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Marion County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,205. Its county seat is Fairmont. The county was named in honor of General Francis Marion (ca. 1732–1795), known to history as "The Swamp Fox".

Marion County comprises the Fairmont, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Morgantown–Fairmont, WV Combined Statistical Area.

History
The Adena and successor Hopewell cultures flourished in this area at one time. The region which includes the land now known as Marion County was sparsely occupied by Native Americans, if at all, in the late 18th century. Like much of the Ohio Valley, it had been depopulated by the Iroquois during the later Beaver Wars (1670–1700). Only a few abortive attempts to start European settlements upon the Monongahela River or its branches (such as that which gave its name to Dunkard Creek) are known prior to the French and Indian War. It was not until 1772 that any permanent settlements were made in this region.

Marion County was created by an act of the Virginia Assembly on January 14, 1842, from parts of Monongalia and Harrison Counties. It was named after General Francis Marion, of American Revolutionary War fame, known to history as "The Swamp Fox".

1852 was an eventful time in Marion County's history, starting with the great flood on Monday, April 5. Heavy rains the day before caused the Monongahela and West Fork Rivers to rise at rate of 5 feet per hour until Tuesday afternoon, when the water reached 43 feet above its normal level. The greatest damage was sustained on the West Fork, where over 40 houses and buildings were swept away and floated past Fairmont.

The flood damaged the railroad, which was in the final stages of being completed. By June 23 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was completed, connecting Fairmont to the west and to large cities in the east like Baltimore. The railroad required the building of a bridge to cross the Monongahela River about 1 mile west of Fairmont. This was achieved by building a massive iron bridge spanning 650 feet and lifted 35 feet above the water.

The third major event of the year 1852 was the completion of the Fairmont and Palatine suspension bridge, connecting Fairmont to what was then the town of Palatine. The bridge was built under the direction of James L. Randolph, assistant engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at a cost of about thirty thousand dollars.

Marion was one of fifty Virginia counties that were admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863, at the height of the Civil War.  In the months that followed, West Virginia's counties were divided into civil townships, with the intention of encouraging local government.  This proved impractical in the heavily rural state, and in 1872 the townships were converted into magisterial districts.  Marion County was divided into seven districts: Fairmont, Grant, Lincoln, Mannington, Paw Paw, Union, and Winfield.  In the 1980s, the historic magisterial districts were consolidated into three new districts: Middletown, Palatine, and West Augusta.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which  is land and  (0.9%) is water.

Major highways
 Interstate 79
 U.S. Highway 19
 U.S. Highway 250
 West Virginia Route 218
 West Virginia Route 273
 West Virginia Route 310

Adjacent counties
Monongalia County (north)
Taylor County (southeast)
Harrison County (south)
Wetzel County (west)

Demographics

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 56,598 people, 23,652 households, and 15,515 families living in the county.  The population density was 183 people per square mile (71/km2).  There were 26,660 housing units at an average density of 86 per square mile (33/km2).  The racial makeup of the county was 95.10% White, 3.22% Black or African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other races, and 0.93% from two or more races.  0.70% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 23,652 households, out of which 26.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.40% were married couples living together, 10.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.40% were non-families. 28.90% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.88.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 20.60% under the age of 18, 10.50% from 18 to 24, 26.40% from 25 to 44, 24.70% from 45 to 64, and 17.80% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 90.60 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.30 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $28,626, and the median income for a family was $37,182. Males had a median income of $29,005 versus $21,100 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,246.  About 11.70% of families and 16.30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.30% of those under age 18 and 8.70% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 56,418 people, 23,786 households, and 15,271 families living in the county. The population density was . There were 26,463 housing units at an average density of .

The racial makeup of the county was 94.3% white, 3.3% black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, 0.2% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 0.9% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 23.5% were German, 17.8% were Irish, 13.7% were American, 12.0% were English, and 10.3% were Italian.

Of the 23,786 households, 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 35.8% were non-families, and 29.3% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.85. The median age was 41.0 years.

The median income for a household in the county was $38,115 and the median income for a family was $49,046. Males had a median income of $38,948 versus $27,179 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,752. About 11.3% of families and 16.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.0% of those under age 18 and 8.6% of those age 65 or over.

Politics
Starting in 1932, Marion County tended to vote for Democrats through the 20th century, similar to many counties in West Virginia. As a matter of fact, the only time in the 20th century after 1932 that the county voted Republican was in Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide. Similar to West Virginia, the county has trended Republican in the 21st century, albeit at a slower pace as it voted Democratic through the 2000s. In 2012, Mitt Romney flipped the county and it has voted Republican since, with Trump winning more than 60% of the vote both times.

Communities

Cities
Fairmont (county seat)
Mannington
Pleasant Valley

Towns

Fairview
Barrackville
Farmington
Grant Town
Monongah
Rivesville
Whitehall
Worthington

Magisterial districts
 Middletown
 Palatine
 West Augusta

Census-designated places
 Carolina
 Idamay
 Rachel

Unincorporated communities

 Baxter
 Basnettville
 Beverly Hills
 Big Run
 Boothsville
 Brink
 Bunner Ridge
 Catawba
 Colfax
 Flyblow
 Forksburg
 Four States
 Grays Flat
 Hebron
 Highland
 Hopewell
 Hutchinson
 Joetown
 Jordan
 Katy
 Kingmont
 Logansport
 Meadowdale
 Metz
 Montana
 Montana Mines
 Paw Paw
 Pettyjohn
 Pine Grove
 Pleasant View
 Quiet Dell
 Shagtown
 Seven Pines
 Stringtown
 Viola
 Wahoo
 Watson
 Winfield

Notable people
David Carpenter, baseball player
Frank Kendall Everest, Jr., The Fastest Man Alive
Michael Garrison, former president of West Virginia University.
Frank Gatski, athlete in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Sam Huff, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Johnnie Johnson, musician
John Knowles, author
Joe Manchin, the former governor of West Virginia and current senior United States senator from West Virginia.
Luella Mundel, professor and McCarthyism victim
Francis H. Pierpont, father of West Virginia
Mary Lou Retton, all-around gymnastics Olympic gold medal winner (1984 Olympic Games).
Rich Rodriguez, former college football coach (West Virginia, Michigan, Arizona)
Nick Saban, current University of Alabama head football coach
Harrison C. Summers, WWII hero
Natalie Tennant, Secretary of State of West Virginia and 2014 U.S. Senate candidate.
Robert Tinnell, Director, Writer, Producer
Hershel W. Williams, Medal of Honor recipient for the Battle of Iwo Jima
Tom Wilson, creator of the comic strip Ziggy.
Fielding H. Yost, Football Coach

Literary presence
In the 1632 series of science fiction novels, the fictional town of Grantville (closely modelled after real-life Mannington) and its environs were part of Marion County until the alien-caused space-time anomaly which sent it to 17th-century Thuringia. The county and its institutions are frequently mentioned in the course of the series, and writers interested in the series have held a number of "mini-cons" (miniature science fiction conventions) in Mannington.  Flint has stated, "The town of Grantville is very closely modeled on the actual town of Mannington. There are rules that I require everyone to follow when they write in the series. One of them is that it if it wasn't in the town of Mannington in 2000, you can't have it in Grantville. The one cheat I had to do was that I needed a power plant. The power plant is about 15 miles away, in a town called Granttown, so I just sorta moved it over. That's the only real cheat."

See also
 Prickett's Fort State Park
Fairmont Marion County Transit Authority
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, West Virginia

Footnotes

References

External links
Marion County Government

1842 establishments in Virginia
Populated places established in 1842
Counties of Appalachia

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As January goes, so goes the year, holds a Wall Street saw. And if the January indicator proves right again this time, investors have a lot to worry about: Stocks opened 2014 with a thud, dropping 3.6% in the first month.
Not that a decline is totally unexpected: Total returns for the Standard & Poor's 500 have tripled in the past five years — that's a year longer than the average bull run — and stocks have seemed due for a fall. Indeed, in our annual Investor's Guide, MONEY warned of tough sledding ahead.
Still, bull markets have been known to defy the odds and linger long past their expected expiration date. Even the January indicator has been wrong four times out of 10 when it comes to predicting market drops — witness this year's market bounce-back in February.
How, then, can you tell whether stocks' earlier setback signals the end of the bull market or is merely a pothole on the road to higher prices? The following indicators have proved to be among the most accurate over time.
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Revenues are key
Stock valuations shot up last year in anticipation of a strengthening economy and growing corporate profits. And earnings did improve, rising just shy of 15% in 2013 for S&P 500 companies.
That stellar outcome, however, didn't reflect true strength in the underlying businesses — revenues last year inched up 2.6%. Instead, earnings per share were partly inflated by cost-cutting initiatives and stock buybacks that reduced the number of shares outstanding, as companies took advantage of Fed-engineered low-rate financing.
For the market to keep advancing, says BMO Private Bank chief investment officer Jack Ablin, profits going forward need to be driven mostly by rising revenues.
Indicator to watch. Track S&P 500 revenues using the price-to-sales ratio (go to multpl.com). At 1.6, the P/S is now 15% above its historical average. Traditionally that's been more likely to signal subpar returns ahead than a market drop: Since 1993, in the three years following a reading of 1.6, stocks have eked out average annual gains of 1%, says Ablin.
When to really worry. A P/S of 2 would be "a huge red flag" says Ablin. When the P/S peaked at 2.3 in early 2000, he notes, stocks lost 44% over the next three years.
See who's at the party
When a bull has nearly run its course, fewer and fewer stocks participate in the rally, and new market highs are powered by a small number of companies. That was another warning in the year leading up to the dotcom bust of 2000: Only about 50 holdings drove the S&P 500's record returns.
Indicator to watch. The advance-decline line tracks the number of stocks rising and falling, moving up when more stocks gain than lose. It typically peaks three to six months before a downturn, says James Stack, president of the InvesTech newsletter. For most of last year advances far outnumbered declines, but lately the reverse has been happening.
When to really worry. Sound the alarm bells if the advance-decline line moves in a different direction from market indexes — a phenomenon, known as divergence, that has proved even more telling than movements in the AD line alone, says wealth manager Barry Ritholtz.
In both 1973 and 1980, for example, the markets saw major divergences before crashes. Ritholtz points out, though, that so far this year the AD line has moved largely in line with the indexes.
Beware of overconfidence
"Be fearful when others are greedy," Warren Buffett has famously said. It's a reference to investors' rotten record of market timing, with many historical examples (1990, 1999, and 2007, just to name three) of them piling into stocks just before a precipitous price drop. That's why analysts often view investor sentiment as a contrary indicator.
Indicator to watch. The American Association of Individual Investors tracks bearishness among its members on a weekly basis (aaii.com/sentimentsurvey). At the end of last year AAII found that only 18.5% of investors were bearish, vs. a long-term average of 30.5%. Typically the market has delivered underwhelming returns the year after such a reading, but not losses.
When to really worry. Six of the nine times since 1987 that bearishness fell below 10.5%, stocks slumped within six months, says AAII's Charles Rotblut, losing 15% over the next year. If that happens, bearishness will no doubt spike, and you can follow the other half of Buffett's advice: "Be greedy when others are fearful."


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"There is strong evidence that particulate matter emitted mainly from diesel road vehicles is associated with increased risk of heart attack, heart failure and death," said lead author Dr. Nay Aung, a cardiologist and research fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
Aung's team reviewed data from more than 4,200 people in the United Kingdom. The study participants had undergone magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart. The researchers then calculated average diesel pollution exposure based on the study participants' home addresses.
Although the study wasn't designed to prove cause-and-effect, the researchers think the pollution stimulates an inflammatory response.
"Inhalation of fine particulate matter [PM2.5, which refers to atmospheric particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 micrometers] causes localized inflammation of the lungs followed by a more systemic inflammation affecting the whole body," Aung said.
And, as exposure rises, the larger the heart gets and the worse it performs, he said. Both of these factors are associated with increased illness and death from heart disease.
The study findings were scheduled to be presented on Friday at a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Prague.
"Reducing PM2.5 emission should be an urgent public health priority and the worst offenders such as diesel vehicles should be addressed with policy measures," Aung said in an ESC news release.
Aung said there are some things people can do to reduce their risk.
"Avoid times and places where there is a high level of pollution," he said. "If you want to cycle into work and there is heavy traffic around that time, then try to find a quieter route. Walk on the part of the pavement furthest from cars to reduce the amount of pollution you breathe in.
"Those with cardiorespiratory diseases should limit the time spent outdoors during highly polluted periods such as rush hours," he added.
Studies presented at meetings are generally viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The Respiratory Health Association has more on diesel pollution.


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    weight = list.find('div', class_="field__item").text
    record = list.find('div.span.span', class_="c-listing-athlete__record")
    info =[nickname, fullName, weight, record]
    """
    info =[nickname]
    print(info)
    thewriter.writerow(info)

Error:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

The URL page source code:
Source Code of URL
Please assist thanks
EDIT
Thanks fellow Stackoverflow scholar Abdullah Mughal, I was able to webscrap the UFC Athletes information onto CSV file. However, my next goal is to stop the webscrap when the variable fullname is empty. However, it keeps webscrapping even though I have set the len(info) !=0 such that info=[nickname, fullname, weight, record].
The webscrap does not stop.
I even tried to put a while loop such that the it continues to loop until it encounters and empty class.
Here is my new improved code:
from cmath import inf
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
from csv import writer
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from time import sleep
from random import randint

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)  Chrome / 104.0.0.0 Safari / 537.36'
}

url = "https://www.ufc.com/athletes/all?gender=All&search=&page="

not_empty = True
endpage = 500
while not_empty:
    pages = np.arange(1,endpage,1)
    for page in pages:

        url1 = url + str(page)
        page = requests.get(url1)

        soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')
        '''sleep(randint(2,8))'''

        lists = soup.find_all('div', class_="c-listing-athlete__text")

        if lists is None:
            not_empty=False

        else:
            f = open(r"UFCstats.csv", 'a', encoding='utf8', newline='')
            csv_writer = writer(f)

            header = ['Nickname', 'Fullname', 'Weight', 'Record']
            csv_writer.writerow(header)

            for athlete_card in lists:
                nickname = ""
                fullname = ""
                weight = ""
                record = ""

                athlete_name = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__nickname")
                if athlete_name is not None:
                    nickname = athlete_name.text.strip()
                athlete_fullname = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__name")
                if athlete_fullname is not None:
                    fullname = athlete_fullname.text.strip()
                athlete_weight = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__title")
                if athlete_weight is not None:
                    weight = athlete_weight.text.strip()
                athlete_record = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__record")
                if athlete_record is not None:
                    record = athlete_record.text.strip()

                info = [nickname, fullname, weight, record]

                if len(info) !=0:
                    print([nickname, fullname, weight, record])

                    csv_writer.writerow(info)

            not_empty=True

    print(not_empty)

f.close()

Please assist
Thanks so much

A: In some cases, soup is not able to find text against objects, that's why the exception is observed. Try following code, if it resolves your issue
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
from csv import writer

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)  Chrome / 104.0.0.0 Safari / 537.36'
}
url = "https://www.ufc.com/athletes/all"
page = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')

lists = soup.find_all('div', class_="c-listing-athlete__text")
f = open(r"UFCstats.csv", 'w', encoding='utf8', newline='')
csv_writer = writer(f)

header = ['Nickname', 'Fullname', 'Weight', 'Record']
csv_writer.writerow(header)

for athlete_card in lists:
    nickname = ""
    fullname = ""
    weight = ""
    record = ""

    athlete_name = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__nickname")
    if athlete_name is not None:
        nickname = athlete_name.text.strip()
    athlete_fullname = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__name")
    if athlete_fullname is not None:
        fullname = athlete_fullname.text.strip()
    athlete_weight = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__title")
    if athlete_weight is not None:
        weight = athlete_weight.text.strip()
    athlete_record = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__record")
    if athlete_record is not None:
        record = athlete_record.text.strip()
    print([nickname, fullname, weight, record])
    info = [nickname, fullname, weight, record]

    csv_writer.writerow(info)
f.close()

EDIT 1
Problem in your code is that you have defined a for loop within while loop, it will be executed 500 times irrespective of whether you are setting the value of not_empty true or false, you need to include break if certain conditions met to stop for loop, so your variable not_empty get validation in while loop.

Anyhow, I have made a few changes in your code, and based on your request it will get terminated when lists are empty, I have added the start_page variable to 247 (to check) you can reset it to 1.
from cmath import inf
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
from csv import writer
# import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from time import sleep
from random import randint

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)  Chrome / 104.0.0.0 Safari / 537.36'
}

url = "https://www.ufc.com/athletes/all?gender=All&search=&page="

not_empty = True
end_page = 500
start_page = 247
while not_empty:
    pages = np.arange(start_page, end_page, 1)
    for page in pages:

        url1 = url + str(page)
        page = requests.get(url1)

        soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')
        '''sleep(randint(2,8))'''

        lists = soup.find_all('div', class_="c-listing-athlete__text")
        if len(lists) > 0:
            f = open(r"UFCstats.csv", 'a', encoding='utf8', newline='')
            csv_writer = writer(f)

            header = ['Nickname', 'Fullname', 'Weight', 'Record']
            csv_writer.writerow(header)

            for athlete_card in lists:
                nickname = ""
                fullname = ""
                weight = ""
                record = ""

                athlete_name = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__nickname")
                if athlete_name is not None:
                    nickname = athlete_name.text.strip()
                athlete_fullname = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__name")
                if athlete_fullname is not None:
                    fullname = athlete_fullname.text.strip()
                athlete_weight = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__title")
                if athlete_weight is not None:
                    weight = athlete_weight.text.strip()
                athlete_record = athlete_card.find('span', class_="c-listing-athlete__record")
                if athlete_record is not None:
                    record = athlete_record.text.strip()

                info = [nickname, fullname, weight, record]

                if len(info) != 0:
                    print([nickname, fullname, weight, record])

                    csv_writer.writerow(info)
            f.close()
        else:
            not_empty = False
            break

    print(not_empty)

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Defense Minister Ya'alon speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 14, 2016.Reuters
A speech by Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at the Munich Security Conference in Germany turned into a confrontation between the Israeli minister and former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal. After Ya'alon claimed that Israel was carrying out secret contacts with Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, the Saudi prince took him to task saying that handshakes with Israelis have never helped the Palestinians.
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In the course of Ya'alon's speech, the defense minister noted channels of communication that Israelis have with neighboring Sunni Arab countries. "Not only Jordan and Egypt," he noted. "I speak about the Gulf states and North African states too. Unfortunately they are not here to listen. For them, Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood are the enemy. Iran is the bad guy for us and for the Sunni regimes. They are not shaking hands [with Israelis] in public, but we meet in closed rooms."
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In this October 10, 2015 photo, Prince Turki al-Faisal talks to the audience during the opening day of the Beirut Institute Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. AP
Ya'alon rejected the Saudi prince's remarks, saying there was no connection between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and current problems elsewhere in the Middle East. "There is a conflict with the Palestinians – but what is the linkage between this and the Iranian revolution? ISIS [the Islamic State organization] has a connection to the conflict? The civil war in Syria or the uprising in Tunisia? The situation in Yemen or Iraq? There is no connection."
The Israeli defense minister said Israel is not ignoring the dispute with the Palestinians, but he accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of responsibility for the absence of progress on the diplomatic front. "Who closed the door to President Obama last year? The Palestinians said 'no' to the Kerry proposal," a reference to a diplomatic proposal by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The Palestinians, Ya'alon said, are refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and prefer to speak about territory since that is an issue on which they would only receive and would not need to make concessions of any kind.
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Divinities. Scopas was an architect and sculptor from Paros who worked mostly in marble. Famous for his statues of divinities, he sculpted Aphrodite and a personification of Longing (Pothos) for her shrine at Samothrace and again for her temple at Megara, where he also made an image of Erôs and a personification of Desire (Himeros). Pliny tells us his most renowned works were sculptures in a temple of Poseidon, later brought to Rome, which featured the god, Thetis, Achilles, dolphins, and minor sea dieties. He made a colossal, seated Ares, which was later moved to the Circus Maximus, as was another Aphrodite sculpted by him which Pliny considered superior to Praxiteles' version. Images of Apollo Smintheus (the mouse-god), Artemis, and Athena were also among his well-known works commissioned for areas as far apart as Asia Minor and Thebes. He worked on column drums for the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and the sculptures on the east side of the Mausoleum along with other leading sculptors of his day. His new design for the Doric temple of Athena at Tegea in Arcadia, after the original burned down in 395, was considered by Pausanias to be the best Peloponnesian temple. Its interior combined Ionic and Corinthian orders and the external colonnade was Doric; its front pedimental sculptures depicted the Calydonian Boar Hunt, while the fight between Achilles and Telephus was on the rear pediment. Fragments of these that have been found are generally thought to reflect his emotive style, if not coming from his own hand. It is also possible that certain frescoes from the fourth century, such as those found at the royal tomb at Vergina, reflect something of his sculptural style. Scopas produced a maenad which was famous in antiquity for its expressive energy and liveliness; a statue of a raving maenad in Dresden is often taken to be a copy, or at least derived from Scopas's original.
"Scopas." World Eras. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.


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Why Nixon Won
Daniel Yankelovich
The New York Times/
Yankelovich Election Survey
It was not what happened during the Presidential campaign itself that won the election for Richard Nixon. Throughout the campaign the press and television concentrated on Eagleton, Watergate, Mr. McGovern's "radical" image, his campaign style, and the "he-can't-win" psychology purportedly generated by the opinion polls. These events affected Mr. McGovern's standings in the polls during the campaign but had little bearing on why Mr. Nixon won the election. As the polls taken by my own organization, as well as others, showed, Nixon had a majority of three to two from the very start—a majority that never wavered throughout that long campaign. In a sense, the campaign proved to be irrelevant.
The news media failed to identify the truly decisive event of the election because it occurred months before the campaign even began, in the spring, after the mining of Haiphong harbor. Here is what happened as well as I can reconstruct it from our pre-election interviews prior to and during the campaign.
Though Nixon's statements about how the war should be ended were generally approved throughout the campaign, in early April, before the Haiphong blockade, the opinion polls showed that his Vietnam policy was in serious trouble with the voters. At that time when the Harris poll asked, "Does Nixon inspire confidence?" the people interviewed answered no, by a margin of five to four. The Vietnam issue was generally conceded to be McGovern's main source of strength.
Then the mining of Haiphong happened. We must remember that the decision to mine Haiphong harbor was made at a time when the military situation in Vietnam was deteriorating badly. Our interviews shortly afterward showed that people expected the worst. In the past, most decisions on Vietnam made in times of crisis—such as the Cambodian "incursion"—had proved disastrous. This time Mr. Nixon confronted the communists with a challenge that even Lyndon Johnson at his most combative had not dared to make.
The days that followed reminded voters of the Cuban Missile Crisis. People were anxious: "How would the Russians react?" "Would they cancel the Summit?" "Would they try to break the blockade by force?" even "Would there be a nuclear confrontation?" When the Russians announced that the Summit would go on as planned, the public, as our surveys later showed, was vastly relieved. With mounting confidence, they watched the drama unfold on television: Mr. Nixon being greeted coolly but correctly at the Moscow airport; meeting in a somewhat more cordial atmosphere with Brezhnev; being toasted at Soviet banquets; addressing the Russian people; laying a wreath at the grave of a little Russian girl orphaned by the war; signing documents and treaties of historic importance with the head of the Soviet state.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the message got through to the American public: Nixon had faced the Russians down, and the danger to the US from the war—the danger of a big power confrontation—had been defused. The war in Vietnam would now soon be over. Or, even if it did not end right away, it would no longer be seen as a military threat to Americans. Soviet/ Chinese acquiescence in the Haiphong mining had handed Mr. Nixon an overwhelming diplomatic victory, containing the seeds of his subsequent political victory at home. Vietnam, we found, is the issue of greatest concern to the American public, and in the public mind it was almost as if the war had ended at the Moscow Summit.
The results of the Soviet trip were dramatically reflected in the opinion polls. By early July, Mr. Nixon had rebuilt public confidence in his handling of the Vietnam war by an almost two to one margin. Simultaneously, he had undermined McGovern's major source of public support by converting what had been McGovern's issue into his own principal source of strength among the voters. During the campaign, an unwavering 62 percent of the voters said, "Mr. Nixon is doing everything he can to end the war." They voted for him largely, if not exclusively, for this reason. (Domestic issues also played a part but we found they were not nearly so important.)
When, in mid-October, it appeared that the North Vietnamese had reached an accommodation with Mr. Kissinger, few were surprised. Even when the Administration failed, on October 31, to sign the treaty agreed upon by Kissinger and the North Vietnamese, few of Nixon's supporters were disillusioned. When George McGovern accused Kissinger and Nixon of "the big lie," few of Nixon's supporters believed him. In fact, the accusation boomeranged against McGovern. For the climate of opinion had crystallized around the agreements reached between Nixon and the Soviet Union and China months before. For a majority of Americans the preconditions for ending the war had been laid, and the precise time schedule no longer mattered as much as it had before.
To McGovern's supporters—a minority—the human costs of the bombings dwarf all considerations of power-politics and make even a day's delay in ending the war unforgivable. To Nixon's majority, who also want the war to end, an immediate cessation is less important than working out a compromise that does not suggest "defeat" for the US. Both sides, our surveys suggest, agree that the war is an abomination. But their views of how American morality and honor are involved in ending it are irreconcilable.
Ironically, then, Mr. Nixon can thank the Soviet Union for handing him his most important political victory. The Russians virtually pushed Mr. Nixon back into the White House when they agreed to go ahead with the Summit meeting after the mining at Haiphong.
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Christa Wolf, translated by Henning Gutmann
A Speech in East Berlin
From a New Year's Day Speech
Gail Pressberg
Israel and the Occupied Territories: An Urgent Appeal by the ICRC
Amnesty International on Argentina
On the Bombing of Aleppo
The world is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions.
An Unholy War
Martin Garbus
New Mag in Moscow


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Romi Lepetska
rlepetska@cgsh.com
Romi Lepetska advises on all aspects of EU, Dutch, and Belgian competition law.
She advises on a wide range of antitrust issues, including complex EU and international merger control proceedings, abuse of dominance cases, and restrictive practices. Her experience includes various sectors, notably pharmaceuticals, health care data, manufacturing and industrial services, and financial services. Romi co-authors an annual publication on developments in EU abuse of dominance.
Romi is a Dutch citizen. She joined the firm in 2012 and became an associate in 2013 in the Brussels office. From July 2015 to January 2016, Romi was seconded to the Benelux legal department of Philip Morris. She has been a resident in the London office since October 2017.
Prior to joining Cleary, Romi completed a blue book internship at the European Commission DG Competition.
Notable Experiences
Alstom before the European Commission and multiple other antitrust agencies globally in its proposed €15 billion combination with Siemens' Mobility Business.
Allergan before the European Commission and multiple other antitrust agencies globally in connection with Allergan's proposed $160 billion merger with Pfizer.
IMS Health on the global antitrust aspects of its acquisition of Cegedim and its merger of equals with Quintiles.
Citigroup in its EU investigations of alleged Yen Libor and Euribor rate manipulation.
Several clients in non-public cartel and antitrust investigations involving the European Commission and national competition authorities in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Romano Subiotto QC, David R. Little, and Romi Lepetska, "The Application of Article 102 TFEU by the European Commission and the European Courts," Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, 2015-2018
UK Antitrust Enforcement Post-Brexit: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Areas of Experience
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Juventus will host Atletico Madrid in the second leg of the last 16 of the 2018/19 Champions League on Wednesday (13/3). Juventus carried the mission to reverse the aggregate deficit 0-2.
Wojciech Szczesny believes that the road to qualifying for the quarter-finals is still open. With players like Cristiano Ronaldo, the Juventus goalkeeper believes they can make it happen.
Atletico is one of the strongest defense teams in Europe. It's not easy to overthrow them. But that is also not something that is impossible to do.
"He is a player who can be a differentiator at moments like this," Szczesny said.
"I think last week's Champions League results also show that this is not over," Szczesny was quoted as saying by Football Italia.
Szczesny was then asked about who his team-mate he expected would be very decisive against Atletico later.
"He is a player who can be a differentiator in moments like this. Plus all the experience and goals he has scored in the Champions League, we will need it later Tuesday," he said.


VATICAN CITY, MAY 26, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II says that for a believer, God's judgment should be a reason for hope, not fear.
"He is, indeed, judge, but he is also Savior; he condemns evil but recompenses faithfulness; he is justice but above all love," the Pope said during today's general audience.
Addressing a crowd of 15,000 in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father commented on the canticle in chapters 11 and 12 of the Book of Revelation. The canticle is in thanksgiving for God's just judgment.
"In this prayer the heart of the righteous is heard pulsating, who await in hope the coming of the Lord who will make the events of humanity more luminous, often immersed in the darkness of sin, injustice, deceit and violence," John Paul II added.
The passage is a song, which the Book of Revelation puts on the lips of 24 elders of the heavenly court, in representation of all the righteous of the Old and New Covenants — "a hymn that perhaps was already in use in the liturgical assemblies of the early Church," said the Pope.
It is an act of adoration of "the sovereign God of the world and of history, ready to establish his Kingdom of justice, love and truth," the Holy Father noted.
"To his victory is associated the testimony of the martyrdom of Christians. There is a profound participation in the redeeming work of the Lamb on the part of the faithful who have not hesitated — love for life did not deter them from death," the Holy Father said.
John Paul II recalled the last words of the martyr St. Polycarp of Smyrna, which echoed the words of the canticle.
"Be blessed for having judged me worthy of this day and in this hour to take my place in the list of your martyrs, to participate in the chalice of your Christ before resurrecting in soul and body for ever in the immortality of the Holy Spirit," the bishop said, according to the account of his martyrdom presented in a letter of the Church of Smyrna to a Christian community in the year 156.
Thus, John Paul II continued his series of reflections on the Psalms and canticles found in the Liturgy of Vespers, the evening prayer of the Church. Other reflections may be consulted in the Wednesday's Audience section of ZENIT's Web page.


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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – December 12th, 2015 – Naniki Music Festival is back on January 13th to 17th, 2016 with an eclectic line up in celebration of Barbados' 50th year of Independence.
The festival, now in its fifth year, will welcome Grammy award winner Roberta Flack, UK reggae icon Aswad, as well as a talented array of the Caribbean's best musicians and entertainers who will take the stage in a series of five shows.
"We are thrilled to be able to salute Barbados as it enters its 50th year as a sovereign nation," said the show's executive producer, Tom Hinds. "We are particularly happy to pay tribute to Dr. Irving Burgie, the lyricist of our National Anthem," he added.
Burgie will be honoured by noted musician Stephan Walcott's 1688 big band and dynamic singer Nikita Browne on the opening night at Holders on Jan 13th. The opening night is followed by a free concert on January 14th at the Frank Collymore Hall featuring Trinidadian steel pan virtuoso Rudy Smith Quartet and the Mylon Clarke Rhea Drakes Quintet.
" We started off focusing on jazz but made the decision to include other genres in 2015. Maxi Priest brought the house down at the last festival and we are looking forward to same energy from Aswad," said Hinds of the reggae show slated for Holders on Friday Jan 15th.
Naniki Music Festival will close at its namesake, Naniki, with "Fusion in the Hills" headlined by the seasoned soca star Edwin Yearwood. Ras Isley will also make a rare appearance, along with Serenader in tribute to Trinidadian arranger Leston Paul responsible for classics like "Hot, Hot, Hot", "Groove Master", "Nani Wine", "Paul Yoh Mother" and "Pan in A Minor".
The beauty of the free spirit is its ever changing nature. Naniki is Amerindian for "free spirit" and the Naniki Team has certainly exercised its freedom to change and evolve. Tom Hinds, Executive Producer of the festival, promises a festival jam-packed with musical talent that is worth every penny. Naniki has rebranded itself as the Naniki Music Festival and expanded its musical genres to include reggae and calypso artistes in the Festival package. Tickets are available on Ticketpal.com or at any TicketPal locations.


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06/05/2009 by Katie Cannon
Corner Table, Minneapolis
The Kitchen Insider series gives Heavy Table readers a peek at the personality and processes of well-known kitchens around town.
"And…action!" exclaims Chef Scott Pampuch of Corner Table moments before the first diners arrive for their dinner reservation. Although the declaration is made in jest, the statement defines a transformation in this intimate South Minneapolis restaurant; a change from prep to service.
Long before action is formally announced, however, the kitchen is alive and busy with the lengthy prep list to be completed by the four-person kitchen team (three regular staff and one intern). There were savory tarts and sweet desserts to be baked, proteins to be portioned, and vegetables to be peeled, cleaned, diced, and sliced. But before moving forward, first the night's music must be chosen.
Some kitchens are quiet and others require noise. This kitchen, with four speakers that pulse with music all night, is grouped in the latter. Pampuch takes a quick poll to determine the night's soundtrack, then decides on a station that is guaranteed to please all. Well, almost. As a song comes on that isn't a group favorite, a quick shout is given to Chris Olson, prepping salads, who switches the station and says, "Yup, I'm on cold station tonight as well as deejay." Music selection decided, it's back to cooking.
In Corner Table's kitchen, prep takes on a whole new meaning. The menu changes monthly to reflect the seasonality of ingredients. Vegetables arrive to the restaurant, not in pre-packaged bags but as whole produce that require attention. This evening there are fava beans that need de-podding and blanching to remove them from their inner shell. Plus the beautiful French breakfast radishes need to be de-stemmed and washed, to then wait for paper-thin slicing for garnish on the salads.
New ingredients that arrive are thoroughly discussed and sampled — tonight it's the watercress that Pampuch and the staff taste in order to accurately describe the garnish to diners. Also in the kitchen are ingredients that you may be hard-pressed to find in some other restaurants — edible flowers (such as chive blossoms), morels, and wild ramps. Among all the fresh vegetables available, however, it's abundantly clear that it's asparagus season. It is bountiful in this kitchen as the go-to vegetable for many of this evening's dishes.
Prep lists click along, and soon places are taken as dinner service begins.
With a small staff of four, the role of each team member, while defined, remains flexible throughout the evening. Olson, for example, works the cold station that evening, but easily moves between plating starters and salads to desserts when necessary (as well as the aforementioned deejay role). Another cook, Steve, remains at his spot throughout the evening, working half of the hot station and plating entrees that require his full focused attention. Unlike some kitchens, where the call of food to be finished by table rings out frequently, the communication in Corner Table's kitchen, while equally vital, is a more subtle interaction between the kitchen and the waitstaff. Dishes are continuously plated and placed in the window for service per tickets, but how this is accomplished remains a mystery to this writer, even after watching the kitchen in full rhythm for a couple hours.
In the center of it all is Pampuch, head down, working the hot station. Despite the dinner rush, Pampuch often shares his broad smile and easy laugh with the staff and makes time to visit in the dining room. But don't be fooled, even with his concentrated cooking style, Pampuch doesn't miss a detail. Whether to discuss the cheese that was ordered as an extra on the bison burger or the portion size of a dessert, he oversees every dish that leaves his kitchen. Busy or not, Pampuch strives for perfection.
In the midst of the regular service buzz, which keeps the kitchen hopping throughout the evening, tonight also requires additional attention to be given to the kitchen table reservation that is seated at 6 o'clock. For $125 / person, diners are seated at a table tucked into the corner of the kitchen and served small tasting courses and wine samples throughout the evening for as long into the night as they can last (or until close). The menu is at the whim of Pampuch, with dishes spontaneously created throughout the evening. He describes this, saying that he gauges how the evening is going, how much they are eating, what they are liking, and determines the dishes as the night unfolds. He tries to keep the progression of food from light to heavy and wines from white to red, but beyond that, there is only a minimal plan.
Dishes spontaneously created during the busy kitchen rush… is it even possible? It sure is. Perhaps the epitome of Corner Table and Pampuch's spontaneous creativity and farm-to-table approach lies in this dish that was created for the kitchen table on the evening of observation — braised pork tongue with gnocchi and pickled onions.
Previously in prep that evening, two beautiful casseroles emerged from the oven, the contents of which were immediately recognized by this writer as the pork tongue from the Hidden Stream pig that was broken down the previous week and featured on Heavy Table in this article. Braised with leeks, carrots, and herbs, the tongue is now tender and ready to adorn the plates of the evening's diners.
An hour into service, when asked what his plan was for the pork tongue, Pampuch responded that he wasn't sure, but he was planning to work it into the tasting menu at the kitchen table at some point. With only a short time left for this writer to be onsite, Pampuch quickly set out to create the pork tongue dish. He turned his back for a few minutes to think, then a quick five minutes later the dish was plated and ready. The tasting dish consisted of a small helping of sauteed gnocchi topped with thin slices of pork tongue and finished with pickled onions macerated with herbs and then a drizzle of olive oil. A truly spontaneous creation that, when served to the table, was met with exclamations of delight and thumbs up of approval.
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HungryinSW 06/05/2009
Wow, what a cool article and a great look into the guts of one of our local gems. Love all the pictures and the insight into what makes this place tick. I'll be making my way back soon.
Stephanie Hansen 06/05/2009
This article was really fun to read and the pictures were really beautiful. I am a big fan of Scott Pampuch and The Corner Table and have had some great meals there. My only regret is that its not next to my house so I can dine there more often. Great piece.
BolilloFoodie 06/05/2009
I can attest that the braised pork tongue was out of this world, as well as the rest of the evening. :-)
Jade 06/05/2009
It was a truly spectacular evening of gastronomical delight that piqued all the senses and Chef Scott was an excellent host


Discussion in 'Buying Tips, Advice and Discussion (archive)' started by plaidboy, Oct 11, 2004.
I've been looking around for a 1GB stick of RAM for my new 12" Powerbook. I saw a couple of places that said Powerbooks *must* use low heat or low power RAM. This is always about $40 more.
Is there really a special kind of ram that I have to use or will any PC2700 200-pin SODIMM memory work?
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i wouldnt fret about it!
I purchased 1GB of ram from 1-800-4-Memory for $239 as Jovian9 suggested.
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Also, they were a bit tricky with the shipping. The default was for FedEx 2nd day for $9.95. I opted for the US mail with insurance. Then I noticed at the bottom a message that said they would give me $2 off FedEx shipping, if I changed back to FedEx 2nd day shipping. So I changed it back.
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The Samsung OEM 1 Gb PC2700 SODIMM modules are a low-power-consumption design, this translates into less heat and a bit more battery life. You'll pay about 25% more for the Samsungs compared to third-party. Note that this must be the complete Samsung module, not Samsung chips on someone else's board.


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Developments at the MSPB: NELA Amicus Brief in Whistleblower Case
By Joe Kaplan of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in Developments at the MSPB on Friday, March 8, 2013.
Developments at the MSPB: On February 28, 2013, the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) filed an amicus brief urging the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to give retroactive effect to provisions of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) in Day v. Dept. of Homeland Security, MSPB Docket No. DC-1221-12-0528-W-1. The Day case was previously discussed in this blog here.
Mr. Day, a Coast Guard civilian employee, allegedly suffered retaliation after blowing the whistle in July 2010 on impropriety in an aircraft procurement contract. Mr. Day reported his concerns to his supervisor, and was acting within the scope of his normal duties. At issue in Day is whether or not provisions of the 2012 WPEA clarfying the definition of protected whistleblowing applied to Mr. Day's 2010 disclosures. Section 101 of the WPEA reversed prior decisions by the MSPB and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (in particular, Huffman v. OPM, 263 F.3d 1341 (Fed.Cir. 2001)) denying whistleblower reprisal protections to disclosures made to an employee's supervisor or within the scope of normal duties. If the pre-WPEA Huffman standard applies, Mr. Day's whistleblower reprisal claim could likely be dismissed; if Section 101 of the WPEA applies, Mr. Day's claim could then proceed to hearing. An MSPB Administrative Judge applied the Huffman standard, but referred the case to the MSPB for a higher-level decision on whether the WPEA's provisions should apply retroactively.
NELA's amicus brief argues that Section 101 of the WPEA should apply retroactively, as the WPEA merely clarifies the original statutory definition of protected whistleblowing which had been artificially narrowed by the MSPB and the Federal Circuit under Hoffman and related cases. NELA argues that the MSPB has historically given retroactive effect to provisions like Section 101 of the WPEA which only clarify Congress' intent in how the preexisting statutory definition of protected whistleblowing is to be applied and construed. NELA also notes that giving retroactive effect to Section 101 furthers the remedial purpose of federal whistleblower protection statues.
NELA's amicus brief was drafted by Passman & Kaplan Founding Principal Joseph V. Kaplan, Passman & Kaplan Founding Principal Edward H. Passman, Passman & Kaplan Senior Associate Andrew J. Perlmutter, Erik D. Snyder and Richard Renner from Tate & Renner, and NELA Program Director Rebecca Hamburg Cappy. Also assisting on the brief were George Chuzi and Elaine Fitch from Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch. To read NELA's brief, click here.
If you believe that you are being retaliated against because of protected whistleblowing, please feel free to contact Passman & Kaplan for an initial consultation.
Note: an alternate version of this article also appeared in @NELA: News For NELA Members.
Tags: Federal Workforce, MSPB, Whistleblower, Whistleblower Protection, adverse actions
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Up to two awards are offered to students in the visual fine arts (painting, print-making, sculpture, photography) or music (composition, instrumental, or vocal performance). Awardees will be joint recipients of the Fulbright grant (maintenance and travel allowance) and the Harriet Hale Woolley scholarship (in the form of a free live-in artist atelier or music studio at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris).
Grantees will be given a free live-in artist atelier or music studio at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, and access to on-site performance and exhibition facilities, including a private art gallery and a historically renowned concert hall.
Candidates should demonstrate in the application their commitment to being an active participant in the cultural program and the community of artists at the Fondation des Etats-Unis.
Grantees will be required to attend a mandatory 1- to 2-day in-country orientation in late September or early October, and a 2-day mid-year conference in February (organized by the Fulbright Commission in France).
Applications for the 2019-2020 grants are due by October 8, 2019.
Graduating seniors, recent graduates, advanced graduate students, doctoral candidates, and those with professional experience are encouraged to apply. Applicants must show evidence of high-level artistic or musical accomplishment.
Finalists will be interviewed via Skype by the selection committee at the Fondation des Etats-Unis.
Do I Need To Speak French?
French language proficiency is recommended, commensurate with the requirements of the project. In the Fulbright online application, applicants should include the Language Self-Evaluation and a Foreign Language Evaluation by a professional language instructor in relation to their language proficiency.
Applicants are encouraged to establish contact with specialists in their fields before applying for a grant, and to solicit invitations to study under them. Although the Fulbright Commission in France prefers affiliation with accredited institutions (schools of art and music conservatories), applicants may be authorized to study with private teachers.


Often the greatest challenge of meditation practice, especially in an urban environment, is finding the enthusiasm and drive to establish and maintain a regular daily sitting practice. In our hectic lives it can seem difficult or even irresponsible to take the time to sit quietly, even for short periods, when we have work, family, and many other obligations. City practitioners also may suffer from exhaustion, fears, anxieties, and burnout - which can be alleviated through the cultivation of joy. This unique class will help you rediscover a sense of joy - the attitude of delight in our and others' experience. Joy is traditionally considered an essential mindstate necessary to reap the benefits of meditation practice, which include qualities of equanimity, discernment, and compassion. Through guided meditation, experiential exercises, mindful movement, inquiry and discussion, talented teacher Leslie Joren Wagner will lead you to explore, revive, and cultivate the joy so essential to maintaining both a regular daily meditation practice and a balanced, satisfying life.
No experience is necessary. Please wear loose or comfortable clothing. Cushions and chairs are provided. Beginners are welcome.
This program is offered on a sliding fee scale. Please select the highest amount you can comfortably afford to support this and other donation-based initiatives. IDP Members, please select the middle rate. Students, seniors, and unemployed persons, please select the lowest rate. See below for scholarship opportunities.
IDP strives to meet the financial needs of our community while facing the financial challenges of running a not-for-profit in NYC. Each of our paid programs grant Work Study to a reliable volunteer, and POC Scholarships that reduce registration to half the lowest price for eligible students. You must apply for these programs at the link below no later than one week before the program begins.
IDP relies upon the generosity of individuals like you to continue offering our unique events and programs. We receive no grants and have no wealthy patrons. Support your values by becoming a Member today!