In "The Pastoral Presidency of Monk Malloy," I believe one line was left out of the sidebar table of information entitled "Measuring Up." That would be the cost of tuition. Even with the increase in financial aid awarded, is Notre Dame still within the reach of the middle class where so many of my classmates came from when I attended the University?
I was a senior faculty member in Notre Dame's College of Engineering for 10 years, retiring in 2001. I cannot say that Father Malloy has not stepped forward from time to time as a true leader, willing to open himself to very vocal criticism for the sake of what he believed the mission of the University should include. But many important controversies that the Notre Dame family struggled with during my time at Notre Dame received no leadership. One example of this is the question over Notre Dame's primary goal: Should it strive to be "a great Catholic university" or "a great university that is Catholic"? To my knowledge, Father Malloy has never stepped forward and unequivocally made a choice between the two options.
Father Malloy has done a great job and deserves all the praise. Unfortunately, it appears that he is being moved out because something is wrong at the University. Something is wrong, but it started long before Monk, and he either did not recognize the problem or was unable to do anything about it. It all started with Father Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, and the 1967 Land O' Lakes statement, which basically said that no bishop, not even the pope, would interfere with academic freedom at these Catholic institutions. Today the mandate that is required by the Church to teach theology is being ignored. We now have academic excellence, a place where wealthy parents can send their very smart sons and daughters, a place where the faculty need not be Catholic, and a place where the football team need not win. Cheer, cheer for old academic freedom.
Tom McMahon's account of his son in harm's way in Kosovo and Iraq ("A Family at War") is a heartrending display of parental love. It also reveals, starkly, that the U.S. Bishops' pastoral letter, _The Challenge of Peace_, and John Paul II's repeated condemnations of the Iraq war have not penetrated American Catholic culture. Nowhere in the piece is there any concern about the moral legitimacy of a pre-emptive war of aggression that has taken 100,000 Iraqi lives and wounded, maimed or subjected to depleted uranium contamination at least a million more.
I was appalled to read that the Notre Dame College Republicans refused to support voter registration efforts that included posting voter registration and Election Day information on South Bend buses before the November election (Seen and Heard, winter 2004-05). The stated rationale—that such information might encourage bus riders, presumed to be poor and working class, to vote and presumably to vote for Democrats—smacks of the voter suppression efforts that the Republican Party has been accused of in Ohio and Florida, among other places. Instead of expressing confidence that their party could triumph based on the merits of its policy positions, the College Republicans preferred to withhold basic information about exercising one's right to vote. They have a bright future in their party.
Although Wally Poirier graduated before I entered Notre Dame and the hallowed halls of Zahm, from what others have said of him I think David Devine '94 fully captured his spirit. Devine's centering on stories was beautifully crafted. Wally will always live on through stories; that is how we all survive. It is comforting to know that as long as one remembers the stories and retells them, those special people and moments that defined our existence at Our Lady's university will never be forgotten.


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From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice (2002) by Sarah A. Leavitt intrigued me from the moment I first found it on the shelves of my university library. I was working on a research paper about the female inventor of the dishwasher and communication, which I recently presented in Vienna, Austria, and I wanted to look at how the dishwasher was presented in domestic advice manuals. While I checked out this book for that project, I never ended up reading it until now. And I didn't need to. It isn't about the dishwasher at all.
It's about the domestic advice manuals from the 1850s to the 1950s, and how their values and what the author calls the "domestic fantasy" changed over time, depending on trends in design, health, and architecture. During the Victorian age, the home was more ornate, with formal parlors that sported lace and plush furniture. Later on, decorating moved toward clean lines, plastic furniture, and simple rooms meant to be functional. The author explored in detail the masculine/feminine tension between these two ideals. I was also intrigued by the connection to the Arts and Crafts movement, which was often seen as a more masculine design trend as well. It was a "rejection of excess and sentimentality in American homes" (p. 150). The sanitation movement additionally influenced decoration and home trends, because any surface that couldn't be wiped or sanitized became suspect. Fluffy pillows and heavy draperies were thought to be unsanitary.
As to the domestic fantasy, Leavitt notes that "domestic advisors demonstrate cultural ideals, not cultural realities" (p. 5). While her study (based on her dissertation) is focused historically, she includes a preface and afterword examining the domestic fantasy we have today, as promoted by Martha Stewart. Linking her claim that domestic advice is often based on ideals rather than realities, and therefore cannot tell us much about how women actually lived then, to Martha Stewart and our current obsession with domesticity helps us as readers to understand just how true that claim is. We know we can't cook, decorate, craft, and garden like Martha without a team of help and lots of money. We might try to attain that ideal, but we might also find it dissatisfying, impossible, and ridiculous at times.
I loved the connection that Leavitt made to professionalization. Much of my research focuses on the professionalization of women, both in the home and in the workplace. I have a journal article in press right now about how mom bloggers have redefined the workplace and professionalized motherhood. I'm intrigued by professional identities, especially for women, so this book gave me a sense of how women participated in professionalization in earlier times. Leavitt wrote, "The professionalization of home economics provided job opportunities for many women" (p. 45). She goes on to explain that the women formed an association, met yearly, and published an academic journal. They obtained academic authority while acting to be authorities on the home to other women. Food science also played a role in this, and many of the domestic manuals I've looked at over the last few years are heavily based on chemistry and cooking. "Because women had a traditional connection to food preparation, the kitchen was a logical place to begin the professionalization of all the home arts" (p. 45).
There is an interesting connection between domestic advice manuals and national identity, which Leavitt explores heavily in her book. I saw a connection to an article in the field of American Studies titled "Manifest Domesticity" by Amy Kaplan, which explains how early domestic advice manuals were attempts to keep American ideals in place by keeping out the foreign. If you think about it, the word "domestic," as opposed to the word "foreign," takes on a whole new meaning. Leavitt explained that "women wrote about the home as if it had the power to influence one's national values" (p. 75). The texts often worked to Americanize immigrants, and often "left out black women . . . [because] [f]or most domestic advisors, black women existed only as servants" (p. 75). We see a microcosm of what it meant to be American during this time period in the book, between 1900 and 1920, and that it often excluded those of other cultures and races. The goal of much domestic advice was to "literally change the social class of their readers" (p. 75). It is a very American project, that of the melting pot, to allow the dream to extend to (almost) everybody and to require that those "others" reach a white, middle-class ideal.
I also found the discussion of the historical emergence of gender roles fascinating. A while ago, I learned on CBS Sunday Morning that pink for girls and blue for boys was a construct of the advertising of the early twentieth century. Leavitt's work also discusses this, noting that babies usually wore white before these constructs emerged. She wrote, "The association between color and gender was for the most part a twentieth century invention" one that we still struggle to overcome, with the pink aisles for girls in all toy stores (p. 132). Technology made many colors more available to the middle class, and "the strong associations of pink with girls and blue with boys was firmly established in advertising, decoration choices, and domestic advice" (p. 132). This color system sells, but as a parent I try to think more about what exactly these advertisers are trying to sell my children.
In the 1950s, women's magazines and domestic advice books "urged women to embrace the family to the exclusion of most anything else" (p. 174). Here I think we see the pendulum swing of culture, as the entire book outlines. We see movement back and forth, especially when it comes to where women should spend their time and energy. After World War II, we know that many women worked, and discriminatory policies toward married women working (as my research on IBM policies shows) were changing. Leavitt wrote, "While close to twenty million women did have paying jobs or careers in the 1950s, as some women had in every other decade of American history, the editors of the popular magazines underplayed this aspect of their readers' lives and livelihoods" (p. 175).
What I saw from this exploration of domestic advice over the years was an earnest effort of the writers to explain the effects of technology on users. This is a big concern in my field of professional communication, and if we consider women to be users of technology, and household implements to be technology, then we see how domestic advice manuals very much function as technical writing. One example of this is the critique of the open floor plan by some domestic advisors. The open floor plan was touted as a way to create family togetherness and to allow a woman, while in the kitchen, to still interact with her family. However, some advice noted how this took away personal retreat, and "produced a real lack of privacy, especially for women" (p. 192). This critique of technology (the open plan) expressed what many women may have been feeling at the time, and Leavitt connects it nicely to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. We learn from this section that "[t]he architecture of family life did not permit any physical space for women to have any existence separate from the family" (p. 193). As a mother myself, I know just how important it is for me to have my own space and time.
Because I'm interested in the "domestic sphere" as a research site, this book intrigued me. It wasn't necessarily written perfectly, as I had trouble with the flow of the text and getting into it if I took a break. However, I learned why domestic study is important. Leavitt argued, "We should pay attention to the history of domestic advice not because it circumscribes the small, private world of middle-class women, but, quite to the contrary, because it illuminates national priorities, addresses public dilemmas, and reminds us that what we have in our homes connects us to the larger culture" (p. 206).
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This is an interesting topic. It makes me think of the film Mona Lisa Smile and the old domestic ads used in the closing credits. It's also interesting how much power really was in the sphere of women in domestic arts, although we often look back and think how little rights or influence women had back then. Lots of thought provoking things in the post. Thanks Emily.
Emily J. says:
You're right that women have always been influential. Your comment reminded me of a feminist argument about whether or not women should "try to be like men" in order to gain equality. I think we can see in these books and this study how women tended to stick to the domestic sphere at this time but worked hard there and did many good things.
What I find fascinating is the huge shift from just being a parent to active parenting. It probably started to come about when technology made it possible for the housewife to have a little extra time to spend with her kids. And now, of course, parenting is our number 1 job, and comes with hundreds of parenting books to choose from. At the same time, there seemed to be a big shift from kids helping with all the chores to no chores at all. Most of the things my own kids do to help out around the house seem so simple, and almost like I'm grasping at straws trying to think of things for them to do. Sometimes I really wish we had chickens. 🙂
Chickens would be fun. My neighbors have some and my kids love going over there. I'm not willing to take it on. And yes, parenting has gotten intensive. I've read some academic articles about it and the tension between intensive mothering and feminist mothering. What I like about this shift is the involvement that dads have now.
cloudpalace says:
I totally agree that dads' involvement is much prominent now. Whenever I go out shopping, I see young dads holding their babies while moms browsed in the lady's department.
It really is a great thing. I love how involved my husband is with our kids.
That's wonderful! I bet it is great to be able the share the joy, responsibilities and decision-making moments with him. How did you achieve that? How did you get him to be involved? Or was he eager since the beginning? Or is it a natural shift in the society nowadays?
He has always been good with kids, which I noticed before we got married. But I think society just expects it now and he's of that generation where being involved with your kids is normal.
He sounds amazing! You're so lucky and I'm happy for you and your kids! Wishing you many more years of harmonious and eventful family life! =D
cravesadventure says:
I would be happy if technology would be implemented to clean the whole house or at least the bathrooms – still got to use the old elbow grease and scrub at times. My parents have a very different domestic advice than me and my hubbie in that it is more a partnership in tackling it to get it done. We divide and conquer, so we can enjoy the free time we have on the weekends to do fun things instead 🙂 Great Share – Happy Thursday!
Oh, I would love a self-cleaning house! Right now, my husband cleans the bathrooms. I hate cleaning them!
whatmeread says:
I really like the idea that these articles reflect a type of fantasy about domestic life. This sound like a very interesting book.
It was fascinating! I, too, loved the idea that it is a fantasy. It helped me to calm down about my own house.
Yeah, the fantasy in my house is anyone doing any work at all! (Not really, but it seems like it sometimes.)
btg5885 says:
Emily, I wanted to wait until I returned from my trip to comment. Women are under so much pressure with all of the advice literature, be it books, magazines, blogs, TV or You Tube. I would imagine you need a huge filtering system that narrows the focus. I mention to my wife if you did everything that just Dr. Oz suggests, you would have no time left and each suggestion may dilute the benefits from an earlier suggestion. Maybe the desire to be a Martha Stewart causes more angst than it alleviates. Maybe the best advice is "don't sweat the small stuff" or "have a good closet to toss stuff in when guests are coming." Just a note from a fixer upper, BTG
You're right on. There's no way any of us can follow the "expert advice" from all of these people. The truth is, nowadays, they are in it just to make a buck. I think we should all live in ways that we find peaceful and comfortable. And my "closet" to throw stuff in is behind my couch. 🙂
Emily, behind the couch is OK by me. I thought of your post and comments yesterday. If you have 15 minutes, catch John Oliver's bit on Dr. Oz's testimony in front of Congress regarding the diet supplement industry. Oz does not come off well in front of the committee and is raked over the coals by OIlver, who used to be on The Daily Show. Oliver is frustrated as Oz is a real doctor and should know better than to claim "magical" results as it misleads and could hurt people. All the best, BTG
I'll check it out. I've seen some of the news reports on Dr. Oz, but not this particular bit.
Alina (literaryvittles) says:
Wow, this sounds like a fascinating read! And the examples you pulled from the book strike me as spot-on. My mouth dropped when I read, "The open floor plan was touted as a way to create family togetherness and to allow a woman, while in the kitchen, to still interact with her family." That is crazy, and I never would have guessed that, but it makes total sense!
Your review also makes me feel better about the fact that I never liked Martha Stewart. She is undoubtedly a shrewd businesswoman, though, because she tapped into a lot the ideas that underpin the doling out (and commercialization of) domestic advice.
Absolutely! Stewart is successful and knows what she's doing, but at what cost to those of us trying to make sense of the information or hopelessly heeding the plethora of domestic advice out there? I wish this book or another study could give us insight into the reactions of the audience to the domestic advisers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Would they feel the way we do about Stewart?
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How Bad Bunny Became the Poster Boy of Trap en Español
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By Caitlin Donohue | 2 years ago
One year ago, there were no rappers wearing yellow nail polish with high-water tuxedo pants at Premios Juventud, much less canary bike shorts in beachside glamour shots. But in the first half of 2016, the era of Bad Bunny had not yet begun. These days, it's doubtful that there are many urbano fans unacquainted with the Puerto Rican trap en español singer's pounding baritone, head of impressive shaved designs, and eclectic designer wardrobe that adds a distinctly "fashion" swerve on the genre's traditional macho styling. Buoyed by DJ Luian and his powerhouse Puerto Rican label Hear This Music, plus a parade of high-ranking cosigners from Arcángel to J Balvin, Bad Bunny's saturation of the scene in 2017 is startling for an artist who has yet to announce plans for a debut album. Most importantly, his particular brand of success is a strong omen of what the next years will bring for the Latin music industry.
Bad Bunny's (aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) story ignited last January with a "prende otro phillie bebé." It was the first line of the 23-year-old vocalist's track "Diles" which, according to DJ Luian, caught the attention of Hear This Music after it had already garnered a million plays on Ocasio's SoundCloud page. "Dice que le gusta hacerlo con mis temas de trap," he croons, an addictive beat cradling husky assertions of his sexual prowess. The DIY track's success convinced Hear This Music that their young artist's breakout moment had arrived. They stacked a "Diles" remix with multiple generations of urbano heavyweights — emergent reggaetonero Ozuna alongside established ones like Arcángel, Farruko, and Ñengo Flow. The broad show of force established Bad Bunny's versatility; he had the blessing of giants, yet was himself part of el género's new wave. Listeners fell hard, the lyric video for "Diles" alone racking up over 320 million YouTube views and anointing Bad Bunny as Latin trap's new featured vocalist of choice.
It was the start of a heavy run. Bad Bunny's cutting, luxe-voiced lyrics — aided no doubt by his artful pout, video charisma, and parade of fanciful wardrobe choices — captured fans' attention and even inspired impersonators. In the year after "Diles," he's churned out viral singles featuring a universe of hitmakers from Karol G to Nicky Jam on a near weekly basis. Bad Bunny currently clocks in at 5.7 million monthly Spotify listeners. He has over a billion views on YouTube, the latter of which has played an important role in distribution for many Puerto Rico's trap artists, especially ones like Anuel AA, who have found their content banned from the radio for explicit lyrics.
Bad Bunny's second hit "Tu No Vive Así" paired him once again with Arcángel for a trap-slung anthem, which in turn set the stage for Bunny's first massive solo moment, the pitch-black musing "Soy Peor." That tale of love gone rancid reads as Bad Bunny's trapero-player origin story, and helped fuel his reputation for heartfelt if twisted romanticism. It garnered a phalanx of response videos, including the clapback put out by vocalist Lady Lauudy. She was dubiously identified as Bunny's ex in a thousand reaching YouTube comments — credit fans' eager theories to the fact that actual details about Bunny's personal life are kept on a tight leash.
Ocasio grew up in the PR beach community of Vega Baja with his parents and two younger brothers. After receiving a Vico C album for Christmas in one of his earliest memories, he says he started singing, songwriting, and producing at 13, counting among his inspirations Héctor Lavoe and Michael Jordan. Bad Bunny reportedly came up with his artist name from a photo of him as a first grader on Easter, looking malevolent in a pair of bunny ears he had been forced to wear. The gag, as he told Keiry Narvaez in her En La Intimidad video interview series, is that "bunnies are sweet; I'm sweet." Ocasio studied communications at the University of Puerto Rico's Arecibo campus before getting his family's blessings to focus on music. This pivot paid off — Ocasio reportedly first caught DJ Luian's eye while he was still performing at small San Juan shows and posting videos of himself singing on Instagram. So fresh is Bad Bunny's fame, he spent a few moments before performing at this year's Premios Juventud reminiscing to fans that in 2016, he had to race home from his job at a grocery store to catch the televised awards show.
"My goal is for trap to stabilize and for it to be given the space it deserves in the media."
In early 2017, Ocasio linked with J Balvin, the crossover star of reggaeton whose Energía LP showed the lengths at which dancehall, reggaeton, and Latin trap could be spliced with pop's current tendencies to produce addictive, globally popular hits. Their first collaboration "Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola" was just that, with Bunny's trap tendencies re-spun by a cha cha bop. The two artists romped in sherbet-colored two-piece looks and rose-embroidered denim in the music video, Balvin's neon locks a fair match to Bunny's artistically carved cranial crop circles. Before Ocasio embarked on his North American and European tours, the two found a moment to perform the hit live at the Latin Billboard Awards, a solid presentation to the international crowds to which Balvin has explicitly decided to direct his career since Energía dropped a year ago.
Today Bad Bunny is one of the most sought-after artists in his genre, and he's also making waves far outside the world of reggaeton and Latin trap. Rapper Meek Mill posted a video of himself singing along to "Soy Peor," seemingly unaware of the Ocasio line "y están como Meek Mill sin batería" on "Tu No Vive Así." But even as the music industry turns into a rabbit's warren, many have wondered what Bad Bunny's success means for Latin trap in terms of genre integrity. In a January interview with Rapetón, Arcángel opined, "Trap is not romantic music. [Today's artists are] making good R&B with a trap beat. Trap music is music that comes from the trap house…We're calling everything trap that doesn't have reggaeton's beat." The challenge to Bad Bunny's breakup trap was clear. But Arcángel's concerns appeared to take a backseat to his business sense when a few weeks later he released "Me Acostumbré." The creeping track featured none other than El Conejo Malvado, who fades out of the song asserting not just his participation in, but his leadership of the current trap movement: "Oye, díselo qué la corona del trap la tenemos nosotros."
Traditionalists familiar with Anuel's hardcore tendencies may find room to question Bad Bunny's emphasis on love scorned in many of his lyrics. But given the varied evolutions of the genre currently taking place in Latin America, it's a rough time to be a trap purist. Practically speaking, it appears that there's no schism that Bunny's upward trajectory can't dispel. After rumors of a potential rivalry between him and the incarcerated Anuel churned, Bunny posted an honorific Instagram tribute to the emcee. Their teams quickly turned the situation into an opportunity for collaboration. In May, the duo released their first track together. "La Última Vez," to the surprise of any fans awaiting a street anthem, turned out to be a Spanish-language redux of Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself," complete with a scratchy jailhouse recording from Anuel.
"People love to put a name on this — [but] I make music," Bad Bunny said. "Trap used to be a concept, a lifestyle. Unfortunately nowadays you can search a music site for trap and 100 different songs come up, with a certain kind of beat. Trap is defined by a beat, you know?" He's the commercial edge of Latin trap, and given his current trajectory, seems to have plans to take that beat as far as he can into the realm of popular culture. "My goal is for trap to stabilize and for it to be given the space it deserves in the media, without having to be censored," the vocalist once said.
"People who didn't know Spanish were singing my songs. It was something incredible."
His photogenic presence, rich vocal bassline, and swagger made him an excellent draft to Hear This Music, a label that had already experienced more than its share of mainstream Latin trap success. Last year, the production house deployed "La Ocasión," a seductive, 808-employing hit featuring De La Ghetto, Ozuna, Arcángel, and Anuel. That song's success led Anuel to announce on Facebook, "In the history of trap, there's never going to be a song more cabrón than 'La Ocasión.'"
The firm was no doubt on the lookout for an artist to encapsulate the new hybrid sound, and who could capitalize on urbano fans' fever for all things trap. In Bad Bunny, they found a talented vocalist and an emcee with a healthy respect for urbano predecessors, who could marshal on-point cultural references that speak to Latino hip-hop fans. "No tengo cuatro babys, tengo 23 como Mike," he raps on Karol G's cautionary tale for internet stalkers "Ahora Me Llama," the words a nod to Maluma's oddly controversial anthem "Cuatro Babys" and MJ's beloved jersey number from the player's Bulls era. On "No Te Hagas," he makes a cheeky reference to Puerto Rican beauty queen (and Residente's former boo) Denise Quiñones. "Tú extrañas este bicho como Denise extraña el de René." Now that the Bad Bunny experiment has paid off, Hear This Music is intent on getting due credit. "Bad Bunny is my artist, mine, mine," announced DJ Luian late last year. "I make the decisions, me, and if I don't want something, that's it!"
Arcángel is right to point out that today's Latin trap isn't coming to listeners straight from the trap house, but it's unclear who, if anyone, cares. In the U.S., the term has long been used to referred to Flosstradamus and Baauer-style EDM, a strange hybridization that music journalist David Drake called "an unnecessary, insecure and ahistorical crossing of wires" way back in 2012. Given the black Nuyorican role in the creation of hip-hop, it makes sense that PR artists like Ozuna and Bryant Myers would be at the forefront of the trap industry's evolutions in Latin American countries.
Narrative and identity as a definition of the genre has been tossed aside by many mainstream Latino artists, from Farruko, Fuego, and Noriel to more emergent voices like Spain's Los Santos (formerly PXXR GVNG) and experimental producers à la Argentina's CL∩B H∀TS, who have begun applying trap's distortion and darker flows to themes that have little to do with drug dealing-induced ennui and anxiety coming from Atlanta. The change goes beyond what you hear — the fact that Bad Bunny and other light-skinned artists are becoming best sellers in a genre pioneered by black vocalists and producers is another salient (and controversial) feature of trap en español's recent history.
But perhaps the biggest test that Ocasio now has to face may come from questions about his strength as a solo artist. He's built a fanbase from collaborations with the biggest names in the urbano industry, but only time will tell what happens when Bad Bunny is the only name on the lineup. "Tu No Metes Cabra," his most recent single, is only Ocasio's third widely released solo track. Its hook borrows from Hector El Father's "Noche de Travesuras," a classic reggaeton track from 2004 that like the fateful "Diles" remix, plays as a savvy nod by Ocasio to the genre's roots, this time refreshed with Bunny's flair for pop culture references. In this case, it's packed with more sports nods ("Shaquille O'Neal debajo del aro/Nadie me quita un rebote") and an albeit politically questionable 45 reference ("En el VIP soy Donald Trump.") Who knows if Bad Bunny's trajectory will follow feature artists who have soared on their own wings or lost steam once in the spotlight, but given his standout lyrical skills and talent for upstaging costars in video clips, time appears to be on his side.
"People love to put a name on this — I make music."
The amalgamation practiced by Bad Bunny and his peers has turned out to be a hit with international audiences. He's releasing a clothing line by the end of the year and has upcoming collaborations rumored with kingpins of the Latin pop world, manna to the studio execs who are thirsty for the world's next Daddy Yankee supernova crossover moment. "I had a show in Rome, in the south of Italy, where the language is obviously not Spanish," Bad Bunny once explained in a Canadian talk show. "But the people who didn't know Spanish were singing my songs. It was something incredible, something that made me go, 'Wow, we're doing things well, making good music for another culture, another language to get involved in the movement.'" His trap movement may not look the same as that of the genre's pioneers, but fans seem content to see things El Conejo Malvado's way for the next few bars.
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Whenever your jewelry isn't being wornout, it ought to be cared for. This will stop it from becoming lost, tarnished, moist, dusty, or crushed. Having everything in 1 place makes it easier and quicker to find what you're searching for. Launch box only to shut it and place back it is bothersome and time consuming. If a particular gem includes specific instructions for its maintenance that needs it to stay in its box, then it can be set in the jewelry box although still in its original packaging. It should nevertheless be organized so it may be seen with ease so it is not forgotten.


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Well, one day, while Jade was out on the warehouse dock sun bathing…we did a little canine renovating of our own!
That's not just any dog bed…that's an "Orthopedic Foam" bed!
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This position is involved in the evaluation and restoration of various structures such as parking garages, plazas, and building facades. While in this position you will be a member of the restoration team working closely with project managers and design engineers to evaluate existing structures and produce construction document drawings. You will work on a variety of restoration projects including parking structures, facades, plazas, pedestrian bridges, and parking lots, just to name a few.
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Hedge funds have new opportunities in global market: Experts
Author: India Times.com
DUBAI: The uncertainty in global market conditions presents new challenges and opportunities to hedge funds, according to leading industry experts.
"The uncertainty which looks set to be a keynote for 2008 is throwing up a wide range of new opportunities for skill-based managers adding further to the texture to the current hedge fund landscape," Peter Clarke, chief executive of Man Group, parent company of leading hedge fund manager Man Investments, said here Tuesday.
He was speaking at the opening day of the ninth annual Hedge Funds World Middle East Conference.
Hedge funds are aggressively managed portfolios of investments that use advanced investment strategies such as leverage, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets with the goal of generating high returns.
These are usually set up as private investment partnerships that are open to a limited number of investors and require a very large initial minimum investment.
Hedge funds offer investors an alternative to traditional local market investments, giving them the ability to obtain good returns in spite of market corrections.
Investing in such funds can also be used to offset specific market risks, for example by trading strategies with a low or negative correlation to fuel prices.
According to the Monaco-based Hedge Funds Research Institute (HFRI), the industry has grown rapidly, with global hedge fund assets now estimated to exceed $1.8 trillion, almost double from $1 trillion in 2005.
Clarke said that long term macro trends - like demographic shift, climate change and peak oil production - are also expanding the opportunities.
Stating that it was hard to piece together the hedge fund "whole" from the particular dynamics affecting individual strategies, he, however, said: "The growth story for the asset class remains persuasive. On the institutional side, there is a clear trend towards increasing allocations supported by liability funding mismatches - given the current downturn in equity markets - among other motivations as well as the potential for a petrodollar and Asian central bank kicker.
"On the high net worth and ultra high net worth side, although percentage share versus institutional is diminishing, absolute flows look set to remain healthy supported by emerging market wealth and increased longevity," Clarke added.
The current environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was turning the region into a tremendous opportunity to local and international firms operating in alternative investment fields, he said.
"The changing regulatory and investment environment in the region, along with fundamentals and increasingly sophisticated MENA investors make this a time - and a region - of tremendous opportunity for both local and international firms operating in the field of alternative investments," he said.
"As an alternative asset class that can lower risk across a portfolio of investments, hedge funds are an increasingly attractive option for investors here in the Middle East - just as they are for investors across the world."
Antoine Massad, chief executive of Man Investments Middle East, said the turmoil in global financial markets in the past six months had set an intriguing backdrop for examination of hedge funds in the region.
"After more than two decades of using hedge funds, private client investors from the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) states have become familiar with their value as a source of additional return and downside protection in their portfolios. But the financial climate has not often presented as many opportunities as we see today."
Massad said that new initiatives by financial regulators and the dynamism of local markets have made the GCC an attractive market for hedge fund providers.
"Although all these people currently invest outside the region, this is likely to change soon as a result of strong demand for hedge funds that invest in local markets," he said.
Around 600 delegates are attending the two-day event


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Q: GSuite Permissions on Google Cloud Storage Initial Question
I'm trying to do something that I think is somewhat simple, but I can't seem to get it nailed down correctly. I've been trying to create a bucket on GCS that is accessible to anyone in my GSuite organization, but not the larger internet.
I've created an org@mydomain.com group and added all users. I then granted that user permission to view the file in the bucket, but it always says access denied. If the file is marked public then it's accessible without issue. How do I get this setup?
Additional Information

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*I have transferred the project and bucket to my organization

*I have setup the index and 404 pages

*If marked public, everything works as expected

*When I check the permissions of individual files, I don't see anything inherited or more specific than the general project security settings.

*I added the Storage Object Viewer permission to the bucket for my org@domain.com group

When trying to access a file, I get the following response:
<Error>
    AccessDenied
    <Message>Access denied.</Message>

        Anonymous caller does not have storage.objects.get access to compliance.microcimaging.com/test_xray.jpg.

</Error>

So, thinking that it might be thinking I was using a different account, I opened an Incognito Window, logged in as my organization, then attempted to access. That gave me the same message.
I tried adding the org@domain.com user to a single file, which resulted in the same error. I then attempted to add my personal username to the file, which resulted in the same error.
Permission errors have got to be the MOST BORING errors!

A: Seeing that you already created a Google group you can accomplish this quite easily.
On Google Cloud Platform Console go to "Storage -> Browser", and on your bucket, on the menu on the right select "edit bucket permissions".
On "Add members" put org@mydomain.com and give the role of "Storage -> Storage Object Viewer" to give the whole group read only permissions when authenticated or any other permission combination you need.
Alternatively see this documentation about how to set IAM policies on a Gsuite domain, so you can even skip the group part and set access control policies to the Google Cloud products for your domain as a whole.

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Доминик Уест () е английски театрален и филмов актьор, носител на награда на "БАФТА" и награда "Сателит", номиниран е за две награди "Златен глобус". Известни филми с негово участие са "Ричард III", "Невидима заплаха", "28 дни", "Чикаго", "300", "Центурион", "Тайните служби на Дядо Коледа", "Джон Картър", сериалите "Наркомрежа", "Детски психолог", "Аферата" и други.

Биография
Доминик Уест е роден на 15 октомври 1969 г. в Шефилд, Йоркшър, Англия, в семейството на заможни ирландски католици. Доминик е най-малкото от шест деца, баща му Джордж Уест е собственик на фабрика за пластмасови изделия, майка му Моя е домакиня.

Доминик учи първо в "Итън Колидж" и насърчаван от директорът на отдела по драматургия Робърт Фрийдман, решава да стане професионален актьор. Той играе в няколко колежански театрални постановки, включително и главна роля в "Хамлет". След като завършва "Итън" се записва в "Тринити Колидж" в Дъблин. Дипломира се в "Тринити" с бакалавърска степен по литература и се записва да учи актьорско майсторство в училището за музика и драма "Гилдхол" в Лондон. Дипломира се през 1995 г.

Доминик Уест има любовна връзка с Поли Астор (дъщеря на британския политик Майкъл Астор). Двамата имат дъщеря на име Марта родена през 1998 г. Доминик и Поли се разделят две години след раждането на дъщеря им. През 2010 г. Уест се жени за Катрин Фицджералд. Двамата имат четири деца. Катрин Фицджералд е англо-ирландска аристократка, дъщеря на Дезмънд Фицджералд, 29-и рицар на Глин.

Частична филмография
 1995 – "Ричард III" (Richard III)
 1996 – "Да устоиш на Пикасо" (Surviving Picasso)
 1999 – "Сън в лятна нощ" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
 1999 – "Междузвездни войни: Епизод I - Невидима заплаха" (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
 1999 – "Коледна песен" (A Christmas Carol)
 2000 – "28 дни" (28 Days)
 2001 – "Рок звезда" (Rock Star)
 2002 – "Виолончелото" (Ten Minutes Older: The Cello)
 2002 – "Чикаго" (Chicago)
 2003 – "Усмивката на Мона Лиза" (Mona Lisa Smile)
 2004 – "Забравените" (The Forgotten)
 2007 – "Ханибал Лектър: Зараждането на злото" (Hannibal Rising)
 2007 – "300"
 2008 – "Наказателят: Военна зона" (Punisher: War Zone)
 2002 – 2008 – "Наркомрежа" (сериал, The Wire)
 2010 – "Центурион" (Centurion)
 2011 – "Детски психолог" (сериал, Appropriate Adult)
 2011 – "Тайните служби на Дядо Коледа" (анимация, Arthur Christmas)
 2011 – "Джони Инглиш се завръща" (Johnny English Reborn)
 2012 – "Джон Картър" (John Carter)
 2014 – "Гордост" (Pride)
 2016 – "Пулсът на парите" (Money Monster)
 2016 – "Търсенето на Дори" (Finding Dory)
 2014 – "Аферата" (The Affair)
 2017 – "Квадратът" (The Square)

Бележки

Външни препратки

Английски актьори и актриси
Носители на награда BAFTA
Родени в Шефилд

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records from across the U.S.; more than 300,000 8-year-olds—about 8 percent of U.S.
of an autism-spectrum disorder. Not all groups were affected equally, however.
condition affected 1 in every 70 8-year-old boys but only 1 in every 315 girls.
Less dire was the news about how well children with autism function.
disability—far less than the three-quarters that previous studies had found.
trigger is at least partially responsible.
reduce the stigma and obstacles many autistic patients face.
Speaks said in a written statement.


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> Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked to dry up sources of funding for Arab crime syndicates
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked to dry up sources of funding for Arab crime syndicates
State funds will no longer be channeled to Arab crime families who have seized control of municipal services.
Ido Ben Porat
Crime Ayelet Shaked Arab Violence In Israel
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked will be implementing a new system designed to cut off sources of funding from Arab crime organizations and individuals.
Shaked decided on the necessity of such a system after discovering how in many Arab towns and villages, crime families have gained control over municipal services such as garbage disposal and transportation, appropriating state funds designated for these purposes themselves.
Shaked will be spearheading a program whereby the services will be provided via local authorities, in order to avoid the situation in which the state and the Interior Ministry transfer budgets to the local authorities which then transfer them onward to those responsible for the increasing crime rate in Arab society.
"We will be fighting against crime in the Arab sector using all the means at our disposal," Shaked said, "and also combating the situation of lawlessness in the Negev region."
Shaked added that, "This is just the beginning. The drying-up of funding for crime syndicates is an important step to be taking. Mayors will no longer be subject to extortion."
Bennett: Govt. will correct years of neglect of crime
Knesset legislates minimum sentence for illegal weapons
Forty rifles, 13 pistols: 52 indictments follow undercover op.
Three police officers injured in weapons raid
Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened a meeting of the inter-ministerial taskforce dealing with crime and violence in the Arab sector, and authorized the implementation of a new program to deal with illegal possession of weapons in Arab towns and villages.
"We are going to sort this out, investing a large amount of time, resources, and effort into addressing the problem of Arab violence and crime," Bennett stated at the meeting. "The Arab sector needs to learn to see the State as the solution to its problems, not their enemy."


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Really sad to see that for some reason It says that I need a newer version to place this lot in my game, even though I have everything requested..
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package commands

import (
	"fmt"
	"math"
	"strings"

	"github.com/jaypipes/ghw"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"
	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

// cpuCmd represents the install command
var cpuCmd = &cobra.Command{
	Use:   "cpu",
	Short: "Show CPU information for the host system",
	RunE:  showCPU,
}

// showCPU show CPU information for the host system.
func showCPU(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
	cpu, err := ghw.CPU()
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Wrap(err, "error getting CPU info")
	}

	switch outputFormat {
	case outputFormatHuman:
		fmt.Printf("%v\n", cpu)

		for _, proc := range cpu.Processors {
			fmt.Printf(" %v\n", proc)
			for _, core := range proc.Cores {
				fmt.Printf("  %v\n", core)
			}
			if len(proc.Capabilities) > 0 {
				// pretty-print the (large) block of capability strings into rows
				// of 6 capability strings
				rows := int(math.Ceil(float64(len(proc.Capabilities)) / float64(6)))
				for row := 1; row < rows; row = row + 1 {
					rowStart := (row * 6) - 1
					rowEnd := int(math.Min(float64(rowStart+6), float64(len(proc.Capabilities))))
					rowElems := proc.Capabilities[rowStart:rowEnd]
					capStr := strings.Join(rowElems, " ")
					if row == 1 {
						fmt.Printf("  capabilities: [%s\n", capStr)
					} else if rowEnd < len(proc.Capabilities) {
						fmt.Printf("                 %s\n", capStr)
					} else {
						fmt.Printf("                 %s]\n", capStr)
					}
				}
			}
		}
	case outputFormatJSON:
		fmt.Printf("%s\n", cpu.JSONString(pretty))
	case outputFormatYAML:
		fmt.Printf("%s", cpu.YAMLString())
	}
	return nil
}

func init() {
	rootCmd.AddCommand(cpuCmd)
}

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Jewish Educators, Partners Meet to Discuss Future of Jewish Education
Victoria Brown
From May 15 to May 16 Jewish day school educators, partners and funders met to discuss the nature of Jewish day schools and their role in helping young Jews embrace their Judaism. The conference was organized by the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge (JEIC), a program of the Mayberg Foundation.
"JEIC is providing a platform for Jewish educators and innovators in the field to really test new models of conveying Jewish education and really providing a source of leadership for the Jewish education field," said Manette Mayberg, trustee of the Mayberg Foundation.
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The conference's theme was "Values Illuminating Actions."
"What we see now is that there's often an emphasis on evaluative processes in Jewish schools that focus on grades and scores and rankings," Mayberg said. "But it doesn't capture at all whether that student is building a lifelong love of Jewish learning, of Jewish life, participation, leadership. A strong Jewish identity that will carry them through life."
The conference had a unique set up, said Sharon Freundel, managing director of JEIC. "We don't have normal sessions. There are no plenaries. There are no guest speakers. The first session [we had participants analyze] a bunch of policies from actual Jewish day school handbooks [to see if they matched espoused values.]"
One of the attendees, Leslie Ginsparg Klein, Ph.D, academic dean at Women's Institute of Torah Seminary, said that the conference was a great place to get new ideas for her own institution's projects.
"My institution is in the process of creating a new science lab and I have spoken to people at this conference and gotten great ideas," Klein said. "I met new people who I will be keeping in touch with and continuing conversations."
Amian Kelemer, CEO of the Louise B. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education (CJE), who was attending the conference for the first time, said that the conference helped expand her thinking beyond the conference itself.
"I have a 10 year old at home who goes to day school…I was telling him about this session on tefillah," Kelemer said, "and we had this incredible conversation…that's what this conference did…it was like lighting a spark and you started to think about ways it impacted your own professional work. Whether conference participants were educators or donors, there was a 'meeting of the minds' in that our focus is always the student and the Jewish values we want them to be inspired by."
JEIC and the Mayberg Foundation's plans for future include more conferences and more partnerships. While next year's conference dates has been scheduled, they're still deciding on a location, Freundel said.
As for partnerships, JEIC has been sponsoring new and innovative models in Jewish education at a select number of schools across the country.
"We're focusing now on implementation and helping those models to scale up to be embedded in other schools," Mayberg said.
Disclaimer: Louis Mayberg, one of the trustees of the Mayberg Foundation, is also an owner of Mid-Atlantic Media.
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Fayetteville Announces 9/11 Weekend Events
Thursday, September 2, 2021 3:00 PM
Organizations band together to recognize the 20th Anniversary of 9/11/2001
Fayetteville, NC – From Sept. 9 - 11, events in Fayetteville will recognize the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks.
"Through Fayetteville's relationship with Fort Bragg, the community has a unique perspective on the impacts of 9/11/2001," says Cape Fear Regional Theater (CFRT) Artistic Director Mary Kate Burke. "We invite the community to come together and remember, reflect, and ultimately celebrate the triumph of the American spirit."
Weekend events include:
Thu. Sept. 9 – Distinguished Speaker Series with David Zucchino, New York Times contributing writer and recipient of two Pulitzer Prize awards. This talk will be held at 6 pm at the U.S. Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum in the Yarborough Bank Theater. This event is free for members and active-duty military, a $10 fee will be collected for members of the public.
David Zucchino, a Fayetteville native and Terry Sanford High School graduate, is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He has been reporting regularly from Afghanistan for 20 years and will focus his discussion on coverage there. He is also the author of the book "Thunder Run", which is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Zucchino was recently awarded a Pulitzer Prize this year for his book, "Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy". He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his reporting from South Africa. He's a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of Lebanon, Africa, inner-city Philadelphia, and Iraq. He has reported from more than three dozen countries, most recently from Afghanistan.
Sat. Sept. 11 - Field of Honor® Opening Ceremony. The ceremony starts at 8 am on the Parade Field of the U.S. Army & Special Operations Museum.
Each flag in the Field of Honor comes with its own story and displays a tag identifying both the person who sponsored the flag and the flag honoree. This living display of heroism flies as a patriotic tribute to the strength and unity of Americans, and honors all who are currently serving, those that have served, and the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation's security and freedom.
After the opening ceremony, individuals who purchased Field of Honor flags will be allowed to ring Fayetteville's Unity Bell in honor or memory of their loved one.
Sat. Sept. 11 – Where Were You? This free event starts at 7:30 pm in Festival Park in Downtown Fayetteville.
"Where Were You?" a collaboration between local organizations and Fort Bragg, will feature live performances from CFRT, the Fayetteville Symphony, the 82nd Airborne All American Chorus, Cumberland Choral Arts, and others. "Where Were You?" will honor this important moment in American history.
Sat. Sept. 11 –Temporary Exhibit featuring World Trade Center beam and stone from the Pentagon. This special presentation will be placed in the main atrium of the U.S. Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum. The free exhibit is available for viewing during regular museum hours.
Sat. Sept 11 – 3rd Annual Fayetteville 9/11 Stair Climb. Segra Stadium hosts the climb, which starts at 8:47 am. The cost to climb is $30. Proceeds will benefit programs provided by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to support families of local fallen firefighters and the Fire Department of New York Counseling Services Unit.
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Today I am blogging from the balmy state of Iowa. Man, it has been hot here. We had snow in April and went straight to summer. I think Mother Nature forgot Spring. It makes me sad as Spring is my favorite time of the year. Love seeing all the new grass and watching the trees get their new buds. But we can't control Mother Nature so I will take what we get.
Today I used the new set, Natures Roots. It is such a lovely card and you can use it for masculine cards, birthday cards, or as I did here sympathy cards. Don't ask me why I used Poppy Parade for a sympathy card but I just felt it went really well with the Crumb Cake. What do you think?


A gigantic and massive 'SHOUT OUT' to my oh-so-talented sister Kaitlyn, for these beautiful photos! I will cherish them forever! It was no easy task taking photos of Zander, especially after his nap. I'm not sure about other toddlers, but Z isn't always a happy camper when he wakes up. So needless to say there were a couple tantrums, a wee-bit of myself raising my voice (ok, maybe a lot of that) and a ton of Zander running to Kaitlyn in most of the shots she captured. He loves his Katie-bug so much. It did get to be a bit much that day when all I wanted was 1 family photo that everyone seemed happy in! I'm so very happy Kaitlyn caught the amazing shots she did.
But the best photo, the photo that is "THE" Christmas photo was the last one she took! I'm so glad she had patience and kept taking shots because that one just warms my heart! And I love all the other in-between photos too. Another particular fave is the photo of Z almost crying, that's real life for us!
I'm not surprised by the least that my little sister pulled through on this (as I call it) "family photo challenge." She lights up when we talk about design or photography and she is always my comrade in any photo shoot idea. So, I'm trying to convince her to keep her focus on an Art degree as she will almost have 2 years left of college! AH, I used to change her diapers! She's growing up so fast. And not only that, she is one of the nicest human beings I know! She always has a smile on her face and it really lights up a dark room. And she's so giving of her time and money ;0) In my mind, she must continue on this path! It would be a shame for the world to not see her create beautiful things!
So, "Thank You" Katie-bug for putting up with all of us not so happy afternoon campers. LOL! We love you!
agh, I just want to squeeze that face through the computer!
ok, Dan rolls his eyes every time I bring up the fact that we never got Engagement Photos, but I imagine this is how I'd want 'em!


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Q: Regex using result for replace String I want select all the text between
 and /h3> <. After selection I like to replace the value of my String with the result. In the following example the result should be Basic Information
String test="
Basic Information

";
test = test.replaceAll("
(.*?)
", "$1");

But at the moment the result is

Basic Information

A: With regex you can do:
String test="
Basic Information

";
String repl = test.replaceFirst(".*
([^&]+).*/h3> <.*", "$1");
//=> Basic Information

Though you can avoid regex altogether and use String APIs to extract same text as well.
Alternatively you can use this regex for matching:

([^&]+).*/h3> <

and grab captured group #1 using Pattern and Matches APIs.

A: Try this:
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("
(.*)<\\/h3>");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("
Basic Information

");
matcher.find();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
matcher.appendReplacement(sb,"$1");
String result = sb.toString();

The reason why you cannot do that with just replaceFirst it's because the appendTail method is called at the end of the replaceFirst method. The matcher will replace the groups you did not specified with empty,the groups you did specified with their value and of course the non-matching bits which well, since no match was created for them, they do not get replaced at all.
In the case of your query:
group 0:

group 1: Basic Information
group 0:

non-match:

This is just a generic example of what you can do with the matchers. Of course if you just want the group in specific... Well just use:
matcher.group(1)


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By Richard Guerrero, Sydney Spangler | Published: November 05, 2019
Marquez, Moore (center), and Morales traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico, to attend the Encuentro Internacional Del Mariachi y La Charrería.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – "Mariachi is a part of the fabric of our South Texas community, and it's important to build connections with one another in a way that's meaningful," said Amanda Marquez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi First-Year Seminar Professional Assistant Professor.
To showcase and celebrate mariachi in the Coastal Bend, the Island University will host its first mariachi festival on Saturday, May 9, in the Performing Arts Center (PAC). The festival will include performances by area and regional high school ensembles, and an evening performance by the University's Mariachi de la Isla.
"It's our hope to utilize the University as a hub for the performing arts to serve and better reflect the culture of the local community," said Marquez who specializes in Mexican-American media history. "The South Texas region possesses a rich Mexican-American history and culture that has shaped multiple communities and deserves greater recognition and respect as a central part of the culture and identity of our institution."
The mariachi festival began as an idea that was fostered by Dr. Rai Morales, Associate Professor of Trombone and Music Director for Mariachi de la Isla and Islander Trombone Choir, and Jim Moore, PAC Director. Thanks to a competitive Association of Performing Arts Professional grant, Morales, Moore, and Marquez traveled in early fall 2019 to Guadalajara, Mexico, to attend the Encuentro Internacional Del Mariachi y La Charrería.
"We hit the ground running," Moore said. "The festival is all over the city. There was a mariachi Catholic Mass. There were 5-year-olds and people in their 90s singing and dancing. It tells me that underneath the surface, there's a real desire to have the music."
According to Moore, the trio hoped to learn more about the history and growth of mariachi in the location it originated in order to start and grow a festival at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
"There are many potential parallels seen here in Corpus Christi and in Guadalajara," Morales said. "Even though we don't see it as often in Corpus Christi, there's a genuine following for this type of music. It's in our culture."
Immersed in the city of Guadalajara, the trio attended concerts, visited historic landmarks in Centro Historico de Guadalajara, and spoke with mariachi professionals to understand the unique connections that music fosters in communities and the logistics necessary to create a successful mariachi festival.
"Throughout my music career, I have seen music unite people," Morales said. "Guadalajara's festival brought in so many people of different ages and all walks of life from all over the world. I left inspired to bring that energy back to the Island University."
The A&M-Corpus Christi Mariachi Festival Committee has expanded to include two more Islander professors: Andrea Montalvo-Hamid, Professional Assistant Professor of English and Hispanic Heritage Month Coordinator, and Dr. Kenneth Javier Iyescas, Associate Director of Bands, Assistant Professor of Horn and Music Education, and Director of Islander Pep Band.
Islander Student Film 'El Oso Loco' to Premiere at 2019 Rockport Film Festival


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When Paige created the Hoxton Straight Ankle jeans they had the perfect ankle-framing style in mind to show off with heels. Crafted from premium denim with plenty of stretch, these jeans have a flattering high-rise and classic straight leg ending in a cropped 27" length. Made from Paige vintage fabric, this spring pair comes in Stockholm, an indigo blue wash with bright finishes and rose gold hardware. This jean is exclusive to Trilogy in the UK.


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Campus hate parade?
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Is America's campus culture becoming anti-Semitic? Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League says no. A recent ADL survey reported that the percentage of anti-Semites on campus is low -- 3 percent of students and 15 percent of faculty. (Why the teachers should be five times more bigoted than their students is an interesting question.)
On campus, a different question is being asked: Can't you oppose Israel's policies without being called an anti-Semite? Of course, but anti-Israel rallies at colleges often bristle with contempt for Jews and anti-Semitic incidents seem to be on the rise. If this were happening to Muslims, there would be a national uproar.
Consider some signs of the times: a pig's head left at the door of the Hillel building at Indiana University, swastikas on a Jewish structure at the University of Colorado, a Hillel center window smashed at the University of California at Berkeley and "F--- the Jews" written on the building.
At the University of California at San Diego, an annual "Anti-Zionism Week" (recently given the more upscale name, "From Oppression to Liberation Week") is supported by student fees. "Very, very anti-Semitic stuff" circulates on the San Diego campus, one Jewish student said, including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and a fake Talmudic quotation giving permission for Jewish males to violate any non-Jewish female over the age of 3. At the University of Chicago, a Jewish student group said, "Jews are being mistreated and intimidated on campus ... anti-Semitism has been made acceptable, even fashionable, by a long process of academic delegitimizing of Israel and Judaism."
Chris Silver, co-chair of the Israel Action Committee at Berkeley, said something similar: "There is a lot of anti-Semitism that goes on here separate from the massive amount of anti-Israel sentiment that can be found in every department and in every classroom." (Off-campus, too. Amiri Baraka, New Jersey's poet laureate, is in the news for anti-Semitism again, this time for some doggerel implicating Jews in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.)
An op-ed writer at The Detroit News asked, "When did anti-Semitism lose its seat on the bus of political correctness?" He meant, why doesn't the PC culture protect Jews? The answer is that seats on the PC bus are reserved for certified victim groups, but Jews don't count. They have been historical victims for centuries, but they are doing too well in America to qualify as officially aggrieved. And as Muslims have been welcomed into the grievance culture, the status of Jews on campus, the stronghold of PC, has become problematic.
Israel itself is often seen as an intolerable colonial outpost, planted in the historically victimized Third World by the West. The things that most Americans admire about Israel, that it has many of the same features as the United States -- free speech, an open society, democratic institutions -- make it a natural target of America-hating campus sentiment.
Hostility to Israel was a strong feature of the New Left in the '60s as it is of the campus left today. And as Boston Globe columnist Cathy Young pointed out, sympathy for the Palestinians, even when they are blowing up Israel's women and children, "stems largely from the knee-jerk instinct to romanticize the 'wretched of the earth.'"
Anti-Israel activism on campus is mostly the work of Muslim students and the far left. Some of the ugliest incidents have occurred in the San Francisco Bay area, where the left is unusually strong. At Berkeley, Chris Silver says, "Instead of rallying behind Iraq, the hard left here tends to keep focusing on Israel."
Sponsors of an anti-Israel conference this past weekend at the University of Michigan condemn the "racism and discrimination inherent in Zionism" (which seems to mean that Israel is an illegitimate state that will have to go) and refuse to criticize the suicide bombings because "it is not our place to dictate the strategies and tactics adopted by the Palestinians."
The primary carrier of the "Israel is illegitimate" message on campus is the movement to get universities to stop investing in corporations that do business in Israel, as they did in corporations that did business in South Africa during apartheid. Divestment won't happen, but a slanderous point is being made, that Israel is a hopelessly racist state, the one nation is the world that must be singled out for financial punishment.
The divestment movement is the successor to last summer's atrocious U.N. conference on racism, which surveyed the entire world and chose to focus only on one "racist" state, Israel. For the backers of divestment, criticism and political opposition to Israeli policies aren't nearly enough. No, the only open, democratic nation in its part of the world must be isolated as a pariah. Is this what people on campus really want?
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Wystawa Przemysłu Hotelowego, Restauracyjnego i Cukierniczego 1927 w Poznaniu – wystawa odbywająca się w okresie od 24 września do 9 października 1927 roku w Poznaniu, na terenie obecnych Międzynarodowych Targów Poznańskich. Była pierwszą zorganizowaną tego typu wystawą i miała m.in. za zadanie stworzenie odpowiednich struktur organizacyjnych przemysłu hotelowego i restauracyjnego w Polsce, a także zobrazowanie dotychczasowego rozwoju obu branż.

Opis
Organizacją wystawy zajął się Miejski Urząd Targu Poznańskiego. Wystawę otworzył, reprezentujący rząd, naczelnik wydziału handlu wewnętrznego Ministerstwa Przemysłu i Handlu Alfred Siebeneichen. Podczas otwarcia obecni byli m.in.: wicewojewoda poznański Józef Nikodemowicz, wiceprezydent Poznania Mikołaj Kiedacz, dyrektor Targu Poznańskiego Mieczysław Krzyżankiewicz, prezydent Wielkopolskiej Izby Rolniczej Wiktor Szulczewski i prezes Izby Handlowo-Przemysłowej Stanisław Pernaczyński.

Ekspozycja prezentowana była w Pałacu Wystawowym, gdzie umieszczono wystawę przemysłu hotelowego i cukierniczego i w Hali Maszyn, gdzie ulokowano wystawców związanych z przemysłem restauracyjnym. Wystawie towarzyszyły codziennie, stałe konkursy gotowania i przyrządzania potraw.

W czasie trwania wystawy, 28 września 1927 roku zorganizowano ogólnopolski zjazd restauratorów, w którym wzięli udział także przedstawiciele władz i sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej oraz organizacji społecznych.

Rozpoczęcie zjazdu odbyło się w sali mieszczącej się na terenie Ogrodu Zoologicznego. Zjazd otworzył Roman Antoniewicz, prezes Polsko-Chrześcijańskiego Związku Towarzystw Restauratorów na Polskę zachodnią, zrzeszającego także właścicieli hoteli i kawiarń.

Zobacz też
 Wystawa Związku Miast Polskich 1925 w Poznaniu
 Jubileuszowa Wystawa Ogrodnicza 1926 w Poznaniu
 Powszechna Wystawa Krajowa
 Międzynarodowa Wystawa Komunikacji i Turystyki 1930 w Poznaniu

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Medal nagrodowy wybity z okazji wystawy

Imprezy targowe w II Rzeczypospolitej
Historia Poznania 1918–1939
1927 w Polsce


You can use Mathcad's integral operator to numerically evaluate the definite integral of a function over some interval.
• Click in a blank space and type &. An integral appears, with placeholders for the integrand, the limits of integration, and the variable of integration.
• Click on the bottom placeholder and type O. Click on the top placeholder and type [Ctrl] p/4. These are the upper and lower limits of integration.
Mathcad uses a numerical algorithm called Romberg integration to approximate the integral of an expression over an interval of real numbers.
• The limits of integration must be real. The expression to be integrated can, however, be either real or complex.
• Except for the integrating variable, all variables in the integrand must have been defined elsewhere in the worksheet.
• The integrating variable must be a single variable name.
• If the integrating variable involves units, the upper and lower limits of integration must have the same units.
Like all numerical methods, Mathcad's integration algorithm can have difficulty with ill-behaved integrands. If the expression to be integrated has singularities, discontinuities, or large and rapid fluctuations, Mathcad's solution may be inaccurate.
Because Mathcad's integration method divides the interval into four subintervals and then successively doubles the number of points, it can return incorrect answers for periodic functions with having periods 1/2n times the length of the interval. To avoid this problem, divide the interval into two uneven subintervals and integrate over each subinterval separately.
Although the result of an integration is a single number, you can always use an integral with a range variable to obtain results for many numbers at once. You might do this, for example, when you set up a variable limit of integration. Figure 12-7 shows how to do this.
Keep in mind that calculations such as those shown in Figure 12-7 may require repeatedly evaluating an integral. This may take considerable time depending on the complexity of the integrals, the length of the interval, and the value of TOL (see below).
You can change the value of the tolerance by including definitions for TOL directly in .A your worksheet as shown on Figure 12-8. You can also change the tolerance by using the Built-In Variables tab when you choose Options from the Math menu. To see the effect of changing the tolerance, choose Calculate Document from the Math menu to recalculate all the equations in the worksheet.
IfMathcad's approximations to an integral fail to converge to an answer, Mathcad marks the integral with an appropriate error message. Failure to converge can occur when the function has singularities or "spikes" in the interval or when the interval is extremely long.
You can use Mathcad to evaluate complex contour integrals. To do so, first parametrize the contour. Then integrate over the parameter. If the parameter is something other than arc length, you must also include the derivative of the parametrization as a correction factor. Figure 12-9 shows an example. Note that the imaginary unit i used in specifying the path must be typed as li.
How to do a complex contour integral in Mathcad.
Keep in mind that double integrals take much longer to converge to an answer than single integrals. Wherever possible, use an equivalent single integral in place of a double integral.


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Campaign Diary #4 (the sick day)
So, a vicious stomach flu has descended on the East Coast and our DM failed his CON save against it. So this week we're taking a breather. We've decided to use this week to paint a more detailed picture of the characters in our campaign for you.
Gax: (Male, Human, Sorcerer) Gax is a physically imposing figure. The inspiration for the character was a cross between Andre the Giant and Lenny from Of Mice and Men. Gax towers above the rest of the party (he's abnormally large for a human, again think Andre the Giant but with a giant blonde afro-esque hair thing going on). Gax is a bit of a simpleton but don't let that fool you into thinking that he can't carry his own considerable weight! Through some clever use of the Magic Initiate Feat and his celestial heritage (his father allegedly is a celestial being of some sort) Gax is a veritable Swiss-Army-Knife of spellcasting. He loves animals and uses his ability to cast Speak With Animals as often as he can to chat with whatever critters (large or small) that he winds up running into. Gax migrated from the South and carries with him a friend from there Boku- a small song-bird that nests in his voluminous hair. Raised in a traveling circus by his mother Gax can eek out a living when he needs to with his trusty fiddle and his surprisingly good singing voice!
Siddron: (Male, 1/2 Hobgoblin, Wizard) Siddron is a wiry and tenacious 1/2 Hobgoblin who lived with his mother's (His mother was a Hobgoblin) troop until she was killed and he was pushed out and rejected because of his mixed heritage. Siddron is the spawn of a tryst between his mother and a traveling holy-man- said holy-man being Hadrian a 1/2 elf cleric from our previous campaign that was set 25 years in the past. On a side-note Hadrian was a much beloved character from our last campaign who willingly gave his life to save a friend's. Siddron headed north to start his own life away from the troop he was raised in. He is a very capable wizard and studious to a fault. He documents and records every potential new discovery he makes along his travels, spends hours combing libraries in NorthWood, and reads anything he can get his hands on.
Zattera: (Male, Human, Rogue/swashbuckler) Zattera is a slightly built olive-skinned sailor from way down south. How he wound up in the Northern Reach is anyone's guess. He made his living on the deck of ships before landing in the chilly north. Zattera has hauled ropes on humble merchantmen and been a part of boarding parties for privateers… and maybe even a pirate or two in his time. Zattera is a survivor! Quick with a sword or cross-bow, light on his feet, and his wits are as sharp as his blades! Years of rough living as a sailor make Zattera a great asset to his friends… and a liability to his enemies.
Wolrf: (Male, Human, Barbarian). Wolrf (pronounced "Vulf") is a stocky ashen-skinned barbarian with piercing blue eyes. His memory only stretches back about 5 years, when he awoke naked and alone in the wilderness of The Northern Reach. Literally a man with no past he was taken in by the Free-Folk of the Barrens; the Goliath barbarian tribes that live on the outskirts of The Barrens of the Northern Reach. Their way of life is the only way of life Wolrf knows but the elders of the clan set him forth on his rite of passage quest – to find out how he fits into the world of men. Wolrf seeks to find his past, if he has one. In the meantime he'll live by the great sword and amass a collection of trophies from beasts and foes who fall at the blade of his weapons!
Magnus: (Male, Human, Artificer) Bearing the scars from some fiery disaster this lanky human hails from the second largest city in The Northern Reach: Bard's Harbor. Magnus never really mentions his family or his lineage, which is odd for a Brethon (the sub-race of humans he's a part of). His lingering injuries from the mysterious event in his past still linger, and while they hamper his breathing they do nothing to impede his genius. There are many gnomes in the world that don't have Magnus' penchant for tinkering. His keen mind and creativity make him invaluable to the team. When you pair Magnus' hands-on brilliance with Siddron's book smarts the team has a very solid base as far as matters of intelligence go.
Jung: (Female, 1/2 Orc, Ranger) Jung lived among a war-band of Orcs until she was driven out by them. She made her way to NorthWood and found what work she could to support herself. Mostly working as a shepherdess in the warmer months, taking the herds out to distant meadows and guarding them after dark. It was on the hills and mountain-sides that surround NorthWood that she honed her Ranger skills. It was also in the dark nights on those mountains that her elaborate set of superstitious beliefs grew. Jung is constantly making a talisman or a trinket to ward off some ill-effect or bestow a blessing on it's wearer. As a ranger she's a good as any other with her level of experience, as a warder off of dire evils she's in a league of her own!
Torrik: (Male, Dwarf, Barbarian) Torrik is still a very young dwarf, in fact he's still an adolescent. He fled from his home in the Dwarven town of Daimuk, for what reason only time may tell… There's just something off-putting about Torrik, a disconcerting dark energy seems to live on any weapon he wields, his eyes seems a little too dark, his skin a little too pale, and there's that pesky raven that follows him around wherever he goes. The one time his companions saw him away from his weapons (in a brief stay in a jail-cell) they all noticed that while there he looked like any other Dwarvish lad, but as soon as his weapons and armor were returned to him all the things that are a little off about him were back again. What caused this lad to flee his home? What is this dark energy at work in his weapons? Keep checking back and one day (maybe) all will be made clear!
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I really enjoyed this book centered around two women in a remote Irish island in the late 1950s. I'm a big fan of Ireland and Celtic myth, and loved both the story of life on those islands and the interweaving of fairy lore and magic and the saint/goddess Brigid into the tale. I wasn't expecting as many faery/magic/magical realism elements as I found, and loved them all the more for the surprise.
I thought the writing was excellent and the slow unfolding of the characters' back stories intermixed with the present day of the story really added to how the tale unfolded. The characters and their wishes and goals and lives were complex and well-rounded.
As a lesbian, I liked the relationship between two women that emerged, in a way that felt true for the characters involved and the time and place, but was also remarkable to my modern eye for its complete lack of a sense of queer identity.
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants' lives and tangled relationships—perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey, Sarah Waters, and Angela Carter.
I was pleasantly surprised how good this book was!
Emer reminded me of my Mom, which really left me feeling like "This poor woman, suffering with such mental illness to believe in fairies!" ... but ... wow!
And the sort of lesbian love story in the middle was not distracting or offensive at all. It did add to the story.
"Magical realism of the best kind, utterly devoid of whimsy."
who don't hold back any love.
The day of the evacuation, the first of May, 1960, dawned cloudless and still, weather so fine the islanders said it was stolen.
Steeped in Irish history and lore, The Stolen Child is a mesmerizing descent into old world beliefs, and a captivating exploration of desire, myth, motherhood, and love in all its forms.
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Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and IDG Capital are said to be investing in the Bitcoin mining company.
Beijing-headquartered Bitmain, the world's largest Bitcoin mining hardware producer, is reportedly in the process of raising $50 million from technology-focused venture capital firms.
Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and IDG Capital are said to be investing in the Bitcoin mining giant, according to unnamed sources close to the matter cited by Bloomberg. Bitmain is said to be taking the VC funding approach in order to raise its profile among mainstream investors. The company is considered to be worth billions of dollars and might be looking at an IPO at some point in the future.
Sequoia Capital is an American VC firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 1972, Sequoia manages multiple investment funds including funds specific to India, Israel and China. IDG Capital Partners is a China-focused investment firm with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Silicon Valley and Boston.
Earlier this year Bitmain announced the launch of ConnectBTC – its latest mining pool. The pool is developed and operated by Bitmaintech Israel, Bitmain's first R&D center outside of China. Following on that, we exclusively reported that the company is actively looking for artificial intelligence experts to establish an AI R&D center in Israel. Leveraging its engineering prowess for AI applications could become Bitmain's first major business avenue outside the Bitcoin world.