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What is the Average Salary of an RN?
Choosing to become an RN is a smart decision for anyone looking to unlock rewarding career opportunities with a lucrative salary and strong job stability. Registered nurses are trained healthcare professionals who are responsible for coordinating and implementing patient care in a variety of medical settings. Registered nurses often work closely with physicians, surgeons, and other health specialists while overseeing nursing assistants and licensed practical nurses. Due to the increasing demand for medical services created by an aging baby boomer population and better access to insurance, there's a critical shortage of RNs. Employment of registered nurses is also projected to skyrocket much faster than average at 19 percent to create 526,800 new jobs by 2022. Below we'll discuss the salary potential that aspiring RNs can expect from joining this in-demand health specialty.
Average RN Salary
Reports published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the over 2.6 million registered nurses currently employed in the United States have a mean annual wage of $69,790, which could be comparable to an average hourly wage of $33.55. RNs with less experience typically land in the bottom tenth percentile of earnings with an average yearly salary around $45,880. However, the top tenth percentile of RNs can break through the six-figure mark by bringing home a salary over $98,880 each year. Registered nurses can improve their salary potential further by advancing as nurse anesthetists ($158,900), nurse practitioners ($97,990), nurse midwives ($97,700), or nurse educators ($70,650).
Salary Based on Work Environment
As with most other professions, where a registered nurse is employed can greatly affect the dollar signs attached with his or her annual salary. By far, the highest percentage of RNs are employed within general medical and surgical hospitals to earn an annual mean salary of $71,640. RNs make less than average by working in physician offices at $63,800 and nursing care facilities at $62,440 annually. On the flip side, RNs employed by the federal government make considerably higher with an average salary of $80,510. Nurses in specialty hospitals also reap a good pay day with a mean yearly wage of $74,590.
Highest Paid Registered Nurses
If nurses are able to relocate, it's possible to maximize earnings by moving to a state with an above-average salary potential for needed RNs. Not only does California have the largest number of RNs, but the vast state also has the highest average nursing salary at $98,400 each year. Hawaii comes in second with an annual mean salary of $88,230, which is equivalent to an hourly wage of $42.42. Our nation's other highest paid registered nurses can be found in Massachusetts at $85,770, Alaska at $85,740, and Oregon at $82,940 yearly. In particular, the San Francisco metropolitan area pays RNs the best nationwide at $128,190 on average.
Before you can realize this salary potential and assume the #9 best job in America, you'll need to follow a few steps of schooling to become a registered nurse. RNs can fulfill the education requirements by completing a one-year hospital diploma program or a two-year associate's degree in nursing (ADN), but many are selecting a BSN Nursing Degree for the best promotion prospects. From there, you're qualified to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN) and start practicing as an RN.

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The Lost Pines Art Bazaar in Bastrop has an eclectic collection of Persian rugs, home goods, décor, and fun little knickknacks.
If you're looking for a laid-back Texas weekend with or without the kids, head to the Lost Pines region and Bastrop County. You'll be pleasantly surprised how it easily and authentically exudes Texas roots from A to Z. Located about 30 miles outside of Austin on the way to Houston, Bastrop is one of the most majestic spots off Highway 71.
I've always been tempted by the small sign pointed just off the highway towards Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa. From the highway it doesn't look like much, but that's probably why this AAA Four Diamond resort — and the region as a whole — has been one of Texas' best-kept secrets since it opened back in 2006. Whether you're just adding a night on your way to or from Houston or you're looking for an entirely new Texas destination all its own that feels worlds away, Lost Pines is worth every second of it.
The 405-acre picturesque resort, located just 13 miles from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, has a lot to offer. From golf, horseback riding, kayaking, rafting, an onsite waterpark (complete with a two-story water slide), adult pool, spa, movies under the stars, s'mores at the fire pit, and much more, you'll have plenty to keep you occupied at the luxurious resort. If sitting in a rocking chair at sunset away from it all is more your thing, you've got that option too.
Don't let your four-legged furry bestie be your excuse for missing out on this weekend road trip. At Lost Pines, they are welcomed with open arms, complete with dog bowls, doggy bags, and other dog-friendly amenities, plus ample walking and hiking trails to get your workout on together.
The Texas Boot Company has every bit of Western wear you could imagine, hat steaming services, and even serves margaritas and beers while shopping if you time it right. Talk about some good ole Texas hospitality.
If all the shopping makes you hungry, try some Central Texas barbecue at Southside Market Barbeque, which has been serving some of the best since 1882, making it the oldest barbecue joint in Texas, and has even been featured on the Travel Channel. It's no wonder since owner/CEO Bryan Bracewell went to school and studied to be a "meat scientist" at Texas A&M.
Probably the most unexpected part of this getaway is downtown Bastrop, which has been revitalized with a thriving art scene, plenty of locally sourced food options and even a brand-new distillery that serves apple pie moonshine (you can ask for a sample before committing). Downtown Bastrop almost gives off that old Austin vibe: no traffic (unless you get stuck at the lone light at Main Street), no valet, no dress code, no one overly worried what others think. If you're lucky, you may find yourself sitting on a patio with some of the local old-timers just strumming away on their guitars, and yes, they do take requests.
In the heart of historic Bastrop, be sure to check out Lost Pines Art Bazaar, which has an eclectic collection of Persian rugs (home of the nation's largest collection of hand-knotted Persian rugs, to be exact); home goods; décor; and fun little knickknacks that you don't need but will purchase anyway.


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Bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act Approved by Congress!
by West Virginia Rivers Coalition
On July 22, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of the Great American Outdoors Act on a 310-to-107 margin. Not only will our public lands and waters get the funding they deserve, the Great American Outdoors Act demonstrates the power of our wild places in bringing our nation together. Now, the Great American Outdoors Act heads to the President's desk to be signed into law. Read more about the Act's path through Congress.
What makes this victory all the more sweet is the key leadership provided by West Virginia's Senators.
Our own Senator Manchin acted as lead sponsor of the bill, and his unwavering dedication to public lands played a key role in moving the bill forward. Senator Capito signed on as a co-sponsor and championed the Act among her Republican colleagues.
In the House, all three of West Virginia's Representatives co-sponsored the legislation, but at the final vote, only Rep. Miller voted in favor of the bill.
Join us in thanking Senator Manchin, Senator Capito and Representative Miller for their leadership and support of the Great American Outdoors Act!
What does the Great American Outdoors Act do? The Act allocates $900 million each year to the Land and Water Conservation Fund to support the development of recreation and conservation projects on our public lands. LWCF is essential to West Virginia's outdoor recreation economy, to date, LWCF has provided over $241 million to support over 500 projects in West Virginia!
The Great American Outdoors Act also begins to address the maintenance backlog that is plaguing our public lands. Providing up to $9.5 billion over five years for much needed maintenance and repairs.
Permanent renewal and full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund have long been priorities for WV Rivers and West Virginians for Public Lands Alliance. Over the years, thousands of West Virginians, and those who love our public lands, called on our Congressional Delegation to make public lands a priority. Today, we are seeing the results of those efforts! If you ever signed a public lands postcard or responded to an action alert – YOU are the reason we're celebrating this victory today, thank you!
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Q: How to create a unique TextBox design I tried different ways to design the below design but couldn't be able to do it
The white rounded square is a TextBox that can type numeric.
Does anyone know how to design this in flutter?
If someone can help me, that would be great :)

A: Here is a working code designing the following textfield:

I've used a Row with two Container inside. The first container is the blue one, and the second container the background of the textfield. The TextField is the child of container 2. For the border and shadow, the decoration property of the containers is used
Full code; use the _height variable to ajust the textfield height:
class MyWidget extends StatelessWidget {
  final double _height = 45;
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Container(
      alignment: Alignment.center,
      height: _height,
      child: Row(
        children: [
          Container(
            child: Text('A', style: TextStyle(color: Colors.black, fontWeight: FontWeight.bold, fontSize: 24)),
            alignment: Alignment.center,
            width: 50,
            height: _height,
            decoration: BoxDecoration(
              borderRadius: BorderRadius.only(topLeft: Radius.circular(_height / 2), bottomLeft: Radius.circular(_height / 2)),
              color: Colors.blueAccent,
              boxShadow: [
                BoxShadow(
                  color: Colors.grey,
                  blurRadius: 4.0, // has the effect of softening the shadow
                  offset: Offset(
                    3.0, // horizontal, move right 10
                    3.0, // vertical, move down 10
                  ),
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
          Container(
            height: _height,
            child: TextField(
              decoration: new InputDecoration(
                  border: InputBorder.none,
                  focusedBorder: InputBorder.none,
                  enabledBorder: InputBorder.none,
                  errorBorder: InputBorder.none,
                  disabledBorder: InputBorder.none,
                  contentPadding: EdgeInsets.only(left: 10)),
            ),
            width: 300,
            decoration: BoxDecoration(
              borderRadius: BorderRadius.only(topRight: Radius.circular(_height / 2), bottomRight: Radius.circular(_height / 2)),
              color: Colors.grey[200],
              boxShadow: [
                BoxShadow(
                  color: Colors.grey,
                  blurRadius: 4.0, // has the effect of softening the shadow
                  offset: Offset(
                    3.0, // horizontal, move right 10
                    3.0, // vertical, move down 10
                  ),
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

A: I tried following code and it gives me a similar design
                     Container(
                          width: double.infinity,
                          child: Row(
                            children: <Widget>[
                              Card(
                                margin: EdgeInsets.only(),
                                color: Color(0xff99d4fa),
                                shape: RoundedRectangleBorder(
                                  borderRadius: BorderRadius.only(
                                      bottomLeft: Radius.circular(32.0),
                                      topLeft: Radius.circular(32.0)),
                                ),
                                child: Container(
                                  padding: EdgeInsets.only(
                                      top: 8, bottom: 8, left: 15, right: 12),
                                  child: TextStyles(headText: 'A'),
                                ),
                                elevation: 6,
                              ),
                              Expanded(
                                  child: Container(
                                    height: 41,
                                //margin: EdgeInsets.only(top: 8,),
                                decoration: new BoxDecoration(
                                  borderRadius: new BorderRadius.only(
                                    bottomRight: Radius.circular(32.0),
                                    topRight: Radius.circular(32.0),
                                  ),
                                  color: Colors.white,
                                  boxShadow: [
                                    BoxShadow(
                                      color: Colors.grey[400],
                                      spreadRadius: 0.01,
                                      offset: Offset(3, 3), //(x,y)
                                      blurRadius: 5,
                                    ),
                                  ],
                                ),
                                child: Padding(
                                  padding: EdgeInsets.zero,
                                  child: TextField(
                                    decoration: new InputDecoration(
                                        border: InputBorder.none,
                                        focusedBorder: InputBorder.none,
                                        enabledBorder: InputBorder.none,
                                        errorBorder: InputBorder.none,
                                        disabledBorder: InputBorder.none,
                                        contentPadding: EdgeInsets.only(left: 10)),
                                  ),
                                ),
                              ))
                            ],
                          ),
                        ),

Is there any easy option to do that?

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Climate observatory for the International Space Station.
ASIM is installed on ISS on the Columbus External Payload Facility.
Launched by Falcon-9, the CRS-14 Dragon transport vehicle carried ASIM to ISS inside the un-pressurized trunk.
ASIM was installed from Dragon trunk to the ISS Columbus module by means of extra-vehicular robotics.
The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is a climate observatory for the International Space Station - ISS. It is developed by the ASIM consortium for ESA. The ASIM consortium is formed by Terma A/S, Technical University of Denmark, University of Bergen, University of Valencia, Polish Academy of Sciences Space Research Center, and OHB Italia. The Technical University of Denmark is leading the scientific advisory board to ESA and Terma A/S is the prime contractor under ESA for the payload development. Initial phases started in 2004 to 2009, and development started in 2010. ASIM was launched April 2nd, 2018, with CRS-14 Falcon-9/Dragon by SpaceX. The budget of ASIM is 35-40 MEUR.
Mass: 314 kg
Dimensions: 122 cm x 134 cm x 99 cm
Heaters: 230 W
The primary objective of ASIM is to study Transient Luminous Event (TLE) and Terrestial Gamma Ray Bursts (TGF).
ASIM carries two scientific instruments, the MMIA for observing TLEs in optical and near UV bands and the MXGS for observing TGFs in X and gamma ray bands. The platform consists of a data handling and power unit and the CEPA, a standard structural item for ISS external payloads for Columbus.
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With that said, I too am a snake 'til I drop. Never got a different result, neither on my many different tries on Pottermore (I take the test every couple of years to check for coherence), nor on any fanmade quizzes.
I am a full-fledged Slytherin, there's no denying that, and very proud of it (but then again, what else could you expect from a Slytherin?). I genuinely think it is by far the most interesting house of the four – not to mention, it is just so goddamn cool. I love that I'm also a Snake by Eastern zodiac standards – the serpent is such an amazing, complex symbol, and one that I relate to in so many ways.


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Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan
Shannon Fears, SeattlePI
A poster portraying President Barack Obama as "The Joker" from the Batman movie "The Dark Knight" is visible on a highway pillar in Los Angeles on Aug. 7./ Getty Images
From the Los Angeles Times:
Irony of ironies: The man who created the incendiary portrait of Barack Obama in makeup as The Joker of Batman fame is from the president's hometown of Chicago.
Firas Alkhateed is a 20-year-old college student who doesn't particularly like Obama but is not exactly a flaming right-wing nut case. He didn't vote in last fall's election because he figured it was pointless voting against Obama in a state he figured to easily carry (and did).
Alkhateed merely used Photoshop to doctor an image of the cover of Time magazine and posted the result to his Flickr account (which has since been removed over copyright concerns). The image actually didn't draw much interest until a mystery person downloaded it, removed the Time furniture and added the word "socialism" underneath Obama's likeness.
The poster has stirred controversy since it began appearing in public places around the Los Angeles area. It has since spread to other parts of the country.
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"Alkhateed's assessment of Obama: 'In terms of domestic policy, I don't think he's really doing much good for the country right now,' he said. 'We don't have to "hero worship" the guy.'"
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Shannon is a producer for seattlepi.com.


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are pleased to release a new resource featuring clinical guidelines. This section will highlight new guidelines as they are released which are of relevance to the Anaesthetist.
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), in collaboration with a multiprofessional expert reference group, has adapted the checklist for use in England and Wales.
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued a clinical guideline on the use of routine preoperative tests in elective (pre-planned) surgery for children and adults. Every year around 5 million elective surgical procedures are performed by the NHS in England. Carrying out lots of preoperative tests can lead to unnecessary delays or cancellation of operations as well as inconvenience and discomfort to patients because of 'false positive' test results. The NICE guideline will ensure that no matter where people live in England and Wales, they can be confident that the health professionals caring for them have clear recommendations about the tests that should and should not be carried out.
The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland have released a new checklist for anaesthetic equipment.
NICE Technology Appraisal Guidance No.49 on the use of ultrasound locating devices for placing central venous catheters.
Please suggest any guidelines you would like us to add, together with the relevant weblink via our feedback page. Thank you for helping us, help you!


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Manchester Airport Addresses Congestion with Drop-off Charges
The UK's third-busiest airport at Manchester is introducing a new drop-off charge this month in a bid to address congestion, which is currently increasing significantly. The new fee will be £3 for five minutes or £4 for 10 minutes. It is hoped that the new fee structure will reduce the number of vehicles entering the busiest parts of the airport site.
COO of Manchester Airport, Tricia Williams said, 'Manchester Airport has seen a significant increase in passenger volumes in the past five years and is heavily investing in further growth and improvements to the customer experience, most notably through our £1bn transformation programme.'
Manchester Airport has said that it will use the proceeds from this new tariff to set up a public transport fund. This is in partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Cheshire East Council and Transport for Greater Manchester, who will administer the fund.
A dedicated drop-off point has been created further away from the busiest terminal areas in readiness for the fee system launch, which will be serviced by a free shuttle to ferry passengers to their departure terminal. Support for measures to improve accessibility to the airport site will be considered, in addition to access to public transport.
Ms Williams also said, 'We are committed to ensuring people can still be dropped off for free at the airport, which is why we have invested in the creation of a dedicated drop-off site and free shuttle service. The location of the site has been carefully chosen due to its proximity to all terminal and the motorway network. We have listened carefully to issues raised by passengers since announcing our plans and have been able to respond to many of the concerns raised. Staff will be on hand prior, during and after the go live date on Tuesday July 10 to assist any passengers who need guidance or help.'
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Tampa has several beautiful trails for you and your entire family to explore. Tampa's Greenways & Trails system is a network of natural and paved walking, jogging, skating, and biking paths that stretch all across the city and through many of its neighborhoods.
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Questions about the City of Tampa Greenways and Trails efforts can be directed to the Tampa Parks & Recreation Department, Planning & Design Team at (813) 274-5134 or via Customer Service Center.


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Drew Pearce is a British screenwriter, director, and producer. He is known for creating the British TV comedy No Heroics, co-writing Iron Man 3 and Hobbs & Shaw, and writing the story for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

Pearce made his feature directorial debut with Hotel Artemis, a futuristic thriller set in a secret, members-only hospital for criminals.

Early life

Pearce worked at The Face magazine for editor Richard Benson, while studying at Exeter University.

Between 2000 and 2004, Pearce was the lead singer and guitarist in the London alt-country band Woodchuck.

Career

Television

No Heroics

In 2007, Pearce created the cult-hit series No Heroics, a sitcom about unsuccessful superheroes, following their R-rated off-duty exploits and their lives in hero-only pub The Fortress. The full series was shot in 2008, and released in October of that year. The show was ITV2's first original sitcom. No Heroics was well-reviewed by critics. The Times said of the show, "ITV2's new comedy No Heroics is fast, funny and a little ingenious. Drew Pearce, the creator/writer, established an engaging collection of pretenders to the throne". The show was nominated for Best New British TV Comedy of 2008 at the British Comedy Awards.

In 2009, ABC commissioned Pearce for an American adaptation pilot of No Heroics. Pearce was joined by Will & Grace writer Jeff Greenstein for the pilot.

Film

The Runaways

In 2010, Marvel hired Pearce to write a feature adaptation of Runaways based on the comic book of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona. Development on the film was put on hold the following October, and Pearce explained in September 2013 that the Runaways film had been shelved due to the success of The Avengers. Years later, Runaways would eventually be released as a streaming television series created for Hulu by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.

Iron Man 3

In March 2011, Marvel announced that Pearce would co-write Iron Man 3 with director Shane Black. Black described their take on the film as not being "two men in iron suits fighting each other," and more like a "Tom Clancy thriller," with Iron Man fighting real-world type villains. Pearce added that they would avert magic and space, with Iron Man 3 being "a techno-thriller set in a more real-world than even The Avengers."

The film received positive reviews and was commercially successful, grossing over $1.2 billion worldwide, the second-highest-grossing film of 2013 overall, and the second-highest-grossing film at the domestic box office released in 2013.

Pearce continued his work as a writer on a wide array of projects. Pearce also completed an uncredited rewrite on Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi action thriller Pacific Rim. In October 2011, he was commissioned to write the script for a third film in the Sherlock Holmes film series starring Robert Downey Jr. The following year Pearce was tapped to polish the script for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla reboot.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

In August 2013 Paramount Pictures announced the fifth Mission: Impossible film, from a script penned by Pearce. After developing the script with the director, Christopher McQuarrie, Pearce received a story by credit for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $682 million worldwide.

Continuing his relationship with Paramount Pictures, Pearce was tapped to pen The Wedding Sting, a film based on The Atlantic article of the same title. Written by Jeff Maysh, the article tells the story of how the 1990 Flint police department devised a sting to put on a fake wedding that would lure the city's drug dealers to a single location.

Pearce then partnered with Jason Segel to create the concept for a third Lego Movie spin-off, titled The Billion Brick Race. In March 2015, Warner Bros. announced that the film was in development with its animation feature arm, Warner Animation Group. Pearce and Segel were initially signed on to co-direct and write the film, however, both subsequently stepped away from those roles. On 8 February 2018, they returned to the project when it was revealed that the initial director, Jorge R. Gutierrez, left it.

All Hail The King

During the production of Iron Man 3, Pearce and producer Stephen Broussard had the idea for a short film that provided "a fresh take" on the Mandarin character. Marvel Studios and consultant Joss Whedon were positive about the short, and after Ben Kingsley agreed to reprise his role as Trevor Slattery, Pearce wrote and directed the short, titled All Hail The King. The short was filmed in Los Angeles, with Sam Rockwell's cameo filmed in Toronto on a set that was painted to match the Los Angeles shoot.

All Hail the King was released on the digital download release of Thor: The Dark World on 4 February 2014, and on 25 February 2014 for the Blu-ray release. IGN's Cliff Wheatley gave All Hail the King a 9.4 out of 10. He said that it is "a return to the loveable personality of the hapless Trevor and a step forward for the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. It has its twists that should satisfy both lovers and haters of Trevor Slattery. But it's the approach that Pearce takes with the material, from the kung-fu movie style credit sequences to the light-hearted tone that takes a sudden and jarring turn."

Hotel Artemis

Pearce made his feature directorial debut with the genre-bending, cult hit Hotel Artemis. The film, also written by Pearce, is a futuristic thriller, set in a secret, members-only hospital for criminals.

Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster starred in the film, alongside an ensemble cast, including Sterling K. Brown, Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Jenny Slate, Charlie Day, Zachary Quinto, Brian Tyree Henry and Kenneth Choi. Filming began in Los Angeles in May 2017, and Hotel Artemis was released on 8 June 2018 in North America, by Global Road Entertainment.

The film had received mostly positive reviews. Zoe Margolis of CineVue said, "Artemis is a bold, loud, ambitious film, far cleverer than the bog-standard summer blockbuster fare, and with sharp humour and driving suspense it makes this pulpy-sci fi thriller a very fun watch." Mick LaSalle of The San Francisco Chronicle praised the film saying, "It turns out that maybe no one should ever get in Pearce's way again." Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle praised the film stating, "With all the activity deriving from its basic concept of a members-only hospital for criminals, Hotel Artemis feels like a throwback to a earlier, more stripped-down era of action movies in which a good idea was a sufficient platform on which to drape fine acting and creative execution."

Hobbs and Shaw

Pearce co-wrote the script for the Fast and Furious franchise spin-off, Hobbs and Shaw, with Chris Morgan. The film was directed by David Leitch, produced by Seven Bucks Productions and Chris Morgan Productions, and was released by Universal Pictures. The film stars Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson, returning as their respective characters Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw from the previous Fast and Furious films.  The film also starred Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Eiza González, and Helen Mirren, with cameos by Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Hart.

Point of No Return

In 2018 Pearce established production company Point of No Return Films in Los Angeles, California. The company focuses on developing and producing film and television projects aimed at reinventing genre. Its first production was Pearce's directorial debut, Hotel Artemis. On 26 June 2019, Variety announced that Netflix acquired Pearce's next film, Quartermaster, which Point of No Return will produce alongside Adam Siegel of Marc Platt Productions. It will be a "high-concept thriller" that Pearce is slated to write and direct.

Music videos

In March 2012, Pearce directed the music video for the song "Rearrange" by Miles Kane. By March 2018, it had received over 3.9 million YouTube views. Pearce went on to direct a video for the Father John Misty song "The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment".

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The shared process of culturing eco-tastebuds
By Farrell, B., & Fischer, M., PhD, University of Kent, England
What I think, I can let others know; what I see, I can let them see; what I say, hundreds can hear—but what the individual eats, no one else can eat under any circumstances. Simmel, G., 1954, 243/Symons, M., 1994, 341.
Putting ambiguity aside, as to whether another will hear or see the speaker's or seer's cultured meaning, the premise of this innovation showcase and related opinion paper challenge and explore Simmel's statement (one that he reflected upon and challenged himself with). It argues that we do share the experience of eating because the individual does (co)taste, through sensorial empathy, what another eats.
Social gathering to eat, commensality, (re)informs all the senses to adopt, adapt and assimilate as cultural learning, an example of the structure and practice of habitus, "a socially constituted system of cognitive and motivating structures, and the socially structured situation in which the agents' interests are defined" (Bourdieu, P., [1997] 2013, 76). In addition, as taste buds (gustatory cells) have a life cycle of 10-14 days, this process of social tasting (re)affirms and (co)constitutes the emotional-sensory practice of frequent meal taking (Bourdieu, [1997] 2013 ; Breslin, P., 2013).
As a shared communicative encounter, the culturation of taste buds from birth and throughout life signposts what is safe and appropriate to eat (Breslin, P., 2013; Visser, M., 2017; Wilson, B., 2015). Unanimity of interpretation depends on internalised sensorial memories learned, or not learned, as part of cultural groups. The collective urge to bond together to seek meaning from flavour, unified taste and smell known as retronasal olfaction, is ultimately about sharing another's experience of their mouthful (Breslin, P., 2013; Wilson, B.,2015; Wrangham, R.W., 2009). Described by anthropologist David Sutton when sharing the tastes of food is, "a key component of ritual, which has typically been understood as heightening or stimulating sensory experience to instill social or cosmological values" (Sutton, D., 2010, 209). This practice could be powerfully instrumental to a sustainable food future and culturing food choices through taste of "good, clean and fair" (Petrini, C., 2013, title) food (Rozin, P., 1999; Wilson, B., 2015).
Our mirror neurons, originally investigated in studies of primates and now explored in clinical psychiatry by researchers in the fields of neurophysiology, teach empathy, skills and self-awareness. Through mirroring the action of another eating, both physically and/or mentally, we consolidate ways to avoid poisonous foods, identify pleasurable food, introduce unfamiliar food and ignore disgusting food. All done by using our senses and by mirroring the responses to sensorial eating activity of others (Bloch, M., 1999; Fischer, C. 2011; Jones, M., 2008; Rozin, P., 2009; Visser, M., 1991; Wrangham, R.W., 2009).
The innovation showcase will allow participants to engage in the sensory and the sensory-mirrored performance of eating a vegetarian 'Burger in a Bun'. The various sensorial stages of eating (although it is acknowledged that when it comes to eating the senses work together) of haptic, textural and thermal sense of touch, smell, hearing, taste, kinesthesia and sight will be explored as the storyboard below outlines (see Figure 1). The idea is that there will be pairs, who take 15 minutes to go through the sensory experience; one senses, the other watches in a performative version of focusing on the work of mirror neurons, eating and watching another eating. A key part of the experience will be the opportunity for participant discussion on transformations to a more sustainable food future through culturing taste buds.
The focus on meal expectancies and experiences, bounded by cultured taste buds of meat and non-meat burger cultured tastes, aims to explore the ways to make unfamiliar plant-based tastes become more familiar than western meat-based ones. The participative experiences and discussions will creatively contribute to the opinion paper (an extension of this abstract), The Work of Culturing Eco Taste Buds in the Digital Domain. It would be particularly interesting, through sensory ethnography, to expand on the understanding and potentialities of transformations to more sustainable diets through culturing eco-taste buds in the synthesised physical, digital and the physical-analogue domains (Stoller, P. 1997).
Figure 1: Experiencing and mirroring the anticipation of eating through sensory modalities.
1. TOUCH: HAPTIC
2. TEXTURAL & THERMAL TOUCH
3. AUDITORY
4. TASTE & SMELL = FLAVOUR
5. DIGITAL VISUAL
6. TOUCH: FORM
7. ANALOGUE VISUAL
8. SENSORIUM = MULTIPLE SENSORY MODALITIES
Bloch, M., (1999), "Commensality and Poisoning" in Social Research Vol. 66, No. 1, FOOD: NATURE and CULTURE (1999), 133-149.
Breslin, P., (2013), "An Evolutionary Perspective on Food and Human Taste" in Current Biology, 23, May, Elsevier, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.010.
Bourdieu, P., [1997] (2013), Outline Theory of Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, England.
Brillat-Savarin, JA., [1825] (1970), The Physiology of Taste, Penguin, England
van Ede, Y., (2009), "Sensuous Anthropology: Sense and Sensibility and the Rehabilitation of Skill" in Anthropological Notebooks, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228425949_Sensuous_Anthropology_Sense_and_Sensibility_and_the_Rehabilitation_of_Skill.
Fischler, C., (2011), "Commensality, Society, and Culture" in Social Science Information, 50, 528–548. 10.1177/0539018411413963.
Le Breton, D., (2017), (trans. Ruschiensky, C.,), Sensing the World, An Anthropology of the Senses, Bloomsbury Academic, London, England.
Jones, M., (2008), Feast: Why Humans Share Food, Oxford University Press, USA Petrini, C., (2013), Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food should be Good, Clean and Fair, Rizzoli Ex Libris, New York, USA.
Rozin, P., (1999), "Food is fundamental, fun, frightening, and far-reaching" in Social Research, 66, 9-30.
Stoller, P., (1997), Sensuous Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania Press, USA.
Strauss, L., [1964] (1983), The Raw and the Cooked, University of Chicago Press Sutton, D., (2010), "Food and the Senses" in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 39, 209-223, USA.
Symons, M., (1994), "Simmel's gastronomic sociology: An overlooked essay" in Food and Foodways, Vol. 5:4, 333-351, DOI: 10.1080/07409710.1994.9962016.
Visser, M., [1991] (2017), Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners, Penguin, UK.
Wilson, B., (2015), First Bite, Fourth Estate, London, England.
Wrangham, R.W., (2009), How Cooking Made Us Human, New York Books, USA.


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Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness is the second album by British death metal band Bolt Thrower. It was recorded at Loco studios in April 1989 and engineered by Tim Lewis. It was mixed at Slaughterhouse Studios in July 1989 and engineered by Colin Richardson. It is produced by Bolt Thrower and Digby Pearson. The cover artwork was produced by Games Workshop. The whole album is closely tied to Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 game background and Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness was the title of a gaming book by Games Workshop released in 1988.

The album was released on Earache Records: Mosh 13 in 1989. In 2005 a re-issue was released by Earache, featuring new artwork. The band advises not to buy the re-issue, as they have not been involved and will not get royalties.

Realm of Chaos displays a progression from its previous output in speed and riffage. There is a strong focus on blast beats in many of the songs, with chaotic guitar soloing. Nevertheless, the signature heavy riffing is also apparent.

Track listing
All songs written by Bolt Thrower.

Personnel
Bolt Thrower
 Karl Willetts – Vocals
 Gavin Ward – Guitars
 Barry Thomson – Guitars
 Andrew Whale – Drums
 Jo Bench – Bass guitar

Production
 Digby Pearson - Production
 Colin Richardson - Mix
 John Blanche - Art direction
 Dave Lund - Graphic Design
 John Sibbick - Front cover artwork
 Addy Jones - Photography

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Have you ever considered a job that would allow you to work at home?
When the economy is not doing so well, seeking a secure revenue or income stream for the yourself and your family is a priority. With the uncertainty of the job market, whether it's outsourcing or downsizing, insecurity is breeding an unprecedented level of entrepreneurship. Working from home has never seemed more attractive.
Nowadays, working from home has become something that many people do, both men and women, and for a variety of reasons. Many find they can make a better living owning their own business and that besides bringing in a fantastic income, they have more self-esteem and a wealth of new opportunities available to them. Especially for women is the convenience of being able to be there when their children or loved ones need them.
The internet makes it possible to work from home and it does so more realistically, practically and economically than ever before. Sure, there are still those who prey on the vulnerable, but if you do your homework, great opportunities abound. For instance, many people have built a business around their own knowledge and expertise creating a theme-based or idea based website built around subjects they personally have a passion or expertise with and it offers a legitimate business opportunity.
This e-free book explains how it works: "Make Your Website Sell". This business site concept is really starting to take root on the internet allowing individuals to advance their passions by sharing them with others... and making good money at it. You, too, can work from home.
For example, take resume writing. Someone involved in career placement at a University could extend their ability to help by posting their knowledge on the topic, but they can become more involved with placement opportunities and actually network more with those in the job search process by presenting themselves on the web with their very own career placement consultant business.
There are many ways to get on to the web quickly and inexpensively, but the one that deserves to be highlighted here is SiteSell's flagship product SBI!. You do not have to be a web designer, know html or css. With the drag and drop (what you see is what you get) implementation, you can easily change colors, align text and implement many creative web ideas.
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There are few franchises that are as popular and have lasted as long as Nancy Drew. It seems like every fourth grader for the last 75 years has spent countless hours reading the Nancy Drew mysteries. There have also been several iterations of the young sleuth on film and TV.
This reboot was meant to be a TV/streaming release, but they thought, why not give it a quick run in theaters. So, if you've never heard of this movie, you aren't alone. Even professional people in and around the film industry didn't know this movie was going to hit theaters until early in the week it was released. (Not exactly a recipe for success, but I don't think that was really the point).
As for the movie, it is adorable and fun. It has a little bit of suspense and intrigue, but it isn't too scary for younger children. It has a good mystery without being too complicated. And it is a lot of fun for people of all ages.
This isn't a critically excellent movie, but that is okay. It was never intended to be that. Instead, it is a solid film that does a great job of reaching its target audience. It doesn't try to pretend to be something it's not.
Sophia Lillis, as we already know from the horror film IT, is a fantastic actor. She plays Nancy Drew in a current, but true to the original way. She brings a joy to the film that is fun and refreshing.
If you have a chance to see this in theaters, it is well worth your time. It isn't a fantastic movie by critical standards, but it is a film that will bring a smile to your face and maybe even move you to break open that old box of Nancy Drew books you have in your attic.


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Ranch owner Quinn Pedraza has to find someone to run the saloon he won in a bet, but more than that, he needs a woman who can handle his alpha personality…and closet submissive sexual cravings. When vampire Selene Torres arrives on the scene, he gets everything he wants—and learns what he really needs.
Inside Scoop: Quinn's BDSM journey is not for the faint of heart and includes extreme sexual situations and dubious consent, as well as male/male scenes.
A Romantica® paranormal erotic romance from Ellora's Cave
Title: Nightfall
Author: Desiree Holt, Joey W. Hill
Other books by this author that we've reviewed: Branded by Lust, Beyond Addiction, Savage Lust, Naked Flame
Series: Vampire Queen #9.6
Genres: BDSM, Erotic Paranormal Romance
According to Goodreads, this is book 9.6 of the Vampire Queen series by Joey W. Hill. When I was offered this to review, I was given the publishers site to check it out and nowhere on that site was Vampire Queen mentioned. Although on my "to be read" list, I have yet had the opportunity to read The Vampire Queen series. It appears Nightfall takes place in the world of Vampire Queen, but it reads, mostly, like a stand-alone book.
Meet Quinn Pedreza. A former bull rider turned rancher with a small spread in central Texas. He perceives himself as all alpha male, and for the most part he his. He has won the After Hours Saloon in a card game and is trying to run both the ranch and the saloon. Little time for sleep with that kind of schedule.
Enter Selene Torres. A no nonsense bit of female the steps in and takes charge, very efficiently.
These two very alpha personalities come together, sparks fly, then some very interesting dynamics emerge. Not necessarily the expected dynamics. That is what made the story hold my interesting. The slightly different twists and turns and the unexpected.
When we first meet Selene, she comes across as uber strong willed, and confident. She knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. We quickly find out she is a vampire, and those are not unusual traits for a vampire. Then we learn some of her back story. Although the back story reinforces the strong will and confidence, we also find she was at the end of her rope and close to losing all hope. Not nearly the master of her world that we thought she was. I wasn't sure how I felt about Selene for much of this story, because of this. Maybe this is where having read the series may have clued me in about how the politics in this world worked. I didn't find out until the end of the story, so some of the decisions Selene was making didn't make a lot of sense to me.
Quinn agreed with that opinion to a certain degree. He is, after all, a born and bred Texas alpha male. Things are supposed to be a certain way, and it was impossible for him to let some of this stuff go. I admired that he was able to be comfortable enough with himself to give up some control to his partner, but there is just some things a man can't coup with. He had so much to learn. But, for the most part, he handled it well. I had to love him even more.
For a good portion of this story, I didn't care for it. It wasn't happy with the decisions being made or the explanations being given for those decisions. I felt the relationship between Quinn and Selene was unrealistic. However, once we got into the vampire politics of the world, it started making more sense to me. This may be where reading the series that came before may have been useful. But then again, if I had known that, would the end have been as much of a surprise or as interesting? I did like the ending. It made me cheer with renewed hope for this world.
I think I need to move the Vampire Queen series from my "to be read" pile to my "must read now" pile. Looks like a pretty good series. But, be warned, it also looks like it is dark and violent as Nightfall was.
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Enjoying a balmy Indian summer day last week, I drove to Hartford to check out opening night of Bruce Springsteen's latest concert tour. Supporting the release of his new CD "Magic," the Boss' performance was everything you've come to expect…spectacular. He's 58 years old and shows no sign of slowing down. Not surprisingly, I couldn't help thinking about Mr. Springsteen's pricing strategy while waiting for chestnuts like Born to Run.
Baby boomer bands like U2 and Springsteen are returning to the pre-80's practice of general admission (GA) seating. While seats on the side of the arena remain reserved, admittance to the floor (an area many consider to be the best due its proximity to and direct vantage of the performer) is standing room general admission. By standing room general admission, I mean there are no seats and the earlier you arrive to the show, the closer you are the stage.
So why are these bands returning to this general admission policy? My theory is that nothing drags down a concert more than having the best seats occupied by fat cats who impatiently sit, arms folded, waiting for the band's greatest hits. In contrast, GA seating fills the front rows with diehards who arrive hours in advance. Performers tend to get an enthusiastic audience fueling them with ecstatic energy.
What's interesting is that GA tickets are amongst the least desirable for these performers' core boomer audience. A 48 year old friend of mine put it best, "Rafi, I work hard all day and have to be in the office by 8:30 AM. The last thing I want to do is have to stand for hours at a concert." He's got a good point. I'm not enthused that to get the best position for Mr. Springsteen's shows, GA ticket holders like myself have to arrive by 5 PM for a 7:30 PM show. The scalping market also reveals this lack of desirability. GA seats are amongst the lowest priced on StubHub for Springsteen concerts.
So how should bands price general admission tickets? U2 offered them at a discount while Springsteen is charging high prices. I think U2 was smart to make GA the lowest priced of its tickets – even lower than last row nose bleed seats. A key to any band's longevity is attracting a new younger crowd. These "kids" buy catalog CDs, request songs on local radio stations, and add excitement to live shows. This relatively cash strapped younger demographic is willing to wait hours to both get tickets and be close to the stage. They dance throughout the show and relish being so close. This pricing strategy incubates the future of a band.
On this concert tour, Bruce Springsteen is offering two ticket prices: $65 and $95. I think Bruce erred by pricing GA tickets at the higher $95 level. As a result, thrifty kids will be in nosebleed seats enduring boomer fans' screams of "sit down" the moment they stand up to dance. And I'll be standing on the floor wishing I had a seat. Not the exactly the best result for a live show.
Boss, you are the greatest performer on stage today. But when it comes time to price tickets for your next tour, give me a call!
I agree completley, but watch out. I'm one of those fat cats. When managers talk to artists trying to reconcile higher and higher ticket prices, the line used is "Whatever you don't charge, the scalpers will". By charging less for side seats, the boss is just leaving a lot more gravy for the scalpers on those seats that we "fat cats" want.
Why not sell a chef's table GA ticket that guarantees a spot in special section close to the stage until 10 minutes after the start of the opening act? That'd allow the fat cats to pay up for the the privelege of not having to arrive early. Then, 10 minutes into the opening act the barricade around the special section can be removed allowing the early arrivers to crowd in and juice up the energy level. I've often wondered why movie theatres don't do this. Reserve some nice seats for people willing to pay extra to avoid lining up early. That premium could easily vary based on showtime and release.


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When making a purchasing decision, price always plays a large role. Everyone wants the best quality for the lowest price possible. However, it can be difficult to find since low prices often come at the expense of quality.
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Low prices often come at the expense of these features. Quality materials, specifications, craftsmanship and after-sales service often suffer at the expense of a lower price tag. If you're comfortable spending money on a product that may not perform as well or may have to be replaced early and often, than a low price may take precedence in your buying decision. However, if craftsmanship and performance are important, always be sure to choose a high quality product. You'll more often regret the money you didn't spend, than the money you did.


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Basildon Council donate £6000 to help Billericay Foodbank support residents
16 Mar Basildon Council donate £6000 to help Billericay Foodbank support residents
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The Billericay Town Centre Working Group have agreed to donate £6000 towards Billericay Foodbank to help them support residents in need.
Back in March 2020, the Neighbourhoods and Public Spaces Committee agreed to allocate £6000 to each of the Town Centre Working Groups, to support localised projects in each town.
The Billericay Town Centre Working Group agreed at a meeting on 11 February 2021 to use its allocation of £6,000 to support the Billericay Foodbank.
Chairman of the Neighbourhoods and Public Spaces Committee, Councillor David Harrison, said: "Foodbanks like this one in Billericay were already stretched before the pandemic, but it's an especially challenging and busy time for them currently.
"Billericay Foodbank do such important work for residents who rely on their services, so I'm grateful that we've been able to donate this £6000 to them. This support will be able to benefit many residents at a time when it's most needed.
"Foodbanks rely on donations, so if you are able to please consider donating to your local food bank either directly or via the drop off points within local supermarkets."
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Hunting Shakespeare
June 19, 2020 Jan NeedleLeave a comment
My idea of rewriting the life of the sainted Bard has already met a few glitches. The Kindle, at 99p, looks fine, and the paperback, costing a hardly extortionate £4.25, looks even better. But on the Amazon page, I failed to point out it is a comedy – featuring Will Shakespeare as a lowly junior reporter on Ye Globe!
I've already had some letters saying that he was not like that at all! Judging from his later writing he was not a hapless drunken hack, but the greatest playwright of all time, despite the odd fact that he couldn't even spell his own name.
I called Anne Hathaway Anne Hathadose as well, which didn't help at all. Some people thought it bordered on the rude, though God knows how they would have survived Elizabeth England. Hathaway, Hathadose, Shagsper, Shaksper, Shaxpur, who gave a flying fart?
I could say that the pace of modern publishing is no great help, but I doubt that it would get me off the hook. When I recall that my first book – Albeson and the Germans – did not fall into my hot little hands until a year or more after Andre Deutsch bought it, and 'Shakespeare – the Truth' was turned around in three to four weeks from finishing typing to having it in paperback and in Kindle version, it's mind-boggling.
It's madly efficient, but it also means days off from writing are a thing of the past. I finished the first Covid Caper (Shakespeare) about a month ago, and I've already had to start his second adventure as an intrepid reporter on Ye Daily Globe. Momentum is the name of the game, so there'll be at least one more (non Shakespeare) book before Will goes to Scotland to clash with bloody King Macbeth.
I can't tell you too much about Scotch on the Rocks yet, except that it's equally mad. And after that, I've got more adventures for poor Will.
Enough of whining. Here's a bit of Chapter 2 of the first book, in which young Bill meets King Lear – and gets a very sore arse. Driving a motorbike, you see. He always was a great one for anachronisms was our William…
A married man, Will Shagsper quickly learned, had to have a trade. No good at gloving, as Mr H told everyone in the neighbourhood, not good at anything at all if you asked his wife – within the sheets or out.
'He's like an octopus that's lost an arm or two,' she told her best friend, Gossip Gertrude. 'How many does an octopus have anyway?'
'Just the none, but good long legs,' said Gertrude. 'And their eggs! Would feed an army an ostrich egg would. Oh, octopus. What's one of those when it's at home?'
'I suppose we could ask Will,' said Anne, resentfully, patting her growing belly. 'If he knows nothing else he knows things no other bugger knows nothing about, Gertrude.'
And rude Gert smirked, 'Like putting things in holes. Babies don't grow on trees do they?'
'He thinks they do,' said Anne. 'First time I gave him a hand in bed he thought that I was milking him to feed the baby! He's a jackanapes.'
'Gross,' said Gertie. 'But you're Mrs Shagsper now, ain't you? Your salad days are over, duck.'
'Don't call me duck, it's low.'
'We're in the Midlands, though, get used to it. You're Mrs S that's all there is about it. Sorry.'
'You bloody will be, duck. I'm Hathaway, and that's an end to it.'
'But you're married to him! Ain't you?'
'Yeah, okay, alright, I must admit it. But a Shagsper I will never be, my friend. Shagsper. Shagsper! What sort of effin name is that?'
'But—'
'And he hasn't got a job, and he hasn't got no prospects, and he's almost young enough to be my bleedin' son. If it hadn't been for them three witches I wouldn't have touched him with a ten foot pole.'
'Three witches? What three witches?'
'That week in Scotland on the charabang. I got pissed one night and I met them at the crossroads. They said they'd tell me fortune for a groat.'
'Bloody Ada, you were drunk, weren't you? What did they say?'
'I asked them where the lads hung out, up Scotland way. Where I could get a crafty peep behind the sporran. They went on and on and on.'
The truth, eh? You must be bloody mad!
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Posted December 8, 2022 by Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Hanne Fjelde and Ida Rudolfsen & filed under Governance, Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties, and the Russian human rights organization Memorial for their promotion of "the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens."
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
This year's prize constitutes an important and timely recognition of the critical work of civil society in introducing and defending human rights, civil liberties, and democracy in a time when these actors are faced with historically challenging circumstances.
With the number of liberal democracies in the world declining and autocratization affecting even established democracies such as Poland, Hungary, and India, the repression of civil society has reached new levels. The deliberate targeting of civil society by regimes with authoritarian aspirations reflects the critical role that these voluntary organizations play in monitoring, constraining, and checking the abuse of power by state officials, and protecting democratic freedoms.
Civil society under attack
Non-violent mass mobilization has played a crucial role in bringing down some of the world's most brutal regimes. The success stories range from the overthrow of Ceausescu in Romania in 1989 to the ousting of Milosevic in 2000 to the more recent removal of the al-Bashir regime in Sudan in 2019. When sticking to non-violent tactics, civil resistance movements not only bring down autocratic regimes, but also introduce democracy. Moreover, democracies installed through non-violent mass mobilization are more likely to be of higher quality and consolidate compared to others.
Yet, the effectiveness of civil resistance movements has deteriorated in recent years. A historical mapping of major protest movements indicates that their ability to remove incumbent leaders from power declined dramatically after 2010.
One potential explanation is that authoritarian leaders and regimes have stepped up their efforts to suppress and constrain civil society. The V-Dem Project recently warned that repression of civil society organizations has worsened substantially in 44 countries during the past decade. When countries autocratize, freedom for civil society is usually the aspect of democracy that is harmed the most. And authoritarian regimes are drawing on more and more sophisticated tools to constrain and threaten civil society actors, for example, by regulating the operation and finances of organizations, and using digital technologies to surveil activists or spread fake news.
Increasing levels of polarization reinforce these trends. While civil society often represents a powerful force for promoting tolerance, moderation, and respect for opposing views, it is vulnerable to deepening societal divisions and nationalist sentiments, and shrinking space for free media. In highly polarized societies, regimes can frame activists as a threat to national security, and thereby effectively build allies among other civilians to undermine their legitimacy.
The weapons of civil society
To overthrow autocrats, civil resistance movements must overcome towering obstacles. Anti-regime protests in repressive states are associated with high personal risks, and are difficult to stage. In dictatorships, the population is generally worried about revealing their political preferences out of fear of sanctions, ranging from fines, to being denied freedom of assembly, to jail, torture, and death. This means that even where grievances are widespread, protests might never take hold without first movers who spark broader mobilization.
Despite the risk, some people choose to speak their mind. Ales Bialiatski founded Viasna Human Rights Center in 1996 in response to the brutality of the Lukashenko regime. He is currently in jail without trial after being detained following massive peaceful protests after the rigged election of Lukashenko in 2021.
When non-violent movements succeed in bringing down dictators, first movers such as Bialiatski and the Center for Civil Liberties and Memorial are especially important for encouraging large-scale protest to materialize. Civil society organizations often form the backbone of mass mobilization against autocratic leaders. They can provide pockets of resistance, reveal information that the state would otherwise hide and thereby facilitate the staging of mass mobilization. Once protests have erupted, civil society organizations can potentially offer the institutional infrastructure that helps the protests retain momentum, and in the end bring down the dictatorship. Moreover, mass mobilizations that include civil society participation are more likely to elicit democratic change.
Regime splits
A key strength of civil resistance movements is their ability to split elites and thereby destabilize regimes. All dictators, even those with an ultra-powerful personalist leader, rely on coalitions of supporters to remain in power, such as business elites, military elites, or party members. While the members of this coalition are usually rewarded for their loyalty to the regime, civil resistance movements can make it increasingly costly to continue to support the dictator.
For instance, through economic boycotts, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa put high costs on the economic elite who in turn pushed president de Klerk to enter negotiations. Other times mobilization has yielded large-scale loyalty shifts among security forces. Amid the 2011 protests in Egypt, for example, the military defected from Mubarak's ruling alliance.
Recent developments in Iran also show signs of police and military joining the peaceful protests. This suggests that regime change might be possible, following a continuous peaceful campaign in the aftermath of the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize is a tribute to those who risk their lives and devote their resources to defy and defeat harsh and repressive authoritarian structures and promote democracy and human rights. It goes to three actors in a geographical region where rising authoritarianism has made such endeavors especially dangerous, but also ever more important.
Hanne Fjelde is a Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Sirianne Dahlum is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Oslo and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Marianne Dahl is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and deputy editor at the Journal of Peace Research. Ida Rudolfsen is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
This text was first published by Political Violence at a Glance 31 October 2022
A Nowegian language version was published by Morgenbladet 17 November 2022
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Charlottesville's Confederate statues are coming down. Here's what's next.
Elizabeth R. Varon, The Washington Post
On Saturday, Charlottesville will remove two equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the city's public squares. That removal will not "erase history," as the statues' defenders have repeatedly charged. It will instead allow us a clearer view of the complex Southern past.
Erected in the 1920s, the Lee and Jackson statues have long served as a screen, designed to block out any narrative that might challenge white supremacy. Rendered in bronze atop imposing pedestals, the two Confederate generals embodied the Lost Cause memory tradition - a mix of myth and dogma claiming that the Confederacy was righteous and united; that postwar Reconstruction was a travesty; and that the racial caste system should persist.
With the statues no longer looming over the landscape, casting so much of it in shadow, we can perceive Southern history and the history of Charlottesville more clearly. The region is rich with stories, previously obscured, of Southerners who fought against the Confederacy and rejected the Lost Cause mythology. Their stories reveal that the Lee and Jackson monuments represent a particular white supremacist and mythologized version of Southern heritage - and have never accurately reflected the complex history of the region.
Consider the story of James T.S. Taylor, one of the 256 Black men from Albemarle County, Va., who fought in the Union Army. Taylor undertook a perilous journey from Charlottesville to the Union lines in Arlington, Va., to enlist. He then chronicled his wartime service with the 2nd Regiment of the United States Colored Troops in letters to the New York-based Black newspaper the Anglo-African. The men of the 2nd sought to extend "liberty and freedom to the oppressed of our native land," Taylor explained. Alluding to the Confederate practice of giving no quarter to Black troops, Taylor voiced the USCT men's determination "never to be taken prisoner by the rebels and butchered in cold blood by them." "If it should be inquired about us in after times," he wrote, "it shall be said that we died upon the battlefield."
With the Union's victory in 1865, Taylor's thoughts turned to his native Virginia. During Reconstruction, he returned to Albemarle County and was elected to Virginia's state constitutional convention, where he made the case for racial equality. On April 17, 1868, he voted to approve a new Constitution, which provided for universal manhood suffrage, a statewide public school system and the democratization of local government. Calling the right to vote "the palladium of American liberty," and pointing out that "the disloyal men of Virginia are seeking, by every means in their power, to prevent the free exercise of the elective franchise," Taylor argued that Virginia ought to use paper ballots instead of voice voting to ensure free and fair elections.
The sacrifices that Black families made for the causes of freedom and Union are starkly visible in the pension application of Frances W. Evans, a free Black washerwoman in Charlottesville. Like Taylor, Evans was part of Albemarle County's small but resilient community of free Blacks (roughly 4% of the African American population in the region) living in the midst of slavery. Evans sought pension payments because her son William died in combat during the war.
As Evans related to the Pension Bureau, she had sent her son to live with his grandmother in Ohio before the war, and in 1863, young William, at age 16, joined the Union Army, enlisting in Company E of the 5th USCT in Chillicothe, Ohio. The decision to enlist carried William back to Virginia, where he was killed in action at the Battle of New Market Heights on Sept. 29, 1864 - a Union victory in which Black troops launched a crucial assault on Robert E. Lee's Richmond fortifications.
In 1867, Frances Evans traveled from Charlottesville to Washington, D.C., to file her pension request. For more than a decade she would submit and resubmit her application, only to have it denied because she did not have sufficient documentation proving that she had depended on her son financially before and during the war. Such documentation might have included letters in which a soldier sent his paycheck to his family. But as Evans explained, with palpable frustration, because she spent the war in Confederate territory, in Charlottesville, her son had no way of contacting her while he was in the army.
The Pension Bureau conceded in its finding that Evans was caught in a sort of Catch-22: Her failure to prove dependence sprang from the fact that her son was so young when he enlisted. When he died in battle, he had not yet had the chance to support his mother.
The courage and resilience of Black women in Central Virginia is further exemplified by community leader Isabella Gibbons. Gibbons was born into slavery in the 1830s and was owned by a professor at the University of Virginia. In defiance of laws criminalizing Black literacy, she learned to read and write and taught her children to do so; despite the denial of legally sanctioned marriages to the enslaved, she married William Gibbons, who too was held in bondage by a faculty member. After the war, as her husband became a prominent Baptist minister, Gibbons embarked on an inspirational career as an educator in Charlottesville's Freedmen's school and then in its segregated public schools.
In her deeds and words, Gibbons refuted the core tenet of the Lost Cause - its defense of slavery. Gibbons's searing remembrance of the Old South is inscribed onto U-Va.'s new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers: "Can we forget the crack of the whip, cowhide, whipping-post, the auction-block, the handcuffs, the spaniels, the iron collar, the negro-trader tearing the young child from its mother's breast as a whelp from the lioness? Have we forgotten that by those horrible cruelties, hundreds of our race have been killed? No, we have not, nor ever will."
The claim that the Lee and Jackson statues stood for the "heritage" of the Charlottesville region has always been a falsehood. Albemarle County had a Black majority on the eve of the Civil War. That majority not only welcomed Union victory, but was instrumental in bringing it about.
With the statues gone, we can better understand the era in which Lee and Jackson, and the unsung Southerners who sought their defeat, lived. Isabella Gibbons's eyes, engraved in granite on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, ask us to look unflinchingly at Southern history, in its totality, and to see it anew.
Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia and author of "Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War."
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