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Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.
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A short break in the children's hearing. The hearing must start again on the same day.
An order made by a sheriff which takes away parental rights and responsibilities from one or more persons and gives them to another person.
An Area Support Team (AST) is made up of a group of volunteers, who carry out functions on behalf of the National Convener of Children's Hearings Scotland. There are 22 ASTs and approximately 250 AST members across Scotland. AST members provide support to members of the Children's Panel who sit on children's hearings in their local area. ASTs were introduced under the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011.
An order issued by a sheriff in an emergency which removes the child to, or keeps them in, a place of safety.
A children's hearing consists of three lay tribunal members called panel members, who are trained volunteers from the local community. The children's hearing listens to the child or young person's views, as well as those of the family, and considers all the information that has been provided by, for example, social workers. The hearing then makes a decision about what support and help is required to assist the child or young person, and can make a compulsory supervision order if necessary.
This national network of professionals, individuals and agency representatives meets regularly as the CHIP group. They work in partnership with the aim of improving outcomes and experiences for children and young people across the Children's Hearings System. To find out more, visit the CHIP website.
CHS is the dedicated national body which was created by the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 to support the delivery of the National Convener's functions associated with the recruitment, selection, retention, training and support of panel members.
The phrase 'Children's Hearings Scotland community' (CHS Community) is used to describe panel members, Area Support Team members and clerks to the Area Support Team, CHS Training Unit staff, CHS National Team members at Ladywell House, and CHS Board members, as a whole group.
Trained professionals who are responsible for investigating referrals made to them and deciding whether a children's hearing should be arranged for the child or young person.
Under the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, a compulsory supervision order (CSO) is an order that the hearing can make which means that a named local authority is responsible for supporting the child or young person. The CSO will have conditions attached, such as what support the child is to receive, where the child or young person is going to live, for example with foster carers or in residential care, and/or who the child should have contact with. Many children and young people who are subject to a CSO are looked after at home.
Corporate parents are organisations and individuals who have a legal responsibility for children and young people. CHS and the National Convener of CHS became corporate parents on 01 April 2015 under part 9 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014. This means that we have to work with other corporate parents to meet the needs of looked-after and care experienced children and young people.
A person appointed by a Sheriff to represent the child's interests in court proceedings.
To defer a hearing means that the panel members are unable to make a decision about the future of the child or young person on the day of the hearing. This may be because they would like some more information about the young person before they make a decision, so the hearing is stopped (deferred) to wait for that information and it will be re-arranged for another day.
Also known as 'continuing' the hearing under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995.
The Convention defines the human rights that signatory states must uphold. These rights include the right to life, the right to a fair trial and the right to family life.
The feedback loop is a way in which Children's Hearings Scotland gathers information from local authorities about the implementation of compulsory supervision orders made in their area, and the impact these have on the wellbeing of children and young people. The National Convener produces an annual report using information from the feedback loop.
We use this word to describe the structures and guidance we have put in place to make sure that everyone at Children's Hearings Scotland knows what their job is.
There are different legal reasons why a child or young person might be referred to a Children's Hearing – these are called the grounds for referral or s67 grounds.
The person in charge of the residential accommodation where is it proposed a child should stay.
If the panel members defer a hearing, they could decide to issue an interim compulsory supervision order. A children's hearing will only decide to make an interim compulsory supervision order if it thinks that something must be done urgently to protect the young person.
Sometimes, in very serious situations, the panel members may have concerns about a young person's behaviour and may feel they are putting themselves or other people in danger. They may be going missing a lot from where they live or getting into trouble all the time with the police. The panel members could decide to issue an interim compulsory supervision order for the young person to be kept in a place where they cannot leave. This is called a Secure Authorisation. A children's hearing will only decide to issue an interim compulsory supervision order with secure authorisation if it thinks that something must be done straight away and that a secure authorisation is the only option to keep the young person safe.
If an interim compulsory supervision order is issued, it can only last for a maximum of 22 days. If a young person does not agree with the decision to make the interim compulsory supervision order, they can appeal the decision to the court.
An interim decision to extend an existing compulsory supervision order to the next children's hearing where the hearing has been deferred to another day.
The local authority who implements an order issued by the children's hearing.
In-service training is a programme of both national and local training which is provided for panel members throughout the duration of their service. In-service training is a mix of compulsory and non-compulsory training.
An interim decision to vary (make changes to) an existing compulsory supervision order where the hearing has been deferred to another day.
We use the term key performance indicator to describe a way of measuring how well we are doing to meet our goals.
Payment covering some, or all, of a person's legal expenses. Administered by the Scottish Legal Aid Board on behalf of the Scottish Government. Further information can be found at www.slab.org.uk.
Management of hearings training focuses on the skills, knowledge and competences required by a panel member to chair a children's hearing. The training comprises part of the compulsory in-service training panel members must complete after they begin to sit on children's hearings.
An interim order made by a children's hearing where it is necessary for obtaining information or investigation of a medical nature. Can only be made where a s67 ground has been accepted or established and there is no compulsory supervision order already in place.
A condition as part of a compulsory supervision order or interim compulsory supervision order which restricts the movements of the child to a specified place. The child is fitted with an electronic tag to monitor whether they are complying with the condition.
The national Children's Panel is the largest lay tribunal in Scotland. Before the introduction of the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, in 2013, there were 32 different local authority children's panels. Now there is one national Children's Panel. All of Scotland's 2,500 children's panel members belong to the national Children's Panel, but they sit on children's hearings in the local authority area in which they either live or work.
The National Convener is an officer of Children's Hearings Scotland, a role created by the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011. The National Convener is responsible for the recruitment, appointment, support and training of Scotland's volunteer panel members.
The national curriculum sets out the compulsory training which all panel members must complete as part of their ongoing development.
These are a set of eight standards to make sure that panel members, Area Support Teams, Children's Hearings Scotland staff and Board members are all clear about what is expected of them in their different roles.
A request made by any person to a children's hearing that specified information be withheld from a specified person.
The term for informing those with a duty and/or right to attend a children's hearing or pre-hearing panel. This will usually be by way of a letter from the Children's Reporter.
We use this word to describe what we want to happen and what should get better if we meet our goals.
An agreement which outlines the support that will be provided by Children's Hearings Scotland and a local authority in relation to the Area Support Team and the national Children's Panel.
The term used where plans are being made for a child to live away from their birth parents for the rest of their childhood.
An order made by the sheriff giving the right to regulate the child's residence, to provide guidance to the child, along with any other necessary provisions, to the local authority.
A meeting of three panel members to discuss a matter in advance of a children's hearing. A pre-hearing panel can be arranged to consider one or more of the following – the attendance of a child at a hearing, the attendance of a relevant person at a hearing, whether a person should be a relevant person and whether the children's hearing is likely to consider secure accommodation for a child.
Pre-service training refers to compulsory training for panel members on their role and the skills and competencies they must demonstrate. All panel members must complete pre-service training successfully before beginning to sit on children's hearings.
An officer established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 who has certain functions under the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011. The functions are carried out on the Principal Reporter's behalf by Children's Reporters.
All people recruited to become Children's Panel members have to successfully complete some training before they can sit on a children's hearing. Following successful completion of this training, panel members receive a Professional Development Award for 'Children's Hearings in Scotland: Panel Members' at Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Level 7. This is a unique award, externally verified by the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
This is the national membership scheme in place to make sure that checks are completed on all paid and unpaid staff who work with children, young people and others who are regarded as vulnerable. The scheme aims to protect people and keep them safe through vetting those who work with them. All panel members, Area Support Team members and Children's Hearings Scotland staff and Board members need to be members of the PVG scheme.
The length of time an order issued by the children's hearing will last.
A relevant person is a parent of a child, a person who holds parental rights and responsibilities for a child or who has (or has recently had) a significant involvement in the upbringing of the child.
A person appointed by a children's hearing, pre-hearing panel or sheriff to safeguard the interests of the child in the proceedings.
SCRA is the national body which manages the work of Children's Reporters and provides accommodation for children's hearings. To find out more, visit SCRA's website, www.scra.gov.uk.
The legal reason why a child is referred to a children's hearing.
Also see 'grounds for referral'.
The conditions which must be met in order for a child to be placed in secure accommodation or be subject to a movement restriction condition. The conditions are that the child has previously absconded and is likely to abscond again, putting themselves at physical, mental or moral risk or the child is likely to self harm or the child is likely to cause injury to another person.
The decision of a children's hearing which allows a child to be placed in secure accommodation.
The Senior Management Team (SMT) is the executive decision-making body within CHS, with responsibility for the day-to-day management of operational functions and the staff. You can read more about the members of SMT here.
An international convention which sets out the rights that all children under 18 have and are entitled to have protected. To see how the convention works in Scotland, please refer to the website of the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland at http://www.cypcs.org.uk/.
An order issued by a children's hearing for the police to find and bring the child to another children's hearing.


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Nanu Moeljono (EYD: Nanu Mulyono; 16 November 1952 – 22 March 1983) was an Indonesian actor and comedian. He was known as a member of Warkop before deciding to resign.

Profile
Nanu Moeljono was born in Jakarta on 16 November 1952. He is the sixth of seven children born to a Javanese father and a Sundanese mother. He studied at the University of Indonesia majoring in sociology. When he was in college he was one of the students taught by Dono. According to Dono's diary, Nanu did not pass Dono's class with one of the reasons being that he was often absent from class. Nanu is also known as a member of the University of Indonesia Nature Lovers Student Group (Mapala UI) with Dono and Kasino.

Nanu started his career with the Warkop group in 1973 on Prambors radio. Then continued with playing a film in 1979 entitled Mana Tahaaan... before then choosing to resign from the group by reason of wanting to focus on other things. During his time as a member of Warkop, Nanu played the character of Poltak who was described as a Batak. He then played in the film Kisah Cinta Rojali dan Zuleha in the same year which later became his last film role.

Death
Nanu died on 22 March 1983 at Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital due to kidney disease (nephrotic syndrome). His body was buried in the Tanah Kusir public cemetery, South Jakarta.

Filmography
 Mana Tahaaan... (1979)
 Kisah Cinta Rojali dan Zuleha (1979)

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1952 births
1983 deaths
Deaths from kidney failure
People from Jakarta
University of Indonesia alumni
Indonesian male comedians
Indonesian comedians
Indonesian male film actors
Indonesian Muslims

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Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed "The Iron man",[1] is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001). A 19-time All-Star and two-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP), Ripken is best remembered for breaking Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played, a record that had stood for 56 years and many deemed unbreakable. Ripken surpassed the mark on September 6, 1995, by playing his 2,131st consecutive game.
Born in Maryland, Ripken grew up travelling around the United States as his father, Cal, Sr., was a player and coach in the Orioles' system. After a fine career at Aberdeen High School, Ripken was drafted in the second round of the 1978 Major League Baseball Draft. He reached the major leagues in 1981 with the Orioles, with whom he would play his entire career. Ripken voluntarily ended his 17-year streak at 2,632 games in 1998. One of his position's most offensively productive players, Ripken tallied 3,184 hits, 431 home runs, and 1,695 runs batted in during his career, and he won two Gold Glove Awards for his defense.
Ripken is considered one of the best shortstops and third basemen in baseball history. At 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), 225 lb. (102.27 kg), he pioneered the way for the success of taller, larger shortstops. He is a member of the 3,000 hit club and holds the record for most home runs by a shortstop. He was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Cyberpunk 2077: Free 'More Robust' Next-Gen Upgrade Coming To PS5 And Xbox Series X In 2021
Upgrade your system.
byJordan Oloman
Posted June 19, 2020, 11:24 a.m.
CD Projekt Red has confirmed that a free "more robust" next-gen upgrade will arrive on PS5 and Xbox Series X in 2021, in addition to the PS4 and Xbox One versions both being playable on next-gen consoles at launch.
As reported by Gematsu, the news was revealed in a conference call conducted by the developer yesterday. CD Projekt Red's CEO Adam Kicinski answered questions in the wake of the game's November delay, which was revealed yesterday.
"At some point we're going to have a more robust update for the for the next-gens, which we're planning to give free of charge to anybody who purchases the PS4 or Xbox One version, but in any case you will be able to play the game on the next-gens from the 19th of November when the game releases, and it will look better than on the next-gens from that moment," Kicinski explained.
Microsoft has already confirmed that those who purchase Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox One will also be able to play it upgraded on Xbox Series X via the Smart Delivery system, which makes it so that you only have to purchase certain games once to play them across every system in the current-gen and next-gen Xbox family. But we didn't know that this "more robust" update would arrive on PS5 free of charge for users who purchased the game on current-gen PS4 consoles, as Sony has not announced an official PlayStation equivalent to Xbox's Smart Delivery.
As for when the upgrade patch will launch, Kicinski is not sure and it could be subject to a delay, but said that CD Projekt Red currently plans to release the update in 2021.
"We are sure that we will deliver it next year, but it was not even internally planned for a certain day, so it's hard to say whether there is a potential delay of the next-gen.
Developer: CD Projekt Red
Publisher: CD Projekt
Platforms: Pc, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5
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Coolio took over the world rap scene in the 90's through the immense success of "Gangsta's Paradise", which won a Grammy in 1996 for Best Rap Performance. It sold over six million copies and was Billboard Magazine's number one single in 1995. "Gangsta's Paradise" would also be featured on the "Dangerous Minds" soundtrack and movie.
Coolio's music has been featured in several major motion pictures including: "Space Jam," "Clueless," "The Big Payback," "Panther," "New Jersey Drive," "The Jerk Boys," "Eddie," "Half Baked" and many more. He also composed the theme song for the popular TV series "Kenan and Kel" on Nickelodeon.
Coolio has won an American Music Award, three MTV awards, two Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and a World Music Award. He has received six Grammy nominations (1994, 1995 and 1996), two Billboard Music Awards (1994 and 1996), two ASCAP awards (1996, 1997), four American Online awards (1996) and was the Playboy Music Poll winner in 1997. In 2016, Coolio won a Vintage Soundtrack Song of 1995 award for "Gangsta's Paradise" from "Dangerous Minds" via the Vintage Film Awards.
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COMICS WRITINGS
KING TOUEY
EPISODE ONE: Heroine, Hero & Villain
EPISODE TWO: Cat of Ashes
EPISODE THREE (Part One): Harrigan, That's Him
EPISODE THREE (Part Two): Harrigan, That's Him
EPISODE FOUR: Li'l Andiron
EPISODE FIVE: The Sheriff Rides In
EPISODE SIX: Bagatelle
EPISODE SEVEN: Breaker Bergoff
EPISODE EIGHT: Sleepless Night
EPISODE NINE: Truth
EPISODE TEN: Armored
EPISODE ELEVEN: Lily of Labor
EPISODE TWELVE (Part One): Hangfire
PAINTERS IN WINTER
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Painters in Winter: Chapter Four
Robert Henri
Early on that evening of the second, at Mouquin's (called Mook's by regulars), Robert Henri has drinks with John Sloan and a narrow-faced woman named Mary Perkins, a teacher from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Just this afternoon Miss Perkins invited Sloan to contribute a picture to her college's annual spring art show—she very much admired the small dark one titled "Coffee Line." Sloan has agreed to send it, naturally. He never says no to an exhibit. Usually it's the other way around.
Henri signals the waiter—Another sauterne, s'il vous plait—and wonders why this Perkins woman hasn't asked him to submit a painting. She visited his studio as well as Sloan's, she saw all of his work. Why hasn't she asked Henri for something? It bothers him. It shouldn't, but it does. He's feeling raw these days, and her snub irks him. Though how important can the show truly be—a college in South Carolina? Tell me, Miss Perkins, he says now, have you ever been to Holland? It's so delightful! I spent last summer there, you know. Painting.
When the gypsy (so they say) orchestra begins a medley of George M. Cohan songs, conversation becomes difficult. Oh, to hell with it; already it's half-past seven, and Henri and Sloan have to be getting along—the big meeting. Check, please. With only a few cents in his pocket, Sloan lets his friend pick up the tab.
After dropping Miss Perkins at the Martha Washington Hotel for Women on Twenty-ninth Street, the two painters stroll uptown together on Madison Avenue discussing this week's opening at the National Arts Club (several of Sloan's etchings are to be included in the show, as is Henri's full-length portrait of his late wife Linda). Then, naturally, the talk swings to their upcoming exhibition at Macbeth's gallery in February. Henri mentions that he's just about finished correcting the proofs of a most sympathetic article about the group—"Eight American Painters"—scheduled for publication in The Craftsman magazine. He's fixed up a lot of quotes, he says, which Sloan takes to mean he's put words into everyone's mouth. But that's all right. Henri has a gift for words. He's a natural propagandist.
Robert Henri's new studio is on East Fortieth Street. Top floor of an old church. Roomy enough, with electric, but rather Spartan. And the windows are filthy. What good is north light if the windows, goddamn it, are gray? Last year, he rented a beautiful place overlooking Bryant Park and the Public Library. He was never really able to afford the two hundred dollars it cost him every month—not on a teacher's salary!—but he'd struggled to keep it as long as he could. In June, though—just before he'd left for Europe as a paid chaperone to a group of art students—he finally had to give it up. For this dump!
There are dozens and dozens of pictures stacked and leaning around—at least twice as many as at Sloan's—but hardly any that are new. Since Henri's return from Haarlem in October, he's done only that portrait—there, still on the easel—of a model named Jesseca Penn, and that head of a smiling young Negro girl. "Eva Green." Ordinarily, he's a painting dervish, renowned—and in academic circles ridiculed—for his speed with a brush. Don't dally, just do it, he tells his students at the New York School of Art. Paint, paint! Speed and energy, men, speed and energy!
Lately, though, Henri's amazing productivity has slacked off, his spirits have flagged, and he's fallen—as he has fallen before, after the death of his young wife, the death of his old father—into a deep blue funk. His students adore him. So what? He sold a painting to the government of France. Nine years ago. Newspaper critics call him an artist of the first water. Then why—pray tell—isn't he swamped with portrait commissions? Painter! He should've been a writer.
Have a seat, John, he says, I won't be a minute. Then he tamps out his cigar (he smokes constantly), takes off his coat, unbuttons his shirt, and goes off to wash.
At 42, Henri is still touchy about his bad complexion. Since boyhood in Nebraska, he's been scrubbing his face with abrasive soap at least five times a day. During his student years abroad, in the late 1880s, early 90s, it became something of a joke among his painter friends, all that mad scrubbing. As if it could make a difference! Let's go, Hen. Dry your face, for heaven's sake, and let's go sketching while the light's still good. He'd carefully pat dry his cheeks with a towel, then peer at himself in the mirror, and groan. Come on, Hen! You coming or not? Not: he was already working up a fresh lather….
As he completes this evening's ablutions—cupping his hands, scooping water from the basin, rinsing his pitted face—he thinks about that magazine article again, and turns a bit of phrasing over and over in his mind: We choose to exhibit together because we like one another's work, not because our work is alike. Our work is not really alike, it's simply that we like each other's work. We are eight independent artists, we don't comprise a school. No. We've chosen to exhibit together because—
His face dried, his thick black mustache combed, he spends half a minute examining himself in the mirror—widening his eyes, grimacing to have a good look at his teeth and gums, poking his neck with two fingers. He could do with a shave.
—not because our work is in any way alike…
Our work is not alike, because…
Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in 1865, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He mother was (still is) a Virginian, a small, sturdy, sour woman. His father—John Jackson Cozad—was as tall and elongated as Lincoln. He had silvered black hair, a hook nose, a pursed mouth, an imperious goatee. His glance could be as piercing, and profane, as the Devil's. Throughout his youth and well into middle-age, he'd traveled up and down the Mississippi River (and once to Central America) as a high-stakes gambler—the King of Faro, banned from certain steamboat lines, frequently threatened with murder. He was polished, charming, misanthropic, a perfect gentleman; he carried a sidearm as well as a concealed derringer. And he always dressed immaculately, in a Prince Albert coat, a double-breasted vest, dark trousers, kid gloves and a high silk hat—an ideal costume for the casino, but an affectation in Nebraska, which is where he moved with his wife and two sons in 1873. To build a town on 50,000 acres of prairie that he'd leased from the Union Pacific railroad.
Within a couple of years, Cozad, Nebraska had a wide Main Street lined with clapboard buildings, a decent hotel, a one-room school, and its own weekly newspaper. But still, it was no paradise. The winters were frigid and snowy, the summers oppressively hot. There were invasions of migratory locusts. The Pawnee and Sioux were hostile. Feuds between settlers erupted often into violence—barns caught fire mysteriously and burned down, wells were poisoned, windows shot out. And Texas cattlemen persisted in driving their herds—two- and three-hundred head at a time—across newly tilled farmland.
Young Robert Cozad grew up mending fences and tossing hay with his older brother on the family farm; for recreation, he'd hunt snakes with a six-gun or shoot tin cans off a boulder, skate on the Platte River, doodle faces and cartoon figures in the margins of novels by Twain and Dickens. He fully expected to live out his life there, in the raw grandeur of the American West.
And he might've, too, if it hadn't been for Alfred Pearson. For the Alfred Pearson Incident. October 1882. Twenty-five years ago, but still every detail is fresh in his mind, as though it happened only last Friday. He remembers hearing someone shouting for his mother, calling, Mrs. Cozad—missus! And he remembers jumping from bed, grabbing his pistol, then seeing a man from town, a gangling Swedish barman—ghostly pale, all out of breath—standing in the kitchen doorway. Saying, Please, missus, sit.
There'd been a fight at the hotel saloon. Angry words between John Jackson and a cattle herder named Pearson, who pulled a knife. It was a clear threat—everybody saw that Pearson had a knife. Everybody—
Is he dead? Mrs. Cozad interrupting, saying, But is he dead?
And the barman saying, Not yet, but he will be. Then saying, I mean Mr. Pearson. It's Mr. Pearson that's dying. Not Mr. Cozad. Mr. Cozad shot Mr. Pearson in the mouth.
Robert's father never returned to the house that night, or ever again; afraid that he might be charged with murder, or even lynched, he'd fled. Six days later Pearson died, and a warrant was issued for John Cozad's arrest. There was nothing for the family to do then but leave town, quickly. After selling their property (Mrs. Cozad sewed the cash into her bloomers and petticoats) they packed their clothing into a steamer trunk and quit Nebraska for good.
The family reunited in Kansas City, and from there moved east, eventually settling in Atlantic City. As a precaution, they all assumed new names. Mr. and Mrs. Cozad became Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lee. John Jr. became Frank Sothern. Robert became Robert Earl Henri—which he pronounced hen like the barnyard fowl and rye like the whiskey. Hen-rye. Although they physically resembled each other, the boys pretended to be foster brothers, adopted children.
Mr. Lee bought property where Texas Avenue joined the beach, just north of the sprawling Negro shanty-town. With his sons he built and sold half a dozen houses. The house that he built for himself he dubbed Fort Lee.
With the coming of the amusement pavilions in the 1880s, Atlantic City was just entering its glory days as a summer resort, and it was there, on the new boardwalk, that Robert Henri made his first paintings—he painted landscapes on clamshells and hawked them as souvenirs. Original art, fifty cents! he'd holler to old married couples rolling by in canopied rickshaws, or to young men eating deviled crabs at a food counter, to young women with incense tapers in their high coiffures (the mosquitoes could eat you alive). Original art, fifty cents! Original art! When he was 19, he painted his first canvas, and decorated Fort Lee with several murals.
During the summer of 1886, and for the first time since leaving Nebraska, Henri began to think seriously about what he ought to do with his life. About what career he might pursue with some chance of distinction and success. His older brother had plans to become a doctor, but medicine wasn't for him, and neither was his father's real estate business. He'd always enjoyed drawing, though, and cartooning (for years he'd clipped and copied Gillam and Keppler and Opper cartoons from Puck magazine) and now he was painting every day, almost, in watercolor and oils. The more he considered, the more it seemed evident that he ought to study art. That he should become an artist. He went and told his father. It's quite a gamble, said Mr. Lee, the gambler, but go ahead.
That fall, Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia—a big brick-and-limestone building at the corner of Broad and Cherry streets. He went there expecting to study with Thomas Eakins, the notorious realist painter. (Notorious because he'd offended good taste by showing blood on the hands of a surgeon in a picture called "Gross Clinic," and because as Director of the Pennsylvania Academy, he'd made the dissection of corpses part of the Anatomy curriculum, and substituted naked models for plaster statues in Life Drawing classes.) Eakins, though, had been forced to resign seven months before Henri's arrival—he'd removed the loin cloth from a male model in front of female students and one of them had informed her finance about it. But two of Eakins' former pupils—Thomas Anschutz and James B. Kelly—were now on the faculty, and from them Henri heard second-hand the master's lectures on musculature and proportion. He completed his painting assignments at night, in the room that he shared with his brother on South Ninth Street. It was a boardinghouse and there were goings and comings at all hours, a young girl who practiced scales on the upright piano. He worked with cotton stuffed in his ears.
At first he didn't seem to be a student of great promise—his draughtsmanship was crude, his color sense abysmal. But he was dedicated. Like his father, he was stubborn. He'd made a decision and now he would stick with it.
And he has, for over twenty years he's stuck with it.
He's stuck with it.
Henri turns now from the dry sink to find John Sloan, seated at a table, muttering as he adds up a column of numbers in a small ledger book. Eight plus six is fourteen, plus seven makes twenty one, one carry the two…. He glances at Henri, frowns, then returns to his arithmetic. Two plus nine, eleven; plus four….
Henri lights a fresh cigar, then paces nervously. He moves to the front window and opens it an inch, his glance going down to the street—is that Lawson on the corner? No. Where is everybody? He's eager for the meeting to begin, it's just the thing, the very thing, to lift his spirits. Henri has always relished meetings, loves striding back and forth in front of a group, his long, tapered fingers gesturing like a stage magician's, like Svengali's. He speaks in complete grammatical sentences, his voice mellow and Southern-inflected. He can hold any floor, mesmerize—dominate—any group. Except when George Luks is present and drunk. Which is why there's no alcoholic refreshments on hand tonight. Just pretzels, a bowl of hard German pretzels.
Where is everybody? he wants to know. John, did you—?
He did. He notified everyone. Except Prendergast, of course, who's in Boston.
Henri laces his fingers together and then flings them apart.
The Macbeth show—the success of the Macbeth show—means a great deal to him. He wants desperately to sell, just as he wants desperately to be recognized as an important painter, to be taken seriously, to have his work collected and hung in museums. Museums, mind you. Not just in galleries, museums.
At his age—squarely middle-aged and actuarially well past that—Henri is eager for some creature comforts, and bitter that he still can't afford the home, the studio, the wardrobe that he feels he deserves. Unlike Sloan, who seems constitutionally scornful of wealth, Henri is jealous of it. Over the past several years he's done portraits—commissions—of a number of men and women who, by any standard, would have to be considered rich. And he's found the slow pace of their lives much to his liking.
(Henri can be as touchy about those portraits, by the way, as he is about his complexion. He suspects that some of his friends, even some of his students, believe that his portrait work is inferior to his city pictures and river paintings, that he's slighted his art to fill his wallet. Not true, simply not true! He's never flattered a sitter. Not one. And yet. There are times when he feels that his work ought to be—just a little—more felt, more spontaneous than it has been in the last year or so.)
Perhaps…perhaps his poor spirits—his hypersensitivity—are just the natural result of overwork, too much teaching, the strain of the upcoming show; the consequence of loneliness. His wife has been dead for more than two years, and while he's had some female companionship since then (almost always with an attractive and talented young student) he is without a soul mate, still. And is still apt to appear, late at night and with a deck of cards, at Sloan's door, if solitude and memory and gall become too oppressive…
Continue to read CHAPTER FIVE →
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Despierta America! Mexican drug cartels are stepping up to the terrorist plate without the Allah factor and Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah is using them as third base in order to slide into home: the United States. Terrorist groups are coming from Latin America, through Mexico and arriving at their final destination: the USA, even without the need for Janet Napolitano's fifty-one foot ladder!
Reports have finally begun to surface regarding terrorist groups infiltrating America through Mexico. More and more we are seeing the disgusting, barbaric tactic of beheadings being carried out by the Mexican drug cartels. As recent as January of this year, fifteen decapitated bodies were found on a beach walk way in the resort town of Acapulco. The bodies were between ages fifteen to twenty five. As of today, more victims of beheadings were discovered in Acapulco along with other bodies that were viciously mutilated. Over 15,000 people were murdered in 2010 due to the drug cartels while many officials claim Juarez is the most dangerous place in the world right now, even exceeding the war torn Middle East. Unfortunately, it has taken beheadings for the defense light bulb to go off in our heads that the threat of Jihad is a lot closer than we think. I guess prayer rugs, Korans and suicide bombing memoirs that were found in the Arizona desert weren't enough of a clue. Terrorists and Mexican drug cartels are exchanging ingredients to their cold blooded, calculated homicide missions and the Obama administrations is providing them the mixer.
Illegal immigration is not about one being anti-Hispanic as the left likes to claim. It's not about the color of someone's skin. It's not derived from some fear that immigrant masses will overpower the job force thus decreasing jobs for natural born American citizens. It is an issue about national security or I should say lack thereof. A recent Department of Homeland Security document stated that over 180,000 illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico were apprehended from 2007 through mid-March 2010. Jameel Nassr, a major Hezbollah operative was recently busted in Mexico for setting up anti America and anti Israel networks. He also frequently traveled to Venezuela to visit Obama's amigo Hugo Chavez and his terrorist thugs. As terrorists decrease their striking distance on American soil, Obama sits on his throne seated at the right hand of Michelle and does nothing.
At the show there was a table selling body armor. On top of a bullet proof vest was a copy of a law that California Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein sponsored that bans criminals from being able to possess body armor. The bill came about after two police officers, James Guelff was killed in 1994 and Chris McCurley was killed in 1997 by heavily armored assailants. I agree with the notion that there needs to be accountability or restrictions on what hardened criminals can possess, but the way the government is stepping up their plans to disarm America while terrorist are flexing their muscles is scary. We saw after the tragic Tucson shooting how politicians jumped to begin new bans on firearms. The most recent is an Arizona law being heard to disallow one from carrying any clip that exceeds more than ten bullets! Hopefully you're a darn good shot if you have a whole crew of attackers chasing you because after number ten you will be cut off courtesy of the government! The government loves to tell us what we need to do in order to protect ourselves with helmet laws, seat belt laws and every other law. However, when it comes to protecting ourselves against a major threat that lurks in our back yard, forget it! Some like to call us conspiracy theorists as if that term will make us back down from the threat that exists. Others realize the threat of terrorist crossing our borders is real and if our government isn't going to take matters into their own hands we must have the means to protect ourselves if need be. What are we supposed to use to defend ourselves, spit balls? Blow darts?
In the summer of 2010, U.S. Republican National Committee Rep. Sue Myrick requested that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano create a special team to further investigate the potential problem and threat. When are we going to quit the investigations and start putting some action to actually fighting the threat? It's kind of like reading a manual on how to install locks on your doors when the burglars are already breaking in.
Americans are watching the complete chaos unfold in the Middle East. Many of us find ourselves amazed with our mouths hanging open Bill Clinton style. The problem is America isn't exempt from the very happenings taking place on our streets as we are seeing in the Middle East. Yeah Obama puts down his snow cone and takes a break from his "Rules for Radicals" reading at times for an occasional condemnation of Libya as firing squads murder innocent civilians. But hey, that's on the other side of the planet right? That could never come to America right? Wrong. It is just south of the border and the government has already given them their passport. The threat is close, very close. God forbid the day we turn on the news to see beheadings taking place in the streets of America.


You're invited! Save the date for Sunday September 30, when we will have our annual West Jackson Open House. We will have Bible Study for all ages at 9:00am, and Worship at 10:30am followed by a special lunch for our guests and their friends (click here to reserve your spot for lunch!).


*Don't miss all of the updates in the District 10 Mid-October newsletter! Be sure to check the side bar for important upcoming events and other announcements!
October is Crime Prevention Month. With darkness coming earlier each night and the holidays approaching, it is a good time to raise community awareness of the steps we can take to stay safe and to help deter crime. Property crimes, such as burglaries, tend to rise in the winter months, as well, and we want to ensure that people are prepared.
To help you and your neighbors prepare, you are invited to join Councilmember Khamis at the District 10 Public Safety Forum to be held this coming Thursday, October 22, 2015 at the Almaden Community Center, 6455 Camden Ave, San Jose, CA 95120. The doors to the main Community Room will open at 5:30 PM and the program will begin at 6:00 PM. SJPD Southern Division Captain Ed Schroder will be presenting along with staff from SJPD Crime Prevention. Bring your family and a friend or neighbor so that they can benefit from the helpful information that will be presented. We look forward to seeing you there!
In other Public Safety-related matters, thank you to those of you who came to the Rules Committee a week ago to support my efforts to empower owners and residents in higher-crime, multi-housing neighborhoods by allowing them to participate in a Crime Free Multi-Housing program (to view the discussion CLICK HERE) and click on item 3 beneath the video. This is best viewed using the Explorer browser. The Crime Free Program trains residents to Report serious crimes so that police can respond and landlords can quickly remove the perpetrators. It allows for more peaceful and secure neighborhoods where serious crime is not tolerated and where children and their parents can feel safe from gang recruiters, meth dealers, and violent criminals. My proposal was referred to committee at the Rules Committee meeting but it will need to come back to Rules on Wednesday, October 21 to be re-directed, since the committee that was to hear the proposal is ineligible to do so to avoid any potential Brown Act violation. The public will have another opportunity to speak out on the proposal at 2 PM on the 21st. The Rules Committee typically meets in the Wing rooms 118/121 of City Hall and you may view the agenda HERE.
In September, the City Auditor's office published a report entitled "Golf Courses: Loss of Customers and Revenues Requires a New Strategy". Their findings include detailed information about the three City-owned golf courses, including the number of rounds of golf played each day, how much each round of golf is subsidized by your tax dollars and the impact each course has on the General Fund. Of the three courses, only Muni is having a positive impact on the General Fund, providing $400,000 in revenue in 2014-2015. The other two courses, Los Lagos and Rancho del Pueblo, suffered a combined $600,000 in operating losses. In addition, they were not able to cover the debt service on their financing, so the City had to use $2.2 million (M) from the General Fund to make the principle and interest payments on the debt.
To put that into perspective, $2.2M could fund approximately thirteen police officers, the opening of all 22 of our branch libraries for a seventh day each week, or building one new soccer field. When the City Council originally voted on the lease revenue bonds used to finance the building of Los Lagos and Rancho del Pueblo, the sport of golf was at its peak in our nation. Back then, a simple majority was all that was needed to approve Lease Revenue Bond financing – a policy I have since succeeded in persuading my colleagues to change to a 2/3 vote requirement. Since rosy revenue projections were expected to cover debt payments and operating expenses of the courses, as well as contribute revenues to the General Fund, the financing plan was readily approved. Today, however, golf is on the decline nationally, and over the last fifteen years the courses have required subsidies totaling $19.2M from the City's General Fund. The 2015-2016 projected subsidy would add another $2.6M to the total.
The City Council and City Staff are looking at various options as we consider this report. Some want to do nothing. Some want to sell one or both courses for housing and other types of sports fields such as soccer or baseball. I am looking at all options carefully. For example, there may be a way to sell off a portion of Rancho del Pueblo for housing in order to pay off the golf course debt while at the same time preserving the driving range and a few practice holes so that the First Tee youth program may continue. Perhaps a soccer field or two could be built, as well. Ultimately, I do not want to take usable open space away, I want more people to play.
Prior to this report, I heard several times from youth soccer organizations that they desperately need more fields to play on. In fact, the report indicates that there is a need for 153 soccer and baseball fields throughout the City. Considering that golf courses serve approximately 1.3 people per acre and soccer fields serve approximately 82.3 people per acre, it seems that converting at least one golf course to soccer fields would provide recreational access to considerably more residents.
I encourage you to read the report at http://bit.ly/GolfAud. This is a City-wide issue that affects everyone because the money is coming out of the General Fund and people from throughout the City use the golf courses. There are a lot of complex issues involved, but I believe we cannot afford to keep subsidizing the relatively few users of the Los Lagos and Rancho courses at the rate of over $2.5M each year. I also believe we can do more to look at different opportunities. We need to stay open minded and work together to find a solution to this issue. Selling a portion of either course is not popular, but may be the best option. Despite an improving economic climate, the City of San Jose still has billions of dollars in unfunded retirement liabilities and several pressing needs that could be helped by using the funds that are now flowing to the golf courses. Whatever path we choose, we must have as our objective bringing the huge subsidies we are providing to the golf courses to an end. We must be fiscally responsible and make the land more usable for more people.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month across the nation, and it's an annual reminder that domestic violence is a serious issue that affects families in every community. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports nearly 1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Although domestic violence affects people regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, race or religion, women are much more likely than men to be victimized by a current or former partner.
Domestic violence is defined as a range of behaviors used to establish power or exert control by one intimate partner over another. The range of behaviors can include psychological, emotional, verbal, sexual, financial, and physical abuse, as well as stalking and threatening behaviors. We all deserve to live a life free of violence. Please take a moment to increase your awareness of this issue.
If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse, you can get help by calling one of the 24-hour crisis hotlines; in an emergency, don't hesitate to call 9-1-1.
What comes to mind when you hear the words "Sunshine Baby"? Well, it's not a new suntan lotion or the lyrics to a lullaby. Sunshine Baby is the name of a company started by one of our very own District 10 residents, Marti McCurdy!
On Monday, October 13th, I was honored to join Mayor Sam Liccardo and Marti McCurdy, founder and CEO of Sunshine Baby, as we announced the launch of Marti's important, life-saving invention, the iRemind. The iRemind is a small device, designed to look like a cute bear face, but with an important mission. It attaches to your child's car seat and will alert your smart phone if you walk away from the car and leave your child behind.
About 40 children die each year from having been left in a hot car. These deaths are tragic – often caused when a busy parent who may be burning the candle at both ends has a moment of forgetfulness and leaves his or her child behind. These deaths are completely preventable, and can be prevented with the iRemind.
The iRemind Car Seat Alarm is available through Amazon.com. It is designed and manufactured locally, and Marti is busy finding investors to grow her business here so that she bring the product to retail stores throughout the U.S. and beyond.
We wish Marti success with her new venture! For more information, visit www.SunshineBabyAlarm.com.
The Featured Guest will be the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to discuss all things public transit. Be sure to mark your calendars! I will be there, and I encourage you to attend and to bring along your family and friends.
For more information, visit the STFNA website at stfna.org or call my Council Assistant, Denelle Fedor, at 408-535-4910 or email her at denelle.fedor@sanjoseca.gov.
For more District 10 information, visit www.sjd10.com or email us at district10@sanjoseca.gov.
The District 10 office wishes everyone a fun and SAFE Halloween this year. Please take a few moments to read over this "Halloween Safety Tips" flyer created by the SJPD Crime Prevention team.
Residents in single-family homes can have large items (such as mattresses, sofas, refrigerators, tires, and more) collected curbside by their recycling collection company. Through June 30, 2016, the first collection of up to three large items will be at no extra charge. Additional large item collections are available for $27 (up to three items).
Right across the border, in Council District 9, the Bass Pro Shop will be having their Grand Opening on Wed, Oct 28. Ceremony Begins at 6PM. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.
Almaden's Bass Pro Shop also invites you to join them for their Grand Opening TAILGATER before the Ceremony, MORE DETAILS HERE!
CLICK HERE for VTA's flyer for Envision Silicon Valley Community Open Houses.
Another milestone for San Jose International Airport was achieved as Lufthansa announced that they will begin offering direct flights to Frankfurt, Germany five times a week starting on April 29, 2016. This is the third international carrier announcement this year, and we are proud of the work of City staff and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group for their work to connect San Jose with the world.
Thanks to the persistence of former Mayor Reed and support from our local congressional delegation, City staff, local business leaders, and the City Council, on Oct 15th we were able to celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Silicon Valley U.S Patent and Trademark Office at San Jose City Hall. This new office brings the important services of the USPTO from our nation's capital right here to the Capital of Silicon Valley. The USPTO will now be easily accessible to our area's premier researchers, inventors, and entrepreneurs!
On Oct 11th, the City of San Jose hosted the first Viva Calle event, opening several miles of streets normally reserved for vehicle traffic exclusively to human-powered activities. It was a fun day to slow down and get a different perspective on the sights to see along some of our City's main thoroughfares.
It was heart warming seeing so many caring people on Oct 11th for the 3rd annual run for Omar's dream Foundation, benefiting terminally ill youth.
We enjoyed attending the Oct 10th Celebration of Diwali, an ancient fall Festival of Lights celebrated throughout India and in many other places, at the Almaden Community Center.
On Oct 6th I welcomed a business and government delegation from Australia's capital of Canberra to the Capital of Silicon Valley. It's exciting to see their businesses expanding to San Jose.
Our October 5th celebration of the opening of Almaden Lake Park on Mondays, for the first time in six years, was a great success with folks jogging, riding their bikes, walking their dogs, and playing Bocce in the park. The Monday opening was made possible by a grant from Councilmember Khamis' District 10 office budget.
A great time was had by all who attended this year's Heart of the Park celebration on Oct 4th, thanks to the great work of the Martin-Fontana Parks Association members!
We are so proud of Sunday Friends for all the work that they do to help families move forward. On Oct 4th we were honored to share in the celebration as they opened their third location, at Santee Elementary.
We were very happy to see Councilmember Chappie Jones continue a great District 1 tradition, started by Councilmember Pete Constant, the Annual Disability Awareness Day event held on Oct 1st!


First Class have been learning about Road Safety and the importance of wearing a seatbelt. As part of this, we have created a posters to encourage others to wear theirs. The staff of Firhouse ETNS looked at our creations and decided the poster worked on by Chisom, Liam, Declan, Dhruv and Daniel highlighted the message best. Their poster will now represent our class in the RSA Seatbelt Safety Competition. Fingers Crossed!!!!!!
English Writing: For January and February, First class are looking at the writing of author Eric Carle and the Writing Trait of Voice.
Science Week: First had a great time looking at static electricity, building bridges, investigating what floats and building boats for Science week.
First Class Maths: During September, we went over some of the Maths ideas from Senior Infants with the help of teachers Sarah and Rachael.


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Why We Walk – Hannah Mclean
Hannah Mclean
"Reconciliation makes me think of residential schools and what happened in the past. I want that to change and to make it better because it makes me feel sad that a bunch of kids like me were hurt. I know that some people are still angry at others and some people are happy with others and I think that reconciliation is important because it brings people together. It makes me feel happy that people are trying to change the world and make it better."
The Why We Walk campaign asks individuals to share their story and personal connection to the reconciliation movement. Stories will be shared in the weeks leading up to the Walk for Reconciliation on September 24th, 2017.
We believe that every person has a story to tell and that by sharing these stories, people may feel a more personal connection to the reconciliation movement.
Learn more about the Walk for Reconciliation here.
Read more Why We Walk stories here.


Manchester City's Champions League group game at home to Barcelona needs to be treated like a final, says manager Pep Guardiola.
City lost the away leg 4-0 in Spain and are second in Group C, one point in front of Borussia Monchengladbach.
Sergio Aguero is expected to start for City on Tuesday, and right-back Pablo Zabaleta could be available.
"We dropped two points against Celtic, so we have to recover those points," said the former Barcelona manager.
Aguero started the game at the Nou Camp on the bench but, following two goals in a win over West Brom in the Premier League on Saturday, is expected to start.
"We have to be focused for 90 minutes, knowing they are going to provoke mistakes because of the quality they have," added Guardiola.
"But we had a few chances [in the first game] and have to keep going in that sense and try to finish better than we did in Barcelona.
Mourinho downplays pressure on Pogba as he makes United return.
Matic expresses optimism in Man Utd's McTominay future.


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Premier Mills is a composite textile mill with spinning, weaving and finishing under the same roof. We manufacture 100% cotton yarn, 100% polyester yarn, yarn dyed shirting, dobby fabrics, jacquard fabrics, leno fabrics, voile fabrics, dhothies and bottom weight fabrics. We have state of the art technology in spinning, weaving and wet processing. We are ISO 14001 certified and have a sophisticated waste water recycling plant.
From the land of the Tiger – India, an exotic premium Rum, crafted so perfectly that you can relish it neat or however you like it. Wild Tiger is the brain child of Indian Drinks entrepreneur Gautom Menon. The drink is aged, blended and bottled in God's own country, Kerala state in southern India and is India's first Premium Rum mainly aimed at the American markets, Europe and Travel Retail. Wild Tiger is an exotic blend of both molasses and sugar cane juice which makes it very aromatic, flavoursome and truly RUMTASTIC! A distinctive aspect of the exquisite packaging is – just as no two Tigers share similar stripes, each hand made bottle has a unique stripe design of its own, making it a special edition, a perfect collectible or gifting item. The brand donates 10% profits towards the conservation of Tigers by way of Wild Tiger Foundation(WTF) which aims to save the tiger and its habitat in Southern India.
The Vivekalaya group of Institutions are an educational group that manage and run multiple schools of learning and education. Twenty seven years in the field have given birth to three institutions namely Vivekalaya Matriculation and higher secondary school, a state board school, Akshayantra learning centre, a centre that caters to students with additional needs namely dyslexia and dyscalculia and Vivekalaya\'s Prakriya International, a Cambridge international school. Centring around an ideology of student specific and holistic education the group has been pioneers in the field of inclusive learning in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The group looks to develop and build new learning environments to cater to a city whose needs have evolved through time. The group plans to delve into curriculum research and development in the coming years centring around inclusion and differential learners.
Wild Tiger Foundation will act as influencers and enablers for our on-ground partner – Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a worldwide organization with a goal of reversing the decline of many wildlife species and their habitats.


On September 23rd the iBellieve Foundation hosted A Rare Evening, in support of Mucopolysaccharidosis II (MPS II or Hunter syndrome) research and rare disease awareness. A Rare Evening marked the first of its kind and was a great success with some of the most celebrated sports stars and influences among our attendees.
We would like to thank everyone that joined us at Steam Whistle and helped support our cause. We hope you all had a wonderful and rare time!
With everyone's incredible support we raised a total of $72,000! This money raised will help us continue to make a change for MPS II research and further rare disease awareness. We could not have done this without you!
Special thanks to our keynote speaker, Steve Nash, and co-hosts Arash Madani & Kate McKenna for their support as well as Russell Martin, Dwane Casey, Cabbie Richards, Leonard Hamilton, Adam van Koeverden, Perdita Felicien, and Alexandra Orlando, for attending.
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This new edition of the "On-Surface Synthesis" international workshop will bring together scientists working on the synthesis and characterization of molecular architectures obtained from chemical reactions of adequate precursors on surfaces. This approach is attracting increasing interest as a powerful tool to synthesize novel covalently bonded supramolecular materials from the bottom-up and bridges across the fields of chemistry, physics and materials science.
Travel bursaries and particularly low student fees aim at a strong participation of the younger researcher generations.
Please refer to the website http://oss.dipc.org for further details.


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Cause advanced by the nonprofit center 44-Across founded in 1982: 2 wds.
Kyle's younger brother, on "South Park"
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Szent István University Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (SIU FAE) is educating the largest number of nature conservation engineers in Hungary. Within the Faculty, the Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology is partner in this project. It carries out interdisciplinary research on issues of nature conservation, botany, landscape ecology, grassland management, soil science and publishes the Hungarian Journal of Landscape Ecology.
Field researches, laboratory measurements and data assessment in the Balaton Uplands and Körös-Maros National Parks; organization of management plans adaptation, communication, dissemination in Hungary.


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Google Doodle celebrates a dance performed by Native American women
'Jingle Dress Dance' affirms their power
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN
(CNN) - If you're in the United States or Canada, you may have seen the intricately designed Google Doodle above.
It celebrates the Jingle Dress Dance performed by Native American women. The dance, which originated with the Ojibwe tribe, serves to "affirm the power of Native American women," Google notes in an explanation of the doodle.
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The doodle was designed by Ojibwe artist Joshua Mangeship Pawis-Steckley.
"When I heard the Doodle was about the Jingle Dress Dance, I was eager to get started," he told Google. "Watching the dancers at pow wow is one of my favorite things to do."
Pawis-Steckley wanted people to recognize that "Anishinaabe culture is beautiful. That indigenous women are strong and resilient, and the voice of our future," he told Google.
Here's what to know about the Jingle Dress Dance.
The dance originated in the 1920s
The story of the Jingle Dress Dance traces to the 1920s with the Ojibwe tribe around Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario, according to Google's explanation.
Most versions of the story include an Ojibwe man who had a vision about receiving instructions for a particular dress and dance that would help heal a young girl who was sick, according to Indian Country Today. In some versions, the girl is his daughter.
The man fashioned together hundreds of metal cones and sewed them onto a dress so they'd produce a jingling sound. He then taught the girl an accompanying dance, which involved her always keeping one foot on the ground.
As the story goes, the girl was cured of her illness and, once she got better, she taught her friends to make the dresses. Together, they formed the first Jingle Dress Dance Society.
There's a competitive circuit for it
The Jingle Dress Dance grew popular through the 1950s, despite a 1921 Office of Indian Affairs policy statement banning indigenous dances and religious ceremonies. It made a comeback in the 1980s, when pow wows expanded and became more formalized through competitive events.
Choreography and dress design have evolved over the years, but the jingling sound remains, Google's explanation notes. The footwork has grown increasingly intricate and often involves years of practice. Dresses vary in length and are often made by the dancers themselves, who are taught by relatives or tribal elders.
The dance lives on in events across Canada and the United States. It will be performed this weekend at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Grand Celebration Pow Wow in Hinckley, Minnesota.


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Home/NIGERIA/Only Buhari can sack service chiefs, Nigeria presidency replies Senate following unprecedented resolution
Only Buhari can sack service chiefs, Nigeria presidency replies Senate following unprecedented resolution
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President Muhammadu Buhari; President of the Senate
Hours after the Nigerian senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling on the Service Chiefs to resign or be sacked due to the multi-pronged security challenges in the country, the presidency said only President Muhammadu Buhari had the power to remove service chiefs.
"The Presidency notes the resolution, and reiterates that appointment or sack of Service Chiefs is a Presidential prerogative,
"President Muhammadu Buhari, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, will do what is in the best interest of the country at all times," the presidency said in a statement received by TODAY NEWS AFRICA in Washington D.C.
Simon Ateba
Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa
Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.


Not good, geography didn't appeal to me but to those who are more interested in geography and that can motivate themselves to read for it then this is the perfect degree. Those who are looking to do a single geography (ie. Physical/human) should so a single part so you aren't forced to do them both!
LEC has some very good field tips, good overall teaching quality and varied subject matter, most to my taste, some not so much.
Compulsory modules and a large choice of optional modules. Can shape your degree to what you're interested in.
Some modules have been disappointing but I'm sure it'll pick up next year.
Full to the brim of beautiful girls and fun guys. Decent course, one of the best uni's for geography in the country.
Very well taught. The first year you sort of have to bear with all the core modules and try to find out what aspects of the course interest you most in order to really tailor your degree in second and third year. There is a lot of scope for doing this. And by having a major/minor degree scheme you can dip your toe in another subject.


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The Beatles Third Christmas Flexi Disc 1965
The Beatles rare third Christmas flexi record from 1965 is for sale.
"The Beatles Third Christmas Record cannot be bought in the shops. Copies are not available at any price to people who do not belong to The Official Beatles Fan Club of Great Britain."
This early Beatles promotional record has a great sleeve featuring The Beatles singing and playing their instruments which the back of the sleeve states:
"Incidentally, I wonder how many members recognise the setting of the picture to be seen on the front of this sleeve. I was taken in Granada's Manchester television studios when the boys made their spectacular "
The Music of Lennon and McCartney". A few seconds after the photograph was taken, The Beatles launched into the energetic performance of "Day Tripper" which closes the first part of the programme.
The sleeve is in Good condition with marks to the top edge of the front of the sleeve, and marks to the back of the sleeve.
The flexi disc label and disc is in Very Good + condition with the label being clean and light marks to the front and blank reverse of the flexi. The original Beatles fan club newsletter has a front page with news and the other 3 pages having photographs of The Beatles. The newsletter is in Fine condition.
A rare and very collectable early Beatles promotional fan club record with the rare newsletter.


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Q: Quickbooks Online integration c# My company uses QuickBooks Online, and I would like to write some c# scripts that retrieve very basic information like a list of customers and list of invoices from the QuickBooks Online subscription.
I would also like to submit invoices and payments.
I have created a QuickBooks IPP account (at developer.intuit.com).
I am able to authenticate myself (OAuth) just fine.  My questions are:
1) Do I need to authenticate myself every time I wish to connect to QBO IPP (to retrieve a list of customers, submit an invoice, etc.)?  Or can my app authenticate itself once & stay 'connected' for months?
2) Is there any sample code to do basic things such as obtain a list of customers, submit an invoice, etc.?  I downloaded the sample MVC app from this link
And it was quite helpful - but when I try to get some of the code to work, I just get errors - which leads me to my first question - can I authenticate myself ONCE and use those tokens (appToken, and appTokenSecret) many times in order to perform simple tasks (obtain customer list), or do I have to authenticate myself every time?
Thank you.

A: Re - 1) Do I need to authenticate myself every time I wish to connect to QBO IPP (to retrieve a list of customers, submit an invoice, etc.)? Or can my app authenticate itself once & stay 'connected' for months?
Please find below steps to get OAuth tokens using which you can make API call against your QBO account. If you create an app in appcenter, you'll get consumerKey and consumerSecret. https://developer.intuit.com/Application/Create/IA
Using the above two tokens, you can generate accessToken and accessSecret from the OAuthPlayground. https://appcenter.intuit.com/Playground/OAuth/IA PN - After completing C2QB(OAuth) flow, you should use 'App Menu API Test.' option which will show you accessToken and accessSecret.
These tokens are valid for 180 days (at max). When these tokens are more than 150 days old (and <180 days), you can make Reconnect API call to revalidate those again.
Ref https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0050_quickbooks_api/0020_authentication_and_authorization/oauth_management_api#Reconnect
So you can always persist these tokens and reuse it.
To let end users connect their QB data with you SaaS app, you need to implement a wizard called 'Connect to Quickbook'. Using 3-legged Oauth your app will be able to capture the acessToken and acessSecret corresponding to the end-user's qbo account.
Ref - https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0100_accounting/0060_authentication_and_authorization/connect_from_within_your_app#7._Add_the_Connect_to_QuickBooks_button
Re - 2) Is there any sample code to do basic things such as obtain a list of customers, submit an invoice, etc.?
Please refer - https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0100_accounting/0500_developer_kits/0150_ipp_.net_devkit_3.0/0002_synchronous_calls#/Data_Services_API
and how to add invoice or sales receipt quickbooks rest api v3.0

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