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Was the $73 billion spent on COVID-19 testing money well spent?
New Yorkers recall COVID-19 testing woes following the holidays
NEW YORK CITY – People in New York shared mixed opinions with Fox News on whether the $73 billion allocated for COVID-19 testing was justified.
Leading into the holidays, videos and reports from states across the country showed long lines at testing sites and at-home test kit pickup sites, which left some Americans waiting hours in line.
Between $47.8 billion allocated from President Biden's American Rescue Plan "to carry out activities to detect, diagnose, trace, and monitor SARS–CoV–2 and COVID–19 infections" and $25 billion from the Paycheck Protection Program to "research, develop, validate, manufacture, purchase, administer, and expand capacity for COVID–19 tests," the federal government has allocated roughly $73 billion to ramp up testing.
People queue for a COVID-19 test as the omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, Dec. 21, 2021.
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"It does seem like a lot of money," Caroline told Fox News. "But I don't have any other solutions."
One man who got tested three times before the holidays said: "I think it's a waste of money if people don't use it."
Tony told Fox News: "They probably could have spent that money doing other things, honestly, probably something more productive as opposed to trying to give out tests and everything."
Cars line up at a COVID-19 testing site at the South Orange Youth Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida.
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While the rush to get tested quieted after the holidays, people reflected on the wait times and slow test results that plagued the city in December.
"I had to wait five days for the results," Caroline said. "My roommate … she had to leave at like 7:30 in the morning and waited in one of those two-hour-long lines."
Another woman recalled: "It was hard to find a spot. Most of the lines were really long, and I couldn't find any appointments."
One man said: "I was almost waiting two hours and a half."
A line outside a COVID-19 mobile testing site in the Midtown neighborhood of New York, on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021.
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When asked who was responsible for testing issues, Tony told Fox News: "You can't really point fingers at just one person. It's bigger than all of us."
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Lea Thompson, a veteran investigative television reporter and UW alum, is visiting the campus as part of the Public Affairs Writer in Residence program this week. Her visit includes a dinner with La Follette School students.
In more than 35 years at Dateline NBC News and WRC-TV in Washington, Thompson won every major journalism award in broadcasting, including two Peabodys, two George Polks, a Columbia Dupont, three National Emmys, 20 Regional Emmys, two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, six Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, a Loeb, dozens of other national journalism awards as well as numerous civic and lifetime service awards.
For 15 years Thompson was a chief correspondent at Dateline NBC, NBC News. During that time she also reported for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CNBC and MSNBC and did work for The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and Court TV.
As a freelancer, Thompson has anchored and been Executive Editor of an hour magazine show featuring investigative and human-interest stories, anchored a daily finance/consumer program and a 13 part syndicated series "Fraud Squad".
She anchored a series with presidential candidates on health care for RLTV and PBS in 2008, anchored a weekly hour program on Sirius Radio 140, and has been narrator/producer for documentaries and syndicated series pilots.


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What is the Tension of a String or rope?
What is the tension of a string?
The concept of tension of strings is used to explain the transmission of forces from one point to another. Consider the system of a box that hangs at rest from a ceiling as shown below.
1) According to the free body diagram of the box, the forces acting on the box are: the weight of the box W and T '1 the force exerted by the string on the box.
T '1 and W have equal magnitude and opposite direction which explains why the box is at rest.
2) The forces acting on the string are the force T1 exerted by the box on the string as a reaction to T '1, T2 exerted by the ceiling on the string and w ' the weight of the string.
Now since |T1| and |T2| are equal for massless strings, the effect of the string is to transmit forces between distant points through the tension in the string.
Note the tension has the same magnitude everywhere for a massless string (and frictionless pulley if used). The direction of the tension may or may not be the same.
For a massless string or cord, the tension is the same everywhere.
In all the examples below are the free body diagram for several systems with strings and pulleys. Tension forces in the different strings are analysed. We assume that the strings used in the different systems have a very small mass and may be neglected. We also assume that the pulleys are frictionless and have have very small masses that may be neglected.
In this example the tension of the string is the same and therefore the magnitude of T1, the force exerted by the string on block m1, and the magnitude of T2, the force exerted by the string on m2 are equal. Note that the directions of T1 and T2 are different.
In this example, the magnitudes of T1 and T2 are equal since they are related to the tension in the same string. T1 and T2 have the same direction.
In this example, the magnitudes of T3 and T '3 are equal since they are related to the tension in the same string. The directions of of T3 and T '3 are opposite.
In this example, the magnitudes of T1 and T '1 are equal (same string) but different directions. Also, the magnitudes of T2 and T '2 are equal (same string) but different directions.
In this example, the magnitudes of T and T ' are equal (same string) and their directions are different.


Marie C. Renzo (nee Chiodo) of Niagara Falls, entered into rest April 10, 2019.
Beloved wife of Edward C. Renzo; loving daughter of the late Charles and Jennie Chiodo; dear sister of Paul (late Carrie) Chiodo; fond aunt of Barbara (Richard) Ferchen, Paul G. Chiodo and Dr. Christopher (Vanessa) Chiodo. Also survived by loving great-nieces, Noelle and Natalia Chiodo.
No prior visitation. A Mass Of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Holy Family Church (Mt. Carmel site), 2498 Grand Ave., Niagara Falls on Monday morning at 10 o'clock. (Please assemble at church.) Interment St. Joseph Cemetery, Niagara Falls. Arrangements by LOMBARDO FUNERAL HOME (Southtowns Chapel).
Remembering growing up on 17th Street with Marie and you. They were special times and hard to believe it was so long ago. With sincere condolences my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time.
Dear Ed, Uncle Paul.,Barbara, Paul, Chris and family. Our deepest sympathies to each of you at this difficult time. Aunt Marie's disease was horrific and stole her well being, as it does to so many! She is finally at peace in the good graces of our God! May he shed his love and comfort to you all🙏 Marta Schug and family.


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WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Line of Duty, series 6.
We waited until series 6 finished before watching all the episodes on consecutive nights.
The precarious part of waiting was avoiding all the spoilers. Everyone was talking about the new series!
After seeing the last episode, we were watching GoggleBox, which was covering the season's finale. Of the comments they showed, the GoggleBox viewers were surprised and somewhat disappointed. The funniest comment was, "Buckells can't even believe it's him!"
It wasn't just on GoggleBox that the ending was disappointing. The series was controversial on social media too. It divided viewers so much that the creator, Jed Mercurio, tweeted:
1. No one disputes the Line of Duty finale divided social media opinion but the audience research so far shows a far less extreme picture. We knew a "down" ending would rate less favourably with some viewers, however all 7 episodes varied by under 10% on average viewer score …
For me, series 6 was a return to form after the disappointing series 5. The idea in series 5 that Ted could be bent was too implausible to carry the series.
The sixth series repeatedly and credibly misdirected us. Old characters from earlier seasons returned. Apparently significant new ones appeared: surely, James Nesbitt wouldn't appear just for a cameo? Was he the Fourth Man? And the grandiose Chief Constable (Osborne) or the smug Carmichael were dislikeable enough to be a popular H.
Many TV dramas and films, understandably, go for spectacular endings but there is an audience for quiet, low key, dénouements — the sort indie films specialise in. The creator, thankfully, avoided the clichéd option of having a Blofeld-like criminal mastermind. As Martin Compston (Steve) put it:
I think he [show creator Jed Mercurio] felt it would have been a bit of a cop-out to have — and he's right — some sort of cat-stroking mastermind and then a crazy gun shoot-out. I think he felt that would have been the easy option.
Having worked in a few large organisations, I've seen that reality is more humdrum than people on the outside imagine. Incredible, implausible events sometimes happen not because a single person willed them but through a series of small interactions, each of which is plausible.
It was, for me, inspired and brave to have Ian Buckells become this criminal linchpin by virtue of undeserved promotion, networking and greed. Buckells is the sort of person that managers promote because they think he's not a threat to them. He "failed upwards" — as someone who is not especially competent but who, through incremental steps, became an intermediary, a fixer and, ultimately, indispensable to various organised crime groups. He greased the wheels for them and they made him wealthy.
The series started with Ted and Steve separated from Kate; and, in the case of Ted and Kate, positively estranged. The series gradually reunites them: it was a lovely moment to see them all together again at AC-12 interviewing Buckells.
One of the subplots in series 6 was the stress that police officers are under. Steve is depressed and addicted to painkillers. Briefly (perhaps too briefly) the series ends with Kate also in therapy, describing the relationship she has with Steve and how it has sustained them.
All in all, I enjoyed this sixth series. The plot and pacing were right and there were some strong new characters: the conflicted Jo Davidson, the incisive Chloe Bishop and the menacing Ryan Pilkington, to name three. The more I thought about it, the better the story became. There were, however, enough loose ends (Ted's appeal against being retired, Kate's possible return to AC-12 and the future of AC-12 itself) to leave the door open for a seventh series. As much as I love the three central characters and the chemistry between them, I hope that the creator decides to call it a day. You can have too much of a good thing. It would be a shame for Line of Duty to descend into mediocrity. We have six mostly glorious seasons to watch again — and I'm happy with that.
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How To Write a Muffin Recipe
Deb Perelman—the wildly popular blogger and author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook—talks process.
By L.V. Anderson
Jan 18, 20132:33 PM
The ill-fated granola muffins.
Courtesy of Deb Perelman
On Smitten Kitchen, her 5-year-old food blog, Deb Perelman often writes about cooking recipes from cookbooks and other blogs. Even when she adjusts ingredients or methods, Perelman is punctilious about crediting her sources—recipe titles on the blog are often followed by lines like "Adapted from several places, but my favorite version is Alton Brown's," "Inspired by the Tasting Table Test Kitchens," and "Recipe adapted from Ottolenghi's stunning new dream of a book." (That would be London-based chef Yotam Ottolenghi's Jerusalem: A Cookbook.)
When she set out to write her own cookbook, though, Perelman decided borrowing wouldn't fly. "I wanted it to be mine and mine alone," she says of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, which has spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list since its release at the end of October.
So how does a food blogger who has an enormous following but "who never trained as a chef or even worked in a restaurant" (as the Times Dining section tsk-tsked last month) set about creating an original recipe? Food writing, and particularly recipe writing, can feel like proof positive of the axiom that there's nothing new under the sun. But Perelman's enthusiasm for trying new things is matched only by her perfectionist nature. (She makes frequent self-deprecating jokes about her obsessive tendencies on her blog.) Here's how she invented the plum poppy seed muffins that ended up gracing Pages 12 and 13 of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook.
First came an overarching muffin philosophy: Muffins are not cake. "I have a lot of opinions about breakfast baked goods. And I feel like although muffins are pretty much cake that we pretend is okay to eat for breakfast, I insist that this good is on the breakfast side of the line, I feel like it should have breakfast ingredients in it and it should be lower in sugar and … it shouldn't be as buttery as a cake."
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook.
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Based on this philosophy, and years of baking experience, Perelman already had a vague muffin formula. "I've been making muffins since I was like in high school," she said. (I count 10 muffin recipes on Smitten Kitchen, plus several other quick breads.) "There's only so many ways to make muffins." She began rattling off the basic formula off the top of her head: For a dozen muffins, you'll need 1¼ to 1½ cups flour, ⅓ to ¾ cup sugar, ⅔ to 1 cup milk or yogurt, 5 to 8 tablespoons of oil or butter, and an egg, plus baking powder and/or baking soda, depending on how acidic that dairy is. Then Perelman began extemporizing: You can replace some of the oil and sugar with mashed banana, and the milk or yogurt with fruit juice. "You might want a sturdier muffin or a richer muffin, you might add another egg or an extra egg yolk. You might want to have a fluffier muffin and you'll do two egg whites and whip it up," she mentioned. "You can change everything. But I feel like those are the numbers that I come back to more and more."
Despite knowing how to make basic muffins in her sleep, and how to achieve variations with subtle tweaks to her formula, Perelman wanted her muffin recipe in The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook to be new and exciting. "Let's not just make blueberry muffins," she said, "unless I'm doing something with blueberry muffins that nobody in the history of mankind has ever done before, and the likelihood of that in this day and age is not very good."
Her first idea—in keeping with the muffins-are-breakfast theme—was a yogurt and granola muffin. "I thought, what a great idea, these are your breakfast cornerstones," she recalls. For the first version she tested, she stirred leftover homemade granola and diced pears into the batter, which contained yogurt instead of milk. "I tried it a few different ways. I think I had honey in there as a sweetener, because you know yogurt and honey is so nice together, and it just was not …" She trailed off. Despite multiple testing efforts—including one with the granola sprinkled on top of the muffins like streusel—granola muffins got the axe. The granola always got chewy, reaching a texture she called "weirdly unpleasant." She also realized granola muffins were too complicated for her purposes. "You'd have to start with already-made granola, and so you either would have to buy it or you would have to have already made it, and that's ridiculous. … I really like to work from whole ingredients."
Orange muffins were gorgeous, but not delicious.
By the time granola muffins had been declared dead, pear season had given way to orange season. "All these beautiful oranges appear in grocery stores in December and January. You've got pink ones and orange and yellowish, so I used segments from a bunch of rainbow-colored oranges and I tried to make an orange and yogurt muffin," Perelman recalled. She segmented each orange, cut them into 1-inch pieces, and folded them into her basic batter. The results looked stunning. "It was like the most beautiful thing in the entire world," Perelman sighed. The taste? Not so good. The oranges reacted strangely with the leavener, resulting in a weird flavor, and they lost their juiciness in the baking process, too. Perelman kept the pictures but ditched the recipe.
After the gorgeous orange muffins, Perelman's memory gets hazy. She knows there were seven rounds of testing total; she knows they were all breakfast-appropriate and didn't call for any hard-to-find ingredients. (Perelman likes shopping at farmers' markets, but she knows not all her readers have access to one.) But the open-endedness of the task at hand wasn't helping. "I was losing my focus as I was working on the muffin, because I just knew I wanted a great muffin but I didn't have any more rules," she said.
It was already late summer when Perelman had a breakthrough moment. "I ended up just being in your average coffee shop/deli-type place one morning getting my coffee, and I saw this basket of lemon poppy seed muffins. And I was like, 'Why are we always putting lemon and poppy seed together?' … It just seemed random to me that they're always tied together and people never think of poppy seeds without lemons." She had recently been enjoying New York's annual bounty of plums—particularly the oblong variety known as prune plums. "I associate them with Central and Eastern European cookery a little bit, as I do poppy seeds." She added those two ingredients to a batter containing browned butter and a little cinnamon and nutmeg. "And I ended up loving it," she said, adding, "I know, it's the longest story ever."
Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen.
All that remained was writing the recipe in Perelman's typically detailed, chatty style. Perelman thinks recipes should tell you absolutely everything you might wonder about while in the kitchen. A good recipe, per Perelman, is one that an absolute novice can cook in the same way the person who wrote it did. "Anything else is making it unnecessarily difficult for new cooks. Why would you want to alienate a potential half of your audience?" she asked. "Also, I can't tell you how often I'm making a recipe and I'm like, 'Is the batter supposed to be this runny; is it supposed to be this thick?' I tend to make really thick muffin batters." (It prevents fruit from sinking to the bottom of the pan.) "So I like to tell people, 'This batter's going to be really thick, almost like cookie dough.' I.e. 'If this is what yours looks like, don't freak out, you did it correctly.' "
As someone who cooks frequently and writes recipes, I was heartened to learn that Perelman's approach jibes pretty well with my own. There are few dishes that can't be varied—and eventually morph into something new—using the same approach Perelman took to find her muffin recipe: Find a basic formula or technique that works, then start playing around with the specifics. Once you realize you can substitute plums for blueberries in muffins—or for that matter, shrimp for chicken in a stir-fry, or sweet potatoes for butternut squash in soup—developing original recipes doesn't seem so daunting. When the results disappoint, they're usually at least still edible. And when they don't, you get bragging rights.
Herewith, the muffin recipe that took several months to nail down, as it appears in The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook:
The perfect plum poppy seed muffins.
Plum Poppy Seed Muffins
Yield: 12 standard muffins
6 tablespoons (3 ounces or 85 grams) unsalted butter, melted and browned and cooled, plus butter for muffin cups
¼ cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
¼ cup (50 grams) packed dark or light brown sugar
¾ cup (180 grams) sour cream or a rich, full-fat plain yogurt
½ cup (60 grams) whole-wheat flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon table salt
Pinch of ground cinnamon
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
2 tablespoons (20 grams) poppy seeds
2 cups pitted and diced plums, from about ¾ pound (340 grams) Italian prune plums (though any plum variety will do)
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Butter 12 muffin cups.
Whisk the egg with both sugars in the bottom of a large bowl. Stir in the melted butter, then the sour cream. In a separate bowl, mix together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and poppy seeds, and then stir them into the sour-cream mixture until it is just combined and still a bit lumpy. Fold in the plums.
Divide batter among prepared muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, until the tops are golden and a tester inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Rest muffins in the pan on a cooling rack for 2 minutes, then remove them from the tin to cool them completely.
Cooking Note
You don't create seven muffin recipes in a year without learning a few things.
I found that you could dial back the sugar in most recipes quite a bit and not miss much (though, if you find that you do, a dusting of powdered sugar or a powdered-sugar– lemon- juice glaze works well here); that a little whole-wheat flour went a long way to keep muffins squarely in the breakfast department; that you can almost always replace sour cream with buttermilk or yogurt, but I like sour cream best. Thick batters—batters almost like cookie dough—keep fruit from sinking, and the best muffins have more fruit inside than seems, well, seemly. And, finally, in almost any muffin recipe, olive oil can replace butter, but people like you more when you use butter— and if you brown that butter first, you might have trouble getting them to leave.


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It's hard to imagine, now, how it was that I took up with that boy in South Carolina, but facts are facts. William Buchanan Redmond was lawless and drawling, full of sideways glances and outrageous proposals. He went by Cannon.
One night on Hilton Head Island, where I was staying with a friend's family (thanks to private school I had friends with houses on Nantucket, etcetera, though I lived in a modest house with my mother and sister that we were renovating to resell), he approached me at an outdoor concert. A guitarist was playing a sing-along rendition of "Take Me Home, Country Road" in the piazza down by the harbor, hired by the resort to entertain visitors while they strolled and ate ice cream. Cannon sat down next to me on a brick wall. I thought he was cute. I'd say something more intelligent, except my teenage diaries reveal a definite simplicity of thought: he was cute. He was cool. He was dealing drugs out of a purple van in the parking lot. [excerpt]
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Rhett, Kathryn. "Wayward." Harvard Review 41 (Winter 2011), 72-82.
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Odd Man In is shiny! Every track feels sparkly and Top 40, and even the deviations feel like overlays rather than style shifts. If you want to bounce around to a cappella radio pop, this is a good album for you.
Folkie that I am, I quite like Brothers In Arms , with its singer-songwriter solo floating over the wall of sound. The processed, tuned-up background makes sure it fits with the rest of the release, while also offering a mid-tempo break from the dance beat. (A very effective dance beat, by the way.) Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall seems like the perfect song for a night road trip, while Cosmic Love offers a great solo and a powerful arc that builds up into the chorus.
The Amalgamates have a fondness for the jin-joh-doh that sometimes distracts. I thought the group particularly overdid it on Go Your Own Way , which also has an odd Amy Winehouse aura on some of the lead lines. I also don't connect with Follow Me Back Into the Sun or Undisclosed Desires , which feel milder and less fully-realized than the rest of the disc.
A grungy Cold War and Maroon Five-like Don't Gotta Work It Out give respectable showings, and overall the Amalgamates seem to be pushing forward at all times. I enjoy their confidence and obvious drive. Maybe you will, too.
The Amalgamates have done it again with Odd Man In : this group has delivered an album that is compelling, heartfelt, and full of dynamic energy.
Much of what I wrote about the group's 2011 album Hands Off the Mannequin! still stands: the group is wholly invested in every song here; every singer from the soloist down to the bassline (and vp) is engaged; and the group as a whole sings as if it's one voice in terms of blend, energy, and tone. The recording/production is great — kudos to the guys at Plaid Productions for the recording, mixing, editing, and production (a wise choice since Plaid's Alex Green is an alum of the Amalgamates and is likely quite aligned with what the group is trying to go for here). This album just sounds great: slick where it needs to be but not over-produced.
The album kicks off with energy on the sultry Paris (Ooh La La) (seriously, how many albums can start off convincingly with a grunt?!), but it's the later songs that are even more impressive. There are some gorgeous dynamics on Undisclosed Desires , both in the song overall and on each and every phrase. The arrangement for Grounds For Divorce is fantastic; kudos to 'Mate Allie Katz for that — Elbow will certainly be winning some new fans because of this version of the song. Brothers In Arms , Cold War , and Cosmic Love are all beautifully delivered: you've heard versions of the latter two before, but the 'Mates do them more compellingly than most.
Odd Man In , like its predecessor, isn't perfect. A few of these songs are a little repetitive ( Don't Gotta Work It Out , Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall , Follow Me Back Into the Sun ). I also wish the 'Mates had been a little more creative across the board both with song choice (there are still a handful of overdone choices like Cold War and Cosmic Love ) and with arrangements (the group's version of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms is stunning, but it's based on Club for Five's cover — and thankfully, the 'Mates give credit to both groups).
Still, Odd Man In is an exceedingly impressive album from a routinely strong group. I was actually disappointed that the album ended after only ten tracks. It's rare that any group leaves me wanting more so acutely.
From the opening grunt and grinding, squealing, pop baubles in Paris (Ooh La La) , the Tufts Amalgamates have my attention. The rest of Odd Man In , the latest from the accomplished mixed group, does not disappoint. These ten tracks offer sass, energy, nuance, and a bevy of emotions without ever going overboard. This is an album with a well-conceived dynamic (music and otherwise), a perfect length which doesn't overstay its welcome, and an identifiable personality.
As recorded a cappella music becomes increasingly controlled and decreasingly live-sounding, one of the most common mistakes is when groups try to rely on their performance arrangements for the recorded product. Happily, the Amalgamates avoid this trap here, with arrangements which are far more like rock and pop charts with voices divided into instrumental parts. These parts are then enhanced with the requisite buzz, fuzz, and atmosphere by the abundantly capable folks at Plaid Productions. The music doesn't sound live, but it does sound alive, a particularly difficult task when recording a cappella. What makes this album so great, though, is not just the instrumental textures, but the realization that this approach cannot be absolute. In songs like Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall and Grounds For Divorce , the charts offer synths, drums, and guitars, but also the same vocal tricks and techniques (like bell tones and effective transitions on syllables) which have hooked so many over the years on a cappella covers of pop songs which were otherwise perfectly fine.
Though the male soloists are eminently capable on this album, it is the ladies who really shine. On Paris , Gabrielle Bills more or less sashays through the song, her voice oozing through the speakers. While Jenna Bjorkman can wail on Cold War , it is her moments of restraint that are most impressive. The same holds true for Bills again in Cosmic Love . I also can't overlook Dan Kim for his understated power in Undisclosed Desires .
There may still be "purists" out there who object to the heavily processed and instrumental approach with the drums and bass (among other instruments on Odd Man In ), but that is an objection to the continual changing of an art form. With a simple change of perspective, those listeners would hear how the Amalgamates are illustrating the benefits to this sea change, and give it perhaps the best there is to offer.


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Innovative companies don't need conference tables all the time. Technology has delivered many ways for us to collaborate smarter. Tools like Skype, Zoom and Cosapien enable people to work more efficiently and to meet in ways that are more convenient.
And while face-to-face meetings do still have a lot of value, virtual meetings are a major time-saver, particularly in cities where congested traffic can turn a one-hour meeting into a three-hour foray out of the office.
Even if you don't want to throw your boardroom table out, learning the rules for conducting virtual meetings can be really valuable, especially during times where you need a great deal of input, need to meet with people who are physically far away or are simply pressed for time.
Here are five techniques to help you hold effective meetings and get everyone on the same page, even if they're not sitting around the same table.
In order to hold a focused, outcomes-based meeting, the attendees need to be physically and mentally present. You may not need a boardroom but the environment in which the attendees physically find themselves should be conducive to full participation.
That means background noise and distractions should be filtered out and the person should be able to concentrate fully on the discussion at hand.
Use Cosapien to pre-minute the meeting so everyone knows what agenda items should be discussed. Direct questions using names so there's no confusion about who is being addressed.
If you find certain people are not engaging in an expected manner, bridge the conversation by redirecting it to the person who is responsible for the agenda item.
Whether you are doing a voice or video meeting, the meeting should be structured so that the communication is not entirely one-sided. This is where video interaction can provide value, because without being able to see expressions and read body language, communication may be less effective.
Chats and hang-outs can be equally useful, as you can request input from a lot of people and have them all provide it simultaneously.
Cosapien is built around social contracts and feedback mechanisms so it is not all left up to the meeting chair or the person who is speaking. The system has been engineered so that the outcomes of a meeting are co-created by everyone who participates in it.
It is likely that you will experience those moments of silence and the flow of the meeting may seem interrupted. This doesn't mean you need to fill the silence or introduce something new for the moment to pass. It is more likely to mean that the rest of the participants are still absorbing it and need a few moments to process it.
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South Shore Plaza is seeking to build an addition and tear down the former Macy's storefront to accommodate luxury retailer Nordstrom and dozens of new specialty retailers.
South Shore Plaza is seeking to add a wing to accommodate the arrival of a Nordstrom department store and dozens of upscale retail shops.
Two years after the departure of Filene's, mall executives now hope that Seattle-based Nordstrom will create a luxury retail magnet when it opens in March 2010. The mall plans to fill a new wing next to the planned Nordstrom store with dozens of clothing boutiques and specialty shops.
Lease negotiations are in the early stages, but a Simon executive said he expects the new tenants will inject a "sexier, edgier" flavor to the tenant mix. "Nordstrom brings in a different level of a customer," said Richard Tonzi, regional head of development for Simon Property Group.
Burlington Mall, another Simon holding, has attracted dozens of new retailers including J. Crew, Lululemon and Cole Hahn as Nordstrom prepares to open in that mall on Friday.
Upon being granted permits in Braintree, Simon plans to tear down the existing four-story former Macy's storefront, which has been vacant since Macy's moved into the former Filene's space in the mall about two years ago.
In its place, Simon Property plans to build a 210,000-square-foot, three-story wing for new tenants. The first floor could be set aside for a single tenant or broken up into smaller spaces, Tonzi said.
The new wing will have a more elegant layout than the existing mall, with no pushcart vendors allowed at Nordstrom's request. Simon hopes to have some stores opening in the new wing by November 2009.
By then, Nordstrom would be in the midst of building a 156,000-square-foot, three-story department store that's scheduled to open in two years. The store will be 12,000 square feet larger than Massachusetts' first Nordstrom store that opened last September at the Natick Collection.
Simon and its consultant, John J. Connery Associates of Melrose, estimate the Braintree project will generate more than $1 million a year in additional property tax revenues and $1.2 million in one-time building permit fees. The project would create 300 temporary construction jobs, 320 full-time retail jobs and 480 part-time jobs, said Carl Johnson of Braintree, the mall's longtime attorney for development issues.
Johnson will present plans to the Braintree planning board at a public hearing tonight.
Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan, who has reviewed the plans, said he understands South Shore Plaza's need to keep pace with new projects such as Patriot Place in Foxboro and the planned Westwood Station and Legacy Place in Dedham.


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The incumbent reports to the general counsel and assists in discharging the responsibility of the Office of General Counsel (OGC) to provide legal advice and counsel on a broad range of issues to the Chair, Commissioners, and staff of the Commission.
The incumbent, along with the general counsel, shares the responsibility of supervising OGC staff and assists the general counsel in the development and drafting of the sentencing guidelines, policy statements, and commentary (and for amendments thereto) for Commission consideration. The incumbent performs a variety of tasks and responsibilities dealing with federal sentencing and the federal sentencing guidelines. Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Supervising staff; coordinating and allocating resources; ensuring short and long-term goals and strategies of the office are met; and approving requests for travel, leave, and work schedules.
- Assisting the general counsel in coordinating the legal unit's input into the guideline amendment process, reviewing sentencing case law, reviewing reports of case law summaries and circuit conflicts for use in amendment consideration and training, and identifying sentencing guideline provisions in need of amendment.
- Performing in-depth legal research and analysis of statutes, proposed legislation, sentencing guideline issues relating to all federal offenses, statutory and constitutional issues relating to federal sentencing and sentencing guidelines, substantive sentencing and criminal law issues, administrative law and federal agency practice, personnel, ethical, and administrative matters.
- Writing legal briefs, legal memoranda, and other documents on matters pertinent to the work and administrative functioning of the Commission; and presenting on legal research and analysis relating to federal sentencing and sentencing guidelines for use in amendment consideration and on other matters pertinent to the administrative functioning of the Commission.
- Providing legal advice and counsel to Commissioners and staff on issues relating to the sentencing guidelines for both individual and organizational defendants, substantive criminal law issues, administrative law and federal agency practice, and personnel and administrative matters.
- Participating on or leading staff working groups that focus on new legislation, sentencing guideline amendments, and other sentencing issues.
- Responding to inquiries from judges, probation officers, attorneys, congressional staff, and inmates on the application of the federal sentencing guidelines and other sentencing issues.
- Representing the Commission at seminars and other programs on sentencing guideline issues.
- Participating in the recruitment and selection of permanent and temporary staff for the legal unit.
- Performing back-up duties in the absence of the general counsel and other duties as assigned.
This position is in the excepted service and does not carry the tenure rights of positions in the competitive Civil Service.
MANDATORY QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
- Applicants must have a minimum of seven years of extensive legal experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position.
- Applicants must have demonstrated work experience applying the federal sentencing guidelines.
- Applicants must possess a law degree (JD) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association and be a member of the bar of a state, territory, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Federal court of general jurisdiction.
- Applicants must possess excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to interact successfully with staff at all levels and with the Commissioners.
- Applicants must have excellent organization and planning skills.
- Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS- 15.
Applicants must have demonstrated work experience related to the mandatory requirements listed below and must address the qualification requirements in an attached cover letter or separate narrative statement.
- Ability to effectively manage staff and resources. Ability to manage competing priorities and work requirements. Skill in planning and scheduling own and unit's workload, managing multiple assignments, and ensuring deadlines are met and projects are completed on time.
- Substantial knowledge of relevant federal criminal law, procedural and administrative rules and regulations, canons of statutory construction, and methods of investigating the legislative history of congressional enactments. Excellent knowledge of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence relating to federal sentencing.
- Substantial experience conducting in-depth legal research related to sentencing and other issues involving analysis of statutes, proposed legislation, case law, and governmental and private reports. Excellent legal analysis, writing, and editing skills. Excellent ability to express, orally and in writing, complex legal issues in clear and succinct language so that the concepts are understood by both lawyers and non-lawyers.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with agency staff at all levels, Commissioners, and key individuals in a variety of other federal organizations and interest groups. Ability to serve as a representative for the agency.
- Strong preference will be given to applicants with supervisory experience and progressively responsible administrative experience in public service or business which provides a thorough understanding of organizational, procedural and human aspects in managing an organization.
- Federal criminal trial or appellate experience.
- Experience as a state appellate law clerk or federal judicial law clerk.
- Outstanding academic credentials and/or law review or moot court experience.
Applicants must possess a law degree (JD) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.
The Commission evaluates applicants through a structured interview. Applicants may also be screened for some jobs through a narrative/application review, and/or a preliminary telephone interview. Applicants who do not address the qualification requirements (mandatory and preferred) in his or her application materials as stated in the vacancy announcement are automatically disqualified from consideration and must re-apply before the closing date to be considered for employment.
The Office of Human Resources:
- Reviews the applicant's application to ensure the proper materials are submitted.
- Ensures that the application addresses all of the qualification requirements (mandatory and preferred) as stated in the vacancy announcement.
- Determines whether the applicant meets the qualification requirements for the particular position and notifies the applicant about the status of his or her application.


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Strictly Murder – September 2009
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By Brian Clemens
Directed by Ian Dickens
Company: Ian Dickens Productions
Date: Friday 4th September 2009
A nice twist at the end made this thriller a bit above average. I recognised the set from September Tide back in April 2007; there was a strange raised area at the back, with two steps down to the front of the stage, but only in one central place. Very distinctive. Fortunately, this piece was much better than that one.
Set in Provence in 1939, the play sets up the idea that the young man, Peter Meredith, living in the cottage with a young woman, Suzy Hinchcliffe, is not all he seems to be. There's mention of some scars on his back which look like wounds caused by barbed wire, there's speculation that there are German spies operating in France, and he seems to be keen to listen for news on the radio about the possibility of war. There's an old German guy called Josef who wanders around taking food and leaving flowers and carrying a gun. Is he a German spy, or just an old man still suffering from the effects of his service in the First World War? Then a man called Ross comes calling, having recognised the style of painting that Peter produces, referring to the way his cell had been decorated with them, and Peter is forced to take some drastic steps to stay free.
That was in April 1939, and with the second half we move forward several months. Back in April Suzy had announced that she was pregnant, and Peter had been less than enthusiastic about the prospect. Now a man called Ross turns up again with a woman called Miller, and tells Suzy the story of who Peter really is and why it's not safe for a young woman to be carrying his baby. He arranges with her to set a trap for Peter but will she be able to carry it out?
The Miller role was being played by Georgina Sutton tonight instead of Sabina Franklyn – a last minute thing, I suspect. All the performances were fine and despite one or two remarkable coincidences it was believable enough, with a bit more depth to the central characters. A good evening out.
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The Armenian Scoeity of Los Angeles Chorus is one of the oldest Armenian musical ensembles in Los Angeles. The chorus was founded in 1956 by Hovannes Topalian. Shortly after, Varoujan Haghbandarian became the leader of the chorus.
From 1998 to 2002 Maestro Alenoush Yeghnazar was the artistic director and the choirmaster of the chorus.
As one of the highlights of its history, The Armenian Society of Los Angeles Chorus is proud and privileged to have collaborated with Maestro Hovannes Chekijian, an internationally acclaimed Armenian choirmaster.


The government has raised the salary to the budgetary workers who fight back and participate in control of the armed aggression of Russia in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. "The government portal" reports about it.
According to the resolution, state employees who ensure national security and defense in zone OOS will receive 50% more for the actual time of stay in areas of carrying out such operations.
"The social policy developed by the Ministry the resolution is provided that the salary of employees of institutions, the institutions and the organizations financed from the budget, participating in ensuring conducting anti-terrorist operation directly in areas of her carrying out and also the workers involved to implementation of actions for ensuring national security and defense, repulse and control of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions increases by 50 percent for the actual time of stay in areas of holding such actions (operations)". - it is told in the resolution.
at the same time can receive the increased compensation only in the presence of supporting documents.


As if moving to a new country wasn't exciting enough, I was fortunate to take adventures that took me around the UK, Europe and to Asia for the first time.
Much like 2016, I feel like I've learned and grown so much this year- it's crazy to think I was able to visit places in Europe I thought may take me years to get to while I lived in the States.
The same rule I'm living by for this upcoming year? Have passport, will travel.
In the lead up to Christmas, Vienna is transformed. Wandering the city, it's easy to feel like you've been transported to another era. Christmas lights illuminate every street in the city center. Idyllic Christmas couldn't be closer to the truth- dazzling lights, dozens of Christmas markets and cozy cafes make Vienna a gorgeous place to visit for holiday cheer. My trip to Munich, Nuremberg and Vienna was my first time visiting European Christmas markets, and I couldn't have asked for a better experience.
Hong Kong: Dense, populated, colorful, energetic. It's city meets jungle. Everyone told me I'd like Hong Kong, but I wasn't prepared to love it so much. Hong Kong is made up of over 230 islands, along with a part attached to mainland China called Kowloon. Four days in Hong Kong wasn't nearly enough time for everything I wanted to do and see, but just another reason to head back for another holiday.
It's impossible to not fall in love with Japan. Tokyo. Hustle and bustle, quirky shops, an abundance of cute toys and things, and seafood and ramen at every turn. The city is massive- a sprawling metropolis. For as large as it is though, there's an orderliness to it that I've never experienced elsewhere. Streets are clean, sidewalks kept immaculate and everyone is polite. Four days wasn't nearly enough time in Tokyo, and I'm already excited to return one day and see more of the city, as well as Japan.
There's no place in the world like Venice, it's an incredible city. With the most picturesque streets and houses you can imagine, you'll be treated to gorgeous views every moment you're in Venice. It's a city built in another time, when access to water meant access to money.
There's a quote floating around about Marfa that I couldn't agree more with: A place tough to get to. Tougher to explain. But once you get there, you get it. Marfa is the stuff small town life dreams are made of. Wide-open spaces. No stoplights, seriously, not even one- there's a blinking 'caution' light in the center of town. Skylines that seem to stretch for miles. Remoteness. Things feel less important when you're in Marfa.
Seemingly overnight, Barcelona became one of my favorite cities in the world. It's hard to believe I've visited 20-some countries before finally making my way to Spain. Barcelona, a city with incredible architecture, golden beaches and an infectious energy. Even though it's part of Spain's mainland, Barcelona is the capital of the Catalonia region, an autonomous region that's proud of their distinctive culture and history. Incredible architecture (oh, Gaudi), golden beaches, delicious tapas, vibrant nightlife, fresh fruit juices, and winding alleys. It's the perfect destination for a weekend getaway, and a place I fully plan on returning to next year for more exploring.
I hadn't planned on Edinburgh being my first trip after arriving in the UK. But, a flight deal for $28 persuaded me to consider otherwise. Edinburgh is a gorgeous city, full of history and charm. With cobbled streets, medieval stone buildings, pubs tucked below street level on every other corner, and some seriously good cocktail bars, you're pretty much guaranteed a good time.
For me, Bath is the most beautiful city in England. Granted, I've only lived in the UK for a year, and still have a lot of exploring to do, but no where else I've visited has blown me away the way Bath did. From the moment the train pulled into the station, I was breathless- the color of the stone buildings contrasted against the green countryside and blue skies, love at first sight.
As with every Scandi adventure I've taken, Sweden exceeded my expectations. Stockholm is a beautiful capital city, built on the water, and known as one of Europe's best preserved old towns. Over the course of ~five days, I walked down cobblestone streets, took fika at every opportunity, savored Swedish specialities (meatballs! lingonberry! cinnamon rolls!), admired modern art, shopped for Scandi treasures to bring back to England, and found comparison to other Nordic countries I've visited- mainly Denmark and Iceland. To say I loved Stockholm would be an understatement.
Porto, a small city with big personality. I always assumed my first time in Portugal would be to visit Lisbon, but after reading a bit about Porto, Portugal's second largest city, I was drawn to its charmingly traditional vibe. Colorful, mismatched houses and winding streets. Sunsets over the Douro River. Beautiful blue tiles. Bright striped beach houses. Winding canals. And, plenty of port wine. It was the perfect belated 30th birthday weekend getaway.
Oh, Amsterdam. A city that captured my heart the first time I visited, and has lured me back many times since then. A city on canals, Amsterdam is easy explored by foot, boat or bike. With delicious eateries, charming boutiques, and incredible museums, there's no shortage of things to do in the capital of the Netherlands. Living in London, I'm excited to visit this city as often as possible (at least once a year) during my time in the UK.
Where did you travel to this year? If you're planning any trips for next year, where are you most excited to visit?


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Nirvana, R.E.M., Roots Did Not Know Warehouse Fire Destroyed Their Recordings
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People have been calling out the Duke & Duchess for their home renovations, private Christening & Meghan's Wimbledon photo scandal. Is the scrutiny justified?
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Estimate Puts Number of Master Recordings Lost in 2008 Universal Fire at 500,000
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In the wake of a blockbuster New York Times article published yesterday revealing that countless thousands of master tapes from artists ranging from Louis Armstrong to Tupac were destroyed in a massive 2008 fire at Universal Studios in Hollywood, several artists have stated that they were unaware of the damage to their masters.
While safety copies or duplicates of many of the effected recordings had been made, thousands of original master tapes were destroyed — meaning that many outtakes and other recordings and information of historical value are gone forever.
© Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock Nirvana bassist said as much via Twitter when asked by a fan:
I think they are gone forever.
— Krist Novoselić (@KristNovoselic) June 12, 2019
One of the affected artists, R.E.M., tweeted, "REMHQ is receiving inquiries from many people concerned about the New York Times article on the Universal Music fire 11 years ago. We are trying to get good information to find out what happened and the effect on the band's music, if any. We will detail further as and when."
Questlove of the Roots took to social media, sharing the link to the article and adding, "For everyone asking why [the group's 1990s albums] 'Do You Want More' & 'Illdelph Halflife' wont get reissue treatment. I been dying to find all the old reels and mix the 8 or 9 songs that never made 'DYWM.' My plan for both 'DYWM' & 'IH' was to release all the songs and instrumental/acapella mixes on 45."
For everyone asking why Do You Want More & Illdelph Halflife wont get reissue treatment https://t.co/Vs0ykRcyAK
— Questlove De La Rose (@questlove) June 11, 2019
Steely Dan's manager Irving Azoff released a statement on behalf of the band. "We have been aware of 'missing' original Steely Dan tapes for a long time now," he wrote. "We've never been given a plausible explanation. Maybe they burned up in the big fire. In any case, it's certainly a lost treasure."
And contacted by Pitchfork on Tuesday, a rep for Hole confirmed that the group was "not aware until this morning."
Universal were quick to comment on the article Tuesday morning, claiming that the damage had been overstated and noting that copies of many of the recordings exist. However, it did not dispute that the damage to the archives — which saw the destruction of 500,000 recordings, according to an estimate in a 2009 confidential UMG report cited in the article — was severe.
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Nothing better than a thick and creamy apple smoothie, aromatised with lemon, maple syrup and cinnamon to make you feel utterly spoiled! This smoothie will make you feel special inside out! It's not just a wonderful way to take care of yourself, it' s a delicious and quick-to-make treat that you'll truly enjoy! But don't take my word for it, give it a try!
1. Roast the almonds for 7-10 minutes at 160 ° C (320 °F). Remove from the oven, then finely grind the almonds until you get a paste and let cool.
2. Peel and clean apples.
3. In a blender, blend the almond paste, the chopped apples, the rolled oats, then add 4 ice cubes, the almond milk, 2 tablespoons of maple syrup, and the grated lemon zest with a pinch of cinnamon. Blend everything until smooth.
4. Garnish with a few mint leaves, a couple of straws and serve.
1. Tostate le mandorle per 7-10 minuti a 160° C. Togliete le mandorle dal forno e tritatele molto finemente.
2. Tagliate e pulite le mele.
3. Frullate insieme le mandorle tritate, la polpa di mele e i fiocchi d'avena; aggiungete 4 cubetti di ghiaccio, il latte di mandorla, la buccia grattugiata di mezzo limone, due cucchiai di sciroppo d'acero e un pizzico di cannella. Continuate a frullare fino ad ottenere una crema.
4. Guarnite con qualche foglia di menta, due cannucce e servite.
Sounds like a great way to start the day!
Thank you so much!!! 🙂 It means a lot to me! I actually shoot the recipe twice, because I wasn't happy with the first shoot. 🙂 Have a wonderful day my dear!
it indeed sounds the perfect way to start the day !
damn delicious healthy booster drink!!!
I made this for my breakfast this morning – LOVE it. will definitely be adding it as a regular to my morning routine.
Now what's the upcoming mamma mia treat? waiting in anticipation!


Hmm...Is this the end to the Internet? Probably not. But, it is interesting to find such a vulnerability that could (have?) possibly been used to take down the Internet. The flaw was discovered by Paul "Tony" Watson of Milwaulkee (there are computers in Milwaulkee?) late last year. Recently, "U.S. government agencies and companies operating the most important digital pipelines have quietly fortified their own vulnerable systems." I hope so. I am wondering what the results of this find are going to be.
potential denial of service, interoperability, and performance issues.
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Q: htaccess rewrite and preserve slashes I would like to rewrite all URL's to test.php on my website, to point to index.php?page=test instead (where "test" can be replaced with any other word). This seems to work correctly.
However, I would also like to rewrite all requests to test/testpage.php to point to index.php?page=test/testpage instead. But with my current .htaccess, this does not seem to work. I get a 404 error instead.
My .htaccess file is as follows:
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A: Just tweak your regex pattern:
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.+ will match any character 1 or more times.

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Fort Smith receives $20,000 Military Affairs Grant to promote Fort Chaffee training center
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Fort Smith receives $20,000 Military Affairs Grant
Funds to be used to produce videos to promote Fort Chaffee training center
Gov. Asa Hutchinson today announced a $20,000 Military Affairs Grant Program award to the Fort Smith Economic Infrastructure Fund to produce marketing videos for the Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center (JMTC). The videos will be used to promote the state-of-the-art ranges at Fort Chaffee to military units throughout the region.
"Supporting our military installations and growing their missions has positive economic effects and provides true value to national security," said Gov. Hutchinson. "Arkansas is proud to provide training and development opportunities for servicemen and women within their surrounding communities."
The Military Affairs Grant focuses on the growth of existing military installations and missions. More than $600,000 in awards have been provided since Gov. Hutchinson announced the creation of his Military Affairs Initiative in 2015. Retired Air Force Col. Robert Ator, director of Military Affairs at Arkansas Economic Development Commission, oversees the program and advises the Governor's Military Affairs Committee.
"This grant flows from the commitments to infrastructure investment, and we're excited for the growth in mission for Fort Chaffee," said Col. Ator. "This grant is singularly focused on the mission and the challenge from Gov. Hutchinson to support, protect and grow the military missions in Arkansas."
Fort Chaffee is the largest JMTC in the central United States with more than 60,000 acres of ranges and maneuver space. Fort Chaffee is home to the 142nd Field Artillery Brigade, the Razorback Range (aerial bombardment/ gunnery range) and numerous federal entities that use the installation and ranges. The JMTC has made significant investments to build ranges that will accommodate maneuver elements up to Brigade size, officials said.
"In a time of near-peer Nation-State competition, training spaces like Fort Chaffee are indispensable to national security," said Col. Ator. "Arkansas is extremely fortunate to call Fort Chaffee ours, and the Military Affairs Committee will fight for their mission as they fight for all Arkansans."
A recent economic impact study of military installations in Arkansas revealed that military business interests account for $4.5 billion annually and employs 60,000 people. Fort Chaffee's annual impact is over $200 million per year, supporting 400 jobs that swell during peak training periods to several thousand jobs.
For more information on the Military Affairs Grant Program, visit http://www.arkansasedc.com/community-resources/military-affairs or call 1-800-ARKANSAS.
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A soldier of the Arkansas National Guard 142nd Field Artillery Brigade fires the M109 155mm Paladin cannon while on exercises at the Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuvers Training Center (JMTC).
About Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC)
Created in 1955 to make Arkansas more competitive in the post-World War II era, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) seeks to create economic opportunity by attracting higher-paying jobs, expanding and diversifying local economies in the state, increasing incomes and investment, and generating positive growth throughout The Natural State. Arkansas is a pro-business environment operating leaner, faster and more focused through a streamlined state government designed to act on corporate interests quickly and decisively. For more information, visit www.ArkansasEDC.com.
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LaMelo Ball is averaging 20 points, 7.7 rebounds, 8.3 assists and 1.9 steals for the Hornets. Kelly Oubre Jr. is averaging 22.8 points over the last 10 games for Charlotte.
LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 4-6, averaging 104.1 points, 40.6 rebounds, 22.1 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 103.7 points per game.
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The Hidden Gender of Gender-Neutral Paid Parental Leave: Examining Recently-Enacted Laws in the United States and Australia, 41 COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW AND POLICY JOURNAL ___ (forthcoming 2021) (JOTWELL review by Naomi Cahn).
After the Override: An Empirical Analysis of Shadow Precedent (with Brian J. Broughman), 46 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 51 (2017).
Intimate Liberties and Antidiscrimination Law, 97 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 2083 (2017) (Dukeminier Award; JOTWELL review by Douglas NeJaime).
Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships: New Possibilities for Research on the Role of Marriage Law in Household Labor Allocation, 8 JOURNAL OF FAMILY THEORY & REVIEW 10 (2016) (Feldman Award).
Gilbert Redux: The Interaction of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Amended Americans with Disabilities Act, 46 U.C. DAVIS L. REV 961 (2013).
Undermining Congressional Overrides: The Hydra Problem in Statutory Interpretation, 90 TEX. L. REV. 859 (2012).
Changing the Marriage Equation, 89 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 721 (2012) (JOTWELL review by Kerry Abrams).
Equal Access and the Right to Marry, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 1375 (2010) (with Nelson Tebbe).
Shadow Precedents and the Separation of Powers: Statutory Interpretation of Congressional Overrides, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 511 (2009) (AALS Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award).
Exposing Sex Stereotypes in Recent Same-Sex Marriage Jurisprudence, 30 HARV. J.L. & GENDER 461 (2007) (with Elizabeth N. Rosenblatt & Douglas NeJaime) (Dukeminier Award).
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Parental Leave Laws Don't Do Enough for Single Moms—But There's a Way to Fix That, THE CONVERSATION (May 2020).
Communication Breakdown: How Courts Do – and Don't – Respond to Statutory Overrides, JUDICATURE (APRIL 2020).
Op-ed: A missed opportunity for working moms-to-be, THE JOURNAL-GAZETTE (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (Feb. 2020).
Op-ed: How Walmart's 'Support' for Pregnant Employees Falls Short, THE HUFFINGTON POST (April 2014).
Op-ed: Marriage Policy Encourages One Spouse to Stay Home and the Other to Work: How Will this Affect Same-Sex Couples As They Gain More and More Legal Rights?, THEATLANTIC.COM, (June 2013).
Why Marriage Isn't an Equal Partnership, THE HUFFINGTON POST (March 2012) (interview by Huffington Post blogger Vicki Larson).
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