no better way to foment the country's moral progress than by establishing laws that protect animals as living beings.
For more information about IFAW efforts in China, visit our program page.