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The Other Dreamers
They came here legally. Most are college bound. So why is the U.S. kicking them out?
by Daniel Block
David McCammon
Disha Kanekar came to the United States from India when she was six years old. Her mother had just gotten a job as an IT consultant near New York City, so the family relocated to New Jersey.
At the time, Kanekar didn't understand why they had moved. "I was just a little kid," she said. Her attention was instead focused on typical childhood activities—going to school, playing, making friends. She knew little about her family's immigration status, let alone her own. "I just made a home for myself here," Kanekar, now eighteen, told me. "I never thought I would have to go."
But, after graduating from high school this past summer, she found herself with little choice. Kanekar's parents came to America after her mother received an H-1B work visa, which is given to skilled, college-educated immigrants. Kanekar, in turn, has an H-4 visa, given to the children and spouses of H-1B holders. While her visa doesn't expire until she turns twenty-one, it also doesn't allow her to work here. College is the obvious alternative, but even though she has lived in the U.S. for two-thirds of her life, many American universities treat kids like Kanekar as "international" students, who are ineligible for the same levels of financial support.
For Kanekar, that would mean paying more than $45,000 a year to go to Rutgers, a public university five minutes from her home in Edison. For her family, that's too expensive. So, this fall, she went to study in Canada, where college is more affordable. "It's been really hard," she told me. We spoke in early August, several weeks before she left. She was in the middle of saying good-bye to her friends. "This is the last summer I'm going to spend with them before I see them in God knows how many years," she said.
Kanekar is one of more than 90,000 young Indian immigrants who are on temporary H-4 visas, according to experts' estimates. They are caught in a bureaucratic nightmare. Their most realistic and viable path to permanent residency is through a parent getting a green card. But the U.S. caps the number of employment-based green cards it gives out each year at 140,000, and no nationality can receive more than 7 percent of those green cards.
This has created an enormous backlog for Indians, who make up more than half of H-1B recipients. Their principal green card path now stretches on for more than fifty years.
Roughly half of today's Indian H-4 kids will age out before their parents receive a green card, says David Bier, an expert on immigration at the Cato Institute. This boots them out of the queue; even if their parents do eventually get green cards, they themselves will not. Unless they transfer to a new kind of visa, they can't stay in the country legally. And unlike in the case of the undocumented Dreamers, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) does not protect H-4 children from deportation.
As the backlog builds, the problem will grow worse. "Eventually, it will get to the point where 100 percent of [Indian] H-4s will be aging out," Bier said.
This means that many young adults who have grown up in the U.S. must make a painful decision: They can try to prolong their stay, typically by getting student visas and then trying to win work visas of their own; or they can leave the place they call home.
The situation is deeply perverse, even by the current low standards of American immigration policy. By design, the vast majority of H-1B holders have at least a college degree. Their children tend to be college bound. The departures of H-4 kids, in other words, deprive the United States of exactly the sort of highly skilled immigrants that both Democrats and Republicans say they want to attract. Even Donald Trump claims that he wants to make life easier for well-educated foreigners in the U.S. "Some of the most skilled students at our world-class universities are going back home," he said in a speech last May. "We want these exceptional students and workers to stay, and flourish, and thrive."
The president may have an opportunity to be true to his word. Legislation that would reduce wait times for Indian immigrants passed the House of Representatives this past July, and a bipartisan group of senators has sponsored a similar act. But passage is far from certain, and the bill has shortcomings. Even if it does clear Congress, the actions of the Trump administration suggest that he won't ease pathways for immigrants, documented
or otherwise.
What's more surprising about H-4 politics is the silence of liberals. As Democratic presidential candidates argue for a more progressive migration regime, almost none have highlighted the sympathetic stories of what are, in effect, documented Dreamers. In the meantime, with no one advocating for them on the national stage, tens of thousands of kids who grew up in America inch closer and closer to the day when they can no longer afford to stay here.
In 1920, Bhagat Singh Thind applied to become a U.S. citizen. Thind had moved from Punjab to study at the University of California, Berkeley, and later served in the American military during World War I. His citizenship application was approved by a district court. But the Bureau of Naturalization appealed the decision, arguing that Thind was not white and therefore was ineligible for citizenship. In 1923, in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed.
Six years earlier, Congress had passed legislation barring immigration from a wide swath of Asia, including all of India. With Thind, the Court gave the federal government carte blanche to target South Asians already here. In the wake of the decision, the Justice Department and the Bureau of Naturalization stripped previously naturalized Indian immigrants of their citizenship, and the government confiscated Indian residents' property. Then, in 1924, Congress overwhelmingly passed another law targeting South Asian immigrants—this time by prohibiting South Asians from entering the United States from anywhere in the world, not just from India. It was met with acclaim. "This is not race prejudice," the San Francisco Examiner wrote about the new law. "This is race preservation."
By design, the vast majority of H-1B holders have at least a college degree. The departures of their kids deprive the United States of exactly the sort of highly skilled immigrants that both Democrats and Republicans say they want to attract.
Those two words, "race preservation," defined immigration law for the next four decades. It was not until the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act that the United States abolished the immigration system it had erected in the first decades of the century, which granted visas based on national quotas heavily tilted to favor Europeans. Before signing the act into law, Lyndon Johnson blasted "the harsh injustice of the national origins quota," and celebrated its end. "We can now believe it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation," Johnson declared. He was sitting at a desk beneath the Statue of Liberty.
In 1990, Congress passed a law designed to help America take in more educated, white-collar immigrants. The legislation created H-1B visas for working professionals who found jobs with American employers. These visas were designed to be temporary. After being sponsored by their company, holders could upgrade to green cards.
But the legislation capped the number of employment green cards the government could provide at 140,000 annually, and Congress has not increased the limit since. In the meantime, the number of H-visa holders shot up. In 1998, the U.S. gave out more than 145,000 H-1B and H-4 visas. By 2005, the number was nearly 200,000. Last year, there were more than 300,000.
Eventually, demand for green cards began outpacing supply. Applications piled up. Because these applications are granted in chronological order, overflow applicants from one year rolled into the next. The problem has snowballed: Between 1991 and now, the wait time for employment-based green cards has grown more than sevenfold.
The cap on green cards per country means that the impact of the increase has been decidedly uneven. No European state, for example, hit its 7 percent cap last year. Their citizens can become permanent residents of the U.S. within, at most, a couple of years.
Indians, however, can't. For more than a decade, close to 40 percent of all H-class immigrants have come from India. In 2018, the number of H visas awarded to Indians alone exceeded the total number of available green cards. There are now more than 600,000 Indians waiting for employment-based permanent residence. But there are only around 10,000 green cards available to them each year.
The backlog creates a variety of problems, but perhaps the most serious one is that H-4 Indian children are losing their visas before their parents can get green cards. Because they are no longer "tied" to them, these children do not become permanent residents along with their parents. They are out on their own.
Like Disha Kanekar, many H-4 children are forced to leave the United States when they can't afford full-price college tuition. For those who try to stay, it's not an easy path. Animesh Namjoshi, who came to the U.S. in 2008, aged off his father's visa when he turned twenty-one last year. To stay in America and continue his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he had to transfer to a student visa. His student visa allows him to work for two years after graduating before he must win a work visa, receive a new student visa for grad school, or leave.
"I've been sending in literally hundreds of applications for internships," Namjoshi said. "They won't accept me because I don't have permanent work authorization." His inability to get an internship makes it all the more difficult to land a full-time job that will sponsor him for his own H-1B, something that only a small minority of U.S. employers will do. "It's a vicious cycle," he said.
But even getting a job that will sponsor a work visa doesn't guarantee success. Most H-1B applicants are now subject to a lottery. And winning it hardly ends the saga; the victor has to go to the back of the green card backlog line. Given the wait times, that's daunting. Even if Namjoshi receives an H-1B visa next year, if the current queue holds he will likely be over seventy by the time he finally gets a green card. He will have spent the vast majority of his life living in the United States without being recognized as a permanent resident. He will witness fifteen U.S. presidential elections without being able to vote.
Namjoshi plans to put that process off and go to graduate school, credentialing up and kicking the deportation can down the road. For students who can afford master's degrees or get accepted to doctoral programs, it's a popular path. "They'll go to college, they'll get status that way, then they'll stay in school, they'll graduate from graduate school, then they'll get their PhD—all in an effort to just be able to stick around long enough to hopefully find an H-1B employer," says Bier, the Cato immigration expert. "That's the game they're playing."
"Our kids are everything for us," said Jayant Namjoshi, Animesh's father. "We came here because we thought our kids would have a better future." The backlog has thrown off that entire calculus. "We start thinking, did we make the right decision coming here?"
Even if Donald Trump and his immigration adviser Stephen Miller are unlikely to rush to the aid of the mostly nonwhite H-4 kids, Republican talk of helping well-educated immigrants is not entirely hot air. Last June, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would eliminate country quotas and award employer green cards roughly by chronological order, regardless of where the applicant was born. Utah Republican Mike Lee helped introduce similar legislation in the Senate.
The bill is a half measure. It would not entirely end the green card backlog, and it would increase wait times for almost all non-Indian applicants. As a result, it has been greeted with ambivalence by some people who are otherwise supportive of accepting more immigrants. But it would reduce Indians' decade-plus wait, and it would stop the nationality discrimination that is built into America's green card system.
Conn Carroll, a spokesperson for Lee, expressed optimism that the bill would make it through the chamber. "It was almost passed by unanimous consent before August recess," he told me. "Really, it could pass any day." With thirty-four cosponsors, nineteen of them Republicans, it is not inconceivable. But similar legislation cleared the House in 2011, only to die in the Senate. Prominent right-wing outlets, including Breitbart, oppose the change. And, aside from a few carefully curated comments, Trump has been hostile to H-class visas. His administration is attempting to cut the program that gives work permits to the spouses of many H-1B immigrants—people like Jayant Namjoshi's wife, a researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
That the GOP might ultimately reject a vaguely pro-immigrant bill is not surprising. But Democrats have also been complicit in the backlog misery. Employment-based green card channels first became clogged under Bill Clinton, and the queue grew substantially under Barack Obama. While Obama established DACA so that undocumented immigrants brought to America as children could stay and work indefinitely, he did nothing for H-4 kids.
Why does this group get so little attention? To some extent, it's basic political math. There are 700,000 DACA recipients, nearly eight times the total number of Indian H-4 children. The green card backlog is limited almost entirely to Indian and, to a much lesser extent, Chinese immigrants, groups that have less electoral heft. Latinos make up approximately 13 percent of the electorate, while Asians make up less than 5 percent.
There are now more than 600,000 Indians waiting for employment-based permanent residence. But there are only around 10,000 green cards available to them each year.
Yet organizers say that it's also the product of fighting between immigrant communities. DACA recipients, for example, may seem to be natural allies for H-4 kids. But among the H-4 immigrants I interviewed, Dreamers engendered widespread resentment. ("They get so much attention," one parent complained.) Immigration Voice, a prominent immigrant group campaigning to end the backlog, even offered to help Trump pay for the border wall in exchange for more green cards.
These sentiments can carry whiffs of prejudice. But as the green-cards-for-wall offer makes clear, what ultimately prevents immigrant solidarity is not intolerance, it's competition. You might well grow frustrated if you were standing in a long line, moving at a glacial pace, and you saw people in a different, much shorter line moving briskly into the same space. Or if you were worried that people were about to cut in front of you, or that, having patiently waited for ten years, you were about to lose your spot. In TSA queues, traffic jams, and green card lines alike, tensions rise.
But airline security lanes are finite resources. Green cards are not, and the current employment cap is worse than arbitrary. It was enshrined in legislation that's nearly three decades old, written at a time when the country was roughly 25 percent smaller and the immigrant population was half what it is today.
Indeed, it's unclear why the U.S. needs a cap at all. Research overwhelmingly shows that highly educated immigrants help improve the wages of all American-born workers. They pay taxes that help fund everything from public schools to Medicare. All immigrants, and particularly high-skilled ones, help bolster the country's GDP. Perhaps that's why Canada, one of the most popular destinations for Indians who are abandoning America's backlog, does not impose strict limits on the number of highly skilled permanent residents it can add. The country makes it easy for foreign-born college graduates to stay.
A divided Congress, of course, will not eliminate the cap. It may not even modify it. But there are actions that future presidents could take to ameliorate the wait. They could count just H-1B holders against the annual green card cap, rather than all their dependents. They could grant deportation waivers to H-4 children who are aging out, and then create a work permit program for them. States could help, too. There's nothing stopping New Jersey, for example, from passing a law that grants H-4 kids like Disha Kanekar in-state tuition.
Many of the younger H-4 holders I interviewed expressed hope that they would be able to stay. They told me about the support of classmates and teachers who, when told about their situation, wanted to help. But especially for older kids, the backlog has already exacted a very heavy price. "We haven't been able to live our lives the way that we've wanted to," Kanekar told me. "I feel like I grew up too fast."
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Eusebio de Gorbea y Lemmi (Madrid, 23 de marzo de 1881-Buenos Aires, 17 de diciembre de 1948) fue un militar y escritor español que desarrolló su actividad a principios del siglo XX.

Biografía
Eusebio nació en la madrileña calle de Gerona, en el seno de una familia de la burguesía. Su padre era oriundo de la localidad de Mendieta (Álava) y por parte de su madre descendía un familia de jardineros al servicio de los monarcas españoles, especialmente como jardineros mayores del Real Sitio de La Granja de San Ildefonso. Su madre era descendiente directa de Luis Lemmi, jardinero mayor de ese real sitio desde 1766.

Hizo sus estudios en el Instituto de San Isidro. Posteriormente se decidió por la carrera militar, ingresando en la Academia de Infantería de Toledo. Alcanzó el grado de segundo teniente con diecisiete años. En 1905 publica bajo pseudónimo su primer libro, Florículas cariátides, de poesía satírica.

El 8 de mayo de 1906 contrajo matrimonio con su prima segunda María de la Encarnación Aragoneses Urquijo, conocida por su posterior pseudónimo literario, «Elena Fortún». El matrimonio tuvo dos hijos:

Luis de Gorbea Aragoneses (1908-1954), abogado, casado con Ana María Hug.
 Manuel (1909-1920)

Tras su matrimonio simultaneó su carrera militar con su carrera literaria, dedicado principalmente a la escritura de obras dramáticas como La muñeca de los viejos (1909) o Veletas (1913). En el caso de La muñeca de los viejos, la obra fue presentada por su autor a Benito Pérez Galdós, que la envió al teatro Lara para representarse, sin éxito. Finalmente fue estrenada, con éxito, en mayo de 1909, tras ganar un concurso del periódico El Liberal y casualmente el estreno se produjo en el propio teatro Lara, como establecía el concurso. Posteriormente esta obra llegaría a ser representada en San Sebastián en noviembre de 1909. En 1912 había publicado su primera novela Jaime o jaimín.

En 1909 participó en la guerra de Melilla, como teniente del regimiento de Cazadores de Arapiles. Fue herido el 27 de julio en el conocido episodio del Barranco del Lobo, en que las tropas españolas fueron vencidas por las tropas rifeñas. Precisamente el día antes de este suceso había escrito una crónica publicada también en el periódico El Liberal.

En la década de los años 20, su obra se dedica también a la novela histórica (Los mil años de Elena Fortún y Don Quijote de Vivar). En 1928 su obra dramática Los que no perdonan, estrenada en el teatro Eslava de Madrid el 29 de septiembre de 1928 con buenas críticas, fue laureada con el Premio Fastenrath, siendo la primera vez que este era concedido a una obra de teatro. Durante esta época forma parte de distintos grupos de teatro como actor aficionado, por ejemplo, en El  caracol formado por Cipriano Rivas Cherif o El cántaro roto liderado por Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. o El mirlo blanco, en casa de Pío Baroja. En el marco de esta afición llegará a participar en 1929, en el fallido estreno de la obra de García Lorca, Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín como don Perlimplín. En 1929 fue ascendido a comandante y fue nombrado caballero con cruz de la orden de San Hermenegildo. El 9 de julio de 1931, proclamada ya la Segunda República, se le concede el retiro de su carrera militar, habiéndose acogido a la conocida como Ley Azaña.

Durante esta nueva etapa, continuó con su actividad teatral, como actor y dramaturgo, llegando a estrenar su comedia Baile de trajes en 1934. Su discreto éxito como escritor, en comparación con el fulgurante de su esposa Elena Fortún, amargó sus días; con frecuencia Elena debía esconderse de él para poder escribir y estuvieron a punto de divorciarse en 1936.

Al estallar la Guerra civil y aunque Eusebio de Gorbea ya estaba retirado, pidió volver al servicio activo y le concedieron la dirección de la Escuela de Automovilismo de Aviación de Barcelona. Su hijo Luis, que ya era abogado, fue destinado a Albacete como abogado de oficio en los tribunales de guerra. Elena permaneció sola en Madrid, colaborando en la revista Crónica; esta revista concedió a Elena una corresponsalía en Valencia y aprovechó sus frecuentes viajes hasta allá para pasar por Albacete y ver a su hijo Luis y a su nuera Ana María. Como la situación en Albacete se estaba volviendo peligrosa, Elena consiguió que Luis fuera destinado a la sección de Europa del Ministerio del Estado en Barcelona, junto a su padre. A comienzos de 1939 Elena se reúne con Eusebio en Barcelona, pero al ir a entregar a Manuel Aguilar una nueva entrega de Celia, Madrid es cercada y se rompe toda comunicación; Eusebio y su hijo marchan al exilio francés poco antes de la caída de Barcelona.

Tras la Guerra Civil española estuvo en un campo de concentración de la costa y se reunió con su esposa en París en mayo de 1939. Luis por su parte marchó a Orange (Nueva Jersey) para trabajar en la sección hispanoamericana de ventas de una industria farmacéutica. El 19 de octubre de 1939 desde La Rochelle el matrimonio, junto con otros intelectuales republicanos, se embarcó a la Argentina, en el conocido viaje en el buque SS Massilia, llegando a Buenos Aires el 5 de noviembre del mismo año. Ya en Argentina, su actividad se centró principalmente en la colaboración como traductor al español de obras escritas en otras lenguas (principalmente en francés) para editoriales bonaerenses.

Acosado por las depresiones y por las dramáticas discusiones con su hijo Luis, murió en Buenos Aires en 1948, presumiblemente quitándose la vida con gas; en 1954 se suicidó a su vez su hijo Luis. Se encuentra enterrado junto con su hijo Manuel y su mujer, fallecida en 1952, en el cementerio sacramental de San Justo en Madrid.

Obras

Poesía

Florículas caríatides. (1905) Publicado bajo el pseudónimo anagramático Don Ópalo Gorbeúchez.

Teatro

La muñeca de los viejos. (Estrenada en el teatro Lara de Madrid el 7 de mayo de 1909) Disponible en Internet Archive.
Academia Preparatoria. Juguete cómico en un acto y en prosa. (1912)
Veletas. Comedia en cuatro actos. (Estrenada en 1913) Disponible en Internet Archive.
Los que no perdonan. (Estrenada en el teatro Eslava de Madrid el 29 de septiembre de 1928) Versión digital. Disponible en Internet Archive y también disponible en la Biblioteca Digital de Castilla y León.
El molino de la mujer sola. Drama en tres actos. (1930) Disponible en Internet Archive.
Los amos de curtidores. Comedia popular madrileña en tres actos. (Estrenada en el teatro de la Latina de Madrid el 23 de abril de 1930) Disponible en Internet Archive.
Baile de trajes. (Estrenada en el teatro Principal de Zaragoza en enero de 1934)

Novela

Jaime y jaimín. (1912)
Los mil años de Elena Fortún. Magerit. (1922)
Don Quijote de Vivar (1928)

Crónica de guerra

Órdenes y empleos

Órdenes

 1929: Caballero con la cruz de la Orden de San Hermenegildo.

Empleos

 9 de julio de 1931: Comandante en retiro.
1929: Comandante.
1926-1928?: Capitán, Ayudante de Campo del general Verdugo.
 1925: Capitán agregado a la Capitanía General de Canarias.
 27 de octubre de 1921-: Capitán del regimiento de infantería n.º 48 Pavía.
 1917-27 de octubre de 1921: Capitán de reemplazo de la VI Región Militar.
1912: Capitán en el segundo batallón de reserva n.º 17 de la zona de reclutamiento de Guadalajara.
 3 de agosto de 1908: Primer teniente en el regimiento de cazadores n.º9 Arapiles.
 31 de diciembre de 1903: Segundo teniente supernumerario de la Primera Región Militar.
 1902: Segundo teniente en el regimiento de infantería n.º7 Sicilia.
 1899: Segundo teniente en el regimiento de infantería n.º 31 Asturias (con acuartelamiento en Madrid)

Reconocimientos
En la obra Elena Fortún, producida por el Centro Dramático Nacional en 2020, escrita por María Folguera, el personaje de Eusebio de Gorbea, encarnado por el actor Javier Pérez-Acebrón, tiene un rol relevante entre su personalidad conflictiva, que marcó profundamente la construcción de Elena Fortún como autora, y la sensibilidad con la que en ocasiones colaboró con su trayectoria, como corrector, transcriptor y colaborador para encontrar nombres de personajes o títulos de artículos.

Bibliografía

Colección personal de Elena Fortún. Biblioteca Digital de la Comunidad de Madrid. Accesible. Cuenta con múltiples fotografías de Eusebio de Gorbea y su familia.

Notas

Referencias

Caballeros con la cruz de la Orden de San Hermenegildo
Nacidos en Madrid
Militares de España en la guerra de Melilla
Militares de España del siglo XX
Poetas de España del siglo XX
Dramaturgos de España del siglo XX
Novelistas de España del siglo XX
Premio Fastenrath
Sepultados en el cementerio de San Justo

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Q: Call Generic Method with an anonymous Type (C#) Let's just say I'd like to iterate over a string[][], append a value using an anonymous type and perform a generic ForEach-Extensionmethod on the result (brilliant example, I know, but I suppose you'll get the jist of it!).
Here's my code:
//attrs = some string[][]
attrs.Select(item => new { name = HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("Global", item[0].Remove(0, 7)), value = item[1] })
            .ForEach</*????*/>(/*do stuff*/);

What exactly would I put in the Type-Parameter of ForEach?
Here's what ForEach looks like:
public static void ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> collection, Action<T> act)
{
    IEnumerator<T> enumerator = collection.GetEnumerator();
    while (enumerator.MoveNext())
        act(enumerator.Current);
}

A: You don't need to specify the type explicitly, because it can be inferred from the supplied parameters:
attrs.Select(item => new
                     {
                         name = HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("Global",
                                                      item[0].Remove(0, 7)),
                         value = item[1]
                     })
     .ForEach(x => x.name = "something");

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Bhandari, V. B., "Design of Machine Elements", Tata McGraw-Hill, 1994.
Battery charging system. Available from http://www.wikkipedia.com.
Fuller R. J., Aye LU, 2012. "Human and animal power – The forgotten renewables" Renewable Energy48 (2012) 326-332.
Maximo Gomez-Nacer, 2005. "Animal powered electricity generator", Patent no - US 2005/0161289 A1.
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TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG) announced today that on August 13, 2018 it completed an offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.375% senior notes due 2026 (the "notes"). The notes were issued at 100.0% and bear interest at 5.375%. Interest will be payable semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing on February 15, 2019. The notes will mature on August 15, 2026.
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February 27, 2006 February 27, 2006 by Kristen Ricaurte
Washington DC Independent Film Festival Opens this Thursday
A quick intro to the Washington, DC Independent Film Festival, running March 2-12 at various locations around the city.
Features, Film
What cities do you think of when you think of independent films? Park City, Utah? You bet. New York City? Of course. Washington, DC? You didn't read wrong. For 11 days in March, Washington, DC is home to The Washington DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) and it has been for the past six years. Each year, the DCIFF features "world premiere films, award winning features, shorts, animations, and documentaries."
As with most film festivals, the DCIFF bestows various honors on its most outstanding films each year. They award films in each category they screen throughout the festival (feature, animation, short, and documentary). These awards include the Grand Jury Award, the Audience Award, the Visionary Award (which is "presented to a film of social or political importance that can provoke change"), the Washington, DC Filmmaker Award ("presented to [a] DC filmmaker for outstanding creative achievement"), the Cine Latino Award (awarded to the best Latin film), and the World Cinema Award, which will be presented this year to the most outstanding film from South Asia. Grand Jury Prize winners receive the DC Production Grant, which gives the Grand Jury Winners monetary and promotional support.
Founded by Carol Bidault in 1999, the festival first appeared on the scene in March of 2000 calling itself, "DCDANCE" as a nod to the world renouned Sundance Film Festival. In its first year, it lasted only three days, but featured 30 films, including the premiere of director Barry Levinson's (Liberty Heights, Sleepers) documentary, Original Diner Guys. That same year, the DC Independent Film Market and Trade Show was founded. It now coincides with DCIFF and provides DC filmmakers the opportunity to meet with industry professionals, such as buyers, distributors, and agents. This is a unique opportunity because it is the only film trade show of its kind in the DC area. The next year, the festival changed its name to the name its stayed with, The Washington DC Independent Film Festival. Over the next few years, the festival gradually expanded, and garnered praise from local film critics like Stephen Hunter.
This year is shaping up to be DCIFF's best year yet, featuring more than 50 films. Features being screened this year include: I Love Your Work (directed by Adam Goldberg and starring Giovanni Ribisi and Christina Ricci), Insomnia Manica (Grand Jury Prize Winner, Best Feature at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival), How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, My Suicidal Sweetheart (starring the ever crazy Natasha Lyonne, Tim Blake Nelson, Lorraine Bracco, and Rosanna Arquette), My Tiny Universe (screening on opening night, March 2nd), Lie With Me, The Garage, and Death and Texas.
Documentaries being screened this year include: All in a Mardi Gras Day, God Sleeps in Rwanda, An Impession: Dischord Records, Kill Gil (Vol. 1), The Unwinking Gaze – In the Footsteps of the XIV Dalai Lama, and The Washington Bureau.
Some Animation features showing are: The Awakening (Episode 1), Eighteen Fifty One (1851), Emelia – The 5-Year-Old Goth Girl, She She She She's A Bombshell, Sweet Dreams.
Last, but certainly not least, Shorts playing this year include: All Souls Day, Battle Chess, Beyond Babylon, Gone Postal, Nothing Girl, A Psycho Scene, Pumpkin Zombies, Rules of Love, Suicide for Two, The Way of the Gnome, and Wentworth.
The entire list of films being screened this year can be found here.
Aside from film screenings, DCIFF also offers seminars and special events for filmmakers and filmgoers alike. This year's seminars include: International Roundtable (Mar. 3), Advocacy Forum ("Panelists discuss current issues facing independent and visual media artists, writing for film and visual media.") (Mar. 4), The Role of Screenplay in Fiction and Non-Fiction Works (Mar. 4), Directing Feature and Documentary Film & Video (Mar. 4), and Meet the DCIFF Filmmakers (Mar. 5). The entire seminar schedule can be found here.
Special events and Opening/Closing Nights include: Opening Night, March 2, at 7 p.m: My Tiny Universe, She'Äôs, She'Äôs, She'Äôs a Bombshell (animation) and Washington Bureau (documentary) (all of opening night's films are offerings from DC filmmakers); Oscar Night Live, Sunday, March 5th; Benefit for the New Orleans Film Festival, Thursday March 9th, 7 p.m.; Pre-kick off of the Washington, DC Independent Music Festival (launching 2007) Sunday, March 12; Closing Night, Sunday March 12, 7 p.m.: Charlie'Äôs Party. Charlie's Party is "from the filmmakers that brought you the award winning Station Agent and Wentworth." Closing Night will also include a surprise presentation of this year'Äôs Sundance'Äôs Jury Prize winning films (they're not telling, you've gotta show up to find out). A comprehensive special events listing can be found here.
Convinced that you have to go to The Washington DC Independent Film Festival yet? We thought so. The DCIFF has a little something for everyone, the partygoer, the film aficionado, the filmmaker, the dreamer, and the critic. The only thing you have to worry about now is what you're going to see. You better get your tickets fast, March 2nd is just around the corner. You don't want to miss it.
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Biette Cassinel oder Biota Cassinelli (* um 1325; † um 1394) genannt "la belle Italienne", die schöne Italienerin, war die Geliebte des Regenten und späteren Königs von Frankreich Karl V. der Weise. Sie war die erste offizielle Mätresse eines französischen Herrschers.

Biette Cassinel war die Tochter von François Cassinel († 1360), einem Sergeanten in der königlichen Armee, und Urenkelin von Bettino Cassinelli, der aus Italien nach Paris zugewandert war, wodurch der landmannschaftliche Teil ihres Beinamens erklärt wird. Sie war die Ehefrau von Gérard de Montaigu dem Älteren, was sie (und Karl V.) jedoch nicht daran hinderte, ihre Beziehung einzugehen.

Karl V. hatte im Jahr 1350 Johanna von Bourbon geheiratet und von ihr in den Jahren 1357 bis 1360 drei Kinder bekommen, darunter mit Johann (* wohl 1359) auch den erwarteten Thronfolger. Gleichzeitig war er seit 1356, ab der Schlacht von Maupertuis, in der sein Vater Johann II. in englische Gefangenschaft geriet, in der Verpflichtung, Frankreich stellvertretend zu regieren. Mit dem Frieden von Brétigny 1360 kam sein Vater wieder frei, und Karl konnte sich aus der unmittelbaren Verantwortung zurückziehen.

In dieser Situation befand er sich, als er sich von seiner Ehefrau ab- und Biette Cassinel zuwandte. Im Jahr 1363 bekam er von ihr einen Sohn, Jean, der den Familiennamen von Biettes Ehemann erhielt (de Montaigu), aber von Karl, der sich damit öffentlich zu Biette als seiner Mätresse bekannte, anerkannt wurde: Jean de Montaigu erhielt den Titel eines "Bâtard de France".

1364 änderte sich die politische Situation erneut, als König Johann II. sich nach der Flucht seines Sohnes Ludwig von Anjou, der 1360 als Geisel für die aufzubringenden Zahlungen nach London gegangen war, freiwillig in Gefangenschaft begab. Karl trat ein zweites Mal als Regent an und wurde kurze Zeit später auch König, als Johann II. im April 1364 in London starb. Da zudem sein Sohn Johann in der Zwischenzeit ebenfalls verstorben war, sah er sich nun in der Verpflichtung, für den Erhalt der Familie zu sorgen. Er wandte sich erneut seiner Frau zu, von der er ab Juni 1366 weitere Kinder bekam, darunter im Dezember 1368 dann auch den ersehnten Thronfolger, den späteren Karl VI.

Es ist anzunehmen, dass Biette Cassinel die Beziehung zu Karl für sich und ihre Familie zu nutzen wusste, und dass sie sie auch aufrechterhalten konnte, nachdem Karl zu seiner Frau zurückgekehrt war. Ihr Bruder Ferry Cassinel wurde im Jahr 1375 Bischof von Lodève, später dann Bischof von Auxerre und schließlich sogar Erzbischof von Reims. Ihr Sohn mit Karl V. machte eine Karriere am königlichen Hof, die ihn unter Karl VI., seinem Halbbruder, bis an die Spitze der Regierung führte. Ihre ehelichen Söhne traten wie ihr Onkel in den Kirchendienst und wurden schließlich – lange nach ihrem Tod – Bischof von Paris bzw. Erzbischof von Sens

Biette Cassinel war die Mutter von:
 Jean de Montaigu (1363–1409), Berater der Könige Karl V. und Karl VI.
 Gérard de Montaigu dem Jüngeren († 1420), Bischof von Poitiers und Bischof von Paris
 Jean de Montaigu († 1415), Bischof von Chartres und Erzbischof von Sens

Sie trat bei der Beerdigung Karls V. im Jahr 1380 ein letztes Mal in der Öffentlichkeit auf.

Nachfahren

Zu den Nachfahren Biette Cassinels gehören:

 Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
 Manuel II. (1889–1932), letzter König von Portugal
 Umberto II (1904–1983), letzter König von Italien
 Juan Carlos I. (* 1938), König von Spanien
 Albert II. (* 1934), König der Belgier
 Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) und durch sie
 Prinz William of Wales (* 1982)

Siehe auch

 Liste der Mätressen der Könige von Frankreich

Literatur

 Christine de Pizan: Le Livre des faits et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V. 1404.
 Jean Juvénal des Ursins: Grandes Chroniques de France. erste Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts.
 Françoise Autrand: Charles VI. Fayard, 1986, ISBN 2-213-01703-4.

Mätresse (Frankreich)
Franzose
Geboren im 14. Jahrhundert
Gestorben im 14. Jahrhundert
Frau
Französische Geschichte (14. Jahrhundert)


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Congress Actually Ends Taxpayer Funding Of Ethanol Subsidies
John Voelcker December 27, 2011 Comment Now!
When the U.S. Congress adjourned for the holidays on Friday, December 23, its departure sealed the fate of subsidized ethanol production.
During its session, the Congress did not renew a tax break for U.S. production of corn-based ethanol that had become increasingly unpopular across a wide area of the political spectrum.
The tax credit amounted to 45 cents per gallon of ethanol that was blended into gasoline. It had been in place since 1980.
Corn lobby loses support
As The Detroit News reported the next day, by some estimates, total subsidies to the ethanol industry may have reached $45 billion over that period. That is several times the total loans, grants, and tax credits provided thus far to the U.S. electric-car industry.
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In June, the Senate voted 73-27 to end the tax break. That vote, attached to an economic development bill that was stalled, was viewed as symbolic--letting Congressmembers go on record against continuing the subsidies without effectively ending them.
It proved to be a test case that demonstrated the waning support in Congress for the corn-based ethanol industry. Three weeks later, an agreement was reached to end the subsidies for real--and it held for the rest of the year.
Ending the ethanol tax breaks is projected to save about $2 billion over several years. Of that total, two-thirds is to be applied to cutting the national debt, although it represents just one-tenth of 1 percent of the total national debt of $14.3 trillion.
Half as productive as Brazil
Using corn is the least productive way to make ethanol, at roughly 300 gallons per acre of feedstock. The Brazilian ethanol industry gets twice as many gallons per acre using sugar cane, and other feedstocks like switchgrass have been projected to produce up to 1,200 gallons per acre.
Development of cellulosic ethanol refineries that use non-corn feedstocks have lagged commercially, despite several pilot projects.
U.S. corn ethanol had further been protected by a 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on imports of ethanol from other countries (meaning Brazil). That import duty was also ended by the departure of Congress for the year.
But with sugar prices high in Brazil, imports of ethanol aren't likely to spike in the short term.
Conflict with 2007 mandate
That leads to a longer-range question: Will there be sufficient ethanol produced and imported to meet the escalating ethanol-use requirements of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act passed by Congress?
Proposed EPA E15 gasoline pump warning label for ethanol content
That law requires that 36 billion gallons of ethanol be blended into U.S. vehicle fuel by 2022--which is more than three times the 11.1 billion gallons used in 2010. The requirement rises to 15 billion gallons for 2015.
Congress has blocked the EPA's approval of E15 gasoline, which has up to 15 percent ethanol, largely at the request of automakers and others who fear damage to engines not designed to handle fuel with that volume of ethanol. The current standard, in places for decades, permits up to 10 percent ethanol in pump gasoline.
So while Congress has ended tax breaks, it may have set up the fuel industry for failure on the 2007 mandate by explicitly banning E15 gasoline.
Until that is resolved, the politics of ethanol are likely to remain fractious.
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The Folly Beach Exchange Club hosted an oyster roast Sunday at Bowen's Island. The All You Can Eat roast was a fundraiser for their continuing efforts to provide the community with support. The Club has been in operation since 1951 and has regular opportunities for people to come out and show their support. Tickets for this event sold for just $25 or $10 for non-oyster eaters. Attendees noshed on oysters, chili, hot dogs and homemade sweets provided by members of the Exchange Club. Adult beverages were provided for a small cost, but we were all encouraged to bring coolers with our favorite drinks.
Proceeds from previous events have been delegated toward patriotic flag displays at the pier and boat landing on Folly Beach, free child ID and DNA kits to families, prevention of and awareness activities regarding child abuse, holiday meals for seniors, training for Police Officers to recognize signs of abuse, HALOS, Darkness to Light, and many other recognitions of those who have gone above and beyond to help. One key area is helping others in the community who have been faced with critical illnesses and are in need of assistance.
The Exchange Club offers three ways to participate. One is to attend events, such as the Oyster Roast, and bid on auction items. Secondly, any silent auction item can be donated throughout the year for future events. If you have something that you believe could be used as an auction item, don't hesitate to contact drich@cityoffollybeach.com. Lastly, you can be an Event Sponsor for just $150. Sponsors get two tickets, a logo on Sponsor Banners throughout the event and after parties.
The Club's mission statement describes their focus. "Exchange, America's Service Club, is a group of men and women working together to make our communities better places to live through programs of service in Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities, and its national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse." Memberships are available, and meetings occur on the first and third Thursdays of every month at 206 W. Indian Avenue. Recently, they won a National Outstanding Community Service Award for Skin Cancer Screenings.


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Spielberg on WW2 – Band of Brothers (mini-series) TV Review
I review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven't watched the whole season yet, stop reading now!
The most striking element of Band of Brothers is how real the story is. The beginning of each episode, which features an interview with actual soldiers who fought in World War 2, reminds the viewers that the events they will see on-screen actually happened. The plan to keep the identities of the real life soldiers a secret until the final episode keeps the audience ill-informed as to the fate of these soldiers, some of which who will survive and many who won't.
That "true story" element is also made more incredible by the experience of Easy Company of the 101st Airbourne division. These parachute troopers experienced D-Day and Normandy, the missions in Holland which became known as Market Garden and the horrific Battle of the Bulge. They saw the worst of the Second World War and Steven Spielberg delivers it all in a gripping ten-part mini-series.
The impact of Saving Private Ryan is felt here
Spielberg may not be the director of the series but his producing talent is all over the shows style and look. This is the offspring of Saving Private Ryan and shares a lot of the qualities which made that film such a success. The story is presented in it's gritty, horrific realism. There is no grandstanding or overly emotional scenes for each and every death, a key feature of any conflict while the characters are so well cast and deliver their own unique stories well.
At for the forefront is a pre-Homeland Damien Lewis who plays Richard Winters. You could argue, although I'd disagree, that this becomes Winter's story but only because he leads Easy Company and sees the worse of the combat as they do. In truth, the series has no "main characters" and involves an ensemble cast as varied as any others series, if not more so.
Each character has their own individual story too
This means that as well as the larger tale of Easy Company's experiences of World War 2, we also get the more insular, personal stories which make shows like this so appealing and "human." Donnie Wahlberg's Lipton keeps his men together when his superiors can't, Neal McDonough's Buck Compton struggles with the horrors of war while Scott Grimes sells the effects of combat on a soldier better than most as he plays Malarkey. The journey this one character goes on epitomises how much can change over ten episodes and by the end you feel his grief and the destructive force of combat.
This isn't just about the characters though and every episode presents some real-life event faithfully. The training is hard but memorable, particularly for an audience who will see an unexpected side of David Schwimmer, while Normandy is as chaotic as the landings felt in the show's movie-cousin. Market Garden presents the unexpected nature of war but many people struggle with how horrific the Battle of the Bulge was.
Events are presented realistically
These two episodes which cover Easy's experiences of the events are as graphic as you can get. Trees splinter, explosions shatter land and men and "main" characters are lost in the events. As a showcase for the horrors of war, the two episodes covering the battle are perfect.
In fact, the whole series is a masterpiece. It manages to tread a fine line between action and sentimentality and that is mainly down to the talking heads featured. The last episode is as poignant as ever, with the real-life Winters finishing off the series perfectly with the line "I am not a hero, but I served in a company of heroes."
The interviews with the real-life soldiers sells the story much more
Overall, Band of Brothers manages to extend what made Saving Private Ryan so successful into a masterpiece of television. It perfectly retells the events of World War 2 through the eyes of Easy Company. The characters are memorable, with interesting stories, while events of each episode are recreated faithfully. The addition of talking heads and interviews from real-life soldiers who experienced the events adds a realism which will touch any viewer.
Best Episode – Points: Each episode is vital and interesting but the final episode does become the most poignant as we find out the fate of each soldier.
Best performance – Damien Lewis as Richard Winters
Should there be another season? – No, the series works perfectly as it is. A Television masterpiece.
Season Rating – 5!
(1 – Awful, 2 – Average, 3 – Good, 4 – Great, 5! – Must See)
A TV Masterpiece
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Dan O. says:
That final interview destroyed me. Nice review.
And me. It gets me every time. Such a poignant and effective line.
movierob says:
such an amazing miniseries. It's probably my favorite ever because it was done so well. The characters, their stories and the way it all feels real makes this so perfect. Have u seen the documentary We Stand Alone Together? its such a great companion piece to this movie. It is also my favorite film of 2001.
I have seen it. The review is coming later this week. Don't think I liked it as much as you, thought Band of Brothers did an able job on it's own but for a wider insight it is very good.
Obviously. Its not great on it own but when u know the characters and what they went through its so eye opening. Have u seen The Pacific?
I have (again, review is on it's way). I wasn't as impressed. I think it lacks the coherent story that Band of Brothers had.
Completely agree but it still was amazing storytelling
You've heard my opinion, let me know what you think... Cancel reply
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Q: ArcGIS Localization API I'm dealing with a very annoying issue regarding arcGIS maps service localization.
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You should read the documentation for dojo/i18n. It makes more clear what you need to do.


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USF Ataxia Research Center Leads Clinical Trial of Possible Friedreich's Drug
WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By Mark Schreiner
Published August 20, 2013 at 6:02 PM EDT
Jorge Cunha
Eric Younghans
For the last few years, the USF Ataxia Research Center and the Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) have hosted a pair of events in Tampa: a national symposium that brings together Friedreich ataxia experts from around the world, and a gala ball that raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for research.
While they're preparing for this year's events, there's a bit of extra pressure -- the USF Ataxia Research Center is also the lead site on a national study of a potent antioxidant treatment for the life-shortening, degenerative neuromuscular disorder.
Dr. Theresa Zesiewicz said Friedreich's ataxia normally strikes the very young.
"Typically, these are kids who all of a sudden have problems with running, it's a little bit difficult," she said. "Mom and dad carry the gene but neither one knows that they carry the gene, so it's a big surprise to the parents."
From there, Zesiewicz added, Friedreich's ataxia "progresses relentlessly to cause gait imbalance, talking difficulties, speech problems, hearing problems, and eventually causes diabetes in many cases, and also heart failure."
Currently, doctors use physical therapy to work on a patient's core strength and balance because there's no approved pharmaceutical treatment for Friedreich's. That may soon change, as USF is leading a national study of EPI-743.
The drug, developed by Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc., protects the mitochondria in nerve cells in the spinal cord that Friedreich's attacks.
"It's like an antioxidant, but an extremely strong antioxidant, much stronger than the CoQ10 or Vitamin E that you see in your drugstore, for example," Zesiewicz says.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and UCLA are the two other sites in the placebo-controlled study of EPI-743. Zesiewicz hopes that the drug might not be limited to just being the first real treatment for Friedreich's.
"It may have other implications for diseases like Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other neuro-degenerative diseases," she said.
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Natchez Hanson, 24, has been taking part in the trial for about eight months. She doesn't know if she's receiving the actual drug or a placebo, but is apparently seeing some benefits.
"I kind of feel like I'm the same, but people tell me that I'm standing better, I'm walking better, I sound better," Hanson said.
The Polk County math teacher, who was formally diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia at age 17, now uses a walker to get around.
"That just has opened so many doors," she said, with a smile, "considering that people mostly open the doors for me, but I mean, it carries all my stuff, I get front row parking!"
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Natchez Hanson hasn't let her Freidreich's ataxia stop her from seeing the world.
In September, for the third straight year, Hanson will speak at the USF-FARA symposium and share her rather upbeat story of living with the disease.
"Well you only have one life to live, and everyone has a burden to bear," Hanson said. "I always say either you laugh about it or you cry about it, and I'm done crying. I've moved on from that, so now I'm just trying to be as happy as I possibly can be." (Hear more from Hanson here.)
"Understanding A Cure: The Friedreich's Ataxia Scientific Symposium" will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5 at USF Health's Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) in downtown Tampa. The event is free and open to the public (click here to RSVP) and will also be live-streamed by FARA.
Edison Pharmaceuticals Chairman/CEO, Dr. Guy Miller, will update the status of the EPI-743 clinical trial, while Dr. Mirella Dottori of the University of Melbourne, Australia, will talk about treating Friedreich's ataxia with stem cells.
Then on Saturday, Sept. 7, it's the 2013 FARA Energy Ball, a fund-raiser for USF and FARA that's being held at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa. Click here for ticket info.
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Mark Schreiner has been the producer and reporter for "University Beat" on WUSF 89.7 FM since 2001 and on WUSF TV from 2007-2017. In addition to serving as a producer, reporter, host and assistant news director, he serves as intern coordinator for WUSF News.
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