text:
You're here: Home » Are the First Amendment and Social Media Colliding ?
Are the First Amendment and Social Media Colliding ?
May 6, 2020 by Angela Hausman
Image courtesy of CBS News
I've been reading and thinking a lot about freedom of speech both in-person and online, specifically in social media. Are the first amendment and social media colliding? Or is there another way of looking at the first amendment, the right to freedom of speech.
Protests to end the lockdown caused by Covid-19 argue that our freedom of assembly, as well as our freedom of speech in the form of protests, are basic rights granted by the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. Yet, we impose limits on both forms of speech. For instance, you can't yell fire in a crowded building because the crowd might injure people in their haste to evacuate. You also can't protest without a permit in most areas to ensure the protest doesn't interfere with the rights of others to go about their business.
A caveat in discussing whether the first amendment and social media colliding represent a danger to our rights. I'm not an attorney. I'm a marketer. So, any reference to the Constitution or the Bill of Rights represents my own take on the matter and is not informed by legal training beyond reading opinions of legal scholars.
Are there limits to freedom of speech?
Good question without a clear answer. As I mentioned earlier.
The US Courts published exceptions to freedom of speech that includes the following limitations:
Incite actions that would harm others
Hence, your freedom of speech ends when it interferes with others. Hence why shouting fire isn't protected speech in a crowded room. Or why protests to open the economy might not be protected speech when you consider the potential danger they impose on innocent others if they contract the virus. Their infection means healthcare workers and first responders must expose themselves to the virus to provide treatment and others the infected individual meets are potentially exposed to the virus.
In social media, attacks on innocent others about. Something about the anonymity of the digital world seems to spawn the spread of vicious, often unsubstantiated rumors that can destroy the person's life. Multiple suicides resulted from such attacks.
On platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, misinformation spreads like a plague. Some misinformation, such as anti-vax messages, cause damage by encouraging others to avoid necessary vaccinations. We could spend all day discussing how this misinformation arose, but that's beyond the scope of this post. Instead, let's look at how the 2 platforms dealt with misinformation.
Facebook, citing free speech, allows much misinformation to spread unimpeded. from deep fakes like Nancy Pelosi's video slowed down to make her appear drunk or Covid-19 hoaxes and fake cures. Of course, they have much to gain from this stance since messages often spread using paid advertising. Facebook, to its credit, had instituted policies and polices them, regarding malicious posts. However, they still allow too much misinformation on their platform and hide warnings in obscure parts of Facebook [source].
Twitter, on the other hand, instituted an approach that more aggressively removes misinformation from their platform [source].
Government versus corporation
The first amendment applies only to government efforts to control speech, while companies may restrict speech in many cases, with a few exceptions. For instance, speech that's biased or discriminatory isn't protected. Nor are efforts by organizations to stop the formation of organized labor legal. But organizations have wide latitude to control speech under the law [source].
Hence, Facebook, Twitter, and any other social platform, as private companies, are free to establish and enforce whatever speech policies they want. Under the law.
It's a different story in the minds of consumers when it comes to exerting control over speech. And, that's the argument Facebook uses for allowing misinformation to spread on its platform. They argue that consumers would be discouraged from using the platform if they felt the company was heavy-handed in controlling the freedom of speech.
And, Facebook might be right. Recently, efforts Facebook says it instituted to control the spread of misinformation about the Coronavirus caught a bunch of posts having nothing to do with the virus. I've had quite a number of my posts banned for breaching community standards (hate speech, etc, including Covid-19 misinformation) and I never post anything objectionable. I've never had a post removed before for violating community standards. Facebook defends its moves, blaming the deletions on rouge software designed to detect community standards violations once it sent its humans home to avoid infection and says they are working to fix the problem [source].
Here are some of my questions regarding the first amendment and social media colliding:
To what extent can your employer control what you say online?
We know recruiters look at applicants' social profiles to inform hiring decisions, but is this legal?
What about the internet backbone. How much can ISPs and other backbone organizations control your speech?
How does net neutrality affect issues of first amendment rights?
And what about social platform owners, like Facebook. What rights do they have to control what happens on their platforms?
After reading a little, I became even more concerned about these issues.
An overview of the legal precedents for the protection of free speech in similar contexts. For instance, one article I read mentions mail is protected but email is not. Are there state laws that might offer some protection for online speech?
Potential areas of conflict between freedom of speech and organizational protections.
Property rights ie. Intellectual property and trade secrets (this is pretty clear cut)
Access through corporate accounts or on corporate equipment to online services like Facebook and Twitter (again, pretty clear cut)
Limitations of speech in public forums or private social media platforms like Facebook (very muddy)
The ability of social media platforms to censor without due process or recourse (very muddy)
if a platform shuts you down, might this also be a violation of antitrust legislation if you're a business (muddy)
as more social media providers get more involved in the commercialization of their sites, does this create a conflict between their handling of freedom of speech among "free" users and "paid" users that further muddy the waters regarding 1st amendment and anti-trust
What happens if the organization is a government entity – such as a public university — a government contractor, or receives government funding – ie. NPR — does this change their ability to curtail freedom of speech?
Can organizations sue for libel if customers complain about them online — where are the limits
The likely consequences of continued restriction of free speech on the internet, specifically from a marketing perspective
Customers withhold feedback for fear of censure
Reduced employee empowerment to handle complaints, etc.
A decreased likelihood of detecting organizational problems or opportunities, when customers' complaints are removed
Declining employee satisfaction and its consequences if employees feel restricted in what they're allowed to say in public forums.
I don't have answers to these questions so I hope you didn't read this post hoping for a solution. But, merely asking the questions increases awareness and may lead to solutions.
Need marketing help to plan your business strategy?
Filed Under: Marketing Strategy, Social Media Marketing Tagged With: 1st amendment, first amendment, freedom of speech
SkłAdanie e-Deklaracji says
Asking questions are genuinely pleasant thing if you are not understanding something fully, but this post presents good understanding even.
Shanneika Howell says
I believe that freedom of speech no longer exist anymore. People are being prosecuted left and right for their opinions which everyone is entitled to. What I don't understand is who establishes the ground principles that someone has taken things too far? Just earlier this year a woman was fired from her job due to her facebook statuses because the company considered it online badmouthing which they say violates company policy.
Angela Hausman, Ph. D. says
Obviously, I agree. I think businesses need a policy dealing with social media, but that policy can't be so restrictive folks can't say ANYTHING is social spaces.
Luigi Fulk says
Hi! Would you mind if I share your blog with my twitter group? There's a lot of people that I think would really appreciate your content. Please let me know. Thanks
Dr. Angela Hausman says:
Are the First Amendment and Social Media Colliding ? http://tinyurl.com/5vb4qts
Gregory Stringer says:
– Hausman Marketing Letter – http://bit.ly/gQVV2b #SocialMedia
New Blog Post Are the First Amendment and Social Media Colliding ? http://ow.ly/1bG32k
Is a collision between freedom of speech and social media inevitable http://ow.ly/4apZx
Are the First Amendment and Social Media Colliding ? – http://bit.ly/eFBa8g
Are the First Amendment and Social Media Colliding ? http://lnkd.in/BK2Yw6
Are the First Amendment and Social Media Colliding ? http://goo.gl/fb/mxMbN #facebookbusinessmarketing


text:
Business Benchmarks
Delivered February 26th, 2021. Contributors: Mariana D. and
The average revenue per employee in the software industry is $234 thousand. The requested information for the management consulting, software, and consumer products industries, as well as B2B SaaS and B2C consumer products companies, is provided below.
Management Consulting Industry
Most information regarding revenue per employee for this industry in the US is only available through paywalled sources such as AnythingResearch and Kentley Insights.
The average annual revenue per employee in 2019 for this industry was $176,000 globally.
Gross and Net Margins
According to the latest data provided by ReadyRatios, the industry reported a median gross margin of 30.6% and a median net margin of 0.1% in 2018.
Customer Acquisition Costs
Information regarding customer acquisition costs for this industry is not publicly available.
This industry's revenue per employee has an estimated median of $217,550 and an average of $234,092.
The entertainment software industry has an estimated gross margin of 62.68% and a net margin of 20.30%.
The internet software industry has an estimated gross margin of 58.58% and a net margin of -5.60%.
The system & application software industry has an estimated gross margin of 72.19% and a net margin of 19.99%.
According to the latest data available, the software industry in the US has customer acquisition costs (CAC) of $395.
According to the latest data publicly available, in 2018, the consumer staples (or consumer products) sector in the US reported a revenue per employee of $0.69 million.
The consumer products industry has an estimated average gross margin of 38.34% and a net margin of 0.52%.
The consumer products industry has a CAC of $22.
B2B SaaS Companies
Lifetime Value (LTV)
Information regarding the LTV of B2B SaaS companies in the US was not publicly available. However, we were able to gather an estimated LTV for software development firms in general, which is $69,915.
Churn Rates
Early-stage SaaS companies have churn rates of around 10-15%, small to medium-sized businesses have churn rates of 3-7%, and large enterprises "can expect to see a churn rate as low as 1%."
B2C Consumer Products Companies
Information regarding the general LTV for B2C consumer products companies is not publicly available.
According to the most recent available data, general B2C businesses have churn rates of 7.05%, and the consumer goods industry, in general, has churn rates of 9.62%. There is no publicly available information regarding the churn rates of B2C consumer products companies specifically.
We were unable to provide the revenue per employee and the customer acquisition costs for the management consulting industry, the LTV of B2B SaaS and B2C consumer products companies, and the churn rates of B2C consumer products companies. For some of these benchmarks, we were able to provide useful information that was within our reach, such as the global revenue per employee for the management consulting industry. For other benchmarks (i.e. customer acquisition costs for the management consulting industry and LTV of B2C consumer products companies), we were unable to provide any information after looking through news outlets, industry reports, and company reports, among other related sources. We also attempted to calculate each benchmark, but there were not enough companies that provided the specific benchmarks for us to come up with an average number.
Management consultancies: revenue per employee 2019 | Statista
Management Consulting Services: industry financial ratios benchmarking
readyratios.com
2021 Management Consulting Industry Statistics & Market Research Report - AnythingResearch
anythingresearch.com
2021 Market Research & Statistics on Management Consulting
kentleyinsights.com
Revenue per head in software
blossomstreetventures.medium.com
Operating and Net Margins
pages.stern.nyu.edu
Customer Acquisition Costs by Industry: What's a Good CAC?
demandjump.com
Average revenue per employee, by sector U.S. 2018 | Statista
Consumer Defensive Sector - GuruFocus
gurufocus.com
Why Consumer Staples Can Be Good for Your Portfolio
Average Customer Lifetime Value (LTV / CLV) for a Services Company - First Page Sage
firstpagesage.com
What is the average churn rate for B2B SaaS companies?
kalungi.com
Subscription Churn Rate Industry Benchmarks - Recurly Research | Recurly
recurly.com

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship
by Scott Donaldson
To Vivie, who knew it could be done
As every writer knows, when you're "living in the book"—as Fitzgerald put it— the characters begin to inhabit your life. They are in your mind as you work, and do not go away when you leave your desk. Often they make a call during the night, leaving behind a reminder of something you overlooked during your conscious hours, or of something—as Frost said of the thrill of discovery in poems—that you did not know you knew. Sometimes they invade your dreams.
During the early morning hours of March 31, 1999, I dreamed about Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps it was the blue moon outside the window that brought them to life, but there they were, in the ring, boxing. I knew this made no sense. There is no record that Scott and Ernest ever duked it out, and it would have been a terrible mismatch, with the larger and heavier and more experienced Hemingway liable—as Maxwell Perkins used to say about him, as a fighter—to "kill" the slightly built Fitzgerald.
And yet… Scott got into his share of fights when drunk, and was regularly beaten up for his trouble. It was a tangible, physical expression of his compulsion to court humiliation. Ernest loved to fight, and was proud of his prowess. He did not move with the grace of an accomplished boxer, but as Morley Callaghan and others have testified he loved to hit and could hit very hard. In a real fight, he would surely have knocked Fitzgerald out.
In the dream, that did not happen. Traditionally boxers have been taught to go first for the body, and to deliver the crushing blow to the head only after the opponent's hands come down. In the dream bout, Hemingway went for Fitzgerald's upper arms instead. He punched and jabbed at Scott's biceps until they grew numb. So immobilized, Fitzgerald could neither strike back with force nor do much to protect himself. After that, Ernest simply used Scott as a punching bag, hitting him at will with enough force to inflict pain, but not enough to bring the torture to a conclusion. It was terribly cruel.
This was only a dream, and proved nothing about Hemingway or Fitzgerald or the relationship between them. Yet there was a logic to the fight my imagination conjured up. At the beginning, the friendship between Scott and Ernest was extraordinarily close. These days people ask if they were lovers. The only sensible answer is that one cannot know for certain, but that it was extremely unlikely. Both men shared the homophobic sensibilities characteristic of the times and their midwestern upbringings. But to another question—did they love each other?—the answer almost certainly is yes. The letters of the mid-twenties show that Scott and Ernest shared an extraordinary warmth. The feeling lasted much longer for Fitzgerald than for Hemingway. Ernest tried to break things off by way of insult, time and again. Scott took the blows and came back for more.
What the dream suggested was that Hemingway wanted or needed to strike out at his former friend at least as much as Fitzgerald wanted or needed to be hurt.
In David Levine's wonderful drawing, the two writers appear as a song-and-dance team, natty in polka-dot bow ties and shuffling off to Buffalo behind the stage lights. Both of them carry pens. Hemingway smiles toothily at the audience as he embeds his pen in Fitzgerald's heart. Fitzgerald, maintaining the trace of a grin, looks like a startled ghost.
For half a century now, I have been reading and writing about Fitzgerald and Hemingway. For thirty years I have been teaching their fiction. I wrote my 1950 senior honors thesis on Hemingway's short stories, a choice of subject grudgingly allowed by a Yale English department committed to British authors and distrustful of any writer still alive. The family connection to Fitzgerald may go back even farther in time. My mother grew up in the same St. Paul neighborhood Fitzgerald occupied. I like to think that she danced with him and he flirted with her. But she died young, just as he did, so that by the time the question occurred to me, there was no one left to ask.
This is not the first book on the friendship between these two writers, or even the second. In two separate volumes Matthew J. Bruccoli has provided "a documentary reconstruction of their friendship and estrangement." The documents he presented—letters mainly, but also notes and comments from the published writings—constitute an invaluable resource for aftercomers. You cannot, after all, interview the dead. What I have tried to do is to engage those documents, along with many others, in telling the story of the Fitzgerald-Hemingway relationship. I've had a still more difficult goal in mind, too: to arrive at an understanding of their failed friendship and what it has to tell us about each of these two great writers and their work.
When Hemingway was writing A Moveable Feast in the late 1950s, his wife, Mary, read a few chapters and objected that this was not autobiography at all. Ernest was writing about other people, not himself. "It's biography by remate," he explained. Remote is a jai alai term meaning a two-wall shot. In Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, also, I've tried to work by reflection and rebound, bouncing the material off others who knew both men well. Maxwell Perkins is the principal example, but he is joined in the pages ahead by Gerald and Sara Murphy, Gertrude Stein, Morley Callaghan, and Edmund Wilson—all of whom become characters in the story.
So do Clarence and Grace Hemingway, and Edward and Mollie Fitzgerald, the parents whose importance in shaping these writers' lives and personalities can hardly be overstated. Ginevra King and Agnes von Kurowsky, the young women who jilted Fitzgerald and Hemingway during their most vulnerable years, play major roles in that process as well. I've taken up the painful issue of alcoholism as a malady afflicting both writers, and considered in some detail Hemingway's unfortunate assault on Fitzgerald's reputation. Finally, and with trepidation, I've drawn on the assistance of psychological interpretation in coming to account with Scott and Ernest.
Who is the better writer? people ask, Which of them do you like better, or at all? These are the wrong questions. Fitzgerald was a great writer and so was Hemingway, each in his incomparable way. They may have thought themselves in competition, but the race is over and both tortoise and hare have won. Hemingway was a difficult human being and so was Fitzgerald, again in markedly different ways. I have no wish to judge them—only to tell their story and to arrive at some understanding. If that gets done, it will be enough.
—Scott Donaldson Scottsdale, Arizona
The notes below track the text of the book, and are keyed to the bibliography that follows.
SD Scott Donaldson
FSF F. Scott Fitzgerald
ZF Zelda Fitzgerald
EH Ernest Hemingway
MP Maxwell Perkins
EW Edmund Wilson
JFK Hemingway Collection, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston
Neville Collection of Maurice and Marcia Neville
PUL Firestone Library, Princeton University
Yale Beinecke Library, Yale University
Fitzgerald's letters have been printed in several different volumes.
As Ever As Ever, Scott Fitz —
Correspondence Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Letters The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life in Letters F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters
Scott/Max Dear Scott/Dear Max
To date there aretwo significant collections of Hemingway correspondence.
Only Thing The Only Thing That Counts
SL Selected Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Astro, Richard, and Jackson J. Benson. Hemingway in Our Time. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1974.
Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969.
Banta, Martha. Failure & Success in America: A Literary Debate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Beegel, Susan F. Hemingway's Craft of Omission. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987.
Beegel, Susan F., editor. Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction: New Perspectives. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Berg, A. Scott. Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. New York: Dutton, 1978.
Berman, Ronald. The Great Gatsby and Modern Times. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Bishop, John Peale. "The Missing All." Virginia Quarterly Review 13 (Winter 1937): 106-121.
Braudy, Leo. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Brenner, Gerry. "Are We Going to Hemingway's Feast?" American Literature 54 (November 1982): 528-544.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. The Composition of "Tender Is the Night": A Study of the Manuscripts. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1953.
---------. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
---------. Supplement to F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980.
---------. Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1994.
---------. Scott and Ernest: The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success. New York: Random House, 1978.
---------. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Bryer, Jackson R., editor. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Critical Reception. New York: Burt Franklin, 1978.
Burwell, Rose Marie. Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Callaghan, Morley. That Summer in Paris. New York: Coward-McCann, 1963.
Cohen, Milton A. "Fitzgerald's Third Regret: Intellectual Pretense and the Ghost of Edmund Wilson." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 33 (Spring 1991): 64-88.
Comley, Nancy R., and Robert Scholes. Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
Cowley, Malcolm. The Literary Situation. New York: Viking, 1954.
Crowley, John W. The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
Dardis, Tom. The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1989.
Didion, Joan. "Last Words." New Yorker 74 (November 9, 1998): 74-80.
Diliberto, Gioia. Hadley. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1992.
Dolan, Marc. "The Good Writer's Tale: The Fictional Method of Hemingway's 'Scott Fitzgerald.'" Hemingway Review 12 (Spring 1993): 62-71.
---------. Modern Lives: A Cultural Re-reading of "The Lost Generation". West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1996.
Donaldson, Scott. By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Viking, 1977.
------. editor. Cambridge Companion to Hemingway. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
---------. "Censorship and A Farewell to Arms" Studies in American Fiction 19 (Spring 1991): 85-93.
---------. "A Death in Hollywood: F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered." Iowa Review 26 (Spring 1996): 105-112.
---------. "Fitzgerald's Nonfiction." Cambridge Companion to Fitzgerald. Edited by Ruth Prigozy. New York: Cambridge University Press, in press.
---------. "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Remaking of a Reputation." William and Mary Alumni Gazette (Winter 1983): 2-8.
---------. Fool for Love: F Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983.
------—. "Hemingway and Suicide." Sewanee Review 103 (Spring 1995): 287-295.
---------. "Hemingway's Attack on Fitzgerald's Reputation," in press.
---------. "The Jilting of Ernest Hemingway." Virginia Quarterly Review 65 (Autumn 1989): 661-673.
---------. "The Political Development of F. Scott Fitzgerald." Prospects 6, 313-355. Edited by Jack Salzman. New York: Burt Franklin, 1981.
---------. "Scott Fitzgerald's Romance with the South." Southern Literary Journal 5 (Spring 1973): 3-17.
---------. "'A Very Short Story' as Therapy." Hemingway's Neglected Fiction: New Perspectives, 99-105. Edited by Susan Beegel. Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1989.
---------. "Woolf vs. Hemingway." Journal of Modern Literature 10 (June 1983): 338-342.
---------. "Writers and Drinking in America." Sewanee Review 98 (Spring 1990): 312-324.
Egan, Susanna. "Lies, Damned Lies, and Autobiography: Hemingway's Treatment of Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast." Auto/Biography Studies 9 (1994): 64-82.
Elias, Amy J. "The Composition and Revision of Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned." Princeton University Library Chronicle 51 (Spring 1990): 245-266.
Eliot, T.S. The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1952.
Epstein, Joseph. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Third Act." Commentary 98 (November 1994): 52-57.
Fetterley, Judith. The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1908-1917. Edited by John Kuehl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1965.
---------. Afternoon of an Author. Introduced and annotated by Arther Mizener. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1957.
---------. As Ever, Scott Fitz—.' Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Literary Agent Harold Ober, 1919-1940. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1972.
---------. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.
---------. Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Margaret M. Duggan. New York: Random House, 1980.
---------. The Crack-Up. Edited by Edmund Wilson. New York: New Directions, 1945.
---------. Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence. Edited by John Kuehl and Jackson R. Bryer. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
---------. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
---------. F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time: A Miscellany. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Jackson R. Bryer. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1978.
---------. F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
---------. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger: A Facsimile. Introduced by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Washington, D.C.: NCR/Microcard Editions, 1973.
---------. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
---------. The Last Tycoon. Edited by Edmund Wilson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.
---------. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Andrew Turnbull. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963.
---------. The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
---------. "My Generation." Esquire 70 (October 1968): 119, 121.
---------. "Scott Fitzgerald's "Thoughtbook."' Introduced by John Kuehl. Princeton University Library Chronicle 26 (Winter 1965): 102-108 and unpaginated plates.
---------. The Short Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989.
---------. Tender Is the Night: A Romance. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
---------. Tender Is the Night: A Romance. Edited by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.
---------. This Side of Paradise. Edited by James L.W. West III. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995 [1920].
Friskey, Elizabeth. "Visiting the Golden Girl." Princeton Alumni Weekly (October 8, 1974): 10-11.
Fuentes, Norberto. Hemingway in Cuba. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1984.
Gilmore, Thomas B. Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Gingrich, Arnold. "Scott, Ernest and Whoever." Esquire 66 (December 1966): 186-189, 322-325.
---------. "Coming to Terms with Scott and Ernest." Esquire 99 (June 1983): 54-56, 58, 60, 62,64.
Goldhurst, William. F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Contemporaries. Cleveland, OH: World, 1963.
Goodwin, Donald W. Alcohol and the Writer. Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 1988.
Graham, Sheilah, and Gerold Frank. Beloved Infidel. New York: Holt, 1958.
Gullo, Stephen, and Connie Church. "Love Survival: How to Mend a Broken Heart." Health 20 (August 1988): 50-53, 77.
Hall, Donald. Those Ancient Glittering Eyes. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.
Hamill, Pete. A Drinking Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.
Hanneman, Audre. Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and into the Trees. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
---------. "The Art of the Short Story." Paris Review 79 (Spring 1981): 85-105.
---------. Complete Poems. Edited by Nicholas Gerogiannis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
---------. Dateline: Toronto. Edited by William White. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.
---------. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
---------. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
---------. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
---------. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
---------. The Garden of Eden. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986.
---------. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
---------. The Hemingway Reader. Selected by Charles Poore. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
---------. A Moveable Feast. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964.
---------. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
---------. The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway/Maxwell Perkins Correspondence, 1925-1947. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Scribner, 1996.
---------.Selected Letters, 1917-1961. Edited by Carlos Baker. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.
---------. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954.
---------. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
---------. The Torrents of Spring. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
---------. To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.
Hemingway, Jack. Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life with and without Papa. Dallas: Taylor, 1986.
Hobson, Fred. Mencken: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1994.
Kennedy, J. Gerald. Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
---------. "Hemingway's Gender Trouble." American Literature 63 (June 1991): 187-207.
---------, and Jackson R. Bryer. French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad. New York: St. Martin's, 1998.
Kronenberger, Louis. The Cutting Edge. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
Lee, A. Robert, editor. Scott Fitzgerald: The Promises of Life. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
Leenaars, Antoon A. "Psychological Perspectives on Suicide." Current Concepts of Suicide, 159-167. Edited by David Lester. Philadelphia: Charles Press, 1990.
Lehan, Richard D. F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Craft of Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966.
Le Vot, Andre. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983.
Lewis, Robert W, editor. Hemingway in Italy and Other Essays. New York: Praeger, 1990.
Lingeman, Richard. "Mencken and Dreiser: Friends, When Speaking." New York Times Book Review (March 8, 1992): 1, 25.
Lounsberry, Barbara. "The Holograph Manuscript of Green Hills of Africa." Hemingway Review 12 (Spring 1993): 36-45.
Lynn, Kenneth S. The Dream of Success: A Study of the Modern American Imagination. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1955.
---------. Hemingway. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
Mann, Charles. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Critique of A Farewell to Arms." Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 1976, 141-153. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Englewood, CO: Information Handling Systems, 1978.
Mellow, James R. Hemingway: A Life without Consequences. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
---------. Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Mencken, H.L. My Life as Author and Editor. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Meyers, Jeffrey. Edmund Wilson: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
---------. Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.
---------. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
---------. "Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson." American Scholar 61 (Summer 1992):375-388.
Miller, Linda Patterson, editor. Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Nagel, James, editor. Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.
Offit, Avodah. The Sexual Self. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1977.
Oldsey, Bernard. Hemingway's Hidden Craft: The Writing of A Farewell to Arms. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
Panken, Shirley. The Joy of Suffering: Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy of Masochism. New York: Jason Aronson, 1973.
Percy, Walker. "The Orbiting Self." Lost in the Cosmos. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
Pizer, Donald. American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
Prigozy, Ruth. "A Matter of Measurement." Commonweal 72 (October 29, 1971): 103-109.
Raeburn, John. Fame Became of Him: Hemingway as Public Writer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Reynolds, Michael. Hemingway: The American Homecoming. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992.
---------. Hemingway: The Final Years. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999
---------. Hemingway: The 1930s. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
---------. Hemingway: The Paris Years. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
---------. The Young Hemingway. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Ring, Francis Kroll. Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts, 1985.
Roethke, Theodore. The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.
Ross, Lillian. "Portrait of Hemingway." Reporting. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.
Sanford, Marcelline Hemingway. At the Hemingways: With Fifty Years of Correspondence between Ernest and Marcelline Hemingway. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1999.
Siegel, Ronald K. Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia. New York: Crown, 1994.
Simon, Linda. The Biography of Alice B. Toklas. New York: Avon, 1978.
Smith, Paul. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989.
Spencer, Elizabeth. "Where Has All the Glamour Gone?" F. Scott Fitzgerald at 100. Rockville, MD: Quill and Brush, 1996.
Spilka, Mark. Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933.
Stephens, Robert O. Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Reception. New York: Burt Franklin, 1977.
Svoboda, Frederic Joseph. Hemingway & The Sun Also Rises: The Crafting of a Style. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1983.
Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
Vaill, Amanda. Everybody Was So Young—Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Villard, Henry Serrano, and James Nagel. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters, and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Waite, Robert G.L. The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
Way, Brian. F Scott Fitzgerald and the Art of Social Fiction. New York: St. Martin's, 1980.
Wilson, Edmund. The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965. NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
---------. Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1950.
---------. The Fifties. Edited by Leon Edel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.
---------. The Forties. Edited by Leon Edel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
---------. Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972. Edited by Elena Wilson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
---------. A Prelude. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.
---------. The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952.
---------. The Sixties. Edited by Lewis M. Dabney. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993.
---------. The Thirties. Edited by Leon Edel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
---------. The Twenties. Edited by Leon Edel: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.
Woodward, Jeffrey Harris. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Artist as Public Figure. 1920-1940. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1972. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1974.
Worcester, David. The Art of Satire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1940.
Yalom, Irvin D. and Marilyn Yalom. "Ernest Hemingway—A Psychiatric View." Archives of General Psychiatry 24 (June 1971): 485-494.
Young, Philip. Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966.
Next Chapter 1 Loveshocks: At home


text:
<?php

namespace SpotOnLive\Navigation\Navigation\Providers;

use SpotOnLive\Navigation\Options\ProviderOptions;

abstract class Provider implements NavigationProviderInterface
{
    /** @var ProviderOptions */
    protected $options;

    /**
     * @return ProviderOptions
     */
    public function getOptions()
    {
        return $this->options;
    }

    /**
     * @param array $options
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setOptions(array $options = [])
    {
        $this->options = new ProviderOptions($options);

        return $this;
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Grappenhall Cricket Club runs a thriving and successful junior section. The club has a rich heritage of success at junior cricket over the years in all competitions. A number of the clubs juniors have also gone on to represent Cheshire at their respective age groups.
Junior Training during the Season is on Friday Nights throughout the Summer, starting at 6.30pm at the club, usually finishing between 8 and 8.30pm, unless it is due to get darker earlier.
The training sessions are all run by ECB qualified, DBS registered coaches with a set program to develop the young players. The training is made as enjoyable as possible, especially within the younger age groups, with the emphasis on fun and learning the basics of the game at a young age.
Training is supported by the excellent facilities available including training aids and equipment, a fantastic pitch and excellent net facilities.
Our coaches are qualified and trained to develop the young cricketers to the best of their abilities to assist them in the transition to senior cricket in the future if they wish.
Any GCC juniors wishing to play senior cricket at the club are are expected to train on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the club with the senior players.
Copyright © 2019 Grappenhall Cricket Club - Cheshire County Cricket League. All Rights Reserved.


Shifting your data to the Cloud offers a suite of advantages that make old systems look clunky in comparison. But while accessing your data from anywhere is handy, it can mean compromising on security and speed.
Cloud Connect ties up these loose ends. Using your VPN connection, it provides a private and secure link to services including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. All the storage and computing resources and tools you need with the performance and security you'd expect on a private network.


Pregnancy and the postpartum period are an utterly unique and powerful time of transition, often bringing with it a storm of feelings and emotions. Becoming a mother, the whole of it, is a profound mystery and one not often well supported. Worries about the baby, anxiety, baby blues, feeding issues, all while trying to sort out a flood of input and advice from every direction are common things many women struggle with. Personalized combinations of flower remedies bring calm, comfort, clarity, ease and joy to the process.
I support women throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period with flower remedy formulations, guiding and supporting the process of connecting to your own truth and confidence as a parent so that you can experience the joy and satisfaction of thriving motherhood!


text:
Morrison defends Chinese coronavirus travel ban complaints
Scott Morrison says he "respectfully disagrees" with the Chinese ambassador over complaints about an inbound travel ban and the idea Chinese travellers should be compensated.
Scott Morrison says he "respectfully disagrees" with the Chinese ambassador over complaints about an inbound travel ban and the idea Chinese travellers should be compensated.
On Saturday it was announced that no Chinese travellers are allowed to come into Australia unless they are citizens or permanent residents, and their families.
"There's a global virus and we are seeking to contain the virus," the prime minister told reporters today.
"You have to put the national interest first."
He said the National Security Committee was convened and the decision was made "swiftly" on Saturday.
He said Chinese officials were contacted half-an-hour before the announcement.
"Every best effort was made by the Australian government to contact in good faith," he said.
"We were moving swiftly at that time, we were contacting key organisations around the country as well."
He said the Education Minister will continue working with universities on measures for Chinese students such as online courses.
"There's a global virus and we're seeking to contain the virus," he said.
"Unfortunately there will be instances where there will be inconveniences for those who would have been in transit and those who are travelling.
"That's regrettable but you have to put Australia's national interest first."
He said an extension of the travel ban will be reviewed next week.
Australia now has 13 confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus after an eight-year-old boy was isolated in a Queensland hospital.
Source: 9News https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-china-australia-travel-ban-on-flights-christmas-island-scott-morrison/14d61d7e-061f-4ff6-9a2d-df2dc907829d
READ: Pandemic leave disaster payment for South Australia


Alexis Sanchez is the latest Manchester United star to publicly fall out with Jose Mourinho as problems worsen at the Old Trafford club.
The Chilean performed badly in the Red Devils' 1-1 draw with Wolves and was subsequently dropped from the squad for their next Premier League fixture against West Ham.
Reports in Chile claim the forward was reprimanded by his boss and told he was going to be dropped in front of his team-mates in the Manchester United changing room.
Despite not being able to come off the bench for United, the club's best-paid player travelled with the rest of the squad to the London Stadium.
He was seen talking to his former Arsenal team-mate Lucas Perez, who is now at West Ham, in the tunnel.
And there are genuine fears that the Chilean is starting to regret his big-money switch to Manchester United.
The Red Devils had hoped that a fresh Sanchez – who wasn't at the World Cup – would hit the ground running this season and propel United up the league.
But so far Sanchez has yet to reach anywhere near the levels he would regularly hit when playing for Arsenal.
One argument is that he was utilised through the middle at Arsenal , with play centred around him, while at Manchester United he has been deployed out wide.
Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku are used down the middle instead, and Sanchez is having to adapt his game around the other big names at the club.
Sanchez isn't the only player who has had a falling out with Mourinho in recent weeks.
The Portuguese has been embroiled in an ongoing clash with Paul Pogba, with whom he shared a frosty exchange with on the training ground ahead of the West Ham defeat.
Mourinho attempted to play down the issue, claiming usually those sorts of situations are more heated.
He said: "When you say it's disruptive or you got on camera me speaking with Paul I am happy that you don't come here more times because you would get much more than that.
"I can promise you, much more than that. Much louder much more aggressive. Words with a completely different dimension, you would get a lot.
"So I'm really happy that the rules are 15 minutes [a month]."


Collectively the Creative Heads team has experience in all aspects of marketing communications from brand identity to annual reports, public relations, events, video, website design and so much more!
We are designers, developers, digital experts, writers, strategists and marketeers to name a few. Many of us have learnt our trade at leading agencies in London and abroad before joining Creative Heads to provide first class marketing communications from a more cost-effective base in Canterbury.
Our B2B and B2C clients range from a small start-up to a global technology corporation with a turnover in excess of US$400m, including financial, software, retail, travel and manufacturing companies, not-for-profit, charities, SMEs and public sector organisations.
A return on investment for our clients is at the heart of the agency's marketing approach. Some disciplines are more difficult to measure, but where possible we demonstrate best value. Sometimes the approach is strategic and complex, but we also recognise some projects just require a simple cost-effective approach with a fast turnaround.
The value is in our people and their expertise. When committing to work with us it is essential to get the chemistry right as we prefer to have a trusted, open and honest 'partnership' rather than a more distant client/supplier relationship.
We treat our work very seriously and respect clients enormously, but it is also important for everyone to enjoy what they do. This always leads to greater success for both parties and is one of the reasons why our clients stay with us for the long term.


Mrs Kim's walking stick isn't even touching the ground as she wanders at a pace that would seem leisurely to any onlooker. The sound of her heels meeting the pavement is like the steady beat of a metronome, echoing down the street and, despite her short stature, her shadow is long against the light that the lamp posts offer up.
Curfew was two hours ago but she can't find it in herself to quicken her pace, grinning to herself when the pauses between her steps actually become longer. She takes a deep breath, the cool air making her feel lighter, and she strokes her scarf down, making sure that it falls nicely over her shoulders.
They must be worried about her, or perhaps they're just worried about their inability to cross her name off of the list. The care home has five stars on Google, and the comments said that "the workers really care about their clients" and "it's a good place to be for people of that age", but do yellow stars on a computer screen really mean anything at all? Mrs Kim continues walking, considering looking to see where any night buses might take her. Now that she thinks about it, she hasn't been anywhere outside of Chicago in over twenty years, and when she was younger, she resented the idea of staying in the same place for so long. Perhaps it might be worth paying her daughter a visit.
Kim Yong-Sun, or as she called herself, Sunny, got home at 9:00pm. She laid her papers out on the kitchen table and opened her laptop to check her emails.
'Meeting tomorrow (Friday) at 1:00pm in conference room E', read.
'$41.92 taken out of your account today at-', Sunny clicked on the email and scanned through it for a few seconds.
"Oi, didn't I teach you never to yell through the house like that?" Mrs Kim shouted back.
Sunny rested her laptop on her arm and walked through to the living room where her mother was.
Mrs Kim tutted and sighed, looking back to the magazine that she was occupied with before. "A scarf. A nice one, too. Not like the things you wear these days. Honestly, did I not teach you how to dress? And who do you think you are, interrupting me like that? I brought you to the world, to this country, you should be kissing the ground I walk on." She tapped on a page in her magazine and folded the corner.
At the dinner table that evening, Sunny's son told them about the upcoming science fair at his school. Mrs Kim reacted animatedly when he spoke of the solar system, asking questions about how they are going to model it, and 'really? You can paper-mache that? With a balloon? Of all things, I never would have thought of that', when he chose to educate them on how he planned to recreate the sun.
The plate made a harsh sound when Sunny's fork landed on it. Her son's moment of excitement upon hearing about the lights had been put on pause, and the white noise from the television in the other room filled the space.
The white noise seemed louder and the young boy focused on his peas.
No, it's too late to visit her now.
Mrs Kim spins her walking stick around her arm. She wasn't always this age. When she was twenty years old, just a child, she aspired to be a fashion designer. She was good at it, too, so good that her clothes were recognised by an American designer. The move to Chicago was quite a sudden one, so much so that she felt like she had whiplash. With bags in her hands and a bump under her shirt, she had arrived at the small apartment and immediately set to work. When she got on the train every morning she looked out the window and imagined her clothes on billboards. When she spoke with other designers about ideas and the fact that it was a 'dream come true', she wrote down the English words that she wasn't familiar with on her forearm, remembering to scan the dictionary that evening. And when her first runway project stayed under the noses of the people, the press, and other designers in the business, never rising to their line of sight, she invested in a small a property that would come to be called "Kim's Café".
Mrs Kim had successfully sold twelve sand-grilles by the time Henry stood next to her by the counter, and she was heavily preoccupied, green notes in hand.
She looked up from the notes with a look that couldn't quite be identified, but it would never be classed as cheerful.
She stops walking when she reaches the gate. Putting Mrs Kim in a nursing home is like putting a lion in a hamster's cage. The lion will ache, if it even fits in in the first place. She taps her walking stick on the ground a couple of times fewer than she taps her foot. She wasn't always old, and if you ask her now she still won't call herself so. She lets out a shaky breath that turns into mist in front of her. She'd never wanted to be the old bag who sits in the corner of the nursing home, talking about how the weather was in 1972. She'd never wanted to be the elderly woman who has a walking stick and actually uses it, incapable of taking three steps without toppling onto her side. She had never wanted to be the person who moves to a town or city once and never leaves again.
Mrs Kim lifts her walking stick off the ground and the sound of her heels on the pavement echoes through the air, like the steady beat of a metronome.


text:
UPDATE: Is Common Core in Trouble in Wisconsin?
By Policy Staff - September 25, 2013
Common Core, Education, Education Accountability, Education Accountability, Education Reform, Schools
MacIver News Service | September 25, 2013
[Madison, Wisc…] On Tuesday, Governor Scott Walker publicly questioned the application of national Common Core of Data standards in Wisconsin, hinting that there could be a replacement in the works for the Badger State.
"I'd like Wisconsin to have its own unique standards that I think can be higher than what's been established, or what's been talked about, at the national level," said Walker. The Governor was addressing the media after delivering a speech at the Wisconsin Counties Association's annual meeting. In the scrum, he suggested legislators hold mandated public hearings on Common Core that were passed in the 2013-2015 Wisconsin State Budget.
Walker compared a potential Common Core replacement to how the state phased out No Child Left Behind's standards by developing its own report cards with which to grade public schools. However, the state was able to borrow parts of that design and implementation plan from other states as several other states worked to free themselves from NCLB regulations. With less cooperation nationwide, the pressure to create a new set of educational standards would be high for the Department of Public Instruction and educational stakeholders throughout the state.
To get there, the state will have to gather feedback from its citizens first. This spring, the Joint Finance Committee inserted language into the state budget that called for three public hearings regarding the implementation of Common Core standards in Wisconsin. So far, those hearings have yet to happen, despite pressure from outside groups as well as lawmakers.
Now, that pressure will intensify after the Governor's statements on Tuesday. These comments will put a greater spotlight on Common Core's role in Wisconsin than ever before.
UPDATE: The Senate and Assembly have announced the formation of two Select Committees on Common Core to look into the matter more deeply. Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R-Fond du Lac) will head the Assembly committee, while Senator Paul Farrow (R-Pewaukee) will be the chair of the Senate side. The Senate committee will have five members, including Senator Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa), Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), and two Democrats to be named at a later date by Senator Chris Larson.
Policy Staff


, we all picks the best collections using ideal resolution only for you, and this photographs is usually one of photographs choices in your greatest photographs gallery about Lettre Expert Lesquin Lille Pic (59). Lets hope you can want it.
published by simply at 2018-07-26 10:29:24. To determine many images within Lettre Expert Lesquin Lille Pic (59) images gallery you should adhere to this kind of web page link.


text:
Чорояшу () — село у повіті Олт в Румунії. Входить до складу комуни Фелкою.

Село розташоване на відстані 139 км на захід від Бухареста, 20 км на південь від Слатіни, 45 км на схід від Крайови.

Населення
За даними перепису населення 2002 року у селі проживали  осіб. Усі жителі села рідною мовою назвали румунську.

Національний склад населення села:

Примітки

Села повіту Олт

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
A 8089 Yukar (ideiglenes jelöléssel 1990 TW7) a Naprendszer kisbolygóövében található aszteroida. Lutz D. Schmadel és Freimut Börngen fedezte fel 1990. október 13-án.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek
 Kisbolygók listája (8001–8500)

Jegyzetek

A Naprendszer kisbolygói


The Solution below shows the position of note G and G natural on the piano, treble clef and bass clef.
This step shows note G on two octaves, on the piano, treble clef and bass clef.
G is a white key on the piano.
Note G natural is exactly the same as note G.
It is called natural when an accidental instance of that note has already been indicated on the key signature or on the staff, (eg. G# or Gb), and that accidental needs to be cancelled, so the sharp or flat is not needed for the current note.
This step shows note G in two different positions on the piano, and describes the note characteristics.
The next note up from G is G# / Ab.
Or put another way, G# / Ab is 1 half-tone / semitone higher than G.
The next note down from G is Gb / F#.
Or put another way, Gb / F# is 1 half-tone / semitone lower than G.
3. Note G is found in which scales ?
This step shows which scales note G occurs in, including the scale degree (ie. position / scale note number) of that scale.
Note G is found in which scales ?


text:
SA media must reflect on its practices in a time of State Capture - Sanef
Jenna Etheridge
(Sanef)
Sanef acknowledges 'devastating impact' of inaccurate Sunday Times reports
Sanef, CT Press Club condemn threats against Sunday Times journalist
Sanef slams Independent Media group's 'Stratcom' smear of journalists
Media houses need to deeply introspect on their practices and how these might be contributing to democracy or eroding trust, the South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) urged this week.
Commemorating the 41st anniversary of Black Wednesday, which saw a serious crack down on media freedom in 1977, Sanef chairperson Mahlatse Mahlase touched on the raging debate about the credibility of some media institutions and the craft of journalism itself.
"We need to honestly answer why studies show that trust in the media is eroding. This was long before the recent apologies," she said in a speech prepared for a Sanef fundraising dinner on Friday night.
She was referring to the recent apology by the Sunday Times this past week for serious editorial lapses with some of its past stories since 2014.
Also read: Sanef acknowledges 'devastating impact' of inaccurate Sunday Times reports
Sanef met with Tiso Blackstar management on Tuesday to discuss the series of inaccurate reports on the Cato Manor death squad, the illegal deportation of Zimbabweans and the South African Revenue Service "rogue unit".
Sunday Times editor Bongani Siqoko said in the apology that it was clear they had made mistakes "and allowed ourselves to be manipulated by those with ulterior motives".
Mahlase said those who were part of capturing the State saw the media as an important vehicle.
"The role of the media in creating the fertile environment for the band of rogues to grace our most sacrosanct institutions, needs an honest and thorough assessment. This is so that such heinous mistakes can never, ever, happen again," she said.
"The recent events have again suggested that the media industry has a lot to do, if the dream of meaningful democracy is to be truly realised."
Also read: Ruth First Memorial Lecture: Journalism suffers crisis of quality and credibility
Sanef acknowledged the throngs of ethical journalists in South Africa who remained committed to serving the public and those who exposed corruption.
"Despite what our critics say, Steinhoff, the collusion ahead of 2010, Bosasa, VBS etcetera – were exposed by the media."
Journalists worked hard to expose the rot, in the face of physical, verbal and psychological threats to have them silenced.
On the topic of muzzling the media, Mahlase said they asked President Cyril Ramaphosa in May to do the right thing and not sign into law the so-called Secrecy Bill, which was passed by Parliament in 2013.
"We remain positive that President Ramaphosa will still do the right thing – as an important sign of his commitment to democracy, which cannot be sustained when draconian ideas and draft laws bubble around.
"If he has any doubt, he can send it to the Constitutional Court, so we can get finality on this matter."
A number of other threats to the industry were also highlighted.
Mahlase said they were aware of complaints of inappropriate managerial interference in editorial spaces, as well as editors being fired or intimidated in order to tone down what was reported.
"We know journalists too have been pushed out when they fought back; Editorial decisions being taken in order to achieve particular commercial goals."
Newsrooms faced budgetary challenges and rounds of retrenchments, forcing out those with experience, institutional memory and agency.
A study by Sanef and Genderlinks that was launched this week, revealed that black men now comprised half of top media managers.
The number of black women in top media management has increased fivefold but was still 20% lower than black men.
"But there is still a worry – the gender gap appears to be widening and black men are moving up the ranks at a much faster pace than black women, and while there is an increase in women middle managers, there is a decline in skilled professionals."
Gender parity
Mahlase said the industry needed to walk the talk on gender parity.
Sanef has prioritised the training and upskilling of female media professionals with its Media Management Skills Programme.
It has also updated the journalist occupational qualification, a certificate targeting people with matric but also suitable for graduates and newsroom journalists.
"Media law and ethics remain a critical component in grooming the next generation of truth warriors," said Mahlase.
Read more on: sanef | media | state capture


Derby's waste - a rubbish blog !: Burn baby burn !
One of the biggest myths in waste management is that the new Advanced Thermal Treatment (ATT) plants are not incineration plants! Time and again when these new plants are wheeled out by councils and developers we are told they are clean, green AND NOT INCINERATION !
Developers put forward exotic names for the processes they are trying to peddle like GASIFICATION or PYROLYSIS and they claim their processes do not burn wastes but heat them producing syngas which is then used for power generation.
While standard mass burn incineration burns waste in an oxygen rich environment developers peddling their alternatives often use controlled levels of air / oxygen and in some cases no oxygen in what they consider to be a more controlled process. These processes are now being pushed across the UK and in recent years a number of proposals have been put forward for Derby and Derbyshire.
Councils and developers when attempting to gain planning permission favour using terms such as gasification and pyrolysis because by doing so it keeps the word incineration out of the public eye because when rumbled councils and developers come up against stiff opposition.
Such processes are claimed to be clean and green and at times even those who object to waste incineration plants are fooling into thinking such plants are a better alternative to mass burn incineration and this extends to government who now offer subsidies for electricity produced by Advanced Thermal Treatment plants. The elephant in the room is that mass burn, gasification and pyrolysis are ALL incineration plants because no matter if its a throw it in and burn it plant or a plant that produces syngas via controlled processes when the gas is burnt its an incineration plant.
We know this because Europe have defined what constitutes an incineration plant in the waste incineration directive - often known as WID. This set of regulations sets out the description of such plants, their control and the expected emissions standard for the plant.
So while up and down the country the same argument can be heard at waste gasification plant public consultations about the proposals not being incineration councils and developers cannot escape facts ! and the facts are EUROPE SAYS THESE PLANTS ARE INCINERATION PLANTS! So that is what they are!


text:
La famille Manuel est une famille patricienne bernoise.

Histoire

Possessions

Charges exercées par la famille

Hans Rudolf Manuel est bailli de Morges de 1562 à 1568.

Généalogie

Références

Bibliographie

Ouvrages

Liens externes

Manuel


Young scientists, engineers, and inventors will love exploring and creating with Circuit Cubes Smart Art Kit. Snap together Circuit Cubes, building bricks, and markers (all included) to make moving, squiggling "scribble-bots" that draw spirals and patterns. Put your art in motion and let your imagination run wild! Add your own LEGO® and MegaBloks®-type construction bricks, pool noodles, cardboard tubes, rubber bands, and other household items to invent your own creations, and inspire STEM/STEAM learning through play.
Includes all materials and directions for multiple projects—find more ideas on manufacturer's webpage!


My question is how is the 180Ohm resistor value determined. I understand that it conducts for a very short time, but not much more. Is this a valid value for both 230VAC and 12VAC? Is 1/4W resistor always fuitable?
The 180Ω resistor will probably need to be altered for 12VAC, what value it needs to be depends on the minimum trigger/latching current needed for the main triac. Also, a 0.25W resistor is only suitable if the wattage doesn't exceed 0.25W, so you need to calculate max voltage across it times current through it.
This Fairchild app note is worth a read for deciding on the values of components to use.
R1(min) = Vin(pk)/1.2A = 150 ohms.
In practice, this would be a 150 or 180 ohm resistor.
VinT = R1 * IGT + VGT + VTM = 20 V.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged opto-isolator thyristor or ask your own question.
Under what conditions does an optocoupler work fastest?


text:
Write for us- Photography, Business & Fashion Guest Posting
Vanessa F Pena Profile Contact Details Twitter, Phone number, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Email
There is also no new information about her siblings. She completed her high school at Florida Gulf Course University. There is no information about her school days but she has shared in several interviews, she was a good student and was excellent in extracurricular activities. She has a romantic relationship with her girlfriend who also featured on her Instagram posts. Vane F. Pena is one of the beautiful and fitness freak Tiktok star and her cute look is so so attractive that anyone can be her crazy. We did a lot of research about her parents and sibling means her Family but we did not get any satisfactory result and We will update this post whenever we get information about her family.
I love sharing our accents, our slang, our recipes, and everything else, so more people can learn about our culture. If you believe that any content or postings on this site violate your intellectual property or other rights please visit disclaimer. In the film, the scene happens during one of Washington Heights' power cuts, and is mainly sung by characters Usnavi and Vanessa , who are searching for one another. Regarding her family, she has shared photos of her mother but not much information is available right now. We will update her family after finding any relevant information.
It's super important to be authentic to yourself, and make sure that you feel comfortable posting what you post. I recommend that you cater to yourself, because there really is a place for EVERYONE on TikTok, you just have to find your people. I am very proud of a lot of videos that I've posted, because with every video, people tell me that I've somehow touched them. A very important series of videos to me are my "Gender Education" videos. Where I speak about being nonbinary, and how I've navigated my journey of self-discovery. It hasn't all been adoration for Miranda however, who in summer 2020, found himself the butt of TikTok's constant jokes.
Although he wasn't "canceled," Miranda was relentlessly mocked by users on the app. He became the center of memes and jokes all focused on him, seemingly sparked by an image of him biting his lip. TikTok user @starcoleman6 gained over one million views and 200,000 likes with her rendition of the scene, using eyeliner to swiftly draw on a mustache for each of Usnavi's lines. From an early age, she was talented in dancing and acting skills. When she was young she was working in a cafeteria but wanted to pursue her career in dancing.
Her other videos also started to gain massive attraction and the range of views between her videos was up to 400,000 to 1 million views. She started to gain attraction but various TikTokers and collaborators. Apart from this, if she runs any private business, then the it's net worth is not included in this. And we have researched their social media handles and tried to get the estimated data of their net worth with the help of internet So it is not confirmed that this data is accurate. Vane F. Pena is an famous Instagram star who gained a lot of fame by posting photos with inspirational captions and Reels on her Instagram account and She is very popular on Instagram . Rounding out our 2021 Latinx Trailblazers list is Vane Peña, known on TikTok as @vanessafpena.
Vanessa is also active on Instagram where they have earned more than 230K followers. Short form lip sync and variety content creator on TikTok who rose to fame through the use of their sam cushing boyfriend account. They have gone on to garner more than 2.8 million fans on the platform. They were a student at Florida Gulf Coast University. They created a line of merchandise for fans to purchase. Vanessa Pena is famous for her comedy skits and lip-syncing videos on TikTok.
Ever since she became famous on Instagram, her success hasn't stopped. Guys after doing complete research, we wrote this article about Vane F. Penabiography and all Facts, So if you are a fan of Vane F. Pena read this article carefully. Her real name is Vanessa Pena, but people also know him by the name Vane . Pena is, if you don't know who is Vane F. Pena and Vane F. PenaBiography and Success Story thenreadthis post carefully. We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com.
Popular social media star and content creator who is best recognized for the beauty and fashion videos she posts to her savannahhh.mariee TikTok account. Her fans have boosted her to over 3.2 million followers on the app. One of her most popular TikToks features her morning routine. She posts fashion, beauty, and lifestyle content on her self-titled YouTube channel. She often shares her shopping haul, especially of make-ups and clothes, from many different markets in her videos. Vanessa has gained more than 2.8 million followers and their TikTok videos have assembled over 136.2 million likes.
You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center. Register for FREE to receive email alerts on unexpected increase or loss of followers. Estimated cost for a sponsored post on this Instagram profile. One of their oldest archived videos was a "stem check."
Venezuelans, like other Latinos, make it a point to treat everybody like family, and really emphasize that sense of community with the people around us. My culture taught me to treat everyone with respect, and love, and to really take a second and learn from everyone around me. My culture raised me to think about others, and has helped me become a self-less, caring, and giving person.
contact, details, email, instagram, number, phone, profile, snapchat, tiktok, twitter, vanessa
Edwin Wallace:
Features of UFA SLOT is its extensive slot Machine game selection
Cute and Funny Teddy Bear Names
The 10 Best Tea Kettles of 2023
2023 Good, Creative, Cool Team Name Ideas
Create your random Wood Elf names
Heatherburrisphotography is a Professional Photography Platform. Here we will provide you only interesting content, which you will like very much. We're dedicated to providing you the best of Photography, with a focus on dependability and Photography Blog.
© 2022 Heather Burris Photography - All Rights Reserved.


Refer a friend and both of you get one month free!
After you register, refer insidercow.com to your friend and both of you will get one month free subscription if your accounts remain open for more than one month. Simply ask your friends to email us after they register, from the email addresses they use in the registration and put your email address in the subject line*, both of you will have one more month of membership credited to your accounts.
You get one month free for each friend you refer to insidercow.com and there is no limit!
*Each new customer can only have one person as the referrer.


During 1467-1614 there were lots of wars for state's unification among Daimyos who ruled in Kuni (state) . Japan was composed of 68 Kunis in those times and the names are totally different from current name of Japanese prefectures.
The daimyos divided into two groups: West Japan and East Japan. At both battles, the West was defeated by the East led by Tokugawa Ieyasu who became Shogun for the victory and his Tokugawa family ruled Japan without serious civil war till 1868 when Meiji Emperor restored political power from Shogun. In the Tokugawa era about 250 years daimyo flags were not often used and developed due to lack of chance (little war). Images of some flags Tokugawa era are rectangle flags with simpler design than flags in warring period (1467-1614).
The daimyo flags were mainly used as banner at war and basically father/sons/brothers even in a same family used different flags. This is why we will see so many Daimyo flags.
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) the prime mover of Japan's 16th century reunification after a hundred years of strife.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) the warlord and he could for the first time truly claim that he had extended his regime nationwide into which provincial lords were integrated.
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) the Shogun warrior chieftain who outwitting many of his major contemporaries and outliving and out-procreating the rest, survived Japan's late 16th century wars of unification with victories at the battles of Sekigahara (1600) and Osaka (1614).
The Daimyos tried to march in to old capital Kyoto where the Emperor lived.
The Daimyo flags particularly during warring period were used in one Kuni and also more than one Kunis from time to time. The daimyo fought against each other starting with fight with neighbor to rule the next Kuni. If he succeeded he expanded his territory (Kuni).
This is just like World Cup, the grand champion being a Shogun who controls whole Japan as the best player (Daimyo of Daimyos).
The vertical flag called Nobori-hata is, I believe, War Flag in English which belongs to an organization always placed in the center of camp in battle field and the square flag called Uma-jirushi is a kind of rank flag which is a General 's flag at war, basically personal flag.
Uma means horse; jirushi is sign or mark. There were no other rank flags basically.
The Japanese mon is too complicated to distinguish it from other mons if they were used in a flag at war. In order to tell who is an enemy and an ally at war the simple flag was required. Japanese warriors did not have shield to protect themselves like European knights. That's why they used much more flags at war for identity.
The size of vertical flag is around 4m x 0.7m and square one 2m x 2m.
The Daimyo flag is believed to have the God of War live in them, thus flags had been placed in a valuable box and stored in a special room of the Daimyo in other circumstances.
In the castle, flags were not used but each samurai on duty wore ceremonial kimono called Kamishimo which has mon to identify his family in usually three places.
The kuni was not stable politically but physically geographically stable for long time. The number and the size of kunis 68 remained unchanged and lots of Daimyo had come and gone thru the kuni during warring period.
Some Daimyo ruled 2-3 kunis and on the other hands some kuni was ruled by 2-3 Daimyos from time to time.
There were two kuni named Awa, one in present-day Chiba and another in present-day Tokushima. Although the pronunciation is the same they are written different in Chinese characters. The first Awa was ruled by Satomi Daimyo, whose flag is not available, while the second was ruled by Hachisuka Yoshishige(1586-1620).
** - Link-only page to daimyos who ruled multiple kuni. See below.
*** - No flag, mon image only.
Editorial Note: some pages load slowly due to image sizes.
What area does the kuni represent today? See our kuni-prefecture conversion page.


Product categories of 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges, we are specialized manufacturers from China, 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges, 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges suppliers/factory, wholesale high-quality products of 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges R & D and manufacturing, we have the perfect after-sales service and technical support. Look forward to your cooperation!
Here you can find the related products in 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges, we are professional manufacturer of 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges. We focused on international export product development, production and sales. We have improved quality control processes of 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges to ensure each export qualified product.
If you want to know more about the products in 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges, please click the product details to view parameters, models, pictures, prices and other information about 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges.
Whatever you are a group or individual, we will do our best to provide you with accurate and comprehensive message about 2 Bolt Hole Self-aligning Mounting Flanges!


Thursday 20 May at The Capitol the WAMi Awards for 2010 were announced. The night included performances from Hayley Beth, Black Poet, The Brow Horn Orchestra, Will Stoker and The Embers and a big closing set from Sugar Army that kept the crowd amped up and eager right till the end.
Peter Barr and Triple J's The Doctor were excellent as co-hosts for the event and special thanks should go to Paul Bodlovich and Sarah Norton from WAM for making the this most unique of music events happen.
Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke!


By accessing "ESP32 Forum" (hereinafter "we", "us", "our", "ESP32 Forum", "https://esp32.com"), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms then please do not access and/or use "ESP32 Forum". We may change these at any time and we'll do our utmost in informing you, though it would be prudent to review this regularly yourself as your continued usage of "ESP32 Forum" after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these terms as they are updated and/or amended.


An out-of-the-ordinary new game show developed by the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses wants to help kids stay off pot, in a more progressive manner.
The show, which was the result of the team's research on popular yet ineffective efforts to dissuade drug use such as D.A.R.E. or Just Say No. Enter: "Weeded Out," a program that seeks to educate kids using a game show format.
"We feel that the whole D.A.R.E. campaign, and the Just Say No campaign used scare tactics that didn't work. We saw that sort of negative messaging and fear tactics do not work for this group. Youth want to be talked to like adults – they don't want to be lectured," Denver Department of Excise and Licenses director Ashley Kilroy disclosed to the Denverite.
As part of their ongoing efforts, the questions used in Weeded Out will be seen on game cards and used in "classroom in a box" for kids studying in public schools. According to Eric Escudero, the department's communications director, the show is an important aspect that depicts how the city wants to communicate cannabis to kids.
Kilroy added that when cannabis was first regulated, Mayor Michael Hancock was concerned about ensuring kids were educated about pot. Kilroy's focus is on empowering the youth through information by encouraging them as well as their parents to follow through if there is something that they don't understand, or even disagree with.
Studies reveal that teen cannabis use has been linked to addiction. The younger you start consuming cannabis, the greater your chances are of getting addicted. The brain is still in development until the age of 25, which means that young brains are more susceptible to damage from chemicals found in cannabis.
200,000 Denver students lost their chances of receiving financial aid because of drug-related offenses. This accounts for 62% of all cannabis violations.
Studies show that teen cannabis use makes you 7 times more vulnerable to depression.
How Are Our Kids Doing?
The probability of more kids using cannabis as legalization spreads throughout the country is a growing concern for parents and guardians. After all, there is still much we don't understand about how cannabis really does impact the brain, but what we know so far about how it can harm teen brains is worrisome. And while cannabis legalization is good for the rest of the country, we'd want kids to be more knowledgeable about using it because with that comes responsible consumption.
But you know what? The kids are alright.
While it's definitely important to continue efforts in spreading awareness about cannabis use to the youth, we aren't starting from scratch. A new report issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that teen cannabis use in Colorado has been declining since 2011, despite the fact that adult use cannabis has been legal since 2012.
The report said that 22% of the state's high school students admitted to using cannabis in the last 30 days back in 2011, that figure has now dropped to 21.2% in 2015, even lower now at 19.6% compared to the nationwide average of 19.8%.
"After five years of marijuana being legal for adults in Colorado, government surveys continue to find no increase in usage rates among high school students," says Mason Tvert, Marijuana Policy Project spokesperson. "This is very welcome news for Colorado, and it should be particularly welcome news for those who opposed the state's legalization for fear it would lead to an explosion in teen use. Hopefully it will allay opponents' concern in other states where voters or lawmakers are considering proposals to legalize and regulate marijuana for adult use. Colorado is proof that you can prevent teen marijuana use without arresting thousands of responsible adult marijuana consumers every year. Rather than debating whether marijuana should be legal for adults, let's focus on how we can regulate it and control it to make it less available to teens," he adds.
DENVER DISPENSARIES NEAR ME, YOU BET, CLICK HERE.
DISPENSARIES KEEP WEED FROM KIDS, CLICK HERE.
However, cannabis can be used complementary with chemotherapy to improve the success of treatment, aid in the killing of cancer cells, and provide relief from side effects.
Research shows that acupuncture, just like cannabis, works to help heal and regulate the endocannabinoid system and many of the body's other systems.


In this role, you'll manage projects across a host of issues, coordinating with the global team and key cross-functional partners to execute our policy strategy, and advising product, business and engineering teams on the public policy implications of their work.
You'll organize, manage, and communicate our plans, initiatives, and strategy, using your analytical and organizational skills, your ability to communicate effectively, aptitude for learning, ability to develop and implement creative ideas, and the discipline to manage competing projects with tight deadlines. This role requires experience either working with or in a corporate public policy team, government, or NGO as well as a demonstrated ability to grasp complex technical and policy issues.


text:
February 7, 2013 3:39 am
Jewish Philanthropist, Media Mogul Ronald Lauder Earns France's Highest Honor
by JNS.org
Ronald Lauder, left, was bestowed the French Legion of Honor by President François Hollande on Wednesday. Photo: Présidence de la République.
France on Wednesday awarded Jewish philanthropist and media mogul Ronald Lauder with its government's highest honor.
Lauder—president of the World Jewish Congress, owner of Israel's Channel 10 television station, and son of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder—received the Legion of Honor from President François Hollande.
"With you, France honors a man of peace, of culture and of commitment. The cause you serve is to preserve the memory in order to build the future," Hollande said, praising Lauder as both a "businessman who has developed with talent an enterprise that is today a world leader" at Estée Lauder as well as the owner of "the most beautiful modern art collection ever assembled by an individual."
As of September 2012, Forbes estimated Lauder's net worth at $3.4 billion.
Napoleon Bonaparte established the Legion of Honor in 1802 as a way for France to reward civilians and soldiers on the basis of merit, rather than the pre-French Revolution system of nobility.


text:
Triumph Tiger Explorer News
Triumph has released the first official pictures of its new BMW GS rival, the 1200cc Tiger Explorer.
The bike is powered by a 1200cc, three-cylinder engine with Triumph's first ride-by-wire throttle system, and comes with cruise control, traction control and switchable ABS.
The bike follows much of the same basic look and specification as the current Tiger 800, including a similar tubular steel frame, but is notable as the first modern Triumph to feature shaft final drive, in line with direct rivals the R1200GS, Yamaha Super Ténéré and Moto Guzzi Stelvio. This is integrated into a single-sided swingarm design. Wheel sizes are 17 inch rear, 19 inch front.
Various options and accessories are promised but not yet specified, including hard and soft luggage, low and high seats plus a range of electrical items likely to include heated grips, lights and so on.
Just one technical detail has been confirmed, which is the fitment of a class leading 950W alternator, enabling the simultaneous use of many accessories and heated clothing too.
Disappointingly (especially for the journalists flown to London from around Europe only to be given a memory stick with a handful of pictures on, after a long presentation about Triumph's corporate success...) Triumph has not confirmed any important details such as power and torque figures, weight, tank size or fuel range. It's possible to make some guesses: Triumph is claiming class leading performance, which assuming the Multistrada is not included in the class means a power output of around 130bhp (97kW). Staff at the presentation also suggested the fuel range was better than the R1200GS, which at least means this was considered important at the design stage, so expect a tank size of at least 4.6 gallons (21 litres, 5.6 gallons US).
There are also no pictures of the shaft system itself. This looks bulky but Triumph appears aware of reliability issues with BMW's and claims their own is exceptionally strong. But then they would...
As with the Tiger 800 and according to Triumph's general policy, there is nothing ground breaking technologically about the bike, while the styling is conservative too, closely following the Tiger 800's generic adventure bike look. Even so, Triumph has been enormously successful building exceptionally good motorcycles to this unadventurous formula - clearly this accords with customers' own priorities.
Full details will be released at the Milan EICMA show on November 8.


text:
Tikhonino () is a rural locality (a village) in Kubenskoye Rural Settlement, Kharovsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002.

Geography
Tikhonino is located 18 km northwest of Kharovsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gridinskaya is the nearest rural locality.

References

Rural localities in Kharovsky District


At the Tale End is a wandering RPG quest by Haneda made in WOLF RPG Editor, with no battles and a single ending. For windows and mac (using an external program).
A Goblin's Xmas tale is a 2D arcade comedy/horror shooter that starts on Xmas night when the Giant Goblin accidentally shoots down Santa.
Gilfor's Tales is a browser-based, Flash 3D MMORPG. Game is set in a fantasy world, full of sinister enemies, dangerous quests and thrilling adventures.
A Stwalarts Tale is a 2D MMORPG featuring two factions, player housing, a RP' style interface, server side events and more.
A Tale Of Rock was created by John Godwin and Stephen Payne for their final degree project whilst studying 3D Animation at the University Of Hertfordshire.