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Winter Olympics: Executive Producer Bell Fine with Cooper's Handling of Miller Interview
By John Eggerton
Olympics executive producer Jim Bell said the network was fine with the way reporter Christen Cooper handled her post-race interview with bronze medalist Bodie Miller Sunday.
Cooper pressed Miller on his reaction to the medal after the recent death of his brother. Miller eventually broke down in tears and NBC, in its taped coverage, carried the interview and stayed with the shot of him crying and eventually being consoled by his wife.
That decision drew some heat on social media, and in the press. But in a conference call with reporters Monday (Feb. 17), Bell pointed out that Miller had defended the interview on social media and later on Today.
Bell said he understood the shoot-from-the-hip reaction from social media and some columnists, but that the storyline about Miller's brother -- and one about a skeleton racer's miscarriage that was part of her on-air profile -- were part of the back stories of the games and giving viewers insight into athletes.
He pointed out that no less a journalist that Tom Brokaw had set up the Miller storyline about his brother. "I think the way [the interview] played out is fine.
Bell was asked about reports Olympic ratings were down from both Torino and Vancouver, and suggestions it was because there were no real compelling stories to tell. Bell begged to differ, first saying the ratings weren't down from Torino and pointing to the Russian Hockey game--which set a rating for hockey on NBCSN, the success of snowboarders and America's champion ice dancers as some strong stories. He conceded another American gold medal or two wouldn't hurt, but that that is always the case. Otherwise, he said, "we couldn't be happier.
The call was primarily held to mark the return of Bob Costas to the primetime anchor chair after a six-day hiatus to treat viral conjunctivitis, a story that became part of the Games. Costas said on the call that he was not comfortable with being part of the story, but said it was unavoidable. He also joked that his eye problems had gone viral, both literally and figuratively, though he said he did not follow social media and had not seen much of the coverage of him.
Costas said his eyes would still be red tonight as he returns to the anchor chair, but that the real problem had been the blurry vision and light sensitivity that had prevented him from working. In fact, for the first two or three days he had to be in a darkened room.
But NBC hooked up a feed to his hotel room, he said, so he was able to watch coverage, as well as WNBC New York, KNBC Los Angeles, NBCSN, CNN and ESPN. "I got what I needed," he said.
John Eggerton
Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.


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"Notoriously eccentric" singer-songwriter and multimedia artist Will Wood appeared on the independent music circuit seemingly out of nowhere in 2015, following the release of his debut album, "Everything is a Lot." Within months of assembling a band, Wood was attracting controversy from the New Jersey music scene for his constantly-shifting public persona and "pathological ambition," and attracting attention from bigger industry names for the intense cult following he had already began to cultivate.
This quick rise had Wood onstage and in studio alongside members major national/international acts like Gogol Bordello, Foxy Shazam, My Chemical Romance Offshoot Frnkiero and the Cellabration, Man Man, and The Dillinger Escape Plan. His often self-directed music videos- had him working with major video producers like Billboard/Rolling Stone Magazine's Mark Jaworski. His crowd-funded (178% of its original goal) concept album "SELF-iSH," was recorded at Party Smasher Inc.'s Backroom Studios, and its accompanying media earned rave reviews from national press outlets. Wood began self-booked touring in 2016.
Wood's self-produced and critically-acclaimed shows feature anything from solo piano performances to nine-piece bands with trapeze artists and light shows, and sell out regularly with fans paying up to $150 for admission. The sold-out release party for Wood's 2018 live album "The Real," gave half of its ticket sales to mental health research, raising thousands for charity.
Will Wood's self-designed merch table pulls in hundreds of dollars in sales per night even to intimate shows far outside of well-explored markets. His fans' dedication to his multimedia work allows him to work on his music career full-time, with some paying up to $100 a month on his Patreon account for exclusive content. In 2018 Wood raised nearly $8,000 on Indiegogo to produce a short run of SELF-iSH vinyls.
Wood's multifaceted career sets him apart from many artists. His first gallery showing in 2019 had his paintings selling for upwards of $1,000 each, and his now award-winning experimental concert film "The Real Will Wood," has just begun screening at festivals.
Will Wood is now in pre-production for a 2020 release, "The Normal Album," (Say-10 Records) which features the work of multi-platinum producer Matt Squire (Panic! At the Disco, Ariana Grande, One Direction, etc.). Its crowdfunding campaign raised over $26,000 - with its original goal of $15,000 broken in the first 24 hours of the campaign.
THE WILL WOOD-DIRECTED VIDEO FOR "LOVE, ME NORMALLY" A TRACK PRODUCED BY MULTI-PLATINUM PRODUCER MATT SQUIRE (ONE DIRECTION, ARIANA GRANDE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, etc.)
"MR. CAPGRAS" DIRECTED BY WILL WOOD AND ACCLAIMED ACTION DOCUMENTARIAN ADAM NAWROT. PREMIERED VIA AXS ENTERTAINMENT
STUDIO VIDEO OF NEW TRACK RELEASED TO CELEBRATE THE NORMAL ALBUM RAISING $17K PRODUCED BY KEVIN ANTREASSIAN OF THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN AT PARTY SMASHER INC.'S BACKROOM STUDIOS
WILL WOOD AND HIS BAND "THE TAPEWORMS" AS A NINE-PIECE WITH TRAPEZE ARTISTS AT SOLD-OUT SHOW
WOOD PRODUCED VIDEO, DIRECTOR MARK JAWORSKI, PHOTOGRAPHER FOR BILLBOARD/ROLLING STONE
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UNRELEASED LIVE IN STUDIO VIDEOS. PERFORMED IN FRONT OF A STUDIO AUDIENCE (TICKETS $125) AND PRODUCED BY KEVIN ANTREASSIAN AT PARTY SMASHER INC.'S BACKROOM STUDIOS.
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Will WOOD TOURS REGULARLY IN THE NORTHEAST REGION OF THE U.S.
HIS HOME MARKET OF NORTH-CENTRAL NEW JERSEY IS HIS HIGHEST-DRAWING AREA, WITH SHOWS AT 200 CAP VENUES REGULARLY SELLING OUT WITH $20-30 TICKETS AND $125 VIP PACKAGES.
HIS OTHER TOP MARKETS ARE NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE HIS ACT DRAWS UPWARDS OF 80. OTHER MARKETS WHERE WILL WOOD HAS TOURED AND PLAYED FOR A SIGNIFICANT CULT FOLLOWING PRESENCE INCLUDE DETROIT MI, NEWARK/WILMINGTON DELAWARE, NORTHERN MA/SOUTHERN VT, CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA, MANHATTAN, AND MORE.
NEW YORK CITY IS HIS SECOND LARGEST SPOTIFY REGION, WITH HUNDREDS OF MONTHLY LISTENERS. THE CURRENTLY UNTAPPED MARKET OF CHICAGO IS HIS TOP SPOTIFY REGION. OTHER MARKETS WHERE WILL WOOD HAS ESTABLISHED SIGNIFICANT FAN BASES BUT HAS YET BEEN UNABLE TO TOUR INCLUDE LOS ANGELES AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
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The Larimer Chorale
Past Concerts and Events
Concert FAQs
Dickens Carolers
Silvertones Choir for Older Adults
Singing on Tap (Community Sing-Alongs at Craft Breweries)
Playing Our Part
How and Why to Donate
The Harmony Circle Planned Giving Program
Our Mission and Key Policies
Book the Dickens Carolers
The Silvertones of the Larimer Chorale Present Sing in the Holidays 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2017
With the arrival of fall, we begin to look ahead to the holiday season and anticipate celebrating traditions with family and friends. Join the Silvertones of the Larimer Chorale as we welcome a change in the seasons and ring in the holidays with songs like Let It Snow, Let There Be Peace on Earth and What A Wonderful World. The Silvertones choir will move you with its message of peace and togetherness and remind us all of the true meaning of the holidays. The Dickens Carolers of the Larimer Chorale will also join the program.
Saturday, November 18, 2017, 2:00 pm
Thompson Valley High School, 1669 Eagle Drive, Loveland, Colorado 80537
Buy tickets at the door for $5.00 each
Launched in 2012 as an outreach effort of the Larimer Chorale, the Silvertones Senior Choir provides an avenue for active older adults to engage in recreational singing. By its very nature, singing in a choir requires collaboration and cooperation, reduces isolation, and creates an inclusive environment. The emphasis of the program is on camaraderie and singing for the fun of it. The Silvertones Senior Choir now has more than 180 members, ranging in age from 55 to 98.
The Silvertones demonstrate that learning, making, and sharing art enriches everyone throughout their lifetime. Singing is a full body and brain exercise that is accessible to all and that addresses seniors' needs for physical activity, mental stimulation, and cognitive engagement. Singing in a choir provides an enjoyable community experience, fosters the realization of life-long learning goals; and encourages friendship and teamwork. Through this program, the Larimer Chorale has improved its understanding of how older adults find joy, connection, improved health, and a renewed sense of purpose by engaging in the choral arts. The Silvertones also demonstrate what aging voices can do. Each day choir members defy ageism and stereotypes by showing that older adults are active, enthusiastic, curious, and willing to try new recreational activities.
The Dickens Carolers of the Larimer Chorale are 20 outstanding vocalists, auditioned from within the ranks of the Larimer Chorale. They perform as quartets and smaller ensembles and are available for hire for various community celebrations and functions as well as private parties throughout the holiday season. They wear authentic Victorian costumes, made by soprano Marian Railsback.
About The Larimer Chorale:
The Larimer Chorale is one of the largest and most accomplished avocational choral ensembles in the Rocky Mountain Region. We are an auditioned, adult choir that was created by our community, for our community. Through our concerts, events, and outreach activities, we actively demonstrate that singing is a life-long endeavor that brings fulfillment and enrichment to singers and audiences alike. We sing for the joy it brings to us and our audiences and out of a deep dedication to music and our community. To learn more about the Larimer Chorale and its Singing for Seniors outreach project visitwww.larimerchorale.org.
Larimer Chorale presents CARMINA BURANA
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Captured California Nuclear Radiation information For Today.
Due to the heightened interest in West Coast radiation monitoring data, I have curated this selected list of EPA RadNet data including a snapshot of RadNet Map View which contains monitoring data and additional contextual information from EPA's Radiation Protection Programs.
Note: Zero Values for "Beta CPM", "Gamma CPM" indicate data not available.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has released radiation levels for yesterday in the region of Tokyo Electric Power Corp's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The rise in radiation levels could be due to radioactive substances becoming mixed into the water that the Self Defence Forces etc have been spraying on No.3 reactor and escaping as the water is pumped out again, said Japan's public broadcaster NHK.
To put this into perspective, 100 millisieverts received over the course of a year is the lowest level at which any increased cancer risk is evident. A fatal dose is considered to be 5,000 millisieverts - in one hit.
For more information, please call the California Department of Public Health nuclear emergency hotline at 916-341-3947.
How does one convert Radnet CPM to millisieverts?
That's a great question. It would be very helpful for your readers to understand the conversion between millisiverts (being quoted in Japan) and the units that are quoted by the EPA RadNet.
Also, it would be useful to know the what values of the EPA RadNet units are considered dangerous (first for children, and then for adults).
The following three paragraphs are excerpted from CNN, but it is still unclear how this correlates to the EPA RadNet data units.
"G. Donald Frey, a medical physicist and professor of radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. "The limit for radiation workers in the United States is 50 millisieverts per year, but we try to keep them to less than 5 millisieverts per year."
After a single acute exposure of 1,000 millisieverts, people tend to start feeling nauseated and vomiting, Frey said. At 5,000 millisieverts over the course of a few hours, "people start dying."
After exposure to 150 millisieverts per day, "you're definitely in the range where you have significantly increased risk of radiation-induced cancers." "
This is confusing, as usual with technical news reporting.
This "100 millisieverts received over the course of a year is the lowest level at which any increased cancer risk is evident."
"After exposure to 150 millisieverts per day, "you're definitely in the range where you have significantly increased risk of radiation-induced cancers." " "
150 millisieverts per day is 54,750 millisieverts per year. Quite a bit larger than 100 millisieverts per year. In fact it's 54.75 sieverts. If it's 5 millisieverts per hour that's 120 millisieverts per day, and 43.8 sieverts per year. 5 sieverts is lethal.
I'm no expert, but I think a good analogy would besomethingh like this; If you drink a gallon of water a day, that is 5.33 oz./hour. That's fine, but that also translates to 365.25 gallons per year, which is way, way too much for one sitting. It all has to do with how fast your body can eliminate what you take in. Or if your body retains it, as in the case of Iodine. It's the acute exposure that is the most dangerous.
What I'd like to know is why you people at CAL FIRE NEWS have stopped updating the radiation levels on March 18th. I'm guessing that you are all running for shelter and there's nobody there to do the updates!
Here it is May 6th, a Month since my last post (above) and still the latest info is from MARCH 18th. What is up with that! Japan is still spewing radioactive material 24/7 from not only the FD NPP but from another nuclear power plant as well. You can't buy a geiger counter anywhere. HELLO! is there anybody there at Cal Fire News? How about some real, official news from the people we trust.
OK it's been a month (now May 6th) and the data on this page is still from March 18th. Why has Cal Fire News stopped updating their web page? I for one would sure like to get some factual information from this official site that we can trust.
Ok, I think I have just entered the Twilight Zone. It is currently April 20th, 2012. It's been a year since the Meltdowns of multiple reactors at Fukushima and I must say that they were right, there is no IMMEDIATE danger. Whew, what a relief. I was sure that when the media stopped talking about the radiation levels and the EPA stopped taking measurements of the rain-water, milk, air and surface water, I was sure that everything was just fine. After all, our leaders would not just hang us out to dry if there were really any danger now would they. Look at a Geiger counter if you want confirmation of things being back to "normal". Radiation levels are low again, no worries then, Right?
Well I guess that depends on whether or not you agree with the statement "ignorance is bliss", or not. If you do, then it's right as rain. It's a beautiful day. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. Oh, and there is no IMMEDIATE danger to human health from ionizing radiation.
• Read thousands of books online for free.
Ionizing Radiation: BEIR VII – Phase 2"
If the research is too much for you then I suggest you take your family on a picnic and enjoy the beautiful weather, don't worry, be happy.
There is NO IMMEDIATE danger.


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Q: Custom Tool is not showing View, Laravel Nova I just followed all the  steps to make a custom Tool  Laravel/Nova/custom/tools But it doesn't show the default view,  there are not console error(js) or php error but the view is empty.

    namespace Mihrbi\CompanyConfig;

    use Laravel\Nova\Nova;
    use Laravel\Nova\Tool;

    class CompanyConfig extends Tool
    {
        /**
         * Perform any tasks that need to happen when the tool is booted.
         *
         * @return void
         */
        public function boot()
        {
            // Nova::script('company-config', __DIR__.'/../dist/js/tool.js');
            // Nova::style('company-config', __DIR__.'/../dist/css/tool.css');
            Nova::serving(function (ServingNova $event) {
                Nova::script('company-config', __DIR__.'/../dist/js/tool.js');
                Nova::style('company-config', __DIR__.'/../dist/css/tool.css');
            });
        }

        /**
         * Build the view that renders the navigation links for the tool.
         *
         * @return \Illuminate\View\View
         */
        public function renderNavigation()
        {
            return view('company-config::navigation');
        }
    }

those are the only changes I made, to use Nova::serving to avoid  "nova-api/scripts/company-config 500 (Internal Server Error)"

That happen when I remove the Nova::serving and npm run prod
local.ERROR: file_get_contents(/home/site/nova-components/CompanyConfig/src/../dist/css/tool.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
here my package.json
{
"private": true,
"scripts": {
    "dev": "npm run development",
    "development": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "watch": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --watch --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "watch-poll": "npm run watch -- --watch-poll",
    "hot": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --inline --hot --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "prod": "npm run production",
    "production": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js"
},
"devDependencies": {
    "cross-env": "^5.0.0",
    "laravel-mix": "^1.0"
},
"dependencies": {
    "vue": "^2.5.0"
}

}

A: Delete the Nova::serving line and run npm run prod inside the root directory of the tool so that it publishes the JS and CSS files in the dist folder

A: Sorry my english. You must run webpack.mix.js inside your tool. When you run npm run dev or npm run prod laravel run own webpack.mix.js. If you want run tool webpack.mix.js. Enter your tool directory and run npm run prod. Like this. cd nova-components/[Your tool folder name] && npm run dev. Another short way. You can run command as script name (You can find package.json). Like this npm run build-[your tool name].
Your solution:

*

*run cd nova-components/CompanyConfig && npm run dev
OR

*run  npm run build-company-config

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Militants in Donbass wound Ukrainian sapper right in front of OSCE SMM	01/22/2019 18:09:23. Total views 190. Views today — 0.
A sapper of pyrotechnic unit of the general directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk oblast was injured during the check of the Marinka - Krasnohorivka gas pipeline. This was reported Facebook by chairman of the Donetsk Regional Civil-Military Administration Oleksandr Kuts.
According to him, Ukrainian sappers and gas workers carried out work on the check of the gas pipeline, having confirmation of the ceasefire, accompanied by a mirror patrol of the OSCE mission's observers.
"The OSCE observers stayed on the road. The sappers and gas workers worked in the field. The fire was opened on two sappers, who surveyed the area around the gas pipeline, from the territory uncontrolled by Ukraine in about 2 p.m. The sappers were forced to shelter in a trench, where they stayed for almost an hour until their evacuation - for what the JCCC forces and armored vehicles were involved", - he noted.
According to him, the wounded man is being taken to hospital. His health will be estimated by doctors.
"The shelling of the monitoring group during a confirmed silence regime is another shameful crime of the pro-Russian militants. And they will have to answer for it", - the governor stressed.


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Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love (Hardcover)
More than 100 Recipes and Make-It-Yourself Projects to Create and Share
By Cheryl Day, Griffith Day
Artisan, 9781579655563, 312pp.
Publication Date: March 24, 2015
Cheryl and Griffith Day, authors of the New York Times bestselling Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, are back with more recipes to make with love. Who needs store-bought when baking things at home is so gratifying? In this follow-up to their smash-hit first book, the Days share ways to lovingly craft not only desserts, but also breakfast pastries, breads, pizza, and condiments. The book features more than 100 new recipes, including some of the bakery's most requested treats, such as Star Brownies and the Cakette Party Cake, as well as savories like Chive Parmigiano-Reggiano Popovers and Rosemary Focaccia. Cheryl and Griff share their baking techniques and also show readers how to put together whimsical decorations, like a marshmallow chandelier and a best-in-show banner. With pure delight woven throughout the pages, Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love is sure to please Cheryl and Griff's fans nationwide.
Cheryl Day and Griffith Day are self-taught bakers who founded Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia, in 2002. Their latest cookbook, Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love, is a national bestseller, and they were semifinalists for the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Baker. Cheryl honed her skills in her mother's and grandmother's kitchens, and her enthusiasm for enriching lives through the time-honored art of scratch baking is one of her most endearing qualities (along with a few dance moves she picked up in her days as a Soul Train dancer!). Griff's interest in baking was piqued by the magical sourdough starter that his mother kept in the family kitchen when he was a child. He is a master of flavorful breads and creative savory dishes. Cheryl and Griff got married in their bakery, and the recipe for their wedding cake appears in their first cookbook, the New York Times bestseller The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook.
Praise For Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love: More than 100 Recipes and Make-It-Yourself Projects to Create and Share…
"Baking magic."
"Sensational, homey desserts."
"Fancy but friendly."
—Redbook
"New-fashioned twists on time-tested favorites, from cookies to crisps to cake. Tip: it's best read with a cold glass of milk."
"A winning blend of tasty recipes and easy crafts."
—Library Journal, starred review
"This is a terrific sequel, and fans of Southern baking (not to mention baking in general) will want to add it to their collection."
" 'Scratch-baked' delights. . . . Comforting love at first bite."
"Back in the Day Bakery has been a monumental success in creating a wonderful community through scratch cooking. This book enables you to use that same sensibility at home to reconnect to Southern baking."
—Hugh Acheson, chef and author of A New Turn in the South
"Cheryl and Griff Day continue to share the love and homemade goodness in their second cookbook. If you thought it just couldn't get any better, you're in for a treat. Warning: Eat before reading!"
—Carla Hall, cohost of The Chew and author of Carla's Comfort Foods
"The Days' hearts shine through in each and every page of this book as they share their joy for helping people live a handmade life—their book is positively made with love."
—Angie Dudley, blogger of Bakerella.com and author of Cake Pops
"Cheryl and Griff Day's new book shows us how to fill everything we bake with the secret ingredient in all great food: love."
—Grace Bonney, blogger and author of Design*Sponge at Home
"There's a special sorcery Cheryl and Griff Day perform at Back in the Day Bakery, the Savannah landmark where butter and sugar, memory, and community come together to create a sense of enchantment and wicked fun. In Made with Love, the Days finally reveal the secrets to their handmade pursuit of happiness, from the unfailingly practical—don't wash strawberries before freezing—to the alluringly whimsical: Let chandeliers made of marshmallows into your life, too!"
—Matt Lee & Ted Lee, authors of The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen


My Issue With Moustaches | When Do They Serve The Wine?
I have issues with moustaches. The woman in this cartoon may have her opinion, but the man is free to do what he wants. Because even more so, I have issues with anyone telling anyone what they should or should not wear. If you want to wear an odd shape of hair on your face, you should be allowed to. If you want to wear boxer shorts to the opera, a top hat to Wal-Mart, six-inch heels to a feminist rally, you should be able to.
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People's Policy Project
The top advocate of the Job Guarantee in Australia, Bill Mitchell, has recently teamed up with a prominent right-wing commentator in the country to advocate for a "job guarantee" program as a replacement for other unemployment and welfare benefit programs.
Unemployment is the one commonality between all disadvantaged Australians. Welfare dependency has become intergenerational as unemployment has become entrenched. Pearson, has spent his public life arguing that the social effects of welfare dependency are debilitating – and must be tackled if the Indigenous crisis is to ever be turned around.
All disadvantaged Australians face this same problem. The destructive consequences of passive welfare are not a racial or ethnic condition, they arise from what economists like Mitchell, term hysteresis: the effects of long-term unemployment.
We have combined our thinking to agree on a jobs agenda in the belief that the best welfare to work program is to provide a job opportunity for everyone who needs one.
This sort of stuff comes as a shock to people who have never actually read the decades of papers written about the Job Guarantee, but of course I have been pointing out that this is the agenda for years. Newcomers to the idea with less background in its history or development eventually denounced Bill Mitchell for this and said his views were a deviation from the Job Guarantee mainstream. This then provided fodder for one of Mitchell's legendary marathon blog posts in which he rightly points out that this is in fact what Job Guarantee advocates have been saying all along.
Here is a Stephanie Kelton slideshow from 2012:
Even today, Kelton can be heard recycling an old line from this period in which she says "we need to turn the unemployment office into the employment office" or similar.
Here is a Randy Wray article from 1997, in which he approvingly argues the JG will be harder on the unemployed because it requires them to work:
In the absence of [JG], these workers can be obtained at a mark-up over the value of the package of social spending and private income obtained when unemployed (unemployment compensation, food stamps, under-the-table work, handouts, etc); this mark-up, however, is likely to be higher than the markup over $12,500 since it must be sufficient to make employment preferable over idleness.
Here are some quotes from Hyman Minsky taken from a 2014 compendium published by the Levy Institute that the Levy Institute itself titled "Ending Poverty: Jobs, Not Welfare:"
The guarantee of an income through a job is the first step toward the elimination of the welfare mess.
A job-based, rather than a transfer-based, strategy against poverty is a first and vital step toward making our economy work better.
Permanent dependence on expanding systems of transfer payments that have not been earned is demeaning to the recipient and destructive of the social fabric. Social justice and individual liberty demand interventions to create an economy of opportunity in which everyone, except the severely handicapped, earns his or her way through the exchange of income for work.
More quotes can be found in an earlier post here.
The Job Guarantee as both an ideological and practical matter has always been rooted in a hatred of welfare benefits and especially unemployment benefits. Advocates believe that these benefits are bad for society, bad for the labor market, and even bad for their recipients who are unwittingly lured into self-destructive welfare dependency. That's certainly a view you can hold. It seems like the majority of Americans held it in the 1990s, which is why we got welfare reform, and even today it's a very prominent view in the American and Australian right.
In addition to rightly defending the anti-welfare provenance of the Job Guarantee agenda, Mitchell also hypothetically asks at one point: what is the alternative? Specifically he asks the following question: if you don't like the current unemployment benefit system because, e.g. it is too stingy or harsh, and you don't like the job guarantee, then what is the alternative? His answer: "Effectively a UBI or some version of it," which of course is to him totally unacceptable.
This is not actually the answer to his question, but it is very revealing that he thinks it is. To understand the actual answer to the question, it is useful to remember that the Job Guarantee consists of the following two elements:
A basic unemployment benefit equal to the minimum wage (say $600 per week).
An activation requirement that people receiving the benefit do tasks assigned to them by the unemployment office for 40 hours a week.
The alternative to this scheme is not very hard to see. It is to do (1) without (2), which is to say provide a basic unemployment benefit without attaching work requirements to it. Mitchell thinks this is a "UBI or some version of it." But it isn't. It's just unemployment benefits without work requirements.
There are countries who have this kind of basic unemployment allowance or something similar to it right now. The reason he thinks it is a UBI is not because it actually is one, but because for him the "UBI" and the conventional welfare state more generally are the same thing in that both commit the sin of providing benefits to people without requiring them to work. I've always wondered why JG people are so obsessed with UBI when their actual agenda is a reform of unemployment benefits, but it makes more sense once you realize that for people like Mitchell, generous unemployment benefits are "effectively a UBI or some version of it."
The Unemployment System
Of course, it's always possible that some JG leaders have moved on from their welfare-hating days while others, like Mitchell, have not. But if that is the case, then there remains some very simple questions about what JG advocates think the overall unemployment system should look like. It's clear that they think a basic unemployment allowance with work requirements should be part of it and, if you take them seriously, they also think that should not be the only part of it. But what then should the overall scheme look like?
In describing any overall scheme like this, what you want to do first is start with the benefit level. It's clear what JG people want the minimum unemployment benefit to be (the minimum wage, which according to current Democratic consensus, is $600 per week), but less clear what they think benefits beyond the minimum should look like. For our purposes here imagine that in the new overall scheme, an individual is entitled to the greater of:
Seventy-five percent of prior earnings up to the national average wage.
The statutory minimum wage (intended to be $600 per week)
This would be a fairly conventional unemployment benefit design, in which jobseekers receive a percentage of their prior earnings but never below the minimum benefit.
Once you have established this income-replacement formula, the next question is: how are the Job Guarantee's workfare activation requirements supposed to be applied to these unemployed people? This is where things get really muddled and confusing. There are the following options:
All unemployed people, regardless of their personal benefit level, must submit to the workfare requirements to receive their benefits.
No unemployed people, regardless of their personal benefit level, must submit to the workfare requirements to receive their benefits (i.e. the workfare is voluntary and you receive the same benefits whether you do it or not).
Unemployed people who are receiving the minimum benefit must submit to the workfare requirements, but not unemployed people receiving above the minimum benefit.
The logical upshot of the vague idea that "we should have job guarantee and unemployment insurance" would seem to be option three, meaning that (previously) high-earners will receive high unemployment checks without having to do workfare while (previously) low-earners or recent labor market entrants will receive the minimum unemployment check and have to do workfare. Needless to say, this sounds a little weird.
You could also make everyone do workfare to receive their check, including (previously) high-earners who are receiving high unemployment checks. But this seems to go against the idea of having "both job guarantee and unemployment insurance" as our current UI scheme does not impose these kinds of work requirements on people.
The last option then is to impose the workfare requirements on nobody. In this scenario, you could imagine having a purely voluntary program in which any person on unemployment benefits regardless of their benefit level could decide to do workfare tasks or decide not to and still receive the same benefits regardless of which decision they made. In this sense, the program would amount to volunteer opportunities, which unemployed people are already allowed to do, but perhaps could be better facilitated by a government agency. Of course, if you want to facilitate volunteering, there is no reason to limit that to unemployed people per se. You could just generally have a volunteering clearinghouse that anyone looking to volunteer could use, including teens, seniors, and whomever else.
I am genuinely curious to know how JG advocates intend to integrate their program with the overall unemployment system. In the past, I have repeatedly asked people like Pavlina Tcherneva if she would be OK allowing unemployed people to receive the same minimum unemployment benefit she has in mind ($600 per week) without submitting to the workfare requirements. But although Tcherneva is generally open to chatting about the Job Guarantee, she always freezes up and refuses to answer that question. I wonder why.
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UPDATED: Here we go: People and Hello! magazines have the exclusive (not Vogue, although Vogue did get one exclusive shot of Amal's dress fitting with Oscar de la Renta, shot by Annie Leibovitz), with full coverage on stands from October 1, 2014.
Amal Alamuddin wears a French lace gown by Oscar de la Renta and George Clooney wears Giorgio Armani.
The website thebusinesswomanmedia.com said is best with, "Internationally acclaimed barrister Amal Alamuddin marries an actor". Nicely done, Amanda Rose and your businesswomanmedia team, nicely done.
So, our congratulations to actor/director George Clooney on marrying the exceptional human rights lawyer, Amal Alamuddin – you've done well for yourself, George, and we only hope that Amal doesn't get stuck with too many "the wife of George Clooney" comments in the future and continues to be recognised for her own achievements.
We wish you both the very best for a fabulous partnership.
The wedding weekend started officially on Friday with a rehearsal cocktails and dinner at the Da Ivo restaurant and the five-star Belmond Cipriani Hotel on the island of Giudecci. George and some of his male friends had some last-night drinks as well.
George and his friends stayed on at the Cipriani overnight, whilst Amal and her friends stayed at Palazzo Papadopoli, now known as the Aman Canal Grande Hotel. Read more the historic building, built in 1550, here.
The formal festivities on Saturday night were held at the Aman Canal Grande Hotel where the couple were married by their close friend and ex-mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni.
A Sunday brunch is now being held, and there is talk of an official Italian civil ceremony taking place on Monday at Venice's City Hall, in line with Italian law.
UPDATED: Amal and George have attended a 20 minute official civil ceremony at in the Sala Degli Affresch at the Palazzo Ca'Loredan, an official council building in the city of Venice.
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I did some weekend work on my innovation projects, most of which I did not stream, but I figured I'd recap anyway.
What I did stream was writing docs and tests for go-reflected. I got coverage to 90% and in the process fixed some bugs. However, I'm not ready to release it because it's a project that is entirely about the API and I'm still not confident the API won't change. When it is ready to release, though, it'll just need a readme.
So far I have the tree view mostly there. The buttons are components, and all the glue and page layout are done with components. I was originally thinking I might have to use Vue to add some structure to this prototype, but since this is already working out, I'm just going to keep pushing on this. It's helping me fix issues in the framework necessary for building real apps, and it's cleaning up the prototype for further development.


Why we go to gym?
What do you want when you go sporting? Only to lose some weight and workout your body, to look great or maybe there is something more. Maybe you want to become more disciplined, to overcome your limitations, to conquer your mind? Well I think that's the right motive and in my opinion music can have important role.
Music is probably the most beautiful gift that man gave to this world. And (if you are a believer) you can say it's a gift from God to humanity. Thousands of books have been written on the core value, meaning and role of music in our human history. The music scope is huge, from the most sophisticated aesthetic theories and creation to its everyday consumption. But I would not argue on any of these here in this article. I just want to share my favorite and most inspiring instrumental soundtrack themes that I know can give a great boost of energy while shaping your body. Why?
I believe that music (sound) is the most powerful thing that can instantly transform or change something deep inside of us. In music I find what I need, what I long for. Enjoying the harmony of one musical piece or admiring the structure of the composition, its notes and texture is present in my life. And I respect anyone who approaches music in this way. But, I guess that because of the way we live nowadays my aesthetic insights are not that important anymore.
It's simple. I need something that will go deep inside and reach my soul. Something that will inspire me, motivate me, will make me move forward and help me fight with my greatest enemy – myself. Do you think that it is by chance that drums and horns were echoing on the battlefields in the past? Or that the Celtic woman would sing to their beloved ones, standing by their side, while they are bravely fighting against and protecting their family from the invaders?
I've created this top 5 instrumental movie themes list based on the magnetism I felt and the emotions they invoke in me. These masterpieces are also main themes of some of the greatest movies ever.
#1 The first one is my all time favorite, Promontory/The Gael from The Last of the Mohicans. The music for the movie is created by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman. I'm not sure, but it seems that is inspired by a traditional song. Combined with Daniels' performance, the courage and determination he and his father Chingachgook manifests to save his beloved one. So touching and inspiring scene. Since that 1992 I never stopped listening this theme, the whole soundtrack actually. It's the first song on my favorite playlist that I listen every time I'm down, feel like giving up or when I need to get moving in the gym, when I run, when driving to work.
#2 Hans Zimmer's Leave No Man Behind (from Black Hawk Down) is another theme that covers fighting, bravery, sacrifice, and determination. It is one of the most emotional themes. Although critics are divided if Zimmer succeeded to respond the assignment to create music that will be suitable and properly cover the brutality of the real events, still this track is incredible for me. I feel it like it's so deep and mature, reaching out for life, embracing it. It gives me hope and peace in turbulent times, reminding me that I should remain calm and never give up.
#3 Now we are free is also Zimmer's creation. Together with Lisa Gerrad this mastermind created this beautiful piece of music for the famous Gladiator. The main theme is played in many of the movie scenes, but it's played longer at the beginning (the fight scene with the barbarians) and it's fully composed at the last scene. For many it may seem that this is one of those themes when you want to dive yourself in sadness and depression. But for me it's liberating. Maximus had glorious death, he had no fear like true warrior and he gained his freedom back, joined his family. This leitmotif prevails over the sadness, because there is nothing sad in dying for Maximus and his superior, Emperor Marcus Aurelius – the famous stoic philosopher.
4# Christopher Youngs' Shipping News I don't know what it is that every time I hear a song with Celtic tones I feel like I'm home or like home is calling me. I feel melancholic and excited at the same time.
#5 Chevaliers De Sangreal by Hans Zimmer, again, I know... but what can I do. The man is a genius.


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CNL Publication Search: Behrens, M
Found 11 Articles
Found 16 Abstracts
Found 27 Total.
Wang, X. Pinto-Duarte, A. Behrens, M. M. Zhou, X. Sejnowski, T. J. Ketamine independently modulated power and phase-coupling of theta oscillations in Sp4 hypomorphic mice, PLoS ONE, 13(3): e0193446, 2018
Luo, C, Keown, CL, Kurihara, L, Zhou, J, He, Y, Li, J, Castanon, R, Lucero, J, Nery, JR, Sandoval, JP, Bui, B, Sejnowski, TJ, Harkins, TT, Mukamel, EA, Behrens, MM, Ecker, JR. Single-cell methylomes identify neuronal subtypes and regulatory elements in mammalian cortex, Science, 357, 600-604, 2017 (PDF)
Barnes, S.A. Pinto-Duarte, A. Kappe, A. Zembrzycki, A. Metzler, A. Mukamel, E. Lucero, J. Wang, X. Sejnowski, T. J. Markou, A. Behrens, M. M. Disruption of mGluR5 in parvalbumin-positive interneurons induces core features of neurodevelopmental disorders, Molecular Psychiatry, 20(10), 1161-1172, 2015 PMCID:PMC4583365 (PDF)
Wang, X. Pinto-Duarte, A. Behrens, M. M. Zhou, X. Sejnowski, T. J. Characterization of spatio-temporal epidural event-related potentials for mouse models of psychiatric disorders, Scientific Reports, 5:14964, 2015 PMCID:PMC4602219 (PDF)
Jadi, M. P. Behrens, M. M. Sejnowski, T. J. Abnormal Gamma Oscillations in N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Hypofunction Models of Schizophrenia, Biological Psychiatry, 15, 00577-6, 2015 PMCID:PMC4720598
Lister, R. Mukamel, E. A. Nery, J. R. Urich, M. Puddifoot, C. A. Johnson, N. D. Lucero, J. Huang, y. Dwork, A. Schultz, M. D. Tonti-Filippini, J. Yu, M. Heyn, H. Hu, S. Wu, J. C. Rao, A. Esteller, M. He, C. Haghighi, F. G. Sejnowski, T. J. Behrens, M. M. Ecker, J. R. Global epigenomic reconfiguration during mammalian brain development, Science, 341, 629, 2013 PMCID:PMC3785061 (PDF)
Ji, B. Wang, X. Pinto-Duarte, A. Kim, M. Caldwell, S. Young, J.W. Behrens, M. M. Sejnowski, T. J. Geyer, M.A. Zhou, X.. Prolonged Ketamine Effects in Sp4 Hypomorphic Mice: Mimicking Phenotypes of Schizophrenia., PLoS ONE, 18;8(6):e66327, 2013 PMCID:PMCID: PMC3688895 (PDF)
Wang, X. Pinto-Duarte, A. Sejnowski, T. J. Behrens, M. M. How Nox2-containing NADPH oxidase affects cortical circuits in the NMDA receptor antagonist model of schizophrenia, Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 18, 1444-62, 2013 PMCID:PMC3603498 (PDF)
Powell, S.B. Sejnowski, T. J. Behrens, M.M. Behavioral and neurochemical consequences of cortical oxidative stress on parvalbumin-interneuron maturation in rodent models of schizophrenia, Neuropharmacology, 62, 1322-31, 2012 PMCID:PMC3106123 (PDF)
Volman, V. Behrens, M. M. Sejnowski, T. J. Downregulation of parvalbumin at cortical GABA synapses reduces network gamma oscillatory activity, Journal of Neuroscience, 31: 18137-18148, 2011 PMCID:PMC3257321 (PDF)
Behrens, M. M. Sejnowski, T. J. Does Schizophrenia Arise from Oxidative Dysregulation of Parvalbumin-Interneurons in the Developing Cortex?, Neuropharmacology, 57: 193-200, 2009 PMCID:PMC2739086 (PDF)
UM, K. Khan, A. Hariharan, M. Lucero, J. Sejnowski, T. J. Ecker, J. R. Powell, S. B. Behrens, M. Comprehensive gene expression analysis of prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in social isolation rearing mouse model, Society for Neuroscience 2015, 2015 (PDF)
Behrens, M. Khan, A. Johnson, N. D. Mukamel, E. A. Lucero, J. D. Sejnowski, T. J. Risbrough, B. Powell, S. B. Delayed cortical maturation, enhanced fear conditioning and social deficits in mice exposed to perinatal ketamine, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2014 (PDF)
Mukamel, E.A. Lister, R. Nery, J.R. Urich, M. Puddifoot, C.A. Johnson, N.D. Lucero, J. Huang, y. Dwork, A.J. Schultz, M.D. Yu, M. Toni-Filippini, J. Pastor, W.A. Heyn, H. Hu, S. Wu, J.C. Rao, A. Esteller, M. He, C. Haghighi, F.G. Sejnowski, T. J. Ecker, J.R. Behrens, M.M. Global Reconfiguration of Neuronal and Glial DNA Methylation During Mammalian Brain Development, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2013 (PDF)
Pinto-Duarte:, A. Behrens, M. Sejnowski, T. J. Early Ablation of mGluR5 Receptor Affects the Maturation of Parvalbumin Interneurons: Consequences for Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in the Hippocampus, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2013 (PDF)
Johnson, N.D. Puddifoot, C.A. Ecker, J.R. Mukamel, E.A. Lister, R. Nery, J.R. Urich, M. Behrens, M.M. Sejnowski,T.J. Hypo-NMDA Receptor Function Leads to Altered Transcription in Frontal Cortex, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2013 (PDF)
Kappe, A.J. Metzler, A.C. Mendoza, M.P. Tupper, K.Y. Mukamel, E.A. Wang, X. Sejnowski, T. J. Behrens, M.M. Postnatal Ablation of mGluR5 in Parvalbumin-Positive Fast-Spiking Interneurons Results in Alterations of Auditory Event-Related Potentials, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2013 (PDF)
Barnes, S.A. Sejnowski, T. J. Behrens, M.M. Markou, A. Postnatal mGluR5 Receptor Ablation From Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons Induced Select Impairments of Relevance to Schizophrenia Pathophysiology, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2013 (PDF)
Puddifoot, C. A. Lister, R. Mukamel, E. Ecker, J. Sejnowski, T. J. Behrens, M. Perinatal disruption of NMDA Receptor function results in life-long transcriptional changes in frontal cortex, Society for Neuroscience, 2012 (PDF)
Zhou, X. Wang, X. Ji, B. Kim, M. Caldwell, S. Pinto-Duarte, A. Behrens, M.M. Sejnowski, T. J. Sp4 hypomorphic mice, a hypoglutamatergic genetic model for schizophrenia, Society for Neuroscience, 2012 (PDF)
Wang, X. Pinto-Duarte, A. Behrens, M. Zhous, X. Sejnowski, T. J. Systematic in vivo electroencephalographic characterization of spatial phase coupling in mouse models of schizophrenia, Society for Neuroscience, 2012 (PDF)
Behrens, M. Volman, V. Sejnowski, T. J. Asynchronous release of GABA reduces network gamma activity in a model of schizophrenia based on downregulation of parvalbumin at inhibitory synapses, Society for Neuroscience, 567.24/Y33, 2011 (PDF)
Pinto-Duarte, A. Wang, X. Jadi, M Behrens, M.M. Sejnowski, T. J. Disruption in cortical inhibition leads to abnormal network dynamics in the perinatal ketamine model of schizophrenia, Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011
Behrens, M. Hasenstaub, A. Sejnowski, T. J. A role for DNA methylation in the NMDA receptor antagonist-mediated loss of phenotype of parvalbumin-positive fast-spiking interneurons, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2010 (PDF)
Pinto-Duarte, A. Bonjean, M. Behrens, M.M. Sejnowski, T.J Neonatal exposure to NMDA receptor antagonists halts the maturation of parvalbumin-positive fast-spiking interneurons, leading to altered network activity in adulthood, 2010 (PDF)
Sejnowski, T. J. Kinney, J.P. Behrens, M.M. Early Postnatal Ablation of mGluR5 in Parvalbumin-Positive Fast-Spiking Interneurons Results in Profound Alteration of Their Normal Development, 2010 (PDF)
Pinto-Duarte, A. Bonjean, M. Behrens, M.M. Sejnowsi, T.J. Neonatal exposure to NMDA receptor antagonists halts the maturation of parvalbumin-positive fast-spiking interneurons, leading to altered network activity in adulthood, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2010


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The Lettre Ulysses Award
C. Max Magee October 5, 2005 | 5 books mentioned
There are plenty of awards for fiction and quite a few for different types of non-fiction, but, according to the people behind the Lettre Ulysses Award, "no world prize for reportage literature existed before 2003." That's when a couple of German foundations got together "to provide symbolic, moral and financial support for reporters whose courage, curiosity, and integrity drives them to create in-depth, well-researched texts, bringing unknown, forgotten, and hidden realities to light. The prize is also intended to publicly honor and highlight the extraordinary achievements of literary reportage." Each year they award a first, second and third prize worth 50,000, 30,000 and 20,000 Euros, respectively. One of the most interesting aspects of this award is its international reach. In the award's first two years, a Somali, a Russian, two Chinese and two Americans have been prizewinners. Indeed this international bent is a part of the award's mission: "By facilitating the translation and publication of texts from often inaccessible places or languages, this project aims to focus attention on diverse topics and issues."
This year's award will be announced on October 15th, and the Shortlist looks very interesting:
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend (Iraq)
Von den Kriegen: Briefe an Freunde (Of the wars: Letters to friends) by Carolin Emcke (Germany)
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller (Zimbabwe)
A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage by Abdellah Hammoudi (Morocco)
The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime by William Langewiesche (USA) (my review)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (India)
Muerte en el Pentagonito: Los cementerios secretos del Ejarcito Peruano (Death in the Pentagonito: The Secret Cemeteries of the Peruvian Army) by Ricardo Uceda (Peru)
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Richard Powers Wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
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2014 National Book Award Shortlists Released
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2018 National Book Award Winners Announced
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Pulitzer Day!
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I'm back from Vegas just in time for the announcement of the winners of the Pulitzer Prize. Here are the winners and finalists in all of the book categories:NOVELThe Known World by Edward P. Jones Winner!American Woman by Susan ChoiEvidence of Things Unseen by Marianne WigginsDRAMA: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright Winner!Man from Nebraska by Tracy LettsOmnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-VassilarosHISTORY: A Nation under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn Winner!They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David MaranissGreat Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel OkrentBIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Khrushchev: The Man and his Era by William Taubman Winner!Isaac Newton by James GleickArshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden HerreraPOETRY: Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright Winner!Middle Earth by Henri ColeEyeshot by Heather McHughGENERAL NON-FICTION: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum Winner!Rembrandt's Jews by Steven NadlerThe Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana PriestI have to commend the Pulitzer committee; they really got it right this time. I actually started reading The Known World today because it's the selection for my book club. I'll be able to add my two cents at the end of the week, but based on the lavish praise this book received from critics and readers, there's no doubt it was deserving. Also, the more I hear about Jones, the more I like him. Check out this excerpt from an AP story announcing his victory:The Pulitzer was a shot of energy on an otherwise down day for Jones, author of a previous book, the acclaimed story collection "Lost in the City." He was feeling so ill Monday he didn't bother at first to answer his phone. He also was in the middle of moving from his longtime home in Arlington, Va., because of noisy upstairs neighbors."This (award) should give me strength to finish up tomorrow," said Jones, who next week expects to move into Washington, D.CI think it's a particularly writerly trait to be distracted from the demands of the outside world by your inner concerns. As for the other winners, I was thrilled to see Anne Applebaum lauded for her truly astonishing book, Gulag. I'm glad that the Pulitzer did not stick to its bias of rewarding books with American themes in selecting a book that is of universal importance and that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of what was until now a hidden part of 20th century history. For similar reasons, I was also happy to see Taubman's biography of Khrushchev get the prize. Daniel Okrent, another favorite author of mine, was named a finalist, as well. All in all, I have no complaints.
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Digging into the 2011 IMPAC Longlist
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The 2015 Pulitzer for Fiction Goes to Anthony Doerr's 'All the Light We Cannot See'
Booker Laureates
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Last night I had the opportunity to attend part of a reading by the new Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre (he won for Vernon God Little), and Dan Rhodes, whose book Timoleon Vieta Come Home was shortlisted. Rhodes went first, mentioning that were he to purchase a star map, he would be interested only in finding Morissey's house. He then read some super short stories from his "cult favorite," Anthropology: and a Hundred Other Stories, which were charming and amusing in a Richard Brautigan sort of way. Here are four of them. Perhaps the high point was when he read some unpublished work, which turned out to be a story he wrote when he was seven. It was about a pop star/football star who "goes wee on everyone." DBC Pierre, when it was his turn to read, offered this interesting nugget: he said that since he is a new writer he does not read very much for fear of corrupting his fragile writing voice — an odd sentiment, but one that I'm sure some writers can relate to.
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2010 National Book Award Finalists Announced
C. Max Magee October 13, 2010 | 5 books mentioned 1 2 min read
Award season is hitting its stride, and this year's National Book Award finalists have been announced. This year's fiction list includes something of an invasion from overseas, with Peter Carey, surely the first Booker shortlister to also be a National Book Award finalist (but eligible for both because the Australian-born author is now a U.S. citizen), and Lionel Shriver, who, though a U.S. citizen is often more commonly associated with London, where she makes her home.
The nomination for Shriver validates a provactively titled piece that ran in these pages this year, Lionel Shriver: America's Best Writer?, which suggested that she deserves far more critical attention. Rounding out the fiction list are Nicole Krauss, recently lauded as a New Yorker "20 Under 40" writer, and a pair of relative unknowns Jaimy Gordon and Karen Tei Yamashita, each writing for small indie presses, McPherson and Coffee House, respectively. Also notable, the fiction finalist number four women versus one male author, and Jonathan Franzen and his blockbuster literary novel Freedom are nowhere to be found.
The other big name to note is rocker Patti Smith, who earned a nod for her memoir.
Here's a list of the finalists in all four categories with bonus links and excerpts where available:
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (excerpt)
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Great House by Nicole Krauss (excerpt)
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver (excerpt)
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (excerpt)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (excerpt)
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq by John W. Dower (excerpt)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (excerpt)
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward by Justin Spring (excerpt)
Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack (excerpt)
The Eternal City by Kathleen Graber (excerpt [pdf])
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes (poem)
By the Numbers by James Richardson (poem)
One with Others by C.D. Wright (poems)
Ignatz by Monica Youn (poem)
Young People's Literature:
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Dark Water by Laura McNeal
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
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2012 was a big year! It seems personal interests grew beyond expectations and resulted in lots of new friends, lots of great relationships, and one new venture. What venture you might ask? Well, one of those newly formed friendships lead to two guys each with similar skills and interests to the formation of GoJaMMedia.
Now, who or what is GoJaMMedia? That's simple, just a mix of some words and letters. Ok, so you take the word "Go", the letter J from "Jay Schultz", the letter A from "And", the letter M from "Matt DeLorme", Media…. Slap them all together and Wala! = GoJaMMedia!
Matt DeLorme, of Frederick, Maryland comes to GoJaMMedia with five years shooting the MTB racing scene for the best Gravity rag in the world, Decline Magazine (www.declinemagazine.com) and two years shooting for one of the best online MTB news sites on the web, VitalMTB (www.vitalmtbcom).
The other half of GoJaMMedia, Jay Schultz of Mauldin, South Carolina, has been handling all things Press and Media related for Team BGB-Mountain Khakis in 2011 and 2012. His long passion for photography stems from a past life spent on the motorsports circuit as photographer from 1997 to 2007. After a few of life changes and moves up and down the east coast, going fast on two wheels has become focus of his time and energy.
Although out of context (or not on the MTB scene), GoJaMMedia was formed while the fastest sportscars in the world where pounding the pavement at Road Atlanta. Neither of the crew is leaving their roots, whether MTB racing for Matt or a return those via Motorsports for Jay….. that's the beauty of where this pair is going, a combination of the two. From covering every UCI WC round to the American LeMans Series keep an eye out for Matt or Jay. As always, don't be shy, stop by and say Hi! See you out there!


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Louis Byrne Slichter (May 19, 1896 – March 25, 1978) was an American physicist and geophysicist who directed the Institute of Geophysics at UCLA.

Slichter was notable for, among other things, earth tides research, submarine detection, development of three-component short-period seismographs, studies of the earth temperature distribution, and the invention of a number of important geophysical devices. Slichter Foreland peninsula in Antarctica is named after him. The Institute of Geophysics building in UCLA where he used to work as a director of the Institute has been named Slichter Hall. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the chair of the Academy's Geophysics Section.
He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. The New York Times called Slichter a "widely honored pioneer in the earth sciences". The National Academy of Sciences called him "one of the foremost geophysicists of the twentieth century, an outstanding leader, scholar, and teacher". UCLA called him "the world leader in the analysis of the solid earth tides".

Family
Louis Slichter was the son of the mathematician Charles S. Slichter, brother of economist Sumner Slichter, and uncle of physicist Charles P. Slichter.  His sister-in-law was the biochemist Mary Van Rensselaer Buell.

Chronology
 May 19, 1896 born in Madison, Wisconsin
 1917: BA, University of Wisconsin–Madison
 1920: AM, University of Wisconsin–Madison
 1922: PhD in physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
 1932–1945: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Geophysics
 1944: elected to the National Academy of Sciences
 1945–1947: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Professor of Geophysics
 1946 Presidential Certificate of Merit (1946)
 1946 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
 1947 Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Professor of Geophysics, UCLA
 1959 an honorary life membership in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists
 1960 the Jackling Award of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
 1960 the chair of Geophysics Section at the National Academy of Sciences
 1963-1978 Professor Emeritus, UCLA
 1966 Dedication of Slichter Hall at UCLA
 1967 Honorary D.Sc., University of Wisconsin
 1966 the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union
 1969 Honorary LL.D., UCLA
 March 25, 1978 dies Los Angeles Medical Center at UCLA

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1896 births
1978 deaths
American geophysicists
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Scientists from Madison, Wisconsin
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union

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La Central Nuclear de Bélene (en búlgaro: Атомна електроцентрала "Белене") es una  planta de energía nuclear planeada a 3 km de Bélene y a 11 km de Svishtov, en la provincia de Pleven, en el norte de Bulgaria, cerca del río Danubio. Fue pensado para sustituir cuatro reactores VVER V230-440 de la central nuclear de Kozloduy que estaban fuera de servicio, como requisito previo para que Bulgaria se uniera a la Unión Europea. El 11 de junio de 2010, el gobierno búlgaro anunció que iba a congelar indefinidamente el proyecto de construcción de la central nuclear de Bélene porque era incierto cuando se devolvería la inversión. El 30 de mayo de 2013, el recién elegido gabinete del primer ministro Oresharski anunció que estudiaba un posible reinicio para el proyecto.

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Referéndum sobre el uso de la energía nuclear en Bulgaria de 2013

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Belene
Municipio de Bélene


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The Crisis With International Adoption
150 million orphans in the world. A number that is nearly 2% of the world population. Our goal should be to find a safe and loving permanent family for every one of those children. The United States should be leading the way, not only in adopting children, but in setting an example for the rest of the world. But instead the United States is inexcusably turning its back on the adoption of orphan children – since 2004, the number of adoptions from foreign countries to the United States has not grown, but has declined by an astounding 87%.
WHY? Because since the adoption of the Hague Treaty on Intercountry Adoptions, the United States has sought to encourage other countries to join the Treaty and then refused to work with them because they don't have a child welfare system that is up to U.S. standards. The Office of Children's Issues, under the U.S. Department of State never set increasing the number of ethical intercountry adoptions as a goal, but rather set about to regulate the most detailed steps in the intercountry adoption process. With proven opponents to intercountry adoptions managing the bureaucracy charged with accrediting agencies to work in intercountry adoptions, they didn't stop at establishing regulations, but knowingly violated those regulations to aid in the formation and selection of an unqualified entity to serve as the accrediting entity holding the fate of hundreds of non-profit adoption agencies' fate in their hands.
A Complaint was filed with the Inspector General of the Department of State in December 2017, but 1 ½ years later the IG punted and said they deferred to the Department in interpreting the regulations.
Since 2018, this entity (Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity – IAAME) has managed to cancel or lead 33% of accredited agencies to lose or relinquish their accreditation – leaving thousands of families to look for other agencies to take over their cases.
Fewer agencies means that fewer children are served. That's because each agency has its unique sphere of influence and ability to inspire people to adopt. The children adopted from abroad nowadays are almost exclusively over the age of 6, or have special needs, or are part of sibling groups. As a result, it takes a wide number of agencies with unique social reach in order to advocate for these children in need.
A Recent Survey of Accredited Adoption Agencies (with more than a 57% participation rate) found that 87% of accredited adoption agencies were dissatisfied with the Department of States' efforts to collaborate with the adoption community as required by its own regulations. 96% of the accredited adoption agencies who responded to the survey were DISSATISFIED with the overall fairness and competency of IAAME's accreditation and oversight activities.
Senator Roger Wicker recently Spoke on the Senate Floor to call out the anti-adoption bias of the Department of State and urged his fellow senators to answer the call to respond to this crisis for orphans around the world.
On October 26, 2020, Eight (8) US Senators including Roy Blunt, Amy Klobuchar, Richard Burr, Chris Van Hollen, James Lankford, Roger Wicker, James M. Inhofe, and Michael S. Lee WROTE A LETTER to Carl Risch in Support of Senator Wicker's Effort.
This is a CRISIS that only be resolved with a change of leadership and a change in vision in the Department of State. These orphans cannot vote or even speak for themselves.
WE CANNOT ALLOW THE PRESENT SYSTEM TO CONTINUE!
Please step up for the orphans and SAVE ADOPTIONS!
Contact Your Senator And Ask Their Support for Senator Wicker
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If – and it's a big if – the government were to call a second EU referendum, what question would it ask? And would it be able to deliver the answer? In this extract from a new UCL European Institute working paper, Alan Renwick examines the likelihood, terms and outcome of any 'second round' vote.
There was talk of a second referendum even before the result of the June referendum was known. In the days immediately following that vote, more than four million people signed a petition favouring a repeat poll. Many signatories cited the close result and the widespread misinformation during the campaign as justifications for their view.
The idea of a straightforward rerun was neither sensible nor feasible. The vote was fought according to the rules set in advance, which included no special threshold requirements and which contained safeguards on the balance of campaigning, but not on its quality. Some of these arrangements were certainly ill-advised, but they cannot be changed after the fact. Most voters consider that the vote has given the government a mandate to initiate Brexit negotiations, and that should be respected.
Much more interesting is the idea that there should be a second referendum that would ask a different question from the first: whether voters accept the Brexit deal once it has been negotiated between the government and other EU member states. This is the official position of the Liberal Democrats and was advocated by Owen Smith during his campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party. Others who say at least that it is an option that should be kept open include former prime ministers John Major and Tony Blair. This is a serious idea: given the considerations noted previously, the democratic case for it is strong.
There are no restrictions in the UK on when parliament can call a referendum or what the subject matter can be. But a referendum can be held only with the approval of parliament: the government cannot initiate such a vote on its own. Any referendum must be authorised in parliament through specific primary legislation.
Four principal questions about a second EU referendum need to be asked. First is the key question of what it would actually be about – we need to know more than that it would be on the terms of the Brexit deal. Second is the equally important question of what the effect of any given outcome in the referendum would be: there is no guarantee that the outcome would always straightforwardly be what is on the ballot paper. Third, we can ask what the likelihood is that a referendum of any given form will actually take place.Finally, we can consider what can be said at present about the likely referendum result.
As just indicated, any second referendum is likely to be on the terms of the Brexit deal that are negotiated over the next few years (though it is not impossible that developments over the coming years might generate conditions favouring another sort of referendum). One option in any such referendum would therefore be to accept the terms of that deal and proceed towards Brexit on that basis.
First, voters might be asked whether they want to accept the deal or to remain in the EU after all. In essence, voters would be asked to consider whether, now that the nature of Brexit is clear, they still want it or not.
Second, voters might be asked whether to accept the deal or to leave the EU without a deal. Article 50, as explained in section 2.1, offers two routes to withdrawal from the EU: either withdrawal terms can be negotiated; or, if no deal is done and the negotiating deadline is not extended, the withdrawing country automatically leaves after two years. The referendum would essentially allow voters to choose which of these routes the UK will take.
Third, voters might be asked whether to accept the deal on offer or mandate the government to go back to the EU in search of a better deal. The government might be interested in seeking such a referendum if it finds that other EU countries are refusing to concede negotiating terms that the government finds satisfactory.
One possibility is that parliament would set a question that does not make the alternative explicit: it would set a yes/no question where voters are asked to accept the terms of the deal or not accept them. Parliament might take this course in order genuinely to keep its options open in the event that the deal was rejected, or in order to use the uncertainty such a question would generate to drive voters towards accepting the deal on offer. But such a question would rightly be criticised for failing to give voters a clear choice. Referendum questions are assessed by the Electoral Commission, which might well express grave concerns about such vagueness. It is ultimately for parliament to decide whether to accept the Electoral Commission's advice or not, but it has done so every time the Commission has proposed changes to question wording to date. A government or parliament that went against that advice would not be acting in the interests of effective democracy.
That being the case, it would be necessary to specify one of the alternatives above. But which would it be? It would be almost without precedent for a referendum to be held in which the status quo was not available as an option. (The only referendum I am aware of that broke that rule was a referendum on the electoral system in the Australian Capital Territory in 1992. A new electoral system was adopted in 1989, but there was universal agreement that it was deeply flawed. The referendum therefore gave voters a choice between two possible replacements.) Given that the UK is currently in the EU, that would seem strongly to favour the first option. On the other hand, once Article 50 has been triggered, there is a good case for saying that the course that the country is on is towards Brexit, and that the default – what automatically happens if nothing else is done – is Brexit without a deal. Or it could be said that triggering Article 50 puts the UK in the EU's departure lounge and that the options should be to stay in that departure lounge, seeking to negotiate a better deal, or to leave the departure lounge (and the EU) with the terms that are on offer. Thus, while a referendum that did not offer the status quo of EU membership as an option would be highly unusual, it could be said to be justified by the equally unusual circumstances created by the Article 50 trigger.
Whatever options might be put on the ballot paper, the next question concerns what would actually happen once any of these options had been voted for: putting an option on the ballot paper does not necessarily mean that it will actually happen in the form suggested by the ballot paper.
A vote to stay in the EU after all might lead straightforwardly to that outcome if the ECJ has by then ruled that a country can unilaterally revoke its triggering of Article 50. If the ECJ has by then ruled the opposite, staying in the EU would require the unanimous consent of all the member states (which they might be willing to grant only in return for certain concessions). If the ECJ has not yet ruled, then the UK might seek unanimous agreement for its continued EU membership or it might declare its unilateral revocation of the Article 50 trigger and wait to see whether anyone challenged that.
A vote to reject the deal and withdraw with no deal would certainly be deliverable. The question is whether it would actually be delivered. If ministers had recommended acceptance of the deal, they would presumably resign having lost the vote. It would not be surprising if this forced an early election. Both the Conservative and Labour parties would likely be in turmoil, and it is impossible to predict the public mood. Much would depend on what the deal's opponents had argued during the referendum campaign: if they had argued for Brexit without a deal, that might well happen; if they had argued, notwithstanding the words on the ballot paper, that rejection of the terms on offer could lead to a better deal (or possibly even continued EU membership), such a revised deal might be pursued – though whether other European governments would play along with this might not be clear. In all likelihood, different campaigners would have argued many different things, so subsequent developments would depend heavily on who managed to win the post-referendum scramble for power.
If the government has called the referendum in order to seek public rejection of the deal on the table and a mandate for pursuing better terms, it would presumably, if it won that vote, then seek such terms. What would happen then would lie in the hands of other EU governments: they might offer very little else; they might refuse to extend the negotiating time, thereby pushing the UK either into disorderly Brexit without a deal, or into an ignominious climb down and acceptance of the withdrawal terms it has just rejected. This could be avoided, at least for a time, if it has been determined that the UK can unilaterally revoke and then re-invoke the Article 50 trigger. Even this manoeuvre, however, might not yield substantially better terms – and might, indeed, only antagonise the UK's European neighbours.
Thus, there is much uncertainty as to what would happen in a second referendum if the deal on the table were rejected by voters. Some of that uncertainty might have been cleared up before any such vote could happen: specifically, an ECJ ruling might by then have made it clear that a vote to stay in the EU after all is entirely deliverable. Other sources of uncertainty are likely to remain until after the vote has taken place.
This post represents the views of the author and not Democratic Audit. It is an extract from the UCL European Institute's working paper The Process of Brexit: What Comes Next?.
Alan Renwick is Deputy Director of the UCL Constitution Unit.
As a committed leaver, staggered by the comic ineptitude of the Remain Project Fear & Lie campaign last May/June, I think that any 'second referendum', however devised and described, would smack of an elite attempt to overturn the June vote.
Second referenda on matters EU have an appalling history in member countries, whereby the pro-EU state and its elite gerrymanders the system for the 2nd running of the race to ensure its victory – the Irish second run of Lisbon was a disgraceful abandonment of fair and free coverage and elections, with new 'fair media rules' crafted to ensure that the opposition to Lisbon was silenced – in essence it was stated that as all the politicians were in favour, then broadcast media had no obligation to be objective with coverage of the opposition to it! And of course it was not fair or equal in any way. Imagine night after night on state tv with coverage for Remain and only fitful and sly references to Leave. As the BBC (which receives EU funds) and the rest of the elite are all baying for Remain, this is what would happen if it were allowed.
Anyone with half a wit will understand that the main efforts in the run-up to a second referendum will be to ensure the crucial silencing of opposition by clever adjustments to the rules – I have said this before here: in the 2008 London Mayor election, state radio and tv (the BBC through its shadowy political department which is effectively controlled by parliament even if it affects independence) altered the rules yet again to ensure that I, as an elected member of the London Assembly and prospective Mayoral candidate, would be barred from all tv and most radio during the campaign proper. This issue was whitewashed in 2008, although I placed it on record in several articles and in my submissions to the Committee on Standards in Public Life and it caused embarrassment and awkwardness overseas where I spoke at length on it to party meetings in Canada and the US about funding and fairness… but then became more of an issue in the Uk itself when a 2012 candidate supported by The Guardian newspaper found herself in the same position. And UKIP which was ahead of the Greens in opinion polls for London voting was barred by the BBC yet again while the Greens were given just under 2 million pounds worth of free media by the BBC through its 'fairness rules'.
Thank you for sharing this interesting article. It is also timely. One of the Brexit referendum shortcomings was that it was held without such an analysis of alternatives and their potential impacts, and that is why the (less anticipated by political elite) result caught everyone off guard. The public shall be well prepared for making its choice in two years (and in the course of these two years), whether through or without another referendum. Equally, the supply side (the Government) shall be well equipped to follow a thought-out development path without interruption and further vacillations, whatever the outcome of the talks —deal or no deal. The outcome of the talks is uncertain, but it applies to the two options (remain or leave) to different extent. The terms of a negotiated deal are unclear at this point and they will remain such most of the time and take shape gradually (in big part depending on the social and economic developments in both EU and Britain, but also globally). However, the conditions of leaving the EU without any deal are more predictable. Therefore, the Government shall produce a practicable strategy for a medium-term perspective and start acting upon it. Therein, the scenario of 'leaving without deal/anyways' shall be assessed and its impacts communicated to the public—this could help comparing the alternatives (and not only at the end of the two-year period, but all along the negotiation path).
The problem with all this Elbay, is the history of partiality along with flawed, downright dishonest 'predictions' by the elite campaigning for a Remain vote – we were told in no uncertain terms by 'experts' last May and June that the vote itself would lead to immediate recession "guaranteed in the very first quarter after the vote" (ie end Sept 2016)…no recession though, in the event, as we were promised, just the, er, fastest growing economy in the EU instead. Oh dear, no doubt those experts are very disappointed in how well the economy did when they predicted for their masters doom and gloom – for political reasons. But then they all knew it was rubbish they were spouting anyway – just cynical fear and lies with no back-up to terrify the voter into staying in the EU. Paid experts employed by the state to terrify the voters with their expertise and dragoon us all into line.
No-one will trust the same bag of clowns crashing around on a minefield next time, however supposedly 'reasonable' the argument is, and no we do NOT understand even slightly and cannot predict 'the conditions of leaving the EU without any deal'. Any more than Remain campaigner Theresa May when she backed the Chancellor nine months ago in his comment that a Leave vote on 23rd June would would require 'the very next day after the vote, the Friday' a Punishment Budget to attack pensioners and taxpayers with massive hikes. And of course that prediction happened didn't it…?
But here of course is the problem, Elbay – I believe that "to ensure that the rights of citizen are respected and protected" we cannot do this without leaving the EU – many of my friends would state the exact opposite – alas the EU is the elephant in the room in all things – when Jeremy Corbyn tried to launch the idea of People's Quantitive Easing, his team were told in no uncertain terms by the EU that it was illegal for any UK government to spend money this way, and would be stopped by the EU in the UK courts. Before dropping the idea, Corbyn's team tried to suggest that they could get around the Eu rules by 'a ruse'. The very need to so shows the degree to which Eu rules ramming home austerity control the things you appear to suggest you want to achieve. When governments outside of the euro cannot, within the Eu, spend money to help the people (as they see it and as I assume you might see it) then the EU is not just a minor part of the issue – it is THE issue. Outside of the EU, Corbyn could indeed splurge People's Quantitive Easing to his heart's content (I wouldn't be happy with the policy and oppose it, but would be content that people could vote for it and get it if they felt it right). The idea that I need the Eu to ram home the policies that I prefer and allow for no opposition would be undemocratic (even if I win the day).
of a binary (yes/no) nature.
the journey on the terms advertised.
the options – and ask them to place them in preference order.
is a majority for one option.
total electorate of the UK.
A – Accept the terms of the draft treaty and leave the EU on that basis.
rules set by the WTO (World Treaty Organisation).
for negotiation beyond March 2019.
member of the EU on existing terms.
options presented to the people.
referendum in the first half of December 2018.
Alan, to be honest, as most people do not even understand what (for example) the WTO option would involve – MPs of neither side seem unable to grasp it either if you listen to how they describe it – then we have a recipe for chaos and confusion, whatever the intentions. The strong feelings are with those who voted leave, and indeed have been on this matter ever since it attracted little notice 25 years ago and was restricted to a small but ever growing minority. Now those committed to Leave are a very serious number in comparison with those who feel very strongly the other way. The concept that all votes relating to the EU demand that you 'keep voting until you give us the correct answer' is now seeped into the consciousness of most committed opponents to the EU – having seen this happening again and again with votes in member states.
A second referendum would take place against a background close to civil unrest, and the accompanying and likely attempt to fix the broadcast media to bar Leave from meaningful coverage is a serious worry, having watched how it has been cleverly done elsewhere and indeed at other UK elections by state radio and tv on behalf of its ultimate masters in parliament. Committed leavers know what ugly distortions of democracy lie ahead with attempts at a second referendum and it will turn UK politics upside down if attempted.


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Patrice Méniel est Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Professeur en archéozoologie  et spécialiste de l'Âge du Fer en Gaule.

Bibliographie
Archéozoologie : Les animaux et l'archéologie, Errance (11 novembre 2001), Patrice Méniel,
Histoire de l'agriculture en Gaule : 500 Avant J-C - 1000 après J-C, par Alain Ferdière, Véronique Matterne, Patrice Méniel, Anne Nissen Jaubert, Bénédicte Pradat
Les Gaulois et les animaux : élevage, repas et sacrifices, Errance (10 avril 2001), Patrice Méniel,
Les Installations agricoles de l'âge du Fer en Île-de-France : Actes du colloque de Paris, 1993 par Olivier Buchsenschutz et Patrice Méniel
Les sacrifices d'animaux chez les Gaulois  par Patrice Méniel
Chasse et élevage chez les Gaulois  par Patrice Méniel
Les Paysans gaulois, IIIe siècle - 52 av. J.-C.  par François Malrain, Véronique Matterne, et Patrice Méniel, Errance (20 juin 2002),

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Méniel, Patrice


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Backups will be back up in last game
By Chris Harry and Sentinel Staff Writer
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers know they'll face the Giants at home in the NFC wild-card playoff round.
But there's still one final -- virtually meaningless -- regular-season game on the schedule. The Bucs (9-6) host the Carolina Panthers (6-9) Sunday at Raymond James Stadium with a chance to go 6-0 in the NFC South Division.
"That would be a great accomplishment," Coach Jon Gruden said Monday.
Then again, the ramifications of a loss to Carolina would be next to nothing, which is why the Bucs are expected to approach this game the same way they did Sunday when Gruden began emptying his bench in the second quarter of what became a 21-19 loss at San Francisco.
The trip to San Francisco was about survival, it seems.
That's why guys like Quincy Black, Adam Hayward and Jeremiah Trotter -- seldom seen linebackers most of the season -- will be called upon to log some heavy-duty game time vs. Carolina.
The team did not arrive home Monday until around 3:30 a.m. and Gruden gave his players the day off for Christmas. It'll be a busy holiday season for the Bucs coaches, though, as Gruden plans to devote some time this week to take a sneak peak at Eli Manning, Brandon Jacobs, O si Umenyiora and the rest of the Giants.
Dropsies
TE Alex Smith let a well-thrown intermediate ball from backup QB Luke McCown skip through his hands and 49ers CB Nate Clements made the Bucs pay by intercepting the tipped pass and returning it 62 yards to set up a fourth-quarter touchdown that put Tampa Bay down 21-13.
Smith's miscue was one of a season-high six dropped passes that surely will come up in team meetings this week.
"That's inexcusable," Gruden said. "That's not winning football."


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Chronologie du rugby à XV

1889 en rugby à XV - 1890 en rugby à XV - 1891 en rugby à XV

Les faits marquants de l'année 1890 en rugby à XV

Événements

Janvier

Février
 Début de la huitième édition du Tournoi, le tournoi britannique de rugby à XV 1890, qui va à son terme. L'Écosse et l'Angleterre remportent conjointement le tournoi avec deux victoires et une défaite.

Mars
 Fin du tournoi britannique :

Avril

Mai

Juin

Récapitulatifs des principaux vainqueurs de compétitions 1889-1890

 Le Yorkshire est champion d'Angleterre des comtés.

Juillet

Août

Septembre

Octobre

Novembre

Décembre

Naissances

Décès
 16 octobre : William Cross, joueur international écossais (° ).

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