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Vienna (AFP) June 19, 2014
Racing against the clock, nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers appeared tough going Thursday with both sides warning of major differences as they tried to draft an accord.
The hoped-for agreement would see Iran scale back its nuclear programme, in order to ease fears Iran wants atomic weapons, and avert a conflict in the Middle East.
Iran, which has seen its relations with the West thaw somewhat since the 2013 election of President Hassan Rouhani, wants painful UN and Western sanctions lifted. It denies wanting the bomb.
On a fourth day of talks in Vienna, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany have started haggling over the wording of a deal, officials said.
But beyond agreeing a title for the accord, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that "fundamental differences" were dividing the two sides.
On Wednesday negotiations "slowly" began to draft the final agreement, "but there are still many differences" over the text, ISNA news agency quoted Zarif as saying from Vienna.
He added that the talks had been "very difficult".
A Western diplomat said that Iran was refusing to budge on most issues and that drafting language in the text on the "complex issues" had not begun.
"It is worrying that there is no evolution on the part of the Iranians on most subjects," the diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Differences between the two sides on uranium enrichment, the central issue not only in this fifth round of talks but for the past decade, remain "major," the envoy said.
Enrichment is front and centre of Western concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions, as the process can produce both fuel for nuclear power plants and, when highly purified, the core of an atomic bomb.
The West wants Iran to slash the number of centrifuges, the machines that enrich uranium, from the current 20,000, but Tehran wants to install many more in order, it says, to fuel a future fleet of nuclear plants.
Other thorny issues include the duration of the mooted accord, the pace of any sanctions relief and a reactor being built at Arak that might give Iran plutonium, the alternative to highly-enriched uranium for a bomb.
"Bearing in mind the limited time that is left and the differences remaining, the progress is slow" in writing the draft, a senior Iranian diplomat at the talks told ISNA.
- No catastrophe -
Iran's top negotiator Abbas Araqchi told IRNA on Wednesday that choosing to push back the July 20 deadline -- when an interim deal struck in November expires -- "won't be a catastrophe".
But US President Barack Obama is not seen as keen, seeking ahead of November midterm US elections to silence accusations that the talks are merely giving Iran time to inch ever closer to the bomb.
Complicating the process is the shared interest of Washington and Shiite Iran in seeing a lightning onslaught by Sunni rebels in Iraq stopped in its tracks.
On Monday US and Iranian officials briefly discussed the crisis on the sidelines in Vienna, although Washington said this would not be repeated.
On Wednesday a senior aide to Rouhani, his chief of staff Mohammad Nahavandian, appeared to say that any US-Iranian cooperation in Iraq depended on progress in the nuclear talks.
"If that comes to a final resolution, then there might be opportunities for other issues to be discussed," Nahavandian said in Norway.
In Israel, assumed to have nuclear weapons itself and which has not ruled out bombing Iran, a minister on Thursday expressed fears that the crisis may prompt Washington to make concessions in Vienna.
But US State Department Jen Psaki spokeswoman said Wednesday that any discussion of Iraq would be "entirely separate" from the nuclear negotiations.
"Any effort to connect the two is a nonstarter for the United States," Psaki told reporters.
Tehran, world powers 'begin drafting nuclear deal'
"Today we have slowly begun to draft the final agreement... but there are still many differences" over the text, ISNA news agency quoted Zarif as saying from Vienna.
"This does not mean we have reached an agreement," said Zarif, according to IRNA news agency.
"Fundamental disagreements" continue to divide Iran and the P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany -- he said.
But Zarif said the two sides have agreed on a title for the text, which will be known as the "General Joint Plan of Action."
A new round of negotiations between Iranian diplomats and those of the six powers, which opened Monday in Vienna, had been "very difficult" so far.
The talks, which run through Friday, are aimed at clinching a comprehensive nuclear deal by a July 20 deadline set up by an interim agreement.
Iran's top negotiator Abbas Araqchi earlier told IRNA news agency that Iran hoped to settle all differences with the six powers by the target date.
The main sticking points are the timetable for a full lifting of crippling US and EU sanctions, and the scale to which Iran would be allowed to continue uranium enrichment, he said.
Enrichment is the sensitive process at the centre of Western concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions, as it can produce both fuel for nuclear power stations and, in highly extended form, the core of an atomic bomb.
The P5+1 want Iran -- which insists its nuclear drive is purely for civilian use -- to drastically reduce its uranium production capacity, and keep only a few hundred centrifuges active.
They want to ensure that Iran's nuclear activities are purely peaceful. In return, Iran wants the removal of international sanctions that have choked its economy.
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Wednesday Iran's economy remained in a "state of distress" despite limited sanctions relief.
"Iran sanctions are the toughest the world community has imposed on any country, and its economy is suffering a serious blow as a result -- an impact that is not being reversed," Lew said at a meeting in Jerusalem of the Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG).
- 'Still a long way to go' -
In the remarks to IRNA, Araqchi said "it won't be a catastrophe" if the July 20 target date is not met.
"We hope to start work on Wednesday on drafting the text of a final agreement, not the big issues but the general framework and the introduction," Araqchi said.
"There is a still a long way to go before we reach an agreement acceptable to all sides."
An interim deal struck last November led the six powers to release $7 billion from frozen funds in return for a slowdown in Iran's controversial uranium enrichment.
Iran began implementing the November deal in January.
Tehran said Wednesday that successful nuclear talks could lead to co-operation with the US over their shared interest in Iraq -- where Sunni militants have seized large swathes of territory in a lightning offensive.
President Hassan Rouhani's chief of staff Mohammad Nahavandian told reporters in Oslo that the nuclear talks were a "test for confidence building".
"If that comes to a final resolution, then there might be opportunities for other issues to be discussed."
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Louie Honors Reading Program Poster Winners
By Bowie Baysox | February 11, 2014 4:54 PM ET
The Baysox lovable mascot Louie made visits to schools across the region during the past month to congratulate some very special students. Louie wanted to congratulate the winners of the annual poster contest that kicks off the Read and Hit a Home Run reading program.
All eight winning students are listed below:
Calvert County - Windy Hill Elementary School - Jemma Barillaro - 3rd Grade
Anne Arundel County - St. Martin's Lutheran School - Ava Tietje - 7th Grade
Charles County - General Smallwood Middle School - Jania Washington - 6th Grade
Howard County - Manor Woods Elementary School - Elinah Chung - 4th Grade
Montgomery County - Stedwick Elementary School - Nyah Dames - 5th Grade
Queen Anne's County - Bayside Elementary School - Katie Heyn - 5th Grade
Prince George's County - James Ryder Randall Elementary School - Anaiya Scott - 5th Grade
St. Mary's County - The King's Christian Academy - Hannah Brown - 3rd Grade
The students' poster designs were selected as the winner for all schools in their county. The poster designed by the winning student will also be displayed in each participating school in their respective counties throughout the program.
Louie surprised the winners during special school assemblies, rewarding them with a framed poster of the design, eight Baysox tickets and a collection of Baysox gear. The students also get a chance to throw out a ceremonial first pitch before the Baysox Reading Night game for their county.
The Baysox would like to thank Read and Hit a Home Run Reading Program sponsor Educational Systems Federal Credit Union for their support of the program. This is the 10th year that Educational Systems Federal Credit Union has sponsored the reading program.
In all, more than 200 schools are registered to participate in the reading program this year. Any student in participating schools who reads at least four books is rewarded with a free ticket to a Baysox game. This is the 18th year the Baysox have overseen the reading program and during that time, the team has helped to promote reading for millions of elementary and middle school students in Maryland. Louie will be visiting students throughout the weeks leading up to the season to show them how fun reading can be.
Baysox Baseball - We'll Knock Your 'Sox Off. The Baysox open the 2014 season, their 22nd as the class Double-A Affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, at Prince George's Stadium Thursday, April 3. To keep up with Baysox news during the offseason, visit baysox.com.
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Cajuns – East Carolina Game Simulation On NCAA 13
If you can't wait until Saturday to watch the Cajuns take on the East Carolina Pirates, you can catch the NCAA 13 simulation of the game right here, courtesy of the Sports Gaming Universe. It's a really exciting game, all that's missing is the post game party which will be at Bourbon Heat with the Hot crew in the mix.
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- 3/4 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 lime, sliced
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon sea salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 large daikon, trimmed and cut into matchsticks, about 2 cups
- 1 1/2 pounds petite filet or flat-iron steaks
- 12 ounces soba or whole wheat spaghetti
- 2 tablespoons high temperature/stir-fry cooking oil
- 1/2 pound smoky black pepper bacon, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 2 bunches scallions, cut into 1-inch pieces on an angle
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 1 cup shelled edamame
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire
- 2 tablespoons Tamari
- 1 can Sapporo beer
- 1 quart beef stock
- Shiso or cilantro leaves, coarsely chopped
Heat vinegar, lime slices, water, salt and sugar over medium heat until at a low boil and sugar and salt dissolves. Pour brine over daikon and reserve.
Place the meat in the freezer for a few minutes to firm it up for stability when thinly slicing.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil to cook soba or spaghetti to al dente, following package directions.
Very thinly slice the beef against the grain.
Heat a large, round-bottom pot over high heat; add a little oil and brown and crisp the bacon. Remove to plate and spoon off all but 3 tablespoons fat. Add the beef in small batches to hot drippings and stir-fry it until brown and crispy at edges, remove to plate. Add the scallions to blister them then add the garlic and edamame. Toss then add Worcestershire, Tamari, deglaze pan with beer and reduce by half. Add stock and simmer.
Divide bacon, beef and noodles among bowls and top with soup. Garnish with drained pickled daikon, shiso or cilantro leaves.


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The First Creations
The First Creations begins in the year 10,000 BCE, with the weaving of the Goddess of Love and the Goddess of Thought. The four Elementals journey through the physical side of Chaos, where they must venture to create new beings. Once the First Daughters finally arrive in Immortality ... everything starts to happen. From Stonehenge, the city of Atlantis, the first Olympic games, all the way through the Underworld, the First Creations each face their own trials and tribulations. Some will face their problems with the help of others ... some will be completely on their own. Be fully introduced to Loki and learn the origins of the Fathergod, following the First Creations all the way to the year 500 CE. Love, Thought, Artemis, Hades, and War will discover their powers, learn who they really are, and see the beginnings of civilization on Earth-realm firsthand. The world may be young, but her deities ... even younger.
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They also nearly always cite a December 2009 interview in which the president called out "fat cat" bankers.
Diane D. of Birmingham, England, who writes the blog fat Girls Like Nice Clothes Too, concurs.
And the women are also fat—or at least all more than 160 pounds.
But the policy is exactly what fat America needs, writes Michael Tomasky.
From the list I just mentioned, do not, I repeat, do not hire the fat ones.
And maybe I didn't live on the fat o' the land with it, for eight weeks!
The fat and soft parts are eaten because they are the residence of the soul.
No man is ever too old to look at a woman, and no woman is ever too fat to hope that he will look.
The flesh is somewhat dry and insipid, and entirely destitute of fat.
The boys lived on the fat of the land, and at very slight cost.
Old English fætt "fat, fatted, plump, obese," originally a contracted past participle of fættian "to cram, stuff," from Proto-Germanic *faitaz "fat" (cf. Old Frisian fatt, Old Norse feitr, Dutch vet, German feist), from PIE *poid- "to abound in water, milk, fat, etc." (cf. Greek piduein "to gush forth"), from root *peie- "to be fat, swell" (cf. Sanskrit payate "swells, exuberates," pituh "juice, sap, resin;" Lithuanian pienas "milk;" Greek pion "fat, wealthy;" Latin pinguis "fat").
Teen slang meaning "attractive, up to date" (also later phat) is attested from 1951. Fat cat "privileged and rich person" is from 1928; fat chance "no chance at all" attested from 1906. Fathead is from 1842; fat-witted is from 1590s; fatso is first recorded 1944. Expression the fat is in the fire originally meant "the plan has failed" (1560s).
mid-14c.; see fat (v.). Figurative sense of "best or most rewarding part" is from 1560s.
fat (fāt)
Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.
A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the adipose tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants.
Adipose tissue.
Obesity; corpulence.
Any of a large number of oily compounds that are widely found in plant and animal tissues and serve mainly as a reserve source of energy. In mammals, fat, or adipose tissue, is deposited beneath the skin and around the internal organs, where it also protects and insulates against heat loss. Fat is a necessary, efficient source of energy. An ounce of fat contains more than twice as much stored energy as does an ounce of protein or carbohydrates and is digested more slowly, resulting in the sensation of satiety after eating. It also enhances the taste, aroma, and texture of food. Fats are made chiefly of triglycerides, each molecule of which contains three fatty acids. Dietary fat supplies humans with essential fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid. Fat also regulates cholesterol metabolism and is a precursor of prostaglandins. See more at saturated fat, unsaturated fat.
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- Located in northwestern France, Brest has a strong and proud maritime history. In Brittany, one of France's most rugged regions, Brest is a mix of coastline, ancient towns, islands, and inland woods.
- The seaport town was first recognized by Cardinal Richelieu in 1631 as a base for the French Navy and was a key location for the allied invasion in WWII.
- A Celtic duchy for more than one thousand years before its annexation to France in 1532, it is an area rich in culture, tradition, and history.
- In present-day Brest, there are many attractions that bring people from around the world, and also help to preserve the culture. Brest is home to Europe's largest open air aquarium, Oceanopolis. The city also has a sizable art museum called the Musée de Beaux-Arts. At the Tour de la Matte Tanguy, the city has an exhibit of dioramas that show life in Brest prior to the devastation of WWII. Every four years, a massive Brest Boat Festival is held, featuring as many as 300,000 ships.
- Tourists also flock to this area to experience the world-famous local delicacy, the Brêton crepe.
- In 1947, East High School teacher, Ms. Amanda Knecht, visited the city of Brest, France. It had been bombed extensively over a six week period during World War II. Upon Ms. Knecht's return to Denver, she told her students about the devastation. Over the next year, these students raised $32,000 in change to rebuild the children's wing of the Brest City Hospital.
- In 1948, the sister city concept became a reality for Denver and Brest. With this contract, Denver gained its first sister city. This relationship was the second sister city relationship to be formed within the United States.
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- After the initial interaction to provide financial aid to the hospital, the two cities have participated in a wide variety of collaborations. One of the most frequent activities between the two cities is the student and community exchanges. Musicians, artists, teachers, and hospitality and business professionals have all participated in these exchanges. There is also an ongoing development of additional learning opportunities with Johnson and Wales University.
- Another consistent event held by the Brest committee is its wine tastings and dinners. These events give local community members the chance to experience Brest culture through food.
- The committee has hosted other opportunities to experience the culture, such as concerts with Breton singer, Nolwenn Monjarret.
- The committee helped to create a Denver garden in France and, with the help of the Denver Botanic Gardens, continues to help maintain and support it. This garden contains Colorado native plants that can give Bretons a taste of Denver's culture, as well as the outdoor environment that Coloradans pride themselves on.
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A water purifier was a device used to remove all harmful microorganisms from a liquid, making it safe to drink.
Arik Soong utilized a water purifier in the 2130s, along with a protein resequencer, to sustain a small colony of Augments he was raising on a planet in the Trialas system. (ENT: "Cold Station 12")


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Tribe ace Fausto Carmona's two-hit, seven-inning shutout Thursday in the Indians 1-0 win over the Boston Red Sox marked a huge difference from his first outing on Opening Day when he was shelled for 10 runs on 11 hits in three-plus innings against the Chicago White Sox.
It even tied a 100-year-old mark.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Carmona became the first major-league pitcher in 106 years to allow 10 or more runs in his first start of a season and then no runs in his next start, without a relief appearance between those games.
The last time it happened? Dick Harley did it for the 1905 Boston Beaneaters (Elias also notes that Boston didn't pick up the nickname "Braves" until several years later.) Harley set the mark by allowing 15 runs in a complete game on April 15 and then threw a four-hit shutout in his next start, four days later.
* In another Elias note from Thursday's Tribe game in which the Indians won 1-0 on Asdrubal Cabrera's eighth-inning sacrifice bunt that scored Adam Everett: It was only the second 1–0 game in the last 22 seasons in which the run scored on an RBI sacrifice bunt or an RBI bunt single. In fact, since 1990, the only other such game was the Angels' win at Oakland on July 4, 2003 when David Eckstein's sacrifice bunt in the sixth inning plated the only run in the contest.


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Bennie Crockett
Missing since August 12, 1977 from TaylorÆs Grove, Lancaster County, South Carolina
Classification: Missing
Vital Statistics
Circumstances of Disappearance
Crockett was seen last at RankinÆs Grocery on U.S. 521 in TaylorÆs Grove some time after 19.00 on August 12, 1977.
People at a house nearby said he was talking with someone inside a car that was parked in the median on U.S. 521. But nobody knows where he went after that.
The Lancaster County SheriffÆs Office began a search of the surrounding area that weekend.
His children believe their father was killed. The family has no reason to think he would have left to start a new life.
Seven years after he disappeared, the family signed papers that officially pronounced Crockett dead.
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
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Chicken Breeds List
Information on Chicken Breeds fromA to Z
Egg Laying
Russian Orloffs are build big for cooking and do good work as layers, though the biggest
attribute they possess is their ability to lay eggs even in cold weather. This makes them very
valuable if you live somewhere very cold. Keep in mind though that the breed is considered
endangered, so if you plan on keeping them as dinner birds, make sure you're breeding them
Russian Orloffs are calm birds who don't become very broody. They're an easy chicken to
keep because of these qualities, though why they aren't more popular is mostly due to their
primary usefulness as cold weather layers, a quality a lot of egg farmers don't generally
worry about.
Russian Orloffs look very much like game birds as they are tall and thickly
feathered. They have a small walnut comb, small wattles, and small earlobes, but do
have a fair amount of feathers around their head and neck. They come in a variety of
colors such as black, white, blacked-tailed with red, mahogany, speckled, and
Russian Orloffs are easy to keep as they're calm and can easily withstand cold
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Candidates Will Rush to Tea Party Events
How big an impact will the Tea Party movement have on Alabama's June primary for Republicans?
It will be significant if you consider the showing by Republican hopefuls for governor at Tea Party events throughout the state.
Judge Roy Moore and Dr. Robert Bentley (we can use titles and nicknames in this blog) appear midday at the Trussville Tea Party where as many as 4,000 are expected. Bill Johnson says he'll be there, too.
Moore is the keynote speaker at noon in Trussville, then travels to Cullman where he, Bentley and Tim James speak for a Tea Party event starting at 4pm.
Campaign staff say logistics can be tricky on a day like Thursday where candidates want to make the maximum number of appearances.
"Everybody wants the judge… these are his people," Moore staffer Suzelle Josey tells me.
Moore was a featured speaker at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville in February. Watch a February interview on Good Day Alabama shortly after the Nashville event at 3:43 into the video.
James appears to have been effective in reaching out to Tea Party groups, as well.
"We got to the dance early," Tim James spokesman Brett Hall tells me.
From the beginning of the movement, Hall says, James has courted Tea Party folks for his campaign.
In addition to the Cullman appearance, James will speak at the Rainy Day Patriots event in Hoover where Sarah Palin's father and brother are scheduled to appear. James and 6th district congressional candidate Stan Cooke landed stage appearances as sponsors for Chuck Health and Chuck Jr.
A campaign spokesman for Bradley Byrne says "absolutely" when asked if the candidate will be reaching out to Tea Party events Thursday.
Derek Trotter says Byrne will attend the Montgomery Tea Party, where national conservative activist Alan Keyes is a featured speaker. Byrne will also attend the Wetumpka Tea Party Thursday evening. Byrne is not scheduled to speak at those events.
Organizers of events including Hoover, Montgomery and Trussville say they will send the message Thursday that they are flexing political muscle in state and local races.
"There is a lot of power in numbers," Prattville Tea Partier Dawn Barben says.
*NOTE: Moore spokeswoman Suzelle Josey told me Moore was "keynote" for the Trussville event. In my conversations with Grace Bush of the event organizers, she did describe him as speaking in the capacity of "a judge" and not a candidate for governor. As for the depiction of this year's model of the Tax Day Tea Party, Bush did not dispute it as a chance to "flex the Tea Party's political muscle in an election year in state and local elections." Those involved with events in Montgomery and Hoover did indeed express the movement was going in that direction.
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Girls in care homes are at risk of sexual exploitation
Two-thirds of girls in care homes in Northern Ireland are at risk of sexual exploitation, a survey has suggested.
The Barnardo's survey entitled 'Not a World Away' also indicated that both male and females were affected by abuse.
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1. Re: Multiple security filters937499 Jul 17, 2012 2:07 PM (in response to 948343)Hi Sri,
Can I infer from your post that you're employing your security filters via a Studio SecurityManager extension? If so, there is no reason that you can use this extension to apply a security filter which uses a boolean "AND" operator between your two mandatory conditions (ie. viewmetadata="true" AND viewrecord="true").
Please see chapter 2 of the StudioDevelopmentGuide --> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29805_01/StudioDevGuide.pdf for creating a custom SecurityManager
Please see information related to DataSourceFilters in the StudioUsersGuide for info on syntax --> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29805_01/StudioUsersGuide.pdf
2. Re: Multiple security filtersUser387251 Jul 18, 2012 12:44 AM (in response to 937499)Hi Danny,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, we are are using the concept in SecurityManager to apply the security filters.
We have found an issue using mutiple security filter with "AND" operator.
For example,
Record1: Title="Fire" Content="Fire" Viewmetadata="true" Viewrecord="true"
Record2: Title="Fire" Content="Fire" Viewmetadata="true" Viewrecord="false"
Record3: Title="water" Content="Fire" Viewmetadata="true" Viewrecord="false"
If an user has perimission to view meta data for all three records & can view content of only record1 and the user searches for "Fire" we want back Record1&Record2.
But record2 should only get searched in "Title" field because user don't have permission to view the content.
So if we apply "AND" operator in this situation we only get back record1.
The issue we are facing here is, we have to make the search only happens in,
1. both (title and content) if user has permission to view metdata and view record
2. only title if user has permission to view metdata only.
Please provide your suggestion on this.
3. Re: Multiple security filtersBrett R-Oracle Jul 19, 2012 5:36 AM (in response to User387251)Your requirements are a mixture of record/row-level security (which records can I see) and attribute/field-level security (which attributes can I see and search). The focus of the Security Manager extension and default implementation is on record-level security.
In terms of restricting searchability of attributes or sets of attributes, this can be achieved through the use of Search Interfaces. These aggregate attributes into a single search, however you won't be able to automatically bind users to Search Interfaces, although you may be able to achieve this manually through multiple search portlets and portlet permissions. The same applies for the actual display of attributes.
4. Re: Multiple security filtersUser387251 Jul 20, 2012 5:40 AM (in response to Brett R-Oracle)Hi Brett,
Thanks for the reply. Yes we want to limit the number of fields getting searchED and it will vary per record for a given query.
For example, For record 1 => search in Title & content and for record 2 => search in only Title.
Because for record 2, user may not have permission to view the content.
The one way of achieving this use case.
1. Create search interface for Title field and search in all the records for which user has the permission to view the meta data
2. Create search interface for Content and search in all the records for which user has the perimission to view the content
3. In the UI code, aggregate the results from two different queries
But with this approach, the result aggregation, pagination have to be done through code. So is there an another way to handle this use case(whether engine can handle aggregating the results)?.
Please provide your suggestions.
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Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
reviewed by Kenneth B. McIntyre
If, as the political philosopher Michael Oakeshott once said, the sin of the academic is always taking too long to make a point, the sin of the journalist is making a point without historical reflection or understanding. In her widely praised book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby, a former journalist at The Washington Post and currently a freelance writer, declares that her intention is "to restore secularism, and its noble and essential contributions at every stage of the American experiment, to its proper place in our nation's historical memory and vision of the future."
Freethinkers has received high praise in the national press and from secular intellectuals like Peter Gay and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Christopher Hitchens lauded it for showing that "secularism, agnosticism, and atheism are as American as cherry pie," and Arthur Miller called it "fresh air for the lungs of those who defend the separation of church and state." Philip Roth suggested that every college freshman should be required to read the book as a primer on American secularism.
The book is, in fact, a particularly egregious example of what Herbert Butterfield called the Whig interpretation of history: It reduces the significance of past events to their relevance to present concerns. The Whig historian constructs a Manichean story in which the individuals of the past are understood merely in terms of their supposed contribution or opposition to contemporary political and social attitudes.
Triumphant Whigs
Jacoby's version of secular Whiggism can be summarized as follows. The history of liberty is the history of the triumph of secular reason over the reactionary forces of irrational religion. At some point in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and in a manner similar to Athena's emergence fully formed from the forehead of Zeus, certain human beings escaped the cave of orthodox religion and discovered Reason.
These enlightened human beings were mostly French, but some especially bright Americans, like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, imbibed deeply from this well of knowledge and created a secular government in the United States based solely upon human reason. Since this pristine creation, however, the malign forces of reactionary religion have attempted to stifle the education of the general public.
In this story there have been heroes like Tom Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Robert Ingersoll. And there have been villains like Timothy Dwight, Anthony Comstock, Billy Graham, the Catholic hierarchy, and the entire population of the Southern states.
The moral of Jacoby's story is clear: The American past and the American present form a battleground on which the dark forces of religion attempt to tyrannize the population while besieged progressive secularists defend true liberty, and the real meaning of the Constitution and especially the First Amendment, at every turn.
The historical difficulties with Jacoby's book are legion, but I will focus briefly on three of them. First, her conception of the European Enlightenment as essentially anti-clerical, irreligious, rationalistic, and philosophically materialistic is a generalization from the French experience and inappropriate to the other European Enlightenments, as, for example, the Scottish, German, and American versions.
Kant, the most profound philosopher associated with the period, attempted to provide a philosophical foundation for his own Pietism and, in so doing, offered a compelling critique of the metaphysical claims of natural science. Hume, the great skeptic, did not limit his skepticism to religion, but was also quite dubious about the place of reason in human activity.
Jacoby's representative figures, Voltaire and Tom Paine, no more comprehensively represent the extra-ordinary complexity of the historical Enlightenment than do individuals like John Witherspoon, who was a friend of David Hume, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the president of the College of New Jersey (which would become Princeton University), and a devoutly orthodox Presbyterian preacher; or the Anglican Bishop Berkeley, who expounded a philosophy that explicitly rejected materialism and posited an immediate and omnipresent God as the cause of all experience.
Eccentric Founders
Second, and more significant in terms of Jacoby's project, is her claim that the Constitution and the establishment clause of the First Amendment were intended to create a purely secular government neutral on or indifferent to religion.
To defend this notion, she relies almost solely on quotes from Jefferson and Madison, both of whom were religiously eccentric among the founders. The reasons for relying on them are clearly polemical, not historical. She wants to undermine "the image of the founders as devoutly religious men" by arguing that "rationalism and humanism permeated the character and thought of the iconic revolutionary figures."
However, her "icons" hardly prove her point. Jefferson had little to do with either the writing and ratification of the Constitution or with the framing and passage of the Bill of Rights, so his example is not particularly relevant. Madison was intimately involved in the creation of both, but both were revised in ways that directly contradicted many of his own concerns, especially his desire to use Virginia's 1786 Act for Establishing Religious Freedom as "the template for secularist provisions of the federal Constitution," as Jacoby writes. Indeed, she admits that Madison failed to persuade Congress to adopt his version of the First Amendment.
The Constitution itself is largely a procedural document that created a set of rules authorizing certain activities and prohibiting others to the national government. Although, as Jacoby correctly notes, it does not mention God and prohibits religious test oaths, many at the time of its writing understood the requirement that public officials take an oath to support the Constitution to make a religious test unnecessary, because oath-taking was understood as being a type of nonsectarian religious test itself.
Further, the First Amendment prohibiting the establishment of a religion and protecting the free exercise of religion was not, in fact, intended to secularize the national government, but instead to reject sectarianism. The founders understood the term "establishment" in a specific way: A church established by a government could command assent to its doctrinal statements, receive tax moneys to support it, and require attendance at its services.
The founders prohibited the national government only from establishing such a state church, not from supporting religion in nonsectarian ways. Soon after passing the amendment, for example, Congress passed a resolution proposing a national day of "public prayer and thanksgiving," on which President Washington soon acted. It also provided land for churches and mentioned the necessity of religious education in the Northwest Ordinance.
Thus, contrary to Jacoby's account, the people who actually voted to ratify the establishment clause saw no incompatibility between it and governmental support of religion.
Selective Blame
Jacoby's selective use of history in her examination of the founding fathers is a rather standard exercise among secular writers of history, but throughout the book she also uses history selectively to blame orthodox religion for slavery, the subjugation of women, censorship, segregation, and McCarthyism. This is the third historical difficulty with Freethinkers.
Her aggressive antagonism toward religion can be seen most starkly in her treatment of Norman Vincent Peale, Fulton Sheen, and Billy Graham. These three religious leaders, she asserts, debased the former secular purity of American public discourse by surreptitiously importing an ecumenical form of Christian values and ideals into the public forum.
They accomplished this by ingeniously combining Christian doctrine, American exceptionalism, and the worship of worldly success. Sheen, for example, "conferred a religious imprimatur on what was essentially a social agenda, blazing a trail for Protestant evangelicals, like Billy Graham . . . as well as for the more recent electronic spokesmen of the Christian far right."
Peale, Sheen, and Graham are generally considered to be the most ecumenical and non-controversial orthodox religious leaders of the post-war years. The suggestion that the anodyne optimism of Peale or Sheen and Graham's spiritual revivalism represented a plot to inject religion into public life is literally ridiculous.
In fact, many Christians believe that these three men were more successful at Americanizing Christianity than at Christianizing America. Whether or not that is true, Jacoby's indictment of such socially unthreatening teachers as Peale, Sheen, and Graham suggests that she believes that the expression of any form of orthodox religious belief is harmful to public discourse.
Which is not surprising because, as befits the writer of an anti-Christian polemic, the author defines religious belief primarily in terms of its irrationality, ignoring the parochialism of her own instrumentalist conception of reason, manifested primarily in her repeated appeals to science. (Instrumentalism is the idea that reason is merely a tool to be used to further human purposes, not a faculty by which truth may be found.)
For example, she extols the scientific method because "it discourages the leaps of faith in the unverifiable that are the essence of any religion." The notion that a proposition is true only if empirically verifiable cannot, of course, be empirically verified, but is instead an argument of a logically different order. It is as parochial—as irrational, in her terms—as the Christian's religious commitments.
However, it is clear that Jacoby does not object to faith in general, but only to religious faith. In the paragraph following her description of the irrationality of religion, she commends "the profound American faith in progress" because such faith made it easier for Americans to accept evolution.
She insists that the acceptance of evolution, which has only an extremely tenuous connection with public policy, ought to be the sine qua non for entry into public discourse. It demonstrates both her overt hostility to fundamentalist Christians and her own dogmatic credulity about modern natural science.
Problem Religion
Jacoby believes that one's religion is, or ought to be, a matter of one's private tastes, like a preference for the Chicago Cubs or chocolate ice cream—if it is a taste she thinks irrational, at least it affects no one else.
She argues that "the problem, of course, is not religion, of whatever brand . . . but religion melded with political ideology and political power." Thus, according to the logic of her argument, anyone seeking to influence public policy on the basis of such irrational personal prejudices or brand preferences ought to be ignored, and even rejected or silenced.
What Jacoby neglects is that Christians do not understand their religion as a purely subjective state of mind, but as objectively reasonable and ultimately true. The radical disjunction between reason and faith which Jacoby posits has been firmly rejected by most Christians.
More to the point, for Christians, the truth of Christianity is neither merely an academic matter nor a matter of purely private speculation, but instead defines their conception of the character of history, aesthetics, morality, and politics. It is a matter that affects their life in the public square.
Christianity is a way of being and acting in the world, not a set of private conclusions. Augustine and Aquinas, Erasmus and Luther, Calvin and Knox, Chesterton and Lewis, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Paul II would have certainly rejected both the notion that they were benighted mystifiers whose appeal was limited to the irrational and emotional side of their human interlocutors and the idea that their Christianity was or ought to have been irrelevant to their public lives.
Jacoby's book, and the enthusiastic praise it has received from secular figures of public prominence and influence, does suggest that something rather profound is taking place within the American polity. Philosophers use the term incommensurability when speaking of two ideas informed by presuppositions so different that they cannot be compared in a significant way.
Problem Secularists
The dogmatic faith of secularists like Jacoby in the salvific character of natural science and disembodied reason makes meaningful communication on matters of public concern between them and Christians quite difficult, because the secularists not only reject the validity of arguments based upon revelation but also reject any non-instrumentalist accounts of rationality.
For example, Jacoby claims that religious beliefs are inherently "subjective," and since "one religious viewpoint cannot serve all in a democratic society," arguments based upon these irrational beliefs cannot be used in political discourse. She claims that a "theological position . . . should not be permitted to masquerade as a general ethical principle."
However, the public arguments of, for example, the Catholic bishops are never purely theological in Jacoby's sense of the term. Instead, the Catholic Church's official statements on issues like abortion, homosexuality, marriage, contraception, and the death penalty are addressed not just to Catholics but to the public at large, and are grounded in an appeal to the natural law and the common reason of humanity about the nature and purposes of human life.
But since this appeal to the natural law is not susceptible to external empirical verification and does not rest on a materialist scientific foundation, those who define reason in instrumental terms reject it. Thus, even thinkers like Richard John Neuhaus and Michael Novak, who have argued forcefully for a nonsectarian, natural-law approach to Christian engagement in the public sphere, are considered by secularists to be irrationalists.
Religion, for secularists like Jacoby, has no right to a hearing or a place in the public square. If her book is not anti-religious bigotry, it would be difficult to find anything that is.
There is still an interesting book to be written about the intellectual history of American secularism, but this isn't it. But if readers are wondering if aggressive secularists desire to limit or eliminate the contribution of Christians to public life, reading Freethinkers will leave them most enlightened.
Kenneth B. McIntyre is an assistant professor of political science at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and author of The Limits of Political Theory: Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association. He is currently editing a book on the history of political science. He, his wife Maria, and their two daughters, Flannery and Juliana, are members of the Catholic Church.
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- Safiyah said...
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- PureMorning said...
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- Chrissy said...
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- 20 April 2012 at 13:40
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This colour is super cute. Illamasqua really does make excellent colours!
- 20 April 2012 at 14:32
- indie said...
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- Pearl Squirrel said...
I can't stand dry lips :( It's a very cool color though and the matte effect is really pretty!
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- 20 April 2012 at 15:22
- gio said...
What a gorgeous color! But what a shame it is so drying!
- 20 April 2012 at 16:32
- BostonPrincess said...
Such a fun color! Does look like it would need some clear gloss over it though for moisture.
- 20 April 2012 at 17:58
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I love the color!:D And also matte lipsticks, so to me it looks great :))
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I haven´t tried any of their lipsticks so I can´t say if I find them dry or not but Ive heard people on youtube say that they are
I adore the color though :)
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DVD rental specialist Blockbuster has gone into administration - the latest casualty in the post-Christmas bloodbath on the High Street.
Its downfall, which puts more than 4,000 jobs at risk, comes after music retail giant HMV and camera chain Jessops gave up the struggle to stay in business in recent days.
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Deloitte, which is handling Blockbuster's administration, said the collapse was driven by competition from internet firms and digital streaming of movies and games.
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The brutal consumer climate, which has seen people reluctant to spend money on anything outside of essentials, has laid waste to Britain's High Street over the past few years.
Blockbuster dominated the UK film rental market in the 1990s and still has two million regular customers, with sales of £182million for the year to December. But poor trading over Christmas meant it posted a £300,000 loss rather than the £4.5million profit expected.
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More than 8,000 retail jobs have been put at risk during the last two days alone in a bleak week for Britain's high street.
Lee Manning, joint administrator and partner in Deloitte's restructuring services practice, said: 'In recent years Blockbuster has faced increased competition from internet-based providers along with the shift to digital streaming of movies and games.
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Manning believes Blockbuster has a future, but with fewer stores. Deloitte stressed Blockbuster's core business was profitable and they would be looking for a rescue deal for all or part of the business as a going concern.
Blockbuster's US parent went bankrupt in 2011, but was rescued by US pay-TV provider Dish Network in a $320million (£200million) deal, which saved hundreds of stores from closing and prevented tens of thousands of US job losses.
The UK group has sought to branch out in recent years in an attempt to revive business, including by expanding its online rental offering while also launching a trade-in service for pre-owned titles, allowing members to swap second-hand games and movies for cash or credit on their membership accounts.
But business experts said Blockbuster, like other retailers, was too slow adapting to changing consumer habits.
The 78 store closures announced by EE yesterday are in towns where the group inherited more than one shop from the 2010 merger of Orange and T-Mobile. More than 500 customer service staff will be redeployed to other branches, but the store managers could face losing their jobs.
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- Love these skirts
I own several of the running, tri, and athletic skirts. I live in these skirts year round. I wear them during my runs, but also golfing, going to the beach, the pool, and just out. I took them on a cruise last year, they travel well and are lightweight and don't take up much space in my luggage. They''re comfortable and hold my cell phone and keys in the two side pockets. I get complements every time I wear them.
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- My favorite running skirt!
This skirt is cute, fits well, and is made well. It's fun to run in!
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- Non- stop compliments
My 2 girlfriends and I purchased this skirt in 2010 for the Disney Goofy marathon. Since then I joined the 50 states marathon club and wear it with my red, white and blue club singlet when running marathons about once a month in each one of the 50 states of the USA. I get non-stop compliments every time!! Its my favorite skirt so far and its super comfy for the entire 26.2 miles. Never chafed either.
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- Such a fun skirt!
I got the red mini-dot to wear during the Disney marathon this January to dress-up as Minnie Mouse. It was a perfect costume and so comfy for the whole race. I did end up wearing my own capris under it for the race since it was pretty chilly, but I wear it often as is and it is just as comfy.
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- Love it!!
I got my running skirt in the mail today! I am in love. I haven't taken it out for it's official "first run". I plan to next week! It fits so great. I didn't know what size to get. I am 5 6" and weight about 138 so I went with the size 3. I'm wide through the hips also. It fit great! Thank you!!
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- Mini Dot Love
I have always loved the look of this skirt and it shows when I wear it. The only problem is that I would recommend when you order this skirt to order a size up from your normal size. I usually wear a 2 or 3 so I went with the 3 and was way too small and tight around my hips and the skirt would ride up in the back. I went with the 4 and fits much better and no ridding problems. Love it!
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- Great Skirt!
I just got this in the mail today and took it for a test drive, great skirt overall! I love the color and black bum huggers underneath. These are the only running bottoms which do not make me chafe my skin in anyway! Love them! Thanks! :-)
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The Tunnel by William H. Gass.
What to make of a novel that sings of the most heinous human behavior in the most lyrical language? This is just one of the questions to emerge from this philosophical, and beautifully written novel that weaves grand events from the stage of WWII with the personal history of its misanthropic narrator. William Frederick Kohler examines the world through the lens provided by the various stages of his life: as brow-beaten child, then a student of German culture and unwitting participant in Kristallnacht, then as an invading American G.I. and Nuremberg translator, and finally as historian and author of Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany. Gass's reading of the novel on CD fleshes out the nuances of language in the essayistic passages, dirty limericks, action, and meditative sequences that make up his tunnel: a novel-length prose poem that is by turns hilarious and moving as it plays enfant terrible to clichés of the human spirit.
Frances Johnson by Stacey Levine.
The Frances of Frances Johnson is forced to decide whether or not to attend the Munson town dance. In other words, Frances faces an identity crisis: going to the dance as all the people of Munson pressure her to do equates with becoming part of "normal" society while not attending, or even more astonishing, leaving town for neighboring Little Munson, is an admission that she'll always be different, ostracized. A very funny, and sly reworking of girls' coming of age novels from the '50s.
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth.
At times, Vacation seems like the kind of novel Beckett would write if he were alive today. Myers follows his wife, whom he thinks is cheating on him, only to discover that she leaves each evening only to follow a complete stranger before returning home. But "what was he supposed to do, let her promenade all over the city in her stockings without him?" Yes, he learns, for "that's the way it works these days." It's a modern romance, in other words, told with the precision of a minimalist sculptor and the right-on timing of a stand-up comic. Chapter by chapter, paragraph by paragraph, and often from the beginning of one sentence to the twist at its end, we, like the characters of Vacation, learn that the closer one looks, the less there is that can be said with any certainty.
Read Katelyn Eichwald's review of Vacation here.
Under Virga by Joe Amato.
Organized as an abcedarium of the military alphabet—Alpa, Bravo, Charlie—Under Virga takes that language schema designed to facilitate unambiguous communication and turns each letter into a drop of virga: rain that falls but evaporates before it hits the ground. Not that there isn't real rain. It's just sometimes hard to know where it's at, hard to distinguish between the ducks and the decoys. Hard to know if the mass luxury market will create jobs for the masses or destroy the planet first: "We both sip our Starbucks decaf house blend / (she takes Splenda) / our brows deeply furrowed". This book-length, memoirist poem is a hybrid of class, film and culture critique, a discourse on poetics and their impact on both private and public life. A pleasure to read, one of those book-length poems that seems to do everything.
People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia.
Take the magical realism of Latin America and crash it into American metafiction and you'd get a book like this: a collage of Lucha Libre wrestlers who ascend into heaven; migrant flower pickers who go to war with Saturn; women with origami organs, and an author who pines for love. Even those of us whose lives don't hinge on obtaining green cards or other documentation are people of paper this novel suggests, our class differences, nationalities, even our private thoughts constructions of language, paper, and ink.
Europeana by Patrik Ouredníck, trans. by Gerald Turner.
The "great man" view of history recounts the past through the force of its individuals: Napoleon, Hitler…. Now imagine the 20th century as told through its statistics, facts, and patterns. A very different view emerges, one where all inventions—from the bra to mustard gas—are leveled in the march of technical "progress" and the constant effort to "improve man" makes history seem more the result of human nature than human effort, its genocides and other repetitions as inevitable as the seasons.
Girly Man by Charles Bernstein.
Still the most profound response to 9/11 in any genre. Written from the perspective of an American who has witnessed the bombing of his hometown, New York, the book emerged from those early days after the attack when all the arts seemed to be a useless play-acting in the face of real people bleeding real blood. Bernstein's poetics insist that language too is a reality—"War toll tops 100,000?—Get your mind off it, switch to reality TV"—reminding readers that ignoring this fact can be as consequential as a dozen 9-11s. That is, readers both understand and experience at a gut level why close reading, or its lack, has real consequences, especially given the speed with which Official Verse Culture can fill any rhetorical vacuum with its own poetics of "Shock & Awe," jingoistic journalism, simple-minded patriotism: "Suicide bombers wreck neighborhood.—Time to pitch in!" The individual poems build to the climax of the book's brilliant, title poem, "The Ballad of the Girlie Man"—a reply to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's mocking of "girlie men" who refuse to accept the Official Verse Culture of consumerism and war.
Steve Tomasula is the author of VAS: An Opera in Flatland; IN & OZ; and most recently The Book of Portraiture; he is a member of the Co-op.
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Concrete masonry units
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Engine Company 75 Firehouse
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New York City Fire Department
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About the Artist...
Since 1977, artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been artist in residence (unsalaried) at the New York City Department of Sanitation, a position that enables her to introduce radical public art as public culture into a system which serves and is owned by the entire population. Since she wrote the "Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969," virtually all Ukeles's work has been public. Recent permanent commissions include Percent for Art Fresh Kills Landfill Project, NYC, the world's largest landfill; Danehy Park, Cambridge; Schuylkill River Park, Philadelphia; Maine College for Art, Portland. Upcoming projects are for Creative Time, NYC and Ayalon Park, Israel. Recent temporary exhibitions include installations about Israel's landfill at the Tel Aviv Museum and "Unburning Freedom Hall" at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. A Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of many grants and fellowships from the NEA and NYSCA, she is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC.
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"So this has been my whole professional life! Public art can create permeable membranes between the inside and outside of systems, spaces, and even the souls of citizens. Public artists need more breathing space to experiment and do R&D. They need to be brought in at the very inception of projects, so they can do their first work as a certain kind of thinker." -- Ukeles, 2001


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The 'Django Unchained' director will host the one-night-only event on April 24 to raise money for Film Independent.
"The Hateful Eight" may not hit theaters, but fans will get a chance to see it live on stage. Quentin Tarantino collaborates with Film Independent to host a staged reading of his unmade script in an event scheduled for April 24 at LACMA. It will be one-night-only gig and will neither be recorded nor live-streamed.
The script revolves around "the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group which includes a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier, and a female prisoner in a saloon in the middle of nowhere."
The filmmaker will direct a group of actors he selects through material that mixes distinctively etched characters, drama, humor and violence. All proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit organization that produces Film Independent Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival. Tickets will go on sale starting April 9.
"Hateful Eight" movie is shut down after the script got leaked. Tarantino suspected it was an inner circle betrayal since he gave the script only to a few select people including "Django Unchained" producer Reggie Hudlin, "Reservoir Dogs" stars Michael Madsen and Tim Roth, and "Nebraska" actor Bruce Dern.
The director then sued Gawker for publishing news about the script leak complete with a download link.


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Miranda Lambert vs. Dierks Bentley – The Showdown
Two new songs will battle for Showdown supremacy after Brantley Gilbert's latest 'Small Town Throwdown' won five in a row. That's good enough to gain entry in the Hall of Fame. Will Miranda Lambert or Dierks Bentley be next?
Lambert's new single is the sassy duet with Carrie Underwood. 'Somethin' Bad' was a hit at the Billboard Music Awards, and fans are looking forward to an encore at the CMT's next week. 'Drunk on a Plane' is Bentley's new song. The tongue-in-cheek heartbreaker is the third single from his 'Riser' album.
Listen to clips of both Lambert and Underwood's and Bentley's songs and vote for your favorite here. You can vote once every hour until this Showdown ends on Monday at 8AM ET, so come back and vote often to be sure your artist wins. The winner of this matchup will face a new challenger on Monday.
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