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George Floyd death: China takes a victory lap over US protests
Image caption Demonstrators exterior of the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC
The US mass protests are elevating eyebrows all over the world, however China is watching with specific curiosity.
As anti-racism protests sweep throughout the US, Beijing has seized upon them to hit again at Washington for supporting final 12 months's Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations.
Chinese state media have given in depth protection to the protests, highlighting the chaotic scenes and alleged police brutality in America to say that China enjoys larger social stability.
Speaking to a global viewers, Chinese diplomats try to painting Beijing as a accountable world chief, standing in solidarity with different international locations in condemning the racial disparity and injustice within the US.
'An attractive sight'
China's state information company Xinhua described the US civil unrest as "Pelosi's beautiful landscape" – a reference to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remark final summer time that the Hong Kong protests have been "a beautiful sight to behold".
State media Global Times' chief editor Hu Xijin wrote that American politicians now can "enjoy this sight from their own windows".
Beijing has lengthy condemned American politicians, together with Ms Pelosi, for "glorifying violence" coming from the Hong Kong demonstrators, who're categorised by China as "rioters showing signs of terrorism".
Protests paralysed Hong Kong for many of final 12 months, prompting Beijing to impose a new nationwide safety regulation within the territory in May, solely two weeks forward of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Aynne Kokas, senior college fellow with the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, says that each the US and China are contending with a excessive stage of home instability triggered by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and political occasions.
Image caption Tens of hundreds marched in Hong Kong in Janaury
"Now is a key moment through which China is able to leverage the lack of stability in the US, in order to more efficiently promote its own national security goals," she says.
Criticism over US making use of 'double normal'
Chinese and Hong Kong officers have additionally referred to as out the US for making use of "double standards" in its response to civil unrest.
Tens of thousands defy ban to mark Tiananmen in HK
"You know there are riots in the United States and we see how local governments reacted," stated Hong Kong's chief Carrie Lam.
"And then in Hong Kong, when we had similar riots, we saw what position they adopted then."
The officers' view is shared by many Chinese social media customers, who dub America "the double standard nation".
Image caption Hong Kong's chief Carrie Lam
Allegations of extreme use of police power in the course of the US protests have been put below the highlight by Chinese state media, to delegitimise Washington's place on upholding freedom and democracy.
In one instance, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on American journalists being pepper sprayed and a freelance photographer partially blinded by a rubber bullet whereas overlaying the protests.
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Georgia State University Global Communication Assistant Professor Maria Repnikova says that the size and depth of Chinese state media protection on the US protests is unprecedented.
"It's powerful, because they are not making it up," Prof Repnikova says, however she factors out that Chinese state media have cherry-picked the extra peaceable photos of Hong Kong police and essentially the most violent ones from the US.
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Image caption Journalists from throughout the US have reported being focused by police at protests
China itself has been closely criticised for cracking down on press freedom, which is never talked about by the federal government and state media.
On Weibo, many see America's freedoms and democracy as in danger, as police fired tear gasoline at peaceable protesters and navy was deployed to quell the protests.
Ms Kokas says: "Chinese state media don't have to craft a narrative, they can just talk about the objective events that have happen in Washington DC, that undermines the very principal of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly."
The US's rhetoric concerning the democratic rights of Hong Kong now appears "very hollow",she provides, "when military helicopters are flying over [Washington] DC".
Chinese diplomats condemn US racism
The more and more outspoken Chinese diplomats have seized the prospect to highlight the US's governing failure and promote Beijing as a extra accountable world chief.
Ms Kokas describes this as a continuation of the nation's propaganda technique on the Covid-19 pandemic – when America fails, China is right here to assist.
Chinese diplomats on Twitter retweeted messages of UN and African Union officers, condemning racial discrimination and police brutality within the US.
The Chinese international ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying tweeted "I can't breathe", with a screencap of the US state division spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus' earlier criticism over Beijing's dealing with in Hong Kong.
But one other of Hua's messages denouncing anti-black racism backfired on Twitter, as she included "all lives matter", a phrase usually used to undermine the "black lives matter" motion.
Meanwhile, there are studies that African residents within the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou have been discriminated towards and compelled into quarantine in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
Beijing has not formally apologised for any mishandling, solely stating that there have been some "misunderstandings".
One Weibo person expresses "disappointment", because the individual sees "some Chinese criticise others for racial discrimination, but when it comes to their own anti-black racism, they take it for granted".
China can be accused of detaining lots of of hundreds of Uighurs and different Muslim minorities in high-security jail camps in its far western Xinjiang area.
Anti-America sentiment on the rise
There's little question US protests have sparked heated dialogue on Weibo – the subject is among the hottest on the location this week. Related posts have earned greater than 25 billion views.
Many Weibo posts "congratulate" the US for the civil unrest and push again at its help for the Hong Kong demonstrations.
One person writes: "The US government has been inflaming violence around the world, now the American people have finally woken up. The US government deserves this!"
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And Beijing and its state media unfold the speculation that Washington was fomenting the protests in Hong Kong, calling it a "black hand" behind the unrest.
As US-China relations have soured because of the Hong Kong protests, commerce conflicts and the pandemic, anti-America sentiment seems to be on the rise in China.
Thousands of Weibo feedback describe the US protests as "karma" for Washington.
But some Chinese appear genuinely saddened by the scenario.
"This is trampling on human rights! Democracy in the US came to an end at this exact moment," a Weibo person commented below a video exhibiting the CNN reporter getting arrested, receiving hundreds of likes.
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Many on Weibo additionally voice help for the civil rights motion. "Nothing much has changed after generations of fights. I hope this time will yield better results," a remark reads.
Some Chinese additionally replicate on the weaknesses of their nation.
One Weibo person writes about being "envious of the freedom of expression" within the US, as anti-government protests are sometimes forcefully cracked down in China.
Some posts urge the state media to cowl China's home police violence and injustice with the identical stage of dedication.
But liberal voices are sometimes met with harsh criticism.
State-affiliated but liberal leaning newspaper Beijing News printed a commentary advocating for empathy and respect for the American individuals, nevertheless it was shortly slammed as taking a "pro-America" stance and acquired tens of hundreds of unfavourable feedback on Weibo.
Social media has at all times been an imperfect window to watch China's public opinion. Its echo chamber impact is exacerbated by the nation's info censorship.
Prof Repnikova says that the comparatively liberal views might turn out to be much more marginalised on Chinese social media, as cyber nationalism, a mixture of bottom-up sentiments and top-down propaganda tactic, is more and more dominant on the websites.
"The more aggressive, nationalistic and vocal voices are taking over the space," she says.
Additional reporting by Yitsing Wang


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Кошелёво — деревня в Талдомском районе Московской области России. Входит в состав сельского поселения Квашёнковское. Население —  чел. ().

География
Расположена в северной части района, примерно в 18 км к северо-востоку от центра города Талдома, на левом берегу впадающей в Угличское водохранилище на Волге реки Хотчи. Связана автобусным сообщением с районным центром. В деревне одна улица — Мира. Ближайшие населённые пункты — деревни Старая Хотча и Новая Хотча.

Население

История
В «Списке населённых мест» 1862 года Кошелево — владельческая деревня 2-го стана Калязинского уезда Тверской губернии между Дмитровским и Углицко-Московским трактами, в 39 верстах от уездного города, при реке Хотче, с 21 двором и 177 жителями (78 мужчин, 99 женщин).

По данным 1888 года входила в состав Озерской волости Калязинского уезда, проживало 172 человека (81 мужчина, 91 женщина).

Постановлением президиума ВЦИК от 15 августа 1921 года Озерская волость была включена в состав Ленинского уезда Московской губернии.

По материалам Всесоюзной переписи населения 1926 года — центр Кошелёвского сельского совета Озерской волости Ленинского уезда, проживало 142 жителя (55 мужчин, 87 женщин), насчитывалось 35 хозяйства, среди которых 29 крестьянских.

С 1929 года — населённый пункт в составе Ленинского района Кимрского округа Московской области.

Постановлением ЦИК и СНК от 23 июля 1930 года округа́ как административно-территориальные единицы были ликвидированы. Постановлением Президиума ВЦИК от 27 декабря 1930 года городу Ленинску было возвращено историческое наименование Талдом, а район был переименован в Талдомский.

В 1954 году Кошелёвский сельсовет был упразднён, а его территория передана Игумновскому сельсовету.

1963—1965 гг. — Кошелёво в составе Дмитровского укрупнённого сельского района.

В 1973 году в деревню был перенесён административный центр Озерского сельсовета, в состав которого она вошла после упразднения Игумновского сельсовета, а сельсовет стал вновь называться Кошелёвским.

В 1994 году Московской областной думой было утверждено положение о местном самоуправлении в Московской области, сельские советы как административно-территориальные единицы были преобразованы в сельские округа.

1994—2004 гг. — деревня Кошелёвского сельского округа Талдомского района.

Постановлением Губернатора Московской области от 3 июня 2004 года № 106-ПГ Кошелёвский сельский округ был объединён с Ермолинским и Николо-Кропоткинским сельскими округами в единый Ермолинский сельский округ.

2004—2006 гг. — деревня Ермолинского сельского округа Талдомского района.

2006—2009 гг. — деревня сельского поселения Ермолинское.

В 2009 году деревня Кошелёво вошла в состав сельского поселения Квашёнковское, образованного путём выделения из состава сельского поселения Ермолинское.

Образование
В деревне располагается одна школа и один детский сад :

 МБОУ Кошелёвская основная общеобразовательная школа

 МБДОУ Детский сад № 9 "Василек"

Примечания

Населённые пункты Талдомского городского округа

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Albanese optimistic about rebuilding Labor
Tue, 4 June 2019 2:57PM
Camera IconAnthony Albanese says Labor can reset and win back support if it respects all Australian voters.
Anthony Albanese is optimistic about the Labor Party's future after meeting with his new-look leadership team.
Members of his shadow cabinet came together for the first time in Brisbane on Tuesday after losing an election Labor was widely tipped to win.
"For all of us, we have had a tough time in opposition, we wanted to be on the government benches," Mr Albanese told his front bench.
"We are disappointed but we're determined to make sure that the next time we gather after the next election, it will be in the government party room."
Labor hoped to pick up a handful of marginal seats across Queensland on May 18.
But instead, the party now holds just six out of 30 seats in the northern state, after losing the Townsville-based seat of Herbert and the outer-Brisbane electorate of Longman.
Labor is now looking to slowly rebuild its stocks following the wipe-out in the Sunshine State.
"It's appropriate we come here for our first shadow ministry meeting," Mr Albanese said.
The opposition leader is particularly keen to end division between voters in metropolitan areas and those in the regions.
"We need to stop this issue of trying to divide Australian against Australian," he said.
"All Australians are deserving of respect, that's the starting point. Once we do that we'll be a long way on the path to having a policy that can win the support of Australians wherever they live."
The shadow cabinet was expected to discuss its position on the coalition's promised tax cuts.
Labor supports the first part of the government's tax plans, which will provide extra tax relief for low and middle-income earners.
But it is yet to decide whether it will back the later stage of the government's package, to flatten the tax system by mid-2024.
Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers is tight-lipped about the party's position.
Mr Chalmers said it was disappointing the government would not split the tax legislation.
"If they did split the bill, we would enthusiastically pass the first tranche of tax cuts, which favour people on low and middle incomes," he told the ABC.
"We also need more information on the rest of the tax package.
"We've been asking for more than a month now for a sense of how many billion dollars will go to Australians in the highest income tax bracket under their plan in stage three of their tax cuts. That's not been forthcoming."
The coalition has ruled out breaking up the legislation, which will come before parliament next month.
Mr Albanese will travel north to Mackay on Tuesday to meet with regional voters.
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Biden ditches Trump's immigration barriers

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When creativity meets problem solving: Engineering professor discusses her love of literature
By Mario Sanchez Castillo|February 9, 2018
There is a way to keep the left brain and right brain happy, and mechanical engineering professor and author Jenn Stroud Rossmann is proof of that.
Rossmann said she expresses the importance of maintaining both the creative and scientific part of students' brains happy. Aside from co-authoring a mechanical engineering textbook, she wrote a novel, "The Place You're Supposed to Laugh," which will be published in Fall 2018 by 7.13 books. She also writes book reviews for Public Books and the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
Her recent published short stories include "Table for Two" (2017) published in jmww journal with a Best Small Fictions nomination, "The Disaster Specialist" (2017) published in CHEAP POP, "Non-Stick" (2016), which was a finalist for an award from Tethered by Letters, published in Literary Orphans, and more.
"I really enjoy puzzling things out and figuring out complicated calculations or designing something that would make [work] in the lab better," she said. "But I also enjoy storytelling and figuring out how to make a story work, whether that's editing someone else's or working on it on my own.
"[Solving calculations and storytelling] are both fundamentally creative, and also have lots of puzzles, but they also do different things for my soul and I'm not satisfied if I don't get both," she added.
In Rossmann's office and on her website, she displays "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," a painting by Katsushika Hokusai. She said the painting is a picture of fluid mechanics, which she connects to her teaching and understanding of its relevance to a larger part of the world.
"Just like Van Gogh's paintings sometimes include galaxies in the sky and I think that that's really lovely," she said. "It helps me understand that it's relevant, not just because of something I can design or calculate, but also because there's beauty in it, and its part of the larger world. So, it's helpful for me to think about all of society, all of culture and not just one narrow part of it."
Rossmann said she hesitates to make a list of pieces of literature that are her favorite and have affected her in some way because of the possibility of leaving something out.
"I've always loved to read, I was always the kid who could lose [herself] in a book and just consume [and] breathe books, read them so fast and I'd want to talk to someone about them," Rossmann said.
Amongst her favorite authors and poets are Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Geraldine Brooks, Morgan Parker and Lafayette English Professor and poet, Megan Fernandes.
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of her favorite novels.
"It's almost like poetry. It begs to be read out loud. So, beginning that book, I just adored it."
Depending on whether the course she teaches is interdisciplinary, Rossmann said she likes to incorporate history and writing into the class.
"Most of my engineering classes have lots of history and I always ask students to explain ideas in words and not just equations," she said. "One of my favorite classes to teach is a class that sort of combines the history of technology with the way literature reflects technology."
Literature helps Rossmann remember to put science and engineering in "context."
"To think about how would this be expressed to someone who doesn't already speak the language of equations. And maybe is there a visual way or a verbal way that we can actually both be excited about these ideas," she said.
She said that being interested in engineering and literature makes her feel stronger.
"I'm happy that I am at a place like Lafayette where you can say I am an engineer that likes books. It's rare here not to have something going on other than [one's] field," she said.
Rossmann is a co-author with Clive L. Dym for, "Introduction to Engineering Mechanics: A Continuum Approach, Second Edition."
"My students get tired of hearing me say that 'you have to explain this to someone…who doesn't already live in your world….No matter what you're learning or studying you should be able to express it in ways that are clear, no matter where someone else is coming from.'"
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I'd be lying to you if I said the recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain didn't still upset me, because they do. Even more so than those two suicides are countless social media posts about the number of people who take their own lives, of the importance of understanding mental illness, and the faces of those who suffer and have suffered from these illnesses.
Kate and Anthony were public figures, yet to see just how many people actually do take their own lives is unbelievable. There are no pictures for the world to see on social media of these people; they were living their life just as we all do.
Yet there's so much more to each and every story of suicide.
And I, for one, can't even begin to know how to understand them all, except to say that they're all tragic, sad, and heartbreaking.
What I can do is keep writing words of encouragement and inspiration to all of you; I can keep writing stories to share with you in the hopes that it may touch the heart of someone who needed to read it; and I can keep doing something every day of my life to make a difference in the world and in the life of another.
One act of kindness can change the day or even the life of another human being. We don't always know what someone else is going through, so be kind to each other with both your words and your actions.
It's been such a sad week at hearing of the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Depression, mental illness, and worse than that, a feeling of loneliness…it attacks even the most strongest of people at times, rich or poor, famous or not. We're all vulnerable at feeling such times of sadness.
Robin Williams said it best years ago that the worse type of loneliness is being with people who make you feel that way. And he's right that being alone isn't the worst thing in the world, it's being with people you love that make you feel alone.
So today I want to say this to all of you: If you're blessed to have people in your life that love you, care for you, respect you, and are always there for you then know how lucky you are. It's a gift to have people like that in your life.
Be sure to let them know you feel the same. Don't let the ones you love feel lonely. Give back to them all the gifts they give to you.
Stop what you're doing right now and grab the hand of someone who loves you that may or may not be going through a sad day; wrap your arms around them in a loving hug; sit with them, share your thoughts with them, share yourself with them.
Don't wait for the day they're not there anymore for you.
Now the work begins. You need to look long and hard at the situation and think about how and why it happened.
Did someone say something hurtful to you? Did someone make you cry? Did someone point a finger of blame at your for being who you are?
You let them treat you less than your worth.
And what you allow will continue.
Most of us don't know how to answer that except to make excuses for their bad behavior. It's having a false hope that it won't happen again and that they really didn't mean it. It's a false hope of believing that the person will change. It's a false hope that they'll say they're sorry and mean it.
I've been in that position more times in this lifetime than I can count but I've grown as a person, become stronger, and believe that those moments of pain and heartache aren't my fault. After all, no one does anything intentionally to another human being in the hopes that they'll hurt you. Yet, it happens and I've learned that it's happened because of their feelings, not mine. It could be their insecurities coming through, or it could simply be that they truly meant what they said. Only that person can answer that question.
And only you can answer the question of why you let it happen.
And only you can figure out the lesson it was trying to teach you.
Most often times those situations happen to remind us that we're important, that we count, and that we are valuable.
They happen to remind us to love ourselves more, to be kind to ourselves and respect ourselves.
And they happen to remind us that we should always be kind, and if we can't then we should be quiet. They remind us that no one should treat another human being badly, not matter the excuse or reason for the bad behavior. They remind us that we all have a heart and soul that can be easily broken, and when another human being breaks them it takes time and effort for the healing to begin.
And the healing begins with YOU when you understand the lesson that life hit you with.
And only you can change the situation.
And only you can stop allowing those experience to happen.
I've been writing all of my life, since the day I could hold a pencil in my hand and learn to spell. It's something as natural to me as breathing. When I was a young child my stories were nothing more than a few sentences and a crayon drawing at the bottom of the page.
Through high school and college I could be found sitting on the beach like a Bohemian hippie, writing lyrics and poetry. There were nights you would find me in the hallway of my dorm, hot pot of instant coffee and me sitting against the wall with a notebook writing through the middle of the night while all the other college students were asleep.
During my marriage and raising children I began keeping a journal about my feelings of being a wife and mom. I wrote poetry and journal entries which would become short stories.
I was always writing something.
It's funny how you can write and write your whole life and never say you were a writer.
Until my first book was published.
Wow…I never thought of myself as that.
There's really no definitive answer "why" I never said it or thought it; I spent most of my life raising my kids, so to think of myself as someone other than that seemed like a foreign concept to me.
Yet the truth of the matter is that I AM a writer. I AM a published author. I AM a lyricist.
And I'm even more than that.
I'm a writer who uses her words to heal and help others and try and make a difference in the world.
Writing is a part of my everyday life and as much a part of me as breathing is.
And as I've gotten older I've realized that I can use my writing to share my experiences with others; to help them through a difficult time; to let them know they're not alone.
Writing is my voice that I want to be heard.
Writing is my heart reaching out to love the world.
Writing is my soul that shares it passion.
Writing is my passion and my dream come true.
Writing is the one way I know to reach out to people. It's my way of helping, sharing and making a difference in one life and one day, I hope, the world.
My name is Anne Dennish.
And it's a very good thing…for me.


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Toledo Museum of Art welcomes Patricia O'Toole as new Director of Finance
Posted Dec 13th, 2017 by Stephanie Elton Category: Other
TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) announces that Patricia L. O'Toole has been hired to be the Museum's director of finance. O'Toole began her appointment at TMA Dec. 11, 2017. In this role she will oversee the financial administration of the Museum.
Since 2008, O'Toole has served as the director of operations at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg, Ohio. As a member of the executive team there, she has been responsible for leading the financial, IT, facilities, dietary and general administrative departments and has been a key participant in ongoing strategic planning with the executive team and board of trustees. Her contributions in that role led to substantial reduction in patient care expenses and significant improvement in financial performance.
Prior to her current position, O'Toole was the director of finance at Maumee Valley Country Day School, a preschool through grade 12 independent school in Toledo for 10 years. Among O'Toole's additional previous experience have been financial and administrative responsibilities on behalf of CBT Credit Services, Cincinnati Bell Telephone and Deloitte and Touche.
O'Toole received her Bachelor of Science in accounting from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and her MBA from the University of Cincinnati.
"We look forward to having Patricia O'Toole on board as part of our high-performing executive team at TMA," said Brian Kennedy, the Museum's Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey Director. "She is a proven leader in strategic organizational operations and financial performance and is committed to guiding our key constituencies through meaningful communication and fiscal enhancements."
On her new role at TMA, O'Toole said, "I have lived in Toledo most of my life and have always felt proud and lucky to have one of the best museums in the world right here at home. It is an honor to now be part of the team that provides such an important gift to our community."
The Toledo Museum of Art is a nonprofit arts institution funded through individual donations, foundation grants, corporate sponsorships and investments. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund programs at the Toledo Museum of Art through a sustainability grant program that encourages economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Glass Pavilion® and Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion® are registered service marks.
Admission to the Museum is free. The Museum is open Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m.; and is closed Monday and major holidays. Thursday evening hours are sponsored by Huntington Wealth Advisors. Friday evening hours are made possible by Fifth Third Bank.
The Museum is located at 2445 Monroe Street at Scottwood Avenue, just west of the downtown business district and one block off I-75 with exit designations posted. For general information, visitors can call 419-255-8000 or 800-644-6862, or visit toledomuseum.org.
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Often gets sold short, the overshirt. See, no matter how many pockets are thrown at it, no matter how thick the cloth given to it, it is only a jumped-up shirt, unless it is built from the ground up like an overshirt.
Leaving aside for a second the inside-out aspect, what we have here is a garment cut like an overcoat. It has a two-piece raglan sleeve, and a generous cut in the body. On top of than that, it is made to the standards of an overcoat. The assembly isn't delicate and shirt-like, but robust and outerwear-like. The turned and heavy seams likewise. It also fits like an overcoat. The traditional two-piece raglan structure gives good, clean drape across the shoulders, and room in the upper body for at least a couple of under-layers. The balance in the body, and the perpendicular-straight pitch in the sleeve, means that it hugs the wearer as it should; doesn't kick out at the back; sticks close to the body and makes room for an over-layer. Top-layer jacket-stand-in when the day is warm; air-trapping mid-layer when the day is cold: few garments in the wardrobe have a role as disciplined as the overshirt.
Then there is the reversible factor. The reversible overshirt is made from two cloths, which, despite appearances, have as much in common as they do in difference. They are both, for one thing, a type of cord. One is thick-thin deadstock corduroy, woven by a cotton mill on the east side of Lancashire, and then promptly forgotten about for about twenty years. Uncovered last year, brought down to London, and rolled-out and aired for several weeks, it is cord quite unlike cords woven today. The second material is Bedford cord, made by a cloth-maker, some 250 years old, in Somerset. Mills don't come much older or more venerable. Bedford cord is wool with a corduroy-like corrugated structure: up then down then up then down. It is made with a few complementary shades of the same yarn — either grey or tobacco — so, while from a distance it is a simple-enough cloth, it is, to a trained eye, pleasingly busy. The overshirt is identical on both of these sides.
Worn this way or the other, then, the experience is much the same. The cloth does the talking, and the pockets — six of them, three on each side, all tucked discretely into the side-seams — are neither seen nor heard. Arms are unadorned at the cuff for the purposes of rolling them back for further interaction between the two cords, and the body, with its deep and curved hem, covers anything worn below — halfway between shirt and coat.
The new reversible overshirt is in the jacket — not the shirt — department from today.


Who should make a comeback?
What kind of code do u want a front-end designer generating?
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if segments are 16 bytes long then Im must be really confused.
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The amazingly talented Stacye Leanza made us the most beautiful site map we've ever seen. Her pen & watercolor version of our site is a work of art! Enjoy!
PLEASE NOTE: All camping is now on site even though this map says otherwise.


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Q: How to nudge a graph to the right without altering the total surface it covers I have a document collection with size 1000, they all have 1 feature, a vector with 5 elements. The total sum of the 5 elements equals 100. So for example I can have a document with feature: [10,15,40,20,15].
Each vector element equals a sentiment, ranging from very negative to very positive.
The results I get for the 1000 text documents come out a little on the negative side,
so I am trying to nudge them all a little to the right without altering the total sum.
For example [10,15,40,20,15] should, after applying the formula, result to [7,13,32,40,8].
How can I manage this?
Thanks in advance!

A: As I understand, you want the first (left) elements of that vector to get smaller, and the right part to get bigger, right?  This can be accomplished by adding something like [-10,-5,0,5,10] to each vector.

A: If the issue is that the corpus is genuinely more negative than you'd like it to be, then how about pre-prending to each document, just before the analysis:
I am a happy bunny!

And if that isn't enough, then also add in:
The sun is shining beautifully in Happy Bunny Land today!!

If the issue is that your analysis is producing a more negative result than what you believe is the correct answer, then fiddle with the weights (if using a weighted approach); if not using a weighted word approach, and you have a list of positive and negative words, then review those lists for the document context and either remove some negative words, or add in some more words to the positive list.

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Our programs are designed to guide our pro members from their current fitness level to obtaining their optimal health goal. Each member is encouraged to select one of our endurance programs as their base. Endurance programs include run, walk, and cycle. We then help you select a yearly mileage goal and we provide milestones along the way to help keep you focused, motivated and on track. Classes help to support your base program by offering dynamic and challenging workouts such as Yoga, African dance, and Strength Training (Bootcamp style). While some of our classes may be free for pro members, the majority of the classes have associated fee, but significantly reduced.
Our run group meets every Sunday for a long run ranging from 60 -90 minutes.
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Thomas Melone, CEO of Allco Renewable Energy, protested a wind farm offshore from his summer home on Martha's Vineyard.
It would affect his viewscapes and hurt his home value.
Now he's attacking Vermonters who oppose his wind farm project near Bennington.
In an appeal to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Melone protested the proposed construction of 130 ocean wind turbines on the basis that the renewable energy project would affect his viewscapes and hurt the value of his $15-million beachfront property in Edgartown, Mass.
While the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected his "not in my backyard"-based complaints in May 2012, Melone and Allco have issued scathing criticisms toward Vermonters who say Allco's Chelsea Solar farm, planned for Bennington's Apple Hill area, will greatly disrupt noise, wind, and visual aesthetics for local residents and visitors to the nearby welcome center.


Zombies are so hot right now that they seem to be everywhere. The Walker hordes are featured heavily on "The Walking Dead," a show that debuted in 2010 and is arguably one of the most popular shows on television. Zombies also make an appearance in video games such as Call of Duty, and people are even pulling zombie apocalypse pranks. Essentially, zombies have become a mainstream way to suspend our disbelief and engage with the land of make-believe. However, they may be walking among us in real life thanks to a rare mental illness called Cotard's Syndrome.
People with the condition are known to have any of a number of delusions that range from believing they have no organs, blood or body parts to insisting they are actually dead even though they are very much still breathing. In even more rare cases of what is also known as walking corpse syndrome, people with the condition consider themselves immortal. Although walking corpse syndrome is considered extremely rare, its exact prevalence is unknown. One Hong Kong study involving 349 psychogeriatric patients suggests the condition afflicts about 0.57 percent of the population. Another study conducted in Mexico in 2010, which involved 1,321 patients, found that 0.62 percent of the population had the rare mental health disorder. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this syndrome is often found in people with mood or psychotic disorders and medical conditions.
Cotard's syndrome was first described by (and later named after) French neurologist Jules Cotard in 1880, Psychology Today reported. Cotard had a patient nicknamed Mademoiselle X who claimed she was missing several body parts and organs, including brain, chest, stomach and intestines. She also believed she was "eternally damned." Given she denied having innards, Mademoiselle X didn't see a need to eat, and soon died of starvation. Cotard said the condition was a form of delusion associated with severe depression, "marked psychomotor retardation, presence of anxiety symptoms and other depressive symptoms," researchers said.
A more recent case of the condition involved a man named Graham who has been living with walking corpse for at least nine years. His condition emerged after he struggled with severe depression. Eight months after attempting to commit suicide by taking an electrical appliance with him into the bathtub, he told doctors he believed his brain was dead or missing, Medical Daily previously reported.
Symptoms of walking corpse syndrome can vary greatly. However, researcher Yamada Katsuragi and his colleagues published a longitudinal study in 1999 suggesting that the syndrome seems to have three stages: germination, blooming and chronic.
Before seeking medical help, Ms. S initially developed loss of sleep and a feeling of loneliness which are said to have progressed to loss of interest in her surroundings and daily household work — both classic signs of depression. This withdrawal is common among people who are severely depressed and could represent the germination stage of the syndrome for Ms. S. Graham also suffered from severe depression, as do many people with the condition.
The blooming stage is known as the time patients develop hallmark symptoms of walking corpse syndrome, such as denying they have certain body parts or that they even exist. These symptoms worsen in severity during the chronic stage and interfere with patients' ability to go about their daily lives. They are known to begin to neglect their own hygiene and self-care, to harm themselves, and fail to recognize their own faces as well as those of others.
For example, Graham, who no longer believed he had a brain or head, refused to eat, lost interest in smoking and being social because he saw "no point because I was dead." Graham also made frequent visits to his local cemetery because he said "it was the closest I could come to death" and thought he would fit in there. "I didn't want to face people," he told the New Scientist magazine. "There was no point. I didn't feel pleasure in anything. I used to idolize my car, but I didn't go near it. All the things I was interested in went away."
Graham became the first person with walking corpse syndrome to undergo a brain scan. Doctors found activity levels in large areas of his frontal and parietal brain — areas involved in motor function, memory, and sensory information — were extremely low, resembling someone in a vegetative state.
In addition, Scientific American attributes the failure to recognize people's faces to misfiring in the amygdala area of the brain. This may also explain why some people with this condition don't believe they exist, because not recognizing one's own face "can lead to a lack of association between their reflections or projected self and their own sense of self, leading to a belief that one doesn't exist," Scientific American reported.
Therapy along with antidepressants and antipsychotics have been shown to help control the symptoms as well as electroconvulsive treatment. In fact, a 2008 case report claims most cases of walking corpse syndrome are more responsive to electroconvulsive treatment than to pharmacological treatment. However, more research needs to be done on this condition because scientists are still in the dark about the cause of this disease and how to treat it.


BBC 1 Daytime broadcasts the new 5-part series, Privates, in January 2013!
The episodes are to be broadcast every day, from Monday 7th January – Friday 12th January at 2:15pm. Steven makes a guest appearance, playing Major Cunnicliffe, in two episodes: Episode 3 (Wednesday) and Episode 5 (Friday).
Steven filmed these episodes in Northern Ireland in February 2012.
Britain 1960: as the age of respectability gives way to the era of rock and roll, we follow the stories of eight privates who are part of the last intake of National Service. Stationed at a basic training depot in North Yorkshire, they are part of Two Section and their two years of National Service has just begun.
Lance Corporal Jimmy Hobbs proposes to his girlfriend Norah, who works in the army canteen (NAAFI) and then goes AWOL after being chased by Private Keenan. Sergeant Butcher sees a man by his motorbike on the pier, dressed in a homemade general's uniform and speaking only in the dialogue of David Niven; he is Private Lomax. Corporal Barrowman, having taken a dislike to Private Wratten, initiates a search for a 'stolen' watch and pronounces Wratten the thief.
Corporal Barrowman drills Two Section on the parade ground. He is aghast that McIllvenny has permission to wear 'soft shoes' and that Private Hoy is unable to co-ordinate his arms and legs.
Lomax fakes taking the sedative that Nurse Connie gave him and much to her surprise suddenly starts to speak like Bette Davis. Jimmy tells Norah he has a plan. Keenan apologises to Connie for being strident about his pacifist views last time they met and asks Connie if they could talk, somewhere private.
Two Section undergoes bayonet training. It's a visceral process and most do it badly. It prompts Davies to wonder if he has what it takes to be a soldier. Sergeant Butcher visits a woman at the Imperial Hotel in nearby Ravensea.
Two Section is on the assault course. Barrowman tells the men that if they beat One Section's time they will get a crate of beer: if they don't, they will be peeling spuds for the regimental dinner that evening.
White-Bowne tells Captain Gulliver that he is standing in the Oldham East by-election and will thus get exemption from National Service.
Hobbs, waiting in an army cell after being AWOL, fears the worst. Lomax hides a wrapped package under his pillow. Keenan and Connie have dinner together.
Barrowman continues training with Two Section and simulates a gas attack, during which Wrattan collapses.
While the sections wait by the barrack room clock for their leave to begin, the nuclear attack warning sounds. Barrowman and Hobbs salute the impending Armageddon with a bottle of whisky. Hobbs, now slightly drunk, confronts Norah about their relationship.
White-Bowne has found out that Barrowman used to be a sergeant and thinks Hobbs might know the story of why he was demoted to corporal.
Preparations for the Remembrance Day parade begin as a telegram arrives telling that Davies' grandfather has died, the one his family had suspected of being a coward.
Captain Gulliver tells Audrey that their life will begin anew when he hands in his resignation that day. Wratten visits Barrowman in hospital and Barrowman tells his story. Keenan's curiosity about Davies' grandfather leads him to uncover the truth about the grandfather's army record.
White-Bowne and Rothman appear in front of the Conservative selection panel and make their respective pitches to be the next candidate. Sergeant Butcher asks Captain Bulgakov whether Lomax is really mad or just faking it.


An ncc file extension is related to the Nikon Capture program for Mac and Windows. An ncc file stores camera data.
The ncc file extension is associated with Nikon Capture, a software for Microsoft Windows and macOS (OS X), which enables users to manage photos from Nikon cameras.
The ncc file contains camera data.
Click on the software link for more information about Nikon Capture NX-D. Nikon Capture NX-D uses ncc file type for its internal purposes and/or also by different way than common edit or open file actions (eg. to install/execute/support an application itself, to store application or user data, configure program etc.).


FMCG brands must seek to provide richer, seamless retail experiences in a competitive market, to which UK households only allocate 7% of total spend. Brand loyalty starts with recognisable, creative content. Names, logos, sub-brands and domains need protection before they are tweeted about. New technologies should be patented and product designs registered before being disclosed. Products are often licensed to or distributed by third parties, so to keep control, you need to register your IP.
Protecting the IP in your domains, social media platforms and branding acts as a deterrent to copycats, adds value to your brand and encourages consumer engagement, so that recognition and repeat purchases are nurtured. We provide robust, cost-effective, commercial legal solutions to the challenges encountered every day by businesses across the household goods sector. We act for the Glen Dimplex Group (owner of Morphy Richards), Roberts Radio, Stoves and Belling, as well as Robert Welch and TJ Morris in protecting, exploiting and defending their well-known brands against third parties.
What can you do when a competitor is selling (and has registered a design for) a product that copies one of your own?


So we finally have some official info on the new Motorola Moto Z coming to Verizon. Model is XT1650 and the code name is Griffin. I got my hands on some of the wallpapers and bootanimation if you would like to take a look at them along with a fully system dump if you want it, new apps maybe. 🙂 I am really liking the idea of moto Mods on this device and can't wait to go pick one up and try it out. The downside to Moto Mods is that you will either have to keep the mod on your device all the time or carry them around with you which will be a pain so some, time will tell. Found out that the release date for Verizon is July 14th for preorder and the 19th to be in stores. cant wait to check this bad boy out its a big bummer that it is Verizon only right now.


Minet Hub - Will Sadiq Kahn help us save Lambeth Libraries?
Will Sadiq Kahn help us save Lambeth Libraries?
A number of us gathered at Camberwell library on Saturday to try and get Sadiq Khan to help us defend libraries in Lambeth. After all, he has put that he intends to work with boroughs to save Libraries into his manifesto for London's Mayoral election, so we were hoping he'd start doing that before May 5th.
The irony of meeting in front of the brand new library in Southwark was not lost on us. How is that one Labour-led council is able to invest in the next generation, building schools and libraries, when another is intent on closing down libraries?


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The concept was originally described by R. Edward Freeman, a professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, in his 1984 book Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach.
In 2001, he co-wrote a paper with Laura Dunham and Jeanne Liedtka that would later be published in the journal Business Ethics Quarterly as "Enhancing Stakeholder Practice: A Particularized Exploration of Community." So in the past decade, what's changed? I asked him a few questions to find out.
In your 2001 paper, "Enhancing Stakeholder Practice: A Particularized Exploration of Community," you wrote that the "lack of specificity around stakeholder identity remains a serious obstacle to the further development of stakeholder theory and its adoption in actual practice by business managers. Nowhere is this shortcoming more evident than in stakeholder theory's treatment of the constituency known as 'community.'" Ten years later, where does this "lack of specificity" now stand?
One thing that has changed in the past decade is that it's less important to figure out priorities of stakeholders and more important to figure out what stakeholders have in common, where their joint interest is in terms of value creation.
So if various potential stakeholders have little in common, little joint interest, that's not really a good place to devise a business model?
Right. If you can only make customers better off by making suppliers worse off, I don't think that's a sustainable business model in a free society because no one has to do business with you.
Do sustainable markets necessarily have an ethical underpinning that are manifest in corporate social responsibility?
The idea that markets come out of the air and there's no ethics underneath them is wrong. Markets can't work without some kind of basic moral fabric to them.
How is community defined in stakeholder theory?
When we think about community as stakeholder, there's still some ambiguity about that. What's the theory of community that we have? Is it about place? Is it about communities of interest? In that paper, we discussed communities of practice. The way to attack stakeholder theory was by showing that the idea of community not a very well worked out idea.
In your study, you concluded that "examining companies who have a geographical or an electronic notion of community will equally yield insight." Do today's social networking companies like Facebook and Twitter fit that bill?
Yes, that's exactly right. We're pretty ambiguous about what community means in a whole bunch of things. We need to think through this idea of community, because we thought 10 years ago that there were going to be a lot of changes to that, as you just mentioned. Now, we turn on our computer and talk to our colleagues all around the world. So, what's the community here?
How important is technology in defining a community?
Well, I think there are lots of different ways to define community. A bunch will be defined by the technology of the time. In the days before the internal combustion engine, the fact that one could only go so far on horse, and that letter-writing took a long time, defined the sense of community and made it about place. That's still relevant today, but so is the Facebook community. The Internet creates these communities of interest.
How has the idea of place changed because of globalization?
There's a 1996 book by Benjamin Barber called Jihad vs. McWorld. He argued that information technology created a globalization of culture so that the french fries you eat in Jakarta taste just like the ones here in Charlottesville. He thought that was bad. I don't necessarily think that's bad. But he said that the technology also gives you the kind of fracturing so that if I wanted to find an affinity group, for say, bearded pragmatist philosophers who practice taekwondo, I could find that. So what happens is on one hand, you get this global culture, while on the other hand, you get the most singular, individualized affinity groups. The same technology gives you both those things.
Detractors often say that globalization is turning every major cosmopolitan city into the same city.
That may be so, but I'm not convinced. There is globalization, but the same forces also allow a kind of particularization of culture down to a micro level. I don't think the only impact of globalization is this sort of "flat" world. The other piece of it is now I can appreciate a whole lot of stuff that I never knew existed. National boundaries are less important but we can now experience other cultures in a way we've never been able to do before.
How do you think globalization has affected travel?
For some people, globalization might make travel less interesting; for others, it may be more interesting. But standing on the top of Borobudur in central Java, looking out on the plains and understanding that you are at a Buddhist temple built in the 9th century—you just can't reproduce that feeling anywhere but there.
Click here for the second part of my interview with Professor Freeman, in which I ask him about crowd wisdom, consumer education and transparency. -- R.L.
Elis and Signe Olsson Professor R. Edward Freeman teaches business ethics at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is also the academic director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. From 1987 to 2009 he was Director of Darden's Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, one of the world's leading academic centers for the study of ethics. Freeman is perhaps best known for his award-winning book Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, originally published in 1984 and reprinted 2010 by Cambridge University Press, in which he suggests that businesses build their strategy around their relationships with key stakeholders. In 2001, he was honored by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute with a Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement.


Sharon R. Hedgcoth, 72, of Lubbock passed away on August 24, 2010 in Lubbock.
Graveside memorial services will take place at 3 p.m. on Friday, August 27, 2010 at Resthaven Memorial Park. Please join the family in celebrating Sharon's life by visiting her memorial at www.resthavenfuneralhome.com.
Sharon was born on July 8, 1938 in Lubbock to the late Joseph Hugh and Helen Iris (Whatley) Dickey. She was the Lubbock ISD Cafeteria Manager for over 20 years and served numerous schools. She was an excellent puzzle solver, loved tennis, and bowling and once rolled 11 strikes in a row. She loved to brag that in 6th grade she could out run all of the boys in school. Sharon also was a great Little League Mom; she was always there to support her boys!
She was preceded in death by her husband, Carlos Kent Hedgcoth, on December 11, 1995.
Those left to cherish her memories include her four sons, Joe Kent Hedgcoth and wife Cynthia of Fort Stockton, James Kirk Hedgcoth of Lubbock, Carlos Kelly Hedgcoth of Lubbock, and Jackson Kyle Hedgcoth of Lubbock; 11 grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; two sisters, Jo Dickson and Deborah Broadstreet; and one brother, Bob Dickey.


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From time to time, a roofing contractor may be faced with the dilemma of going under contract on a job where there are concerns about an owner's ability to pay for the work. Rather than turning the business away, the roofing contractor should include in its contract a provision, such as the one following example, which provides the roofing contractor with assurance from the owner of its ability to pay before the work begins. The provision requires that an owner at minimum demonstrate its financial ability to fund the project before work begins and ideally requires the owner provide the entire contract sum up front. If the owner is unable to do so, the contractor is not required to begin the work. Additionally, this provision ensures the roofing contractor may cease working if an owner fails to make an interim payment.
Owner's Financial Assurance Provision to Protect Roofing Contractor Concerned about Owner's Ability to Pay for Work: Prior to Roofing Contractor's ordering materials and the start of Work, Owner shall make an initial payment to Roofing Contractor of __________. Owner shall deposit the remainder of the Contract Sum in an escrow account, which shall be disbursed by an Escrow Agent to the Roofing Contractor in the amount of __________ when the job is 1/3 complete and an additional __________ when the job is 2/3 complete. The Escrow Agent shall make a final payment of the remaining Contract Sum when the job is completed. The amount of final payment shall be adjusted based on changes in the Work. Upon Roofing Contractor's receipt of notice from the Escrow Agent that the Contract Sum has been deposited in the Escrow Account, Roofing Contractor shall order materials and proceed with installation. In the event the remainder of the Contract Sum after the initial payment to Roofing Contractor is not immediately available for deposit in escrow, Owner shall provide evidence satisfactory to Roofing Contractor that Owner has the financial resources and has made the necessary financial arrangements to pay in full the Contract Sum and to timely deposit into the escrow account the amount of __________ on or before ____________, and the amount of __________ on or before ____________. Provision of such financial assurance to Roofing Contractor is a condition precedent to Roofing Contractor's ordering of materials and commencement of the Work. If Owner fails to timely deposit the amounts owed into escrow, Roofing Contractor shall be entitled to immediately stop work and recover costs of shut-down and remobilization. Roofing Contractor is entitled to interest at the rate of 1% per month and costs of collection, including reasonable attorneys' fees. The Owner's financial data is to be kept confidential and made known only to those people necessary to verify the authenticity of the information provided therein.


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Герб муниципального образования сельское поселение «Хорошево» Ржевского района Тверской области Российской Федерации — опознавательно-правовой знак, служащий официальным символом муниципального образования.

Герб утверждён решением Совета депутатов сельского поселения «Хорошево» № 60 от 27 мая 2011 года.

Герб внесён в Государственный геральдический регистр Российской Федерации под регистрационным номером 6904.

Описание герба
 «В золотом поле червлёный столб, обременённый серебряным обелиском и сопровождённый по сторонам черными пушками (без лафетов) в столб, от жерл которых веерообразно разлетаются червлёные искры, по три у каждой пушки, причём средняя искра завершена звездой с шестнадцатью длинными и короткими лучами попеременно (из которых нижний длинный скрыт самою искрой)».

Герб сельского поселения Хорошево, в соответствии с Законом Тверской области от 28 ноября 1996 года № 45 «О гербе и флаге Тверской области» (статья 7), может воспроизводиться в двух равно допустимых версиях:
 — без вольной части;
 — с вольной частью — четырехугольником, примыкающим изнутри к верхнему краю герба сельского поселения Хорошево с воспроизведёнными в нем фигурами из гербового щита Тверской области.
Герб сельского поселения Хорошево, в соответствии с Методическими рекомендациями по разработке и использованию официальных символов муниципальных образований (Раздел 2, Глава VIII, п.п. 45-46), утверждёнными Геральдическим советом при Президенте Российской Федерации 28.06.2006 года, может воспроизводиться со статусной короной установленного образца.

Обоснование символики
Ржевская земля имеет многовековую насыщенную историю со множеством ярких страниц. Но одними из наиболее важных стали события Великой Отечественной войны. Так 5 августа 1943 года в Хорошево во время пребывания на Калининском фронте останавливался И. В. Сталин, и именно отсюда после получения сообщения об освобождении советскими войсками городов Орла и Белгорода им был отдан приказ произвести в Москве первый в истории Великой Отечественной войны артиллерийский салют. Память об исторических событиях, о людях проявивших доблесть и героизм, о победах давшихся нелегкой ценой в гербе сельского поселения Хорошево отражена стилизованным изображением салютующих орудий и изображением обелиска открытого 1 августа 1959 года в честь воинов Красной армии, павших в боях за освобождение Ржевского района от немецко-фашистских захватчиков.

Серебро — символ чистоты, совершенства, мира и взаимопонимания.

Красный цвет — символ мужества, труда, силы, красоты и праздника.

Золото — символ славы, богатства, стабильности, уважения, солнечного тепла.

Герб разработан Союзом геральдистов России.

Герб создан авторским коллективом: идея герба — Константин Мочёнов (Химки), Кирилл Переходенко (Конаково); художник и компьютерный дизайн — Ирина Соколова (Москва); обоснование символики — Кирилл Переходенко (Конаково).

См. также
 Гербы населённых пунктов Тверской области
 Флаг сельского поселения Хорошево

Примечания

Гербы населённых пунктов Тверской области
Гербы с изображением пушечных стволов
Гербы с изображением звёзд


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Helen Callaghan Candaele St. Aubin (March 13, 1923 – December 8, 1992) was a left-handed center fielder who appeared in five seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), playing under the name Helen Callaghan.

Baseball career
As a rookie with the Minneapolis Millerettes Callaghan hit a .287 average in 111 games, for second in the league. She also finished third in total bases, hits, runs and stolen bases (112), while tying for third in home runs. By then, her older sister, Margaret, was the team's third basewoman.

The Millerettes could not compete attendance-wise with the Minneapolis Millers, so the team moved in 1945, becoming the Fort Wayne Daisies. That year Callaghan had her best season, batting .299 to lead the AAGPBL. (The league average was .198 that year.) She tied for the league lead in homers (3), led in total bases (156), was second in steals (92), first in hits (122), second in runs (77) and first in doubles (17). Callaghan was often called the "Ted Williams of women's baseball". The league was not yet giving out Player of the Year or All-Star honors, but it is clear she was a candidate for both. Ft. Wayne finished second and advanced to the championship, but fell four games to one despite a .400 mark from the younger Callaghan.

Callaghan slipped drastically in 1946, hitting just .213, even though league averages rose about 10 points. She still tied for third in steals with 114. After missing the 1947 season due to illness, she returned for part of 1948 after getting married and having her first child. However, that year she hit just .191 as a bench player. She finished her career with Kenosha in 1949 as Helen Candaele, bouncing back to a .251 mark, tied for seventh in the league. She was ninth in total bases (113), eighth in steals (65), sixth in doubles and tied for eighth in triples.

In a five-season career, Callaghan was a .256 hitter (449-for-1756) with seven home runs and 117 runs batted in in 495 games, including 419 stolen bases, 299 runs, 44 doubles, 20 triples and 271 walks while striking out 220 times. Her on-base percentage was .355, while her slugging percentage was .315.

Family
Helen had five sons. Casey Candaele is also a former professional baseball player who spent nine years with the Montreal Expos, Houston Astros and Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. Another son, Kelly Candaele, is a politician, filmmaker, teacher, and writer. He produced a PBS documentary special on the AAGPBL. Penny Marshall was inspired to create the 1992 film A League of Their Own after watching the documentary. Another son, Kerry Candaele, directed the 2013 documentary Following the Ninth, about the global influence of Beethoven's final symphony, and co-authored the book Journeys With Beethoven. Another son, Rick Candaele, is the former football coach at University of California, Santa Barbara and Claremont McKenna College.

Death and legacy
Callaghan died of breast cancer in Santa Barbara, California, on December 8, 1992, aged 69. In June 1998, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inducted, as a group, the 68 Canadian women who played in the AAGPBL. In 2021, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Callaghan individually; she was the first woman so honored.

Career statistics
Batting

Fielding

References

External links
Short biography at Famous Canadians
Her article at Women in Baseball
Helen St. Aubin, 69, Athlete Who Inspired Film. Thomas, Robert McG. Jr. (1992-12-11). The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
Baseball: My Mother the Feminist Would Never Drop a Ball on Purpose Candaele, Kelly (2017-07-10) Capital & Main. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
"Helen Callaghan Candaele Photograph, 1949". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
"Helen Callaghan and Faye Dancer Photograph, 1944". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2019-04-11.

1923 births
1992 deaths
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players
Minneapolis Millerettes players
Fort Wayne Daisies players
Kenosha Comets players
Baseball people from British Columbia
Canadian baseball players
Canadian people of Irish descent
Deaths from cancer in California
Deaths from breast cancer
Sportspeople from Vancouver
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Mulvaney Weakens Office that Fights Lending Discrimination
In late January, Mick Mulvaney took away the ability of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity to supervise institutions and enforce laws to stop lending discrimination. Under previous CFPB Director Richard Cordray, the fair-lending office had won record court settlements for consumers who experienced illegal discrimination in the housing, auto loan, and credit card markets. The office had helped bring justice, accountability, and protection for consumers in these and other financial markets.
Recent investigative reports provide further evidence of present-day persistent and pernicious discrimination by lenders against people of color and the need to vigilantly enforce fair lending laws.
Additional Background
The fair-lending office will be moved to the "office of the director, where staffers will be focused on 'advocacy, coordination and education,' according to an email Mulvaney sent them this week. They will no longer have responsibility for enforcement and day-to-day oversight of companies, he wrote." [Renae Merle, "Trump administration strips consumer watchdog office of enforcement powers in lending discrimination cases," The Washington Post, 02/01/18.]
While the move "sounds like a mere consolidation of the organizational chart, it makes very little sense unless the goal is to neuter fair-lending enforcement. The OEOF [Office of Equal Opportunity and Fairness] is a personnel office, overseeing 'equal employment opportunity and diversity and inclusion' among agency employees. It does no enforcement at all." [David Dayen, "After Boasting About Lowering Black Unemployment, Donald Trump Undermines the Federal Unit Defending Against Housing Discrimination," The Intercept, 02/01/18.]
The office had "headed up some of the CFPB's most high-profile cases, including a 2015 settlement against Hudson City Savings Bank, a New Jersey-based bank accused of racially discriminating against minority mortgage borrowers. The bank was required to provide $25 million in loan subsidies in what the CFPB called the country's largest settlement in a redlining case…. In 2013, it led the CFPB case that resulted in Ally Financial, one of the nation's largest automobile lenders, paying $98 million to settle charges that it systematically allowed minorities to be charged more for car loans than whites. Ally was accused of discriminating by charging 235,000 minority borrowers higher rates. On average, black, Hispanic and Asian American customers paid between $200 and just over $300 more for auto loans than whites who were equally creditworthy, federal officials charged. Then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called the decision the 'largest-ever settlement in an auto-loan discrimination case.'" [Renae Merle, "Trump administration strips consumer watchdog office of enforcement powers in lending discrimination cases," The Washington Post, 02/01/18.]
More than 100,000 were "allegedly discriminated against when the bank excluded them from debt relief offers because they lived in Puerto Rico or asked to receive communications in Spanish. That makes this the largest credit card discrimination settlement yet, according to the Justice Department." [Blake Ellis, "GE Capital to refund $225 million to customers," CNN Money, 06/20/14.]
"Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants' income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to millions of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting." [Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez, "Kept out: How banks block people of color from homeownership," Associated Press, 02/15/18.]
Using a "secret shopper" method "modeled after one long used in the housing market," the National Fair Housing Alliance tests found non-white borrowers faced a discriminatory markup from auto lenders. "Pooled together, the tests show that non-whites would have paid an average of $26,168 in total borrowing costs, which was $657 or 3% more than offered to the white testers. The difference is not great, but the NFHA researchers said the sharply better credit profiles of the non-white shoppers should have resulted in significantly lower borrowing costs for them." [Jim DuPlessis, "Tests find bias persists in auto lending," Credit Union Times, 01/11/18.]
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Wired UK has teamed up with alternate reality game designers Six to Start, creators of the 2010 SXSW Best Game Award winner Smokescreen, to make this month's issue of Wired UK a platform for a transmedia game contest. Six to Start's immersive transmedia games have been widely recognized for high-quality storytelling and entertaining game play. In Smokescreen, Six to Start and Channel 4 launched a fictional social network that brought issues of online identity and privacy to the forefront for a target audience of 14- to 19-year-olds. We Tell Stories, winner of the 2008 SXSW Experimental and Best in Show Awards, involved a collaboration with Penguin Books to encourage the reinvention and retelling of classic stories.
The game has been designed to exist within and alongside this month's Wired. The issue's focus is on the rise of location-based and social gaming, and the idea of game-like 'achievements' and how they drive our curiosity and progress. Our tasks and puzzles are scattered throughout its pages, margins, graphics and text – so keep your eyes peeled! Of course, the issue is just the beginning – the game soon expands to take in online content and puzzles, alongside some cool bells and whistles that I don't want to spoil for you!
Image courtesy of the SXSW Interactive Web Awards site.
It's a big night for three campaigns tonight, as the teams behind The Dark Knight ARG, Lost Zombies and We Tell Stories have won major awards at the 12th annual SXSW Interactive Web Awards. The awards were handed out earlier tonight at the Hilton Austin Downtown, and according to The Underwire blog at Wired, the major hardware found its way into the hands of the wonderful people behind these highly successful campaigns.
One of the biggest wins of the night came for We Tell Stories. This project was a collaboration between Six to Start and Penguin Books and, as reported here in March of 2008, was a way for media-savvy designers to retell classic stories through the use of technology. We Tell Stories won in the Experimental category, but as a bonus, also walked away with the Best in Show Award. This is a monumental win for the company, formed at the beginning of 2008 by former members of Mind Candy.


I'm up for it! I still have my level 2 character I'm trying to get bumped up to 3 so I can actually start playing them, so I may need a pre-built depending on what you're running.
Ill be around and able to play.
Mike, Ill be there, I have the big map in my car.


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CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement)
conducts research on the civic and political engagement of young Americans.
The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Knowledge
Youth Voting
Trends by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Non-College Youth
Youth Demographics
Youth Voting/Political Participation
Youth Attitudes and Beliefs
K-12 Civic Education
Race, Gender, Immigrant Status
Group Membership and Social Networks
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Research Topics Youth Voting/Political Participation Estimating Youth Turnout from Census and Exit Poll Data
Estimating Youth Turnout from Census and Exit Poll Data
According to our analysis of Census Current Population Survey (CPS) voting data released on Wednesday, youth turnout in the 2012 election was 45% for ages 18-29 and 41.2% among 18-24s. Those numbers represent declines compared to 2004 and 2008, although youth turnout was higher last November than it had been in 1996 and 2000.
Immediately after the 2012 election, CIRCLE released our own estimates of the turnout rate: 50% for ages 18-29 and 48% for ages 18-24. We used the following method to reach those estimates: multiplying the number of ballots officially counted by that date by the proportion of voters who were young (according to the National Exit Polls) and then dividing that result by the number of young citizens (from Census data). In previous elections going back to the origins of the modern exit polls in the late 1990s, this method had always closely tracked the results of CPS turnout estimates. The discrepancy is a new phenomenon in 2012.
Like other organizations that study voting, we will now switch to using the CPS, which provides the largest sample sizes and the longest and most consistent historical trends. That means that we now presume that youth turnout fell significantly in 2012.
It is important to note, however, that all estimates of youth turnout are subject to bias and error. The Census CPS is a survey of a random sample of Americans, conducted shortly after the election. This year, it suggests that 133 million Americans voted. Counts of the actual number of ballots cast in 2012 vary, but no one has estimated more than 129 million votes. If the people who are contacted for the CPS and agree to participate do not precisely represent the public, the sample may be skewed. Although the sample size is large, there can still be a systematic bias–and the bias can be different for particular demographic groups, such as young adults. Also, respondents may claim that they voted when they did not. They may even accurately recall voting, but if their ballots were not counted, there would be a discrepancy between the CPS turnout estimates and the number of votes.
CIRCLE's method that uses the Exit Polls has several compensating advantages. It is much faster than the CPS, yielding an estimate as soon as most ballots have been cast. It does not rely on self-reports of voting, because everyone in the Exit Poll actually voted. However, the Exit Polls use a complex sampling method whose main purpose is not to estimate the ages of voters. If the Exit Polls report an inaccurate proportion of young voters, that would introduce error in our turnout estimates.
Therefore, CIRCLE's analysis of the 2012 election will henceforth be based on the CPS, and our previous releases on the 2012 election are now superseded. But we remind readers that the CPS also yields an estimate of youth turnout that is subject to error.
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Signing a contract in Randy's class ensures that students know that they're not entitled to their place in the class and instead they must earn the ability to have their work critiqued and displayed by giving other students the same attention, courtesy, and honest feedback that they want to receive.
Randy's dad turns the obstacle of nobody wanting to be an umpire into an opportunity to institute a feedback loop for volunteerism in the Little League Baseball community. Randy's dad accomplishes this by turning the job of the umpire into a respected task. With older kids umping for younger ones, the younger kids learn to treat the older kids with more respect, the parents don't yell (at least as much) at the kid-umps, and the whole thing creates a more positive attitude around sportsmanship and community service.
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October 12, 2009, 5:06 a.m.
Farmer D: I'm at River Farm in Goshen, Kentucky, on the beautiful Ohio River.
Whew! Look at that valley! So yummy. You can grow a lot of stuff down there.
Sitting in this incredible home of Steven Paradis, owner of River Farm.
When they came here, they really wanted to take care of it, and they started planting trees. You know, I think over the years, I think Steven realized that the biology of his farm and the vibrancy of the soil life from the tree farming was being compromised, because tree farming is very chemical intensive. Over 20-odd years of doing that, the land has suffered.
This large amount of land that gets dedicated for trees leaves a lot gaps between the trees, between the wide rows, that could be productive farm land.
So, I've been actually really intrigued and when Steven told me about the project, I was really excited to get involved and see if I could help him kind of bring the ecology of his land back up that grow healthier trees with less chemicals and in that process also look at diversifying and growing food.
I always have the challenge of finding good people to take on good projects like this one. Things evolved with some of the interns that I was working with, and one in particular, Ben, was ready for a change. So Ben moved down here, I guess it has been about six months now, and just dove right in and I helped kind of lay out the plan for the farm. We are really just scratching the surface. Ben's got about a half acre in production now.
Ben: Hi. Like everything, it always goes slower than I imagined. But, it's coming together. I'm very happy with the soil. I mean, just what we're starting with is great. I'm like everybody, more would always be nice, but I think we bit off a good amount of work.
Farmer D: I think together as a team we can really showcase some innovative, new ways of farming trees and diversifying the operation to be more wholistic and sustainable.
Video: Farmer D travels to Kentucky to make a tree farm organic.