This quote from Michelle Obama came from a speech where she is talking about girls around the world and how many are facing barriers to get the education they desperately want. She said that globally, over 60 million girls are not in school and many girls are fighting for their right to stay in school.
Many are not allowed to go to school. Many don't have the resources to go to school. And many have to drop out of school, at the young ages of 12 or 13, because they are forced to marry and take on their role as wife and mother.
What we know is that educating girls is the way to give them more power in life. It is the way to break the cycle of poverty and help them and their communities and countries. In fact, according to the Global Education Fund, educating all the girls that want to be educated is the most powerful way to make positive change on the planet.
If you have access to education, take it. Education is power. It doesn't just give you more knowledge, it gives you more insight into yourself, other people, and the world around you. It gives you the tools and confidence to do what you need to do in your life. It gives you the awareness that allows you to move past the criticism and people trying to hold you back. Education is essential for being a strong woman, and you have it at your fingertips unlike many women on the planet right now!
Don't make excuses. We even have online education now, so there is no excuse not to educate yourself and grow as a woman who will contribute more to her life and to the world around her. Education is a powerful tool to become a strong woman.
When it comes to strong women quotes, this is one you will hear from every strong woman across the globe. I just happened to hear it said directly from Michelle Obama's mouth, so I wanted to include it as being said by her.
Every woman that has taken control of her life knows that her place is not where other people want her to be, it is where SHE wants to be. It doesn't have to be in the kitchen or in the home. It doesn't have to be looking after the kids. It doesn't have to be tending to the men in her life. It doesn't have to be putting up with abuse or neglect in her relationships because that is what women are supposed to put up with. No, a woman's place is wherever she wants it to be.
Where do you want to be? That's a question you should always be asking yourself as a woman. Do you want to do what you are being told to do by your family, friends, religion, or society? Or, do you want to take a complete 180 and do something different?
Your place in the world is wherever your calling and desires take you. No matter where it is, it should be a place of fulfillment, happiness, and success.
5. This Is The Time To Be Strong Women!
This quote was taken from the 2015 Women in the World Summit speech by Hillary Clinton. Perhaps this is why she decided to run for president? It makes sense.
Data taken from over 20 years from around the world through the Clinton and Gates foundation showed that this is the time to be born female. In just 20 years, things have changed so much that women around the world are not facing as many horrible situations and outcomes that they used to face. No, not all women are experiencing the freedom that they want – or anything even close to it, but we have come a long way in the world and this is the time to start making some bigger changes!
Strong women lead the way for other women. They lead by example and they lead through their efforts. The more strong women we have, the more we can help women who are still struggling for their rights to live happier and healthier lives. In other words, this is the time to be stronger and create even more equality in the world by using our education and power to do so.
Women's rights, according to Angelina Jolie, can go backward. For example, she says that in Iraq and Syria, women are being sold in cages and young girls are being forced into sexual slavery. I googled this, and I eventually had to get offline for a while because it is so painful to watch and look at what is happening in the world with women.
So, if you are not sure whether you should become stronger or not, this is a great reason to put on your pro list. You can influence what happens to women in this world by being a strong woman and taking action and speaking up. You will not only be helping yourself live a richer life, you will have an opportunity to help girls who don't have the power to make a change live a richer life.
Many women believe that in order to be strong they have to prove that they can do everything themselves. They don't want to ask for help or, in many cases, even show the slightest sign that they need help. This is actually something that can affect their strength in a very negative way.
There comes a point where you just have too much on your plate and trying to do things all on your own can affect your success and your health in a very negative way. No one can be superwoman and do things at the light of speed while never getting tired or run down. It's impossible! That's why it's important to ask for help when you need it and delegate responsibilities to other people.
Not being able to ask for help or share how you really feel is a weakness. It makes you become someone you are not and affects your life in a negative way.
Your need for help does not make you less strong. It makes you strong enough to recognize that you can't do it all on your own, and confident enough to ask for the help and guidance when you need it.
I love Melissa McCarthy for many different reasons and believe she could make up a book of strong women quotes. She is a strong woman who has worked for her success and continues to work for her success, despite how badly people want to tear her down for superficial reasons. I'm talking about the type of reasons that have nothing to do with what kind of woman she is or what she can do with her life.
Every woman knows this well. They are always faced with another person basing their worth on their looks, weight, clothes, hair, and makeup. In short, their worth is based on their looks to many people, and they are taught that from a young age. And, every single person who tells them they are not living up to a standard makes them feel like they are less of a person than they could or should be.
Of course, this applies to all women, even the conventionally beautiful women, because every little bit of their outward appearance is attacked and no woman can live up to what society says they should be like in order to be worthy! How are women supposed to feel strong when they feel so weak in worth?
If you are a woman, people are going to tear you down based on your looks. It will happen in your closest relationships and every time you put yourself out there where people can comment. If you ever find a woman not being judged on her looks, you may have entered into another dimension! Unfortunately, I honestly don't think it's possible on this Earth not to be judged superficially as a woman.
That's the bad news, but the good news is you don't have to value yourself on your looks. Your strength and worth is within you, not without you. It's your beliefs, morals, opinions, enthusiasm, compassion, and abilities that make you strong – not whether or not your hair came out perfect today.
Once you start to really believe in your inner worth, you will become stronger. Other people's opinions and hate will not stop you from going out there and living the life you want to live.


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The Arts Décoratifs museum is organizing an exhibition of the work of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani, known as "Valentino" as a part of their ongoing program of retrospectives of the great contemporary couturiers.
The first parisian retrospective comprising some two hundred haute couture designs, will retrace the exceptional career of this designer based in Rome since 1959. "Valentino, thèmes et variations" pays tribute to the couturier who in January 2008 presented his final collection.


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Title: The Ecology Montreal Party: A "Libertarian" Frankenstein
Author: Michael William
Topics: AJODA [magazine], Canada, riots
Notes: Originally published in "Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed" #40 Spring/Summer '94. Vol. 14, No. 2.
Michael William
The Ecology Montreal Party: A "Libertarian" Frankenstein
April 19 Update
Shortly before the last Canadian elections, the head of the ruling Conservatives, Brian Mulroney, resigned. Enormously unpopular, his approval rating approaching 10%, Mulroney was visibly damaging the party's already slim chances of winning the upcoming elections. Replacing Mulroney at the party helm was Kim Campbell, a one-time member of the Social Credit Party, a right-wing populist party which is now defunct except in one province.
During the elections any mention of Mulroney by the Conservatives was predictably avoided. Their campaign, though, went further. The party, incredibly, attempted to present itself as outsider, as anti-establishment. It was almost as if the party in power was running against itself.
This desperate reality-bending was ultimately more amusing than effective. The Conservatives were virtually wiped out, going from a comfortable majority to two seats. Such events, however, eloquently reflected a climate in which politicians and parties are despised as never before.
The response of the parties to what negates them — their attempt to integrate and neutralize it — is populism. Significantly, when the Conservatives were elbowed out, they were displaced on the right by the populist Reform Party, which went from three seats to fifty-two. The Party is run almost single-handedly by Preston Manning, an evangelical Christian who presents himself as an anti-politician, ostentatiously refusing a few of the perks of office, but is in fact the son of a former premier and a consummate politician.
Ross Perot, a paranoid, unvarnished authoritarian, evokes electronic town halls while running essentially a one-man show. Demonstrated by Perot is populism's ability to transcend traditional political categories and draw support from both the left and right.
In Russia, a potent nationalist-populist brew allowed a ranting buffoon, Zhirinovsky, to gobble a quarter of the parliamentary vote.
Today populism is ubiquitous, seemingly obligatory. Above all, it is a sure-fire indicator of demagogy.
One of the newest kids on the populist block is the libertarian municipalism-inspired Ecology Montreal Party. If "Vote for me, and the people will be in power" constitutes populism's usual refrain, libertarian municipalism's spin might be phrased: "Vote for me, and the state will eventually wither away."
Montreal is a major centre of libertarian municipalism. Ecology Montreal in effect was initiated primarily by one person, Dimitri Roussopoulos, a self-described anarchist who was a candidate in the last elections, in which more than one "anarchist" ran. Ecology Montreal's members take "their inspiration from the social ecology and urban theories of Murray Bookchin," according to Phillip Chee, a party militant, and many libertarian municipalist books, including Bookchin's, emanate from Roussopoulos' Black Rose Books/Our Generation magazine operation. Bookchin himself was brought in to address an Ecology Montreal policy conference. An international social ecology conference with libertarian municipalism as the featured topic will take place in Montreal in 1994....
Until recently, libertarian municipalism has been primarily confined to institutes and academia. Now that it is generating actual political parties and is acquiring a history, it is useful to look at how that history is being represented by the ideology's adherents.
In its "Living in the City" special issue (Fall 93), the Murray Bookchin-influenced Toronto journal Kick It Over published an excerpt from a text on libertarian municipalism by Bookchin and an article on Ecology Montreal by Phillip Chee. A one-two, the Bookchin reprint theoretically softens us up for Chee's Ecology Montreal sucker punch.
In his piece Bookchin encourages anarchists to become politicians and to run for office, and drools over "cybernetic devices," making clear his desire to mediate experience through them.
Central to libertarian municipalism is drawing a dubious distinction between the nation-state and the municipal state. Libertarian municipalism legitimizes the city-state but turns up its nose at the nation-state (although Ecology Montreal is clearly willing to coexist with it). Differences between these states, however, are far outweighed by what they have in common: the omnipresence of the money/commodity economy, the existence of politicians, the laws they impose and the cops and courts that back them up, and the reign of the technocrats necessary to run modern industrial capital. We deal with municipal cops, not the army, on a daily basis.
Chee's article about Ecology Montreal is a classic illustration of Party Thinking eclipsing autonomous thought — of the political organization imposing its own logic and imperatives. Once set in motion, a party rapidly takes on a life of its own. For the party militant people are either inside or outside the party and those on the inside, having internalized the party's imperatives, view those on the outside in a reified, manipulative way (ultimately principally as vote fodder). Thus Chee reels off the banal facts of party life, seemingly blissfully unaware of how it sounds to the unconverted, that Ecology Montreal, rather than a radical departure, is actually more akin to partyism-as-usual: choosing candidates, counting voters, setting up party structures, putting out position papers, making deals with other parties etc. ad nauseam — these staples of party "life" provide a structure, a bureaucratic playpen to keep the militants' hands occupied. Psychologically the militant needs to assign the party and his or her activities a key role — to be convinced, in Chee's words, that Ecology Montreal "has the potential to ignite a movement." Also key is the moral superiority which justifies the militant's leading role. For Chee, the party becomes the model of the future society; it is the very purity of the militants' lives which justifies handing them state power.
For the militant the organization becomes the beacon. Thus Ecology Montreal presents itself as an "educational organization," and puts on "educational events." Having come up empty-handed in the most recent elections, libertarian municipalists in Syracuse are presently producing and distributing a journal in order to "educate the public." This vanguard aspect is crucial to Bookchinism. In a recent issue of Green Perspectives, for example, editors Murray Bookchin and Janet Biehl defend an "educational" approach, and specifically advocate vanguardism, attempting to put an innocuous, cultural spin on the concept: "The word vanguard, we should add, does not throw us into a panic. An avant-garde teacher (or artist) is still a teacher (or artist), and there is no point in pretending otherwise." Present-day anarchists who question vanguardism are referred to with the word anarchist in quotation marks, implying that being an anarchist and questioning vanguardism is incompatible, as the duo pines after the good old days, i.e. the "nineteenth and early twentieth centuries," when anarchists and "their organizations" adopted a vanguardist posture. Displayed here is how much Bookchin and Biehl have in common with the foibles of the nineteenth century anarchists — their Enlightenment-based religious belief in techno-rationalism and the ideology of progress, which finds its natural culmination in Bookchin's "cybernetic devices." Also key here are specialization and division of labour: the student/teacher dichotomy and its institutionalization become the initial hierarchy on which all the others are built.
If academia-drenched, this is not simply an academic question. In the early '80s an attempt took place to put this outlook into practice with the creation of the briefly very active and now moribund Anarchos Institute. Initiated in large part by Bookchin and Roussopoulos, the Institute epitomized their vision of a coterie of academics implementing a top-down relationship vis-a-vis non-academic anarchists initially, and, presumably, eventually a broader milieu. In Bookchinist discourse this is theorized as the "indispensable radical intelligentsia" without which "a libertarian movement" will be unable to "emerge." This, however, was not the approach of everyone involved in the Institute. Rapidly a crisis took place, triggered off by Roussopoulos' authoritarianism and unilateral decision-making. When the non-academics in the local Montreal group objected, they were purged by the profs in a clear instance of academic class solidarity. (If they don't support Roussopoulos, where are they going to publish?) At a key meeting Bookchin was parachuted in to lend his authority to the purge exercise. In the resulting scandal the Institute rapidly became a ghost of its former self, as the academic rump group implemented classical sleaze techniques like refusing access to the mailing list to the non-academics so they couldn't inform the membership about what was going on. This is just one in a long string of similar incidents involving Roussopoulos, including firing two anarchists at Black Rose Books when they attempted to collectivize the project.[1]
Despite abundant talk about triggering off "participatory, face to face" activity, no examples are provided by Chee of Ecology Montreal causing anyone to do anything. On the contrary, as he acknowledges, "By far the most publicly visible activity Ecology Montreal has engaged in has been its electoral efforts." Chee's account is a classic case of electoralism imposing its logic and priorities. "During the election campaign," he recounts, "the fundamental disagreements about the movement's structure were pushed below the surface. The crux of the matter was what type of leadership the party should adopt." And, Chee informs us, presently Ecology Montreal is "putting considerable effort into creating an electoral strategy for the 1994 elections."
Ghee goes to considerable lengths to distance Ecology Montreal from other parties, especially the social democrats. Evoked by Roussopoulos in Chee's piece is the term "anti-party party," using the German Greens as a model(!). But Ecology Montreal's main concern is clearly grabbing parliamentary power (entirely understandable from an electoral viewpoint, seeing that no Ecology Montreal candidates won in the last election). Thus the party is currently hammering out a "common platform" with "independent city councillors" and other "progressives." This is only more of the tired leftism that has been discredited worldwide, notably, in Canada, with the arrival in power for the first time in the province of Ontario of the New Democratic Party (social democrats). Within a year the popularity of the party plummeted; few retain any illusions about "really-existing" NDPism. Ecology Montreal's desperate attempt to elect a candidate or two also involves an infusion of traditional political horse-trading, as "Alliance 94" proceeds to "divide up the electoral map so as not to run alliance candidates against each other."
Another example of opportunist tinkering with the system is the party's reaction to a proposal to reduce the number of politicians from the current 51. Instead, Ecology Montreal proposed that "Montreal adopt a partial system of proportional representation. Thirty-one seats would remain single member constituencies with election by direct majority, and 20 seats to be distributed among representatives of the municipalities proportionally to the percentage of the popular vote gained by each party to the city as a whole." Demonstrated here is that despite obligatory complaints about "impersonal bureaucracies and professional politicians," Chee really believes in representational democracy — that politicians are legitimate, that parties represent people, that people can be represented by politicians. Thus Ecology Montreal's pathetic solution becomes sprinkling in a few councillors from presently marginalized parties, or otherwise slightly shifting the final party tallies. These token councillors of course would probably be powerless. Disappeared here is that its totalitarian nature is what most defines representative democracy: even when most people don't vote (often the case), politicians get in, backed by the entire state/police apparatus.
Another bureaucratic horror story, to go by Chee's account, has been Ecology Montreal's internal functioning, including factions exiting the party, periods where people weren't talking to each other, and a tendency for power to accumulate in a coordinating committee. At one point, for example, a coordinating committee had to '"clean up' the movement" (what movement? Ecology Montreal is a groupuscule, not a movement). In an another example of centralization of power, it is also the coordinating committee which is discussing the agreement with other opposition groups not to run candidates against each other. In fact, Ecology Montreal is presently dysfunctional with respect to the structure it has set up, which invests some power in "local associations." However "Ecology Montreal currently does not have any local associations in existence," Chee informs us, so the ubiquitous coordinating committee is presently acting as the "principal coordinating council." Which is hardly surprising: these municipal parties are basically empty shells which only come "alive" at election time.
An Ecology Montreal program was produced by the coordinating committee and adopted by the membership in 1992. Dense fog and rhetoric render navigating this document a perilous undertaking. Much is clarified though when we learn that the ruling MCM party "can no longer be considered an instrument for progressive change." In other words the MCM once was, to use Ecology Montreal's Old Left terminology, "progressive." Ecology Montreal is in large part a back-to-the-roots MCM (a party in which Roussopoulos was once a militant).
Instead of abolishing money, Ecology Montreal intends to preserve the law of value, wage labour and the commodity economy, ensuring that people will continue to buy and sell each other as before. The party's call for full employment makes it clear that they wish to retain high levels of production, and talk of "hiring and promotion practices" underlines that bosses and hierarchy will endure.
Ecology Montreal's call for "the application of a user-pay system on all highways" typifies the Band-aid solutions to be expected on an ecological level. Thus the party is reduced to grumbling about the "excessive use of the automobile," and vaguely wants to "reduce pollution from industrial sources." These people obviously intend to keep the techno-grid fundamentally intact.
Also of note is a section on non-violence. Here we learn that Ecology Montreal is "simply opposed to the use of force." They certainly don't want non-pacifist hordes of uncontrollables dislodging their politicians. The document explicitly rules out going on the offensive against the cops (e.g. riots), and advocates a "weapons-free zone," disarming people against fascists and Stalinists, who are hardly in the habit of beating swords into plowshares.
Concerning elected candidates, the Party's approach is democratic centralism. Once arrived at, in other words, the party line must be toed. "Defending and promoting the programme and strategy" is obligatory, the party statutes outline, and "the final decision of Ecology Montreal on any matter must be accepted." Mindless obedience is of course the very definition of the party hack.
Lumping libertarian municipalism in with other strains of populism will elicit objections from some, no doubt. After all, Bookchin and Chee often sound anti-authoritarian, even anti-statist. However, implementing change top-down through the state is clearly not anti-statist: it's leftism. Roussopoulos' idiotic position papers which hope "to unite the left" demonstrate that, despite the anarcho-rhetoric, he's just a leftist. Libertarian municipalism is a form of left populism because instead of locating all legitimacy in autonomous activity, it posits political parties which claim to represent widespread disgust with "impersonal bureaucracies and professional politicians" (in Chee's words). People, however, can only represent themselves; the party has no role to play. The role of the party in other words is to immediately abolish itself.
Ecology Montreal wishes to recuperate our disgust and to channel it towards electoralism, the reformist Ecology Montreal racket, and leftism — "… so unpopular is the MCM that the 1994 election may reflect enormous political ferment, according to Phillip Chee," we learn for example in Green Perspectives. At the same time Chee fears that Ecology Montreal "will fall on the deaf ears of a people fed up and increasingly cynical of the current political system" — in other words that his gang will get the boot along with the rest. Cynicism is corrosive and a double-edged sword to be sure but it is also an antidote to false hopes. Unfortunately there are always new parties popping up, propping up a more and more discredited system. With enough negativity, however, there might just be a qualitative leap…
Ecology Montreal, Chee, and Bookchin also exalt "the citizen," a term which, like "the proletariat" of yore, becomes the defining role — the role we are all expected to play. Max Stirner notes this term's relation to the (anti-monarchist) bourgeois revolution, whereby everyone is "raised or lowered to the dignity of the citizen: (...) the third estate becomes the sole estate, namely, the estate of — citizens of the state." Or, in Ecology Montreal's words, citizens "must be aware of their duties and rights as citizens." As Stirner notes, "... few qualms are felt about changing existing laws. But who would dare sin against the idea of the State, or refuse to submit to the idea of law. So people remain 'law-respecting' loyal 'citizens.'" Libertarian municipalism proposes to decentralize the state, to create a profusion of mini-states. Thus "neighbourhood councils should be empowered to enact laws," according to Ecology Montreal. With laws of course come the cops to back them up (green-uniformed, no doubt). Hardly surprisingly the police question propels Ecology Montreal to new heights of Orwellian obfuscation: in Ecology Montreal-speak, the police become yet another brand of coordinator — they "coordinate ... efforts to enhance and protect public safety." How sweet.
Instead of using the ever-changing desires of unique individuals as a starting point, Chee imposes a pre-fab, abstract, all-purpose councilism. "Mandated and recallable delegates" become the theoretical antidote to bureaucratiza-tion. But as John Zerzan notes, "delegates and recall have always been, in practice, direct routes to bureaucratization and the rule of experts (consult all trade union history)." In an industrial economy these so-called mandated and recallable delegates become mouthpieces of the desires of the megamachine, which are relayed back to the base as necessities.
Ecology Montreal's role is to legitimize the present municipal state through their participation and to legitimize the cybernetic state to come. Ecology Montreal wants us to internalize — to self-manage — the state. With our resistance to it weakened, authority will circulate more freely through the pyramid of power. As opposed to a Japanese-style implanted technobureaucracy, Ecology Montreal proposes a more participatory self-alienation where we choose our technocrats more directly (if we vote for them, they must be ours). Integral to this approach are the "cybernetic devices," "mass technology" and "sophisticated technology" marketed in Bookchinism. I have already discussed this aspect in a previous article in Anarchy in a passage which began with a quote from Bookchin:
"I believe that science and technology should be used in the service of refurbishing and rehabilitating a new balance with nature."
But Bookchin's vision of a high-tech apparatus passively "in the service" of humanity — a discourse he shares with all the technocrats — denies the qualitative leap, the autonomization of technology which occurs with the implementation of mass tech-niques in the metropolis. Later, Bookchin backhandedly ac-knowledges this autonomization, when the underlying technor determinism of his discourse makes "sophisticated technology" a universal given: "...the very things we are using presuppose a great deal of sophisticated technology. Let's face the fact that we need these technologies." Rather than presupposing a great deal of sophisticated technology, isn't it more appropriate to question "the very things we are using"? When Bookchin says "we need" these technologies, he is speaking only for himself.
— Anarchy #33
Not surprisingly, anti-civilizationists are the object of particular scorn in the Bookchin organ Green Perspectives, where "anarcho-primitivism" is termed a "pathology." That civilization thinks it needs to cure us is par for the course. It is more and more obvious, though, that it is civilization which is the problem.
Once parties and the municipal state are swallowed, accepting the nation-state is only a short theoretical step away, as demonstrated by anarcho-nationalist Serge Roy's call for Quebec separatism in the Bookchin-oriented Quebec City journal Hors d'Ordre.
Meanwhile, Bookchinism continues to spread. The most recent issue of Green Perspectives lists works by Bookchin translated into Norwegian, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish. This interest in effect is hardly surprising. Apart from its academic appeal, Bookchinism can be very attractive to a wide variety of middle-of-the-road anarchists who are searching for simplistic, seemingly squeaky-clean solutions.
This essay is not intended as an over-all critique of Bookchinism, which hopefully someone will undertake. In the meantime, John Zerzan's brief but pointed review of Bookchin's The Rise of Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship remains the most incisive critique to date.[2]
On February 24, Alliance '94 made its first public appearance in the form of a forum on the role of the opposition at City Hall. The event was a complete flop; as many journalists showed up as members of the public. Four Alliance hacks gave pep talks, followed by a discussion/question period. It quickly became apparent that yet another coordinating committee was running the show; people could offer comments but had no real input in decision-making. One person called for a debate about what is apparently a major feature of the Alliance — running a candidate for mayor. Roussopoulos immediately squelched the idea of a debate. Running a mayoral candidate was the "center," the "heart" of the Alliance, he enthused, waxing lyrical, a necessary "symbol of unity." Besides, the question had already been dealt with by the coordinating committee.
Much hand-wringing took place over the fact that there was no chance that anything approaching 50% of the electorate would vote. Figures were tossed around as to what would be a reasonable Alliance tally. Marcel Sevigny, a leftist councillor, said that winning six or seven seats could be counted a success.
The evening was co-chaired by Bernard Bourbonnais, who also gave a talk as the Ecology Montreal rep. At one point he excused himself after making a clumsy statement, joking that he "wasn't enough of a politician yet." Not to worry, chump, you're learning fast. Also at the presiding table were three people from the Our Generation, crowd. In effect the Alliance apparently consists of Ecology Montreal, two leftist councillors and a handful of academics and hangers on. The few people who showed up to check out the event seemed primarily wary. One man who had been sent an invitation complained bitterly about being confronted with a "fait accompli" concerning process and decision-making. "The community isn't here," another man noted, injecting a refreshing breath of reality into this stale, tedious non-event.
Alliance '94 has now collapsed. Ecology Montreal and the DCM (a small leftist party) are presently courting each other with an eye to stitching together a "federation" for the election campaign. "Our hope is to form a federation, meaning there would be a single party, but membership in the party would be limited to associations [Ecology Montreal and the DCM]," Ecology Montreal spokesperson Andrea Levy is quoted as saying in Hour, a local cultural/news-weekly.
"There is considerable interest and enthusiasm on both sides at this point," chirped DCM leader Sam Boskey. O the mating rituals of marginalized leftist groupuscles!
Meanwhile, the international social ecology conference on libertarian municipalism will take place on May 7 and 8. Bookchin will be the predictable featured speaker and Andrea Levy will give a talk as the Ecology Montreal rep. Some local anti-authoritarians are contemplating showing up to protest the libertarian municipalism racket and to distribute this text.
[1] I was not a member of the Anarchos Institute, but followed events closely. Documents about the Institute and the Black Rose firings are available by writing to: Michael, C.P. 1554 Succ. B, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 3L2.
[2] Appeared in Anarchy, Demolition Derby and Interrogations Pour La Communaute Humaine.

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Hellish Fun | Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Neil Connors, Senior Writer
PS3, PS4, Reviews, Xbox 360, Xbox One
It was around the time that I was batting demonic frat boys with a spiked paddle into goals for points that I understood Volition was keeping in stride with the absurdity of Saints Row 4. That's not a bad thing in my eyes at all. Saints Row: Gat out of Hell is as crazy as ever. It does well to keep the flavor of the Saints Row series, but that's all you really get from it: a taste. It wets your appetite for something more, but never fully delivers.
Saints Row has become known for being a little out-of-control. Saints Row: Gat out of Hell is no different. If you thought Saints Row 4 was too strange for you, then you won't find much joy in the premise of this standalone expansion. Inversely, if you love the wackiness that Saints Row has become, you will undoubtedly love Gat out of Hell.
Long story short, The Boss is dragged to hell by Satan to marry his daughter Jezebel. So for the first time in the series, you get to play as Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington as they dive into hell to save their leader. This is what allows you to play co-op with a friend, otherwise you simply choose which character you wish to play as. You run into some familiar faces from previous games, and some new faces as well on your adventure into the underworld
Hell is pretty creatively done. It is a new city and not a rehash of Steelport. It had a nice hellish twist on everything. For instance, there aren't normal people walking around, but soulless husks wandering the street. The police are now demons with guns that drive monster trucks. It's charming in that Saints Row type of way and certainly feels like a city in the Saints Row universe.
Frankly, the story is insignificant and virtually unnecessary for the game. It certainly has the Saints Row charm that the series is so well known for and there were plenty of moments I laughed at the characters quirkiness. However, it is rather short and besides the very end, it never engaged me in any serious way. Not to say I didn't enjoy the dialog or cut-scenes, but let's not pretend that Gat out of Hell is focused on the story.
This is mainly due to how the game is set up. Traditional open world games have main missions and side missions. Side missions get you items, exp, money, etc, while the main story missions progress the story. In Gat out of Hell there are no main missions. You progress the story by leveling up. Once you hit a certain level the game advances. The reasoning behind this story-wise is you need to cause a certain amount of havoc to get Satan to reveal himself. Hey, whatever reason there is to cause chaos.
The gameplay idea behind this is pretty neat. The entire point is so you get to do whatever you want. Instead of being forced to do a certain kind of mission to advance the game, you can simply go on a rampage in the city and that will still progress the story. That's no exaggeration. I hopped into a monster truck, ran over a bunch of cars, and I didn't feel like it was pointless extra. I was able to do that to my heart's content as I watched my exp meter full up.
That's pretty cool in theory, but it does have some issues. Generally, the main story missions are usually the most fun in any game, if they aren't, then that game has some other problems. That aside, doing side missions for an entire game will feel repetitive eventually. That stands true here, since they don't change or adapt much throughout the game. Even worse, there aren't that many kinds of missions.
The game introduces characters like Shakespeare and Blackbeard and I was hoping these side characters would present you with some new missions. Sadly, I was met with the same generic "survive three waves" or "fly through the checkpoints quick enough". This is a missed opportunity to have specific character missions with these entertaining additions to the cast. There was virtually no difference between doing a missions for Shakespeare versus Blackbeard.
Those missions are fun, but they get old if you keep doing them over and over with the only difference a new location. Yes, you can do whatever you want to advance the story, but the best way of doing it are the side missions that never change. Normally, those type of missions are padding when the main missions are what you write home about. In Gat out of Hell there are no main missions, so you are left with the smaller missions that only feel like extras…except they are the whole game.
Luckily, the gameplay is as fun as ever. Admittedly, nothing has really changed, but the strange weapons – like an exploding frog canon – are definitely still present. Saints Row is riotous fun when you're causing mayhem in the demonic city with hilarious weapons, but the real fun I had was being a superhuman that could fly.
When you dive into hell you are presented with Lucifer's broken halo. Throughout the game you unlock arcane powers that range from a powerful stomp blasting people away to turning people to stone. Using these powers on your enemies makes you feel like a god, and it never gets old taking on hordes of enemies. However, the most fun you'll have is flying around the city. You are given wings and are able to traverse the city at lightning speeds. You can't fly forever, so it takes a little skill to stay aloft for extended periods of time, but it is pretty easy to master. There were plenty of times I would forget about the rest of the game and fly around collecting orbs to level up my powers instead. When the missions become repetitive, there is a lot of fun to be had simply exploring the hellish city.
Gat out of Hell is has some other issues that can be pretty glaring. One was even game breaking. There are numerous bugs that you will run into. Some are minor issues, like enemies being hallway up a wall but standing as if on solid ground. Every time you unlock a fast travel point, you fight an arch demon, but if you stand in a certain spot, they can't get to you. They stand still and may throw some fire at you but nothing major. I never struggled fighting any of them. I flipped a tank on its side once but it managed to shoot through its floor just fine. Once I got stuck in the grounded and the screen froze. After a few seconds the game acted like I died and reset. Annoying, but since I wasn't doing anything important it was easy enough to shake off. The character will interact awkwardly with some walls here and there, but only for a moment or two.
Those are annoying bugs, but since the game is kind of absurd anyways, I can look past them. However, one issue almost made me start the game from the beginning. After a certain cut-scene occurs, you gain control of your player but someone is speaking to you over the phone. He instructed me to perform a task, but at that moment I somehow managed to start a different mission. After completing the side mission, I could not complete the task he set for me. This wouldn't be that big of a deal if it didn't involve all the side characters. I couldn't speak with them for spoiler-related reasons, so I couldn't unlock their missions. I was stuck doing random tasks, which would've taken a lot longer to advance the story than the character missions. Luckily, I had saved in a different file. I had to go back an hour and redo a lot of things I already did, but it was better than starting over. Here's you're warning: do not start any missions if someone is speaking with you (just in case) and save often and in multiple slots!
When it comes right down to it, I had fun playing Gat out of Hell and I know I have more to do. The problem is everything else I have left to do I've already done. More survival missions, more flying through checkpoints, more mayhem missions, and so on and so forth. I'm not feeling any strong pull to play more of it. The only thing I want to do is explore the city more, not do the missions, but just have fun messing around. That's the biggest positive I can draw from it. It's fun, but I can't find reason enough to claim you absolutely need to play it. The 20 USD price tag makes it more appealing, and Saints Row fans will find definitely find some enjoyment in this short title, but it won't be enough to hold anyone for long.
This review is based off a review code of the Playstation 4 version of Saints Row: Gat out of Hell developed by Volition and developed by Deep Silver.
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We are just over a month into 2015, so how are your New Year's Resolutions going? Many of us take a good look at ourselves at the end of each year and decide to embark on an overly optimistic exercise plan for the New Year with good intentions of losing weight and improving our health and fitness. Perhaps we even set goals such as getting in shape for the summer and looking good on the beach.
We have all seen how busy the fitness centers are in January. It can be hard to get on our preferred cardio machine or get a spot in our favorite workout class. Like all New Year's resolutions, the exercise resolution often starts well. We get up early every morning for a run or we make it to the gym every evening after work. We may even add a workout in during the weekend! And, we feel good. Not just physically (we know exercise can boost our energy levels), but also emotionally and mentally, partly because we did what we committed to do. We feel we accomplished something and we are on track with our plan for the New Year!
And then something happens about a month later. The fitness center parking lot appears half-empty and we can park much closer to the entrance (even though we know we shouldn't). There are cardio machines to spare and there is no line for our favorite workout class. What happened?
Well, the motivation and commitment we had on New Year's Day has eroded. It's February. It's cold outside and we don't want to get up for an early morning run anymore when we can just stay warm in bed. But that's ok (we rationalize) because we can go to the gym after work and run on the treadmill. However, after a tough day at work we may decide we should go straight home instead. We may have loved ones waiting for us, right (we continue to rationalize)? And besides, the summer is a long way, away, so we have plenty of time to work on our "beach body." Sound familiar?
The bottom line is that exercise needs to be performed on a regular and consistent basis to achieve the full health and fitness benefits. However, you don't have to do much to get results. Just 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise (equivalent to jogging) each week meets the minimum physical activity guidelines. Furthermore, these 75 minutes can be divided into small chunks of time (e.g. 10 minutes) and doing some exercise is better than nothing.
Start with Purpose – Find a compelling reason to exercise and remind yourself daily. It can be a powerful source of sustained motivation. For example, I exercise to have the energy I need to be the best father to my infant son (and to be able to run 5K with him when he's old enough). This is much more effective for me than exercising for bigger biceps!
Face the Truth – Be realistic with your exercise plan and don't try and do too much, too soon. For example, don't commit to the gym every night if you have not exercised for a while. Start with small, manageable amounts of exercise and progress gradually over time.
Take Action – Choose exercise options that are simple and accessible to you and don't make working out harder than it needs to be. This is why I like body weight workouts, just like those on our Johnson & Johnson OFFICIAL 7 Minute Workout App. There are more than 20 different simple, fast workouts for beginners to advanced exercisers that require no special equipment, just your own body weight and can be performed by almost anyone, anywhere, anytime.
We have just passed the weekend where the biggest football game in America was played. It's one of the unhealthiest weekends of the year for people and we are rapidly approaching Valentine's Day with the usual surge in chocolate sales. So remember: "Purpose, Truth, Action." Stay motivated for an active and healthy 2015.


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Income Inequality Is Costing the U.S. on Social Issues
May 04, 2015Jeremy ParkinsonFinance0
Thirty-five years ago, the United States ranked 13th among the 34 industrialized nations that are today in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in terms of life expectancy for newborn girls. These days, it ranks 29th.
In 1980, the infant mortality rate in the United States was about the same as in Germany. Today, American babies die at almost twice the rate of German babies.
"On nearly all indicators of mortality, survival and life expectancy, the United States ranks at or near the bottom among high-income countries," says a report on the nation's health by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.
What's most shocking about these statistics is not how unhealthy they show Americans to be, compared with citizens of countries that spend much less on health care and have much less sophisticated medical technology. What is most perplexing is how stunningly fast the United States has lost ground.
The blame for the precipitous fall does not rest primarily on the nation's doctors and hospitals.
The United States has the highest teenage birthrate in the developed world — about seven times the rate in France, according to the O.E.C.D. More than one out of every four children lives with one parent, the largest percentage by far among industrialized nations. And more than a fifth live in poverty, sixth from the bottom among O.E.C.D. nations.
Among adults, seven out of every 1,000 are in prison, more than five times the rate of incarceration in most other rich democracies and more than three times the rate for the United States four decades ago.
The point is: The United States doesn't have a narrow health care problem. We've simply handed our troubles to the medical industry to fix. In many ways, the American health care system is the most advanced in the world. But whiz-bang medical technology just cannot fix what ails us.
As economists from the University of Chicago, M.I.T. and the University of Southern California put it in a recent research paper, much of America's infant mortality deficit is driven by "excess inequality."
American babies born to white, college-educated, married women survive as often as those born to advantaged women in Europe. It's the babies born to nonwhite, nonmarried, nonprosperous women who die so young.
Three or four decades ago, the United States was the most prosperous country on earth. It had the mightiest military and the most advanced technologies known to humanity. Today, it's still the richest, strongest and most inventive. But when it comes to the health, well-being and shared prosperity of its people, the United States has fallen far behind.
Pick almost any measure of social health and cohesion over the last four decades or so, and you will find that the United States took a wrong turn along the way.
How did we get here? How do we exit?
As the presidential campaign draws the political debate to our national priorities, these questions must take center stage. As candidates argue over the budget deficit and the national debt, debate what to do about income inequality, address the problem of mass incarceration or refight the battles over the Affordable Care Act and the minimum wage, they should be forced to address how their policy wish list adds up to an answer.
Looking at how the United States compares with other nations is illuminating. As I noted in last week's column, over the last four decades or so, the labor market lost much of its power to deliver income gains to working families in many developed nations.
But blaming globalization and technological progress for the stagnation of the middle class and the precipitous decline in our collective health is too easy. Jobs were lost and wages got stuck in many developed countries.
What set the United States apart — what made the damage inflicted upon American society so intense — was the nature of its response. Government support for Americans in the bottom half turned out to be too meager to hold society together.
The conservative narrative of America's social downfall, articulated by the likes of Charles Murray from the American Enterprise Institute, posits that a large welfare state, built from the time of the New Deal in the 1930s through the era of the Great Society in the 1960s, sapped Americans' industriousness and undermined their moral fiber.
A more compelling explanation is that when globalization struck at the jobs on which 20th-century America had built its middle class, the United States discovered that it did not, in fact, have much of a welfare state to speak of. The threadbare safety net tore under the strain.
Call it a failure of solidarity. American institutions, built from hostility toward collective solutions, couldn't hold society together when the economic underpinning of full employment at a decent wage gave in.
The question is, Is there a solution to fit these ideological preferences? The standard prescriptions, typically shared by liberals and conservatives, start with education, building the skills needed to harness the opportunities of a high-tech, fast-changing labor market that has little use for those who end their education after high school.
Ensuring everybody has a college degree might not stanch the flow of riches to the very pinnacle of society. But it could deliver a powerful boost to the incomes and the well-being of struggling families in the bottom half.
And yet the prescription — embedded in the social reality that is contemporary America — falls short. In contemporary America, education is widening inequity, not closing it. College enrollment rates have stagnated for lower-income Americans. Sean Reardon from Stanford University notes that the achievement gap between rich and poor children seems to have been steadily expanding for the last 50 years.
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change for operators of unmanned aerial vehicles, aka drones: People will have to register them, federal officials said.
The Department of Transportation took the first step Monday, by announcing formation of a task force to create a registration process. Registration could begin as soon as the holiday season, DOT officials said Monday at a Washington news conference.
The idea is to help build a culture of accountability and responsibility among drone operators, DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx, said In a statement. Federal Aviation Administration chief Michael Huerta put it another way: "When they don't fly safely, they'll know there will be consequences."
But key questions surrounding enforceability and what personal information will be required for the registry, remain unanswered. Small, rogue drones weighing less than 55 pounds have been an increasing concern among safety regulators for years. So far in 2015, pilots reported unsafe activity by unmanned aerial vehicles about 100 times a month, the FAA said. Last August, two airliners flying over the New York City area each reported passing within 100 feet of drones. Drones that fly too close to aircraft can easily be sucked into a jet engine, or crash into a cockpit window.
The registration idea is based on the premise that if people who purchase drones are required to register them, then regulators will be able to track rogue drones back to their owners. Registering drones is the "first good point" of getting to know where the drone operator is and who the drone operator is, said Foxx. But he said that's not enough. "You need a little bit more," Foxx said, because the "bad guys" certainly will not certify their drones and not have them registered.
Airline pilots said they support formation of the task force and they want to take part in how it's implemented. "We look forward to engaging in discussions with this task force..." a statement from the Air Line Pilots Association said Monday.
"We require car registration to ensure safety and accountability, and we should do the same for drones," said Sen. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts in a statement. In fact, all airplanes, helicopters and other large aircraft are required to register with the FAA. This initiative essentially would extend that requirement to drones.
Authorities also want to require existing drone owners to register retroactively. They'll have to figure out how to enforce registration among the estimated hundreds of thousands of drone operators throughout the nation. That won't be easy. Foxx said he thinks many, if not most users, will comply.
Some estimates indicate a million or more drones could be purchased this coming holiday season, according to a Helicopter Association International statement, Monday.
But some of those holiday drones could be exempt from the registration rules "due to a low safety risk, including toys and certain other small" drones, the DOT said.
The task force will be made up of "25 to 30 diverse representatives from the drone manufacturers and manned aviation industries, the federal government, and other stakeholders," said the DOT statement.
Officials also indicated the task force would "explore options for a streamlined system," for some drone operators, according to the DOT. Earlier this month, the FAA announced it's testing anti-drone technology that would detect UAVs flying within five miles of select airports.
Drones crashed last month at two sporting events -- the U.S. Open tennis tournament and a University of Kentucky football game. No one was hurt in either incident.
In July, five "unmanned aircraft systems" prevented California firefighters from dispatching helicopters with water buckets for up to 20 minutes over a wildfire that roared onto a Los Angeles-area freeway, burning out cars. Helicopters couldn't drop water because the five drones hovered over the blaze. Unmanned aircraft systems are neither supposed to fly within five miles of an airport without notifying the airport operator and control tower nor are they supposed to go above 400 feet.
The FAA is currently writing new rules for small drone operators, which it says may be complete by next year. In the meantime, the FAA has issued more than 1,000 temporary exemptions to individual drone operators. The FAA missed its deadline for those rules last month, and aviation groups are urging officials to hurry up.


So many things go right for us every day that we don't even notice. And, of course, under all those man-made inventions lies this good Earth, this planet that nourishes and supports all of life as we know it (including those human-created experiences, as painting).
Biomorphism, the language I use to celebrate nature, comes from combining the Greek words 'bios', meaning life, and 'morphe', meaning form. The tendency to exhibit the appearance or qualities of a living thing is a celebration of nature's movement, light and flow.
My art project is dedicated to this celebtration of nature, and this is a color and movement party.


Pfizer is the first pharmaceutical company in Ireland to be awarded the Business Working Responsibly Mark by Business in the Community Ireland. The achievement recognizes Pfizer's commitment and actions towards creating responsible and sustainable business practices which have a positive impact on society.
The official announcement took place on Wednesday the 17th of October 2012 at a ceremony in front of 150 CEOs from across the top indigenous and multinational companies in Ireland.
Business in the Community, a non- profit organization, developed the Business Working Responsibly Mark. It is Ireland's only dedicated network for responsible business and the country's only certification for responsible and sustainable business practices.
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	struct ResultDataType {
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	};

	virtual void Work();

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		this->account_ = NULL;
		this->password_ = NULL;
	}

	void ClearCredencial() {
		if (this->account_) {
			delete [] this->account_;
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		}
		if (this->password_) {
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			int size_password = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, NULL, password, len_password, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
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Nigeria: Powerful Figures In Govt Protecting Terrorists — Northern Coalition
September 18, 2020 James Ugo	Coalition, figures, govt, Nigeria, Northern, powerful, protecting, Terrorists
Pan-Arewa socio-political organisation under the aegis of the Coalition of Northern Groups have told the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to scrutinise his inner circle, as some power influencers within were allegedly shielding suspected bandits from arrest and prosecution.
While demanding a full-blown investigation into the circumstances surrounding the suspicious release of 18 high-profile bandits, including Abu Dantabawa, from lawful custody in Zamfara, the organisation said some powerful persons were allegedly shielding the identities of individuals sabotaging the prosecution process.
The Spokesperson of CNG, Abul-Azeez Suleiman, at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, said Dantabawa who allegedly plotted to disrupt the House of Representatives by-election was released, "owning to pressure from powerful influencers from the seat of power."
He said, "We will resist shielding of bandits and collaborators from prosecution. We demand for transparent action to determine the extent of involvement of persons in power with the interruption of criminal proceedings against suspected bandits and collaborators in Zamfara and other places in the North.
"We also demand full investigation into the circumstances that led to the suspicion release of Dantabawa and other suspects from lawful custody outside due process. We urge the security agencies to adopt a more inclusive approach in dealing with the remnant of problems that persist in remote communities of Katsina and other places where the storm has calmed.
"We call for the deployment of similar forces in Niger and Nasarawa States that are fast becoming hotbeds of bandit attacks and kidnappings."
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Anil Kalhan is a Professor of Law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. He also is an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center and a Faculty Advisory Board member for the Drexel University Center for Mobilities Research and Policy. From 2015 to 2018, he served as chair of the New York City Bar Association's International Human Rights Committee.
Professor Kalhan's scholarly and teaching interests lie in the areas of immigration law, U.S. and comparative constitutional law, international human rights law, privacy and surveillance, criminal law, and law and South Asian studies. His scholarship has appeared in publications including the Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Maryland Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, UC Davis Law Review, UCLA Law Review Discourse, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and the University of Pittsburgh Press. He has been a contributing writer for Dorf on Law, AsiaMedia, and SAJAforum, and a guest contributor for the ImmigrationProf Blog, Yale Journal on Regulation Notice & Comment, the American Constitution Society's ACSBlog, and Chapati Mystery. His writing has also appeared in publications including BusinessWeek, Express Tribune (Pakistan), Foreign Affairs, Herald (Pakistan), New America Media, Newsweek, and Washington Monthly. He was the recipient of a SAJA Journalism Award from the South Asian Journalists Association in 2008, and was again a finalist for SAJA Journalism Awards in 2011 and 2013.
Professor Kalhan has also held appointments as a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law, and an Associate in Law at Columbia Law School. He previously worked as a litigation associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he also served as co-coordinator of the firm's immigration and international human rights pro bono practice group, and with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project in New York. He also served as law clerk to the Hon. Chester J. Straub (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York).
Professor Kalhan is a former chair of the Section on Immigration Law of the Association of American Law Schools and is a co-founder and former chair of AALS Section on Law and South Asian Studies. He also has served on the executive committees of the AALS Sections on Immigration Law, International Human Rights, and Comparative Law and on numerous committees of the New York City Bar Association, including the Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, International Human Rights Committee, International Law Committee, Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law, and Task Force on Puerto Rico.
Professor Kalhan holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.P.M. from the Yale School of Management, and an A.B. from Brown University. Before attending law school, he worked for Cable News Network, PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and the New York City Department of Transportation.


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Orange County is home to Orlando and most government offices. Orange County got its name in 1845 after the Orange fruit, when Oranges where Florida's main product. Then temperature freezes turned Orange groves intoland spurring developments. Disney World also got its start which expanded Orlando's growth even more. The hub of Central Florida covers 1,004 square miles.
Orange county offers top worldwide attractions with 63 million tourists visiting annually to Disney, Sea World and Universal Studio theme parks.
Orange county has been ranked #1 for job growth and entrepreneurs starting new businesses. Orange county has a strong healthcare sector with simulation training, biotechnology and life sciences mostly concentrated in Lake Nona's Medical City.
An array of entertainment options are available in Orange County. The newly opened Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center, the Amway Arena for world renowned concerts and Magic Basketball along with other events. The outdoor Citrus Bowl, and Orlando Soccer Stadium will also be opening soon.
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Orange County encompasses 13 cities and towns and offers an array of lifestyle for residents. Orange County has 228,000 single family homes, 53,000 condos, and 19,000 town homes. It is also home to 1.3 million residents. Currently, Florida is the third most populous state in the nation.
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Ebert Symposium to feature IMAX film, astronaut videographer, storytelling with data
Sep 13, 2018 10:15 am by Craig Chamberlain | Social Sciences Editor | 217-333-2894CampusArtsPhysical SciencesSocial Sciences
Former astronaut Terry Virts will be a featured guest for the first Roger Ebert Symposium on Oct. 1, talking about his role in shooting the IMAX film "A Beautiful Planet," which will be screened free of charge as the capstone to the event.
Photo courtesy Terry Virts
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Roger Ebert Film Festival, or "Ebertfest," has celebrated movies each spring for two decades in downtown Champaign and at the University of Illinois.
The first Roger Ebert Symposium will explore the cinematic presentation of science and related subjects – bringing together an IMAX film shot from space, the former NASA astronaut who shot much of it, the film's writer/director, and a diverse collection of visualization experts, journalists, scientists, media experts, artists and designers.
The one-day symposium, coming to the Illinois campus Oct. 1, will highlight interactive storytelling, data visualization and connections between the arts and sciences – all with an eye on the power of cinematic arts to bring a deeper understanding of nature, society and the universe.
The event, free and open to the public, will be held in the auditorium of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, starting at 9 a.m. It will feature three visually rich, interactive panel discussions, as well as opportunities to preview movie clips.
Poster for "A Beautiful Planet"
Capping the day will be a free screening of the IMAX film "A Beautiful Planet," narrated by Jennifer Lawrence. The screening will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Goodrich Savoy 16 IMAX theater, 232 Burwash Ave., Savoy, which is co-sponsoring the event.
Much of the film was shot from the International Space Station, with NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory collaborating on the opening and closing virtual scenes of flight through intergalactic space, based on scientific data.
Tickets for the film and the symposium are not required, but preference will be given to individuals who pre-register online. Online registration will open on the Ebert Symposium website in the near future.
Titled "Empathy for the Universe: Storytelling and Data Visualization," the symposium is a tribute to film critic Roger Ebert five years after his death. The event is a collaboration between the College of Media, the Ebert Center and NCSA. The theme is drawn from Ebert's belief that "movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts."
"The symposium embodies the principles Roger stood for, including empathy, compassion and inclusion, whether we are talking about the earth, the cosmos or our oceans," said Chaz Ebert, Roger's widow and co-founder of Ebertfest, who established the endowment of the Ebert Center with Roger. "We will show in an emphatic way that science and the arts are not mutually exclusive, but share a bond that results in greater benefits to humanity."
Terry Virts on the International Space Station with some of his IMAX gear
The day's first panel discussion, "Science on the Screen," will feature former astronaut Terry Virts, a cinematographer for "A Beautiful Planet," who spent 200 days aboard the ISS and shot much of the film; and Toni Myers, the writer/director of "Beautiful Planet" and other NASA-related IMAX films.
"That will be just the first in a day filled with interactive sessions on exciting approaches and timely topics around story framing, accuracy in data presentation and how inclusive, novel thinking that crosses the arts and sciences can build understanding and address some of our greatest societal challenges," said Donna J. Cox, an Illinois professor of art and design, director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory and one of the event's organizers.
Other participants in the day's panel discussions and post-film Q&A, along with Ebert and Cox:
Anita Chan, an Illinois professor of media and cinema studies specializing in global imaginaries around new information technologies
Brand Fortner, an Illinois alumnus, professor of physics at North Carolina State University and an expert on accessible scientific visualization
Temple Grandin, an Illinois alumna and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University known for her work on the humane treatment of livestock (participating remotely)
Brant Houston, an Illinois professor of journalism who specializes in investigative and computer-assisted reporting
Karrie Karahalios, an Illinois professor of computer science specializing in computer-mediated communication and online community building
Nate Kohn, "Ebertfest" director, film producer and director of the MFA screenwriting program at the University of Georgia
Katie Mack, a professor of physics at North Carolina State University known for her public science outreach through the @AstroKatie Twitter account
Stacey Robinson, an Illinois professor of graphic design whose graphic novels and other work explore ideas of Afrofuturism and black utopias
Rachel Switzky, the inaugural director of the Siebel Center for Design at Illinois and a former executive at the global design firm IDEO
Doron Weber, a vice president at the Sloan Foundation who runs a program to advance public understanding of science, technology and economics and to bridge the cultures of science and the humanities.
Roger Ebert, who died in 2013, was an Urbana native, U. of I. journalism alumnus, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and founder of RogerEbert.com.
The full schedule and additional information on participants can be found at media.illinois.edu/ebert-symposium
Editor's notes: For additional information about the event or to reach Donna Cox, contact Kristin Williamson at NCSA, 217-343-1594 or kwillia8@illinois.edu.


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Wash Away Your Troubles
by Northern Chill
© Copyright 2008 - Northern Chill - Used by permission
Storycodes: M/f; revenge; potion; transform; lovedoll; boxed; nc; X
It was a warm summer day with birds chirping and the usual traffic noise associated with a busy downtown. One building in particular was drawing a fair amount of traffic and people going in and out. Draped just above the front entrance was a large banner with GRAND OPENING - BEAUTIFUL BODIES SPA written on it. Large glass windows next to the entrance showcased a vast array of exercise machines and weightlifting areas which were in heavy usage by mostly women in their 20's and 30's.
An empty parking space near the front door was quickly taken up by a blue BMW which rolled into the spot with a loud screech. A lithe black haired woman in her mid twenties stepped out and strode confidently across the parking lot towards the building. Janet Eaton was a wealthy businesswoman known for her ruthless attitude in negotiating business deals and the contempt she had for the men she triumphed over. She was nicknamed "The Ice Queen" by some wags and it was a name she was actually quite proud of.
In fact, earlier in the day, she had had ruthlessly foreclosed on a debt ridden toy manufacturer called Kid Toys, Inc. with the intent of negotiating the sale of the factory to a West Coast firm who produced adult oriented products. The delicious irony of the situation was not lost on her though the profane shouts of the Kid Toys, Inc. president as he stormed out enraged and vowing to get even with her brought an evil smile to her face.
After opening the front door, she strode through the spacious lobby towards the receptionist who was just finishing up with a customer. Janet thought the woman looked familiar in some way but couldn't quite put a name to the face. The woman went off towards what appeared to be the changing rooms while Janet stepped up to the counter and waited for the red haired receptionist to finish up some paperwork.
" Yes, ma'am, how can I help you today ? " the woman asked Janet while simultaneously transferring a call to another part of the building.
" I received an email originating from your business a few days ago inviting me to attend your grand opening today with all costs paid for by an anonymous benefactor. Here's a copy of the email in question as well as my credentials. " Janet said in a clipped tone while handing the papers in question to the receptionist.
The receptionist nodded as she looked over the papers quickly while also glancing at a nearby computer monitor. " Yes, everything seems to be in order. The person paying for the day, a Mrs. Jill Anderson, left a message saying that she hopes you have a wonderful day here today." the redhead said pleasantly as she handed Janet a plastic white tag to wear.
Janet's eyes opened wide as she recognized the name almost instantly. Her benefactor was none other than the wife of the man whose toy company she had foreclosed on earlier in the day! Janet figured that either Mrs. Anderson was unaware of what had happened earlier in the day or had not had the chance to cancel her gift. Either way, she fully intended to take advantage of the freebie and if Jill had a problem with that, she could take it up with her husband if he had any money left.
" Well, maybe I should start with a visit to the club's gift shop. I feel like a little shopping spree today especially in the pricey part. Ha ! " Janet chirped happily as she headed off to make her purchases before availing herself to the many services available at the club.
Later in the day, Janet emerged from the change room feeling exhilarated after a wonderful day of being pampered. She was carrying several bags stuffed full of club merchandise as she strolled towards the exit whistling out loud happily after experiencing one of the best days she could remember ever.
" Ms. Jones... Ms. Jones, before you leave for the day, could you please accept this package that was left here at the desk for you ? " the blonde receptionist called out to the lawyer just before she got to the exit. The woman stood up holding a small box wrapped in expensive looking paper with a fancy silk ribbon around it.
Hearing the receptionist's shout, Janet stopped just short of the exit and walked back to the reception area where she accepted the box in question. She then headed out to where her car was and placed the package on the seat next to her in the vehicle before speeding off towards her home.
Several hours later....
Janet sat down in a chair by the front door of her home and slowly opened up her gift. To her amusement, she found a bottle of expensive shampoo inside with a card indicating it was from the same Mrs. Anderson who had paid for her day at the spa." Boy, is she in for a big surprise when her hubby gives her the bad news about the company ! " she said as she opened the bottle and sniffed the fruity smelling contents. She contemplated storing away the bottle and waiting till the news of the takeover hit the papers but figured there was no time like the present.
Fifteen minutes later, the sound of hot running water emanated from the washroom as Janet stood in her oversized shower and let the water bead across her taut body. She lathered up her new shampoo and rubbed it vigorously into her hair. She felt her scalp tingling after just a few seconds as the shampoo reacted to her massaging it.
" Mmmm... it feels good.. nice..." Janet muttered as the tingling sensation spread rapidly down her neck and seemed to be affecting her entire body right down to her toes. The tingling was now accompanied by a feeling of lightness as if she was floating on a puffy white cloud. She raised her hands to her head and basked in the exhilaration of what she considered the best shower she had ever had.
However, her feeling of happiness quickly changed to one of horror as she found she could no longer move her body whatsoever ! She tried to shout out for help but found that her ability to speak had vanished as well. She could see her reflection in the golden shower fixtures and saw that her skin was rapidly changing in color and appearance from warm flesh and blood to shiny plastic that was tan colored in nature with no sign of freckles or blemishes visible anywhere. Her breathing had ceased as well and she could see her firm breasts were becoming mounds of molded plastic capped by pink nipples that glowed artificially in brightness. Seams were becoming visible all over her body running up and down her torso and limbs as if she was made of sheets of rubber sewn together.
" A DAMN LOVE DOLL.. A SEX TOY.. I'M BECOMING AN INFLATABLE SEX DOLL!!.. NO!!!.. " Janet screamed mentally as the transformation rapidly engulfed the rest of her body. She felt her teeth and tongue dissolve away as her mouth became composed of the same material that the rest of her body was made of now. She felt something growing out of the small of her back which she assumed to be an inflation plug for air to be release or added by.. by someone.
As her mind dissolved away into a sea of darkness, Janet's last thoughts were ones of puzzlement and confusion. " WHO DID THIS ?... WHY?... WHYYYYY????????....." she thought in bewilderment before she was totally consumed by the change and became nothing more an inanimate love doll standing awkwardly in the shower with water beating off its' artificial skin.
Later....
A hand reached into the shower and turned off the water that was beading down on the newly created doll. Chuckling softly, the man reached over and gently pressed down on the doll's thighs so that it looked like they were tucked behind it.
" You don't know me, my dear, and in your current state, I doubt you ever will. My name is Jack... Jack Anderson and I'm the son of the man whose life you destroyed today. When I heard about your vile actions, I decided to extract a little revenge on behalf of my parents. I faked the invitation and package notes so as to not arouse too much suspicions. After that was done, I simply waited outside your home and listened for the telltale sign that you had used my little 'gift'." he said while wiping down the doll and placing it in a box he had brought with him.
" Oh, and here's a little tidbit for you. I've arranged for you to be owned by the same adult toy company you helped buy up my father's company. Just think of yourself as a bonus thrown in for the last deal you'll ever do... a most unexpected bonus ! Ha! Ha! " the man said as he closed the box on the new doll..........


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Daniel Wildhaber (* 4. August 1960) ist ein Schweizer Politiker (SP).

Leben
Daniel Wildhaber absolvierte eine Ausbildung zum Sekundarlehrer und zum Schulleiter. Er arbeitet als Schulleiter der Sekundarstufe I im Schulzentrum Schlossmatt in Münsingen. Er ist verheiratet, Vater eines Sohnes und lebt in Rubigen.

Politik
Daniel Wildhaber rückte 2017 für den zurückgetretenen Matthias Burkhalter in den Grossen Rat des Kantons Bern nach. Er wurde bei den Wahlen 2018 wiedergewählt und gehörte dem Grossen Rat bis 2022 an. Er war von 2017 bis 2018 Mitglied der Justizkommission und ab 2017 Mitglied der Bildungskommission. Von 2019 bis 2022 war Wildhaber Mitglied der Interparlamentarischen Kommission Fachhochschule Westschweiz.

Wildhaber ist Mitglied der SP Rubigen und Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung der SP Bern-Mittelland. Er engagiert sich bei Bildung Bern, dem Berufsverband der Fachpersonen für Schulbildung im Kanton Bern, als Präsident der Fraktion Schulleitungen sowie als Mitglied der gewerkschaftlichen Kommission und der Delegiertenversammlung. Wildhaber ist Mitglied der Schulkommission des Gymnasiums Kirchenfeld in Bern.

Weblinks
 Website von Daniel Wildhaber
 Eintrag auf der Website des Grossen Rates des Kantons Bern

Einzelnachweise

Grossrat (Bern)
SP-Mitglied (Schweiz)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Schweizer
Geboren 1960
Mann

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