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In death, as in life, Bal Thackeray overshadowed all political agendas this weekend. But, homage paid and eulogies sung, political parties are back to playing their pressure games in the build-up to the Winter Session beginning on 22 November. The Opposition has already dared the government to implement the latter's decision to allow FDI in retail and a no-confidence motion is apparently in the works.
Consider the concerns of the political parties that are opposed to FDI in retail. First, investors with deep pockets will elbow domestic players, mostly small retailers, out of business. Second, direct procurement will throw middlemen out of the equation. Third, the price benefit of such eliminations will not reach farmers. Fourth, the influx of cheap foreign products will harm the domestic manufacturing sector.
So, the Opposition has threatened a cautiously smug government that yet another Parliamentary session may just go down the drain unless the issue is put to vote in the House. This shrill face-off has dominated media listings since September and is now threatening to monopolise the news space for weeks to come.
The concerns of the Opposition, of course, are no less real than the arguments of the government. FDI in retail deserves a heated, loud debate. But so does the National Investment Board (NIB), which is to be set up by the PMO in the next couple of weeks. If you do not know much about this brainchild of the Union finance minister, it is because the NIB has not made news except briefly when a "ministerial turf war broke out" over it. No Opposition leader has considered the NIB worth commenting on or protesting against.
The NIB was conceived by P Chidambaram as a super committee under his ministry to ensure blanket clearances for projects involving investment of Rs 1000 crore or more. Following Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan's protestations that the NIB's mandate infringed on the powers of her ministry, it is now being set up as a cabinet committee under the PMO. While a cabinet committee prevails over individual ministries, it is unclear how it will override authorities such as the Forest Advisory Committee or National Board for Wildlife, constituted by Acts of Parliament.
The reforms machinery of the government is alarmed that 26 mega projects worth nearly R1.25 lakh crore are stuck due to delayed or denied clearances and shortage of coal. An investment report prepared by a private bank this April quantified the investment grounded chiefly due to environmental roadblocks as more than R 7 lakh crore. So, the PMO wants the Environment ministry to allow coal mines to increase production by 25% and renew their licences without asking for fresh green clearances or conducting public hearings.
Not everyone in favour of FDI in retail, one assumes, is likely to back the idea of doing away with environmental scrutiny or bulldozing landowners' rights for infrastructure development. But those who claim to be against the government on FDI have to be, by the same logic, opposed to the NIB too. It is not difficult to see why.
If FDI in retail leads to loss of livelihood, mass displacement of people for mega projects backed by the NIB will inflict much more misery. Forget the human and environmental costs for a moment, the massive loss caused to the economy by plundering of grossly undervalued non-renewable resources such as minerals will far outweigh the damage FDI can cause to the manufacturing sector.
If it is about big money -- as the Left never tires of screaming -- further lining its own pockets, remember that even the most optimist consultancy firms, such as Tecnova, do not expect FDI of more than R11,000-17000 crore (USD 2-3 billion) in retail in the first two years. The NIB is about looking after investment of lakhs of crores.
But the constituencies, so to say, affected by mega projects are neither vocal nor visible. Nobody quantifies the water guzzled by factories till the rivers and aquifers actually run dry. The decimation of forests does not register till drought becomes routine. Few people, and certainly fewer politicians, even understand what biodiversity is to factor its loss. But let's avoid the environmental rant for now.
As the provider of blanket clearances to projects worth lakhs of crores, the NIB will also claim thousands and lakhs of human victims across the vast hinterland of India. These are people who have been fighting for and losing land, livelihood and often lives over many centuries. Today, the sacrifice is in the name of growth and reforms. So why doesn't the opposition take up their fight against the NIB while opposing FDI in retail tooth and nail?
They do not because even the human victims of the NIB are invisible. They are not educated enough to be retailers in towns. They certainly don't qualify for jobs in the manufacturing sector. They do not even know the privileges of a middleman because no agent ever bought any of their vegetables. Most of them walk miles to the nearest market to sell so little that they can usually carry it on their heads.
Unlike the potential victims of FDI in retail, the proposed NIB's casualties are not middle-class, not even rural middle-class. They are the poor, mostly tribals, whom few urban, educated Indians have ever met unless as tourists. They do have votes but are easily taken for granted and cheaply bought off before elections. In between, they are nowhere in the reckoning even when parties seek out excuses for political posturing.
When the principal opposition party that had promised FDI in retail in its 2004 election manifesto and the principal ruling party that had resisted the same when in opposition opt for role reversals, they need a convenient theatre. The broad range of the middle-class most politicians belong and relate to has always been their best audience. For them, the NIB is somebody else's problem.
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Here's my attempt at a very simple, yet useful approach: character-bigram statistics.
I've basically made some extensive statistics on several languages on the frequency of all bigrams, and using that it's now possible to determine which language a given text resembles the most.
Try out my Language Detector here!
The text-corpus I used was another classic, the proceedings of the European Parlament through several years (can be found here).
My first step was to construct a class to contain bigram statistics for some text (LangStat).
In the class I also included code to determine the euclidean distance between two sets of bigram statistics (useful when trying to determine which language a text is most similar to). I implemented it as an operator overload for "-", so you can always determine the distance between two bigram-statistics by simply subtracting them from each other.
//Calculates euclidean distance between two LangStat's
public static double operator -(LangStat a,LangStat c)
//Operator overload
double tot = 0;
foreach (Bigram b in a.Bigrams.Keys)
if (c.Bigrams.ContainsKey(b))
//Bigram exist in remote
double me = (double)a.Bigrams[b] / a.Count;
double them = (double)c.Bigrams[b] / c.Count;
tot += Math.Pow(Math.Abs(me - them), 2);
return Math.Sqrt(tot);
Then I build a Console trainer application, that is able to load the corpus text files for a given language, clean up any unwanted tags in them and then adds the text to a bigram statistic.
When it's done, it use the System.CodeDom to generate source-code for a class that inherits the LangStat, but which is specific to the current language. That way I'll have my languages precompiled and ready to be compared to custom textual content.
This might not be the most efficient approach, but it sure was funny to play around with CodeDom (an interesting namespace that I get to use far to seldom).
static void Main(string[] args)
string lang = "sv";
string langname = "Swedish";
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles((...language folder...));
//Build language statistics from file-corpus
LangStat l=new LangStat();
foreach(string f in files){
Console.WriteLine("Examining file: "+f);
StreamReader sr=new StreamReader(f);
string s=sr.ReadToEnd();
//File loaded
s=Regex.Replace(s,"<[^>]*>"," ",RegexOptions.Multiline);
//Tags removed
//Generate Code
System.CodeDom.CodeNamespace ns =
new System.CodeDom.CodeNamespace("Allan.Language.Detection");
CodeTypeDeclaration tp = new CodeTypeDeclaration(langname);
tp.IsClass = true;
CodeConstructor cc = new CodeConstructor();
cc.Attributes = MemberAttributes.Public;
new CodePrimitiveExpression(l.Bigrams.Count));
foreach (Bigram b in l.Bigrams.Keys)
//Could be done much nicer, but I'm in a hurry
new CodeSnippetExpression(
"_bigrams.Add(new Bigram('"+b.A+"','"+b.B+"'),"+
new CodeAssignStatement(
new CodeVariableReferenceExpression("_count"),
new CodePrimitiveExpression(l.Count)));
System.CodeDom.Compiler.ICodeGenerator gen =
new CSharpCodeProvider().CreateGenerator();
StreamWriter sw=File.CreateText(langname+".cs");
gen.GenerateCodeFromNamespace(ns, sw,
new System.CodeDom.Compiler.CodeGeneratorOptions());
Finally I just had to build a simple windows testing app, that will compare the text written to the languages. Download the solution here.

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Certified Tutor
Hello, it is my goal as a tutor to help the student achieve his/her personal academic goals. I understand not every student is the same which is why I adjust my teaching style dependent on the person I am teaching. I try to keep tutoring sessions student-centered, meaning that I like to have them guide me through the material to the best of their knowledge as I direct them when help is needed. I encourage parent participation as well and create personalized lesson plans based on the student's needs/material. I am here to help as an educator and hope to hear from you soon!
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Undergraduate Degree: University of Central Florida - Bachelors, Interdisciplinary Studies
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Tutoring Subjects
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What might you do in a typical first session with a student?
Get acquainted with the student, their course work, and the student's current understanding so that I may develop a unique and personalized lesson plan for future tutoring sessions.
How can you help a student become an independent learner?
By guiding students and not lecturing them or simply giving them the answer. I believe that a student needs to be led one step at a time through a problem, especially when they are struggling.


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triangular tueasday treasures! and what's even better is that all items are produced by uk sellers ∆ ace ∆
i missed last weeks #tt as i was busy swanning off to london to attend the opening day of clerkenwell design week. one of my illustrations was on display with etsyuk, so we headed on down to the farmiloe buildings to check it out. other work on show included illustrations by sandra dieckmann, jamie mills, faye moorhouse and rowan stock moore (to name a few) ... i managed to pinch a few of their lovely postcards.
it was fun to meet some of the lovely ladies behind etsyuk and also jimbobart, who was entertaining the crowds by drawing a bear in a bath! all in all a fab day out (apart from the fact i chose to wear black jeans in the swealtering weather)
... here are some (shockingly awful) photos i took on my phone that day


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Washington Post - After states pass laws permitting medical marijuana, drivers in those states become less likely to test positive for opioids after fatal car accidents, a new study from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has found.
Researchers analyzed federal crash data in 18 states over the period from 1999 to 2013. States that passed a medical marijuana law during this period saw a reduction in opioid involvement in fatal car accidents, relative to states without such a law. The reduction was greatest among drivers aged 21 to 40, the age group most likely to use medical marijuana where it's available.


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Post Date:
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Business Name:
Edible Excursions
Travel & Tourism
Type of Position:
Part-Time Job
Grade Level:
All University students
Bay Area
Days/Hours per Week:
To be determined
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Pay is commensurate with experience $20-22/hr
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Part time Position
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Applicants should live in the Bay Area, where Edible Excursions' tours take place.
Required Qualifications:
Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Strong oral and written communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of written business communication is a must.
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and responsible.
• Excellent organizational skills (oral and written) and the ability to excel at details.
• Enjoys multi-tasking and works well under pressure and independently.
• Proficiency with iCal, Microsoft Office and generally tech savvy.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Must be able to work a flexible schedule. This is not a 9-5 job.
• Gracious and supportive; concerned with the interest of others.
• Ethical, confident, creative, and a positive attitude.
• Takes initiative and makes things happen with minimal supervision.
• Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic work environment
• Excellent time management skills
• Instagram, Instagram Story, Facebook, Facebook Live postings
Required Experience
• Minimum of 3 years of event planning experience
• Minimum of 5 years living in SF, Oakland, or Berkeley
How to Apply:
To apply send a cover letter and resume to email@example.com.
Application Deadline:
Open until filled


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Work Smart Wednesday: Reality Bites. Or Does It?
Work Smart Wednesday – Repositioning Your State of Mind
We ALL can relate to what I'm about to say. Sunday night blues – caused by the reality of Monday.
Monday is a reality. Your responsibilities are a reality. If it's not going so well, and you don't look forward to Mondays, you've got some analyzing to do. Is it temporary? Has it been going on for awhile? Whatever the case, you need to address it. Dig deep and figure out why – and determine the next steps. This is most of what I talk about in my Work Smart Wednesday posts. But how do you get through the now?
It all depends on how you look at it. This post is not another 'keep your chin up and get through it.' Rather, it's an acceptance of your current reality and how you are responding to it. Notice I said 'current reality.' Don't let it be your forever. If the situation is bad, accept it as that. Isolate it. Categorize it as temporary. Don't give it any more energy. It's draining you. Making it harder to get through it.
Reposition it in your mind. The reality is that you GET to make a change. The reality is that you're taking control. The reality is that it's no longer controlling you. The reality is that it's going to get better. It won't be like this forever. And, that looks pretty good. So you've just turned your reality in to good.
Scared? Of course. But, I again refer to one of my favorite quotes from Wide Awake by Erwin McManus – "Imagine your life on the other side of fear." What does it look like when you've actually made a move? Done wisely, you can ask yourself "What have I got to lose? Misery? I'm okay with losing that."
So next Monday rolls around. There are two ways to approach it. A) You can go into it with the mentality that this is your life and I'm going to be miserable or B) Change is coming and it's going to get better.
I vote for B.


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I've taken a big leap into the unknown today, and had my first ever zine published. It's the first time I've actually paid to have my work printed pin this way with the aim of selling it to the public.
Not only have I had Milk Stains printed, but I have launched an Etsy store to sell it too! I don't want to bombard you with plugs for my wares, as that's not what this site is about. There won't be masses of posts pleading with you to buy my stuff, but I'm darn proud of what I've done.
You can go to the store here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/549942511/milk-stains-issue-1?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=milk%20stains&ref=sr_gallery_1
I plan on making more zines in the future, and my second one is already planned out, but for now enjoy the heavy metal kitty mayhem that is Milk Stains issue 1!


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Browne, James
BROWNE, JAMES (1703-1841), Scottish man of letters, was born at Whitefield, Perthshire, in 1793. He was educated at Edinburgh and at the university of St Andrews, where he studied for the church. He wrote a "Sketch of the History of Edinburgh," for Ewbank's Picturesque Views of that city, 1823-1825. In 1826 he became a member of the Faculty of Advocates, and obtained the degree of LL.D. from King's College, Aberdeen. His works include a Critical Examination of Macculloch's Work on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1826), Aperçu sur les Hiêroglyphes d'Egypte (Paris, 1827), a Vindication of the Scottish Bar from the Attacks of Mr Broughton, and History of the Highlands and Highland Clans (1834-1836). He was appointed editor of the Caledonian Mercury in 1827; and two years later he became sub-editor of the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, to which he contributed a large number of articles. He died in April 1841.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)


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Free, paid, ad-supported, try-and-buy, or freemium…whatever your BlackBerry® smartphone app, we've got your service. BlackBerry DEVCON 2010 featured three platform services that are sure to make their way into thousands of apps this coming year: Advertising Service, Payment Service, and Analytics Service.
Let's start with the Advertising Service, which allows you access to a wealth of ad networks and advertisers very simply and easily. How simply and easily? Well, with just three lines of code, you're plugged into a mediation platform that grants you access to a number of top ad networks, no negotiations required.
Banner bannerAd = new Banner(MY_APID, targettingData);
Simple as it might look, the Advertising Service has more power than you might think. You have the option of displaying a traditional ad banner or with no additional coding, you can support ads that to do a whole lot more:
- click to launch BlackBerry App World™ to a given vendor or app download page
- click to add a calendar or address book entry
- click to view full screen rich media
So how do you track your success with the BlackBerry Advertising Service? Analysis and control are accessible via a single web console that houses all your data for analytics, tracking, reporting, fill rates, ad performance, and earnings. The central console allows you to easily add or remove ad networks and manage ad allocations without making any changes to your app.
If an ad-supported model doesn't fit your needs, maybe micro-transactions/in-app payment is more up your alley. The BlackBerry Payment Service will allow you to easily offer digital goods for sale in your app while still providing the consumer with the same trusted and consistent purchase experience they have today in BlackBerry App World. As you would expect, with BlackBerry Payment Service, you will have access to the same payment options that BlackBerry App World supports today for traditional app purchases: PayPal, credit card, and carrier billing.
So when might you want to use the BlackBerry Payment Service? Some typical use cases are:
- Digital Content, such as eBooks, magazines, photos, artwork, or digital property that you can use on a BlackBerry smartphone.
- Additional App Functionality, which might include things like new features, levels, characters, or games. This use lends itself extremely well to the freemium app model and should be used as the new gold standard for try-and-buy.
- Services, such as premium video content, subscription renewal, pay-as-you-go application use, or voice transcription. Basically, any kind of digital service that a BlackBerry smartphone user pays to use.
Whether you're using the BlackBerry Advertising Service, BlackBerry Payment Service, neither or both, the one service that most apps will be clamoring to access is the new BlackBerry Analytics Service, a service to monitor the adoption and effectiveness of your BlackBerry application. Here's a high-level overview of the BlackBerry Analytics Service's features:
- Key app metrics such as when and how often a user opens your app.
- Information about how much time a user spends in your app.
- User base stats such as which model of BlackBerry smartphone is being used, which version of software the user has installed, which carrier network the user is on, and which version of your application the user has installed.
- Flexibility to define your own metrics such as how many users make it to a certain level or actually complete a game, which features of the app are accessed more commonly than others, how and when users access remote data on a server versus leveraging cached content.
The BlackBerry Advertising Service is now live.
The BlackBerry Payment Service SDK is in beta now and the full SDK and app implementation is expected to launch this fall.
The BlackBerry Analytics Service goes into beta this fall and launches in the first half of 2011.
Let us know what you think of these or any other BlackBerry Platform service! http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/platform/


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Kydex OWB Holster - Slim Open Carry
Outside Waist Band (OWB) Kydex Holster. A more compact and still stylish rig on the belt, for an open carry option. This model holster sits out further from the body to get a faster, more positive grip on the gun. The belt hardware offer an easy on-and-of options without requiring the user to undo a belt.
Sending in a gun for a holster? Check here for more info: FFL Info
Check homepage for up-to-date online order lead time. ** Special kydex colors may take longer as they are custom made to order.
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Optic / Threaded Barrel Cut: Slide mounted optics need a slimmer sweat guard and lower mounted clip in order to fit correctly. Threaded Barrels require the bottom of the holster to be opened more than usual to be able to pass through. Select which options you would like for your holster. Holsters can always be sent back and altered if you add an optic/barrel in the future.
Hardware: The Tek-Lok is an excellent belt clip mounting system that works on KYDEX™ gun holsters. This belt mount has a unique locking system that works like a door swinging closed and snapping into place for a secured carry. The Tek-Lok can be unlocked and removed via a specially designed molded pair of friction-grip press handles from its sides. It locks closed with a newly improved, permanent lock-bar design. The Paddle Mount assembly is designed to offer one of the most comfortable holster attachments available, with easy slip on over the belt. The RTI Hangar will mount to any G-CODE RTI Compatible belt hardware (not included).
** Because of the extremely tight fit of kydex holsters, some accessories or aftermarket changes to the gun, need to be brought to our attention. Some examples include: Threaded barrels, taller front sights, non-factory magazine release, non-factory slide release, rail adaptors, etc. These need to be brought to our attention before placing an order, to ensure we can accommodate your weapon, or make arrangements to make it work. Failure to do so may render your holster useless **
** Check out all of the photos to help you order. Double check all of the options you selected, we know there are a lot to pick from. There are no returns or cancellations on holsters as they are custom made-to-order **


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Why should we Depend on Obama's campaign team to Beat the right wing machine?
Why should we depend upon the proven-to-be-spineless democratic congress or Democratic party to protect our rights. There are millions of motivated, smart progressives who have the ability to make a lot more things happen than we're currently seeing happen.
We need to join forces, but not in the old ways. We must tap the power of the web-- the bottom up cooperation, power of our diversity and the economies the web enables us to achieve to come together for projects that tap the potential power we possess but have not yet wielded. There's a new book out, Crowdsourcing , by Jeff Howe, which describes how thousands or millions of people coming together have revolutionized the way things get done-- wikipedia, bird migration exploration, mapping of craters on mars-- yes, even NASA is using this approach. We need to use this on-line collaboration to come up with ideas and plans and then implement them.
We've had enough, depending upon the Obama team or the Democrats or the Greens or Nader or Mike Gravel or Ron Paul has not worked. America is under attack. It has been under attack by extremists for eight years. If they win the next election, if they gain ground in congress, then the US, Democracy, the rights of humanity are at great risk. It's time we bypass the old ways of getting things done.
Maybe it will take boycotts. Maybe it will take the kinds of civil actions reverend Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. Maybe we'll need to overwhelm phone services.
A few things are for sure. We have to act quickly and we can't let turf issues between different progressive orgs keep it from happening.
How do we get started? We need to build coalitions-- at the regional, state and national level. We need to coordinate and communicate. I'm going to build a website where such coalitions can come together and communicate. It should be up by next week. Meanwhile, what are your ideas? And if your answer is "make phone calls and canvas for Obama," you belong on Dailykos or some other site that is run to support Democrats.
Progressives have been repeatedly used, abused, betrayed, lied to and let down by Democrats who take them for granted. It's time to take action as progressives. Where shared interests overlap with Democrats or Greens or others, great, otherwise, we need to take care of our own progressive values and advocacy issues. The Democrats sure have not done so.
What are your ideas? You don't have to have the full idea. There are plenty of others to flesh out even the hint of a concept that has some potency and potential.
If you or your org is part of a progressive coalition, anywhere, please talk about it in a comment-- status, activity, number of members, number of orgs, number of people on combined email list.
There are tens of thousands of peace, justice and ecological justice orgs in the US. If we join together, there is SO much we can do that we have not tackled or had the resources to do separately. Let's get smarter, collectively, and make things happen.


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UN chief urges agreement on opposition list for Syria talks
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging countries supporting opposing sides in the Syrian conflict to redouble efforts to agree on a list of opposition groups to be invited to talks with the government scheduled to start in just a week.
Ban's appeal came as the U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, briefed the Security Council Monday on his efforts to get the talks started and the leaders of Russia and Qatar met in Moscow to try to narrow their differences on Syria.
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said the U.N. is focusing on starting the talks on Jan. 25, but he said it can't send out invitations until the key countries agree on an opposition list. He hinted the talks could be delayed.
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Have a great weekend.
Coturnix teaches a lesson in evolution. Natalie digs being a DJ. archy is a rock star. Bark Bark Woof Woof on George Allen's Kosy Kinship with Kooks. blogAmy hangs up the spikes for the season. bloggg hangs up the phone company. Collective Sigh on paying for good news. NTodd celebrates pigs in space. Echidne on women and girls in the news. FDL on the Kerry sightings. First Draft on New Orleans a year later. Happy Furry Puppy replays an interview Brian Williams had with the president. iddybud on the plan by wingnuts to blame Bill Clinton for 9/11. Left Is Right says that the administration is nothing to clap about. Lefty's sick-day playlist. Liberty Street on war reaching our shores. Make Me A Commentator on Ann Coulter's latest death threat. Musing's musings on the Mommy State, Republican styly. Pen-Elayne on sitting in silence. Rook's Rant on all that really matters. rubber hose on the Lebanon blockade. Scrutiny Hooligans on the Yes Men messing with Mayor Nagin. Sooner Thought on the end of welfare. Speedkill on the righties co-opting a discredited leftie label. Steve Bates disses Rummy. Steve Gilliard dissects the president's speech. T. Rex's guest blogger glenstein wonders what part of the brain is the God-spot. The Invisibile Library finds a holy operating system. WTF Is It Now?? on the real 9/11 anniversary. ...You Are A Tree and friends.
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A professor (Gene Roth) wages that he can turn the Three Stooges into refined gentlemen in this remake, with stock footage of Hoi Polloi (1935) and Half Wits Holiday (1947). Symona Boniface, who had died in 1950, and Helen Dickson appeared courtesy of the stock footage while new scenes were filmed in 1957 featuring Greta Thyssen, Miss Denmark of 1952, Milton Frome, Harriette Tarler, Johnny Kascier, and, as a butler, Emil Sitka.
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It Goes Deeper Than You Would Like To Believe
What is at the root of the disparaging and hateful comments hurled by Miss Germany at the winner of the 2015 Miss Universe Contest?
It came as no surprise to me for that Miss Germany, Sarah-Lorraine Riek, told reporters that none of her fellow global beauty queens voted for the 2015 Miss Universe winner, Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach. Reik went on to say that Wurtzbach did not deserve to win.
Most Germans will not publicly admit their Aryan disposition toward "Purity of race" and Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is of Filipino-German descent; that flies in the face of those who internally nurture an Ayran mindset.
A similar scenario was played out when Ariana Miyamoto became the first biracial person to represent Japan in this Miss Universe contest. That is a remarkable achievement in a nation which is one of the most homogeneous societies on Earth. A year earlier, she had turned down an invitation to compete when she learned that no biracial person had ever entered the Miss Universe-Japan pageant, let alone won. She changed her mind after a close friend who was half-Caucasian committed suicide only days after they discussed problems confronting mixed-race Japanese.
Do you see the connection? Racial homogeneity is defined as: The absence of multiple ethnic groups; hence, only a single ethnic group. Germany systematically exterminated those persons they believed to be diluting their culture/race. During the Holocaust by way of genocide, the murder of hostages, reprisal raids, forced labor, "euthanasia," starvation, exposure, medical experiments, and terror bombing, and in the concentration and death camps, the Nazis murdered at least 20,946,000 persons; some accounts put the number at 31,595,000 people. It took hundreds of thousands of Germans working in every avocation to facilitate the extermination of 31 million persons. Needless to say, people knew and believed what they were doing was protecting their race/culture.
And Japan? Between 1937 (the Rape of Nanjing) and 1945, the corollary to the time-frame of the Nazi Holocaust, falls far short of the actual numbers killed by the Japanese war machine. If you add, 2-million Koreans, 2-million Manchurians, Chinese, Russians, many East European Jews (both Sephardic and Ashkenazy), and others killed by Japan, the total of Japanese victims is more like 10-million to 14-million. Is it any wonder why Germany and Japan were the Axis Powers of World War II?
And if you think that one generation removed from that segment of history has erased their racial homogeneity mindset…you are living in a fantasy world. The recent events during, surrounding, and leading up to, the Miss Universe contest tells the story.
If I was a refugee fleeing the Middle East, I would avoid Germany like the plague. And Japan? The prime minister, Shinzo Abe said, "Japan must improve the living standards of its own people before it can consider accepting refugees." When you read, "Its own people" think racial homogeneity or Holocaust; whichever comes first.


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Some are guilty. Some are innocent. Of the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day, almost 80% have not yet been found guilty or innocent of the charges they face. All are at risk in the pervasive culture of violence that forces people to come to terms with what they must do for their own survival. RIKERS, a riveting new documentary from Bill Moyers, brings you face to face with men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island. Their stories, told direct to camera, vividly describe the cruel arc of the Rikers experience—from the shock of entry, to the extortion and control exercised by other inmates, the oppressive interaction with corrections officers, the beatings and stabbings, the torture of solitary confinement and the many challenges of returning to the outside world. Rikers Island is New York City's largest jail. It has also been ranked as one of the ten worst jails in America. So, says journalist Bill Moyers, if you want to understand the country's incarceration crisis, start at the island jail in New York's East River—just across the water from the main runway at LaGuardia Airport and within sight of the Empire State Building.
From Bill Moyers and Brick City TV producers Marc Levin, Mark Banjamin and Rolake Bambose, comes the first film to focus exclusively on former detainees of Rikers Island. Their searing testimonials about the deep-seated culture of systemic violence and corruption that has plagued the notorious NYC jail for decades add a powerful authentic voice to investigative journalism that has reported on violence and abuse at the jail.
Ocean Warriors
OCEAN WARRIORS is a six-hour television special event following activists around the world as they fight to save our oceans.
The oceans cover over 70 % of the planet but they are in big trouble. More than three billion of the earth's population rely on the oceans as a significant source of their food. Yet 90 percent of all large fish are gone, and ancient species such as Atlantic cod and Bluefin tuna have been decimated by industrial fishing fleets and plundered by criminal gangs. Scientists warn that without better regulation and enforcement, in another fifty years large-scale commercial fishing will be over. The future of the oceans is the crisis of our generation, and a call to global action.
OCEAN WARRIORS is produced by the Peabody award-winning Brick City TV Executive Producers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin, with Laura Michalchyshyn and Robert Redford from Sundance Productions and Paul G. Allen from Vulcan Productions.
OCEAN WARRIORS weaves adrenaline-fueled stories of courage, conflict and change, from the Antarctic's remote Southern Ocean, to the coral reefs of Tanzania and the vast tuna fisheries of the Western Pacific. Set sail for heart-stopping action from the front lines as a global coalition of activists, 2 campaigners, scientists and investigative journalists prepare to stare down poachers, tear up illegal fishing networks and bring the outlaws to justice.
The Babushkas Of Chernobyl
30 years after the Chernobyl disaster, some 100 women fiercely cling to their ancestral homeland inside the radioactive "Exclusion Zone." While most of their neighbors have long since fled and their husbands have gradually died off, this stubborn sisterhood is hanging on — even, oddly, thriving — while trying to cultivate an existence on toxic earth.
Why do they insist on living on farms that the Ukrainian government and radiation scientists have deemed uninhabitable? How do they manage to get by, isolated, in an abandoned landscape guarded by soldiers, and rife with wild animals? How has the radiation affected them these past 3 decades?
At her cottage, Hanna Zavorotyna brews homemade moonshine and slices thick chunks of salo, raw pig fat - though it is strictly forbidden to eat local food. "Starvation is what scares me, not radiation," she says. That stark choice reveals an incredible journey the women have traveled: from Stalin's enforced famines in the 1930s, through Nazi occupation, to nuclear disaster. Like the wolves, moose, wild boar and other wildlife not seen for decades that have come back to the abandoned forests around Chernobyl, the women of the Exclusion Zone, too, have an extraordinary story of survival, and offer a dark yet strangely affirming portrait of life post-apocalypse.
Death By A Thousand Cuts
In DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, Eligio Eloy Vargas, alias Melaneo, a Dominican Park Ranger in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park was found brutally murdered by machete. At the time, he was believed to have been on patrol investigating an illegal charcoal production site often run by Haitians coming across the border into protected Dominican forests. This murder becomes the metaphor for the larger story of increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic over illicit charcoal exploitation and mass deforestation.
With stunning cinematography, DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS is a feature-length documentary film that is a double murder investigation, seeking to learn about the circumstances of Melaneo's death and the systematic eradication of the Dominican forests. The film interweaves the many sides of the story of Melaneo's murder told through: his Haitian wife Calina, brother Chichi, local reporter Luis Medrano and a Haitian Nené working as a Dominican park ranger, all representing different perspectives on a complex socio-political issue. In parallel, the film explores the larger backdrop of the rapidly changing reality on the Dominican and Haitian border due to the illegal charcoal trafficking trade. Deforestation cuts deeply across the economic, social and security fabric of both countries and has far-reaching consequences that are largely unrecognized in either nation.
As the film digs deeper into the murder of Melaneo, environmental activist Dr. Yolanda Leon helps uncover how the lives of Dominicans and Haitians at the border are enveloped in a complex web of relationships. Industrial-scale Dominican complicity in illegal charcoal production and mass deforestation is unearthed. As in so many global struggles for natural resources, the fight for survival leads to scapegoating, xenophobia and clashes between communities marked most recently by anti-immigrant policies passed by the Dominican Republic. These clashes come to reflect the struggle for resources at a national and global scale, which when taken to extreme scenarios can lead to the persistent cycle of ethnic civil conflict and international violence.
Class Divide
A look at NYC's gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low-income public housing to residents for decades. Their neighbor across the avenue since 2012 is Avenues: The World School, a costly private school. What happens when kids from both of these worlds attempt to cross the divide?
Amish Witches: The True Story Of Holmes County
When a reality TV crew moves into Holmes County, Ohio to document the lives of an isolated sect of Swartzentruber Amish, production is halted by the death of a Brauchau, an Amish witch. Following her unconsecrated funeral, a small group of young Amish women solicit the TV crew's help in attempting to document the inexplicable events plaguing them. But as everyone soon discovers, the powerful malevolent force haunting them has deadly intentions. Stars Hayley Palmaer, Evangeline Young, Michelle Young, Kaylyn Scardefield, Caleb Carlson, Nicole Rodenburg.
Let's face it. We're all aging. With good habits, we're likely to stay healthy and independent for a long time. But in the end, most of us will need some help. What will it look like? Who will provide it? How will it feel?
Care, funded by ITVS, The MacArthur foundation, The Ford Foundation and Chicken & Egg Pictures delves deep into the world of home elder care through the eyes of both paid caregivers and their elderly clients.
Undocumented Vilma, cares for Dee, 92, once an active businesswoman whose only family lives 3,000 miles away. Delores tends to Miss Nina, a stroke survivor with a spicy tongue. In an isolated rural area, Laurie cajoles Larry to do his exercises and have hope while he waits for a lung transplant. Larry's wife Tiff says, "this is the hardest job in the world".
Yet despite spending long days taking care of others, these compassionate women don't make enough to put food on the table for their own families. Laurie can't pay her rent. Delores winds up in a women's shelter. And that's only half the story. Middle class Toni and Peter are going broke paying for his 24/7 care.
Through these stories Care reveals the deep humanity and poignancy of care work, as well as the challenges and frustrations faced by elders, their families and care workers. It also reveals the beginning of a movement grappling with how we can better care for our elders, and those who care for them, as our nation ages.
Actors Of Sound: A Foley Art Documentary
From footsteps to bone cracks, Foley artists bring films to life with their imaginative sound effects, but as digital technology goes full speed ahead in 21st century moviemaking, can Hollywood's low tech Foley artist survive in this high tech age?
In the documentary film Actors of Sound, the viewer is transported into the dark, cluttered prop rooms where Foley artists make their magic. Exciting and sometimes hilarious footage features world renowned Foley artists manipulating props to create sounds, showcasing their truly unique creative process.
Through interviews with Directors, Foley artists and Sound Supervising Editors, Actors of Sound examines every facet of this craft, illuminating the impact technology is having on Foley.
Colliding Dreams
Colliding Dreams from award winning filmmakers Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky is a feature length documentary on one of today's most explosive issues – the question of Zionism and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The film is a searching and dramatic exploration of the dream of a Jewish state and its impact on both Jews and Arabs, unfolding across the broad canvas of one hundred fifty years of history from 19th century Europe to the modern Middle East. Told through the remarkable lives and voices of Jews and Palestinians living in the Middle East today, Colliding Dreams weaves together past and present, ideas and passions, wars and peace talks, brilliant minds with the voices of ordinary citizens to develop a film portrait of sensitivity and depth like none before of the story of Zionism and its controversies. Early reviews call it "Honest, searching, affectionate, respectful, critical" and "beautifully crafted; balanced incredibly informative."
Buried Above Ground
What would you do if the worst thing that ever happened to you felt like it kept happening? Over six years, BURIED ABOVE GROUND explores this question and the road to recovery through the eyes of three post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) survivors.
A documentary film about the 2009 Anthony Sowell murders in which 11 bodies were found decomposing in a house.
In 2009, in Cleveland, Ohio, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of a known sex offender Anthony Sowell. The stench of death had hovered over the neighborhood for two years prior to the discovery, as the women's bodies laid in the house and yard rotting. With unprecedented access to the surviving victims, Unseen tells a chilling story about the invisibility of women on the margins of society and raises troubling questions about why this killing spree went unnoticed for so long.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The legendary dance company returns to PBS with four works reflecting its spectacular range, diversity and artistry, culminating in a performance of "Revelations," the dance masterpiece created by company founder Alvin Ailey.
Simple Gifts: CMS at Shaker Village
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center takes to the road, performing in one of the country's most beautiful historic sites: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Kentucky. Delivering a monumental performance of Copland's "Appalachian Spring," the ensemble draws poignant connections between life on the frontier, the art of making music, and the quest for transcendence in American life.
Why Not Home?
What if the choice of where to give birth wasn't limited by cost or insurance coverage, fear or misinformation? What would change if families had access to the care provider of their choice in the setting that best fits their unique needs and values? It's worth at least asking, "Why not home?"
Sense The Wind
Blind sailors race across open water learning not to fear what they cannot see, on boats or on land. Life turns unpredictable as the wind when one of them gains something far more valuable than a trophy and must learn to live and to sail with a new sensibility.
The Good Mind
The Onondaga Nation in central New York State is the Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). This sovereign indigenous government, which follows the Great Law of Peace, inspired American democracy. The Onondagas advocate for the environment and share prophecies about climate change, while engaged in a battle with the state over ancestral lands stolen in defiance of a treaty with George Washington.
The Good Mind is the Onondaga and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) philosophy and way of life. When the Peacemaker brought his message 1,000 years ago to the shores of sacred Onondaga Lake, he united warring peoples with a system of governance based on using the Good Mind to make decisions not only for the present, but for the next seven generations.
In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times Magazine. Documented chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines as a child; his public struggle as an immigration reform activist/provocateur; and his journey inward as he reconnects with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in 20 years. A broken immigration system leads to broken families and broken lives.
Death Row Stories
Death Row Stories explores cases that pose hard questions about the U.S. capital punishment system.
For CNN from Oscar-winning directors Alex Gibney and Robert Redford
Welcome To Leith
Leith, North Dakota is a registered ghost town of 24 people. The town has an apocalyptic beauty set against a prairie backdrop of wide-open sky and fields of wheat. In 2012, an outsider named Craig Cobb moved in and started buying up property. He accumulated twelve plots of land, some empty, some with houses in various states of disrepair. People figured he'd moved in to be close to the Bakken oil fields some 70 miles north. Turns out he was also a notorious white supremacist who was plotting a takeover of the city government. As his behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.
Welcome to Leith is a feature film offering a glimpse into a town struggling for sovereignty against one man's extremist vision. That it takes place in the shadow of the biggest oil boom in North Dakota's history makes the film a complex document exploring unforeseen causes and effects.
Freeway: Crack In The System
FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the true story behind the crack scourge, featuring exclusive interviews with characters who lived it. Their stories reveal a crack in the system that implicates the centers of power in our government, their mass incarceration policies and militarization of police, the spread of gangs and guns, and the loss of entire generations to the war on drugs.
The Dog
An intimate portrait of the vivacious John Wojtowicz, the inspiration behind Al Pacino's character in Sidney Lumet's Oscar®-Nominated DOG DAY AFTERNOON.
Sons of Ben
Major League Soccer debuted in 1996 and though Philadelphia is a top five market with storied sports franchises, it didn't get a team.
Ten years later it still didn't have a team, so a band of die-hard Philly soccer fans did something crazy: they formed a supporters club for a team that didn't exist. Naming their group after famous Philadelphian Benjamin Franklin, they called themselves the SONS OF BEN.
They had one goal – bring professional soccer to Philadelphia. Hoping to expand to 100 members by the end of the year, they soon had 1,500 drum-banging, song-singing followers. Together these Sons of Ben started a movement that brought into existence the Philadelphia Union, changing the Philadelphia soccer landscape forever and helping to revive a struggling community abandoned by government, business, and its neighbors.
Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement
The story of Edie and Thea is a documentary about two soulmates whose love begins with an instant magnetic attraction and lasts 42 years – and counting. But like the great love stories of literature and lore – Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Gertrude and Alice – Edie and Thea's story is one of forbidden love.
Shortly after they meet in New York's West Village in the early 1960s, they become "engaged", though the idea of a civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples was unthinkable at the time and would not come to pass for another 4 decades.
Orphan. Entrepreneur. Recluse. Genius. Megalomaniac.
Inventor Joseph Newman is all of the above. A controversial figure in the scientific community, Newman rose to notoriety with "The Newman Device," an electromagnetic machine that he claimed produced more energy than it took to power it. What should have been a revolutionary discovery was stopped by a lengthy and disheartening legal battle with the United States Patent Office.
In his enthralling debut, filmmaker Jon Fox deftly seeks to understand the enigmatic inventor — through intimate discussions with Newman's colleagues and, surprisingly, with the man himself.
112 Weddings
Over the past two decades, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Doug Block has supported his career with a side business of videotaping weddings. Long curious about how their marriages have turned out, he tracks down and interviews some of the more memorable of his 112 wedding couples - with funny, insightful and deeply moving results.
Brick City
Sundance Channel hit the streets of Newark in BRICK CITY, a powerful docu-series that premiered in September 2009. Executive Produced by Oscar-Winning Actor Forest Whitaker and acclaimed filmmakers Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin.
BRICK CITY follows Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Police Director, Garry McCarthy, and Blood gang member turned youth counselor, Jayda Ru -- along with a supporting cast of citizens on the frontlines – from Memorial Day to Election Day 2008. Their diverse stories converge in the struggle to change a city plagued with violence, poverty and corruption, into a new beacon of hope for urban America.
Brothers Hypnotic
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, "brotherhood" is literal: they're all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago's South Side on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black Consciousness. Family band practice began at 6 AM.
Now grown, as they raise eight brass horns to the sky, they make music that is at once indescribably joyful, unremittingly exciting, and undeniably together. But as the brothers try to make their own way in the wide world—while playing in the streets of New York City, collaborating with Mos Def, or wowing a jazz festival—they find the values their father bred into them constantly tested. They must decide whether his principles really are their own.
16 Acres
The rebuilding of ground zero is one of the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex urban renewal projects in American history. From the beginning, the effort has been fraught with controversy, delays and politics. The struggle has encompassed eleven years, nineteen government agencies, a dozen projects and over $20 billion.
"Chicagoland" will give viewers an inside look at the city's leaders and residents as they work to improve its public education system as well as neighborhood and youth safety.
The cable news network has greenlighted Chicagoland, an unscripted series executive produced by Robert Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn of Sundance Productions and Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin of BCTV.
The eight-part series, debuting early next year, aims to "explore where politics and policy meet real people's lives -- in a city generating change and innovation in social policy, education and public safety -- to meet national and local challenges."
Gotta Dance
GOTTA DANCE the movie chronicles the debut of the New Jersey Nets' first-ever senior hip-hop dance team, 12 women and 1 man - all dance team newbies, from auditions through to center court stardom.
As smooth dance moves are perfected and performed in front of thousands, aging myths and misperceptions are pulverized.
Despite swollen ankles, exhausting rehearsals, fashion clashes and seemingly impossible dance steps, the NETSational Seniors go for it, spreading joy, inspiration and cool dance moves as they hip-hop their way into the hearts of Nets fans and beyond.
Carol Channing
The story of legendary performer Carol Channing's life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile. In CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE, director Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness, Gotta Dance), with co-writer Adam Zucker, captures the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon – both onstage and off...past and present.
The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend.
Catching Hell
In a shift from addressing social big-picture topics such as the Enron scandal, the fall of Eliot Spitzer and the detainment of innocent political prisoners, Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney explores the unsettling phenomena of scapegoating in sports with intimate looks at Bartman and Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner. The parallel stories are told in a suspense-filled style, made particularly chilling for Bartman. With never-before-seen footage of Game 6 from inside the stands of Wrigley Field, we see, step by step, how the Friendly Confines turned into a dark place as Cubs fans tried to hold Bartman to account for their collective nightmare.
All Of Me
The "Girls" have been friends, and fat, for years. Their bond goes deep and wide, literally and figuratively. They are smart, intuitive, complex, warm, and compelling and speak openly about their inner lives. The Girls met via the Austin chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and partied together among Austin's Big Beautiful Women community. Meanwhile they tried every diet and every pill. Now they're going through the life-changing process of weight-loss surgery in an effort to lose hundreds of pounds. The experience presents a host of issues and consequences—some they knew they were in for, some they feared, and some they never could have imagined.
The Contradictions Of Fair Hope
July 1865. Over 4 million slaves have been freed. Forced to roam the antebellum countryside, many of them are ill prepared and unable to cope with the realities of their newfound freedom. This documentary examines a little known aspect of American history, when newly freed slaves throughout the South formed "benevolent societies" to respond to abject hunger, illness and the fear of a pauper's grave.
The documentary sets the stage in rural Alabama, prior to Emancipation, and traces the development, struggles, contributions and gradual loss of tradition of one of the last remaining African American benevolent societies, known as "The Fair Hope Benevolent Society" in Uniontown, Alabama.
Through gripping human stories of some of the last surviving society members and interviews with historians and local residents, the film provides an unprecedented look at the complex and morally ambiguous world of Fair Hope juxtaposed against the worldly pleasures of what has become known as the annual "Foot Wash" celebration.
In the aftermath of a senseless hate crime, an all-American town finds itself desperately seeking answers: What really killed Marcelo Lucero?
DISRUPTION explores the work of Fundación Capital, (Winners of the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship), a group of Latin American activist-economists that is pioneering strategies for financial inclusion across the region by aligning policy, market mechanisms, and advances in technology to create programs that place women at the center of the drive for social change.
They collaborate with governments, big banks, and women marginalized by poverty in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, to expand financial inclusion with a digital educational tools that piggyback on existing Conditional Cash Transfer to layer on ideas of asset-building, saving, and economic rights.
The women who participate in the program become empowered economic and political agents in their communities, leading the process of societal transformation from the bottom up. Fundación Capital has already reached 3 million people; if the model is taken to scale, can 20 million women upend a continent? DISRUPTION sets the stage for this potential paradigm shift.
In 2005, 20-year-old Ryan Ferguson was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. dream/killer is the story of how his father Bill embarked on 10-year campaign to prove Ryan's innocence. The film is chock-full of incredible characters. From the questionable District Attorney Kevin Crane, and the highly-confused witness Chuck Erickson, to the high-powered Chicago attorney Kathleen Zellner, the doc depicts both a highly flawed justice system, as well as one that can work brilliantly.
Behind bars, Ryan provides a candid and intimate look at his life, while gorgeous animation is used to recreate his 10-year ordeal. Poignant footage from the Ferguson family archive is interspersed throughout creating a highly personal and revealing film. Bill Ferguson is not only a father but a best friend to Ryan as is demonstrated by his tireless energy and relentless creativity in his fight to bring his son back home where he belongs.
Esther Broner: A Weave Of Women
In 1975 Esther Broner and Naomi Nimrod wrote the first Women's Haggadah, paving the way for modern Jewish feminism. For the next 36 years, Esther Broner led the Feminist Passover Seder in New York City, with a core group of women. This film documents the evolution of Jewish feminism through archival footage and interviews with leading Jewish feminists. At the same time it tells the story of Esther Broner, described by the New York Times as a writer who explored the double marginalization of being Jewish and female. Without her, we can assume, modern Jewish women might not have found a worthy place in the home, in society, and in Jewish tradition.
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
Frederick Law Olmsted was among the first to regard landscape architecture as a profession and a fine art – in fact, with Calvert Vaux he virtually created that profession. Olmsted was also, far and away, the most eminent and successful person ever to practice it in this country. He was co-designer of Central Park, head of the first Yosemite commission, leader of the campaign to protect Niagara Falls, designer of the U.S. Capitol Grounds, site planner for the Great White City of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, planner of Boston's "Emerald Necklace" of green space, and created park systems in many other cities. Olmsted's park and parkway system in Buffalo, N.Y. is the oldest integrated system in America and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, creative animation, and compelling commentary, Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing Americapresents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.
Grace Paley: Collected Shorts
Grace Paley: Collected Shorts brings to life the momentous times in which this author and activist lived and worked as she reads from her short stories, poems and essays. She often referred to herself as a "combative pacifist". This small, feisty woman spoke with the rough-around-the-edges accent of the Bronx neighborhood where she grew up.
Granito: How To Nail A Dictator
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present. In Granito our characters sift for clues buried in archives of mind and place and historical memory, seeking to uncover a narrative that could unlock the past and settle matters of life and death in the present. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in Granito are connected by Guatemala's past. In 1982, Guatemala was engulfed in an armed conflict during which a genocidal "scorched earth" campaign by the military killed nearly 200,000 Maya people including 45,000 disappeared. Now, as if a watchful Maya god were weaving back together threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time, forgotten by most, our characters become integral to the overarching narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have pieced together, each adding their granito, their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.
Grazers: A Cooperative Story
With interest in a farm-to-table food on the rise, a small band of upstate New York farmers sees an opportunity to hold on to their endangered farms by raising and selling grass-fed beef. Forming a cooperative, they soon discover that the marketplace surprisingly can't support their simple ambitions. Jackson and Teale follow their efforts for two years, through near collapse to an uncertain future, exposing in microcosm the struggles of small-scale farming in our modern, industrial world. An intimate, character-driven chronicle of the group's struggle Grazers: A Cooperative Story illuminates timely issues regarding our food system. At stake are their farms, the small communities around them, the health of the land and a way of life.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
Acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson doesn't just "take" his images, he creates them, through elaborate days and weeks of invention, design, and set-up. The epic production of these movie-like images is both intensely personal and highly public: they begin in Crewdson's deepest desires and memories, but come to life on streets and soundstages in the hills towns of Western Massachusetts. In his decade-long project "Beneath the Roses" he uses light, color and character to conjure arresting images, managing a crew of 60 amidst seemingly countless logistical and creative obstacles.
Filmed over a decade, beginning in 2000, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters provides an unparalleled view of the moment of creation of his images. It also reveals the life-story behind the work—through frank reflections on his life and career, including the formative influences of his psychologist father and his childhood fascination with the work of Diane Arbus. Childhood fears and ideals, adult anxieties and desires, the influences of pop-culture all combine to form who buy cialis we are, and for Crewdson, motivate his work.
There is no specific backstory, no before-and-after to Gregory Crewdson's images, simply the moment that lends itself to mystery and intrigue. Hundreds of movie lights combine with the setting sun in a perfect moment of illumination.
Gringo Trails
Is tourism destroying the world–or saving it? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS shows the unanticipated impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment, tracing some stories over 30 years.
Holy Land
Holy Land explores the issues of Israeli settlements in the West Bank: its protagonists are both Israeli settlers and the Israelis and Palestinians who oppose them. They are idealists pursuing conflicting visions of justice, heroes or villains depending on your perspective.
I Married My Family's Killer
I Married My Family's Killer is an award winning documentary featurette. It is an official selection of St. Louis International Film Festival and Tall Grass International Film Festival where it won the jury prize for Outstanding Documentary Short. It was recently awarded the prestigious Silver Chris Award for best in it's division at Columbia International Film & Video Festival. It also won an award of excellence in the International Best Shorts Competition.
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Lost Child: Sayon's Journey
This film shows how one Khmer Rouge child soldier confronts his childhood experiences during Cambodia's darkest hour, what he witnessed, and struggled with as he came of age.
Sayon Soeun was abducted at the age of six, exploited by the Khmer Rouge, his family life and education stolen. His recovery and redemption from unimaginable evil entails his transition from an orphanage in a refugee camp to adoption by a loving American family. After more than 35 years, he recently made contact with brothers and a sister he assumed were dead. The documentary follows his journey to heal himself by forgiving the family that let him slip away and forgiving himself for his complicity as a Khmer Rouge child soldier.
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
A composer, conductor, musical genius like no other, Marvin Hamlisch is the artist responsible for some of the most iconic music of our time. Hits like the Broadway sensation A CHORUS LINE and Oscar winning scores for THE WAY WE WERE and THE STING cemented his place in music history. At the extraordinary age of 31 he became one of two PEGOT winners ever, having won a total of 4 Grammys, 3 Oscars, an Emmy, Tony and a Pulitzer prize. Featuring new interviews with close friends including: Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Carly Simon, Steven Soderbergh, Quincy Jones and many more, Director Dori Berinstein's documentary is a moving, deeply personal testament to a talent broadway, cinema and music has never seen before.
My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes
The untold saga of Italians who rescued Jews and other refugees fleeing the Nazis in World War II. Featuring Gino Bartali, the charismatic Italian cycling hero who risked his life over and over to save innocent lives.
Patrolman P
In 1971, the New York Police Department is mired in corruption. When investigators try and expose it they learn Frank Serpico, their whistleblower, won't wear a wire. Their luck turns when Bill Phillips, a flamboyant corrupt detective, is caught taking bribes from an infamous madam, and agrees to go undercover among his own. Phillips becomes a prolific informant, securing the indictments of dozens of cops and shattering the Blue Wall of Silence. The script flips when Phillips is convicted of murder. Phillips claims he's the victim of a conspiracy. But after three decades behind bars, will anyone believe him?
Mechanic To Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story
MECHANIC TO MILLIONAIRE: THE PETER COOPER STORY highlights the life of philanthropist Peter Cooper (1791-1883) through his own words, interviews with historians and recreated scenes from his lifetime. A mechanical genius, Cooper's inventions and business acumen helped the United States grow from an agrarian society to an industrial power. He created edible gelatin, constructed the first American steam locomotive and fashioned the wrought-iron I beam for multi-storied construction, which enabled cities to grow vertically. Cooper saw wealth as a public trust and wanted to give back to the working people who helped build his fortune. He envisioned free education based on merit, and not race, gender, class or religion. A pioneer in adult education, he introduced the concept of night school, founded The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1859 and converted a bankrupt high school into a women's college for training teachers.
Schmatta: Rags To Riches To Rags
A cautionary story of labor and greed, Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags follows the decline of the once-robust apparel manufacturing industry in the U.S., while chronicling the industry's relationship with unions and government. From the "Garmento" to the seamstress, from the designer to the marketing maven, from the small businessman to the financier, Schmatta offers a firsthand account of how the industry helped generations of Americans march out of poverty and right into the golden age of the American middle class. But while Schmatta reminds us of the early days of the garment industry and its heyday, it also probes its troubling decline, which has occurred largely within the last 30 years. In 1965, 95% of American clothing was made in the U.S.A.; by 2009, only 5% is manufactured here.
Director Marc Levin focuses his lens on Manhattan's Garment District, an eight-block area on Manhattan's West Side which gave birth to the domestic industrial labor movement, and played a key role in major American political activities. From its immigrant origins in the 19th Century, the labor movement rose quickly against deplorable sweatshop conditions. In recent years, however, the realities of automation, deregulation, globalization and outsourcing - all part of the race to the bottom line - eventually eroded the industry's unprecedented momentum.
This film tells some of the stories of the workers, labor organizers, designers, fashion execs and manufacturers who built their careers in the Fashion District, including: Joe Raico, a fabric cutter who took great pride in his workmanship, and laments that America doesn't produce anything anymore; Charles Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee, whose open letter to Kathy Lee Gifford caused a media circus in 1996; Irving Ruosso, owner of Russ Togs, one of the U.S.'s largest sportswear companies; Stan Herman, a designer who has worked in the District for five decades, and others.
The Last Reel
As cinemas across the United States transition to digital projectors, this short documentary celebrates the beauty of traditional 35-millimeter film.
The Last Truck: Closing Of A GM Plant
On Dec. 23, 2008, two days before Christmas, the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio shut its doors. As a result, 2,500 workers and 200 management staff were left without jobs, while the closing is also sure to trigger the loss of thousands of related jobs and businesses. But the GM workers lost much more than jobs, including the pride they share in their work and the camaraderie built through the years. To the natives of Moraine and the greater Dayton area, General Motors wasn't just a car company - it was the lifeblood of the community.
The Last Truck views the final months of the plant through the workers' eyes as they reflect on their work and consider their next steps. In revealing interviews with people who considered themselves more family than co-workers, the film reveals the emotional toll of losing not just a job, but a sense of self.
The Substitute
The Substitute returns for Season 2 with some new twists! Class begins with 20 high school students divided into classic high school rivalries, i.e. "jocks vs cheerleaders," "athletes vs geeks," and "public school girls vs private school girls." The students compete in four rounds of challenges during each episode. In the first and second rounds, they are tested in classic trivia style. To heat things up, the winner of the first round "Things You Do Know" (pop culture trivia), wins prizes for their whole team! The second round gets a little tougher, when students are quizzed on "Things You Should Know" (academic trivia) leaving only five students to go on to the third round. Things get weird during the third round named "What the #*?!" when students head into an interactive challenge involving contraptions such as "The Ping Pong Terror Wheel," "The Ice Factory," or "The Carnival Canon." Students have to stay focused and answer as many questions as possible while being seriously distracted! In the final round of the game, "What You Think," the students must vote for one of their peers to compete as "The People's Champ" against the winner of the third round. Here they will have to guess how they think their peers answered poll questions, such as: "On average, how many texts do you send in a day?" If the People's Champ wins, the class splits $5,000; but if the third round winner does, they keep it all for themselves! The only thing better than getting an A, is getting paid to do it!
Triangle: Remembering The Fire
On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a ten-story building, 146 workers – mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls – were burned alive or forced to jump to their deaths to escape an inferno that consumed the factory in just 18 minutes. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York State until 9/11.
The tragedy changed the course of history, paving the way for government to represent working people, not just business, for the first time, and helped an emerging American middle class to live the American Dream.
The HBO documentary TRIANGLE: REMEMBERING THE FIRE tells an historic story that is still relevant today. Emmy®-winning filmmakers Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson (the 2009 HBO documentary "Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags" and 1999's "Thug Life in D.C.") bring the victims' stories to life through never-before-seen photographs and heartfelt accounts by descendants of those who were there that day. While people have seen the horrendous images of burnt corpses on the street outside the building, this film gives them back their humanity.
The War Of 1812
For two and a half years, Americans fought Against the British, Canadian colonists, and native nations. In the years to come, the War of 1812 would be celebrated in some places and essentially forgotten in others. But it is a war worth remembering—a struggle that threatened the existence of Canada, then divided the United States so deeply that the nation almost broke apart. Some of its battles and heroes became legendary, yet its blunders and cowards were just as prominent. The film shows how the glories of war became enshrined in history – how failures are quickly forgotten – how inconvenient truths are ignored forever.
With stunning re-enactments, evocative animation and the incisive commentary of key experts, The War of 1812 presents the conflict that forged the destiny of a continent.
Young Lakota
Young Lakota chronicles the life defining choices faced by three young people as they try to forge a better future for their tribe while securing their own well being.
Sunny Clifford, her twin sister, Serena, and Brandon Ferguson are neighbors in Kyle, a small town in the heart of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Their political awakening begins when Cecelia Fire Thunder, the first female President of their tribe, defies a South Dakota law criminalizing abortion by threatening to build a women's clinic on the sovereign territory of the reservation. In the subsequent political storm, Sunny, Serena and Brandon are faced with difficult choices.
Young Lakota is a uniquely sensitive portrait of bright young people at a galvanizing stage of their lives whose cultural pride is informed by a continually uneasy relationship with mainstream American political culture.
Prayer For A Perfect Season
Directed by Marc Levin (the 1998 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Slam"), PRAYER FOR A PERFECT SEASON is a gripping account of the 2010-11 boys' basketball season at St. Patrick High School, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Elizabeth, NJ. This feature-length documentary chronicles the extraordinary effort of coach Kevin Boyle and his players, whose journey ends in a winner-take-all showdown for the mythical national championship with archrival St. Anthony of Jersey City.
My Trip To Al-Qaeda
In 2006, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright staged "My Trip to al-Qaeda," a one-man play that explored the moral dilemmas he encountered while researching his bestselling book "The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11."
Now, Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the Dark Side") brings Wright's off-Broadway show to the screen, chronicling fundamentalist Islam's rise to power, as well as Wright's struggle to maintain objectivity as a journalist in the wake of 9/11,
Pulling John
John Brzenk is consumed by one question. A living legend in a sport he helped popularize, Brzenk has gone 25 years as the undefeated armwrestling world champion. At 40, he is torn as to whether he should retire while still on top or succumb to the inevitable; a loss to a new champion. Having traveled to over 120 countries over ther course of his legendary 25 year career, he has unrelentingly pursued the best competitors the world over and has beat them all.
Pulling John, a feature length verite documentary shot over four years, witnesses the mythical world of armwrestling where 2 titans battle in pursuit of a living god.
Down The Barrel
The essence of surfing is an elusive ideal. Part sport, part state-of-mind; an avenue for self-expression, a metaphor for freedom; a ritual, a competitive event, a dangerous journey, a dance. Nature supplies the power, and with the proper balance of respect and resistance, we enjoy the ride. From the North Shore of Oahu, to the end of the road in Tahiti. From Australia to California, from Florida to France, the world's greatest surfers share their insights, and show us how - and why -- it's done. Their skill, and the thrill of the experience, are captured as never before in this documentary. What is the secret to surfing's global appeal? The answer is revealed by Florida's Kelly Slater, California's Rob Machado, Hawaii's Kalani Robb and Australia's Joel Parkinson, through their own voices, in DOWN THE BARREL. The sport of Surfing is displayed for what it is. WITHOUT SCRIPT. WITHOUT ANIMATION. WITHOUT HYPE.
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
The story of Hancock's collaborative process with an eclectic mix of artists who include Sting, Annie Lennox, Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Christina Aguilera, John Mayer and others. Directed by Biro and Jon Fine. Produced by Alex Gibney and Biro.
In 1968, two hippies hiking near Mt. Shasta in Northern California stumbled across an unlikely property for sale: an abandoned goldmine and surrounding land, 300 acres for $22,000. Fueled by contributions from the Doors, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and others, they bought the property and named it Black Bear Ranch. It quickly became the prototypical 1960s commune, with the motto "Free Land for Free People." Utopian communities have always been a part of the United States, but in the 60's and 70's their audacious goal was to reshape the world with free love and common property, creating a revolutionary movement that would spread to the rest of society. But utopia is different for each person, and these experiments often brought strife, jealousy and sometimes even endangered lives.
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and unknown story of Martha Hill, a visionary who fought against great odds to make dance a legitimate art form in America. In a career spanning most of the 20th century, Hill became a behind the scenes leader of the field and the founding director of The Juilliard Dance Division. Stylistically weaving together over 90 years of archival footage, the film is a celebration of dance and an examination of the passion required to keep it alive.
One Year Lease
Ahhh, the joy's of renting in New York City! A tiny, expensive apartment
is expected. But an eccentric landlord with an itchy speed-dial finger?
Told almost entirely through voice mail messages One Year Lease
documents the travails of Brian, Thomas and Casper as they endure
a year-long sentence with Rita the cat-loving landlady.


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In June, National Geographic highlighted something few of us know about but that nearly all of us depend on in some way: rare earth elements.
They're in everything from cell phones to laptops to robots—even your new hybrid car. But as things stand now, 97 percent of the world's supply is mined in China. Growing demand, as well as skyrocketing prices, means everyone is looking for new sources.
It just so happens that one of the most promising areas to find rare earth elements might just be in Idaho. BW's intrepid stringer Zach Hagadone is digging into what could be the future of REE in the Gem State. Check out the Aug. 17 edition of Boise Weekly for the full scoop.
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Distinguished Community of Disparity Health Experts Appointed as Senior Fellows by W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute
Feb 27, 2013, 10:46 ET
Former HHS Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan and colleagues will focus on new initiatives in health disparities research and intervention
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reflective of the vision and teachings of William Montague Cobb, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D about health disparities, the Cobb Institute has announced its inaugural class of Senior Fellows. This distinguished community of scholars represents demonstrated leadership and expertise in addressing health disparities mainly through research, but also in the areas of clinical care, interventions, pipeline programs and mentoring.
"As the challenge of reducing health disparities continues to evolve, effective reality-based solutions require multi-disciplinary collaboration from various perspectives and care settings," said Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of Directors and newly appointed Senior Fellow. "This august panel represents superior subject expertise and a wealth of experience in addressing the varied factors that increase access to care and improve health outcomes."
The Cobb Senior Fellows – drawn from academia, hospitals, government, clinical practice and research – will perform various functions including:
- support the implementation of the Cobb Institute's mission, vision and goals including new initiatives in health disparities research and interventions.
- mentor mid-career level and early career research specialists to address the paucity of African-American researchers, and strengthen the pipeline of funded researchers by federal agencies such as NIH.
"Current challenges in the U.S. health system are inextricably linked with the rising cost of health disparities," said new Senior Fellow, Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., former HHS Secretary and President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine. "The Affordable Care Act requires bold ideas to collaboratively address the deficiencies in our healthcare system."
Along with Drs. Sullivan and Laurencin, the other members of the inaugural class include:
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H. - Director, The Disparities Solutions Center and Senior Scientist, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
Carolyn Britton, M.D., M.S. - Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, The Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University Medical Center
W. Michael Byrd, M.D., M.P.H. - Senior Research Scientist, Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health and Clinical Instructor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School
Linda Clayton, M.D., M.P.H. - Associate Medical Director, Division of Medical Assistance, Massachusetts Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health
Donna Christensen, M.D. - U.S. House of Representatives (D-USVI) and Chair, Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust
James Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D. - Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and former President, Morehouse School of Medicine
George Hill, Ph.D. - Levi Watkins Jr. Distinguished Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Emeritus, Medical Education and Administration, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Rodney Hood, M.D. - Vice Chair, The Cobb/NMA Institute and President & CEO, Multicultural Health Disparities Institute
Edith Irby Jones, M.D. - Hall of Fame Inductee, University of Arkansas School of Medicine and Past President, National Medical Association
Camara Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. - Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity, Division of Adult and Community Health, NCCDPHP, Centers For Disease Control
Lovell Jones, Ph.D. - Director, The Dorothy I. Height Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research (DH-CHEER), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thomas LaVeist, Ph.D. - Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions and William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
Robert Like, M.D., M.S. - Professor and Director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Edith Mitchell, M.D. - Clinical Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical School and Director, Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, Jefferson University Hospitals
Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D. - Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
Vivian Pinn, M.D. - Former Director, Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
Griffin Rodgers, M.D. - Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
John Ruffin, M.D. - Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. - Former U.S. Surgeon General and Director, The Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, Morehouse School of Medicine
Brian Smedley, Ph.D. - Vice President and Director, Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Augustus A. White III, M.D., Ph.D. - Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education, Harvard Medical School and Orthopaedic Surgeon in Chief Emeritus, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Richard Allen Williams, M.D. - Founder, Association of Black Cardiologists and Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
Gail Wyatt, Ph.D. - Director, Sexual Health Programs, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
About The W. Montague Cobb/NMA Institute
The National Medical Association (NMA) launched the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute in December 2004 to develop, evaluate, and implement strategies to promote wellness and eliminate health disparities and racism in medicine. The Cobb Institute conducts data-driven research, makes policy recommendations where appropriate, and serves as a resource for NMA members and the greater healthcare community. For more information, visit cobb.nmanet.org.
Contact: Michele Andwele
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Halestorm Announce Fall 2015 U.S. Tour
Halestorm's latest disc is titled Into the Wild Life, but what exactly is "the wild life"? We'll find out this fall as Halestorm has partnered with sponsor Jagermeister to stage a trek called "Jagermeister Presents: A Wild Evening With Halestorm."
The dates will run from Sept. 11 in New Orleans through an Oct. 17 gig in Las Vegas. After that, the band will head out on a Canadian tour with Three Days Grace.
For these Jagermeister shows, Halestorm will be playing two different sets with plenty of surprises for their fans. In addition, the band has enlisted renowned California street artist and illustrator Scrojo to create custom, limited-edition artwork that will be featured at each show and Jagermeister will offer a special Halestorm-inspired cocktail at the shows as well.
"We invite you into 'A Wild Evening With Halestorm.' We've been wanting to do a tour like this for a long time, and thanks to our amazing friends at Jägermeister, it's finally happening!!" states Lzzy Hale. "Here's what you're gonna get: a full evening with only Halestorm, in the spirit of our latest record, doing whatever the #%@! we want! We'll be doing not one but two (maybe more!) crazy sets for you, jam packed with surprises every night. You don't want to miss this!"
Tickets for these dates go on sale to the general public tomorrow (June 18) at 10AM local time. However, there are pre-sales beginning today through both Blabbermouth.net and the band's Official Halestorm Fan Club. To become a member of the fan club, sign up here. And check here for ticketing links to each show. As for Blabbermouth, their pre-sale code is "intothewild" and access to their ticketing links can be found here.
And don't forget, you can catch Halestorm in just a little over a week performing at the 2015 Loudwire Music Festival in Grand Junction, Colo. Details here.
Jagermeister Presents: A Wild Evening With Halestorm Tour Dates
9/11 -‐ New Orleans, La. -- The Civic Theatre
9/14 ‐- Kansas City, Mo. -- Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
9/15 ‐- Minneapolis, Minn. -- Myth Live
9/17 ‐- Peoria, Ill. -- Peoria Civic Center Theatre
9/18 -- Chicago, Ill. -- Riviera Theatre
9/26 ‐- Baltimore, Md. -- Pier 6 Pavilion
9/27 -- Charlotte, N.C. -- Ovens Auditorium
9/29 ‐- Warren, Ohio -- Packard Music Hall
9/30 ‐- Columbus, Ohio -- The LC Pavilion
10/2 -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Festival Pier @ Penn's Landing
10/5 ‐- Appleton, Wis. -- Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
10/8 ‐- Oklahoma City, Okla. -- Chevy Bricktown Events Center
10/11 -‐ Tucson, Ariz. -- The Rialto Theater
10/13 -- Fresno, Calif. -- Rainbow Ballroom
10/14 ‐- Modesto, Calif. -- Modesto Centre Plaza
10/16 -- Riverside, Calif. --Riverside Municipal Auditorium
10/17 ‐- Las Vegas, Nev. -- House of Blues
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