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By Chuck Stephens In 50 Best FIlmmakers Under 50, CS50, From The Magazine
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
By Chuck Stephens
Apichatpong Weerasethakul may be on a first0name basis with more people on the planet than any other Cannes-prizewinning filmmaker in history, but no matter how "average" Joe—or Joei, as he's more recently taken to transliterating his nickname—might seem to become, he never begins to lose his heavenly glow, his beatific gleam. When Joei smiles, cinema and its billion starstruck amants smile with him. He is—like his magical, ephemeral, transcendent films—enchanting, and a generation has now come of age loving his movies about fearlessly grinning boys and freaky ventilation systems and far-out haunted forests; blissfully his as they surrender, still young, to Tropical Malady (2004), as recollective as Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) when they later come to recognize the ways in which each of his films seems to haunt all the others. "It's as if my films are like mini-diaries of my recollections of certain things and events," Joei remarked almost a decade ago, describing from the start his filmography as diary and fever dream, neither quite documentary nor necessarily fiction. "I'm finishing one very romantic film of a hotel on the Mekong, in Nong Khai," Joei says of his latest project. "It's a one-hour film called Mekong Hotel. My crew goes there, and my friend, who is a guitar teacher, improvises and plays guitar for an hour. My crew is trying to rehearse a movie about this ghost who goes around eating innards. It's like a documentary but every scene is shot in a hotel room." The first thing this suggests is the sort of continuity we've come to expect from Apichatpong: the final scene of Uncle Boonmee also took place in a hotel room. But in the same way that Uncle Boonmee seemed somehow rounded-off, at once foretold and reconfigured, in the short videos Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009) and Phantoms of Nabua (2009) and the Primitive exhibition, there are already sets of what the filmmaker terms "satellites of memories" forming around Mekong Hotel. As I type these words, Apichatpong's new installation, For Tomorrow For Tonight—a reverie about the future, also set along the Mekong, featuring near-future-ish humanoids borrowed from Ray Bradbury and, in the case of a character named "Power Boy," covered in strings of lights from a Thai karaoke joint—is still on display at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. (There's also a widely available catalogue available for those out of commuting distance to the show.) Joei's only been making movies for a little over a decade now, yet it seems like just an instant—the richest imaginable of instants. May it always seem that way.
Tagged with → Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Animal Equation Ben Russell
Audrey II: Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell's MS Slavic 7
To Thine Own Self Be True: Angela Schanelec on I Was at Home, But…
Ghost Operas: Music from the Films of Bertrand Bonello
Soft and Hard: Claire Denis on High Life
Encore: Dora García's Segunda vez
The Good Fight: The Films of Julia Reichert
Truth and Method: The Films of Thomas Heise
Thinking in Images: Scott Walker and Cinema
The Exorcist: Barbara Loden and Wanda
Issue 79 Editor's Note
Exploded View | Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It
Global Discoveries on DVD: Extras and Streaming, Now, Then, and There
Film/Art | Curses and Blessings: Moving Images at the 58th Venice Biennale
Film/Art | Manhattan Style: Andy Warhol's Empire
Festivals Spotlight
Jeanne (Bruno Dumont, France)
Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, South Korea)
Our Time (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden)
A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore/France/Netherlands)
Nervous Translation (Shireen Seno, Philippines)
Cinema Scope 79 Table of Contents
Cinema Scope Issue 79 with Features including .. Truth and Method: The Films of Thomas Heise by Michael Sicinski, Thinking in Images: Scott Walker and Cinema by Christoph Huber, 58th Venice Biennale, Cannes and DVD Reviews.
Excuse me if I come across as discombobulated, it's not because of any movie I've watched recently. No, I'm talking about far more important things than cinema: this issue is in the process of being closed while deep in the throes of Raptors mania, to be precise, the incredible goings-on of Game 4.
By Robert Kotyk In the first scene of Julia Reichert's first film, Growing Up Female (co-directed with Jim Klein, 1971), a
I've exited the last several Bruno Dumont films wondering—only somewhat in jest—whether or not their maker had gone completely insane. Until 2014, Dumont was notorious for his straight-faced, neo-Bressonian, severely severe dramas that interrogated the intersection of spiritualism and material form.
Undersung filmmaker Ken Kobland's strange, sumptuous slice of classically minded surrealism, Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It, created in 1986 in collaboration with The Wooster Group (America's experimental-theatre ensemble extraordinaire) is, too, a creature born from Flaubert's polymorphous bestiary.
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Excuse me if I come across as discombobulated, it's not because of any movie I've watched recently. No, I'm talking about far more important things than cinema: this issue is in the process of being closed while deep in the throes of Raptors mania, to be precise, the incredible goings-on of Game 4. More →
By Robert Kotyk In the first scene of Julia Reichert's first film, Growing Up Female (co-directed with Jim Klein, 1971), a woman takes the hand of More →
I've exited the last several Bruno Dumont films wondering—only somewhat in jest—whether or not their maker had gone completely insane. Until 2014, Dumont was notorious for his straight-faced, neo-Bressonian, severely severe dramas that interrogated the intersection of spiritualism and material form. More →
Undersung filmmaker Ken Kobland's strange, sumptuous slice of classically minded surrealism, Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It, created in 1986 in collaboration with The Wooster Group (America's experimental-theatre ensemble extraordinaire) is, too, a creature born from Flaubert's polymorphous bestiary. More →


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Workers 'should be forced to have pay docked to pay for care in old age'
Sir David Behan giving evidence to MPs
Laura Donnelly, Health Editor
4 November 2018 • 9:30pm
Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Workers should be forced to have their pay docked, and equity from pensioners' homes taken to cover the cost of care in later life, the former head of the country's health watchdog has said.
Sir David Behan, who recently stood down from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), urged ministers to be brave in their forthcoming green paper on social care.
The issue almost cost Theresa May the last election, with proposals to tackle the issue dropped after being dubbed a "dementia tax".
In an interview with The Telegraph, Sir David pressed ministers to introduce measures to use the "wealth" of baby boomers - whether in the form of their homes, savings or pensions, to pay towards their care.
And he said such changes should be accompanied by a compulsory system of social insurance for those of working age, in order to build up funds for the future.
Such charges would be taken from pay packets on top of national insurance, contributing to a national care fund to pay towards care in old age.
A proposal for mandatory insurance in understood to be one of six options currently under consideration for the Government's social care green paper, which is due to be published next month.
Failure to introduce such measures would result in "a long steady decline" of the care system, with growing numbers denied any help, the former watchdog chief said.
"Government in my view has not been brave enough in making the decision to reform the system," he said, urging ministers to look to other countries which have taken such steps.
"If you look at Japan and Germany they've reformed their system," he said. "Other Governments are responding to this issue."
Over the last two decades, both countries have introduced mandatory insurance for workers.
Sir David urged ministers to introduce similar measures, warning that voluntary schemes were unlikely to work.
The Health Secretary recently floated the idea of an "auto-enrolment" scheme for care, with pay docked to fund future care unless a person opts out. Other ideas under consideration include a "care Isa" where unspent funds would be exempt from inheritance tax.
But Sir David suggested that optional schemes might leave too many people deciding to "take their chances" in the hope they never needed care.
"The most effective way to plan for this is by having a big risk pool. If you make a political choice that its voluntary then the size of your risk pool is lower," he said. "In my personal view, there should be compulsory insurance."
Japan social care premium
Sir David 63, left CQC in July after 40 years working in social services and health, and has just taken up a role as a non-executive director for HC-One, Britain's largest care home operator.
In the first interview since he stepped down, the former official said attempts to provide care for a rapidly ageing population should also make more use of the "wealth" tied up in pensioners' homes, instead of expecting them to be passed on to future generations.
"I think the older generation need to be able to make a contribution towards their care costs. You have to have things like equity release," he said.
"Those of us that have wealth, whether that is through pension or equity should make a contribution to the cost of care," Sir David said, urging politicians and the public to be "more open-minded".
Explained | The 'dementia tax'
Funding needed to come from current workers, and those past retirement age, in the interests of "intergenerational fairness" he said.
Measures to dock workers' pay should allow the younger generation some time to "accumulate their assets and get on the housing ladder" the former official said, highlighting the system in in Japan, where premiums begin to be taken from the age of 40.
Without radical action and substantial funding, the situation facing Britain's elderly could become intolerable, he suggested, with think tanks suggesting that more than £4bn a year extra is required.
"Over the next 20 years the number of people aged over 85 is set to double. Quite frankly, the supply of care is not keeping pace with demand," he said, with research suggesting that one in seven pensioners who need help to wash, dress or get out of bed do not receive it.
"We risk a long steady decline," he warned. "The demand for care is going to increase, you will have more people not getting the support they require, more pressure on the NHS, more families under pressure; this is not a tolerable system for a civilized society."
NHS at 70 - Average weekly cost of care
Sir David said warring between the major parties meant serious proposals were too often "dismissed out of hand" - describing attacks on Theresa May's dementia tax as "retaliation" for previous Tory criticism of Labour's social care plans.
And he raised fears that ministers would end up fudging decisions, if they were not prepared to show leadership.
"In 1948, with the creation of the NHS, Bevan did that in the face of opposition from both consultants and GPs. It was controversial, and it was a brave decision by the government of the day.
"We need a similarly brave decision to reform the system of social care today; if we keep waiting for a consensus, we will not see the changes we need," he said.

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Here is a brief representation of one of the four stories that Bev shared with the audience on Friday at Grant's View library.
In this story, the artist as a young boy feels neglected and abused by his father. In spite of that, the boy knows what he loves and does all he can to reach for it. He ignores the obstacles thrown up by the father. Then as a young man working in his chosen field, he is frustrated that he can not gain the recognition he thinks that he deserves. He strays off track in his effort to become recognized as a great artist. He goes to extremes. When he finally gets part of his desire, he finds the price that he has paid for his success is the loss of his life driving force. The story is one of deepest tragedy and heroism both at once. This story calls into question how we evaluate and value art, if not the value of human life itself.
The following web sites have articles on the artist and his life. You can read the articles and learn much about the subject of Bev's story, the famous art forger, Han van Meegeren. You will learn how he became a hero and you will see the tragedy of his life. What you won't get from the web sites is the experience of Bev weaving the facts of the case into the riveting story that she did on Friday afternoon. Nor will you feel the passion and drama that Bev brought to the story.
Bev told three more fascinating stories Friday afternoon. All of them were just as good at keeping the audience on the edge of their seats; stories of madness, love and baseball.
The following web sites have articles on Han van Meegeren and his life.
Experts in the 1940s judged the woman in van Meegeren's "The Last Supper" (right) to be a match for "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Vermeer.
Bev Schuetz worked her story magic on the audience with podium and words alone. Asked if she needed the projector, no. Microphone, no. It seems no one in the listening audience missed either device. And listen they did. She kept the audience riveted with just her style and story line.
After the four dramatic stories, she posed the question to the audience of what the stories had in common, that is, why had she chosen to tell them together in one presentation. Without waiting for audience response, she explained her reasoning for putting these four very different stories together into the one presentation. What was the common theme according to Bev? You will have to attend her presentation the next time she gives it to learn that for yourself and to pronounce your own opinion. To learn more about Bev and the talks she offers, go to her web site at: http://historytalks.info/bev.html.
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Opinion: Should Republicans Still Call Themselves The Party Of Lincoln?
Published July 20, 2019 at 2:00 AM HST
J. Scott Applewhite
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined from left by House Republican Conference chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters prior to a vote called by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to condemn what she called "racist comments" by President Donald Trump, at the Capitol on July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Should Republicans still call themselves the Party of Lincoln?
Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, declared, "We are the party of Lincoln," as he contended President Trump was not racist for suggesting four Democratic representatives, US citizens who are also women of color, should "go back" to the places they came from.
But it might be telling to remember what Abraham Lincoln thought of a political movement of the 1850's called the American Party. They called themselves the Know Nothings, because they were encouraged to say they "knew nothing" about the secretive party's membership.
The Know Nothings detested and feared immigration. They believed an influx of Catholic immigrants - from Germany and Ireland - were part of a papal conspiracy to overthrow white Protestant America. They wanted to restrict immigration, and keep foreign-born citizens from voting.
The Know Nothings were not a negligible splinter group. They won more than forty seats in congress in 1854. Millard Fillmore, their candidate for president in 1856, won 21% of the vote.
Lincoln wrote his old friend, Joshua Speed, in 1855, "I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.'"
Lincoln, like many great figures, can be quoted to bolster almost any position. But Sean Trainor, a lecturer at the University of Florida who has written about the period, told us, "Modern Republican immigration policy bears no resemblance to the policies of Lincoln and his generation of Republicans. The party's founders fought against proposed limits on the number of immigrant arrivals ...Today's Republicans do the opposite."
Maybe no political party can forever be identified with its founders. Many Democrats no longer call their annual fund-raisers, "Jefferson-Jackson Dinners," because Thomas Jefferson wrote, "all men are created equal," but still owned slaves, and Andrew Jackson brutalized Native Americans.
But can Republicans who don't see bigotry in President Trump's insult continue to claim Abe Lincoln as the brand name of their party?
'Hot Dog' wins Caldecott, Newbery is awarded to 'Freewater'
Teresa Xie
Hot Dog, by Doug Salati, is about an overheated pup who finds his calm on a trip to the beach. Freewater, by Amina Luqman-Dawson, is about two enslaved children finding freedom.
Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, is dead at 64
Emily Olson
Lisa Loring will be remembered as a Hollywood icon for playing the gloomy Wednesday Addams at age 6. She went on to fill roles on As the World Turns and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E..


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Q: Animate SearchView in the toolbar Does anyone know if there is any Libary or something else which could help me to animate my searchView like in the WhatsApp Application?
When you press the search button of the toolsbar in the latest version of whatsapp you can see a white circle comming from the search icon and expanding to a search box with a white background.
Its kind of hard to describe.

A: Look on github for a library called FabTransitionLayout, that's the one you're looking for.
Cheers

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Drag performer Buck Wylde performs an Elvis Presley routine. Photo by Cristian ArguetaSoto.
With drag performers and an electric crowd of more than 350 people Monday, TCU's A Night of Drag was hugely successful in raising money for LGBTQ S.A.V.E.S., an organization that offers resources to youth and their families in Fort Worth and promotes supportive learning environments.
Graduate Spectrum members, the Women and Gender Studies department and the Gender Resource Office worked to combat society's homophobic nature and the negative connotation that drag has at the event, said Whitney Roach, the president of Graduate Spectrum and organizer of the event.
A Night of Drag organizers made the effort to make their space as welcoming and accepting of all audiences as possible, with restroom signs that allowed people to use whichever restroom they identify their gender with.
Two professors performed at the event: Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies Dr. Nino Testa and Associate Professor of Dance Adam W. McKinney. They each performed a solo show and then a duo performance.
Professor Adam McKinney and TCU's Dr. Nino Testa during their duo performance. Photo by Cristian ArguetaSoto.
A Night of Drag featured performers of different experience levels: first-time performers and professional performers.
A performer during their dance routine. Photo by Cristian ArguetaSoto.
Christa Franks, a Brite Divinity School Administrative Assistant, hosted the drag show under the stage name Honey Sinclair. As a professional emcee, Franks had the responsibility of making the first-time performers' performances as smooth as they could be, she said.
Although the planning was tiresome, Franks and Roach were satisfied with the success of the heavy volunteer work, the great performances and the involved audience.
Buck Wylde and the Pisto Lettes performing the last act of the show on Monday night. Photo by Cristian ArguetaSoto.
The success of the show has made Roach want to do more work with other organizers to put on more shows like A Night of Drag in the community.
"Let's shoot for every year," Roach said about putting another drag show in the future.
Cristian is a sophomore Journalism major and Studio Art minor at TCU. He is the photo editor for TCU360. He enjoys landscape photography and learning new photo techniques.


In the last few posts in this series I've examined some consequences of British values, where we have pounds and shillings (and also pence) – but then have this other value, the guinea, which equals one pound and one shilling. This situation, so traditional for Brits and so strange for foreigners, allowed us to imagine the same value being expressed in two different systems. In one system, values are expressed in pounds and shillings (I'm ignoring pence altogether here); in the other system, values are expressed in guineas and shillings. Each system is equally valid and workable, though one is rather familiar, and the other one is rather strange. We've explored writing values as vectors, and seen how the same value can be expressed as two different vectors depending on which system is used.
We explored how the vector representation of a value in one system can be obtained from that in the other system through matrix multiplication, where the matrix used (the transformation matrix) is a square matrix (that is, has the same number of rows as it has columns).
In the last post, we used graphs to represent values. In the first graph, there is a pound axis and a shilling axis, drawn at right angles. Values are represented by a point. In the second graph, the shilling axis is left the same, the values are all drawn in the same place as before, but values are now expressed in terms of guineas and shillings. This can be done, at the expense of showing the guinea axis not at right angles but at a different angle to the shilling axis. We saw that, though axes at right angles are convenient, there is nevertheless some arbitrariness about it.
In this post, we will pursue that by drawing graphs again, but this time with the guinea axis at right angles to the shilling axis.
On the guinea and shilling axes, the value of Jane's jar is represented as shown, indicating 4 guineas and 3 shillings. As you can see, this graph can not be overlaid on top of the ones from the previous post: Jane's jar is in a different position now. The value in Jane's jar is still 7 shillings more than 4 pounds; this is shown in the graph by having the 4-pound mark 7 shillings below the mark for Jane's jar. This is consistent with the notion that a pound is one guinea minus one shilling, and showing pounds below the guineas axis is a way to express their values as having a negative shilling component. We can show the same values in the same place, using shilling and pound axes, but only if we are willing to accept pounds and shilling axes to be at something other than right angles; this is shown below.
This graph, when printed on transparent paper, could be overlaid over the previous graph, and show both the shilling axis and the value in Jane's jar in the same location. As you see, 'guineas' are no longer marked on it; we merely have pounds and shilling axes, just not at right angles. Even though some of the four graphs shown (two in this post, two in the prior post) look more familiar than others, you could argue that none is intrinsically 'truer' than the others.
The coordinate grids where axes are at non-right angles will give us an interesting lead in to vector addition and linear combinations, viewed geometrically.
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At CPJ, we believe that we are called to follow Christ's example by loving our neighbours, practicing justice and compassion, and being stewards of creation. We also believe that all people, as God's image bearers, are created to live in dignity.
The Bible explains in Micah 6:8 what God requires of us: "to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." Throughout the Bible, the well-being of the most vulnerable—orphans and widows—is used as a barometer of justice for a society. We can measure Canada's success in following this call by examining the situations of our most vulnerable peoples.
Public justice is the political dimension of loving our neighbour. This means promoting the well-being of the vulnerable in all aspects of life—in our neighbourhoods, our churches, non-governmental organizations, community groups, and governments. Living out this call includes being active and engaged citizens—getting to know our elected officials, staying informed, and advocating for just policies.
To advocate simply means "to plead in favour of." Any time you voice your support for a policy, cause, or idea you are advocating. This includes means speaking to those in power to influence decisions in the political sphere. Advocacy also means adding strength to the voices of marginalized and poor peoples, collectively creating a voice that cannot be ignored. If we want to exercise this kind of faithful citizenship, it means active engagement in public policy debates and dialogue with elected officials about issues of public justice.
As citizens of a democracy, we have both the right and responsibility to make a difference in the policies and actions of our government. Our political leaders have a responsibility to listen to the will of the people, and each of us has the responsibility to express our views through active citizenship. This means staying informed, voicing our opinions, and working for justice wherever possible.
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For a more information about public justice, see our document: Public Justice: What Does It Mean For Citizens, Governments, and CPJ?


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Hautier Eugénie ( 1822-1909 )
Eugénie Anne Hautier was born in Rennes on 13th October 1822, the daughter of an artillery officer, Alexandre-François-Eugène Hautier. In February 1834, at the age of 11½, she was admitted to the school of the Legion of Honour in Saint-Denis, near Paris. This institution accepted the daughters of superior officers who were members of the order of the Legion of Honour. It was within this institution, where she would remain until the age of 17, that her artistic training began. The course of study did indeed in the 1830s include 'arts d'agrément' (music, drawing, and dance). In Saint-Denis, drawing was an important discipline. When Eugénie Hautier became a pupil there, teaching was under the supervision of Jean- Baptiste Paulin Guérin, a history painter of repute.
This teaching served a dual purpose. On one hand, it proposed an initiation to the arts typical of a young bourgeois woman's education. On the other hand, it represented the first step for artistic training with an opening onto the practice of fine arts, which could provide professional perspectives in the domain. Hautiers artistic training did not cease when she left the Legion of Honour. Indeed, specializing in the final years of study at Saint-Denis "allowed a number of boarders to become professional painters as soon as they completed their schooling"
Eugénie Hautier was to frequent the teaching studios of several reputed Parisian painters before choosing for herself the career of an artist. She became a pupil of Henry Scheffer, one of "the most sought after professors for women" as well as of Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and Eugène Isabey, two history painters. In 1848, she started to exhibit her work at the Salon of Living Artists in Paris
Hautier exhibited her work not only at the Paris Salon but also in the provinces, while diversifying her production: in addition to portraits, she presented paintings of flowers or fruit, still life, interior or historical scenes. Like a number of other artists of the period, she was also a copyist within the context of orders or acquisitions of art work from
/ by the state (mainly of Spanish masters such as Velasquez, an influence which can be felt in her paintings). Despite her remaining a background artist, she gained a certain notoriety through her pictorial production and obtained various prizes and medals as a result of several exhibitions.
Hautier opened a drawing school for girls and adult women in Paris in 1860 with the financial aid of the municipality. Her doing so initiated a wave of the creation of similar institutions in the French capital during the 1860s and the increasing involvement of female artists in the field of teaching. Eugénie Hautier was one of very few women to make a statement in the context of the great inquiry on professional instruction conducted by the French ministry of Commerce in the years 1863–1864: here she presented not only her drawing school, incidentally of repute, but also the project of a professional school centred on the industrial arts. Focusing on graphic education and productive work, this school was established in the second half of the 1860s. Hautier's drawing school rapidly acquired a good reputation. She gained notoriety during school exhibitions organized by the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry. In 1870, Eugénie Hautier was appointed inspector of the teaching of drawing in Parisian schools, within the creation of a specific service for the inspection of girls' primary schools. She joined a (small) body of municipal inspectors which was before exclusively male, and there she would remain the only woman until 1881. In this position, she played a decisive part in the organization and development of the teaching of drawing for girls in Parisian primary schools during the 1870s.


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Vote for a reason
Meena Morar October 23, 2015 Features, Talon 268 Views
The question of what exactly it means to be a conservative or liberal seems to be ignored by young voters who think that they already know everything. It's easy to categorize people, but does being a conservative automatically make you a Republican? Can you be a Democrat with conservative views? What do the independent parties believe?
Generally speaking, the words Republican and Democratic represent the two major political parties. The words conservative and liberal represent viewpoints and attitudes towards issues, and they do not necessarily have to fit with their supposedly respective political parties. However, to most individuals, liberal is considered Democratic, and conservative is considered Republican.
"I caution my students to not necessarily label one party as the liberal party and one party as the conservative party," said Matthew Ridenour, US government and AP US History teacher, "but to look case by case and issue by issue at what they believe."
What does it actually mean to be a conservative? The word itself almost gives a clue, as the root of the word literally means, "to conserve."
"What I teach in my class is that conservatism in America means that you prefer slow change over quick change," Ridenour said. "Sometimes, conservatives are given a bad rap because it seems like they're not progressive enough. It's not that conservatives don't care for change, it's just that conservatism, as a principle, fundamentally means slow change that is thoughtful and considerate, not reactionary and not necessarily subject to fads and trends, rather tested over time."
On the other hand, liberals prefer to make decisions that have to do with what is currently happening in society around them. The root of the word literally means, "to be free," in other words, to be open to new decisions.
"To be liberal means to be open to fast paced, quick change of short periods of time," Ridenour said. "When we talk about someone being a progressive liberal, what we mean is that they are looking at culture and trends and saying, 'Well this is the direction society is heading, and therefore our party will follow.'"
Another perspective would be to look at how much of a role the government plays in daily life.
"A conservative is someone who is interested in building their own communities and institutions, and therefore wants less government interfering with them," AP economics teacher David Hoffner said. "With smaller government and less intrusive governments, our communities can take care of themselves."
Conservatives predominantly prefer more government involvement in social issues, such as restrictions on gay marriage, abortion and euthanasia, rather than economic issues. While conservatives would prefer a smaller, more regimented government (in certain situations), a liberal would prefer a larger government with more power in the state, especially in economic issues. With social issues, liberals prefer fewer restrictions by the government and more freedom for changing topics.
"Being liberal means that [your] highest priority is your individuality and your ability to express yourself," Hoffner said, "because of that emphasis of focusing on the individual, there needs to be a larger state to protect you and your rights. So, you want a larger, active government that is going to be involved in protecting and producing for you, because you're a sovereign individual."
In a general sense, the majority of members of the United States are liberals in that free speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press are all practiced.
Both Republicans and Democrats will agree with the idea of being liberal that way, but the main difference comes with the analysis of major issues.
For example, with abortion, liberals are typically "pro-choice", where the woman has her individual, human right to choose what happens to her body – the government's job is to protect this right.
Conservatives are usually "pro-life", believing that the fetus has a human life since conception and abortion is something that should be restricted by the government, without taxpayer dollars supporting it.
With all the variations of meanings, how does that apply to the United States' history and how has it influenced political parties to adjust?
"A lot of our current definitions were constructed out of the '60s and '70s," said Nathan Johnson, who teaches AP US Government and Politics. "For example, liberalism today means to be involved in the economy with government intervention. That came out of FDR and the New Deal, which then became a part of the Democratic Party. Unions, African Americans and environmentalists tend to support the Democrats. Those two groups don't automatically go together. Why would they all be in the same party? They don't naturally fit there, it's just a historical process."
The point that Johnson makes is that meaning of the words change as context changes and specific situations influence parties. For example, African Americans used to be primarily a part of the Republican Party during Lincoln's time as president.
The Republicans were the anti-slavery party while the Democrats were pro-slavery. This all changed in the 1930s when the Great Depression hit and meaning shifted with the parties.
New ideas came to light, new parties were sponsored by different organizations and things took a different turn.
It matters because the presidential campaign is heating up for the 2016 election.
"[Your vote] does make a difference," senior Luke Frazier said. "I think people are really turned away from politics because it's only one vote that's not going to make a difference or affect anybody. One vote, but then you get more people involved, which becomes tens of thousands of votes.
Honestly, people need to take a look and see that this stuff affects our everyday lives. Why wouldn't you want to make decisions on how your life would be affected?"
That's one student's perspective, but from all the "seasoned" voters, one consensus rang true: focus on issues that matter individually and reflect – know yourself and what you want.
"I would make the winner the president and the second place the vice president. How fascinating would it be if it was Obama and Mitt Romney, and Mitt was there offering alternatives and asking questions. You don't want people around you who are going to just affirm you all the time." – economics teacher David Hoffner
"You have conservō, conservāre which means to conserve. You're saving resources for future generations, however, you're saving for yourself. Liberalis means free or generous. People are generous with providing for future generations. People could say that liberals are inconsistent and free with their thoughts." – Latin teacher Johanna Beck
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As an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer who has led over 100 expeditions and logged over 7,000 hours underwater, Dr. Earle is a pioneer in deep-sea exploration and research. In Beyond Blue, her passion for the ocean is apparent as she describes what she sees and feels throughout the dive. "It's possible to get below the surface, and to really get an idea of what life is like in the twilight zone and in the deep sea beyond," she says from inside the submersible. Her face glows and smiles as she watches a fish on the deep seafloor.
Most of the ocean is cold and dark. Most of what is known about the ocean is in that upper 1,000 feet or so. You look at a spot on the map and if you only know what's at the surface you don't really know what's going on, any more than you would know about New York City if you just looked at the tops of the buildings. It's really important to have information about what's in the deep sea. Being here in a little submarine, illustrating the nature of what's here – it's not just rocks and water. It's a living system; the water itself is full of life.


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GLENMONT, N.Y.—Professional Insurance Agents of New York State, elected 10 New York professional, independent insurance agents to serve on the board of directors at the association's annual business meeting today in Glenmont, N.Y.
The following individuals were re-elected to serve for a three-year term, ending in 2021:
Richard Andrews, LUTCF, of Andrews Agency Inc., in Ithaca N.Y. Active in PIANY, Andrews is chairperson of the Company/Industry Relations Committee and is a member of the Education/Conference Committee. He also is an ex-officio member of the associations Southern Tier Advisory Council.
Tim Dean of Marshall & Sterling Inc., in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. An active member of PIANY, Dean is vice president of the association and serves as vice president of the Company/Industry Relations Committee. He also is a member of the Education/Conference and Executive/Budget & Finance Committees.
Fred Holender, CLU, CPCU, ChFC, MSFS, of Lawley Services Inc. in Buffalo, N.Y. Holender will serve as immediate past president of PIANY in 2018-19. He is executive chairperson of the Executive/Budget & Finance Committee and is an ex officio member of the Company/Industry Relations, Education/Conference, Government Affairs, Member, Benefits & Services, Nominations and PIANY Political Action Executive Committees. He also is a member of the PIANYPAC Governing Committee.
Anthony Kammas of Skyline Risk Management Inc., in Flushing, N.Y. Kammas will serve as vice president of PIANY for 2018-19. An active member of PIANY, Kammas serves as budget & finance chair of PIANY's Executive/Budget & Finance Committee. He also is chair of the Company/Industry Relations Committee and he is a member of the Government Affairs Committee. Kammas is a member of the PIANY National Flood Insurance Program subcommittee and he is an ex-officio member of the association's New York City Advisory Council.
Frances Scott of F.A. Scott Insurance Agency in Goshen, N.Y. Active in PIANY, Scott is education vice chairperson of the Education/Conference Committee. She also is a member of the Company/Industry Relations Committee and the Hudson Valley Regional Awareness Program Committee. Scott also is an ex-officio member of the Lower Hudson Valley Advisory Council.
Gary Slavin, CLTC, CIC, of Mass Mutual in Greenvale, N.Y. As an active member of PIANY, Slavin is chairperson of the Member, Benefits & Services Committee and is a member of the Government Affairs Committee.
Leslie Rogoff of Madison Avenue Brokerage Corp. in New York, N.Y. Active in the association, Rogoff is a conference chairperson of PIANY's Education/conference Committee. She also is a member of the Member, Benefits & Services Committee and is chairperson of PIANY's New York City Advisory Council.
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Jon Lipton, CIC, of Castle Rock Capacity LLC in New York, N.Y., part of EPIC Brokers. Active in PIANY, Lipton is a member of the Company/Industry Relations and Education/Conference Committees. He also is a member of the association's New York City Advisory Council.
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One of the most powerful things you can do to better your life is to consume (and apply) knowledge from years of data and experience gathered from others.
We all know time is your most precious resource, and you can save a lot of it when learning from other's mistakes and life lessons. This is what led me to read, write and reflect daily.
Between the books, blogs, and forums I read last year, I probably read as much as I did while in PT school.
By learning more, my wife and I are empowered to work towards creating a life we want to live.
Here are 12 finance and self-development books that I read last year.
This book is written by none other than the founder of Vanguard. It is full of historic data to prove how low cost index funds is the way to go for the majority of the population. Even Warren Buffet's estate is set to place his assets in low costs index funds for his wife. With all the data presented in this book, it is hard to argue that there is a stronger, less complicated strategy to investing that even amateurs can begin immediately.
A must have for those who want to learn about the fundamentals of efficient investing. Jim Collins breaks down investing into digestible pieces using entertaining language without the jargon and mundane numbers found in other investment books.
Whether you are starting on your path to financial independence or just beginning to retire. This is a key resource to pick up.
Another classic for those who want to learn some fundamentals in behaviors to practice to achieve wealth. Robert talks about 4 asset classes and mainly harps on the business asset class, but it is definitely a book everyone should pick up.
Your neighbor could be a millionaire and your doctor could be dead broke. This booked opened my eyes in seeing how the American culture of consumption and social norms drive the vast majority of the populations into the heavy debt. It provides data comparing the spending behavior of the average millionaire to the spending behavior of the average earning American. You can guess what the outcomes are, but it's quite staggering when you actually learn the numbers and conceptualize it.
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Constantly working for the next paycheck, but have little to show for it? Are you not satisfied with your job or your life because of your finances or how you spend your time? Look no further, this book is a great start, full of actionable tips and content that can change your life for the better. After reading this book, you may develop the mindset to fight the battle of consumption and take back your life.
A great piece of work by a down to earth author who will get you thinking about what is truly important in your life. His work is brutally honest and crude with a touch of humor. Mark Manson tells us what we all need to hear and does not sugar coat anything. If you find yourself having trouble saying "No", and want to learn how to properly prioritize what is important to you, look no further.
In debt up to your eyeballs? Dave Ramsey will help whip you into shape so you can never feel that terrible feeling of debt and gain some financial freeway for life's unpredictable journey. While there are some things I don't agree with, I am not the key population he is targeting in this book. For those having trouble savings money and have debt they cannot get rid of, this is for you.
Sometimes we believe we own the things we buy when in fact, they own us. This book goes over fundamentals of essentialism and minimalism and how you can apply these principles to regain control over the things you own.
Not living your best life or not living to your full potential. I know, me neither, but I am working towards it and this book helped propel me forward. It is full of exercises to assess your life, habits, desires and goals. You have to be willing and open to self-evaluation. I recommend doing these exercises both independently and with a partner. Ultimately, you will feel motivated to work towards your best version of yourself and work towards designing your life to your liking.
It talks about basic personal finance principles, like paying yourself first by saving at least 10% of your income (I personally think you need to save much more than that nowadays), investing, the power of compounding interest and living below your means. While it really didn't teach me anything new, it provided me with plenty of reinforcement to instill these principles to my being.
I couldn't get enough of learning about minimalism and needed more content. This was a great addition to my learning. It will be an enjoyable read to guide you towards living a more simple, yet enriching life. Applying principles of minimalism has already given me the benefits of a clearer mind, improved productivity and a sense of liberation.
This is one of those books you need to keep as an ongoing resource. It is sitting on my shelf and I have it on audio format. It's has tons of actionable tips that you can revisit and use to self-evaluate year after year. The stories, lessons and activities is a powerful resource to help you create a rich life, in more ways than one.
While it is a great habit to pick up these personal development and finance books, knowledge is only power when you apply what you've learned. So take what you need from these books. Apply what you've learned and watch yourself grow.
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LDS Fiction: 'Becoming Lady Lockwood' Not Your Average Regency
By	Jennie Hansen · July 31, 2014
Becoming Lady Lockwood by Jennifer Moore is not your run-of-the-mill Regency Romance. Though I've always enjoyed an occasional break from more serious books with an occasional Regency, I've grown a bit tired of them of late. Consequently I was slow to pick this one up, but when I did, I received a delightful surprise. Instead of the balls, season, manners, and emphasis on clothing generally paramount in a Regency novel, Becoming Lady Lockwood takes place primarily aboard a British war ship during the Napoleonic Wars and the leading character, Amelia Becket, a Jamaican colonial, has no background nor interest in the "ton."
Amelia's mother died when she was ten, leaving her daughter mistress of a very large and very profitable sugar plantation. She'd only seen her father, a British admiral, twice in the intervening years. The more recent visit had been to coerce her into signing a proxy marriage document. She deemed it fortunate that her supposed husband had died four months later, leaving her with all the social advantages of being a widow, but without the inconvenience of an actual husband, an earl she'd never met.
Amelia is shocked when a British naval captain arrives with orders to escort her to London. She resists, but yields to her father's orders. She's further confused to learn the ship's captain is her brother-in-law, William Drake, who just succeeded to his brother's title and is accusing her of fraudulently marrying his brother to gain a share of his estate.
Unaccustomed to idleness, Amelia busies herself assisting the crew wherever she can and soon endears herself to them as she attempts to learn all she can about the ship and aid with storm repairs, cooking, and medical emergencies. She even breaks down the captain's antagonism toward her. In the process she learns the ship's course which was set by the captain's superiors back in London places them in perilous waters much too close to areas controlled by France and is a major concern and puzzle to the captain and his officers. As expected, their ship is attacked by French war ships.
Amelia is a strong and likable character the reader can't help cheering for. She's clever, hard working, and has a fun sense of humor. Though she begins with a somewhat limited viewpoint of life, her experiences as the book progresses broaden her outlook and she becomes more balanced. Most of the characters in this novel are male. A few are developed well, but the less important characters are stereotyped which doesn't hurt a story of this length.
The plot is handled well, follows a distinct fiction arc, and keeps the reader entertained. Moore delivers punch lines well and in spite of knowing before-hand much of what is going to happen there is no let down by the lack of surprises. A happy ending is a Romance requirement, but the author makes her characters truly work for it.
Jennifer Moore has a BA in linguistics from the University of Utah. She, her husband, and four sons make their home in northern Utah. I trust we'll see more from this talented author.
BECOMING LADY LOCKWOOD by Jennifer Moore, published by Covenant Communications, 199 pages, soft cover $14.99, also available on CD and for e-readers.


There's nothing quite like enjoying a mouthwatering meal, out on the town. Luckily, York has a great selection of restaurants for any palate. Here are a few dining establishments that we've handpicked just for you. Bon appétit!
Long-running family-owned restaurant serving polished Mexican & Peruvian dishes.
Friendly staff, awesome food, and great prices. A West York landmark since 1985.
Wood-paneled bistro's menu ranges from seafood paella to prime-rib French dip & jumbo cocktails.
Casual pizza specialist with creative pies, rotating beers & global wines, plus TVs & outdoor seats.
Colorful, no-frills storefront offering Thai & Vietnamese standards, plus Chinese-style stir-fries.


The potential of the cloud is undoubtedly significant. However, there exist few myths when it comes to adopting cloud services that might lead to bad decisions and failed implementations. One myth that has led to most of the problems is the belief that, by utilizing the cloud, a company does not have to worry about its on-premises IT infrastructure or the systems supporting it.
The statement that cloud service providers "manage everything" is not really true. In many cases, using the cloud requires new networking hardware to support advanced wide-area network (WAN) application both in terms of number of consumers and the volume of data traffic. In addition, the network infrastructure needed to connect to the cloud must be highly reliable. In some companies, the demand for uptime and the reliability of the on-premises infrastructure to migrate to the cloud are greater than the legacy uptime demands for on-premises servers and other hardware.
It's essential for organizations to house their network equipment in an environment that has physical facilities like the power, cooling, and manageability obligatory to keep it reliable, as the business depends on it. It is also important that for the physical infrastructure to have a significant amount of agility and scalability, as the cloud services are changing over time.
The second myth is that with cloud services everything can be shifted to the cloud which is not true.The reason is, transferring everything to the cloud can be expensive, and some crucial data may have to be stored on-premises to meet the regulatory requirements.


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Mixhouse Vs. Anna Ritsmar. Extended Starlight by Jonas Mix Larsen.
17 year old Anna is the youngest in this year's heat, but she is no stranger to the Danish TV audience. In 2016, she took part in X-Factor where she reached the so-called 5 Chair Challenge. She is a high school student, but has put it on hold to focus on her music projects, the Danish final and two bands she sings in.
Starlight is written by Lise Cabble. She is also involved in song number one, but contrary to her 13 previous Danish final entries, this is the first time she is taking part with a song completely written by her. Three of Lise's 13 songs have won Melodi Grand Prix and made it to Eurovision – and all finished in top 5. First one was Fra Mols Til Skagen in 1995 (5th place), then New Tomorrow from 2011 (5th place) and Emmelie de Forest' Only Teardrops winning entry from 2013.


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Student restoration project brings new life to Berea cemetery
Updated Jan 12, 2019; Posted May 29, 2010
By Sarah Crump, The Plain Dealer
Lisa DeJong, The Plain DealerVolunteer grave restorer Chris Gerrett of Fairview Park uses a tripod to hoist a 500-pound obelisk to its base at Adams Street Cemetery in Berea. Baldwin-Wallace College faculty and students along with community volunteers like Gerrett have worked at researching and restoring the cemetery since 2006.
BEREA, Ohio -- Chris Gerrett walks around a 150-year-old Berea cemetery with a canister of plain water.
Back and forth between two graves, she sprays and gently scrubs stones made nearly illegible by moss, dirt and time. Gerrett's mission is to undo what years of neglect, vandals and the elements have done in Adams Street Cemetery.
For the sake of history, which sometimes offers grim lessons, Gerrett and a band of dedicated restorers won't try to clean one headstone belonging to a child. It lies propped against the base it was removed from in an act of hate by a vandal decades ago. Though faded, three painted swastikas still glare from the stone's side.
Lisa DeJong, The PDSwastikas were painted on this child's gravestone by vandals, who in the 1930s targeted Adams Street Cemetery, possibly because some of its markers carry German names.
"Who would do that to a baby's grave?" says Gerrett, a volunteer who spends hours cleaning and resetting headstones -- sometimes single-handedly -- with a tripod and hoist that can lift markers weighing a half-ton. Many headstones in the cemetery had been damaged during the 1930s. In an era of Nazi hatred, they bore German names. Vandals struck again in the 1980s.
What began in 2006 as a Baldwin-Wallace College history department project with a veterans organization to find graves of veterans at Adams Street has grown to incorporate more departments at the college, faculty, students, the city and volunteers from the community.
Thanks to all of them, the cemetery has taken on new life. Students have even written and produced a play about the dearly departed of this cemetery and another burial site in Berea.
The project began after the death of the chaplain of American Legion Post 91, who placed flags at the graves each Memorial Day. Frank Kwilecki, who died in 2001, kept the locations of the graves in his head. "He knew that over by the maple tree there was a veteran," said Mel Baher, past post commander.
However, the post had no records of locations of the 17 or so veterans it thought were buried in the cemetery.
In 2006, word of the cemetery dilemma found its way to Baldwin-Wallace history professor Indira Gesink. She offered the grave identification project to history students as summer internships with the Berea Historical Society. Six accepted.
From there, students located a Chagrin Falls company that employed ground-penetrating radar to find 116 unmarked bodies in the cemetery. With that, the project leaped beyond military grave identification. Students combed old newspapers, census and county records and burial plot receipts, matched the bodies with names, and mapped the cemetery.
So far, 40 graves have been identified, with students working to link more unmarked graves with names. Adams Street is the resting place of 16 documented Civil War veterans, a World War I vet and a veteran of the Indian Wars, which encompass battles between American Indians and colonists and federal troops that spanned more than a century. There may even be another Civil War veteran and one who served in the War of 1812. Students are still looking for proof.
One of the B-W students who became caught up with the project is Jeremy Feador, 23, of North Olmsted, who will earn a graduate degree in history in June from Wright State University. Feador found military records for the Indian Wars veteran. Anthony Ruhl, who served in the late 1890s, now has a headstone, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Feador, whose car bumper sticker reads "I Brake for Old Graveyards," also located the diary of another Adams Street Cemetery resident, George N. Huckins, in the Duke University Library. (Huckins, a minister and a Union soldier buried in 1862, was among the first Bereans to die in the Civil War.)
The oldest marked grave in the cemetery was there before the cemetery was incorporated. (Tax records first show it on the rolls in the 1860s, Gesink said.) It is that of an infant, Albert Hinman, the 11-month-old son of pioneers who settled in Middleburg Township, the area that now is Berea, Middleburg Heights and Brook Park. He died in 1834.
Along the way, Baldwin-Wallace College biology professor Michael Melampy showed Feador how to take tree corings so that students could tell whether the trees in the cemetery were young enough to be on top of unmarked graves. (Some were.) Geology professor Sabine Thomas gave a hands-on lecture on stone typing, which students used to match broken tablet fragments to their bases.
An expert found by students gave a grave restoration workshop at the cemetery that Gerrett attended. Though she volunteers at Adams Street, she's also gone into the business -- with a sense of humor. She operates from a basement office she's nicknamed "The Crypt," with cemeteryresearch@live.com as her e-mail address.
Theater professor Jack Winget asked Gesink if students majoring in history, theater and English might write and produce a play about those buried in Adams Street and in St. Mary's Cemetery on Depot Street in Berea that students are also researching. As in "Spoon River Anthology," the "residents" told their stories. "Speaking Stones" was presented in April and may be performed elsewhere in the city this summer.
"I think that what really got to me was the story about a school bus accident in 1930," said Dylan Dwyer, one of the student writers of the play and a Berea native. Ten children and the driver died when a train struck the bus.
The purpose of the play is clear, he said. "It is to make these people come alive, because they need to be remembered. They are more than a newspaper clipping on a wall at the historical society."
There are plans for students to begin searching for a potter's field in the cemetery using soil testing for traces of lime that would indicate where a mass grave for the impoverished is located, said Gesink, who has funded the project with grants and donations -- and lots of free labor. (A Middle Eastern history scholar, Gesink plans to use her new expertise in gravestone studies in Egyptian cemeteries.)
Interest in cemeteries also has evolved into student studies of the black and Polish roots of Berea. Gesink worked with B-W communications professor Molly Swiger to train volunteers from the Berea Historical Society and students to interview veterans of World War II and the Korean War and those on the home front.
About 35 students have participated in the cemetery project so far. Because of the efforts of the students and Gesink, some of the cemetery's mysteries have been solved. The unmarked grave of Edward Tyson, who died in 1864, was located. Now there is a tombstone placed by his relatives that reads: "We have not forgotten -- found at last, Dec. 2008." About a dozen military headstones for recently identified graves await installation by the city.
But for Feador, whose work at Adams Street helped him win a graduate scholarship to Wright State, lingering in old cemeteries is an exercise in imagination. "Stop by a Civil War veteran's grave and just close your eyes and imagine the things he did in his life, the places he went, the work he did," Feador said. "It can be a trip."


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The Jewish senator from Vermont, currently leading Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, hasn't managed to get away from questions regarding his stance on Israel.
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Still, Sanders can't get away from the inevitable "But where is he on Israel?" question, especially now that the Democratic presidential contender, an Independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats, has pulled ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton in New Hampshire, the first primary state.
"Do you view yourself as a Zionist?" the left-leaning online magazine Vox asked Sanders in a July 28 interview.
It's a funny question for Sanders, who if there were an "out and proud" metric for Jews in politics would score high.
Sanders, 73, is best friends with Richard Sugarman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the University of Vermont who champions Zionism to his left-leaning students. His other best friend – and former chief of staff – is Huck Gutman, a University of Vermont professor of literature who is a passionate aficionado of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai.
When the comedian Sarah Silverman introduced Sanders at an August 10 rally in Los Angeles, she shunted aside for a moment her caustic Jewish shtick.
"His moral compass and sense of values inspires me," she said. "He always seems to be on the right side of history."
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Silverman ticked off a list of Sanders' qualifications that align him with positions that polls show American Jews overwhelmingly favor: for same-sex marriage, for civil rights, against the Iraq war. She might have added favoring universally available health care.
"He is a man of the people," Silverman said. "He has to be; his name is Bernie."
Fresh out of the University of Chicago and already deeply involved in left-wing activism, Sanders spent several months in the mid-1960s on a. The Brooklyn-born and accented Sanders has been shaped by the murder of his father's extended family in the Holocaust.
"As everyone in this room knows, I am a Jew, an old Jew," actor Fred Armisen said while playing Sanders in a 2013 "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
Sanders' well-known pique surfaced in June when Diane Rehm, the NPR talk show host, declaratively told him he had dual U.S.-Israel citizenship, citing an anti-Semitic meme circulating on the Internet.
"Well, no, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel," Sanders said. "I'm an American. I don't know where that question came from. I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions. No, I'm an American citizen, period."
So where does Bernie Sanders stand on Israel? Here's a review.
He backs Israel, but he believes in spending less on defense assistance to Israel and more on economic assistance in the Middle East.
Is Sanders a Zionist? Here's what he told Vox's Ezra Klein:
"A Zionist? What does that mean? Want to define what the word is? Do I think Israel has the right to exist? Yeah, I do. Do I believe that the United States should be playing an even-handed role in terms of its dealings with the Palestinian community in Israel? Absolutely I do.
"Again, I think that you have volatile regions in the world, the Middle East is one of them, and the United States has got to work with other countries around the world to fight for Israel's security and existence at the same time as we fight for a Palestinian state where the people in that country can enjoy a decent standard of living, which is certainly not the case right now. My long-term hope is that instead of pouring so much military aid into Israel, into Egypt, we can provide more economic aid to help improve the standard of living of the people in that area."
He will defend Israel to a hostile crowd, but will also fault Israel – and will shout down hecklers.
At a town hall in Cabot, Vermont, during last summer's Gaza war, a constituent commended Sanders for not signing onto a Senate resolution that solely blamed Hamas for the conflict, but wondered if he would "go further."
"Has Israel overreacted? Have they bombed U.N. facilities? The answer is yes, and that is terribly, terribly wrong," Sanders said.
"On the other hand – and there is another hand – you have a situation where Hamas is sending missiles into Israel – a fact – and you know where some of those missiles are coming from. They're coming from populated areas; that's a fact. Hamas is using money that came into Gaza for construction purposes – and God knows they need roads and all the things that they need – and used some of that money to build these very sophisticated tunnels into Israel for military purposes."
Hecklers interrupted, some shouting epithets.
"Excuse me, shut up, you don't have the microphone," Sanders said. "You asked the question, I'm answering it. This is called democracy. I am answering a question and I do not want to be disturbed."
His critical but supportive posture on Israel has been consistent and has included using assistance as leverage.
As mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1988, Sanders was asked if he backed then-candidate for president Jesse Jackson's support for the Palestinians during the first intifada. Sanders excoriated what he depicted as Israeli brutality as well as Arab extremism.
"What is going on in the Middle East right now is obviously a tragedy, there's no question about it. The sight of Israeli soldiers breaking the arms and legs of Arabs is reprehensible. The idea of Israel closing down towns and sealing them off is unacceptable," he said at a news conference, according to video unearthed by Alternet writer Zaid Jilani. "You have had a crisis there for 30 years, you have had people at war for 30 years, you have a situation with some Arab countries where there are still some Arab leadership calling for the destruction of the State of Israel and the murder of Israeli citizens."
Sanders said the United States should exercise the prerogative it has as an economic power.
"We are pouring billions of dollars in arms into Arab countries. We have the clout to demand they and Israel, who we're also heavily financing, to begin to sit down and work out a sensible solution to the problem which would guarantee the existence of the State of Israel and which would also protect Palestinian rights," he said.
He doesn't think the Iran nuclear deal is perfect, but he backs it.
"It's so easy to be critical of an agreement which is not perfect," he told CBS News on Aug. 7. "But the United States has to negotiate with, you know, other countries. We have to negotiate with Iran. And the alternative of not reaching an agreement, you know what it is? It's war. Do we really want another war, a war with Iran? An asymmetrical warfare that will take place all over this world, threatening American troops? So I think we go as far as we possibly can in trying to give peace a chance, if you like. Trying to see if this agreement will work. And I will support it."
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Q: What is the meaning of the command lsof +L1 lsof +L1

My understanding is that the command above shows files that have been deleted but are still open. These files have a "link count" of 0, meaning that there is no directory entry (no link, i.e. no name) that leads to them, but the file data still exists. The file data will be deleted when the file is closed. I commonly see references to this issue when people are talking about log files that the system is writing to. The file can be deleted but the process continues to write to the file and it takes up more and more memory. Other people have identified this sometimes as malicious behavior of malware that is trying to hide itself.
I am trying to understand how this can happen? When I open a file to read or write to in python, the file exists on the disk. I tried reading the relevant Xcode docs on file access but it is very dense. Are there different kinds of files - those in ram and those on disk?
These are named files so it is not memory being used by the application. For example, running this command on my mac reveals about 300 such files. the 'offending' processes are things like loginwindow, dock, systemUIS, sharingd,CalendarA, and lots of others. If this is stuff that a process is writing to RAM, can I 'attach' myself to the process with gdb and see what it's doing? Can i write these files to the disk to read them?

A: There are three things to a "file" on POSIX filesystems:

*

*The set of data blocks - the file's actual contents.

*The inode, which is a structure that holds the list of said blocks, and some metadata (size, ownership, permissions, link count, and some others).

*One or more directory entries, which contain a name and an inode number (and other things)

What you see when you run ls or in file browsers are the directory entries, organized in a tree of directories and files. Each of the directory entries map the file name to an inode number. The inode number is used to locate the inode, which is used to locate the actual blocks (and check permissions, etc.)
When you create a file, an inode is created with an initial link count of one, and a directory entry is set up with the name you specified, pointing to that inode.
If you create a hard link, a second directory entry is made with the name you chose, but pointing to the same inode - both directory entries refer to the same inode (i.e. you now have two names that refer to the same file). The link count of the inode is incremented for each new hard link.
When a process opens a file, using a file name, the kernel does the directory entry lookup, finds the inode, and returns a file descriptor that "refers to" the inode, not the directory entry. The directory entry is irrelevant once the file has been opened - it is just a convenient way to locate the right inode.
When you delete a file (e.g. using rm), you're not actually deleting the file, you're deleting the directory entry. The kernel decrements the inode's link count, but doesn't delete the inode (and reclaim space) unless:

*

*that directory entry was the last one pointing to it (i.e. link count is down to zero - this is what lsof +L1 lists: open files that are completely unlinked)

*there are no remaining open file descriptors that refer to it

So processes can continue operating on that file, even if there is no way to get back to it from browsing the filesystem. And you can get apparent inconsistencies from the output of df and du for instance:

*

*df interrogates the filesystem to see how many free blocks it has. The data blocks from the "hidden" files with no more directory entries are not free (there are still processes that can read/write them), so they still occupy space and will continue occupying that space until the last file descriptor that refers to them is closed

*du lists directory entries and sums up sizes. It can't see these unlinked files, and will thus return less space used than the filesystem will.

If the files are on traditional disks, they continue to occupy disk space just like normal, still linked files. IO happens as normal. It doesn't have more main memory requirements/start eating RAM.
If the unlinked but open files are in a filesystem backed by RAM, then they continue to occupy memory, as they did before being unlinked. (In both cases the files can still grow/shrink too.)
The space will be reclaimed only when the last open file descriptor is closed. (Note that still open file descriptors get closed when a process exits or is otherwise terminated.)

If you attach a debugger to a program that is using unlinked files, you won't see anything particularly interesting. File IO calls will look exactly the same as for normal, still linked, files. Nothing special going on there. By inspecting what is read/written you might get some ideas about what the process is using these files for, but that's about it.
As for accessing these files, I'm afraid I don't know OS X enough to tell if there's an easy way. The fdesc pseudo-filesystem looks like it could be useful, but apparently only gives you access to the current process's files.

A simple example of how a process can do this, in perl. (Can be done with just about any language, including shell scripts.)
Setup and helper function:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Fcntl qw(SEEK_SET); # for rewinding

my $fh;                 # file descriptor/handle
my $test_file = "./test_file";

sub status {            # checks if the file is "visible"
  my @st = stat($test_file);
  if (@st) {
    print "$test_file: file exists\n";
  } else {
    print "$test_file: error: $!\n";
  }
}

The main part:
# open file in read/write mode, creating it if it doesn't exist
# (overwriting it if it does)
if (!open($fh, '+>', $test_file)) {
  die "Failed to open $test_file: $!";
}
print $fh "Some data before unlink.\n";
status();
unlink($test_file);
status();
print $fh "Some data after unlink.\n";

# Rewind
seek($fh, 0, SEEK_SET);
# Print file contents
foreach my $line (<$fh>) {
  print "read: $line";
}
# Close
close($fh);

Expected output:
 $ perl test.pl
./test_file: file exists
./test_file: error: No such file or directory
read: Some data before unlink.
read: Some data after unlink.

You can move the unlink around a bit (before or after the prints), won't change anything. There's nothing special about the file handle after the unlink, can be used as any other file handle (as long as it is kept open).


A public version of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) Ready Database (FVSRDB) is available containing attributes for FVS simulations. The Public FVSRDB includes plot level data for all FVS variants nationwide. All data were collected from the LANDFIRE (LF) Reference Database (LFRDB) and contain no proprietary and/or sensitive information.
Data archived in the Public FVSRDB includes predefined input tables used for initializing stand/plot information (StandInit and TreeInit tables). More detailed descriptions and input data requirements can be found in Sections 3.3 and 4.2 of the Essential FVS Guide .
Consult the table lutVisitsSourceID in the LFRDB regarding data sources.


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