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Dramaturgery: Revolution, Part 2 (Premise)
Posted: September 7, 2012 in Braak, crotchety ranting
Tags: Braak, dramaturgery, Movies, NBC, revolution, TV
There are two ways to go with a story like Revolution, and I think Moff is right in one sense, in that just how a society breaks down in the sudden absence of electricity could be pretty interesting, and I think the other sense is how a society builds itself up after the apocalypse, and in the absence of electricity. There are a lot of pretty neat questions to be asked: what is the individual's responsibility to the state? How much security is worth sacrificing for the sake of stability? Should civilization be about building bigger states, or should we be content with small agrarian communities? What exactly IS civilization – the material well-being of its people, art, culture, roads, what is it? What is the value of science – is it inevitably good? Should it be controlled? By whom? What about kings? Democracy? What about religion – how can it benefit a society's build? How can it be a hindrance? How exactly do all these things come together, and what is the purpose of them?
I know that a lot of people say that a show like Revolution is "about the characters" (except no, it's obviously going to be about turning on the electricity), and to those people I say this: your sense of nationalism, patriotism, piety, honor, duty, curiosity, ambition – those things are all character traits. The question of whether or not you have a moral obligation to oppose an oppressive state, that IS a character question, it is a personal question, and it is an important question. Oh, sure, questions about "what is friendship?" and "what is family?", those are fine questions to ask, too (they'd be better if they didn't end up inevitably being "family is what you make of it, and it sticks together no matter what" just because we've seen it a million times; at least the Greeks had the sense to recognize that sometimes "family" meant "murdering, incestuous cannibal maniacs"), but you don't need to end the world to ask them (or, at least, ending the world doesn't enable you to ask them particularly more clearly).
I will now do Dramaturgery on "Revolution," and it's probably going to be a lot more extensive than my previous Dramaturgeries. This show might possibly still turn out to be good, I don't know — I am not saying that it won't be and, honestly, I actually am a little optimistic that it could be — but however it progresses, I am leaving this here as a clear way the show COULD have gone, and how a show with a similar premise, similar characters, and even a similar personal and moral center could have both asked these big questions, and also had a bunch of sword fights and a heroine with a bow and arrow.
Most befirstly, I am changing the premise somewhat. These changes are going to seem extensive, but I think that they aren't actually as extensive as all that – that including these changes would not, in other words, significantly alter the essential premise of the show as evinced by the pilot. What these changes will do is add a layer of specificity that will both hold the world together a little more firmly, and provide a good starting point for both the personal and the social questions. It goes without saying, I hope, that this is backmatter that will inform the episodes, but only be explained when it's both 1) necessary, and 2) possible to do it organically.
(This section turned out to be huge, so you might want to go see how I just revamped the plot, and only refer back here if there's something you want to know about the backmatter.)
How the Power Went Out
Since I have absolutely no idea how this was supposed to happen, or what the conspiracy to keep(?) it off could possibly be, I'm going to leave it largely untouched, and just make up some ideas when I need them. Figure this is the same: Scientists have found a Way to turn off the power, there is a Conspiracy to Keep it Off.
WHY the Power Went Out
I don't know what the reason for this is in the show, so this is a spot where I'm going to make something up. It's 2014, and War is Beginning. Someone is precipitating a nuclear exchange, and our scientist, Jeff Matheson, in order to prevent a global thermonuclear war, turns off the electricity. Some missiles are fired, but when the electricity is shut down, the rest of the missiles stay in their silos. This is still pretty catastrophic, though – some cities are wiped out by nuclear explosions and radiation, armies were deployed and a whole bunch of them died (entire navies, if you think about it, must have starved to death at sea with no way to move their aircraft carriers), and yes, planes fell out of the sky, dams burst, et cetera and so forth.
Worse, some nations had biological weapons that they deployed, too – there were ten years of plagues with no medicine to treat them; famines as farms collapsed; civil wars fought with guns and knives as the remaining population killed each other over resources that were getting increasingly difficult to acquire. Hundreds of millions of people died.
It is DEFINITELY debatable as to whether or not shutting off the power was the right thing for Jeff Matheson to do and we'll never know the answer, but that action serves as the basic question that will drive the entire series: who has the right to make that decision?
ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER
That's right. A century of plagues and famines and civil wars. There is literally no one left alive who remembers the world the way it was. Most of the population is illiterate (teaching reading took a back seat to basic surviving) and so can't even read books about science or history. I don't like the fifteen-years-later idea because so much of it feels like a kind of smug, disaster tourism: "Look there's the ruins of O'Hare airport, I guess PLANES aren't any good anymore!" "Oh, of course GOOGLE is meaningless here in the future!" This is not interesting – of course planes are useless, and of course no one cares about Google, that goes without saying. What needs saying is how culture was rebuilt in the ruins of the old world, HOW we survive without Google, what we do now instead of plans. After the interruption of continuity precipitated by the blackout and the years of disasters, a century is time for a new, ad-hoc culture to form, one that reinvents the trappings of the old world into something new (so, both on a practical level – "look, they're recycling clothes!" but also "look, they're recycling ideas whose meanings they only partly understand!"; see, it works on both a practical and a thematic level when you do it like this). The slightly altered WHY of the power also gives us new and interesting obstacles – things that may not come up directly, but which we can hold in our back pockets and use for later: the constant, looming threat of plague; the fact that whole swaths of the planet might be radioactive desert; mass graves full of people whose lives and deaths are a mystery.
There's a New Republic centered around Chicago (figure New York and Washington both took direct nuclear hits). Chicago is a relatively thriving city, having built itself back up on trade, fishing, and farming the nearby farmland which is fertile again/still. There's a steady business in salvage – people from all over the country bring stuff that they've found to Chicago, where it's traded or bought. The area directly around Chicago is stable, if still wild: there are definitely bandits, mercenary armies, independent militias. The areas beyond Chicago are sometimes empty, sometimes uninhabitable, sometimes home to other armies who mean to conquer their neighbors.
The Factions of the City:
(It's the case that a lot of these organizations purposefully use titles from the Old World, out of a sense of tradition now, originally as part of an attempt to maintain continuity or to evoke the mythology of the golden era.) The Senate is made up of the landowners from around the city – most of the farms are worked by tenant farmers who take on debt in order to get a plot of land, and generally spend their lives working that debt off; the tenant farmers don't pay taxes, because they don't own their produce. They have quotas to fill, and get to keep whatever is left, until the value of their debt is paid. In theory, you can eventually pay off your farm. In practice, unless you find buried treasure or something, no one ever does. The Senate has nominal power, but in practice is largely advisory. They have money, though, and each Senator typically commands his own militia to protect his lands, so certainly some senators are more powerful than others.
Sebastian Monroe
Mayor of Chicago, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Free America, Executive of the Senate and People of Free America. (See what I mean about the titles? You'll notice that the more personal power someone has, the more they'll couch their titles in terms of being a functionary of a free state, rather than a king – Monroe studiously avoids "royal" titles.) Monroe is in his SEVENTIES, which means he's one of the few people who's heard about the old world directly. His father and grandfather were military men, and he considers himself a direct descendent of the American government, the last best hope for a free society, et cetera. He is a visionary, with plans to rebuild the American Republic across the land, obviously by stomping on anything that gets in the way. He's a convert to the Church of the Trials (I'll get to that) but not a believer, and has a good relationship with the Church of the Book. He's also preoccupied with information about the Old World and studious is rigorously – in fact, this sets up another major thematic conflict in the story, between Monroe and Charlie (our protagonist); Monroe is trying to re-create the Old World (by rebuilding America but ALSO by trying to figure out how to turn the power on), while Charlie has no memory of the Old World and will eventually decide to help create a new one.
IMPORTANTLY, Monroe has, at the time of the pilot, at long last found out about the program to turn the lights out, and finally tracked down the name of the family that was involved in it. He's been sending out his guys to find the descendants of Jeff Matheson, hoping that he'd somehow passed down the information to his children. (I am imagining Monroe having recovered a filmstrip from the 70s about the nascent project, and using some insane machine with lenses and candles to watch it.)
The Armies
Each senator has their own militia, for one. There is also a City Police (commanded by the Mayor of Chicago), who are armed with swords, cudgels, and the occasional rifle, and the Army of Free America. The AFA is the state army, they've got bolt-action rifles, but not automatics – bullets in this world are very expensive, because Monroe offers ridiculously high prices for them (they're rare, too, since no one's completely sure how to start making them again). Senatorial militias aren't allowed to use firearms, so it's in most peoples' interests to, if they find bullets, just sell them to Monroe. The AFA is commanded by the Commander-in-Chief (also Monroe – you see what he did here? Consolidated power?), so that means there is functionally one army in the city, and a couple dozen Senatorial militias, all of whom have individual agendas. (I don't know what all this would be used for; I just know that I'd rather have a setting in which I've got a whole bunch of different rival factions whose power struggles might not become a prominent part of the story, then start writing a story only to discover that it doesn't make sense for everyone to be on different sides.)
The Secret Service:
Not the president's bodyguard – there are about two-hundred…"private investigators" or "inquisitors" or spies, I guess. They are the Executive's chief secret enforcers (some are less secret than others — they don't dress in identifying ways, or wear uniforms or anything, but some people are "known" to be members of the Service), hanging out, infiltrating, unearthing threats to the Free State. They do have automatic pistols, and are the only ones with access to Monroe's slowly growing hoard of guns and bullets. Giancarlo Esposito's character is a member of the Secret Service, and has been sent around (as was the case in the pilot, kind of) trying to find the Mathesons.
The Two Churches
This is a misnomer, really there are dozens of different churches and religions that grew up or solidified in the past hundred years, but there are two major factions that operate in Chicago. The Church of the Trials, which started as a fundamentalist Christian sect and rapidly picked up a lot of other evangelical and apocalyptic followers, asserts that the last hundred years have been the Time of Trials, or the time of Tribulation (citing the sudden impossibility of electricity as proof of God's intervention), and asserting that it is almost over, and soon Jesus will return and lead everyone up into heaven for the Final Judgment. This Church's administration tends to exhibit some of the worse attributes of Christian Fundamentalism – it tends to be intolerant, patriarchal, anti-intellectual, domineering, and inflexible. However, not everyone who is a member is like that, and in fact there are plenty of good people who belong to this Church – they're moved by a genuine hope that all of their troubles are soon going to be over (you see, another major theme in the story: IS hope actually that good?). And the Church, as one of the first organized bodies after the blackout, did in fact do a lot of good in terms of alleviating the damage caused by the century of horror: they were charitable, they served as a functional law court after the fall of the government (and still hold a powerful command of the legal system in the city).
The second church is the Church of the Book; they believe the crisis was man-made in nature. They're essentially a contemplative order of monks who send their members out in the world to collect and accumulate…books. Books, records, documents, anything that they can find and maintain. Their monks are also trained to fight, usually trained scientists and detectives, with years of experience surviving on their own, fighting off brigands, &c – the Bookkeepers are a sort of combination of Shaolin Monks and itinerant book-collectors. They are religious, but their actual religious belief tends to be more universalist than anything else, and as such is more tolerant.
They aren't all good, though – the Church of the Book's prime directive is that no one else should have control of the information from the Old World. They preserve knowledge, yeah, but they don't really like to share it – they dole it out in dribs and drabs to Monroe and the Senate, but only after the information they're going to give up has been carefully-vetted and found to be largely harmless. They're literate, but they don't encourage literacy; in fact, the technological level of the city might be substantially higher if the Church was freer with its books, and this is yet ANOTHER theme of the show: Is technology bad? And, maybe more importantly, who gets to decide whether it should be shared? Ultimately, someone who is either the head of the church, or very high up in the church, is part of the Conspiracy to Keep the Power Off.
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You keep saying things like "because Moff is right (kind of)" and "I think Moff is right in one sense," when I feel like it should be INCONTROVERTIBLY CLEAR that I am totally and always right, in every sense.
Also: "It's about the characters" has become, like, the single most effective thing anyone could possibly say about a show if they want to drive me up a fucking wall.
I would say that that is controvertible.
I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS.
What are you going to do? You don't do anything.
I am going to NOT STAND. I am lying down right now, in fact. It is super comfortable.
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Just came here, many weeks after the fact, to validate your (both of you) sense of humor. Laughed my ass off.
BTW, I love the idea that your Charlie is motivated by revenge. How often are women (in popular culture–I'm not a connoisseur of media, I'll admit) in stories shown to be motivated by revenge that isn't merely payback for violence inflicted on them? Normally, the female in a story is attacked and she brutally avenges herself and it only further reinforces the notion that women are tasked with job of protecting themselves, not society at large. But already, in your story, you have a woman who is racked with guilt and finds purpose in the plan to take that mother out, an eye for an eye. Now, that deals with the concepts of pride, identity, guilt, loss and the destruction of all that a person has built and taken for granted. That's normally a man's story. Stories about women (at least the ones that have any direction at all) are not about identity so much as negotiating power dynamics both internally and externally. You've completely thrown that out the window and imagined Charlie as a character who not only knows she has power (to kill, to survive) but also has a general code of conduct ("she'll kill when she has to but not when she doesn't."). That leaves a space to be creative in a way that is uncommon territory. Great stuff!
Yeah, it's interesting — I'm working on another project right now, where the main character is a woman who is on a quest for vengeance after someone else was killed, and I was realizing just how uncommon a trope that is. Like we think of revenge as being an okay thing to do in response to personal injury, because that's sort of acceptably moral, but vengeance is a lot harsher, and maybe there's a lot of cultural resistance to the notion of female characters being that harsh.
Whatever, though, she is hell of going on a quest for revenge.
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French Montana calls black woman a "musty crusty dusty rusty ass hoe" with "nappy hair"
By Natelegé Whaley
Let's get right to it. French Montana's tweet calling a Twitter user a "musty crusty dusty rusty ass hoe" with "nappy ass" hair is straight up misogynoir. The rapper's insensitive "joke" was a response to a Twitter user named @artdecoxxx, a black woman, who made a shady remark about French Montana's current popularity in music. Twitter reactions to Montana's dragging of the woman ranged from outraged call-outs of anti-blackness and sexism to full-on defenses of the rappers remarks, a disappointing example of how this language continues to be normalized.
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Black women Twitter users complain about being called out of their names and many times it comes from trolls hiding behind egg avatars. But how often does an attack come from a celebrity? Such was the case for @artdecoxxx, an account with 747 followers. She made the comment below Wednesday night and did not tag Montana's account directly.
It is uncertain, then, how Montana, who has more than 2 million followers, found the tweet. Some believe he was possibly searching his name on Twitter and came across the post this way. However he found it, his response created a firestorm on the social media platform, sending his name to the top of the trending list Thursday morning. He proceeded to defend his words.
Montana's was born in Morocco. But his proximity to blackness as a hip-hop artist, and who he has chosen to date and procreate with in the past, does not make his attack any less anti-black-woman.
Some Twitter users came to @artdecoxxx's defense.
Meanwhile these Twitter users believed Montana was making a harmless joke or were dismissive of the outrage.
Explaining why Montana's tweet is degrading to black women can be exhausting because we've been here before. There is a special term for this called misogynoir, coined by Moya Bailey, a queer African-American woman and professor at Northeastern University. This word defines the specific way in which black women experience misogyny.
There are so many examples of it in media and culture. In March, Fox News anchor Bill O'Rielly was called out for making fun of Democratic Representative Maxine Waters' hair. In July and August, Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones was viscously attacked by racist and sexist trolls. In August, Fifth Harmony member Normani Kordei left Twitter for some time after facing racially-charged cyberbullying. Montana's tweet also brings to mind former CBS Radio announcer Don Imus, who was fired for calling a NCAA women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" in 2007.
Who will hold French Montana accountable for his words? Apart from the young black women and men currently rallying in his mentions against his post on Twitter, it is uncertain anyone else, especially from the hip-hop or celebrity community, will demand he learn how oppressive his language is to black women. Montana may see what he wrote as just a "dragging" that @artdecoxxx deserved, but with his platform he is abusing his power to perpetuate the normalized racism and sexism in our culture — and the collapse of this thinking is long overdue.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan—Mazda Motor Corporation today received the Human Rights Merit Award from the Hiroshima Legal Affairs Bureau on behalf of Japan's Ministry of Justice and the National Federation of Consultative Assemblies of Civil Liberties Commissioners. The award ceremony took place at Mazda's headquarters in Hiroshima. Kazue Okuni, vice chairperson of the National Federation of Consultative Assemblies of Civil Liberties Commissioners (also chairperson of the Hiroshima Consultative Assembly of Civil Liberties Commissioners' Association of Human Rights Volunteers), Hidetoshi Hoshino, director-general of the Hiroshima Legal Affairs Bureau, and staff of the Hiroshima Legal Affairs Bureau and the Hiroshima Prefecture Human Rights Committee attended. Also present were Mazda's chairman, president and CEO, Hisakazu Imaki, and other senior Mazda executives. At the award ceremony, President Imaki was presented with a certificate and a commemorative trophy. The Ministry of Justice's Human Rights Bureau and the Hiroshima Legal Affairs Bureau previously announced that Mazda had been chosen for the Human Rights Merit Award on February 25, 2008.
The Human Rights Merit Award recognizes significant achievements in the field of human rights protection by individuals or organizations. Recipients are recommended by the national and district directors of the Legal Affairs Bureau and prefectural Consultative Assemblies of Civil Liberties Commissioners. The award was established in fiscal year (FY) 2006 and was given for the first time in FY2007 (April 2007-March 2008). Mazda is the first corporation to receive the award, in recognition of the establishment of the company's Human Rights Committee and its human rights protection activities both within and outside the company, which are conducted under the Human Rights Declaration.


MUSICWORKS — Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi | Experiencing the world, one dance at a time!
I had the honor and privilege of working with a very good friend of mine today in helping raise money for his organization MUSICWORKS. Jesse Neuman started this organization to help spread the education of music and arts in Ecuador for children who are less fortunate. This afternoon was the benefit concert, a fundraiser to help pay for Jesse's next trip, held at The Living Room in the Lower East Side of NYC. Not only does Jesse get people together to make beautiful music, but he does exactly as he preaches - some of his students (ages 8-14) performed with the band as well, including a performance by a very talented young lady, Eve Bracken, who wrote, played guitar and sang her own song! Truly inspiring! Please check out the amazing work that Jesse has done in the past few years, and if it so moves you, donate for his next trip - music DOES work!!


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NewsBack to School
Local private school begins in-person learning
The first assignment for staff at St. James Episcopal School was how to make sure students return to the classroom and stay safe from COVID-19.
While many local schools recently kicked off the school year with remote learning because of the novel coronavirus, nearly 200 students will be returning for in-classroom learning Wednesday morning.
St. James is one of the first local schools to return to in-classroom learning. Headmaster Galen Hoffstadt said that means changes inside and outside the classroom.
"We're really excited about returning, but we have to know we'll be safe," she said.
Before the school day starts, staff and students will get their temperature checked. They'll also be screened, and must have their masks on before entering buildings. Parents will not be allowed inside the school unless their child is a toddler.
The school also reduced class sizes in select grades, desks have been placed 6 feet apart, students will only be able to travel in one direction on the campus' stairwells, and they will eat lunch three to a table instead of eight.
Kindergarten teacher Sanya Hall said it's been nearly six months since she's taught students in the classroom.
"Most teachers, we have those mixed feelings, but I think our hearts are here," she said. "Our hearts want to be at school, and I'm so excited to be back with my students."
Hall also has a medical cart in her classroom that has extra face masks, disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer and a face shield.
"So when I'm teaching language, students can see my mouth as I stand safely at a distance, because that's also so important -- is seeing for young children in kindergarten," said Hall.
The school is also encouraging students to bring their own water bottles. Water fountains have been removed and replaced with hands-free washing stations. Classrooms will be disinfected every evening, and the lunch room will be disinfected after every lunch period.
Students will only socialize with other similar-aged students. For example, first graders will stay in the classroom with other first graders. If they go to recess, they will all go together.
"We are really taking every precaution and we've asked our families to take those same precautions," Hoffstadt said. "So our hope and prayer is that everybody is staying safe at home, and so we'll be safe at school."


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Keep It Together 1.3 Adds Tags, Ratings, PDF Service and more
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Swansea, United Kingdom - February 12, 2007. Reinvented Software is proud to announce the release of Keep It Together 1.3 for Mac OS X, an application that lets you keep everything you need in one place, organize it in the way you want and find it again instantly. KIT 1.3 introduces the ability to tag and rate items, print PDFs directly from other applications, updated user interface and much more.
KIT is a magic scrapbook for everything you want to keep. Text, documents, images, movies, sounds, web pages and bookmarks can all be dragged to KIT for safe keeping, previewed, collected together in different ways and found again immediately.
Introduced in August 2004, KIT has a different take on traditional organizers, focusing on making storage and retrieval effortless rather than require everything be organized into complicated hierarchies; but KIT has a few tricks up its sleeve there too. Files can be color-coded with categories, tagged, rated and sorted into groups; unlike folders, these work like iTunes playlists so that a file can exist in more than one group at a time. KIT's smart groups will do all the hard work of staying organized for you.
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Selected List of Guest Ensembles and Musicians
Zeitgeist Ensemble
Lauded for providing "a once-in-a-lifetime experience for adventurous concertgoers," Zeitgeist is a new music chamber ensemble comprised of two percussion, piano and woodwinds. One of the longest established new music groups in the country, Zeitgeist commissions and presents a wide variety of new music for audiences in the Twin Cities and on tour. Always eager to explore new artistic frontiers, Zeitgeist collaborates with poets, choreographers, directors, visual artists and sound artists of all types to create imaginative new work that challenges the boundaries of traditional chamber music. The members of Zeitgeist are: Heather Barringer, percussion; Patti Cudd, percussion; Pat O'Keefe, woodwinds; Nicola Melville, piano.
Zeitgeist has maintained a fierce dedication to the creation of new music for the past four decades, commissioning more than 400 works and collaborating with emerging composers and some of the finest established composers of our time, including Frederic Rzewski, Terry Riley, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Dresher, Mark Applebaum, Arthur Kreiger, Scott Lindroth, Pamela Madsen, Edie Hill, Libby Larsen, John Luther Adams, Jin Hi Kim, Mary Ellen Childs, Martin Bresnick, Harold Budd, La Monte Young, Guy Klucevsek, and Chinary Ung. Zeitgeist's upcoming commissioning projects include new works by Mary Ellen Childs, Davu Seru, Andrew Rindfleisch, and Pamela Z.
Patchwork Duo
Mutually interested in exploring a wide range of contemporary genres, Noa Even and Stephen Klunk formed Patchwork, a Cleveland-based saxophone and drum set duo that collaborates with composers to build an eclectic body of new music for their unique instrumentation. The duo has been described as demonstrating "astonishingly tight ensemble" (Mike Telin, ClevelandClassical. com) and "creating the effect of a hybrid solo instrument" (Jason Charney, I Care if You Listen). Since forming the group in 2013, Noa and Stephen have enjoyed the process of working with Osnat Netzer, Erin Rogers, Hong-Da Chin, Jonn Sokol, Eric Wubbels, Nick Didkovsky, Charlie Wilmoth, Dan Tramte, and other composers whose music reflects diverse influences and styles.
Patchwork has appeared on many college campuses, such as Peabody Conservatory, Ball State University, College-Conservatory of Music (University of Cincinnati), Washington University, and Kenyon College, where they frequently combine performances with composer readings, master classes, and presentations. Noa and Stephen primarily perform in the Rust Belt region, but have also brought their music to audiences in Toronto, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Omaha. In August 2017, they were in residence at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute to collaborate with composer Hong-Da Chin on a new work.
Born in Tianjin, China, Dr. Shuai Wang was welcomed with a full scholarship to the United States at age 14 to study piano at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Her studies continued with training at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she subsequently earned duel master's degrees in piano performance and collaborative piano, as well as an artistic diploma in collaborative piano and a DMA in piano performance.
Dr. Wang is recognized as an accomplished soloist, recitalist and chamber musician and has performed extensively in major venues such as Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, and Symphony Space in New York, the Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, and the Gardner Museum in Boston. She has toured regularly throughout China and Europe, and has been regularly featured in radio broadcasts throughout the country.
Dr. Wang is also a well-known advocate for contemporary music. In that capacity, she has collaborated with many well-known composers, including David Lang, Yehudi Wyner, Andrew Rindfleisch, Robert Paterson, Claude Baker, Margaret Brouwer, Victoria Bond, Keith Fitch, and Greg D'Alessio. She is also the founder and artistic director of the Ars Futura Ensemble, a mixed chamber ensemble of six players.
Dr. Wang has been the recipient of both the Rubinstein Memorial Award and the Milton Salkin Piano Award and is currently a faculty member at Cleveland Institute of Music, Interlochen Arts Camp, and InterHarmony International Music Festival.
Mari Sato
Violinist Mari Sato has enjoyed a rich and varied career as a chamber musician based in Cleveland. For twenty-four years, she was the second violinist of the award-winning Cavani String Quartet. During her tenure with the Cavani Quartet, Mari gave concerts on major series, including Carnegie Hall, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Festival de L'Epau in France, and the Honolulu Chamber Music Society.
Ms. Sato is honored to have collaborated with many distinguished artists including members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence String Quartets, the Weilerstein Trio and Itzhak Perlman. Music festival appearances and residencies include The Aspen Music Festival, The New World Symphony, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, The Perlman Music Program, ChamberFest Cleveland, and Encore Chamber Music.
Formerly on faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music 1995-2018, Mari Sato and her colleagues coached many outstanding young musicians. Former chamber music students include members of the Jupiter, Daedalus, Aeolus, Miró, Fry Street and Afiara Quartets, as well as members of the Cleveland, St. Paul, Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras. Since 2018, Ms. Sato has been coaching chamber music at the Oberlin Conservatory.
Scott Mckee
Trumpeter Scott McKee has earned acclaim for his performances in both his hometown of Cleveland as well as across all of North America. He has appeared as a trumpeter with Tito Puente Jr., Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Johnny Mathis, Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians, Clark Terry, Bobby Shew, Ernie Krivda's Fat Tuesday Big Band and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra.
Scott holds a bachelor of music in trumpet performance from Cleveland State University and has pursued post graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His principal teachers included Geoffrey Hardcastle, Charles Couch, Dennis Reynolds, Brad Goode, Terry Shawchuck and Art Lande.
Currently Scott is living and freelancing in his native Cleveland and can beseen regularly as a member of MOJO: The Generations Big Band and The Sammy DeLeon y su Orquestra.
Bobby Selvaggio
Bobby Selvaggio is one of the leading alto saxophone voices on today's jazz scene. In the words of pianist Kenny Werner, "Bobby is among the best of players out there," and legendary saxophonist Joe Lovano praises Bobby by calling him "one of the few young saxophonists on the scene today that captures you with his strong presence, focus, and sound."
Bobby, who grew up in the Cleveland area, earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from Kent State University. He eventually moved to New York City and earned a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. While in New York, Bobby studied with Joe Lovano, Bobby Watson, Dick Oatts, and Maria Schneider.
Chester Englander
Acclaimed for his "unnerving dexterity" (San Francisco Chronicle), his "boldly played" (Los Angeles Times), "vivid" (The New York Times), and "expert" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) performances as the solo cimbalom of John Adams' Scheherazade.2, and praised by the NYT for the "brilliant clarity" of his performance of the featured cimbalom part within Mr. Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, Chester Englander has a thriving career as a percussionist and cimbalom artist with orchestras throughout the country.
Chester can be heard on the Cantaloupe, Capcom, Deutsche Grammophon, DisneyNature, Interscope, Naxos, Nonesuch, Seattle Symphony Media, and Ubisoft labels. Chester is also Director of Percussion Studies at Cleveland State University. He is a proud Artist Endorser of Pearl Drums/Adams Percussion and Freer Percussion Products. Chester and his wife, violinist Rachel Englander, are proud parents to their adorable daughters Charlotte and Alice.
Carlton Vickers
A ubiquitous presence in the world of modern flute for over 30 years, Carlton Vickers is internationally regarded as one of today's most important performers of avant garde flute, in many instances, emerging as the authoritative performer of choice when it comes to the flute literature written in the last four decades.
Widely regarded as an alto flute specialist, Carlton Vickers presented the U.S. premiere of Brian Ferneyhough's Sisyphus Redux for alto flute solo, as well as subsequent world premiere performances of groundbreaking new works for Kingma system alto flute by Chris Dench, James Erber, Dominik Karski and Marc Yeats.
Since 1987, Carlton Vickers has worked in conjunction with, and has won the admiration of, such prominent composers as Milton Babbitt, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Martin Boykan, John Cage, Eric Chasalow, Chen Yi, John Corigliano, Mario Davidovsky, Stephen Dembski, Chris Dench, Jason Eckardt, James Erber, Richard Festinger, Don Freund, John Harbison, Jonathan Harvey, Jörg Herchet, Andrew Imbrie, Dominik Karski, Louis Karchin, John Kennedy, Arthur Kreiger, Stan Link, Steven Mackey, Donald Martino, Eric Moe, Tristan Murail, Shulamit Ran, Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, Andrew Rindfleisch, Frederic Rzewski, Joseph Schwantner, Jeffrey Stadelman, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Harvey Sollberger, George Tsontakis, Massimiliano Viel, Scott Wheeler, Charles Wuorinen, Yehudi Wyner and Marc Yeats.
Russ Gershon
Russ Gershon is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader, record company founder and educator. Born in New York in 1959, he studied violin and piano as a boy and came of age as a music listener in the jazz clubs and lofts and rock, classical and jazz concerts of the 1970's. Following periods as a student journalist and radio DJ, inspired by Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Coltrane, he took up saxophone at age 17.
Moving to Cambridge MA to attend Harvard, where he eventually earned a degree in philosophy, Gershon continued as a disc jockey, producing mammoth "radio orgies" on subjects like Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Chicago's AACM. Along with a group of schoolmates, he was swept up in the punk revolution and formed a band, the Decoders, for which he and his colleagues began writing songs and recording, ultimately touring in the US and playing such venues as the Rat, CBGB's and the Mudd Club. In 1982 he joined a punk pop group called the Sex Execs which became regional hitmakers in New England before dissolving in 1984.
Gershon has served as an visiting clinician or guest artist at numerous colleges including Cleveland State, Harvard and the Universities of Virginia, Vermont, Iowa, plus Wichita State, Berklee and New England Conservatory. He is presently teaching "Blues: Theory and Practice" at Lasell College in Newton MA, and basic instrumental skills and band at Johnson Elementary School in Nahant MA.
Noa Even
Noa Even is a versatile saxophonist dedicated to the creation of new music through close collaboration with other artists, improvisation, and most recently, composition. She embraces the challenge of incorporating unfamiliar elements into her work on a regular basis. The process of navigating new territory and synthesizing ideas yields immense personal and artistic growth.
Trained in the Western "classical" tradition, Noa gradually developed a love for interpreting music that broadened her sound concept and required her to learn new techniques. Contemporary musical scores feel like puzzles that reveal an uncharted dimension full of expressive possibilities. When Noa began collaborating with composers in 2008, she realized that bringing new music to life would be central to her creative pursuits. As she continues to focus on new works and improvisation, she also performs standard saxophone repertoire and existing contemporary music.
Noa began improvising as a doctoral student and has since continued developing her skills in that area. As an improviser, she is interested in iteration, speech patterns, and other forms of vocalized communication, and exploring the idiomatic, tactile qualities of the saxophone. For several recent projects, she requested that her collaborators create space for improvisation in their music.
Developing a foundation in improvisation has nudged Noa toward pursuing composition. She premiered her tenor saxophone solo, Herzl, in November 2021. The piece represents Noa's exploration of her own cultural identity and its unfixed nature. More broadly, it is about coming of age, establishing personal values in the face of negative influences and doubt, and accepting the gray area, the not-knowingness, in life. Noa's next project is a collection of solo saxophone works inspired by impactful pieces of visual art.
Noa lives in Philadelphia, teaches at Rowan University, and climbs rock walls for fun. To learn more about her and her duos, Ogni Suono and Patchwork, visit www.noaevenmusic.com.
Transient Canvas
Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas is on a mission to revolutionize the modern concert experience. Since 2011, their innovative performances have been praised as "superb" by the Boston Globe and "disarming" by Cleveland Classical, with the San Francisco Chronicle lauding "the versatile imagination they both display and inspire in others." Bass clarinetist Amy Advocat and marimbist Matt Sharrock relish the creative potential of working with living composers, having amassed a varied repertoire of over 80 commissioned works in addition to working with hundreds of student composers from all over the world. Since 2017, they have hosted their annual paid Composer Fellowship Program that is free and open to composers of all ages. They maintain an active touring schedule with recent performances at the Charlotte New Music Festival, Music on the Edge, Composers, Inc., Music at the Forefront, and People Inside Electronics, among others. Recent educational residencies include the University of Southern California, University of Pittsburgh, North Carolina NewMusic Initiative, and Divergent Studio at Longy School of Music. They have two albums, Sift and Wired, both released on New Focus Recordings. Transient Canvas proudly endorses Henri Selmer Paris and Marimba One. For more information, visit www.transientcanvas.com.
Rob Kovacs
Cleveland native Rob Kovacs has a pretty storied musical career for a guy who, in a lot of ways, can be considered just starting out. This multitalented recording artist, pianist, and singer/songwriter has built up quite the resume. He has composed scores for several award-winning short films, an award-winning virtual reality game as well as American Greeting's e-cards. Along the more traditional rock star route, he toured and released an album with the piano-based trio Return of Simple and started the indie-rock band Math + Logic. He has also performed under the artist name 88bit, recording and performing virtuosic note-for-note piano arrangements of Nintendo soundtracks breathing new life to forgotten video games.
These days, he's adding to his resume by launching his own solo career. Having released his debut single in late November, Kovacs is already back with more and American Songwriter has the world premiere of his new tune "Fizzle." Even more exciting, he's taking this opportunity to announce he's got more than just one new song, he's got a full album ready to go.
Ogni Suono Duo
Formed by American saxophonists Noa Even and Phil Pierick in 2010, Ogni Suono is committed to expanding and promoting repertoire for saxophone duo by commissioning and performing new works. Their debut album, Invisible Seams, features some of the duo's first collaborations with composers. Supported by a grant from New Music USA, Noa and Phil launched SaxoVoce in 2015, commissioning works that explore the wide-ranging musical, dramatic, and theatrical possibilities inherent in the synthesis of saxophone and voice. From haunting whispers to nonsensical shouts, each composer uniquely integrates the human voice. Many of these works can be found on the duo's 2018 album, SaxoVoce, on New Focus Recordings.
Ogni Suono has appeared on concert series such as Permutations (New York), Journeys in Sound (Boston), Frequency (Chicago), Sonic Circuits (Washington, DC) Outpost (University of California-Riverside), Switchboard Presents (San Francisco), nienteForte (New Orleans), Interference (Flagstaff), and SONICT (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater). The duo's international performances include a 2019 tour through China and Taiwan, the inaugural Singapore Saxophone Symposium, Romanian-American Musical Days Festival in Sibiu (Romania), Berlin University of the Arts, Felicja Blumental Music Center in Tel Aviv, Night of the Museums Festival in Budapest, and World Saxophone Congresses in Scotland and France.
Emphasizing the importance of education, Noa and Phil regularly supplement performances with clinics, master classes, community outreach programs, and presentations. They have been guest clinicians at schools around the country, including Portland State University, New England Conservatory, Lawrence Conservatory, Arizona State University, and Tulane University. As recipients of a CMS Yamaha-in-Residence Fellowship, Ogni Suono presented outreach programs in the Iowa City, IA community. They have offered additional educational events at Lincoln Elementary School in Chicago, Orlat Orphanage in Romania, and School of Arts and Enterprise in Pomona, CA.
The Genkin Philharmonic
The Genkin Philharmonic, a Buffalo, NY based ten-piece electro – acoustic chamber ensemble, was founded in 2000 by Jon Nelson at the University at Buffalo Music Department. Originally conceived as a class at UB, its mission was to provide a uniquely challenging opportunity for students to study and perform contemporary music that draws on musical genres spanning rock, jazz, improvised and classical music.
The current Genkin is made up of professional players, drawing from a diverse pool of musicians in the Buffalo area, its core membership comprised of UB Faculty and alumni. Other members come from the Buffalo Philharmonic, Fisher-Price, and the Hallwalls Arts Collective. This hybrid of top-level classical, new music, and improvising performers, creates a band that offers a dizzying array of styles in concert.
Ensemble Court-Circuit
The composer Philippe Hurel and conductor Pierre-André Valade created the ensemble Court-circuit in 1991, following a meeting with the founders of Analix Gallery in Geneva. « Created by a composer for composers », Court-circuit from the outset was a place of experimentation, an art project promoting intense risk-taking in a spirit of total freedom. A strong commitment to contemporary music is the real cement of the ensemble. Court-circuit owes its nervous, rhythmic, incisive identity, as well as its banner-like name, to the musicians and their leader Jean Deroyer, who animate it with determination and virtuosity. A sought- after partner for composers, the ensemble cheerfully plays its role of agitator in the international contemporary scene.
Court-circuit was invited by highly dynamic international programming (Maerzmuzik festivals, Ultima, Printemps des Arts, Musica Electronica Nova, Traiettorie, Gaïda) and haunts the high places of French creation and dissemination: Agora festivals, Manifesto, Novelum, Aujourd'hui Musiques in Perpignan, Messiaen in the Land of Meije, the Reims Opera, the Metz Arsenal, the Caen and Besançon theaters, and the Paris Opera.
Court-circuit is also involved in interdisciplinary projects that go beyond the sphere of contemporary music. After working with the Paris Opera for choreographic creations (Preljocaj, Lagraa),the ensemble had a fruitful partnership with the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris), where it created two chamber operas (The Second Woman – Grand Prize of Critics 2011 – and Mimi – 2014 – both composed by Frédéric Verrières and staged by Guillaume Vincent, before beginning a collaboration with the Opera Comique (Paris) where it participates in the opera La Princesse légère composed by Violeta Cruz and directed by Jos Houben (premiere in 2017).
Jenny Lin, a Steinway Artist, has made a name for herself on the world stage thanks to her "remarkable technical command" and "gift for melodic flow" (New York Times). The Washington Post has extolled her "confident fingers" and "spectacular technique," while Gramophone has hailed her as "an exceptionally sensitive pianist."
She was born in Taiwan, raised in Austria, and moved to New York, where she resides. At the age of four, with no piano at home, she began playing the instrument at her grandmother's house. Educated in Europe and the US, she has built an international reputation distinguished by inventive collaborations with a breadth of artists, and has performed widely with renowned orchestras and symphonies at the world's most notable concert halls.
Lin has a close affinity with Philip Glass, whose Etudes she performs globally, and which inspired her to embark on a commissioning initiative, The Etudes Project. She is the featured pianist in Elliot Goldenthal's original motion picture score for Julie Taymor's 2020 film, The Glorias, and the central figure in Cooking for Jenny by Felix Cabez for Elemental Films, a musical documentary portraying her journey to Spain, among other media appearances such as CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's Performance Today.
Fluent in English, German, Mandarin, and French, Lin holds a bachelor's degree in German Literature from The Johns Hopkins University and studied music at the Hochschule für Musik, and at the Peabody Conservatory. She resides with her family in New York City and serves on the faculty of the Mannes College The New School for Music.
David Friend and Jerome Begin
David Friend is taking piano performance in new directions. As chamber musician, soloist, and in interdisciplinary projects, his performances have been hailed as "astonishingly compelling" (Washington Post), and he won a Grammy Award in 2017. He has performed at major venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall (London), and the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing). As soloist, David Friend is noted for charismatic performances and thoughtful programming. Through compelling solo programs and meaningful audience engagement, he brings a twenty-first century approach to the nineteenth-century piano recital format.
Called a "fabulous composer-pianist" and an "unimpeachable" choice of collaborator by the New York Times, Jerome Begin has composed many scores for dance, theater, concert works, installation and film. Equally at home in the classical, experimental, theatrical and pop worlds, he has always been drawn to collaboration. Begin takes from classical music concepts of form, process and compositional rigor. From experimental electronic and acoustic music he draws on ideas of sonic expansion and innovation in ways for musicians to connect in time and texture. In popular music, he is strongly attracted to the power of rhythm and sound over the body and the ability of the "hook" to resonate within the consciousness of individuals and masses. His vast experience composing in the dance and theater realms has lent to his music a deep understanding of the dynamics of live performance. He writes with a keen consciousness of the inherent theater present in the making of music


Christmas time is close and everyone is looking for a miracle. Unfortunately, you cannot usually hope for a miracle of finding a bag full of money or getting credit you don't really qualify for. Let's face it - credit is an essential part of our everyday life and living without it is for many like a hardship.
Do you have a relative or friend who is left without the joy of having a real credit card right for the holiday shopping season? If you know the advantages and benefits of having a credit card, you can imagine a person's frustration if he or she cannot have them. It's you, however, who can change things.
So, if you have a person you care about who cannot qualify for a low interest or rewards credit card application, you can help him or her in three ways - co-sign for his credit, give him/her the necessary amount to fund a secured credit card or present a gift credit card.
Let's see how each of the three ways can help your friend and what effect it can have on your own credit rating.
Imagine that out of a good will and strong determination to help your friend, you venture to co-sing him/her. Not that he or she has a bad credit but you want to help them qualify for a better offer, like lower interest or no annual fee card. No doubt, such credit cards are a most desirable Christmas gift.
But, taking such a generous step, you should know, if that person gets into credit card trouble and make a credit card debt, it will inevitable affect your credit history, leading to a credit score drop.
If you do not like the idea of endangering your credit rating, you can offer the person to apply for secured credit card but to fund it out of your own purse. Considering that a secured credit card works like an ordinary plastic, the fact that the person does not have to make a deposit with his or her own funds makes it a very valuable Christmas gift, doesn't it?
What's more, a secured credit card is an effective tool to improve one's damaged credit rating and increase credit score.
A most rare case is when your relative or friend does not qualify even for secured plastic card. It is very hard to imagine what degree of distrust from a credit company one may have but if it does happen, think of giving him/her a gift credit card this Christmas.
Of course, though working like a most traditional plastic, a gift credit card does not have a credit limit but requires a certain dollar amount on it that limits your spending. Remember that you have to collect certain number of rewards points to receive a gift card and only then you can give it to your friend or relative.
Now you can have almost all the privileges of a credit card, such as making online purchases, paying for hotel rooms or car rentals.
And all this becomes possible with your help! If your relative or friend is desperate about the inability to enjoy the advantages of a credit card during the holiday shopping season - give them this ability and make their holiday unforgettable!


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Latinas and the 2016 Elections: Findings from a National Survey of Hispanic Women
Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
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A recent poll of Latina voters commissioned by American Women, Voto Latino and iAmerica
highlights the important role of Hispanic women in this year's presidential elections. Latinas express more enthusiasm for voting in the 2016 elections than in the 2014 mid-term elections, driven by very polarized feelings about the political parties and candidates. These women are strongly positive toward Hillary Clinton and Democrats; meanwhile, they view Donald Trump very hostilely, not surprising in the wake of his incendiary rhetoric on immigration.
Latinas face a great deal of stress around money and family, with a diverse set of concerns that covers not only economic challenges but also family and balancing their responsibilities at work and at home. While Latinas, and particularly millennial Latinas, are more likely to report earning less than $15 an hour, these women are optimistic about their future financial situation. They want to support candidates whose policy agenda will allow them to achieve a bright future, including equal pay, college affordability, paid sick days and family leave, and reproductive rights.
There are opportunities to communicate with Latina voters about these issues in ways that do a better job of reaching them in the places they find information and the sources they trust. Latinas trust news journalists—particularly in the Spanish-language community—to provide information about politics and issues, whereas other voters rely more on a mix of news journalists and word of mouth from family and friends. And while these women use the internet, they are on the go and not in front of computers getting information; more than half of Latinas get news and information on their mobile or smartphone, a number that jumps to 81 percent among millennial Latinas.
The following are key findings from a national telephone survey of 400 Latina registered voters conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. The survey was run in parallel with an online survey of 800 registered voters nationally.
Latinas express stronger intention to vote than in 2014 elections
Latinas have an opportunity to be a key bloc in this year's elections. In this survey, 59 percent of Latinas report voting in 2014; now, nearly 81 percent say they are "almost certain" to vote in 2016.
These women come to this election with very polarized feelings toward the political parties and candidates at the top of the ticket. Latinas express strong favorable feelings for the Democratic Party, President Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton alike, while white men and women view them negatively. At the same time, Latinas hold a negative view of the Republican Party generally, but reserve their harshest sentiments for the presumptive Republican nominee. An overwhelming 84 percent of Latinas view Trump negatively.
In face of a variety of economic and family concerns, Latinas remain optimistic about the future
This poll reveals some stark realities about the challenges facing Latinas every day:
Latinas are more likely than other voters to earn less than $15 an hour; 31 percent of Latinas overall, and 45 percent of millennial Latinas, report earning less than $15 an hour. Among all registered voters, just 21 percent report earnings below that same level.
Thirty-two percent of Latinas—and 38 percent of millennial Latinas—say they or someone they know has experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault in the workplace.
Latinas report a diverse array of issues that cause stress in their life. While they and the broader electorate all point to bills and expenses as the top stressors, Latinas are more likely than others to also point to caring for their family, their family's health, balancing caretaking and career responsibilities, and having reliable and affordable child care as big concerns.
However, in spite of these economic and personal challenges, Latinas remain hopeful about their situation and about the future. Eighty-three percent of Latinas say their personal or family's financial system is doing very well (15 percent) or fairly well (68 percent). When it comes to looking ahead, a majority of Latinas (59 percent) believe their financial situation will get better over the next five years, on par with the broader electorate. Millennial Latinas are the most optimistic, with more than three quarters who say their financial situation will get better over the next five years.
Overwhelming support for immigration reform policies among Latinas
Not surprisingly, strong majorities of Latinas favor policies that would provide not only allow undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and gain legal resident status, but also provide a path to citizenship. Two-thirds of Latinas strongly favor a path to citizenship, with more than nine out of ten (92 percent) favoring the policy overall. Just 13 percent of Latinas support building a fence along the border with Mexico; 83 percent oppose the plan.
Latinas show intense support for pay equality, college affordability, and reproductive health policies
Given the concerns facing Latinas and their hope for the future, it is not surprising that they strongly favor candidates who advocate for college affordability, pay equality, and paid sick and paid family leave in the workplace. The intensity of support is notable here, with nearly 8 out of 10 Latinas who say they would be "much more likely" to support a candidate for elected office who took these positions.
Latinas also strongly support policies to protect women's reproductive health, with large majorities more likely to vote for a candidate who will protect women's access to birth control and abortion. This includes 69 percent of Latinas under the age of 50 and 54 percent of older Latinas. Likewise, half of Latinas say they are less likely to vote for a candidate who supports defunding Planned Parenthood and passing a ban on abortion.
Most Latinas receive political news via smartphones and English-language news, but express strong trust and favorability for Spanish-language news
Latinas turn to smartphones more often than the broader electorate for political news, with 58 percent of Latinas saying they use a smartphone or mobile device to look at political news, compared to 37 percent of voters overall. Among millennial Latinas, the vast majority, 81 percent, use a smartphone or mobile device to look at political news.
However, television also remains an important source of information as one quarter of Latinas still get political news from television. And while 91 percent of Latinas report that they spend half or more of their television viewing English language programs, they report strong trust and favorability in news journalists generally and Spanish-language outlets like Univision and reporters like Jorge Ramos in particular. Latinas point to news journalists twice as much as any other source of information on news and politics; 40 percent say they trust and listen to news journalists most, with the next most trusted sources being family, friends and coworkers.
Latinas have the opportunity to be a critical voting bloc in 2016. They face many economic and family challenges, but are optimistic about their future and want candidates for office to help them by pursuing a policy agenda that will help them turn their hopes into reality, including college affordability, pay equality, and reproductive rights.
Fox News Latino | ELLE Poll | American Women Polling Memos


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LOOK: FOSTER THE PEOPLE Arrives In Manila!
Foster The People is finally back in the country to perform for their Filipino fans! As soon as they landed here in Manila, the American indie pop band quickly posted a cool video greeting to all of their Filipino fans!
Here are some of the photos of Foster The People's airport arrival as well! They are going to perform their hits this Friday at the KIA Theatre for their Sacred Hearts Club Tour! It's a dance party once again for sure!
Are you going to watch Foster The People's concert? Tell us in the comments!


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Acanthodoxus machacalis är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Martins och Monné 1974. Acanthodoxus machacalis ingår i släktet Acanthodoxus och familjen långhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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If someone were to ask what sports tournament Canada consistently hosts on an international stage most would assume hockey or curling. However the Masters of Showjumping at Spruce Meadows which ran September 4-8, take the cake.
The CN International tournament, also known as the newly coined Rolex Grand Slam, has three legs, starting in Aachen, Germany, the second in our backyard at Spruce Meadows and finishing in Geneva, Switzerland. Spruce Meadows is considered the best facility of it's kind in North America and is rivaled by few internationally.
The CN International tournament has a powerful purse of more than $2.5 million up for grabs and is one of only the competitions in the world where both men and women compete as equals. The winner of the first leg of the tournament, champ Nick Skelton of Great Britain, was unable to compete due to his horse Big Star being injured. Skelton lost the opportunity to possibly win a bonus of over $1.32 million for winning all 3 tournaments.
Canada's hopes rode on the saddle of "Captain Canada" Ian Miller and Eric Lamaze. At 66 years of age, Miller is no stranger to the spotlight and is Canada's top ranked rider. His competition was fierce with the likes of Olympic Gold Medalist Steve Guerdat of Switzerland and World Cup champion Elizabeth "Bezzie" Madden.
Millar's teammate Eric Lamaze was the other Canadian hopeful. Lamaze purchased a new horse at the beginning of the season from Swiss rider Pius Schwizer, following the tragic death of his former steed and Olympic champion, Hickstead in late 2011. Appropriately named Powerplay, the Canuck had his sights on another championship.
There were signs of Powerplay's potential, as Lamaze was able to guide Powerplay to a fifth-place at the QE II Cup. Lamaze kept the horse in Calgary to prepare the horse for the grueling test of international competition.
Lamaze had already had success at the CN international in 2007 and 2011 riding Hickstead and was looking to be successful again.
Unfortunatley for the Canucks, they came up short this year and failed to place in top three. Here is how the top 3 finishers and the Canadians placed. 1. CANDY: PIETER DEVOS (BEL) 2. NASA: STEVE GUERDAT (SUI) 3. NAYANA:PENELOPE LEPREVOST (FRA) 8. POWERPLAY: ERIC LAMAZE (CAN), 11. DIXSON:IAN MILLAR (CAN).


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Key Developments: 10 Essential Diagrams Tell the Story of Modern Urban Design
Article by Urbanist, filed under Cities & Urbanism in the Architecture category
For much of history, urban planning as we know it didn't exist. Sure, there were cities with zoning ordinances and building codes, but ones thoroughly planned from scratch with heavily controlled development are largely a recent phenomenon. So a few years ago, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (known as SPUR) assembled ten key illustrations to summarize the twists and turns planners took to get where we are today.
Illustrations like this one of the Garden City from the early 1900s are powerful things, able to distill complex ideas down into compelling graphics. The idea in this case was to create greenbelts for urban dwellers and keep urban centers limited to populations of just over 30,000 people. Along similar lines, Le Corbusier's "Towers in the Park" vision incorporated vast open spaces, but instead of spreading out, it pushed up, proposing people live in towers. This idea heavily shaped urban design in America, and public housing projects in particular.
More known for his architecture than his urban planning ideas, Frank Lloyd Wright had a lot of thoughts on how people should live and work outside of the actual houses and offices he built. His ideas for things like Broadacre City were more rural than urban, taking large plots of land and turning them into family housing in which each person would live on an acre of land. If implemented, this idea would have turned the entire country effectively into a giant mega-suburb.
The street grid was not a modern invention as such, but it was deployed much more rigorously and often starting from scratch in American cities like Philadelphia that were essentially working from a blank slate. In many cities, grids were laid out regardless of complex topography, creating problems down the road. Linked together, some of America's gridded cities have started to become something bigger — megaregions, alluded to by science fiction authors like William Gibson decades ago and increasingly a reality today.
On a more closeup scale, transects have been used to show spectrums of possibility for urban planners ranging, for example, from highly paved urban spaces to lush green areas, rendering visible different hybrid typologies in between. As cities grew up, they also employed setback principles to guide growth and maintain light access, which fundamentally shaped the skylines and on-the-ground experiences of major metropolitan areas.
A classic in any list of historical city maps, the Nolli Map drawn in the 18th century was incredibly ambitious for its time, detailing every last little aspect of Rome and providing a basis for comparing old and new forms of this famous city. Notably, it is a straight-on view — maps of its time often tilted things at angles, which distorted the geography, but this one became a precursor for what we think of as typical plan-type maps today.
At the other end of the spectrum are the psychogeographical maps developed by Situationists in the mid-1900s, which aimed not to depict the shapes of buildings and spaces in between but to instead document the subject experience of the city. It was in many ways a reaction against a Nolli-type approach as well as the rigorously rectilinear plans of people like Le Corbusier. Maps were drawn from memory and then used to understand the "psychogeography" of cities.
Finally, the most unusual selection of all: the so-called "hockey stick" chart. This captures an aspect of the history of cities, specifically: the effects of the industrial revolution on global temperatures. It's a diagram not so much about how to physically build a city but the big-picture impacts to think about while designing one.
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BioCatalogue - Announcements - Latest Update - Dec 09 - Happy Holidays!
Latest Update - Dec 09 - Happy Holidays!
A brand new homepage that tells you what is currently happening in the BioCatalogue and gives more information about the project in general.
Revamped header with a smaller footprint and clearer navigation options.
Ability to annotate Service Provider profiles with preferred display name, alternative names, descriptions, contact details and websites. Anyone who is a member can provide this information.
New "Data Format" field for SOAP input/output ports.
New Getting Started guide  and help pages .
Please do give us feedback and suggestions.
Early next year we will be releasing a brand new service monitoring feature which uses test scripts, together with the REST API to the BioCatalogue, the final merge of the EMBRACE Registry, a feature to monitor changes in WSDLs and better support for describing REST services in the BioCatalogue.
We will then be focusing on integration with other environments like myExperiment and Taverna, as well as further developing the API, better curation tools and introducing the exciting new Functional Units feature.
We'd like to once again thank all those who took part in the successful annotation jamboree and everyone else who has helped drive and improve the BioCatalogue this year.


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East Cocalico Township supervisiors announce…
East Cocalico Township supervisiors announce new police proposals
By Valdis I Lacis |
PUBLISHED: September 10, 2015 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 5:52 a.m.
The East Cocalico Township supervisors have announced new multiyear police service proposals for West Cocalico Township and Adamstown specifically to counter those from Ephrata.
The move came as a surprise to several people at the supervisors' special meeting Tuesday.
"I thought they were going to talk about how many of the 17 officers may have to be furloughed because the two municipalities withdrew from coverage by the township police," said a local resident who declined to use her name.
Instead, Supervisors Alan R. Fry and Noelle B. Fortna explained why they'd worked through the Labor Day weekend to generate numbers that are equal to or lower than Ephrata's.
"I want to keep our police force together for the benefit of the (Cocalico) school district and the whole community," Fry said.
Fortna said, "The numbers are so close and it's vital we stay together for the community (the four municipalities of the school district, including Denver)."
"Our offer to West Cocalico includes $803,000 for 2016, versus Ephrata's $834,000, which includes $47,000 in start-up costs," she said. For the years 2017 to 2020, the costs equal Ephrata's at $810,000, $836,000, $865,000 and $896,000, respectively.
"For Adamstown in 2016, we're offering $220,000, down from our initial $232,594 but now matching Ephrata's. For 2017-2020, we also equal Ephrata's costs at $202,000, $209,000, $216,000 and $224,000."
Police Officer Chris M. Progin, an 18-year veteran of the township police force, said he has discussed with his fellow officers ideas for keeping costs down, and expects to share them with the board Thursday.
Supervisors voted 2-1 to approve the new proposals, with Chairman Doug B. Mackley voting against, he said, until the board's meeting with the police department later this week.
"We're talking some serious dollars with these proposals so I expect some major concessions from the department," Mackley emphasized.
"I want to see our police force stay together but not at my and other taxpayers' expense, " he said. "I've been cautioning the police force over the years that 'You're going to price yourselves out of the market if you don't keep costs down.' "
Several officers of the East Cocalico Police Department attended the board's special session, including Christopher G. Luongo, 24, who's been on the township force since March 2014 and said he's wanted to serve as a police officer since high school. Luongo said he's concerned about being included in any possible layoffs.
Fry responded, "I don't see layoffs in the foreseeable future."
Ray Burns, a West Cocalico Township resident who served on the East Cocalico force for 30 years, said that "animosity between certain officials of East Cocalico and West Cocalico, as well as Adamstown, runs deep. One advantage of a multiyear contract is that they wouldn't have to talk to each other for years."
Ken McCrea, East Cocalico resident, agreed with Burns that if cost had been the principal issue for looking at other options for police coverage, "then this 11th-hour offer should be getting accepted by Adamstown and West Cocalico."
Another area resident who asked to stay anonymous said she was hopeful West Cocalico officials might reconsider their 3-0 vote last week to opt for coverage by Ephrata.
"Their vote essentially approved a proposed plan for police services, not the actual contract," she said. "That five-year contract will take a while for attorneys to work out, so I think there's plenty of time for them to switch back to East Cocalico's coverage."
Denver Borough Manager Michael Hession said after the session that borough council will discuss what the new cost proposals might mean for his municipality at its meeting Monday.
Valdis I Lacis
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News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Connie Yates' and Chris Gard's son, Charlie, is receiving 24-hour treatment for a rare genetic condition. UK doctors have said there is no accepted cure and the child should be allowed to die with dignity. A High Court judge will decide on Monday what is in Charlie's best interests. Baroness Ilora Finlay is a cross bench peer and co-chair of Living and Dying Well.
The FT has interviewed President Trump in the first interview given to British media his inauguration. The splash across the front reads, "If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will". Lionel Barber is the editor of the Financial Times.
From today sick and disabled people are eligible for out-of-work benefit, employment and support allowance. Recipients will recieve nearly thirty pounds a week less bringing the benefit in line with the Jobseekers' Allowance. Alison Garnham is the chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group.
For the first time scientists have discovered physical evidence that mediaeval Britons mutilated corpses to prevent them from rising from the grave. Simon Mays is the human skeletal biologist at Historic England.
A £250,000 grant to an anti-abortion group using money raised from the tax on sanitary products has been criticised. Ann Furedi is chief executive of British Pregnancy Advisory Service and Anne Scanlan is an education director at LIFE.
In Bristol, it's been rumoured for years that there is somebody who goes out under the cover of darkness correcting mistakes nicknamed the Banksy of punctuation. Jon Kay is the BBC's south and west of England correspondent.
From today there will be a limit of 28 days on the amount of time a suspect can be subject to pre-charge bail, usually known as police bail. Calum Macleod is the vice-chair of the Police Federation. Brandon Lewis is the minister of state for policing.
Britain is "steadfast" in its commitment to Gibraltar and will work with the territory on the southern tip of Spain to secure the best possible outcome from Brexit talks, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday. Tom Burridge is the BBC's Kiev correspondent. Jack Straw is the former Labour home secretary who led the failed joint sovereignty referendum in 2002.
President Trump has indicated that the United States would be prepared to act alone to counter the nuclear threat from North Korea. Christopher Hill is the former US ambassador to South Korea and assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
It's one year since a British charity worker was sentenced to five years in jail by a secret Iranian court. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been imprisoned in Iran since April, when she was arrested and accused of attempting to overthrow the regime. Monique Villa is the CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and colleague of Nazanin Ratcliffe.
Did science fiction predict the current state of the world? Recent headlines about smartphone addiction among children and tech companies failing to prevent the proliferation of porn and terrorist material online, can often make it seem like we are living in a science fiction nightmare. Yuval Noah Harari is the historian and author of the best-selling books Sapiens and Homo Deus.
The British broadcaster, writer and civil liberties campaigner Darcus Howe has died at the age of seventy-four. Alex Pascall is a broadcaster, journalist and oral historian, and Diane Abbott is the shadow home secretary.
A landmark new study has revealed that family carers of people with cancer are providing care beyond the safe working hours recommended to preserve their health and wellbeing. Gunn Grande is professor of palliative care, the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at Manchester University, and Jonathan Dimbleby is the chair of the Dimbleby Cancer Care charity.
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