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Amanda Todd and the Culture of Sexism
Several years ago I taught a university class on the history of feminism. My students, mostly twenty year olds under an extreme amount of pressure to perform academically, struggled to grasp the concept. Feminism resides in the deepest part of my heart. When I learned to speak its language it gave me a lens through which I could understand my world. And ultimately it lead me to myself. I did my best to teach my students about feminist heroines while simultaneously questioning the validity of valourizing individual women as representitive of complex communities. But my students had glossy eyes. The decade age gap between us became apparent. They scrunched up their noses at the mention of a glass ceiling. There were more female than male students on campus and the concept seemed outdated to their minds. Eventually, one of the students tilted her head to the side, and with a great amount of careful consideration, asked "do we still need feminism now that men and women are equal?"
This week a Canadian teen took her own life. The tragedy of her story is beyond measure. A seventh grade girl was pressured to show her breasts on a webcam. She did. What followed was years of harassment and bullying that ultimately lead her to take her own life.
Her name was Amanda Todd and she is on the tip of everyone's tongue today. On the internet faceless people argue back and forth about what caused her tragic end. Some argue that kids will be kids. And that kids are cruel. Implying that Amanda should have been stronger, tougher, more resilient. Others aim their digital pitch forks at the bullies in question. String them up! Lock them away for life! While still others place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the new world of social media that allows our virtual connections to remain indefinitely in cyberspace.
But what's conspicuously absent from this dialogue is the culture of sexism that has surrounded poor Amanda Todd. What happened to make a 7th grader place the value of her existence on her appearance? Why did the flattery of "you are stunning" convince her to bare her chest? And, more than that, what is up with a culture that can simultaneously sexualize and obsess over breasts while shaming any woman who dares to bare them? The Madonna and the Whore complex is apparently alive and well in the world of 7th graders.
After changing schools and friends and lives more than once Amanda Todd then started to text with a boy. And eventually found out that he had a girlfriend. Thinking that he had genuine feelings for her she agreed to meet with him while his girlfriend was out of town. They "hooked up." The whole thing was a set-up and his girlfriend subsequently beat Amanda up as a crowd of teenagers looked on and cheered. During the fight Amanda refused to blame the boy. She didn't want him to get in trouble. She thought he liked her.
We focus on the bullies in this story because they are tangible. We can point them out and place the blame on their shoulders. And, please, do not get me wrong - they deserve a whole lot of blame. What they did was disguising and despicable. But what does it say about the rest of us that we aren't questioning the larger pattern of behaviour where young women remain subservient in an attempt to attract and keep men? Does it begin with old assurances of "oh, he pushed you on the playground, he must really like you!"? How do we expect our young women to grow into confident adults with such conflicting information?
And, seriously, can someone please comment on the double standard!? This boy cheated on his girlfriend. He was an equal partner in the "hook up." But his peers placed all of the blame on Amanda Todd.
Most people will look at this story as tragic. They will shed a tear or two and move on assuming there was nothing they could do to prevent something similar from happening. Those of us with young people in our lives may reach out to them to talk about bullying and suicide. Please have those conversations, they are essential. But while we are at it can we please also bring the culture of sexism into the conversation? Can we examine our own notions of gendered expectations, promiscuity, and misogyny? Can we take responsibility for the culture we have created that allowed all of these events to occur?
As I cried through Amanda Todd's heartbreaking video I couldn't help but think back to my student. The one who didn't see the modern day value in feminist culture now that "men and women are equal." The answer to her question is yes - we do still need feminism. We need it badly.
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The video directed by Monica Mirabile, stems from an earlier collaboration between the two on a performance art piece with choreography group FLUCT that resulted in Deacon writing an earlier version of "Meme Generator" with lyrics. To complement the video, there's an interactive video game based on the four different choreography sequences seen in the music video. Surprises abound for those that play the game.
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"Meme Generator is a game of programmed choreography. The players are downloaded into a digital world and asked to play the game of semiotic codes interacting with the "house". A few years ago Dan and I decided to collaborate on a video that I was making with my own performance art collaboration (FLUCT). That video is set in a living room which looped suburban leisure choreography created by the glitch of being physically effected by technology. The inspiration for this video has been an extension of the way our bodies are programmed by the worlds we live. In the music video, four choreographers created four dances in a liminal house. I gave no rules, just asked for a response derived from the choreographers own relationship to the "program." The program being the familiar space of the house. I'm most directly inspired by the choreography of the people that surround me, as we are all affected by a similar marketed reality. We all play the game."
Watch the videos for Gliss Riffer's "Feel the Lightning" ; "When I Was Done Dying" and "Learning to Relax"
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Gösta Werner, född 15 maj 1908 i Östra Vemmenhög i Skåne, död 20 juli 2009 i Adolf Fredriks församling i Stockholm, var en svensk regissör, filmforskare, kritiker och professor. Han var son till Carl Werner och far till Tonie Lewenhaupt.

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Werner gjorde sig känd på 1940-talet för sina kortfilmer av experimentell karaktär. Han skrev in sig i filmhistorien med Midvinterblot, en berättelse i bild. Bild blev Werners framträdande drag, förutom det litterära. Hans mest kända kortfilm är Att döda ett barn, baserad på en novell  med samma namn av Stig Dagerman.

Från tidigt 70-tal undervisade Werner i filmvetenskap på Stockholms universitet som docent och sedermera professor. Han var en av världens största auktoriteter på Mauritz Stiller och dennes filmer, som han bland annat doktorerade på.

Werner gjorde under sin levnad över 40 filmer, de flesta kort- och beställningsfilmer. Han skrev över 40 essäer och avhandlingar samt deltog aktivt i filmbranschens aktiviteter, bland annat som en av grundarna till Svenska Filmklubben samt Svenska Filmsamfundet 1933. Han var också en av grundarna till världens äldsta filmstudio,  Lunds Studentfilmsstudio 1929.

Werner avled 2009, 101 år gammal. Han var vid sin död världens äldste regissör, med de sista filmerna gjorda bara tio år innan.

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VISIT TO THE U. K. 1969
AUSTRALIA CLUB ADDRESS GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. JOHN GORTON, AT THE DORCHESTER HOTEL, LONDON
Your Royal Highness, the other Lords who were mentioned by the Toastmaster, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:-May I first express the great pleasure and the great lifting in the heart I feel at being in this room with such a distinguished company,
who have come together, as I believe, to demonstrate affection and support for the country which I lead.
It is indeed a demonstration to warm the heart of any Australian. But though I come from half a world away, yet I do not stand here completely as a stranger. As you, Mr. Minister, have said, some formative years were spent in this country during the course of my education
at a college called Brasenose which was then not 1:oted for learning in a::1y way at all. But nevertheless judging from the alumni - if I may use a word borrov,ed from my American wife - it does seem to have thrm,vn up a large number of people leading in a large number of fields, in spite of the fact that so much of their time was spent either rowing or playing hockey or engaging in some other enjoyable and agreeable activity.
I was much struck, talking of this kind of agreeable activity, by the typical British understatement you made, Mr. Minister, when you said you had thought of Australians as people who just played cricket. I seem to remember in the course of the years that they played it reasonably
well. Brasenose was not my only early life experience in the United Kingdom. With a typical politician's desire to make the best of both worlds I engaged in labouring activities. Indeed the present Lord Tweedsrnuir and I shipped as deckhands on a trawler out of hull and worked our way around the Farao
Islands and back, although at that stage, Sir, it was not absolutely essential for us to have a union ticket. But we did learn much of this country in that time, and indeed, to know more perhaps because of that study of history tn which I was engaged at this great university.
It became clear to me, as it must to anyone who studies history, that it is the British people over the centuries who have internally and externally engaged in struggle aimed always at seeking to destroy arbitrary power wherever it may raise its head; who have sought to give to the individuals - who alone are the riches of any country - the right fully to participate in the decisions that their country makes. And from the time
of Cromwell or before, through the Napoleonic wars, through the wars wheD at any time absolute and arbitrary power sought to conquer Europe (which then was the significant wcrld) it was Britain who stood as the bulwark against that idea, and this we caYJ: never forget. Nor ca;:-1 we forget, as Australians, that for :~1early two hundred years, we lived in that faraway country completely
under the protection of the British Navy. Vie had no need to defer;d ourselves
except occ&sionally when vve raised trained bands because it was thought that Russia might invade us at the time of the Crimean Viar or something of that kind - history has a habit of repeating itself. And yet the trust, the faith, the protection, was in the British people and the British Navy.
When the calls came in South Africa, or in the First World War or in the Second, then naturally we repaid, or sought to repay, that which had been so generously given to us. And on the whole, I think one can say the books are reasonably fairly balanced.
We will, I think, as you suggested, Mr. Minister, take more part in the region in which we live, provide more in the way of defence for the stability of the regions in which we live. Indeed v1e have little choice, but this is not unreason:1ble and this is not sornething at \Nhich I, at any
rate, intend to ca.vill. For we do still revere and we do still uphold those same institutions of parliamentary democracy, that same revere:-1ce for the rule of law which this country h8.s brought into the world, which you helped us for so long to retain 2.nd which I know should they be threatened
in o:.1r ovm country from 3ome source outside, we could look to you and the British ·Jeoule to assist us to retain. " < So you spoke of the development of Australi2, of the excitement of Australia, of the future of Australia. I would like for a little
while myself to say some words on vvhat I see as a brash, a growi:1g, an exciting, .s.nd exhilarating country; perhaps one of the most exciting and exhilarating countries in the 'Norld, just getting off the launching pad in a
way. Thirty years ago v,e had a population of 7 million: today we have a population of 12 million - in thirty years we will have a popula.tion of 28 million. And thirty years L1 the life of a nation is but the blinking of an eyelid and then having attained the population we will go on as I believe to
50, 60, 70 million and be a real power in the world. It will be a pov;er I hope that will always be exercised for good and always be exercised in conjunction with the British Goverument of the United f(ingdom itself.
There has been a.-1 "explosion" in Australia just recently and I am going to wenry you with some statistics to indic2te the extent of this "explosion". !·Jot so many years ago we were thought to be poor in natural resources and to be growers of wool, growers of cattle, growers
of cricketers, growers of people who sometimes unjustly criticise the United Kingdom, but not richly endowed in those dry, arid, inland areas which make up so much of our continent. Yet now our known oil fields will be produci!1g about 70 per cent of our own requirements for crude petroleum by l 97J - just two years 0:1. Only a fraction of what is there to be discovered
is I am sure, as yet 1 discovered.
We hav~ at the same time discovered supplies of natural gas for iridustry in our great cities, and this will be available in those cities -Melbourne, Brisbane - probably by the end of this year. Cur iron. ore mountai:,s seem to be illirnitable and made of a grs.de unr:n&tchecl elsewh:::r-2. By 197J v,e will be exporting 35 million tons of iron ore every year and by that stage or '71 or '72 these minerals, niclrnl as well, will be producing
one billio:i dollars a year of export income for our country .
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We have more ths.n a third of the world's known deposits of bauxite, to make alumina and nluminium and the output will rise from about a million tons which is the present output to 10 million tons in 1972. Production of coal for export will double. Nickel discoveries, tn which I
think quite a number cf people in the United Kingdom have done.reasonably well, will add to this future which lies so close within our grasp. Phosphate, copper, other minerals have been discovered and will follow.
This is no credit to us. I do not tell this to this distinguished company in the suggestion that it is something that resounds to Austrnliari. individual's own credit; I say it because I want to indicate that there is in my belief an illimitable future, that there will be a doubling in our economy every thirteen years, and that those who are interested should get in or;. the ground floor, as some already have, to take full advantage of the opportunities vvhich are there in such grec:.t abundance. 1\Iot opportunities
nicrely for Australia. Because if it is true that this economic developme::.1t is possible - and I am sure it is - and if it is true that tbis econornic development in its turn v1ill er,2 .. ble the influx of population which we so requi:re - and I'm sure that too is true - then this vision of a nation in
twenty, thirty years will be of advantage not just to us, but to us and to that England which will be tied to us forever in general approaches to the world's requirements and the world's problems.
I did read in one of the distinguished papers of this country this morning, a leading article suggesting that we regarded the United l(tngdom as a quarry for taking people and population. Well, I suppose in a sense we do. But it vvill be to both of our advantages, and indeed it
will be different from what was originally said when the settlers first came to Australia, because vve will be able to sc1y with full truth - "True patriots they, for be it understood, they left their country of our country's good."
But what we - I must pause here - all the things which I have said will take place. The speed vtith which they ta:Ce place will naturally depend upon the c,mount of capital flowing in to enable such development. And this is the more true because on curre;1t account, on
what we sell to other countries and what we buy from other countries, v1e don't do so well. The United States places difficulties in the way of us selling meat and wool and other products, and there are murmurings of some entry into sori.1e kind of association by Great Britain ·which might cut
down on the prospects of selling our own primary products. And so the current account does need to be balanced by inflow of capital. Inflow of capital, which will go to a country as stable as any country in the world, and be able to be invested in enterprises which will return to those who so
invest - 2.!1 interest as great, I think, as they could receive anywhere. We war:t this, and we wc.nt it urgently. But we want it, in some respects, on our own terms.
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Up until very recently it has seemed to me that the posture of Australia in seeking overseas capital has been the posture of a puppy lying on its back with all legs in the air and its stomach exposed, and saying, "Please, please, please, give us capital. Tickle my tummy - on. any conditions'', and this is being re-examined for those who seek and
wish to take the risks and the advantages that are offered, by bringing in capital for new development, then v;e are delighted, and we are receptive for that capital. But we do say - and I go no further than to sc, y that we do say - that we would be happy if in such cases when some new grea.t
development were to take place, and capital from here were to come to help it, and there was an opportunity - I say only an opportunity - offered for some equity participatio;I by Australians in that new development. Should they care not to take it up, that is their business, that is their loss.
Should they wish to take it up at some later stage, after the risks have beea taken and have bee:;:1 successfully overcome, then they must expect to take it up at a premium, because somebody else has rnl:en the risks. But initially, it would please us if in such cases an opportunity were given to get in on the ground floor.
We do not look with complete and utter favour on overseas corporations, having started development in our own com:.try, having broug.ht caDital from abroad to make th.~t develoument uossible, then seekin::: ~ & L ~ to raise debenture capital inside our own country in order to keep the ~rocess
rolling. Well this is not overseas capitc.l, this does not bring in with it a capacity for us to bring h more migrants. This does not bring the machL-:ery or whatever it may be that true overseas capital provides. But being reasonable people, we are 2.menable to any suggestions that, should such a situation arise and should debenture capital be sought to be raised within Australia for purposes of some overseas company, we would look aLthat
with sympathy, as long as it was coupled with the offer of equity to .. Australiar-1 shareholders at the same time.
You may have heard perhaps - I gather you have from reading the newspapers - some queries in some minds as to our c1ttitude towards portfolio investment, as distinct from development investment. We are delighted to have portfolio investment, pnrticul2.rly if Mr. Smith, or Mr. Browr: or Mr. Jones, wishing to tnke a flutter in Great \'Jestern, or in B. H.P. or some other of our gre!lt companies, wishes to buy twc hundred shares, three hundred shares, five hundred shares - this is m::i.rvellous.
Vie like it, V.f e trust no impediment will ever be put in its w:J.y. And we realise that in the case of companies already established, thm there r,re instances in which such Australian companies could 'Nith advantage to them and to Australia, be taken over. If there are inefficient companies, comp2.nies
badly run, companies which need c2.pital they canr:.ot raise inside our country, companies which need an infusion of technical management, then it could well be of advantage to ell that from abroad somebody who can provide the required capital and management skill and technology should be enabled to enter into and if necessary control and certainly haven very grent influence on such a company. But we do believe that there are other companies, well run, well managed, sometimes uuder-valued on exchanges in relation to the assets they have, who can be subject to market raids, to offers of first come,
first served, to certain shareholders so that the whole company itself does not have a chance, all the shareholders do not have a ch2.nce to examine the offer that is made, c.nd we do not have a chance to know who is buying the company. There was a specific instance of that not so long ago 3nd
we had to discover who wa3 trying to buy one of our insurance companies, who was buyh1g it :.lnd whether we thought that such a comp~ny should in such cases be taker~ over.
These are uLder examination, these last two matters at the moment. They will be worked out. But let there be no doubt in the minds of 8.aybody in this room, but that we need, wish, welcome, investment cc.pita.I, that there is stability of opportunity for those who have it to invest. And speakirig for myself, in spite of what I am told from some quarters,
I think that if we provide a stable government, gnd if we provide clear evidence that there is going to be a dcJ.rn good return or, a;.-iy capital that is invested, then that capital is going to come to us and not be frightened off because af the sort oi things that I have just now been saying.
We do not v{ant, in twenty or thirty years, to have America;1s, or French, or Swiss or British, owning the major companies in Australia, for a v2.riety of reasons I do not need now to go into. But I had promised I vJOuld say something on this subject, tonight. I know it's dull. I know
it's dry. Now '"ve said it. But when all is said and done, Sir, to come back to vihat you said at the begir:.ning, all these things, really, are tools vvith which to build the future. The tools with which to make one potentially great nation realise that potential, so that it can in the future, in conjunction with an already great nation, make a far greater contribution and effect on the world, to the bern~fit of all of us.
l:..nd this is essential, I believe, if we are to keep in a world swinging down the grooves of change, those things of which you spoke and for which Britain stands. The avoidar.ce of the knock on the door of the secret police at midnight; the avoidance of the fear of one man to speak his mind because he may be punished; the opportunity for a man to develop his own capacity to the top of his bent. And it's a chnrge laid on all of us
to see thnt these things are l~ept. All of us - English, li.ustralians, New Zealanders - all those of common stock and of thes2 beHefs. A charge that was laid i:n 1939 and '45. A:1d can I ask you, as you look at me, to try not to see me, if I make this point, but instead to see behind me, regiment on regiment of young men dead in '39 to 'Ll5, and try and hear them saying -
burning in tanks and aeroplanes, drowning in submarines, shattered and broken by high explosive shells - we gave, for our full measure of devotion, that these things of what you spoke, and of which I am spe:1king 1 might continue.
And they will continue the better while we stay together, while we stay in conjunction, while we in Australia reach towards our destiny. V!hile we convert the vision splendid, of the sunlit plains extended, into a reality which is novv within our grasp. With our work, and your help, to our common effort, and for the protection of those things, we both, as I am
sure, desire for our children.

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Human beings have been planting, harvesting, vinifying and drinking wine for centuries. They have done so for pure enjoyment, religious ceremonies, and possibly to put on a good buzz to get through bad times, like the plague or small pox. It is easy to forget this basic fact given all the noise that surrounds the wine industry. Wine podcasts, trade shows, magazines, tasting notes, workshops, certified exams, websites, and the recalcitrant snob at your local wine store all add to the noise in their own unique way. As Eric Asimov writes in the epigraph to start this chapter, we cannot forget that the primary reason humans have grown and fermented grapes is to provide pleasure and refreshment. We will have to keep reminding ourselves of this basic fact as we investigate how people talk about wine.
When I was a little boy, my Italian grandfather, Armando Serafini made a sickly-sweet wine from dandelions. My cousins were recruited to gather fresh dandelions for him from yards in the neighborhood, but I was too small to take part in this botanical adventure. I tried a sip of that wine. It was horrible, and I swore off the whole enterprise for years. He also made grappa in the cellar of his old house in Solvay, New York. My dad said you should tie yourself to a tree before drinking the grappa his dad made, but that is another story.
In 1984, at the age of twenty-five I bought my first case of wine. It was a "greatest hits of wine" assortment, or at least that is what the guy at the Wagon Wheel liquor store in Durango, Colorado told me. I remember he told me that I would need several white wines, a few reds and maybe a dessert wine. Who was I to disagree? I had ventured into the liquor store looking for some bottles to fill a wine-rack I had bought at a garage sale. It was more about decorating my dining room than taking an interest in wine. I wanted to impress college girls and I thought a wine-rack might make me look more sophisticated. I hid my red plastic cups under the sink and bought some cheap wine glasses. I don't even remember if all the bottles got consumed.
At the time, I was working as a bartender for Jim (Beetle) Abshagan at the Ore House restaurant in Durango. In the 1980s, he had amassed what I now recognize as an amazing collection of California wines. He was truly ahead of his time as a wine collector. I remember him offering select vintages of Silver Oak, Opus One, and other California wines at the restaurant. He had a leather-bound journal filled with labels taken from his favorite wines and would share the book with anyone interested. At that time, these reserve wines only meant one thing to me; more money in my pocket. The more expensive the bottle of wine, the bigger my tip, at least in theory. I shared his wine book with everyone that sat at the bar, but never really looked at it much myself.
Many years later, I bought my first wine refrigerator from Costco. It held about 30 bottles and was set at a permanent 45 degrees. Too cold for the appropriate aging of wine, but it kept my limited collection of wines safe from the Las Vegas summer heat. On his way to scout out Death Valley for a photography workshop, a good friend of mine, David Middleton, shared a bottle of vintage 2000 Duckhorn cabernet sauvignon from Napa Valley. It was from the Monitor Ledge Vineyard. It was the first bottle of wine I had ever experienced that made me stop and take notice of what was in the bottle.
Ten or so years later, I started going to a weekly wine tasting. At first, it was more about getting out and meeting people, but it quickly became more about the wine. I met my first certified sommelier at AZ Wine in Carefree, AZ. Meeting Thomas Klafke changed my relationship with wine. Instead of simply drinking wine for a buzz, I began to consciously savor what was in my glass, talk about why one wine was so different from another one, and consider what wine might pair well with particular dishes. Thomas was the first person that made wine accessible and talking about it enjoyable. He humbly shared his extensive knowledge of wine and made it more about what you liked than what you knew (or didn't know). I was hooked.
I dove into the wine literature like a madman. I studied hard, took notes, subscribed to Wine Spectator, bought some wine textbooks, and started reading novels that featured vineyards, wine travel, winemakers, and the world of wines. As a tenured, college professor it was really wonderful to play the role of student again. I had been giving exams for years, now I was about to sign up to take one. I asked Thomas about the certification process and he introduced me to the Guild of Master Sommeliers. He said I should have no problem passing the Introductory Level, but the Certified Level would take more knowledge and experience. I loved the challenge!
On September 12, 2016 I passed the Introductory Level of the Court of Master Sommeliers exam with relative ease. The exam focused mostly on theory, wine varietals, and basic geography. Everything we needed to know had been presented during the two day class in a whirlwind of powerpoint presentations designed to deposit the maximum number of factoids about wine in our heads in as short a time as possible. During the course we were required to try some blind tastings and talk about wines using the established Deductive Wine Tasting Method. This experience is what inspired me to write this book.
He asked me if I had stood and shared my part in the "round-robin" deductive wine tasting exercise that was part of the two-day course. I explained that I hadn't shared yet, but my turn would be coming up shortly. He said, "I will know what your level is after thirty seconds of you talking about wine. I can't recommend you for any tastings until I know your level of expertise." Thirty seconds! I was stunned. My academic mind began to spin. Was all this wine stuff about how I talked and acted, or what I knew about wine? Or was it about my sense of taste? Didn't my nose matter? I wondered if I could talk like them, could I fit in regardless of how I interacted with the actual wine in my glass? It began to dawn on me that this whole wine enterprise had more to do with how I acted and talked than what went on between me and a wine glass. All the places I had been and all the different wines I had experienced would only be helpful if I learned to talk and act like a wine expert. It was more about the talk than about the taste.
The Certified Exam of the Court of Master Sommeliers requires candidates to answer 40 or so questions about wine theory and general knowledge, blind taste four wines (two red and two white) and demonstrate competence in serving champagne while simultaneously fielding questions from a Master Sommelier. The blind tasting component is based on the Court's Deductive Tasting Method. The wines used in the exam can be selected from any of twenty grape varietals; nine white and eleven red.
I decided that I would spend the entire year tasting a selection of these varietals while I studied service and theory on the side. If I selected 5 examples of each varietal from around the world, I would have a corpus of 100 wines (20 varietals x 5 selections = 100). If I drank two bottles each week, it would take me about a year to complete my tastings and my studies. My goal was to be ready to take the Court of Master Sommelier's Certified Exam (Level II) by September of 2017.
Throughout this book, I am trying to blend my academic voice and research experiences, focusing on the way humans act and talk about various ideas, with a down-to-earth, and often humorous insight into the various ways we talk about wine. As wine drinkers, which all sommeliers are first and foremost, if we cannot make fun of ourselves, what good is it to learn to be so pretentious?


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A tracking shot is when a camera follows a person or an object physicallyy moving with the subject- This can be done using tracks, handheld, ropes, Steady-cam etc. Long tracking shots impress me a lot as it takes a lot of planning and rehearsals to get it just right but if you do it can be the most immersive way to tell a story in my opinion as there are no cuts to divert your attention. There have been some absolute awesome tracking shots and we couldn't get them all in but here are some of my favourite ones.
This is an incredible action sequence by the gunslinging legend John Woo.
has inspired such Directors as Gus Van Sant & Harmoney Korine.
incredibley shot, choreographed and acted. Superb!
to make as they ould only do one take a week as it took 7 days to set up each attempt.
choreography and thought has been put into this scene which elevates the whole movie.
This is an incredible tracking shot that makes me wonder how the hell did they do it!?
Best fight scene in any movie? I think so.
arse off and getting treated badly by directors. Very funny intro to a movie.
I would probably be shot and buried if I didn't include this onto the list!
Very funny satire of Hollywood & the long tracking shot.
where is Greenaway's The cook, The thief, His wife and her lover?
I love steady cam shots!
check out True Detective season 1 episode 4, the last 8 minutes is an incredible tracking shot!!
It's amazing how many of these are blocked by copyright owner. Why would they block a 5 minute clip of their movie? It's free advertising. Boneheads.
It sure is. One of the best in my opinion.


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Allergies occur when our body's natural defense system, identifies a normally harmless substance (an allergen) as being harmful. This prompts a response by our immune cells, called mast cells, to release a substance known as histamine which causes those pesky allergy symptoms.
What can be done to reduce symptoms during these times?
First, is avoidance of the allergens in the environment, but this can be easier said than done especially when we want to enjoy the weather we've been craving all winter! Consider wearing a pair of sunglasses when outdoors to create a physical barrier to any allergens in the air. It may be a good idea to get allergy testing to determine what allergens in the environment are causing a reaction.
Non-preserved lubricant eye drops can be used to flush the eyes of any triggering allergen to reduce an allergic response. Try putting them in the refrigerator to give a cool, refreshing sensation when they are placed in the eyes. HYLO™DUAL is a great option as a non-preserved tear drop that not only moisturizes the eye but protects the eye from environmental allergens. If that's not sufficient at providing relief, a longer lasting option such as prescription antihistamine and mast cell stabilizer eye drops can be prescribed by your eye care doctor.
Caution with use of over the counter oral anti-histamines. While they help with any nasal congestion, they can cause dry eyes.
Immunotherapy (allergy shots) is one treatment to provide long-term resistance to an allergic response by injecting small amounts of an allergen into the body to gradually build up your body's immunity. This can be done through an allergist.
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'She's Not There' Author Explores Challenges of a Life in Two Genders
At one of her lowest emotional points before coming out as transgender, a reassuring voice told Jennifer Finney Boylan not to worry. It gets better.
And it certainly did.
Boylan weathered that difficult personal storm to become an internationally renowned advocate, a regular op-ed contributor to the New York Times, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Kinsey Institute of Research on Sex, Gender and Reproduction, and the author of several books, including "She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders," regarded as the first best-selling book by an openly transgender American. She also appears regularly on the E! documentary series "I Am Cait," with Caitlyn Jenner.
Boylan explored themes in "She's Not There" in an engaging and often humorous talk before a standing-room-only crowd of students, faculty, staff, and members of the public in Fuller Theater Feb. 25. The lecture was co-sponsored by several departments and programs at WSU and was part of the University's Theme Semester, which is "Seeing/Believing: Evidence, Perception, and Interpretation."
Boylan also interacted with students earlier in the day, offering a craft talk for a group of about 30 students in the afternoon, discussing strategies she uses as a working writer. "She identified herself as a storyteller, first and foremost, rather than as a policy person," said Karen Woods Weierman, professor of English and director of WSU's Commonwealth Honors Programs. What were Weierman's favorite Boylan takeaways? "'Telling stories opens hearts' and 'It's impossible to hate anyone whose story we know.'" After the craft talk, Boylan met with about 10 members of the Pride Alliance, a WSU student organization.
"We've already had great feedback from students," Weireman said, after Boylan's visit. "Jenny's warmth, skill as a writer and speaker, and wickedly funny sense of humor put them at ease."
The stories among the transgender community are varied, Boylan said in her talk.
"If you've met one transgender person, you've met… one transgender person," she said. There are a lot of different ways of being trans, an umbrella term short for transgender, so you could get five people who all identified as trans in a room together and they might have almost nothing in common, she said. For that reason, stereotypes are especially problematic and trans people are not served well by any one person as a be-all embodiment. Every way of being trans, or of being gender non-conforming, she said, "or for that matter being queer or for that matter of being human—every way is cool."
Focusing on the often small differences between, say, a cross-dresser and someone who identifies as gender queer misses the point, according to Boylan. "Maybe what we really need to do is just open our hearts. Do we really need to know a whole lot more than that? Love people. Love each other."
That sounds simple, but it can be extremely challenging. "It actually turns out to be the hardest thing in the world because they don't see the world the way you do, not being you and everything. But the world is full of people who are not you," she said.
There are many ways to bridge the gap, however. "So what do you do? Open your heart. Try and have a conversation. It could be awkward, maybe really awkward. We all want to be loved and yet we are all terrified of expressing that love, but that's what it means to be human."
It was a loving voice that spoke to Boylan years ago when she—actually still "he" at the time—was standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff high over the Atlantic Ocean, looking down at the waves crashing against the rocks below. Boylan, who is 57, was just out of college then and in the depths of a desperately lonely gender identity struggle. Like the rest of society at the time, Boylan had never even said the word "transgender" out loud before.
As the troubled young man hovered dangerously close to the edge of the cliff, an unexpected gust of wind suddenly pushed him back from the precipice. He fell onto a soft bed of moss and heard, "You're going to be OK. You're going to be alright." Boylan is still not sure whose voice that was. "My guardian angel? The ghost of my father? Jesus? I don't know," she said. But from a vantage point over 25 years later, she said her heart tells her that the voice was, perhaps, that of her future self, the woman that she eventually became.
"Looking back on that sad young man, I wanted to tell him that it will get better," she said. "It will not always hurt the way it hurts now, and the thing that you feel right now is your greatest curse will someday, against all odds, turn out to be a gift."
It's hard to be gay or lesbian or bisexual, and to be trans can be even harder, she said. There also have been plenty of times since she heard that voice when she has, momentarily, lost all hope. But through all those years, she said, "I have found to my surprise that most people have treated me with love. Some of the people I most expected to lose when I came out as trans turned out to be loving and compassionate and kind. I can't tell you how to get here from there. You have to figure that out for yourselves. But I do know that instead of going off that cliff, I walked back down the mountain that morning and instead began a long, long journey toward home."
This article was written by freelance writer Nancy Sheehan.
Powell: Reading, Like Eating, Is Essential to Living
Before beginning his lecture, author and activist Kevin Powell encouraged the standing-room-only crowd that included visiting Worcester public high school students and Worcester State . . .
Where may I get more info or the book She's not There
Kim Caisse says:
"She's Not There" is available at bookstores and public libraries. Info on the book can be found at http://www.jenniferboylan.net.
Liz Levitt says:
Jenny Boylan is a voice for compassion, sanity, and decency in what can be a crazy world, Listen to her Catelyn, she will stare you in the right direction. in fact Bylaws books should be required reading for all trans youth, older folks and all their partners. She nails it


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Un referéndum sobre la elección directa de gobernadores y vice gobernadores tuvo lugar en Samoa Americana el 4 de agosto de 1973. A los electores se les preguntó si aprobaban una propuesta que permitiría la elección directa de gobernadores y vice gobernadores. Al igual que el referéndum similar anterior, la participación fue baja, de 23,60%, y la propuesta fue rechazada, con un 34,30% de los electores votando "sí" y un 65,70% votando "no". Una propuesta idéntica fue promovida dos veces más hasta que finalmente fuera aprobada en 1976.

Véase también

 Referéndum electoral de Samoa Americana de 1972
 Referéndum electoral de Samoa Americana de 1974
 Referéndum electoral de Samoa Americana de 1976

Referencias

Referéndums
Elecciones en 1973
Elecciones en Samoa Americana
Samoa Americana en 1973


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Taiwan pianist's debut studio album all about love
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-27 07:55
Chiang Tien-lin says he wants to show that classical music can be modern and related to today's audiences. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Classical pianist Chiang Tien-lin can be easily mistaken for a rock star with his ear piercings and tattoos.
The artist from Taiwan indeed is one-but of a different kind.
"I want to show that classical music can be very modern and something that the audience can relate to," says the 29-year-old.
The 12 pieces on his debut studio album, Piano Love Song, are adapted from popular Japanese ballads, such as La La La Love Song, I Love You and Snow Flower.
The album was released by Universal Music Group on Feb 14 to mark Valentine's Day.
The album, recorded in Tokyo, opens with a piece titled Snow Flower, an adaptation from the ballad of the same name that was released in 2003 and sung by Japanese actress-singer Mika Nakashima.
The number topped music charts in Japan and sold more than 240,000 copies. The song also has a Chinese version performed by singer Han Xue.
Chiang's album is not just about romantic love. His fingers touch the piano keyboard lightly-creating a feeling of the falling and melting of snowflakes.
The album's second song is inspired by La La La Love Song, recorded by Japanese rhythm-and-blues artist Toshinobu Kubota in 1996. The song was the theme song of the popular Japanese TV series Long Vacation.
"These songs are hard to forget, almost like a longtime ex-girlfriend who keeps haunting you after a breakup," says Chiang.
Chiang learned to play the piano at age 9, competing with his older brother, who was also learning the instrument back then.
But Chiang's brother eventually gave up music and is now a dentist in Taipei. Chiang continued his training and became a pianist.
"From ages 9 to 17, I took a bus alone from Hualien to Taipei to learn piano every week. I still remember the smell of that bus and the four-hour trip. I kept myself awake just in case my stuff got stolen," says Chiang.
He gave his first piano recital at 17 while studying at the Taipei University of Arts, where he learned with German piano professor Rolf-Peter Wille.
"Wille introduced me to a lot of electronic music and chorus singing of R&B musicians. I like playing my instrument without reading the notes. I like improvising a little bit, which is fun," Chiang says, adding that the line between classical music and other musical genres is blurring.
Chinese pop star Jay Chou, for example, introduced music by Chopin and Mozart, which brought his young fans closer to classical music, Chiang says.
"My parents don't know much about classical music. They sometimes ask me to play Teresa Teng's (a Chinese artist) pop songs on the piano because those sound familiar to them."
Chiang has researched not only composers' piano scores but also their biographies to develop his own musical vocabulary.
"It's a process of decoding the composers. They are dead, and there is no way you can talk to them. But their stories, notes and anecdotes give me insights into their music," says Chiang.
In 2014, Chiang gave a piano recital in Taipei, which attracted the attention of cellist Ouyang Nana, who also lives in Taiwan.
The 16-year-old cellist invited Chiang to record her debut album, 15, last year, which was also released by Universal Music Group.
"I played some of the pieces from his debut album as well. His interpretations are inspiring," says Ouyang.
Chiang has also worked with Swiss contemporary dancer Philipp Egil and the Taipei Philharmonic Opera House.
What's on in Beijing (Feb 25 – Mar 3)
Late David Bowie honoured with two wins at BRIT Awards
Ambitious Western US music center plans premiere
59th Annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles
Silk Road Ensemble grabs a Grammy
Call of love: Couple entrepreneurs
Miao silversmith puts shine back in silver
10 places to date with flowers in spring
Ten photos from across China: Feb 17 – 23
Yao Ming elected chief of Chinese Basketball Association
Glamorous dresses of Diana go on display in London


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Flavor (Optional): Diancie's diamonds grow into a large diamond shield that levitates with Diancie, which can be used for attack and defense.
Competitive Description: Mega Diancie Y is very bulky with modest offenses, but its low speed means it will pretty much always move last. Recover helps it stay alive longer, and Play Rough finally gives it and its counterpart a physical Fairy STAB. Levitate allows it to avoid one of its weaknesses and hazards, making it difficult to take down.
Flavor (Optional): The phrase "brains beats brawn" is never more embodied than in Mega Gallade Y. With a stunning array of tools at its disposal, you never know what it will hit you with next.
Competitive Description: Mega Gallade Y has improved bulk and excellent mixed offenses, bringing it to OU standards. However, its true power lies in Technician, its gigantic move pool, and access to Nasty Plot to be a fantastic cleaner. Acid Spray not only hits Fairy-types hard, but also can be substituted for Nasty Plot in certain sets.
Flavour: The red spike on Gardevoirs chest blooms into an orchid and the green headpiece turns into a vine that wraps around the body providing a sense of bulk.
God of Llamas and Origin0 have moved to the rank of Mega Anchor!
Also, due to the immense amount of points Noire got for Mega Gardevoir X, a separate leaderboard will be added for point totals above 15 (which also includes MegaFlareon's 15 from slate 3).
This slate is a special one. Due to some planning that'll be relevant in the future and for the sake of something out of the norm, this slate will include all of the Pseudo-Legendaries (that have Megas). These Megas can be made for Ubers or OU, but please specify. Ubers Megas can also break the ability rankings limit within reason.
Competitive Description: A powerful and unpredictable mixed wallbreaker. Although it can go fully physical or special, I think mixed sets have the most potential due to really cutting down on the amount of possible checks using Psychic and Meteor Mash. Although it has a pretty good speed tier, it can boost it if it feels the need using Agility.
Competitive Description: A pokemon that very much enjoys poison spreading. Most Pokemon that can't be poisoned are killed by it's powerful Earthquakes.
Flavor (Optional): Faster than a jet, Mega Garchomp Y blasts through the air at Mach 5. Nothing can outrun it, allowing Mega Garchomp Y to hunt its prey with ease.
Competitive Description: A chance to fix some of the issues with its X-forme, Mega Garchomp Y is partially inspired from elements of DPP Gar chomp. A Dragon/Steel typing with Levitate, besides being fantastic defensively, allows Mega Garchomp Y to check many of the Fairies it had once struggled with, namely Xerneas. It's no slouch offensively, either; its base 170 Attack and 137 Speed, surprisingly good special move pool, and Nasty Plot enable Garchomp to be a sweeper, cleaner, or wallbreaker.
Flavor (Optional): When it was first discovered, Mega Metagross Y was thought to be an ancient desert monolith. It only awakens during a sandstorm, where it causes massive earthquakes.
Competitive Description: Mega Metagross Y was built to be a great physical tank, just like its non-Mega forme. Its good physical typing is helped by great mixed bulk and a base 160 Attack stat. However, Sand Rush is what turns Mega Metagross Y into a monster, albeit a situational one; it can leverage its great bulk and mixed offenses to outright demolish teams under sand.
Flavor (Optional): When Mega Salamence Y lands, it ushers in a bizarre calm. The weather appears to bend to its will, protecting Mega Salamence Y from its effects.
Competitive Description: With a unique typing, good move pool, and excellent offensive stats, Mega Salamence Y is a potent threat to any team. It is blessed with new coverage options on its special side, but can also go mixed with Dragon Dance and its pre-existing physical options. Air Lock is great for Mega Salamence Y, as its typing allows it to counter most weather abusers and hits back hard.
Flavor (Optional): As the sun sets on the kings reign, Mega Tyranitar Y absorbs the power of the night itself. The ground shakes at the feet of this mighty tyrant.
Competitive Description: Rock is not a good type to begin with, and is even worse in Ubers, leading it to get replaced by Ground. Mega Tyranitar Y has a fantastic stat distribution that allows it to function as a wall, tank, or wallbreaker, depending on its investment and moves. Shore Up gives Tyranitar a recover moves that is independent of weather, and Terrorize in conjunction with Knock Off and ground coverage allows Mega Tyranitar Y to take on many potent threats, such as Primal Groudon, Necrozma-DM, and Mega-Gengar.
Flavor (Optional): The terror of the oasis, this mon hides in the water and waits to strike from range or in melee. If there is no oasis nearby, it creates its own with a mirage.
Mega Garchomp Y takes on a more shark-like appearance its skin becomes smoother and slouches lower.
Competitive Description: While Mega Garchomp X (regular) had the pure power of Garchomp bolstered. Mega Garchomp Y has a focus on the initial versatility of Chomp. The Spattack helps for initial burst, but a SD physical set is still viable. Mega Garchomp Y only has Dragon and Fairy as a weakness and its speed tiers is higher than most mons that can OHKO. Illusion allows it to be a good bait for setting up or just for a cheap OHKO.
Flavor (Optional): The pure psychic energy of metagross can no longer be contained by its metal shell, now shards of metal float around a glowing ball of energy barely held together by the X plate.
Competitive Description: Yes I really am letting the no guard zap cannon loose, a balanced hackmons nightmare with the speed and power to back it up, obviously there is one major flaw that would stop this mon from being absolutely broken and that is it's huge weakness to the most common mon in ubers Pdon, the mon pairs well with counters to pdon. Has the ability to flex with meteor mash or bullet punch to beat xerneas and thunder punch can do some work on flying types.
Flavor (Optional): Ancient relics show that Tyranitar wasn't always a Dark-type and aggressive. It resembled much more like its pre-evolution, Larvitar, though a whole lot larger. Scientists have invented a mega stone which tranfsorms a Tyranitar to its primal form.
Competitive Description: A different take on a Rock/Ground combo attacker, as it is a specially-based attacker. Pre-mega evolution Sand allows Sand Force to take effect immediately upon mega-evolving for effective wallbreaking. Its typing is excellent offensively, but also balanced defensively thanks to its double weakenesses to Grass and Water among other weaknesses, meaning it's not too overpowered in OU.
Flavor (Optional): A battle with Glalie saw Glalie critically struck Salamence to death. Salamence was soon revived, but it has shown icy characteristics in DNA. It is a recessive gene however, inhibited, only shown when exposed to Salamencite Y.
Competitive Description: Mega Salamence Y takes the spot of the premier Ice-type in Ubers, giving White Kyurem a run for its money. It has a surprisingly strong special movepool, with Hyper Voice and Dragon Pulse for STAB, and strong coverage options in Hydro Pump and Fire Blast. Mega Salamence Y breaks down common defensive Pokemon such as Lugia, Giratina, and even Primal Groudon. It's also worth noting that base 100 Speed is much more valuable in Ubers than in OU.
Flavor (Optional): More Beldum clump into Metagross giving it more psychic powers.
Competitive Description: In OU, Mega Metagross Y functions as a bulky tank that is very hard to take down due to its good defenses, defensive typing, and Filter. It also hits hard with its high offenses.
In Ubers, Mega Metagross Y gains a niche as a reliable Xerneas and Ultra Necrozma hard check.
Flavor (Optional): The heat of the sun has toasted its skin, giving it extra strength and guts. It is hurt by its burns however.
Competitive Description: Mega Garchomp Y tries to revive Sun teams after a long absence. Alongside Ninetales and Victreebel, Mega Garchomp Y can form aSun sweeper-wallbreaker core. Alternatively, it can set up its own sun and wallbreak. Mega Garchomp Y also funtions as a good Mega Charizard Y check.
In Ubers, Mega Garchomp Y can check Primal Groudon thanks to its resistances to Fire and Stone Edge while Solar Power allows it to plow through the bulkiest of Primal Groudon variants.
This is my first time here, let's see how well this goes. Please let me know if there's anything off or illegal with this nomination, and I'll change it.
Flavor (Optional): Most of the energy given off by the Mega Stone is used up by the neuron links between the four Beldum minds that form a Metagross, fusing the four minds into one and boosting its Psychic powers even further. It is said that its mind can process information so fast, it can predict its opponent's next move, as well as detect and memorise its target's weak spots.
Competitive Description: An offensive powerhouse that can set up, has a great typing, and has that much power just on the word go? I tried my best to make sure it has its place in Ubers, where it gains a niche as a reliable Xerneas counter, a switch-in and check to Solgaleo-Dusk-Mane with Shadow Ball or Earth Power, as well as a potential bulky, but slow, sweeper with Calm Mind.
Edit: Patched up the problems mentioned below, thank you Yoshiblaze for the catch.
Flavor (Optional): Most of the energy given off by the Mega Stone is used up by the neuron links between the four Beldum minds that form a Metagross, fusing the four minds into one and boosting its Psychic powers even further. It is said that its mind can process information so fast, it can predict its opponent's next move, as well as perdict and memorise its target's weak spots.
Thanks for the catch, changed accordingly.
For Tyranitar, there was a tie between God of Llamas and Origin0. That tiebreaker will run for the early part of the next slate.
MegaFlareon has moved to the rank of Mega Anchor!
Flavor (Optional): Interestingly, this form of Mega Gengar has laid dormant and forgotten for centuries, to the point where this stone was thought to be an ordinary stone, and the sight of this pokemon was assumed to be an illusion by Gengar. Since so many ancient people fear of Gengars and their capabilities through their mystifying powers, and are unaware of Gengars' identity as dead fellow humans, Gengars were hunted by the hundreds throughout all regions, leaving quite a lot of Gengars fearful and lonely in the wild, wishing for a chance to find a companion to live and enjoy their time with (from Gengar's pokedex entry). As centuries went by, Gengars has lost their ability to fight on the physical end, as many hide in shadows trying defending, and as a result, become accustomed to using their mystifying ghostly powers. While over time more and more Gengar have started becoming less scared of humans, willing to even pull pranks on them, and vice versa, it would still take another century before people and Gengars started trusting each other like family, and therefore be able to realise the hidden power behind this seemingly useless stone. The Mega Stone, when activated only through an extremely close bond with a Gengar and its trainer, unleashes the warmth and life energy that it has stolen from others in the wild (from Gengar's pokedex entry), and expelling the toxicity that it has built up within it to protect itself in the wild, placing its trust and life in its trainer. It finally learns, with the help of it's trainer, to accept and love itself, unleashing the fighting spirit it had for so long lost access to.
Competitive: While its typing guarantees that it would never be able to switch in easy, and it has very little coverage physically, its damage output from just Head Smash, Icicle Crash, and Earthquake, should be enough to make its home in OU or below as an anti-meta breaker with its coverage. Spikes gives it an additional supporting role to help break bulky waters and grounds more easily.
Edit: Changed literally everything lol, don't worry, I made them unique.
Flavor (Optional): The moon and presence of Gyaradosite Y makes the atrocious Pokemon surprisingly calm and kind.
Competitive Description: A bulky Special Attacker that also makes a great status absorber.
Flavor (Optional): It constantly trains, practicing its techniques on the icicles on its caves. After many months of work, Mega Glalie X has gained a set of arms, firing blistering punches at its opponents.
Competitive Description: Mega Glalie X desperately needed good physical STAB alongside something that would help fix its awful Ice-typing. While Fighting adds three additional weaknesses, it comes with a neutrality to Stealth Rock, a hard-hitting STAB move in Close Combat, and priority, which, alongside Ice Shard, is boosted by Adaptability. Base 103 Speed beats base 100s and Garchomp, and good defenses in conjunction with a solid base Attack stat make Mega Glalie X a versatile threat.
Flavor (Optional): Mega Gyarados Y seamlessly transitions from sea to air, finding just as much comfort in the clouds as in the water. It is extraordinarily rare, to the point where it was thought to be a myth.
Competitive Description: Mega Gyarados Y is a standard bulky special attacker, blessed with a great defensive typing. Storm Control removes its 4x Electric weakness and adds another resist to help its fantastic bulk, given its base 141 Special Defense and access to Intimidate before Mega Evolving. Hurricane is a great Special STAB, and with both of its STABs boosted by rain, Gyarados has another niche as a great weather abuser.


At KidPass, we love having a wide variety of activity partners who provide all kinds of dance lessons for your kiddos. From ballet to hip hop to ballroom dancing and more, there's something for every interest, skill level, and age on our site. Check out this roundup of NYC area dance class providers below and let us know which ones you might be trying out!
At Academy of Dance Arts, your child will learn to dance in a fun and comfortable environment. Once a child is walking and able to follow simple instructions, they're ready to enter the fun and engaging world of dance. Choose from Creative Movement, Tiny Toes, and Hip Hop & Tumbling classes. You're never too young or too old to start dancing. Just pick a class and go for it!
All Star Studios' instructors have vast experience in both teaching and performing nationwide, which helps students develop the skills needed to pursue a career as a true artist. All activities are designed to encourage performers at every skill level to grow. The students will increase flexibility, improve coordination, focus on muscle strengthening, build poise, and have fun!
Arthur Murray Broadway is the place for ballroom dance classes in NYC. Here children can learn any style of dance the right way. From Bachata to Salsa, Waltz to Rumba, the diverse and talented group of ballroom dance instructors provide quality fun dance instruction in age-appropriate classes.
Ballet Academy East's Young Dancer Division instills a love of dance in an environment focused on developing individual potential. Students benefit from increased coordination, self-confidence, musicality, strength, focus, and creativity through age-appropriate, structured classes.
This non-profit organization is dedicated to preserving and developing Russian classical and folk-dance traditions in New York City. BBT's well-rounded curriculum is founded on the Vaganova (Russian) Method, a ballet training system not only for correct technique, but also for proper disposition. Students may also pursue classes in character dance, contemporary dance, international folk dance, and jazz dance.
Broadway to Rockettes is a high energy dance class for toddlers, taught by Broadway performer and former Rockette Jessica McRoberts. Jessica created a fun environment to introduce kids to the magic of musical theater with a combination of creative movement, jazz, tap, and ballet. Kids will sing, dance, and most of all, have fun!
Dance Reverie offers kids' choreography classes with a unique program that turns training into an exciting adventure! Instructor Kyle is an experienced dancer with over 10 years' experience dancing and teaching. He draws from years of sport and martial arts and incorporates his experiences into his dancing and movements. Choose from ballet, Mommy & Me, and Creative Movement classes.
This partner teaches ballroom and Latin dance for all ages and occasions! Your child will find new ways of releasing their energy through dance, fitness, and stretching. Choose from Mommy & Me classes, preschooler dance classes, and classes for older children.
Dancewave uses an innovative model of dance education that combines rigorous training with artistic integrity a supportive environment. Students are mentored by accomplished dance professionals, which allows for personal growth as well as superior dance education. Classes include ballet, modern, creative movement, and hip hop.
Midtown Movement and Dance delivers quality foundational training in classical ballet while also exposing students to a variety of movement and classes. Choose from Ballet, Creative Movement, Hip Hop, and My First Dance Class, which features lessons in all three. This partner also offers drop-off classes in ballet/tap and jazz/hip hop for children 2 ½ years old and up.


Hillary Clinton would make a better president than Bernie Sanders: The Democratic front-runner has the right skills for gridlock politics.
Clinton's skill as a bureaucratic infighter makes her the right pick for an era of political gridlock.
As president, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton would have to use executive power, stacking the courts, empowering Cabinet officials, shaping regulatory boards.
Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo. Photo of Bernie Sanders by David McNew/Getty Images. Photo of Hillary Clinton by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
There's no question: Compared with Sen. Bernie Sanders', Hillary Clinton's agenda for the United States is less transformative, more incremental, and more committed to the status quo. Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate made this clear. Sanders wants free college education, funded by a tax on Wall Street transactions. Clinton, by contrast, wants a means-tested system for debt-free college. Students, under her plan, would still have to contribute to their education, either through work or other campus activities. Sanders wants to break up the largest banks, full stop. Clinton wants to focus federal attention on other major actors in the financial system and only break up big banks if they pose a risk.
You could read this contrast as a fundamental dispute over the nature of the American welfare state, and in extension, the future of American liberalism. But I wouldn't. Clinton and Sanders have serious differences, but on core issues of domestic politics—income redistribution, access to health care, immigration, civil rights, and the financial system—they're on the same side, moving in the same direction. And because Sanders is a "democratic socialist"—basically someone in the mainstream of Western European politics—the practical difference, again, is of speed and scope.
All of this is grist for partisans in both camps. Clinton supporters will shout down Sanders as ineffective ("We're progressives who get things done!") while Sanders' allies will attack Clinton as a sellout to the rich and powerful. But if you ignore this conflict and widen your aperture, you'll see the degree to which both candidates are stuck in the same place, despite their competing labels and approaches. If either wins the White House, both Clinton's tortoise and Sanders' hare will run into the same obstacle—barring an unprecedented shift in the rules and conditions of American politics, there's no possible world in which they could achieve their core aims as president.
Look at a map of U.S Senate and House races. Unless Democrats win in a landslide, the House will be controlled by the GOP through 2016 and into the next election cycle, if not beyond. At best, Democrats win the White House and the Senate, which leaves them where they were from 2011 until the end of 2014. Stuck. With a Democratic Senate and a Republican House, Congress won't move legislation except to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling (and given radical Republican intransigence, that's not a guarantee). If President Clinton or President Sanders wants to accomplish anything, she or he will have to use and utilize executive power, from filling the bureaucracy and stacking the courts to empowering Cabinet officials and shaping regulatory boards and agencies.
This isn't small-ball politics. To the extent that President Obama is a success, it's almost despite his neglect of nominations, appointments, and bureaucracy. In his first term, Obama gave scant attention to vacancies on the federal judiciary and the Federal Reserve board. The latter, in particular, was a huge strategic mistake. Obama's neglect of the Fed—which has enormous influence over economic performance—narrowed his field of action on the economy, enabling mass unemployment and weak demand. Overall, Obama's poor management has led to a series of self-inflicted crises, from the Department of Veterans Affairs scheduling scandal to the Office of Personnel Management computer hack to the disastrous rollout of healthcare.gov.
Twenty years ago, it was possible for a Democratic president to make law with a Republican Congress, or vice versa. Today, it's virtually impossible. The only way President Sanders or President Clinton will accomplish anything is through skilled use of bureaucratic power. So far, however, both candidates are silent on how they would act as an executive. Instead, both Clinton and Sanders are essentially running as legislative leaders, when the real challenge is how she or he would utilize the substantial power they have to direct and influence bureaucrats and regulators.
That's not to say their rhetoric isn't important. That Sanders believes in a "political revolution" against money in politics tells you about his priorities as president. And Clinton's legislative incrementalism gives you a good signpost to how she'll work with Congress. But, the truth is that—in terms of writing new laws—both agendas are inert. They aren't passing Congress. Indeed, if Democrats hold the White House, they'll hold an inverse presidency of sorts. Like a second-term president, Clinton or Sanders will have to focus on executive power. To have legislative traction, she or he would have to wait for broader shifts to the electorate, as well as redistricting in 2020. It's only then that the big plans are plausible.
So, what comes next? And, for Democratic primary voters, who is best equipped to be president in a time of gridlock, where the choice is executive action or nothing? Clinton's bureaucratic experience, her skill with partisan conflict, and her clear willingness to work against the spirit of the law—as illustrated by her State Department email controversy—make her a prime pick for this era of political grinding. To that point, on guns, Clinton has already vowed to take executive action to close a loophole that lets private brokers sell guns without giving a backgroound check to the buyer. But this brand of politics is hard and cynical, which is perhaps why Clinton can't build enthusiasm like Sanders, who has a positive vision for political life, even if it's unavoidably bound to structural realities.
As for the GOP? It doesn't have this problem. Whether it's President Rubio or President Cruz, the Republican Party will have unified control of government. In which case, the question for voters—and for observers—is more existential than instrumental. Will this be the sober GOP of presidents past, or will it be a Freedom Caucus with power?
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Plateau Government Directs Full Implementation of Legislative, Judicial Autonomy
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Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong.
Plateau State Government has directed the Accountant General of the state to transfer funds meant for the Legislative and Judicial arms of government.
The directive was issued after the state reached an agreement following series of negotiation on modalities for the full implementation of the autonomy for the two arms of Government in the state.
This was disclosed by Governor Simon Lalong during a dinner and lecture to mark Democracy Day 2021 at the Banquet Hall of the New Government House, Little Rayfield, Jos, Plateau State.
According to him, his administration had put in place structures for autonomy and even implemented some aspects prior to the clamour for implementation of autonomy across the nation.
He said the structures include establishing the Judicial Service Commission and the House of Assembly Service Commission which are the administrative fulcrums of the two arms of Government among others.
Lalong went on to note that he has directed that all funds accruing to the two arms of Government should immediately be transferred to them and said that will continue to be the practice henceforth.
"Based on the arrangement, after every FAAC monthly allocations are recieved and Internally Generated Revenues ascertained, statutory charges and liabilities will be deducted before each arm of Government are given what belongs to them.
Nigeria's constitution gives the judiciary financial autonomy from state governors and heads of courts access to a federal fund. But the government did not comply with this provision in the 1999 constitution until the union took action in 2014 – the second in three nationwide strikes by Nigeria's court staff.
Last year, Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, signed an executive order to implement the provision at state level. But governors have refused to comply and threatened legal action.
The union said the dependence on the executive for funds has affected the day-to-day running of the justice system.
Shobowale Kehinde, chair of JUSUN's Lagos branch, said: "If the executive arm of the government still pockets the [funds of the] judiciary, that means that for every piece of paper we have to buy, we have to go cap in hand to the executive arm of the government."
In April 2021, Justice officials, under the auspices of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), have called an indefinite nationwide strike to bring home their demand for financial autonomy of the judiciary.
However, the union in June, resolved to suspend the industrial action during its national executive council (NEC) meeting, which held on Wednesday, in Abuja.
Speaking with newsmen after the meeting, Jimoh Alonge, treasurer of the union, said JUSUN decided to call off the strike following the intervention of the National Judicial Council (NJC).
"NJC, which is the highest body of the judiciary, appealed to the union to give them two to three months to weigh into the matter and make sure they actualise what we are asking for. They noted that the public is suffering. We decided to accord them that respect," Alonge said.
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Ex-Im Bank is Welfare for the One Percent
By: Ron Paul
This month Congress will consider whether to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank). Ex-Im Bank is a New Deal-era federal program that uses taxpayer funds to subsidize the exports of American businesses. Foreign businesses, including state-owned corporations, also benefit from Ex-Im Bank. One country that has benefited from $1.5 billion of Ex-Im Bank loans is Russia. Venezuela, Pakistan, and China have also benefited from Ex-Im Bank loans.
With Ex-Im Bank's track record of supporting countries that supposedly represent a threat to the US, one might expect neoconservatives, hawkish liberals, and other supporters of foreign intervention to be leading the effort to kill Ex-Im Bank. Yet, in an act of hypocrisy remarkable even by DC standards, many hawkish politicians, journalists, and foreign policy experts oppose ending Ex-Im Bank.
This seeming contradiction may be explained by the fact that Ex-Im Bank's primary beneficiaries include some of America's biggest and most politically powerful corporations. Many of Ex-Im Bank's beneficiaries are also part of the industrial half of the military-industrial complex. These corporations are also major funders of think tanks and publications promoting an interventionist foreign policy.
Ex-Im Bank apologists claim that the bank primarily benefits small business. A look at the facts tells a different story. For example, in fiscal year 2014, 70 percent of the loans guaranteed by Ex-Im Bank's largest program went to Caterpillar, which is hardly a small business.
Boeing, which is also no one's idea of a small business, is the leading recipient of Ex-Im Bank aid. In fiscal year 2014 alone, Ex-Im Bank devoted 40 percent of its budget — $8.1 billion — to projects aiding Boeing. No wonder Ex-Im Bank is often called "Boeing's bank."
Taking money from working Americans, small businesses, and entrepreneurs to subsidize the exports of large corporations is the most indefensible form of redistribution. Yet many who criticize welfare for the poor on moral and constitutional grounds do not raise any objections to welfare for the rich.
Ex-Im Bank's supporters claim that ending Ex-Im Bank would deprive Americans of all the jobs and economic growth created by the recipients of Ex-Im Bank aid. This claim is a version of the economic fallacy of that which is not seen. The products exported and the people employed by businesses benefiting from Ex-Im Bank are visible to all. But what is not seen are the products that would have been manufactured, the businesses that would have been started, and the jobs that would have been created had the funds given to Ex-Im Bank been left in the hands of consumers.
Another flawed justification for Ex-Im Bank is that it funds projects that could not attract private sector funding. This is true, but it is actually an argument for shutting down Ex-Im Bank. By funding projects that cannot obtain funding from private investors, Ex-Im Bank causes an inefficient allocation of scarce resources. These inefficiencies distort the market and reduce the average American's standard of living.
Some Ex-Im Bank supporters claim that Ex-Im Bank promotes free trade. Like all other defenses of Ex-Im Bank, this claim is rooted in economic fallacy. True free trade involves the peaceful, voluntary exchange of goods across borders — not forcing taxpayers to subsidize the exports of politically powerful companies.
Ex-Im Bank distorts the market and reduces the average American's standard of living in order to increase the power of government and enrich politically powerful corporations. Congress should resist pressure from the crony capitalist lobby and allow Ex-Im Bank's charter to expire at the end of the month. Shutting down Ex-Im Bank would improve our economy and benefit most Americans. It is time to kick Boeing and all other corporate welfare queens off the dole.
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It is only recently that the role of women in history has been more fully recognised. In the early 1970s, the term "herstory" was coined to refer to history told from a woman's point of view. Although "Herito" always seeks to offer as much space to women authors and their topics as possible, we decided to dedicate the new issue entirely to women that were significant to Central European history, culture, politics, and arts – women often forgotten, underappreciated, or intentionally erased.
To tell the history of Central Europe from a woman's perspective and to "uncover" elusive stories we invited outstanding male and female authors. The result is an issue with more than two hundred pages, dedicated to bringing back the memory of poignant women narratives, heroines, and their accomplishments.
In the new issue, Olga Drenda examines the celebration of Women's Day in people's democracies. Małgorzata Rejmer investigates the role of women in Albanian culture across many centuries. Osap Sływynski searches for the traces of Zuzanna Ginczanka and other writers of Jewish descent in Lviv, while Małgorzata Radkiewicz writes about avant-garde artists that lived and worked in this city. Marta Madejska narrates the story of Maria Przedborska – an invaluable poet-inspector from Łódź. Teresa Worowska introduces the life story of Alaine Polcz – a Hungarian psychologist and writer, author of a touching memoir of the final days of World War II entitled "One Woman in the War", excerpts of which were translated for "Herito" by Karolina Wilamowska.
The issue also features Ewa Furgał's text on the history of Polish women freedom fighters, Grzegorz Piątek's essay about the previously unknown "Le Corbusier's first Polish female student", as well as Jacek Dehnel's story about the role of women in the Polish uprisings in the 19th century, inspired by several unremarkable photographs, and Maciej Jakubowiak's text about instances of overcoming patriarchy in recent Polish literature.
There is also a notable atlas of Central European "ladies of design", created by Czesława Freilich and Irma Kozina, Kama Buchalska's interview with the Czech publisher Barbora Baronova about women's oral history, Krisztián Nyáry's essay about the pioneer of Hungarian feminist movement, Aleksandra Wojtaszek's text about the "Croatian female version of Andersen", and Beata Nykiel's recollection of Karolina Lanckorońska – "the ultra-Polish European woman".