Founded in Denton in 2012, Odysseus Chamber Orchestra consists of professional classical musicians from the DFW area. In May 2012, Odysseus launched a successful inaugural performance featuring local soloists, performed with Christopher Deane, Professor of Percussion at the University of North Texas and gave the world premiere of Breathe by Brad Robin, a work commissioned by Artistic Director, Jason Lim. Innovative in its programs under the direction of Jason Lim, OCO collaborated with the Denton City Contemporary Ballet staging a full ballet performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and in 2014 staged the premiere performance of the full production of Igor Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale. In 2014 OCO collaborated with world renowned double bassist, Jeff Bradetich featuring the Tango music of Astor Piazzolla.
In its short history, the Odysseus Chamber Orchestra has gained a growing national reputation as an emerging ensemble, winning third prize in the 2015 American Prize Competition for professional orchestras and 2nd prize in the 2014. Odysseus Chamber Orchestra was also awarded a Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for excellence in performing American Music, an award shared with Artistic Director, Jason Lim. OCO has supported local service clubs like the Denton Breakfast Kiwanis Club, the Robson Ranch Kiwanis Club, sponsoring events such as the Eliminate Project Cruise and the Passing of the Banner Dinner.
The outreach programs of Odysseus has expanded in the last two year, providing free chamber music series concerts, free amenity concerts in neighborhoods, educational school performances and collaborating with the Arts and Music Guild to organize the Summer Music Intensives and in 2017 The Odysseus Orchestra formed and sponsored The Greater North Texas Youth Orchestra.
Furthermore, OCO pioneered the Mentorship Program created by Artistic Director Jason Lim. This program provides high school orchestra students the opportunity to rehearse and perform side-by-side with members of OCO. In 2014, OCO relocated from Denton and began planting new roots to become the resident professional orchestra of McKinney.
The Odysseus Chamber Orchestra is dedicated to deepening, strengthening and broadening its relationship with the communities it serves through music.
The Organizationis a 501 c 3 non progit organazation under the name Odysseus Chamber Orchestra.


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package ru.maizy.ambient7.analysis.service

import java.time.ZonedDateTime
import scala.concurrent.{ ExecutionContext, Future }
import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration
import scala.util.{ Failure, Success, Try }
import ru.maizy.ambient7.core.util.DateTimeIterator
import ru.maizy.influxdbclient.InfluxDbClient
import ru.maizy.influxdbclient.data.{ NumberValue, StringValue, Value }
import ru.maizy.influxdbclient.util.Escape.{ escapeIdentifier, escapeValue }
import ru.maizy.influxdbclient.util.Dates

private[service] object InfluxDbUtils {

  def getValuesForTimePeriod[T](
      client: InfluxDbClient,
      from: ZonedDateTime,
      until: ZonedDateTime,
      table: String,
      valueColumn: String,
      valueExtractor: Value => Option[T],
      aggregate: AggregateType,
      segment: Duration,
      timeColumn: String = "time",
      condition: String = "true"
    )(implicit ex: ExecutionContext): Future[List[(ZonedDateTime, Option[T])]] =
  {
    require(from.compareTo(until) < 0)
    require(segment.isFinite() && segment.toSeconds >= 1)

    val dateFrom = Dates.toInfluxDbFormat(from)
    val dateUntil = Dates.toInfluxDbFormat(until)

    val query =
      s"select ${aggregate(valueColumn)} as value " +
        s"from ${escapeIdentifier(table)} " +
        s"where ${escapeIdentifier(timeColumn)} >= ${escapeValue(dateFrom)} " +
        s"and ${escapeIdentifier(timeColumn)} < ${escapeValue(dateUntil)} " +
        s"and ($condition) " +
        s"group by time(${segment.toSeconds}s)"

    // TODO: little bit shitty code
    client.query(query) map { res =>
      val timeToValue: Map[ZonedDateTime, Option[T]] = res.firstSeriesItems.map { seriesItem =>
        (seriesItem.findColumnIndex(timeColumn), seriesItem.findColumnIndex("value")) match {
          case (Some(timeIndex), Some(valueIndex)) =>
            seriesItem.values.zipWithIndex.map { case (row, rowNum) =>
              val rawTime = row(timeIndex)
              rawTime match {
                case timeValue: StringValue =>
                  Dates.fromInfluxDbToZonedDateTime(timeValue.value) match {
                    case Success(time) =>
                      row(valueIndex) match {
                        case value: Value => (time, valueExtractor(value))
                        case _ => (time, None)
                      }

                    case Failure(e) => throw new Error(s"unparsed time $rawTime", e)
                  }
                case _ => throw new Error(s"time not found in row #$rowNum")
              }
            }.toMap
          case _ => throw new Error(s"time & value columns not found in results")
        }
      }.getOrElse(Map.empty)

      DateTimeIterator(from, until, segment).toList.map { time =>
        (time, timeToValue.getOrElse(time, None))
      }
    }
  }

  val intExtractor: (Value => Option[Int]) = {
    case value: NumberValue => Try(value.value.toInt) match {
      case Success(i) => Some(i)
      case Failure(_) => None
    }
    case _ => None
  }

  val floatExtractor: (Value => Option[Float]) = {
    case value: NumberValue => Try(value.value.toFloat) match {
      case Success(i) => Some(i)
      case Failure(_) => None
    }
    case _ => None
  }
}

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A residential barn designed by Red Architecture and built using recycled bricks taken from the rubble of the Christchurch earthquake has been awarded the 2014 ADNZ Supreme National Design Award.
Located in Whatawhata, New Zealand, the 'Modern Barn Form' features two barn-like structures clad in black vertical run steel and the reused bricks.
One barn houses the main living and sleeping areas for the private residence while the second form is detached from the main dwelling and holds a garage.
A cedar-clad recess cut out of the centre of the house provides a covered outdoor area to the home.
The project was lead by Red Architecture's designer Tane Cox, who was commended by the Award judges for his fresh interpretation of a traditional form.
The Modern Barn Form was selected from 76 entries across categories including commercial design, residential new homes, alterations and multi-unit dwellings.
In addition to the Supreme Award winner, eight designs from across New Zealand were presented Resene Architectural Design Awards.


The Yo-Zuri 3D Magnum Deep Diver Floating Lure is a trolling lure designed to be fished with a crimp, loop knot, cable or single strand wire, to give the bait the freedom to swim correctly. This lure is particularly deadly on grouper due to the "wide wobble" nature of this bait. This lure can be pulled from 4-9 knots with a wide swimming action.
Colors look good but how deep does it dive?


Xerces C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. It makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. It is faithful to the XML 1. 0 recommendation and associated standards ( DOM 1. 0, DOM 2. 0. SAX 1. 0, SAX 2. 0, Namespaces). It also provides an implementation of a subset of the Schema.


Reading gif animation frame rates and such?
Okay so I've been coding java for some time now and I mostly just make applications for fun.
Okay so I have the image loading, a semi-nice gui, the image displays and cycles through the animation.
But the thing that I want is for the image cycle to actually know the real frame rate of the gif instead of having to define it myself.
Is there anyway to do this? I was reading up and the only solution I found was to read the bytes of the file itself but that would take alot of work and I haven't got a clue on how to do that.
If you guys could help it'd be very appreciated.
1. Re: Reading gif animation frame rates and such?
//information obtained from source file/url.
the following method will load all this information from a GIF file. Keep [this page|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/imageio/metadata/doc-files/gif_metadata.html] open in a web browser as you look at the code. The class referred to as "Disposal" in the code is an enum class. It's provided in my post below this one.
/**Loads all the frames in an src from the given ImageInputStream.
* (and stored).  The src stream is not closed at the end of the method.
2. Re: Reading gif animation frame rates and such?
3. Re: Reading gif animation frame rates and such?
I'm currently sick so I can't really test it but once I'm feeling better I'll test it out thanks.
I've changed my question to answered because just reading the code seems like its going to work.
Thanks for your code and time.


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Interview: Pascuala Ilabaca & Fauna (November 2014)
"I have never been in London before", stated Pascuala Ilabaca, but she quickly fell in love with the 'Big Smoke'. "I really like the taxis – the black cabs. Also the weather is not bad as they say. It rains a lot I know, but it reminds me of Valparaiso...
Interview: Sabbey Drummers International (October 2014)
I'm Upstairs at the Ritzy for the debut performance of Sabbey International and I have with me the two founder members of the band, Afla Sackey (Afrik Bawantu) and Yaw Asumadu (Ozi Ozaa). Rhythm Passport Sabbey International is one hundred percent traditional and one hundred percent acoustic. What is the...
Interview: Nomad Collective (Oct 2014)
We caught up with Nomad Collective during the shoot of their promo video last month to talk to them about their band With a crispy album just released and an oncoming "world" tour on the horizon, Nomad Collective is a name you are going to hear again and again and,...
Interview: Amira Kheir (October 2014)
We met Amira Kheir one week before her performance at the cross-cultural music Festival LIFEM and she brought some musical colour to the grey of a quintessential London Autumn day. Despite everyone insisting on referring to Amira Kheir as a diva she is miles away from that archetype. She is...
Interview: Bassekou Kouyate @ Womad (July 2014)
Interview: Ebo Taylor @ Colston Hall (October 2014)
Interview: Seddik Zebiri – Interview @ Upstairs at the Ritzy
Seddik Zebiri defines himself as a "music activist", but even if he doesn't agree, we reckon that the best way to think about him is as a 'teacher or 'mentor'. He's a seasoned and experienced music "actor" who belongs to the old guard having started playing music in the '60s;...
Interview: Septeto Santiaguero @ Womad 2014
The same passion and energy that Fernando Dewar exudes during his performances are also there offstage. He talks enthusiastically about his music and the Septeto Santiaguero in the same way that he performs; he fascinates you with a kaleidoscope of ideas, vivid images and intriguing anecdotes. His approach to music...
Interview & Review: Çiğdem Aslan @ Brighton Dome (Brighton, 21st September 2014)
Çigdem Aslan is a rising star in the revival of Rebetiko, the 'Blues of the Aegean', originally sung in the cafés and music houses of Athens, Piraeus and Istanbul of the turbulent 1920s. A music culture shared by Greeks and Turks, Rebetiko was famously outlawed in both countries as a...
Interview: Ella Spira, co-producer and co-composer of Ladysmith Black Mambazo In INALA (September 2014)

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The foreshore consists of shingle, sand and exposures of the Aldwick Beds (London Clay, Division B) outcrops of silty muds and sands rich in fossils (see here, and the Sussex Biodiversity Partnership).
From extreme low water spring extending off-shore are outcrops of Bognor Rock forming reefs. These consist of calcareous sandstone in the London Clay and fossil rich (see here).
The hard rock low lying reefs range from 0.25 to 2m in height, many of them are undercut with the formation of crevices, gullies, overhangs and small caves offering refugia for many marine animals including lobsters, crabs and several fish species. Horizontal faces are dominated by algae beneath this is a sparse sessile fauna. The steeper surfaces are extensively colonised by animals with sponges and ascidians (Molgula) dominant here, with some bryozoa and hydroids. Fish diversity and abundance was good around the reefs.
The surrounding seabed consists of rippled sand rich with Arenicola and other life. Adjacent to many of the rocks are exposures of the underlying clayey bedrock with sand, pebbles, gravel cobbles, shells and fossils. Many of the cobbles are broken pieces of the reefs. Chorda filum frequently take advantage of this substrate which by September grow to several metres long.


Policy Written report (criminal justice class).
1. (10 points) In the table below, provide the required information and enter the information about your household's annual water usage from the Water Use calculator. To calculate the percentage for each category, simply divide the value in each category by the Total Household Use and multiply by 100 (to convert proportion to percentage).
2. (15 points) Which category comprised the greatest percentage of your household's water use? Was this surprising to you? Why or why not?
3. (10 points) Many people in rural areas in developing countries must still carry water from its source to their homes. If you were to carry the amount of water used per person in your household on an average day, and a gallon of water weighs approximately 8.3 lbs, how many pounds of water would you need to carry each day?
4. (5 points) Enter the "Daily Water Use" values from the calculator in the table below.
5. (15 points) How does your household's water usage compare to the national average? Please explain what the differences may be attributed to.
6. (10 points) Examine how small changes in lifestyle would affect your household's total water usage. Return to the water calculator and make a reasonable change that would reduce your overall water usage – describe the change in the table below. Press "Calculate" after making the change, calculate the number of gallons saved per year, and enter it in the table. Reset the calculator to its original values, and repeat the procedure for two additional changes.
7. (15 points) Seeing the reductions in water use that occur as a result of these changes, would you be willing to immediately implement any of them? Explain why or why not.
8. (5 points) Open the WaterWiser Drip Calculator, enter the values in the table below from the "# of drips per minute" box, hit the "Now Calculate" button, and enter the results in the table. Let's assume that your home has leaks like those listed. For each of the drip rates, add the Daily Waste from leaks to your Total Per Capita Daily Use from the Tampa Water Calculator. This would be your new Total Daily Water Use. Then calculate the percentage of the total water used that is due to the leak. As you did previously, simply divide the Daily Waste value by the Total Household Use and multiply by 100 (to convert proportion to percentage).
9. (15 points) Does seeing the potential losses in leaks cause you to check your home for leaking pipes and toilets? Explain why or why not.


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SC Hearings on De-criminalising Homosexual Acts Proceeding Without Opposition
Despite being told by the Supreme Court in April to file their response, the Centre is yet to do so.
Anoo Bhuyan
Hearings in the Supreme Court kicked off today, on the de-criminalisation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
Section 377 criminalises "unnatural sex," which is essentially anything that is not sex between a man and a woman, and of the penile-vaginal variety.
However, even today, the Union of India has not filed any reply in court stating their position on the matter. No religious groups have filed objections to the petitions seeking de-criminalisation either.
As such, the case is effectively proceeding without any opposition at all.
The stand of the Centre has taken strange shades over the last few years.
For example, although the Delhi High Court in 2009, de-criminalised queer sex, the Indian government did not appeal that verdict. And when the Supreme Court brought back the criminality to Section 377, overturning the Delhi High Court verdict, the Union of India in fact filed a review petition to that judgement.
But it was the UPA government that was in power during the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court's de-criminalisation and subsequent re-criminalisation. The Centre reportedly had 76 grounds in their opposition to the re-criminalisation of the section.
However, this time around, the government is yet to file their reply, stating either their opposition or lack of opposition to this case. In fact yesterday, the Centre asked the court to defer today's hearing in order for it to have more time to file their reply.
The Supreme Court rejected this plea.
It is not that the Centre has had a lack of time to file their replies. Chief Justice Dipak Misra had brought this case out from the back-log in January, and in April had told the Centre to file its response.
Today in court, Tushar Mehta the additional solicitor general of India, spoke up several times responding to arguments made by the petitioner's counsels, saying that their arguments were not fair as the Centre had not yet filed their replies.
At one point, Mukul Rohatgi, former attorney general of India retorted strongly to Mehta saying, "You even chose to file a review to the Supreme Court order and didn't file your reply now, and you are saying this?"
Equality in civil aspects
Today's arguments were begun in the first half by Mukul Rohatgi. Post-lunch, senior advocate Arvind Datar argued the case.
Rohatgi made the points that one's sexual orientation is natural, not a choice nor a disease. He said that the unequal treatment of those who identify other than as heterosexuals would thus be unconstitutional.
There was a sudden flurry when Rohatgi took this argument to the next level: He began to make the argument for recognising equal rights of sexual minorities in other civil aspects as well, such as wealth. He premised this on the fact that today, even unmarried straight couples who live with each other can approach courts for relief on matters of wealth. If the court is going to de-criminalise non-normative sexual expression, then the court should go further to recognise a whole galaxy of rights to truly put sexual minorities on par with heterosexuals.
At this, Tushar Mehta spoke up vehemently asking Rohatgi to confine his arguments. Dipak Misra also asked him to limit his arguments to the issue of just whether Section 377 can be de-criminalised.
Chief Justice Dipak Misra said other issues such as these cannot be laid out in law prospectively, but can be dealt with if any live-in queer couples do approach court for relief on specific matters.


WX9287 OSBORNE, JOHN ROBERT who as a POW was selected in Singapore with 'F' Force to work on Burma-Thai Railway and died of illness aged 28 years at Kami Sonkurai Camp, Thailand. He was from Korbel, near Merredin.
Korbel is within the Merredin Shire.
WX8031 MILLER, EDWIN ERNEST worked on Burma-Thai Railway with 'F' Force. He survived and returned to Singapore where he worked with different parties and was recovered from here at the end of the war.


A cable stitch in knitting is a chunky cable that runs down as you knit. Cable stitch knitting sometimes resembles a plait (in more complex patterns) or can look like a twisted rope. It all depends on the pattern that you decide to use.
The simple technique of cabling (crossing one group of stitches over another) lends itself to many interpretations in knitting. It's easy to do, you can make all kinds of interesting and imaginative cable patterns. All it takes is a little patience and practice.
Do You Need a Cable Needle?
You don't have to have cable needles to knit cables, but they do make the job a little easier.
To see a video on how to knit cables without the use of a cable needle, click here and scroll down to the bottom of the article on ribbing.
You can make any type of cable you desire, simply by holding the required number of stitches on the cable needle while you knit the same number of stitches from the left needle. You then knit the stitches on the cable needle by returning them to the left-hand needle and knitting them or knitting them straight off of the cable needle.
This process enables you to cross stitches, thus creating cables. The process is the same for whatever type of cables you are knitting.
Rope or standard cables are the most basic cables to knit. The stitches are crosses predictably up a single column of stitches.
If you want to make a cable that looks like it's twisting to the left, you hold your suspended stitches in front of your work while you knit from the LH needle. Instructions for this type of cable will read something like this – Sl 3 sts to CN (cable needle), hold in front, k3, k3 from CN.
If you want to make a cable that twists to the right, hold the suspended stitches at the back of your work. Instructions for this type of cable should read something like this – Sl 3 sts to CN, hold in back, k3, k3 from CN.
You could see abbreviations something like this – C3F and C3B. The C before the number tells you that these stitches are cable stitches. The number tells you how many stitches are involved in this particular manoeuvre. The F or B indicates whether you should suspend or hold the stitches to the front or to the back of your work.
Luckily you don't need to cross stitches on every row when you are cable stitch knitting. The row on which the stitches are crossed over each other is called a turning row.
Usually, after doing a turning row you would knit several plain rows in-between, depending on the knitting pattern you are following.
When you work cables, you would normally work purl stitches and knit stitches on the same row, much in the same way as you would do ribbing.
Don't forget to bring your yarn forward before you do a purl stitch and to the back before you do a knit stitch.
This guide on the right is for the modern knitter and includes more than 150 new and innovative cable stitch patterns ranging from basic to complex.
The guide also explains how knitter can mix and match their cables in their knitting creations.
Teacher, author, and master knitter Norah Gaughan shares her design principles and offers clear cable-making instruction throughout, always in a conversational, easy-to-understand voice that proceeds naturally, as one cable idea leads to the next.
Master the art of cable knitting, then test your newfound skills with the 15 garment patterns for wraps, sweaters, and accessories.
Because you are doing a combination of knitting, purling and crossing stitches within the same row, this will tend to pull your knitting in widthwise. If you knit a plain panel in stocking stitch, versus the same number of stitches with a cable, you will see the panel will be narrower.
If you do decide to add a cable or two to a plain sweater pattern, be sure to increase enough stitches after you knit your ribbing to maintain the overall width. Although there are no hard and fast rules here, you would be safe to ad 1 or 2 stitches for every 4 stitches you knit on your cable. If you have a ribbing border, you can add these stitches evenly on the last row of ribbing.
Cables should always begin and end on a row between turnings so that the cable stitches are relaxed and the fabric has a smooth look.
1. Bind off the background stitches as they present themselves (knit the knits and purl the purls as you bind off) until you reach the cabled stitches.
2. When you get to the cable stitches, bind off as follows: *k1, bind off, k2tog, bind off, k1, bind off; rep from * to the end of the cable (stockinette) stitches.
3. After binding off the cable stitches, go back to binding off the stitches of the background as they present themselves.


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Nuria Gorrite, née le  à La Chaux-de-Fonds, est une femme politique hispano-suisse, membre du Parti socialiste suisse. Elle est présidente du Conseil d'État vaudois de 2017 à 2022.

Biographie
Originaire du Pays basque, elle obtient sa naturalisation suisse à l'âge de 19 ans, avant ses parents, tous deux syndicalistes et d'origine modeste. Sa famille s'installe à Morges en 1975.

Après des études inachevées en Faculté des Lettres (français, espagnol et histoire de l'art) à l'Université de Lausanne de 1992 à 1996, elle devient conservatrice du musée Alexis-Forel à Morges.

La presse rapporte jusqu'en 2017 qu'elle est en couple avec le conseiller national vaudois libéral-radical Olivier Feller et mère d'une fille.

Parcours politique
Après s'être engagée en 1987 auprès d'Amnesty International, elle adhère en 1993 au Parti socialiste. Elle est élue conseillère communale la même année, puis municipale en 2000.

En 2008, elle est élue syndique de la ville de Morges . Elle est largement réélue à cette fonction en 2011. avec 61,2 % des voix. En 2007, elle est élue députée au Grand Conseil du canton de Vaud.

Conseillère d'État
Le , elle est élue au second tour au Conseil d'État où elle reprend le département des infrastructures et des ressources humaines dès le . Elle est réélue en 2017 pour une nouvelle législature au sein du gouvernement du canton de Vaud. Le , elle est élue à la présidence de l'exécutif vaudois et succède donc à son collègue de parti Pierre-Yves Maillard.

Elle devient ainsi la première femme à occuper ce poste selon la nouvelle constitution vaudoise. Lors de sa prise de fonction, elle déclare : « Faisons preuve de probité dans l'exercice de nos responsabilités, sachons sortir de notre confortable quant à soi et ouvrons le dialogue plus largement ».

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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Naissance en juillet 1970
Naissance à La Chaux-de-Fonds
Personnalité du Parti socialiste suisse
Femme politique suisse
Conseiller d'État vaudois
Membre d'un exécutif communal en Suisse
Député au Grand Conseil du canton de Vaud
Double nationalité hispano-suisse

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set in 38 acres of formal gardens and woodland, the bannatyne spa hotel at hastings will make your stay in this beautiful south coast resort town even more memorable. bannatyne spa hotel hastings has an aa four star hotel rating and is a blend of magnificent accommodation, fantastic service and fine dining. the spa and health club facilities are located a short walk away making it the perfect location for a getaway. this spa break includes a one night stay in a standard double or twin room, with full english breakfast and two course dinners for two and 55 minutes of spa treatments per person. enjoy a choice of treatments, from either a bannatyne expert facial, swedish full body massage or a bannatyne energising facial and swedish back massage plus enjoy full use of the pool, sauna, steam room, and jacuzzi, along with the relaxation room and outdoor hot tub. you will be required to check in with the spa a minimum of ten minutes prior to your treatment time and please inform the health club of any skin allergies or medical conditions that may affect you taking part in this activity. a health check will be required which may result in the spa requesting a medical certificate.treatments arrangements will be made at the time of booking your break. robes, towels and slippers are provided for your convenience..
Minimum age is 18 years old. Please inform the Spa of any skin allergies or medical conditions that may affect you taking part in this activity. A health check will be required which may result in the Spa requesting a medical certificate.


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Horror Comedy Rated: 18+ (TV-MA)2017 - 20193 SeasonsSeries EndedOn: Netflix Tags: Zombie Country: America
They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.Santa Clarita Diet featuring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant has one or more episodes streaming with subscription on Netflix. It's a comedy and horror show with 30 episodes over 3 seasons. Santa Clarita Diet is no longer running and has no plans to air new episodes or seasons. It has a high IMDb audience rating of 7.8 (63,341 votes) and was very well received by critics.
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Home Elderberry Extract
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100 Grams (3.5 oz) - $13.96 250 Grams (8.8 oz) - $19.96 500 Grams (1.1 lbs) - $28.96 1 Kilogram (2.2 lbs) - $43.96 5 Kilograms (11 lbs) - $203.96 25 Kilograms (55 lbs) - $847.96
What Is Sambucus nigra (Elderberry) Extract?
Sambucus nigra extract is derived from the small black fruit of the elder tree (Sambucus). The berries are highly toxic in their raw form and must be cooked before being consumed. Once cooked, they are loaded with health-boosting properties. Sambucus nigra has been used for centuries as a folk remedy and is considered one of the world's most healing plants. Its history dates back as far as 400 BC, and Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine," called the elder tree his "medicine chest."
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Along with our steady growth and increase in visitors comes some growing pains. The "CreDi" good name gets hijacked and used as a spam email address etc. Add to that the fact that some miscreants have even been coming around and pulling pranks, causing trouble and you'll understand why we had to hire in Mr. Sanders - the official new CreDi custodian/security guard.
"Okay, you kids. I know you're all hopped up on your 'ipods' and 'myspace' sexcapades but there comes a time to settle down and...... now I mean it, settle down!
There'll be no running in the halls here at......(what's this place called?).....'creative disease'. I run a tight ship. You do right by me and I'll do right by you. Just do good to remember that I've got my eye on you.
Now go on about your 'browsin' and don't slam the door on the way out!"
"In 2007 George W Bush will confound the Cosmic Odds Makers and have a spiritual epiphany. He will begin to voraciously read books starting with the Pre-Socrates, through Hegel, Marx and most of post-modernism before he emerges on the White House Lawn and announces his resignation due to the fact that nearly every aspect of the position of POTUS goes against his new inner awakening. In the aftermath the Vice President will take over and carry on business as usual (and then some). Networks will scramble to be the first to make a made-for-tv version of the whole affair. Bush will disappear and will later be spotted consulting with the infamous "Buddha Boy" in Nepal "
Another entry from the CreDi dictionary - "podnapping" - when someone attempts to force their musical tastes onto another's portable player by excessively pushing mp3s on them.
Here at Headquarters we're thinking about making sure we post at exactly 12 Midnight to show what meager little lives we have. But don't you worry *wink wink* we have our *ahem* entertainment supplies well in hand and in full use.
I guess all those South Park episodes with Saddam in Hell will make more sense now, huh?
James Brown I hope you're happy. I just did the "man splits" in your honor and can't get up off the floor. "Hunh, Good God!"
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is a stone's throw from us here at CreDi Central - we'll go trip down the stairs for ya' Gerry old boy! Now, go "pardon" Nixon for playing pranks on you in Heaven you ole lughead!
Yonder comes the new year.
For you ultra-hipsters out there I know I'm coming a bit late to the party but "Deerhoof" rocks is really good.
My New Year's resolution is to wait until whatever it is doesn't pan out then travel back in a time machine and come up with a better resolution.
I had blood drawn today. The old fat lady who went before me complained of hard to stick rolling veins.
The nice woman who drew our blood had a black eye. As I watched mine filling the vial I hoped that there really was something to this whole blood letting thing.
I routinely make this mixture of cinnamon and brown sugar that I put on my oatmeal. Problem is, the brown sugar sits in the fridge so long that it becomes hard. I discovered that the way to deal with it is to mix them and then nuke them for a minute. So, today I do just that and put the lid on the plastic container and shake it to mix the two up and BOOM the lid blows off the container and like a cluster bomb in Candy Land covers a square yard of me and my kitchen in a fine brown dust. Three stooges eat your hearts out!
boingboing recently posted the graphic for the Russian GRU emblem. Yeah, it's pretty hot so I put it on a shirt. But since I'm not accustomed to using other people's designs (even though it's public domain) and since the GRU is undoubtably made up of mean bastards who have done lots of naughty things - if I sell more than a few I'll find some Russian orphanage to donate to or something. Mmmkay?


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Skyfire names Michael Briant as Chief Security Officer and Michael Rogers as Director of Public Safety
Michael Briant. Image courtesy of Skyfire
Michael Rogers. Image courtesy of Skyfire
KEYWORDS chief security officer / law enforcement / public safety / unmanned aircraft systems
Skyfire Consulting, a public safety UAS consulting group, announced the appointment of Michael Briant as Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Michael Rogers as Director of Public Safety. Both will team up and bring their experience to the Skyfire Academy, as they lead a robust training programs in the industry.
Rogers recently retired from a 22-year career as an FBI Special Agent, where he spearheaded the Bureau's UAS program, and directed both equipment selection, training programs, and operational deployments. Rogers is a United States Air Force and Law Enforcement veteran with nearly 30 years of experience, serving in roles such as Field Training Officer, investigative Special Agent, SWAT team operator, Sniper/Observer, Pilot in Command, Surveillance Team Leader, and Aviation Program Manager. He also has more than 5,000 hours as a manned aircraft pilot in command.
"We are thrilled to bring someone with Mike Rogers' knowledge and experience to the team," said Matt Sloane, CEO and founder of Skyfire. "Having started the UAS program at the most respected law enforcement agency in the world, we look forward to leveraging that expertise to help all of our clients with their program development and training needs."
Leading Skyfire's renewed security and overwatch division is Michael Briant, CSO. Briant founded Skydas Group International, a wide spectrum strategic security consulting and threat management firm. As a former United States Marine, diplomatic security contractor and law enforcement officer, Briant has faced modern-day challenges in combating terrorism both domestically, and in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe; where he provided security for US ambassadors, congressional delegations, multinational corporations and US and NATO military commanders. Briant is well versed and operationally competent in Counter Assault Team Operations, Tactical Support Team operations, Principal, Personnel and Asset Recovery and extensive traumatic casualty care training.
"The Skyfire team along with Mike's team at Skydas have formed a close working relationship over the past few years and have provided some of the best UAV and security training available," said Sloane. "Creating this role and officially adding Mike to the Skyfire family is a natural next step in the evolution of our business."
Skyfire will offer clients and industry friends the opportunity to hear from Briant and Rogers about their backgrounds and how they plan to lead in their new roles during a special UAS and Security webinar on October 13, 2020 at 12:00pm EST. They will be joined by Atlanta Officer James Cunningham, Skyfire's Ben Kroll and hosted by CEO Matt Sloane. Please visit, CLICK HERE, to register for the free event.
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Hvězda severu (v originále L'Étoile du Nord) je francouzský hraný film z roku 1982 režírovaný Pierrem Granierem-Deferrem podle románu Le Locataire od Georgese Simenona. Po filmech z let 1939 a 1947 se jedná  o třetí adaptaci tohoto románu.

Děj
Během třicátých let se Édouard Binet, dobrodruh, který byl léta v Egyptě, setkal s bohatým obchodníkem Nemrodem Loktumem a mladou belgickou tanečnicí Sylvie Baronovou. Cestuje s nimi vlakem Étoile du Nord z Paříže do Bruselu. Loktum je ve vlaku zavražděn. Édouard začíná vztah se Sylvií. Po příjezdu do Belgie se nastěhuje k matce Sylvie, která provozuje rodinný penzion v Charleroi. Navzdory podezření Sylviiny mladší sestry Antoinetty a ostatních obyvatel je madame Baronová okouzlena Édouardovými nepravděpodobnými příběhy a jeho elegantními způsoby. Policie ho ale najde a zatkne. Je odsouzen ke galejím. Madame Baronová jde na nábřeží Ile de Ré s rodinami ostatních odsouzených, když jsou odvedeni na loď, která je dopraví na galeje.

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Ocenění
César: vítěz v kategoriích nejlepší herečka ve vedlejší roli (Fanny Cottençonová) a nejlepší adaptace (Jean Aurenche, Pierre Granier-Deferre a Michel Grisolia); nominace v kategoriích nejlepší herečka (Simone Signoretová), nejslibnější herečka (Julie Jézéquel) a nejlepší střih (Jean Ravel)

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Filmy s tématem železnice
Filmy inspirované dílem Georgese Simenona
Filmy Pierra Granier-Deferra
Francouzské filmové thrillery
Francouzské kriminální filmy
Francouzské dramatické filmy
Filmy z roku 1982


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Podcast, US Politics
December 12, 2018 | Peter B. Collins
President Clinton's Welfare Reform Is Still 'Ensuring Poverty'
Former Congresswoman — and Welfare Mom — Lynn Woolsey Recalls the Fight
Bill Clinton speaking February 13, 1993 (left). Bill Clinton signs the 1996 "Welfare Reform" bill (top right). Ronald Reagan campaigning in Columbia, South Carolina on October 10, 1980 (right second row left). President Barack Obama speaks with service members January 28, 2008 (right second row right). Photo credit: The White House / Library of Congress, SSA / Wikimedia, Ronald Reagan Library / Wikimedia, and US Navy / Wikimedia
Reading Time: 22 minutes
President Ronald Reagan introduced a range of myths about America's social safety net, led by his images of "welfare queens" and the implication that most recipients of public aid were African American. President Bill Clinton pledged to "end welfare as we know it," and over the objections of many progressives, he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996.
Our guests in this WhoWhatWhy podcast were centrally involved in the policy debates and political battles that signaled the end of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and reduced the Democratic Party's focus on America's poor. Former Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a one-time welfare mother elected to the House in 1992, shares insights and anecdotes, and laments that Clinton's framing of the issues continues to this day with little change. While she has great affection for President Barack Obama, Woolsey says he never focused much on the poor and the social safety net.
Felicia Kornbluh has studied the issues for decades, and offers informed criticism from a feminist perspective. She reveals the collaboration between Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose "Contract with America" allowed Republicans to take control of the House in 1994. She makes a strong case that Clinton's vision of the "New Democrats" was driven by a desire to attract wealthy and corporate donors to fund his center/right makeover of the party.
Woolsey, who represented a northern California district for 20 years starting in 1993, speaks candidly about raising three children as a single mom and relying on welfare for several years. Kornbluh is associate professor of History and of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Vermont — and co-author of the new book Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective. Her co-author is Gwendolyn Mink, who served as an adviser to her mother, Rep. Patsy Mink, who was a forceful opponent of Clinton's reforms.
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Peter B. Collins: Welcome to this Radio WhoWhatWhy podcast. In San Francisco I'm Peter B. Collins.
You may remember back in the 1990s Bill Clinton claimed that one of his big accomplishments was ending welfare as we knew it. In 1996 he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which significantly changed the safety net for Americans who live below the poverty line.
There's a fascinating new book, just been published, called Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective. It's co-authored by Gwendolyn Mink who is a political scientist and notably the daughter of Patsy Mink, a congresswoman from Hawaii who was a central figure in battling welfare reform of a regressive nature.
Felicia Kornbluh who is the Associate Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies at the University of Vermont. She is previously the author of The Battle for Welfare Rights and she joins us from Burlington, Vermont today. Felicia, thank you for being with us.
Felicia Kornbluh: Thank you so much for having me.
Peter B. Collins: Also joining us is a woman who was a member of congress at the time and who can claim to be one of two females who served in congress who had been welfare recipients. Lynn Woolsey served 10 terms as my member of congress here in northern California. Congresswoman, thank you for being with us today.
Lynn Woolsey: Thank you for inviting me.
Peter B. Collins: Before we started recording you said that picking up the book and refreshing your own history on those battles when you were in congress in the 1990s, it left you a little bit depressed. Explain why.
Lynn Woolsey: Well, so little has happened since then. When we, and I knew at the time, we removed the safety net, the real safety net for welfare recipients, it has not gotten better. We removed it and it's gone downhill from that point on. I know that because you know I was a welfare recipient.
Peter B. Collins: Uh-huh. And, Felicia Kornbluh, in the introduction to your book you note that even today over a third, 35.6% of all single mothers with children under age 18 live in poverty. The number for black single mothers is 38% plus and for Latina 40.8%, Native American 42%. The numbers are still pretty stark and we tolerate homeless people on our streets and the knowledge that many Americans continue to live in poverty.
Felicia Kornbluh: Yeah, I think it's a little bit like we click on and we click off of this understanding. Obviously if you walk around San Francisco or even Burlington, Vermont where I am, you see homeless people in the middle of the winter and that's something that used to be new and it used to alarm us. In a way it doesn't anymore and now it's become normalized, so we know that there's extreme poverty that's driving people out in the streets on the one hand.
On the other hand when we start talking about public policy, I think Americans are generally pretty generous minded or we like to think of ourselves as being generous minded. Most people believe that we do have something like a safety net and people use that phrase sometimes. Most people don't know that we really have removed protection especially for low income mothers and their kids. Most people really don't know that those numbers are still so high.
I think part of the project of the book is to remind us, not just to remind us about this history, but also about our present time. To say you know this is the reality that we're living with and the Trump White House has a different story and people talk about alternative facts and so on. These are the real facts.
Peter B. Collins: I'd like you to take a moment to explain your feminist perspective as you define it in the book and frame these issues. This goes back to the 1990s and the Women's Committee of 100 which is where you and Gwendolyn Mink first met. Is that correct?
Felicia Kornbluh: Yeah, that's right. I've been doing research on these issues for a long time and also doing advocacy work from when I was very young. Gwendolyn Mink, my co-author, has also been doing this work for a very long time. She and I were part of a national network called the Women's Committee of 100 that designed, that first lobbied against the welfare reform proposals of president Bill Clinton and of the Republican congress of the middle 1990s.
We went to Capitol Hill several times and focused particularly on women legislators, not representative Woolsey so much because she was with us, but others who were not sympathetic and to who we thought really should be sympathetic, especially if they call themselves feminists.
What we also did as a group after the welfare law was passed and president Clinton signed it in 1996, we prepared ourselves for what was supposed to be the first round of re-authorization of that law, which we saw as an opportunity to rewrite it and to undo some of the damage that had been done.
We created a document that we included in the book called An Immodest Proposal, which was a proposal for using public policy to really respect the caregiving work that families do. It's not just women although it is disproportionately or commonly women who do this care giving work; for kids, for disabled family members, for our elderly, our elders. It was a very far reaching document.
Some of our ideas were incorporated into legal proposals, statutory proposals that representative Gwendolyn Mink and others introduced to congress. We got about a third of the Democratic caucus in the house of representative to agree with us on those. Then ultimately it failed and the kinds of reforms that we wanted were not implemented.
That was the initiative; first, to lobby against the stuff we didn't like that we saw as anti-women and anti-caregiving and anti-family. Then to generate a new proposal that would speak to the particular situation of poor people, but also to speak to what we see as the challenges facing all American families and how the government can really support families.
Peter B. Collins: One white man, a guy named Bill Clinton, who had been the governor of Arkansas and scrapped his way into the presidency, he brought a whole new mindset, the New Democrat Coalition to Washington. It was aimed at shifting focus from the impoverished going back to the Johnson administration and the War on Poverty and shifting the focus of the Democratic party to the middle class.
I would submit that that was a central pivot point, where the Democrats essentially pivoted into a position where they acknowledged the claims that had started with Ronald Reagan, the welfare queen meme and these false images that there were more African Americans on welfare than there were whites. There were many bits of disinformation and flat out lies that became part of the background. I don't want to put words in your mouth, so you please characterize Bill Clinton as the driving force behind this misguided welfare reform.
Lynn Woolsey: Well you know because I was the first woman in congress, person in congress to admit having been a welfare mother, so they called me the first welfare mother in congress. I was put on the committee as the co-chair with Richard Neal, Richie Neal from Massachusetts.
My staff would say to me as we were going to these meetings to look at all the changes that the president and his staff wanted, "You can't go there and say what you're saying about being against it." I'd say, "Excuse me, I'm a member of congress. I'm one person elected by my people, I have experience and I'm going to say what I think."
I think that was the beginning of Lynn Woolsey being Lynn Woolsey in the congress. My staff would say, "But you can't be known as, only for being the first welfare mother in congress." Well I said, "If I don't who will," because what I thought was that people had to realize that I was a white woman with three small children. I was well educated into college and I needed welfare to get me through three really difficult years even though I was working.
I would stand in front of the congress and talk as the welfare mothers against much of this new welfare plan. I would hear — you couldn't hear a pin drop — and I would hear the Republicans say, "Yeah, but she's different."
That was so untrue because I represented, really at that time there were more white women, poor white women on welfare. They had two children not three and they'd been abandoned by their husbands. I was the perfect example of what and who a welfare mother was and why we needed help to get through bad times, and we needed that support.
That didn't work to the extent I wish it did, but I never gave it up. When Barbara Lee was elected she couldn't, she looked at me and said, "I can't do that," and I said, "Well you must, because if we don't admit that the help we got, who will?"
Peter B. Collins: That's Barbara Lee, the congresswoman, continues to serve from Oakland.
Lynn Woolsey: Congresswoman Barbara Lee from Oakland, yes. I believe Lynn Rivers from Michigan was also at one point, needed help from the government and Maxine Waters, for certain her mother raised them on welfare. I mean if they want examples of how welfare works, look at just those four women.
I had that and I also had Patsy Mink as my friend, and my colleague too, who had already thought through all the ways to make it better. That made it very fortunate for me.
Peter B. Collins: Felicia Kornbluh, what's your characterization of Bill Clinton's role and how his experience in Arkansas informed his desire to commit… commit… welfare reform as president?
Felicia Kornbluh: Nice Freudian slip. Well, first I just want to say — underlining what representative Woolsey illustrated — there were a lot of brave Democrats, dissenting Democrats, people who identified as progressive feminists, as liberals. People representing urban districts and that's part of the project of this book, is to remind people that this policy was unpopular among Democrats.
Nowadays we're having a real identity conversation, I wouldn't call it a crisis in the Democratic party which I think is incredibly valuable. I think it's also valuable for us to know that we're standing on the shoulders of some of these predecessors like representative Woolsey and representative Mink who we write about in the book. We don't have to reinvent the wheel.
However, it's also true that in the middle 1990s, I guess, the majority or the mainstream of the Democratic party took a different road and that was Clinton's road. He called it the "New Covenant" or he called it "New Democrats." The effort I think was to reach out an olive branch to middle class or upper working class Americans, to a large degree white people.
At the same time to be able to take a lot of corporate money and money from financial services industry and from other corporate interests, and to be able to create what they thought would be a successful Democratic party that could raise the kind of money that was required to run national television ads and so on and do some positive things. They thought they were going to really transform the healthcare system, but they thought that the price for that was they had to write some people off and they were prepared to write off low income moms and kids receiving public assistance and just kind of kick them to the curb.
I see that as the original sin of the modern Democratic party. I think we are still needing a reckoning for that and we still need to find our way home.
Lynn Woolsey: I don't… Felicia you may remember that during president's Clinton's State of the Union, and this had never been done before. They were just starting at that point to call out members of congress during the State of the Union and members of the community they did, but not members of congress that Bill Clinton called me out and said, even though I had voted against them, he said, "I represented blah, blah, blah this and every woman should be like Lynn Woolsey."
Well guess what, Lynn Woolsey was a welfare recipient and I had a dead beat, mentally ill, bipolar husband who deserted us and one-, three- and five-year old children, no child support. But I had good job skills. I was healthy and I was educated and we spoke English.
You have to know that I had more energy than, I say more energy than God; that's probably saying too much. There probably was nobody more energetic than me and I could get through it. I'd wake up, you know, welfare mom had our stuff together and working and wonder what in the world are these other women facing that don't have the advantages I had. Those are the moms we need to talk about and I knew that.
Felicia Kornbluh: Absolutely.
Peter B. Collins: The reforms as they were called that Bill Clinton was promoting with a lot of support from Newt Gingrich who took control of congress in '94 with the Contract with America. The central elements were placing a time limit on how long you could receive welfare including a lifetime cap, work requirements. Onerous regulatory shifts to the states, where they were given block grant money and often it didn't even trickle down to the safety net recipients. Also, a heavy emphasis on dead beat dads, this effort.
I really credit you in the book, Felicia Kornbluh, with acknowledging the discrimination against fathers that was implicit in much of the rhetoric behind the welfare reform. Those were the four central shifts that were sought. Felicia Kornbluh, to what extent did you see collusion between the Bill Clinton White House and the Newt Gingrich Republican controlled congress?
Felicia Kornbluh: Well, this is one of the really shocking things that I discovered in the research for the book. Was that I found an oral history interview that had been done with Peter Edelman who was very high up in the department of health and human services at that point and who ultimately quit the administration over this law and wrote about it very eloquently and stuff.
What Edelman said from his point of view as a member of the administration was that essentially there was a dirty deal. That's not his language, that's my language, but there was a deal. That the Clinton White House decided that they really needed to have a bill. They really needed to make good on some version of the promise that they had been elected on which was the promise to "end welfare as we know it" for the very kind of loose thing a bit of rhetoric. Then basically the Republicans wrote this very dramatic and draconian welfare law and they dared the White House to sign it.
Felicia Kornbluh: The Bill Clinton White House decided that it was in their interest to have a bill and to be able to say to people before they ran for re-election, "Look, we did this thing that we promised." It was also important for the Republicans who had just gotten elected in 1994. And remember this is the first time that the Republicans had taken both houses of congress in like two generations. It was very dramatic for them and they really wanted to retain that control, so it was also important for them to get something to Bill Clinton's desk and to get something that he would actually sign.
They did kind of make a deal and the deal was they took a lot of stuff out of earlier drafts of the bill where they were going to do major cuts in what was then called the food stamp program and in other public assistance programs and they would just focus on this one program. They had a good indication that the White House would sign it if it was only about this one program, which was the program for moms and kids. A program that used to be called Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
I don't know how explicit that ever was, but certainly from the perspective of Peter Edelman who was there and who was watching this stuff very closely it seemed like that was the deal. That both sides in a sense would win politically and the moms and the kids were the only ones who were going to lose.
Peter B. Collins: Lynn Woolsey, share your perspective and let me just insert that Bill Clinton did veto one version of the welfare reform in I believe January of '96. By August he was desperate for a win before the Democratic Convention and the upcoming reelection campaign against Bob Dole.
Lynn Woolsey: Well, politics are very confusing. They get… those on top give away a lot to thinking they're doing the right thing for themselves I think and maybe their country.
But Felicia's book said, and it's so important that we remember this. That can we imagine public celebration for a policy that made support for ordinary mothers, implicitly white, non-poor, conditional on working in low wage jobs with unpredictable schedules when their children very young, ill, or disabled, with no government guarantee of childcare.
I felt that was the most important part of this entire book, was showing how and Bill Clinton missed it. I mean he missed seeing, I mean no he probably knew he's the smartest guy ever, but he didn't want to see and nor do most elected officials. It's too hard to see how awful this is and what it means.
This doesn't mean, and I like the other part of your book, Felicia, is that, what we do for poor women, it spills over for every woman. Every woman needs to recognize that and every woman has a part… not every woman but woman with partners, their partners have to recognize it. It makes such a difference for our entire world.
Lynn Woolsey: Bill Clinton was a master politician, so he won that round and yes he did veto. He also didn't support Gingrich's idea that it was perfectly all right to have orphanages where we send poor kids. Oh my God that was awful.
Peter B. Collins: Now, Lynn Woolsey, did you ever have the opportunity to talk directly with Bill Clinton and enumerate your concerns and your objections to the bill he ultimately signed?
Lynn Woolsey: Well, he used to bring us to the White House and have big, the whole Democratic, all the Democratic caucus would go and all that. No, I mean as compared to Barack Obama later.
I know Patsy did, she knew how to get around a lot of this better than I did. Patsy made some difference, but not enough. I have a story. Do you want me to tell you a story about the first welfare reform when it passed?
Peter B. Collins: Please Lynn, go ahead.
Felicia Kornbluh: Yes, tell us.
Lynn Woolsey: Okay. I was walking down the hall, just I couldn't believe we'd done it. I ran into representative Gene Taylor from Mississippi, Democrat, and I said, "Gene, how could you have voted for that welfare reform when it's your constituents that are going to be affected, so right straight to them."
He said, "Oh Lynn you don't understand. First of all my constituents don't know they're poor, they don't think they're poor," and I looked at him. He said, "And second of all my constituents don't vote." What he meant and then I went back and looked, he had a little handful of people voted in his district when 94% voted in my district for when Obama ran. I mean that's the difference; people have to vote, they have to speak up for their rights and they don't.
Peter B. Collins: One of the key players who does get several references in the book was patrician New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He struck me as so condescending on these issues as if he knew what was best for America. He really was a major player in what Clinton ultimately signed. Did you ever go toe to toe with Moynihan, Lynn Woolsey?
Lynn Woolsey: I did not and he was a senator and I was in the House.
Peter B. Collins: Sure.
Lynn Woolsey: I did not but there are, that is exactly what the young people in this country are saying right now, "We're sick of this," and thank heavens if they're speaking up: "We will not, we're not going to let older dudes and dudettes run at all." He was coming from the wrong perspective.
Peter B. Collins: Felicia Kornbluh, in the book, I think, you correctly assessed that during the years that George W. Bush was president that the efforts as the '96 bill came up for renewal, the efforts to enhance it if you could, to try to remove some of the onerous impacts, extend some of the time limits, make the work requirements at least reasonable. Those really didn't get very far, because the progressive left was heavily involved in challenging George W. Bush's misadventures in the Middle East. Lynn Woolsey was quite a potent voice in opposition to the Iraq war and the related issues.
Your book also traces through to the Obama administration. Let me quote. You say, "This one particular chapter explores patriarchalist path traveled by the Democratic party and Barack Obama in the early 21st century. We once again emphasize the centrality of gender, robust, complex, intersectional gender in the history and politics of public policy.
Our immersion in feminist ideas allows us to appreciate a central dimension of antipoverty policy that has too often been unremarked or under appreciated. In fact, the documentary evidence has led us to conclude that the mansion of failure that was the Democratic party's response to inequality and impoverishment in the George W. Bush and Obama years stood on a foundation of gender." Please explain this a bit.
Felicia Kornbluh: Sometimes it's a little hard to hear one's own prose. Maybe that sounds more complicated that it is. What we're trying to say is that even the Democrats under what most of us would acknowledge was a pretty progressive or pretty liberal leadership under president Obama. We're still maybe persuaded by and under the umbrella of some really misguided assumptions that I think were the overhang of this 1996 welfare law. It was sort of business as usual.
What happened in the early 2000s was that I think progressive Democrats, they fought to a standstill. For several years there was no real reauthorization of this law, they were just continuing resolutions after continuing resolutions so the law remained the same, but the funding was renewed in the early 2000s. That was actually a pretty good outcome I think given how bad it could have been. It could have been much more extreme.
Then finally under the George W. Bush administration the law was re-authorized and it was tinkered with and made even more burdensome for people who were trying to receive benefits under it and for the states that are trying to manage it. It became even more right wing family values and it's orientation, pursuing some kind of fantasy about the roles that low income families are going to be able to perform. Like some idea that are going to be able to be like Ozzie and Harriet upper middle class 1950s fathers and mothers.
Then when Obama comes in, Obama really doesn't change it very much and he has his own saying about deadbeat dads and this program that he calls My Brother's Keeper; which is very long on rhetoric pointing the finger at low income guys especially men of color, but not really providing them any resources. Not really engaging in any spending so that people could get more education; so people could get meaningful job training; so they could burst into different kinds of careers; so they could have genuine alternatives.
That's what's problematic. That leaning towards the fantasy traditional family just continues. The idea that somehow low income moms and dads and kids could take on some earlier model of American family life. That just keeps on driving public policy and it doesn't do us any good as public policy, especially when there's no money attached to it. When there's no genuine opportunity for people to get education training opportunity and so on.
I blame the Republicans and the Democrats for that. For just turning off the lights and not looking at this and not asking the hard questions about whether… first about whether our rhetoric makes sense, but then secondly whether we're just throwing rhetoric at people and not giving them any real options.
Then I also acknowledge what you were saying that people had a lot of other stuff to focus on too in terms of what was going on internationally and a post-9/11 America and I get that.
Lynn Woolsey: Yeah.
Felicia Kornbluh: I still would say it's about time, it's more, it's past time for progressives and Democrats to really look at this and rethink our assumptions.
Lynn Woolsey: We were also up to our eyeballs in healthcare reform. I mean not just the wars in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, but don't get me wrong. I would give my soul almost to have Barack Obama back or somebody like him as our president right now.
What did happen is this "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" attitude of this country, which doesn't work. It has opened the way for our existing president to just stomp all over people by giving states the rights to do it. He doesn't take responsibility for it, he gives the state the right to set work rules for people on SSI and things like that. It is just ridiculous.
Lynn Woolsey: We did that with Obama as our president, we made it possible in the long run for a president like Donald Trump to come in and do real damage.
Peter B. Collins: Well, I would cite Thomas Frank's most recent book. He wrote the book about Republicans voting against their self-interest called What's The Matter with Kansas and his most recent book is called Listen, Liberal. He tracks the shift in the Democratic party that began under Bill Clinton, focusing on the professional class, the Silicon Valley folks and on the middle class at the expense of those live in poverty in our country.
While, Lynn Woolsey, I share many of your views of Barack Obama, the cold hard facts are that following the Bush recession of 2008 many poor people lost their homes. They were treated as predatory borrowers, no predatory lenders went to jail. The Occupy Movement was given some lip service as it was quietly taken down and neutralized by the elements that were supposed to protect us from the next terrorist attack. On balance I have to give Barack Obama pretty low grades for dealing with the endemic poverty in this country.
Lynn Woolsey: No, I agree with you. He made it possible for the next step, which is even worse. Yes, and Barack Obama is a really fine person in himself, but his politics were very, very in the middle. I mean there's nobody that can say he was a left winger, believe me he wasn't or isn't.
Peter B. Collins: Felicia what is your view of the Obama presidency vis-à-vis poverty?
Felicia Kornbluh: I think it's a disappointing record and we say that in the book. I like that Thomas Frank book as well, I think it poses some really good challenges.
Sympathetically I would say the national Democrats do have a challenge in raising the kind of crazy money that they need in order to run effectively. I understand how they wound up at a place where they felt like, "Okay there's some people in financial services industry and there's some people in Silicon Valley who are socially liberal enough that they'll support our agenda on civil rights of various kinds and even our healthcare agenda, at least a pretty good healthcare agenda if not a perfect one. That can be our financial base and then we can go out and recruit the voters that we want to have."
It does have a constraining kind of effect to need to raise all that money and to need to raise it from those people. Poverty was not Obama's central mission.
The thing that I wonder about is why there wasn't more coming to terms with what had happened in the previous years. Why Obama didn't kind of call a halt to government business for a little while the way that the Franklin Roosevelt administration did and congress did in the 1930s when they really took a look at corporate scandals and banking scandals and they drew everyone's attention to those issues before they really did very much else.
I think that might have made a difference if people really had had to come to terms with how corrupt Wall Street is and the degree to which people were being robbed and the degree to which inequality had run amok. Then maybe we would have started on a different foundation. Strategically they chose not to do that. I'm sure they thought about it and had good reasons, but I think that set us on a difficult course.
Then these gender issues I think also it's not Obama's wheelhouse, it's not his comfort zone. I think that the Obama administration could have been a lot more skills and a lot more critical on those issues. The opportunity to do that is right now.
Lynn Woolsey: Well, yes and you pointed out probably the most important reason for all of this and that is getting money out of politics. If we don't this retired congresswoman says we're going to not have a democracy.
You will be glad to know there is a group in this country of past elected officials from our; governors, judges, senators, members of congress and it's bipartisan, it's about 55-50; 55% Democrats but it's getting closer to half and half. There's several hundred members of us and our group is called Issue One the Reformers and the one issue is getting money out of politics and having fair elections.
If that group can be successful, we might have a democracy and a real democracy will certainly care about inequality, economic inequality and women and civil rights. It's just got to happen. If the Democrats have to raise money from the same people the Republicans do, then we just have a one party system.
Peter B. Collins: Let me get a final comment from each of you about the long arc of welfare reform and the status of the social safety net in our country today. Let me start with you, Congresswoman Woolsey.
Lynn Woolsey: Well, I would say unless we educate the people in this country so that they will vote in their own best interest instead of against their own best interest. Unless they actually vote after being educated and that we stop, take a look at gerrymandering and all that. Then we could have, we can address poverty, because until then it's just going to be around the edges like it's been ever since, well 30 years now or more.
It has to be done and we have to get money out of politics, because people don't invest, they don't understand that doing something about welfare is addressing it, is taking care of our country actually.
Peter B. Collins: Indeed. Professor Kornbluh, your final comment.
Felicia Kornbluh: Well, in Ensuring Poverty we go through the Trump election. What we find is that among people who most likely voted for Trump, there were Tea Party voters, but the research indicates that there are also Trump voters. That those people are anti-government and when you dig behind people's general anti-government attitude, what you find is that the old myths about welfare are still there dancing in the background and driving a lot of people's electoral behavior and their attitudes about all of government.
I think this is incredibly dangerous and that's why I think it's not just the past, but it's also the present and the future for liberals and progressives and Democrats to look at.
We have to excavate what happened in the 1990s, we have to be prepared to say the mainstream of the Democratic party made a mistake. We have to be prepared to say these are vital issues that have been sidelined for too long, and we have to be prepared to say for poor people and for everybody else we have to value the caregiving work that families do. That fathers and mothers and others do for one another; for kids, four our ill, for our elderly, for our disabled.
This is work that many, many people do everyday in America and it's not valued in the labor market where people are underpaid and it's not valued outside the labor market where people are paid nothing where we pretend that it's not happening. I think that's the critical issue.
Any political movement that can speak to that, I think will be able to cut across some of these terrible lines of division that we have in America today. If there was a credible political movement that said, "Look American families, we genuinely understand your pain and we're genuinely going to help you out." That's about welfare, but it's also about all of us.
Peter B. Collins: Felicia Kornbluh is co-author with Gwendolyn Mink of the new book Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective. My thanks too to retired Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey. Thanks to both of you for joining me today.
Lynn Woolsey: Thank you, Peter.
Felicia Kornbluh: Thank you so much.
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On February 15, 2006 The Arizona Republic reported, "Although religious services have long been a staple of prison life, officials across the nation are beginning to realize just how important faith can be in rehabilitating inmates... In Arizona, prison religious programs have grown to unprecedented levels in the past two years as services have expanded to reach even the minority of inmates who don't practice the most mainstream religions. Monthly religious services have increased nearly 56 percent, and an estimated 9,000 inmates attend. Gone are the days when an inmate had to fit into one of five religions - Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish or Native American - to worship. Today at all the state's prisons, multifaith gatherings provide a weekly meeting time for inmates who are increasingly adhering to less common faiths like Wicca, Hinduism and Buddhism. In all, 60 religions are practiced by inmates. In addition, mentors work with inmates before their release and connect them to a faith community that will continue to offer friendship, spiritual guidance and help finding housing and jobs when they are back on the streets. Faith-based mentoring problems now are in place at three Arizona prisons, and a fourth is coming on board."
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Noah Syndergaard received a tune-up Tuesday afternoon to prepare him to pitch in the Subway Series finale this weekend.
The right-hander threw 25 pitches in a simulated game, which featured Yoenis Cespedes taking some at-bats, before the Mets' 2-1 loss to the Orioles at Citi Field. It was Syndergaard's most extensive work since going on the disabled list last week with a strained ligament in his right index finger.
Barring an unforeseen setback, manager Mickey Callaway expects to pitch Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz and Syndergaard in succession against the Yankees beginning Friday at Citi Field.
That alignment would allow Callaway to keep deGrom and Syndergaard separated in the rotation. For much of the season they were back- to-back, before a recent switch to insert Matz between the two.
Syndergaard last pitched May 25 in Milwaukee. After that start, he incurred discomfort in his finger during a bullpen session and was placed on the DL.
Catcher Devin Mesoraco has been battling a sore hamstring, according to Callaway, explaining his absence from the starting lineup Tuesday for a second straight game. The manager said Mesoraco likely will remain sidelined Wednesday, with the hope he will ready for the Subway Series. The Mets continue to carry three catchers, with Jose Lobaton as an additional option behind Mesoraco and Kevin Plawecki.
Wilmer Flores is progressing in his recovery from a sore back, according to Callaway, but has not begun baseball activities. The versatile infielder has been on the disabled list since May 28.
Gerson Bautista was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas and Buddy Baumann was designated for assignment to create roster space for Anthony Swarzak and Todd Frazier, who were activated from the DL. Swarzak, who came off the 60-day disabled list and took Baumann's spot on the 40-man roster, pitched one scoreless inning in relief Tuesday.
The Mets entered play with six straight home victories against the Orioles. Overall, the Mets are now 10-4 at home against the Orioles.
Pitchers David Peterson and Joe Cavallaro, first baseman Jeremy Vasquez and catcher Scott Manea were named to the South Atlantic League All-Star game for Single-A Columbia. The lefty Peterson, the Mets' top pick in the 2017 draft, has a 1.93 ERA with 47 strikeouts in eight starts.
Among the Mets' selections in the second day of the MLB draft was third-rounder Carlos Cortes, an ambidextrous second baseman from the University of South Carolina. Cortes throws right-handed in the infield and left-handed in the outfield.


CHICAGO – March 13, 2018 – While the gaming graphics card and displays market continues to grow and push consumer expectations forward with beautifully immersive visuals, audio reproduction in speaker and headset solutions have fallen behind the curve. Today, SteelSeries introduces a breakthrough in gaming audio and an industry first with the introduction of the Arctis Pro Line.
Arctis Pro + GameDAC The Arctis Pro + GameDAC is gaming's first certified Hi-Res Audio System that ensures high-fidelity 96kHz/24-bit with no need for down-sampling. Featuring the legendary ESS Sabre DAC and amp, the Arctis Pro + GameDAC allows gamers to experience the pure joy of high fidelity audio.
DTS Headphone:X 2.0, creates pin-point accurate positional cues. The GameDAC also features an OLED screen for easy access to settings and controls without the use of additional software. This means PlayStation 4 gamers can fully customize their EQ, toggle surround sound, configure their headset illumination as well as see their volume and ChatMix levels, without using a PC. PC gamers looking for an even deeper level of customization can use SteelSeries Engine software for total personalization. The Arctis Pro line shares the aesthetics of the Red Dot Award-winning Arctis line, but with the addition of premium materials throughout. The Arctis Pro lineup has a refined gunmetal finish on the lightweight steel headband, aluminum alloy hangers and a softtouch coating on the removeable speaker plates for a sophisticated tactile experience. The Arctis Pro line delivers next-level comfort with a self-adjusting ski goggle headband, which perfectly contours to gamers' heads, while the athletics-inspired Airweave ear cushions wrap their ears in cool, soft fabric for long-lasting comfort.
The retractable ClearCast microphone delivers studio-quality voice clarity and background noise cancellation. Competitive gamers rely on clear, noise-free communication and the bidirectional ClearCast mic delivers. "Every choice in components and features was made to achieve the best sound in gaming, and with high fidelity audio, gamers will be able to experience every sound created by game publishers in its purest form," said Brian Fallon, Product Category Manager for Headsets at SteelSeries. "The Arctis Pro + GameDAC is more than a few new features, it is the only complete audio system for gamers that can deliver true, highresolution audio in a beautiful package with comfort, durability and customization." Arctis Pro Wireless The Arctis Pro Wireless is a dual-wireless gaming audio system that uses a USB transmitter for wireless 2.4G lossless audio and Bluetooth for mobile audio. All headsets in the line use the same industry-leading 40,000 Hz capable high-fidelity speaker drivers and feature the same comfortable, award-winning design. However, unlike the Arctis Pro + GameDAC, the Arctis Pro Wireless features the swappable dual-battery system first introduced by SteelSeries with the Siberia 800 and Siberia 840. Each battery has at least 10 hours of power for a combined 20 hours of gaming.
Gamers can use both the 2.4G and Bluetooth connections simultaneously for maximum flexibility, including gaming while using Discord chat or listening to music. The Arctis Pro Wireless headset connects to the wireless transmitter base station via SteelSeries' 2.4G connection. This provides lossless and ultralow latency wireless audio with up to 40 feet of range. Auto-channel hopping technology ensures the headset will always find clean RF space for interference-free performance. Like the GameDAC, the Arctis Pro Wireless' wireless transmitter features an OLED screen for quick settings adjustments without the need for additional software. However, for those who want even more options, SteelSeries Engine software on PC delivers deeper customization. The Arctis Pro line is available now globally at SteelSeries.com.
The Arctis Pro + GameDAC is available for $249.99 / €279.99 and the Arctis Pro Wireless is available for $329.99 / €349.99. For more information about the complete line of SteelSeries' Arctis Pro headsets and the Arctis Pro accessory packs, visit http://steelseries.com/arctispro.


Yet another thought provoking video by Jason Silva, the guy who created The Biological Advantage Of Being Awestruck.
In this short video, Jason explains that while the biological evolution of humans has ceased, we have made such incredible advancements and developments in technology that our thoughts, ideas and dreams are now changing the geography of the world.
An example of this is Upper Manhattan, where the topographical shape is a creation of economics, culture and the force of intent – not geography.
The final question this video poses is whether this will be the fate of the Universe – creating the beginning of infinity and proving that our dreams do not lack reality.


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Buffalo Olmsted Parks system announces year-long celebration of 150th anniversary
By Michael Mroziak • Jan 16, 2018
He came, he saw, he designed. It was 150 years ago this year that Frederick Law Olmsted visited the Queen City and began the process of developing Buffalo's public park system. The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, which oversees the parks, has announced plans to celebrate the milestone anniversary in the spring and summer.
WBFO's Michael Mroziak reports.
Olmsted, in partnership with Calvert Vaux, had already designed New York City's Central Park and Brooklyn's Prospect Park when he was invited by Buffalo attorney and legislator William Dorsheimer in 1868 to visit Buffalo.
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy executive director Stephanie Crockatt, left, announces plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the creation of Buffalo's park system, which began in 1868 with a visit to Buffalo by Frederick Law Olmsted. Listening are, left to right, former Central Park Conservancy CEO and honorary 150th Anniversary celebration co-chair Doug Blonsky, Delaware North executive and local anniversary chairman Kevin Kelly and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown.
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Buffalo leaders had hoped Olmsted would be inspired to create a park as glorious as his designs downstate. What they got instead would be a first for the nation.
"When Olmsted returned he didn't come back with that grand park. He came back with a grand park system," said Kevin Kelly, President of Travel and Hospitality at Delaware North Companies and the local chairman of the 150th Anniversary celebration. "That park system, made up of Delaware Park, Front Park and (now) MLK Park, all connected by parkways and circles, meant that no matter where you were in the city, you could easily reach a greenspace that connected to a park. That was the grand idea."
Construction of that "grand idea" took about 40 years and also includes Cazenovia Park, South Park and Riverside Park. The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy is planning a series of events to celebrate the system's 150th anniversary, including an education week and celebration weekend in April alone.
"We have a wonderful year planned to celebrate Buffalo, to bring great spotlight on to this fabulous city and cheer the fact that we have the very first urban park system that was designed, right here in Buffalo, New York," said Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy executive director Stephanie Crockatt.
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Olmsted Parks Conservancy introduces #SaveDelawarePark campaign
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The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, along with its partners, is ramping up its effort to convince the New York State Department of Transportation's to halt its plan for redeveloping Route 198 in Delaware Park and come up with a better solution.
Some trees must fall, while others will soon arrive at Botanical Gardens
By Michael Mroziak • Oct 2, 2017
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Visitors to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens may notice a few missing items outside the vintage greenhouse and dome. Several trees have been cut down. But more are coming in their place.
Push intensifies for redesign of Delaware Park golf course
By Nick Lippa • Jul 31, 2017
Time is of the essence for re-designing parts of Delaware Park. That is according to civic leader Kevin Gaughan, who is asking the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy to meet and move forward his plan to have legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus improve the golf course.