Americans like to argue about politics — but on one issue, almost everyone agrees. More than 90 percent of Americans support universal background checks for firearm purchases, including 83 percent of gun owners. Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't matter: we recognize that owning a firearm is a serious responsibility.
Federal law prohibits certain people from buying guns — convicted felons and domestic abusers, for example. The problem is that background check requirements only apply to firearm sales that take place at licensed gun dealers. Right now, a prohibited purchaser can buy a firearm at a gun show, online, or even in a parking lot from a stranger, and no background check is required. In fact, it happens millions of times each year — even though we know that at least one in nine online purchases would fail a background check.
The evidence says otherwise. In 2016, the Pennsylvania Instant Checks System (PICS) prevented more than 13,000 prohibited purchasers from buying or transferring a firearm. Over the last 25 years, we've stopped more than 3 million such purchases nationwide.
Not so. Over 90% of background checks are completed within minutes, and that won't change. We're not interested in making life difficult for sportsmen — we're interested in ensuring that prohibited purchasers can't acquire deadly force.
Our current background check system was created in 1994, before the internet opened up a huge, unregulated market for gun sales. Requiring universal background checks isn't a radical new policy — it's simply ensures that the law applies equally to all gun sales.
Last month, I met a young woman from Chicago. She described growing up with a best friend who doubted whether he'd make it to 18. On his eighteenth birthday, he was shot and killed.
The week before that, I attended a gun safety event at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park. The event was arranged by synagogue youth, and Parkland survivor Samara Barrack was the guest speaker. In an affluent suburb, these students are all too aware of the dangers posed by gun violence — and they are organizing for change.
Gun violence isn't urban or suburban. It isn't rich, poor, black, white, or anything else. It's an American problem, and it touches us all.
In 2017, 40,000 Americans were killed by firearms — including more than half to suicide — and 100,000 more were wounded in the crossfire. Today, as you read this, 342 Americans will be shot or killed.
Experts tell us that background checks are one of the simplest, most effective ways to curb gun violence — and state-by-state evidence proves it.
Our Senate colleagues face a choice. They can take the path of inaction and hope that America's gun violence problem magically resolves itself. Or they can stand up for students and communities and vote to save lives.
U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean is a Democrat who represents Pennsylvania's 4th Congressional District, which includes parts of Montgomery and Berks counties.


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Riders (Hi-Riders) est un film américain réalisé par Greydon Clark, sorti en 1978.

Synopsis

Fiche technique

Distribution
 Mel Ferrer : le shérif
 Stephen McNally : Mr. Lewis
 Darby Hinton : Mark
 Neville Brand : Red
 Ralph Meeker : Mike
 Diane Peterson : Lynn
 Karen Fredrik : Angie
 Wm.J. Beaudine : T.J.
 Roger Hampton : Billy
 Brad Rearden : Toad
 Al Gomez : Gimp

Autour du film
 Le tournage s'est déroulé à Agoura Hills, en Californie.
 Le cascadeur Vic Rivers est décédé durant le tournage.

Liens externes

Film américain sorti en 1978
Film d'action américain

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Cragmont is a remarkable school for many reasons, but high among them is that families at the school provide the time and financial resources for critical additional programs not funded by the Berkeley school system. There are many ways you can help support the Cragmont community.
The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is an all volunteer group committed to increasing parental involvement in support of Cragmont Elementary faculty, staff, and students. To learn how you can get involved, visit the PTA page.
The financial support from the Cragmont community makes many of our additional programs and activities not funded by BUSD possible. In addition to donating directly to the Annual Giving Campaign, there are many ways to give to Cragmont financially.
Another great way to support Cragmont is the gift of time. There are many ways to volunteer at the school or at home. Here are just some ways to volunteer at Cragmont.


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Tornadoes, power outages, extreme heat and an explosion: how Red Cross 'helped our communities'
Posted on July 24, 2019 by American Red Cross - Wisconsin
Story and photos by Justin Kern, American Red Cross
Elizabeth Arnold forked into another bite of spaghetti in red sauce Tuesday afternoon in the cafeteria at Menominee Tribal School in Neopit. Just moments before, Arnold and others eating in the lunch room applauded at the announcement by officials that power had been fully restored for the first time since Friday's wild storms.
American Red Cross volunteers Laurel Cooper, left, and Russ Van Skike serve up a warm, tasty meal of pasta to Elizabeth Arnold on Tuesday in Neopit.
"This is the first warm meal I've had since Friday," Arnold said between bites of pasta.
The American Red Cross partnered with Salvation Army and leaders from the Menominee Nation and Menominee County to serve the lunch for dozens of families on Tuesday. The groups also provided information on power outage preparedness and dealing with food spoilage. It was part of an ongoing, statewide response by the Red Cross, which kicked off in earnest with an explosion in Madison on Friday morning and then continued into the week following thunderstorms, hail, small tornadoes and extreme heat that blasted across Wisconsin.
The Red Cross has established, partnered with or supported approximately 14 reception centers – located along the path of storms and destruction from Neopit to Mishicot, from Appleton to Waupaca, and from Madison to Balsam Lake – for residents in need of water, snacks, power and sometimes meals and showers. Through Tuesday afternoon, the Red Cross had provided nearly 1,400 hot and pre-packaged meals along with 570 cases of water across the state. Operations have also been set up to help with sheltering of clean-up partners like Team Rubicon in Langlade County and canteening for search and rescue teams in Menominee County. From Friday into Saturday, volunteers ran a cooling shelter at the Alliant Energy Center as the city of Madison dealt with a power station explosion that knocked out electricity during the brunt of a heat wave. Roles at Red Cross have been predominately run by a team of approximately 50 volunteers. Gov. Tony Evers has declared a State of Emergency from the storms. In partnership with county, state and tribal leaders, the Red Cross remains committed to bringing immediate needs and resources to residents affected by this devastating wave of storms.
The whole family shares a laugh at youthful antics Tuesday during a lunch served at Menominee Tribal School. Pictured are, from bottom right, Emmeretta Corn, Chantel Alveshive, Kewascum, 4, Rosie, 3, Ricky Lee, 8, Stalla, 2, and Joseph, 4.
After her meal, Arnold, a Menominee County board supervisor, loaded up extra meals into her truck to take to neighbors in Keshena also dealing with outages and unable to make the Tuesday lunch service. She turned to Red Cross volunteers: "Thank you for everything. You really helped our communities out."
Elsewhere on Tuesday, remnants of sheer winds and some of the verified tornadoes remained very present, like in Elderon, where trees were pulled from the ground with densely exposed roots and earth, and in Knowlton, where barn siding was ripped off and coiled across properties. At the fire department in Rosholt, volunteers have kept the doors open 24 hours for people in need of water, showers and somewhere to plug in. Here, the Red Cross has played a support role with water while keeping in contact with Portage County officials on immediate needs. Rosholt F.D. Chief Greg Michelkamp said the department generator had been cranking full-time since Saturday and that he hoped his neighbors would have the lights back on soon, for risk of longer term needs like sheltering or mass feeding.
For the latest weather alerts, preparedness tips and shelter info, download the free American Red Cross Emergency App here or in your app store.
In Appleton on Monday, one of two reception center sites operated from a community room at the Outagamie County Sheriff's Department. There, a family of three recharged phones and contacted family via text and social media. KaZoua Lee scrolled through Facebook and said it was nice to have a place to plug back in and "let people know" they were OK, even without power for a few days. The three listened as a neighbor shared her stories of the storm and subsequent outage while her phone juiced up. Volunteer Sharon Holt of Combined Locks said the stories were typical from the more than 150 people who paced in and out of the center since Sunday morning.
A confirmed tornado from weekend storms peeled off siding from this barn in Knowlton, Wisc.
Blocks from the Appleton site, mangled trees lined residential neighborhoods on either side of Highway 47, especially around the Erb Park area. City crews and electric company line workers were always within view or earshot. Neighbors likened this damage to the storms and weak tornados in 2016. David Williams, a Service to the Armed Forces volunteer with the Red Cross, was himself still running off a neighbor's generator as he cleared away a smashed fence and broken tree limbs. Williams said he and his mother were lucky to have such community support.
"A lot of damage, but we'll be alright," Williams said.
Red Cross will continue to partner with local and state agencies in the days and weeks ahead as our neighbors continue their recovery.
Your generosity enables the Red Cross to mobilize support to people in need, up the street and across the county. Consider a donation to support volunteers and resources for people affected by a disaster. Click here to take action.
Filed under: Disaster Services, North Central WI Chapter, Northeast WI Chapter, Northwest WI Chapter, Southwest chapter | Tagged: American Red Cross, Madison explosion, Menominee Nation, power outage, Tony Evers, Tornadoes |	Leave a comment »
"I'm just thankful we're safe": Sun Prairie rallies around neighbors, shelter after tragic explosion
The morning after an explosion up the street from her apartment, Patricia Friese paced the basketball court at the Sun Prairie High School, where she and her son waited for updates on their homes and city at a Red Cross shelter.
Snacks and conversation at a Red Cross shelter in the Sun Prairie H.S. gymnasium, the morning after a tragic explosion.
Patricia's phone had died and she knew family members would be worried. The sassy, silver-haired longtime Sun Prairie resident had the clothes on her back and no idea what might be left of her apartment, much less her cell phone charger. Turns out, volunteer Judy Giacomino had brought along a "handy dandy charger" that fit Patricia's phone, enabling her to make a round of calls to family that ended with a similar sentiment: "I'm just thankful we're safe."
Patricia and David Friese were two of dozens of Sun Prairie residents evacuated and displaced by an explosion attributed to a ruptured natural gas line downtown on July 10. Within hours, quaint and quiet downtown Sun Prairie had been pulled into the national spotlight with shattered storefront windows, smoldering homes and businesses, and public mourning for a community paragon. The explosion claimed the life of Cory Barr, a father, volunteer fire captain and business owner, and injured two other firefighters. (More on supporting Barr's family here; and one of the injured firefighters here.)
Volunteer Judy Giacomino, left, talks with a local family who visited the Red Cross shelter with gifts of children's books & toys.
Sections of downtown remained cordoned off for days as emergency officials took stock of the threats and damage. Sun Prairie High School graciously opened its doors to the community as the host of a Red Cross reception center that developed into a shelter by Tuesday night. Through Friday afternoon, when the last family was transitioned to temporary lodging elsewhere, the Red Cross shelter at Sun Prairie H.S. served 75 clients impacted by the explosion, including dozens of cots for sleep/rest, just shy of 600 meals and 1,387 snacks served, as well as connections to comfort kits, and health and mental health services. As shelter operations wrapped up that Friday, Red Cross and a handful of community partners organized a multi-agency resource center (MARC) to help streamline additional recovery efforts for residents.
David Friese said he "didn't know what we were coming home to" after a blast near his downtown apartment.
Among those at the shelter early Wednesday was David Friese, who has lived a floor away from his mother, Patricia, in the same downtown apartment building for the past seven years. David said the two of them and a friend were in Oneida when, unbeknownst to them, the explosion took place. Then, while his phone was still powered, he heard the news from his daughter and the family immediately made the two-hour drive back to Sun Prairie to an unknown situation.
"We didn't know what we were coming home to, what we were … going to see. My daughter texted, she said, 'Go to the high school, go to the Red Cross,'" he said.
Credit is due to the substantial and fast help rallied by community organizations and members around those impacted amid sad, uncertain circumstances. Local nonprofit Sunshine Place provided numerous meals and the Bank of Sun Prairie set up a disaster relief fund. Other remarkable partners at the shelter or MARC included Sun Prairie School District, Dane County Emergency Management, Lions Club, Knights of Columbus, United Way, Salvation Army, Chase Lumber, Culver's, Walmart, American Family Insurance, Mayor Paul Esser's office, and local fire and law enforcement. That just touches on the every-day expressions of kindness from neighbors who stopped by the shelter to ask how to volunteer, to drop-off a case of water or children's books, or to offer their therapy dogs.
Joyce Dingman, left, and Barbara Huber, right, talk with a resident who was inspired to sign up as a fellow volunteer.
Back at the shelter on the first morning after the explosion, two Red Cross volunteers from Dane County with differing experience levels worked the entrance table. Joyce Dingman, at her first shelter, and Barbara Huber, a 15-year volunteer with multiple regional and national deployments, had fielded a morning of clients in need, media with requests and community members looking to give. During a lull over lunch, Dingman and Huber shared perspectives on the shelter.
"You think of the people that first night. But other people come in, they need assistance and they haven't seen anyone yet," Dingman remarked. "It's great to be here [for them]."
Huber said that no two shelters are alike. Each night she's volunteered at a Red Cross shelter, Huber said she comes home with thoughts on what went well and what could've been done differently. Above all, she shared with Dingman, volunteers and staff come together to provide a refuge for those in need, far and wide.
"It's amazing how fast it comes together and we're able to do all we can," she said.
Fast, thorough responses to unexpected disasters like these are possible because of support and volunteering from people like you. Here are ways you can get involved in the Red Cross mission to help those in crisis.
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Installing smoke alarms and peace of mind
Posted on May 7, 2018 by American Red Cross - Wisconsin
by Justin Kern, American Red Cross of Wisconsin
For Renee Hovland and Ms. Bowman, volunteers installed peace of mind along with smoke alarms during recent communitywide events.
The two Wisconsin residents welcomed Red Cross volunteers and partners into their respective homes as part of "Sound the Alarm, Save a Life," a national campaign to reduce injury and death from home fires.
Volunteers receive tools, alarms and instruction in Madison at event host, American Family Insurance HQ.
Hundreds of volunteers teamed up with a goal to install 1,400 smoke alarms during separate, daylong events in Milwaukee and Madison. Other cities and counties have or will hold their own installation roundups. (Click here to sign up for a free smoke alarm installed as part of this ongoing campaign.)
During the recent communitywide events in Milwaukee and Madison, Renee and Ms. Bowman shared the stories behind their installations.
'It means the world to me'
Renee Hovland and her family know firsthand the impact of a house fire.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, 11 years ago, a candle burned out of control and "took down our whole house," she said. Seven fire crews came to the site of their house in McFarland, on the outskirts of Madison, even tapping a neighbor's pool to help contain the blaze.
The Hovlands – Renee, her husband Eric, their two daughters, plus three dogs and two cats – lost that home and all their possessions. But, they were alive and unscathed. They rebuilt on the same property.
Charles installs an alarm at the Hovland house with his family team, Crystal (center) and Samantha.
So, when they received a flyer about the fire department and Red Cross teaming up to install smoke alarms on May 5, Renee made an appointment.
"We had hardwired smoke detectors when we rebuilt and some of them are past the date that they're still working," Renee said. "It's been something that's bothering me, knowing that don't have current alarm equipment that's working. To me, this is a huge deal."
A volunteer team of four family members installed five smoke alarms in the Hovland house and talked through an escape plan with Eric. As Renee brought their dogs outside to prevent a distraction, she reflected on the sense of security she's gained from the free installations.
"It means the world to me," she said. "I honestly can't afford to buy that many [smoke alarms] and putting them up on a ladder, with my health, I can't do that. It's huge, a huge help."
In his Milwaukee kitchen, Donta Geter, right, talks through a fire escape plan with Red Cross volunteer Shelly Grasso.
'That's a blessing'
Donta Geter invited a team of Red Cross volunteers from Marquette University into his family's majestic, three-story red brick home in Milwaukee's Cold Spring Park neighborhood on April 28. Donta pointed to a few spots in and around the living room that lacked a working smoke alarm. Then, he helped his grandmother – who introduced herself as "Ms. Bowman" – into the kitchen to establish a fire escape plan with volunteer Shelly Grasso.
Shelly drew an escape map onto a dry erase board with input from Donta and Ms. Bowman, as the other volunteers snaked their way up the home's back stairwell to install alarms on the second story and in the attic.
"Nope, we don't have a plan," said Ms. Bowman. "We were always under the assumption that if there's a front entrance and a back exit, you go out [of one of those]. But … you might have to go out of one of these windows!"
Ms. Bowman and Donta talked with Shelly about the best ways to get out in the event of a disaster, and then posted that map on their refrigerator. In the meantime the other volunteers had finished installing three new alarms and replacing another.
Ms. Bowman remarked: "Thank you for all of this. That's a blessing."
For more information on the home fire safety campaign – including installation signups and volunteering – click here.
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The unit design was created in line with the areas of focus for kindergarten mathematics as identified by the Common Core State Standards. Each unit is comprised of standards that are considered major content along with supporting content.
Counting and Cardinality standards in unit 1 continue through unit 3. One of these standards, namely, "Count to 100 by ones and tens" [K.CC.1] is not mastered until the end of the year for all students; instead, graduated benchmark SLOs for this standard occur in all five units. Benchmarking is used in the model curriculum for specific standards that, if taught in entirety, would extend the time needed for mastery beyond six weeks. Benchmarked standards give students time for practice and continued development throughout the year. The fluency standard [K.OA.5] is benchmarked. Patterns, decomposition, measurement, and geometric shapes are the standards scattered among unit 2 through unit 5.


For the past decade, electronic trading has been the dominant trend on both sides of the Atlantic. Following rapid developments in automation, direct market access has transformed the equities trading landscape.
Direct market access (DMA) is utilized by many hedge funds to facilitate complex algorithmic strategies. Through direct connectivity to market venues, DMA allows faster and cheaper trading so that firms can focus on creative strategies to extract greater alpha and return. Growth of DMA can be attributed to developments on the buy side and regulatory implementations. As the most frequent and most aggressive users of DMA, hedge funds play a large role in encouraging greater rates of DMA in the US and Europe. With the growth of the hedge fund industry and the greater adoption of statistical arbitrage strategies, better execution standards combined with low-touch trading will become a necessity.
In a new report, The Evolution of Direct Market Access (DMA) Trading Services in the US and Europe, Celent examines DMA across the US and Europe including growth, pricing, market share, and market leaders in both regions. DMA market models and evolution are also addressed, as well as growth drivers contributing to DMA success.
Celent estimates the US market for DMA to be 15-18% of equities share volume. DMA flow is predicted to increase to 20% of equities share volume by 2010, gradually replacing manual executions. In Europe, DMA flow for equities is expected to grow from 8% of traded value to 15% in 2011. The demand for greater venue aggregation to cope with the proliferation of alternative trading systems (ATSs) and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and the need for faster execution and compliance in response to MiFID regulations are expected to contribute to DMA growth in Europe.
"The long and short of it all is that DMA makes trading cheaper and faster and is a growing option for traders. Moreover, it puts positive pressure on exchanges and other liquidity venues to improve their technological standards and execution quality in order to stay in line with DMA developments," says David Easthope, senior analyst with Celent's Securities & Investments group and co-author of the report.
DMA's attractiveness as a toolset for the buy side should not be minimized. "As raw material for more complex add-ons like algorithms and smart order routing, DMA should continue to see increased demand in this electronic trading age," says Chermaine Lee, analyst with Celent's Securities & Investments group and co-author of the report.
This 31-page report contains eight figures and 11 tables. A table of contents is available online.


A bunch of wonderful breath taking performances but which one was your favorite?
my favorites were Smooth Criminal, Thriller, TDCAU, and The Way You Make Me Feel.
i thought thriller was the best i loved it alot!
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Reply to Missner et al.: Timescale for passive diffusion across bilayer lipid membranes
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Doodh pati chai () is a tea beverage, originating from the Indian subcontinent, consumed in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal in which milk, together with sugar, is boiled with tea. Doodh pati is different from saada chai, in that it only uses milk (as opposed to water) and tea. This tea is quite common in South Asia. It is marginally costlier than the regular, water-based saada chai.

Etymology and terminology
In many Indo-Aryan languages, chai or cha is the word for tea. This comes from the Persian  (), which originated from the Chinese word for tea (). Doodh means milk and pati means leaf. Therefore, the term, Doodh pati chai literally means milk leaf tea.

Preparation
One preparation method is to add water to a pot and leaving it to a boil along with various spices such as  green cardamom, ginger, black cardamom, cinnamon, black peppercorns, black cloves, fennel seeds, nutmeg, dried ginger powder, as well as saffron in the upper to middle classes. Once the water and spices come to a boil, tea is added to it. The mixture is then left to brew. Full cream milk is then added to the mixture and it is then stewed for long periods of time to infuse. Sugar is often added as per one's taste. After mixing thoroughly on low heat, a tea strainer is used before serving the chai. It is usually poured into cups but some prefer to drink it the old fashioned way, from the edge of a saucer.

Consumption
Doodh pati is famously consumed in northern India and Pakistan, where it is boiled along with cardamom, ginger and many other whole spices listed above. Typically, it is available at roadside dhabas and chaiwalas at street corners, but is most commonly prepared at home, though less so than its water based alternative. It is mainly consumed in North India and Pakistan, though it is also consumed occasionally in Nepal and Bangladesh and has spread even to the Middle East due to its popularity.

Doodh pati is also often served at roadside Dhabas and Chaiwalas all over South Asia. It is also consumed during leisure time after a hectic day.

See also
Indian tea culture
Pakistani tea culture
Bangladeshi cuisine

References

Indian tea
Pakistani tea
Bengali cuisine
Milk tea


Perth and Kinross Council announced in February as part of their annual budget setting that there would be an increase in Council Tax of 2% in the financial year 2017/18. The Scottish Government have also introduced legislation which will have an effect on properties in bands E-H, effectively increasing the amount due in Council Tax.
The percentage increases noted below are based on the increase compared to current rates, prior to 1 April 2017.
The charges made by Scottish Water for household water and waste water are also increasing, in this case by 1.6%. Although Scottish Water are responsible for setting the charges, Perth and Kinross Council are required by law to include these charges in it's bill.
This means that the amount due for a property in Band E will increase from £1933.43 to £2077.94, a difference of £144.51. For properties in the highest Band H, the amount due will rise from £3163.80 to £3754.57, an increase of £590.77. The table below shows the updated amounts due in 2017/18.


If you are a first-time entrepreneur setting up your company in Singapore, it may be worthwhile for you to know about the nature of shares, different share classes and the rights that each type of share class holds.
In a nutshell, shares represent ownership in a company. When a company is created, the founders of the company must determine who owns the company. Often the founders also become the first shareholders of the company. The first, and most important, step in establishing a Singapore company, is to determine who owns how many shares. This is usually expressed as a percentage of the total number of shares and it is this percentage that is very important to each founder.
Essentially, the definition characterises shares as a bundle of rights and obligations that are given to the shareholder in return for investing in the company. The shareholder does not have a legal or beneficial interest in the company's property, since a fundamental principle of company law is that the company is a separate legal entity. Instead, the shareholders, by virtue of their ownership of the shares, are entitled to participate according to the terms of the company's constitutional documents as long as the company is a going concern, and they are entitled to participate in the assets of the company if and when the company winds up.
Shareholders can be issued with shares at any point, whether at the time of incorporation or subsequently as the company grows, and their ownership of the shares is evinced by share certificates that are issued to them.
Attend general meetings and vote : The right to vote is one of the shareholder's fundamental rights; and normally, ordinary shares each carry one vote at general meetings. However, there may be shares that carry non-voting rights, additional voting rights (e.g. 10 votes per share), or restricted voting rights (e.g. only vote in particular circumstances).
Share in the company's profits : The company's profits are distributed by paying a certain amount on each share, known as a dividend. Dividends are paid if the company has made profits and to the extent that it decides to distribute them; and in the absence of any provision to the contrary, dividends are paid in proportion to the shares held by each shareholder. It is becoming increasingly common for a company's Articles of Association to provide that the company's shares are divided into different classes, and for the directors (or shareholders) to be able to vary the dividends allocated to these classes.
To a final distribution on winding up : If the company is wound up, the shareholders are entitled to any remaining assets after all the company's debts and costs are cleared. Generally, residual assets are divided among the members in proportion to their respective interests in the company's share capital. If the shares are divided into different classes, the company's Articles may provide for some shares to be given priority in the distribution of the residual assets.
Although share classes are more common in public limited companies, it is not uncommon for private limited companies to issue shares of different classes, especially as it flourishes, in order to accommodate the needs of various stakeholders. For instance, a private limited company may wish to vary the dividends payable to the different shareholders, to create non-voting shares for family members, or redeemable preference shares for employees.
As the law in Singapore is flexible when it comes to the creation of share classes, there are no special restrictions on issuing shares with different rights. Share classes can be referred to by any name – such as "preference shares" with no voting rights, "management shares" with extra voting rights, and "alphabet shares" such as A-shares and B-shares. These share classes do not have any legal definition, so their associated rights would need to be defined in the Constitution, or in the Resolution that creates the particular class of shares.
Ordinary shares : Most companies have just ordinary shares. These shares entitle the holder to (a) 1 vote per share, (b) participate equally in dividends, and (c) a share in the surplus capital if the company is wound-up.
Non-voting shares : These shares carry no rights to attend general meetings or vote. Preference shares are often non-voting. Non-voting shares are commonly issued to (a) the company's employees (so that some of their remuneration is paid as dividends, as an incentive to the employees), and (b) the main shareholders' family members.
Redeemable shares : These shares are issued on terms that the company will, or may, buy them back at some future date. These shares give the holders a right to repayment of their capital either at a fixed date or at the option of the company.
Preference shares : These shares have preferential rights over ordinary shares, usually in respect of dividends (e.g. fixed amount of dividend, or alternatively, participating in profits beyond the fixed dividend under a fixed formula). These shares may also be given priority on return of capital on winding-up (but not entitled to share in surplus capital). Often, preference shares are non-voting, and can be redeemable.
Deferred ordinary shares : These are shares on which no dividend is paid until other classes have received a minimum payment.
"Alphabet shares" : Some companies may wish to create different classes of ordinary shares (commonly known as 'Class A', 'Class B', 'Class C', and so forth) in order to create small differences between the shareholders (e.g. to allow directors to pay different dividends on different shares), or, to divide certain rights between shareholders.
Although most small startups tend to give its shareholders an equal bundle of rights per share, there is great freedom and flexibility for the founders and investors to be bestowed with varying degrees of management control and varying degrees of entitlement to the company's profits or capital. Investment-seeking companies and even startups that are not raising outside money at the outset may find it worthwhile to establish an equity framework that would accommodate investment at a later time and communicates a degree of sophistication on the part of the founders.
Singapore law continues to inspire a welcoming jurisdiction for the establishment and growth of businesses, by offering this flexibility to capture the desires of different types of investors – who may or may not need greater control in the management of the company, or, who may or may not need the assurance of a fixed return on their investment in the company. Anyone who contemplates the creation of multiple share classes should consider the motive for the different classes and fully evaluate the rights afforded to each class.
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MySQL Workbench provides an easy way to export data to an external source.
There are many ways to export data in MySQL. You can export a whole database. You can export one or more tables. You can also export the result set of a query.
Here, we use MySQL Workbench to perform the export operations.
Let's start by exporting the result set of a query.
You can export the result set of a query to a number of formats, including CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, SQL INSERT statements, Excel, and Tab separated.
You can export the result set of a query simply by running the query in MySQL Workbench, then clicking the Export icon where you're prompted to save the file. Steps below.
After running a query, click on the Export icon above the result set.
Enter a name for the file. Note that you can export to many different file formats.
This will export your query result set and the data will be saved to the file that you specified.
Now you can open that file in an external application or import it into a different database.
Here's what the above CSV file looks like when I open it in OpenOffice.
You can export the whole database, its tables, and/or their data to an SQL file. This file could be used later to restore the database and/or its contents.
You can choose whether to create one file for everything or one file for each table. Therefore, you could restore the whole database by running one file, or you could restore individual tables as required. You can also choose whether to export only the database structure, its data, or both.
Ensure that the MANAGEMENT tab is selected on the left menu.
The Data Export screen will appear. Select the database to export (as well as which tables/objects to include). Choose whether to a self–contained file or separate files.
In this case I chose Dump Structure and Data because I wanted the whole database, including its tables and the data. If you only want to export the data, change this to Dump Data Only. If you only want the database without the data, select Dump Structure Only.
Also, I chose Export to Self–Contained File and then Create Dump in a Single Transaction (self–contained file only), and Include Create Schema so that the script will create the database before trying to insert its contents.
The export operation will now be executed. Once completed, the Export Progress screen reads Export Completed.
Next we'll open this file and run it to restore our whole database.


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Sense Gratification - an essential subject
In every field of action we have to follow certain do's and do not's. Tat-paraḥ saṁyatendriyaḥ. The result of knowledge is that one should be restrained in the matter of sense gratification. You cannot become progressive in spiritual life if one indulges in unrestricted sense gratification because sense gratification is the cause of our bondage in this material world. Regulated sense gratification leads to liberated happiness whereas unrestricted sense gratification leads to suffering and despair. The whole treatment of progressing in spiritual life is regulated. Of course, we have got senses, and the senses require some satisfaction. That is all right. Therefore we have to purify our senses by engaging them, under regulation, in the service of the Lord.
Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Sense Gratification category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 10 quotes.
vanipedia.org A brahmacārī factually has no needs, but gṛhī, householders, are engaged in sense gratification. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (2.44), bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛta-cetasām. Everyone has come to this material world for sense gratification, and the position of those who are too attached to sense gratification and who therefore accept the gṛhastha-āśrama is very precarious. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.8.4)
vanipedia.org A detached person naturally prefers to live in a secluded place, he does not eat more than what he requires, and he controls the activities of his body and mind. He has no false ego because he does not accept the body as himself. Nor has he a desire to make the body fat and strong by accepting so many material things. Because he has no bodily concept of life, he is not falsely proud. He is satisfied with everything that is offered to him by the grace of the Lord, and he is never angry in the absence of sense gratification. (Bhagavad-gītā 18.51-53)
vanipedia.org A gṛhavrata, one who has taken a vow to execute family duties, has no chance to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. This is because most gṛhavratas are guided by sense gratification and therefore gradually glide down to the darkest regions of material existence (adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram (SB 7.5.30)). How can they possibly become perfect in Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Mahārāja Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī to resolve this great doubt. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.1.4)
vanipedia.org Temporarily covered by the influence of māyā, the living entity serves his senses, which are represented as kāma-krodha-lobha-moha-mada-mātsarya—lust, anger, greed, illusion, madness and envy. In the material condition, all living entities are engaged in sense gratification, but when they associate with devotees who follow the regulative principles, they become purified and awakened to their original consciousness. They then attempt to satisfy the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa and engage in His devotional service. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.202)
vanipedia.org Everyone is engaged in maintaining the body, home and family. Consequently everyone becomes confused at the end of life, not knowing what spiritual life and the goal of human life are. In a civilization of sense gratification there cannot be spiritual life, because a person thinks only of this life. Although the next life is a fact, no information is given about it. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.28.9)
vanipedia.org The highest standard of education is knowledge of the science of Kṛṣṇa. The standard of material education is sense gratification, but the highest standard of spiritual education is knowledge of the science of Kṛṣṇa. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (4.29.49) states: "That work which pleases the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the highest work, and that science or knowledge which places one in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the highest knowledge. (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 32)
vanipedia.org When a person is developed in love of Godhead, his body, mind and everything else are attracted by the transcendental qualities of the Lord. Such is the power of Kṛṣṇa's merciful activities and transcendental qualities. He is so attractive that out of transcendental attachment, a devotee will abandon all four principles of spiritual life—religiosity, economic development, regulation of sense gratification and salvation. (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 15)
vanipedia.org Love of Godhead is the eternal nature of the soul; it is unchangeable, beginningless and endless. Therefore temporary sense gratification or a desire for liberation cannot compare with the transcendental nature of love of God. Love of God is the fifth dimension in the human endeavor. Compared with the ocean of love of transcendental pleasure, the conception of impersonal Brahman is no more significant than a drop of water. (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 19)
vanipedia.org Lust means sense gratification, and love also means sense gratification—but for Kṛṣṇa. In other words, when activities are enacted on the platform of personal sense gratification, they are called material activities, but when they are enacted for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, they are spiritual activities. On any platform of activities, the principle of sense gratification is there. But on the spiritual platform, sense gratification is for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, whereas on the material platform it is for the performer. (Kṛṣṇa Book, Chapter 29)
vanipedia.org The objects of sense gratification are superior to the senses, and mind is superior to the sense objects. If, therefore, the mind is directly engaged in the service of the Lord constantly, then there is no chance that the senses will become engaged in other ways. This mental attitude has already been explained. paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate. If the mind is engaged in the transcendental service of the Lord, there is no chance of its being engaged in the lower propensities. (Bhagavad-gītā 3.42)
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Reporting Civil Rights
Ed., Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove
The Library of America
Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 9, 2003
"History," observes James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, ... history is literally present in all that we do." The civil rights movement is a compelling illustration of Baldwin's insight. Today, with the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a national holiday, colleges and thoroughfares named after Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks chosen by Time magazine as one of the 20th century's 100 most important persons, the movement has achieved iconic status in our historical self-consciousness. On the other hand, the outrage generated by Trent Lott's remark that the country would have been better off had segregationist Strom Thurmond been elected president in 1948 suggests that the wounds of that era have not yet completely healed.
"Reporting Civil Rights" is a good starting point for anyone who wonders why Lott's comments aroused such a furor. Weighing in at nearly 2,000 pages, this two-volume addition to the Library of America series includes nearly 200 examples of American journalism -- daily reporting, investigative accounts, opinion pieces, and memoirs -- about the struggle for racial justice. It begins in 1941 with A. Philip Randolph's call for a March on Washington to protest discrimination in the rapidly-expanding war industries and ends with a reflection on the extent and limits of racial change in Mississippi, written in 1973.
The editors – historians Claiborne Carson and David Garrow, former Atlanta Constitution editor Bill Kovach, and journalism professor Carol Polsgrove – do not, unfortunately, discuss the criteria of selection. Some of their choices seem questionable. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is a magnificent statement of the movement's moral outlook, but it hardly qualifies as journalism. Nor does Tom Wolfe's famous essay, "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers," a brilliant, sardonic work of the imagination rather than an account of actual events.
Nonetheless, the editors are to be commended for scouring the era's newspapers and magazines and for including numerous pieces by writers unknown today alongside familiar names like Anthony Lewis, David Halberstam, and Joan Didion. They present accounts of the struggle's familiar high points – Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma. But they also devote considerable space to less well-known parts of the story, such as the bus boycott in Tallahassee that followed the Montgomery campaign and demonstrations in places like Danville and St. Augustine. They make clear that the movement rested not only on national leaders like King, around whom the media tended to congregate, but even more on grassroots people of extraordinary courage who refused to bend to sometimes savage retribution.
The editors have been especially successful in mining the often-neglected black press, which published some of the best reporting on the movement. They include a harrowing 1942 piece by L. O. Swinger from the Atlanta Daily World about the police beating of Morehouse College professor Hugh M. Gloster. His offense was to ask a train conductor if blacks in an overcrowded Negro car could move into the all but empty adjoining coach. One of the most moving pieces in the collection is James D. Williams' stark account in the Baltimore Afro-American of the funeral of a young victim of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
Black reporters seem to have had a style and method different from their white counterparts. Reporting for the New York Amsterdam News about white anxiety about the impending arrival of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi, James L. Hicks writes: "Meredith literally rocked and rolled this town out of its senses .... They acted as if this young lone young Negro youth was a man from Mars." (I, 661, 663) Among the collection's most hilarious pieces is a 1961 account by George Collins, a reporter for the Baltimore Afro-American, of posing as a diplomat from the nonexistent African nation of Goban and seeking to eat in Maryland restaurants. Dressed in African attire and declaiming on the virtues of Goban's "betel nut," Collins and a colleague are treated with unfailing courtesy. As far as blacks are concerned, Collins concludes, in Maryland "everybody eats but Americans." (I, 607)
Taken together, the 200 pieces offer a gripping account of a momentous epoch in American history. And while the editors, in keeping with the series format do not provide an introductory essay, the volumes make a compelling case that the modern civil rights movement began not in the mid-1950s with the Brown desegregation decision and Montgomery bus boycott, but during World War II. The war redrew the nation's racial map by drawing hundreds of thousands of blacks out of the segregated South into the army and industrial employment in the North and West. The contradiction between the Roosevelt's administration's rhetoric promising a postwar world based on the Four Freedoms and the reality of racial violence, segregation, and disenfranchisement, inspired a new black militancy. The early selections in "Reporting Civil Rights" remind us that like the 1960s, World War II was a time of freedom rides, sit-ins, and urban race riots.
"The segregation question," writes Lucille Milner in a 1944 expose of military Jim Crow, "will be a burning postwar issue." (I, 56) The rest of the first volume traces the movement down to 1963, when demonstrations involving tens of thousands of protesters swept across the South and President Kennedy committed the federal government to enforcing the civil rights of black citizens.
If the movement's first phase produced a clear set of objectives and a series of coherent if sometimes competitive organizations – SCLC, SNCC, CORE, etc. – the second witnessed political fragmentation and, after 1965, few significant victories. The second volume opens with the 1963 March on Washington. This was the high water mark of the nonviolent civil rights movement. But even at this point, signs of future divisions abounded. Marlene Nadle, riding a bus to Washington to report for New York's Village Voice, encounters young blacks who tell her: "Get out of our organization. We don't need any white liberals to patronize us." (II, 4) Writing in the Paris periodical Présence Africaine, young black activist Michael Thelwall speaks of the March as a "fiasco," because it abandoned plans for a sit-in at the Capitol in favor of staging "a mass protest against injustice without offending anyone." (II, 78, 82)
Soon, Black Power replaces the integrationist vision and non-violence is succeeded by urban rebellion. The second volume ends on a bittersweet note with Alice Walker's 1973 piece about returning to live in Jackson, Mississippi after 10 years in the North. Blacks now vote, and the schools, restaurants, and hotels are integrated. The "white" and "colored" signs are gone and so is the climate of fear that so recently "shrouded Mississippi." (II, 879) But the movement, too, has passed into history.
In some ways, of course, the most influential reporting on civil rights appeared not in print media but on television. Nothing in these volumes has the visceral impact of the images, broadcast around the world, of Bull Connor's police attacking Birmingham demonstrators with fire hoses and dogs or Sheriff Jim Clark's forces assaulting nonviolent marchers on Selma's Pettus bridge. But "Reporting Civil Rights" proves that sometimes, a word can be worth a thousand pictures.
The best pieces do what television never seems able to -- offer in-depth accounts that illuminate complex local situations. The volumes are filled with memorable pieces of journalistic writing. Among them is Murray Kempton's article describing the end of Ernest Green's senior year at Little Rock's Central High School, which began with troops escorting him to classes in defiance of a howling mob. Kempton quotes the inscriptions written by white classmates in Green's yearbook, ranging from "I enjoyed having home room with you," to "I really admire you, Ernest. I doubt if I could have done half so well had the circumstances been reversed." (I, 398-99) An essay by John Hersey from the Saturday Evening Post of 1964, brings into vivid relief the life of Varshall Pleas, a black farmer near Athens, Mississippi. Hersey brilliantly illuminates Pleas's struggle to make ends meet, his aspirations for his children, and his growing commitment to the movement. Other highlights include a long account by George McMillan in Collier's of "The Ordeal of Bobby Cain," which details the daily courage of a youth who in 1956 became the first black student in a school in Clinton, Tennessee, far from the national media limelight. John Lowell brings to life the intensity of the 1967 Detroit uprising by interviewing National Guardsmen about strategies for fighting snipers. "It was as though the Viet Cong," Lowell observes, "had infiltrated the riot-blackened streets." (II, 607)
Another superb piece is Calvin Hernton's wickedly funny essay from 1966 on how black actors in Hollywood movies never seem to be portrayed in sexual situations for fear of offending white Americans obsessed with black sexuality. "Why can't Sidney Poitier, since he is such a superb actor, make love in the movies?" Hernton asks. To see Poitier kiss a black woman, he answers, would lead to revulsion among white patrons. To see him kiss a white woman "would have caused a riot on Broadway and a slaughter in Alabama." (II, 469, 471)
Journalism, the saying goes, is the first draft of history. As instant historical analysis, some of the reporting stands up remarkably well. In The New Republic, Thomas Sancton succinctly explains the reasons for the outburst of black militancy during World War II: "The swift tides of war and race conflict sweeping through all countries of the world have caused ... the ascendancy of aggressive Negro leadership." (I, 43) When the sit-ins begin in 1960, Claude Sitton of the New York Times recognizes that they reflect both a "growing dissatisfaction over the slow pace of desegregation" and "a shift of leadership to younger, more militant Negroes." (I, 433)
Two contributors to The Nation consistently provide analysis that goes beyond the headlines. One, Howard Zinn, was then a history professor at Spelman College, an elite black women's college. Whether describing the radicalization of the "young ladies" of Spelman or comparing Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln as "reluctant emancipators," Zinn's pieces offer an unusually high level of historical awareness. (I, 520, 702) The other Nation writer is Dan Wakefield, whose report from Mississippi on the acquittal of Emmett Till's murderers undercuts the common misconception that racism emanates mainly from lower-class whites. The local White Citizens' Council, Wakefield notes, is composed of eminently respectable men -- lawyers, bankers, and school officials. "Their shirts aren't red and they don't wear sheets." (I, 222)
In another piece, Wakefield notes that segregation is not simply a system of separating blacks and whites, but is designed to maintain "the continuance of cheap labor in the South," a "major lure" in attracting northern industry. (I, 468) His pieces highlight a glaring weakness of much civil rights journalism – its neglect of what might be called the political economy of racism. With a few exceptions, reporters tend to see the movement as primarily a moral issue, a dilemma for national policy, or a question of racial psychodynamics. Thus, for example, Harrison Salisbury's vivid reporting from Birmingham in 1960, describing a city "fragmented by the emotional dynamite of racism, enforced by the whip, the razor, the gun, the bomb," makes Bull Connor the villain, entirely neglecting the steel barons who did far more than Connor to shape the city's racial policies and atmosphere. (I, 447)
"Reporting Civil Rights" compounds this problem by neglecting the northern side of the movement. In the North, demands for racial justice revolved around equal access to housing and an end to job discrimination by employers and unions, not legal segregation and disenfranchisement. The North did not offer up ready-made symbols of racism like Bull Connor and southern tactics like marches, sit-ins, and mass arrests, proved ineffective in the face of a less overt but equally powerful system of racial inequality. Only a handful of pieces -- for example, George Schulyer's penetrating 1949 article for The American Mercury describing "Jim Crow in the North" -- deal with racism outside the South. (I, 112) Inexplicably, the editors fail to include any reporting about King's Chicago Freedom Movement of 1966, whose failure in the face of the entrenched power of Major Richard J. Daley's political machine and the ferocious opposition of white homeowners to open housing offered a preview of the movement's national decline.
This neglect is all the more striking because the Marches on Washington that open the two volumes – the protest of 1941, which was called off, and the "I Have a Dream" rally of 1963 – focused on economic inequality as much as desegregation. The call for the 1941 protest labeled American democracy "a hollow mockery" if it "will not give jobs to its toilers because of race or color." (I, 3) The rallying cry of the 1963 march was Jobs and Freedom, and its demands included not simply the passage of the civil rights bill then before Congress but a public works program to reduce unemployment, an increase in the minimum wage, and a law banning racial discrimination in employment. E. W. Kenworthy's New York Times account of the 1963 March notes that a century earlier, the Emancipation Proclamation had enjoined former slaves to "labor faithfully for reasonable wages," something still unavailable to them. (II, 12) His is one of only a handful of pieces that brings to center stage what Hunter Thompson, in The Reporter in 1963, calls "segregation's second front" of jobs, housing, and an entrenched white power structure. (II, 87)
Overall, these volumes offer a revealing portrait of how journalists during the civil rights era pursued their craft. It was an overwhelmingly male profession – only a handful of pieces here are by women reporters. Its practitioners displayed considerable physical and moral courage. Reporters were beaten while covering the Freedom Rides and one was killed in the Oxford, Mississippi, riots of 1962. They prided themselves on being where the action was. "When I heard about the rioting on the radio," writes Lez Edmond in Ramparts in 1964, "I grabbed my tape recorder and I got into Harlem, deep in, quick." (II, 138) They were participant journalists, who developed "a sort of proprietary feeling about the Movement," as Pat Watters put it in 1969. (II, 716)
The editors' selections reinforce this flattering self-portrait. But there is another, less pretty side to the story, largely ignored in these volumes. Where are the pieces from national publications like the Wall Street Journal and Time, warning that the 1963 March on Washington was certain to set back the cause of civil rights? Where is the voice of anti-civil rights journalism, the articles, for example, in The National Review during the 1950s that referred to whites as "the advanced race" and defended black disenfranchisement on the grounds that "the claims of civilization supercede those of universal suffrage?" [[ Editor -- These are quoted in my book, The Story of American Freedom]] Where is the southern segregationist press, which consistently misrepresented the movement and stirred up or extenuated violence against it?
"Reporting Civil Rights" includes selections from liberal white southern editors – Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution calling on the "good people" of the South to unite against the Klan, Hodding Carter explaining how he decided to add "Mrs." before the names of married black women in his Mississippi newspaper. (I, 123, 134) But the massive abdication of journalistic responsibility by much of the southern press is only hinted at via the complaints of civil rights activists.
Only indirectly do we learn that during the Montgomery bus boycott the Montgomery Advertiser printed nothing about the wholesale arrest and harassment of black participants or that it later called civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy an "unprincipled and unspeakable bum." (II, 688) Or that the Athens Courier published the names of blacks who attempted to register to vote, so that they could be singled out for economic retribution and the "entire Mississippi press" concentrated its reports on how civil rights workers "smelled" and "stank," as if their odor was what inspired violence against them. (II, 166)
In a revealing 1962 piece, John Herbers, a southern-born journalist reporting on Mississippi for UPI, notes that local newspapers refuse to print anything that might embarrass the state or discourage outside investment. "There is," Herbers writes, "a need for a new approach in reporting the kind of social change that is going on in the South today." Most newspapers, however, "seem content to continue under the old formulas." (I, 644-45) This, too, is part of the story of reporting civil rights, but it remains unrepresented in these volumes.
Today, we live in the post-civil rights era. In unprecedented numbers, blacks now work alongside whites in offices and on factory floors and sit together in college classrooms (although public schools are increasingly segregated). Sidney Poitier can kiss anyone he wants in the movies. Journalism, too, has changed. The Nation and New Republic survive, but there seem to be fewer and fewer venues for serious reportorial essays. The rise of the Internet has not replaced Look, Collier's, The Reporter, Ramparts, and other now-defunct magazines where some of the best essays in these volumes were published.
This is a pity, because a new generation of journalists needs to make sense of issues that mostly eluded their predecessors. In the 1970s and 1980s, just as Jim Crow finally ended in many workplaces and unions, deindustrialization devastated the black working class. Today, the black rate of unemployment remains double that of whites, and half of all black children live in poverty. The widespread incarceration of black men, an issue all but ignored until the late 1960s, has had devastating effects on black families and communities. Blacks today are entitled to vote, but with 39 states denying the franchise to those in prison or on probation and 10 barring ex-felons for life, an estimated one black man in six cannot cast a ballot.
In 1965, reporting on the Selma campaign, the free-lance writer George B. Leonard observed that the civil rights movement was attempting to bring about an unprecedented revolution in laws, practices, and "the hearts of men." "If we can pull this one off," he added, "then what is impossible for us?" (II, 331) Did we pull it off? Nearly four decades later, the answer is still uncertain.


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Comerica Park was the place for fans of dogs and baseball alike Monday.
The Tigers won after 11 losses to their Central Division rivals. Coincidence that they ended the skid with the pups in the park?
It was "Bark at the Park," an event that lets Detroit Tigers devotees attend a game at the park with their dogs.
For the latest version, canines from "Butter" to "Zeus" frolicked in the stands, some wearing blue-and-orange Tigers gear, watching the team face the Cleveland Indians. A party area featured water stations, doggie "restrooms" and other amenities for the furry and four-legged.
Three other such "dog days" are scheduled for 2018, and a portion of the proceeds benefit the Michigan Humane Society, organizers said.


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Q: Is there a way to open a Url through the menu of a electron.js app? Im currently building a electron.js application. Now i want that people can open a Url (like:https://stackoverflow.com) in the electron applications menu/navbar. My current code looks like this:
   label: 'Menu',
  submenu: [
     {
        label: 'Startseite', click() {
           createWindow()
        }

It kinda works it just opens a new windows without closing the old one. Is there any way to do that? Thanks

A: Maybe keep track of the last window created in a global variable, then you can close the window with oldWindow?.close();
Keeping track of the old window can be done in the createWindow function.

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On Christmas Day, 2014, Kirsten White, Erina White, Zach Thompson and Todd Perkins climbed Borestone Mountain in Piscataquis County, Maine as part of The Summit Project. They honored the memories of LT Jerry Smith, SPC Deon Taylor, SGT Lawrence A. Roukey and MSG Robert Horrigan (Go to those heroes' pages for individual reflection essays).
Thank you to the White family and thank you for ensuring that MHANF.
"My sisters and I have a tradition of hiking Borestone Mountain on Christmas day. We never know what the weather or the terrain will be like, but we head out looking for adventure no matter what we may find. It was raining and foggy all morning, but we hoped for the best as we left the house. By the time we reached the trail head, the clouds had parted and the sun warmed us as we bundled up and started our ascent. We each hiked at our own pace, which gave me some time to think about the weight in my backpack and the life of the fallen Maine heroes we were honoring.
We paused at waterfalls and overlooks during our ascent to take in the view. I have never seen a view quite like the one that greeted us at the summit. The sky was a breathtaking purple and peeked around the clouds casting magnificent shadows on the valley of trees and lakes below.


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package org.heigit.ors.routing.graphhopper.extensions.reader.osmfeatureprocessors;

import com.graphhopper.reader.ReaderWay;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

public class WheelchairSeparateWayTest {
    WheelchairSeparateWay way;

    @Before
    public void reset() {
        ReaderWay readerWay = new ReaderWay(1);
        way = new WheelchairSeparateWay(readerWay);
    }

    @Test
    public void TestShowAsPedestrian() {
        assertTrue(way.isPedestrianised());
    }

    @Test
    public void TestInitiallyNotProcessed() {
        assertFalse(way.hasWayBeenFullyProcessed());
    }

    @Test
    public void TestMarkedAsProcessedOncePrepared() {
        way.prepare();
        assertTrue(way.hasWayBeenFullyProcessed());
    }
}

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Films by this Filmmaker in the Tri-College Library Collection
Fat Girl (Dir: Catherine Breillat, 2001)
Filmmaker: Catherine Breillat
"Á Ma Soeur!" released in America as "Fat Girl"
Written and Directed by: Catherine Breillat
Original Format: 35mm, interpositiveCatherine Breillat, or "the bad girl intellectual of French film" as Amy Taubin of "The Village Voice" once wrote, is well known and widely criticized for her sexually explicit, often extremely graphic films and Fat Girl is no different. Fat Girl follows the lives of two sisters while on vacation in France, Elena, the beautiful older sister who is described as reeking of "loose morals" according to her sister, the "fat lump" Anaïs. The film starts out with them discussing the loss of virginity. Elena, like most fifteen-year-old girls, hopes to lose her virginity to her first true, reciprocated love. Anaïs, twelve, laughs at her and says that she wishes to give herself to "nobody", that way when she does fall in love she can be "broken in". She does not want anybody to say they had her first. This opening interaction not only demonstrates their conflicting values, but also sets the tone for their relationship throughout the film.
Soon after this conversation the sisters meet Fernando, an Italian student also on vacation, and Elena is almost immediately infatuated. As their relationship develops, Fernando and Elena have midnight rendezvous' in her room, which she shares with her younger sister. Fernando aggressively seduces her, and she actively objects while Anaïs is awoken and forced to listen to them fight. Eventually he overwhelms Elena with protestations of love and affection, and they have sex while her sister weeps silently. Although Elena is convinced that they will be married, soon things go terribly wrong and their vacation is cut short when her mother finds out that she accepted a gift that Fernando had no right to give.
After an increasingly suspenseful car ride, the film ends shockingly with a tragic turn of events. This film touches on many themes, not only of sexuality and the loss of virginity but also sibling rivalry and relationships, as well as maturity and consent. Although it may be difficult to suggest showing it in an academic setting due to explicit and fairly disturbing content, Fat Girl should not be dismissed as it addresses important and provocative issues worth discussing.
For more information on Catherine Breillat, refer to the following interview conducted by Peter Sobczynski after the release of "Fat Girl":
http://efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=1244
Real Young Girl, A (Dir: Catherine Breillat, 1976)
(Une Vraie Jeune Fille)
Format of Official Release: DVD/VHSA Real Young Girl is Catherine Breillat's first film based on her novel Le Soupirail. This film started the pivotal and controversial career of Breillat with its sexual content that led to it being banned in many countries only to be released in the festival circuit in 2000, twenty-four years after being made. As her other films, A Real Young Girl concerns the theme of sexuality as told through the perspective of a young woman. The intense visual nature of the film makes it difficult to describe exactly what the film actually consists of, as is typical of Breillat's films, it needs to be seen to be thoroughly understood.
The story itself is rather simple in spite of its visual complexity. It takes place over a period of a young girl's, named Alice (Charlotte Alexandra), summer vacation from boarding school. At 14 she is at the peak of her own sexual discovery. We are immediately aware of her sexual curiosity when she arrives home and sits at the dinner table. The scene seems to be set normally enough until Alice drops her spoon and as the camera moves down below the table we see her pick it up to pleasure herself as her family continues to eat. A dichotomy that continues throughout the film as she tries to let go of her old childlike self and embrace her new-found sexual nature. Alice becomes withdrawn because of this, even at school as portrayed in one of her flashbacks. She cannot escape her own blossoming physical self and often resides in her room writing in her diary and staring at herself in the mirror.
While her father works at a sawmill and her mother stays at home busy with domestic duties, Alice becomes bored with her surroundings. She becomes obsessed with her own sexual fantasies, and the boundaries between Alice's daydreams and reality become increasingly blurred as the film progresses. She becomes fixated on Jim (Hiram Keller) an employee at her father's sawmill. She often visits the sawmill to stare at Jim and fantasize about him in very sexually explicit and bizarre ways. Her thoughts drift beyond being purely sexual and border on the grotesque and gritty nature of her environment. Her interactions beyond the realm of fantasy are awkward as she travels around on her bike to bars and attempts to flirt with men. When she finally does catch the eye of Jim she resorts to acting like a little girl and the encounter falls short of her sexual fantasies.
This film could be scrutinized by its sexual content but such a characterization trivializes the content of this film and all of Breillat's films. As Breillat states (in defense of often being called the "auteur of porn"), "I take sexuality as a subject, not as an object" (Wiegan). In order to well express the consciousness of her female characters it seems necessary for Breillat to express them visually. Of course, viewers become distracted by this imagery that creates such controversy and her films continue to be labeled as pornographic to this day.
Wiegan, Chris. "A Quick Chat with Catherine Breillat", Kamera.co.uk, 1999, www.kamera.co.uk/interviews/catherinebreillat.html
Other Resources for Information About Catherine Breillat
www.sensesofcinema.com


Watford residents who need help getting around can enjoy cheap, reliable transport thanks to the Community Cars service. These volunteer drivers Watford support local residents with their transport needs. The service is open to anyone who needs help with travel, and it also welcomes any qualified driver who can volunteer their time.
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The charge for this car service is 45p per mile. This makes Community Cars much more cost-effective than a taxi. You get the convenience of a personal car and driver, for the price of a bus fare! The service covers an average of 30,000 miles per year, in and around Watford. Get in touch to learn more or to book.
The service is operated by the Watford and Three Rivers Trust (W3RT). Find more information about the Trust and its work online at www.w3rt.org. You can also find information on Community Cars at its own website which is located at www.communitycars.help.
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We aim to make moving stress-free and simple. If you have mobility issues and would find moving difficult, we provide a packing and loading service that takes care of everything. You also get great value because we keep our rates competitive. Trust your local movers: call Watford Removals today!


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Oklahoma City loses second straight game to the Redbirds. Memphis hit a grand slam in the second inning.
MEMPHIS, Tennessee - Oklahoma City's four-game road trip to Memphis is off to an uninspiring start.
The RedHawks fell 6-2 to the Redbirds on Saturday, running their two-consecutive losses to a 14-3 combined score.
Oklahoma City scored its first run in the fifth inning when second baseman Jimmy Paredes drilled his 10th home run of the season over the right field wall to make a dent in what, at the time, had been a 5-0 Memphis lead.
The RedHawks only other run came in the eighth inning when Travis Buck doubled on a ground ball to right field, driving in Mike Hessman.
Memphis did a large chunk of its run scoring on one swing of the bat in the second inning. Ryan Jackson cracked a grand slam off OKC starter Sergio Perez, who fell to 2-2 on the season.
Perez lasted three innings, giving up five earned runs on four hits and striking out one.
Memphis had 10 hits against OKC's nine; neither team committed an error.
The two teams face off again on Sunday at 6:05 p.m.


An Automotive Radiator Manufacturer and Repairer program teaches students to remove, test, repair, and rebuild motor vehicle radiators. The program will generally take 3 years to complete.
After graduating from the Automotive Radiator Manufacturer and Repairer program a student will have complete knowledge of cooling system operation and repair.


A Henderson woman has been charged after allegedly slapping someone and attempting to run the same person off the road.
HENDERSON - A Henderson woman has been charged after allegedly slapping a man, "keying" his car and attempting to run him off the road.
Henderson police arrested Lisa Compton, 42, 4100 block of Hillcrest Terrace, Wednesday on warrants charging her with first-degree wanton endangerment, third-degree criminal mischief, and harassment, physical contact, no injury.
The charges stem from an alleged incident that occurred in late August.
City police said officers responded to the Second Street boat ramp due to a vehicle accident.
A man told authorities that Compton had been following him around town and had even called him, threatening "to run him off the road," a news release said.
The man told police that Compton had rear-ended his vehicle twice. When he stopped the car, Compton allegedly slapped him and keyed his vehicle, a news release said.
Henderson authorities said that when questioned, Compton denied the allegations.
The investigation continued and after being located Wednesday, she was arrested on the warrants and lodged at the Henderson County Detention Center.


Last summer, David West went to San Antonio and Roy Hibbert preferred Lakers finally. it's difficult to view the Pacers as anything but a feel-good story. But Paul George comes back. They are 25-23 so far. In the eighth spot in the surprisingly deep East but only two games behind Boston for the 3-seed.
It's a new season for George. And he feels better than ever as he said.
"Every time I step out on the floor, I look down at my leg," George said Wednesday at the Indiana Pacers' shootaround before beginning a short, two-game road trip against the Nets. "I've still got the scars, still got a little bone protruding out. I just remember the journey, the rehab that it took to get to this Coin, and every game I've been playing. It's been great. I didn't think I'd get to this Coin so soon."
It deserved to trust that George' future may be better with 29.5 Coins, 8.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game on 49 percent shooting to earn player of the month honors in November.
He is only 25 year-old. He has long way to go and he is a really trueman.