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Nwachukwu continues quest at The W
COLUMBUS, Miss.– Iheoma Nwachukwu sees a yearning in Eudora Welty that mirrors his own.
When he first read Welty's "A Still Moment," Nwachukwu believed the author's writing and her yearning to throw herself at the world and find self-definition was in many ways like his search for a place in the world.
Nwachukwu's quest, which started in Lagos, Nigeria, begins a new chapter this semester as an assistant professor of English in the Mississippi University for Women's Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy.
Nwachukwu, who writes literary fiction and poetry embedded with Afrofuturism and magical realism, said Welty's intimate association with The W drove him to research possible job opportunities at the school. He was delighted to accept the opportunity and to join a staff that includes Mary Miller, who he first met at the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers.
"The irony of being a writer in the West is what we label magical realism here, is basically literary fiction in Africa," Nwachukwu said. "In my fiction, I wade between two worlds constantly, half-awake."
Nwachukwu said his wading between two worlds constantly, half-awake is a reference to yearning as a writer writing and as a writer existing in a world far from his original home. He said Afrofuturism and magical realism are vectors for his yearning and expressions of his yearning.
"Coming to America helped me find direction as a writer, a sharper focus for all the selves I carried," Nwachukwu said.
Nwachukwu said his father named him Iheoma, which means "good fortune," after a song from his favorite band "Oriental Brothers." He spoke three languages (Igbo, his mother tongue; Yoruba, the language spoken in Lagos that he learned on the playground; and English, which he learned from teachers and the TV) growing up in Lagos.
In 2011, Nwachukwu won a fellowship to come to the Michener Center for Writers for a Master's of Fine Arts degree in fiction. A year earlier, he had won a Chinua Achebe Center fellowship from Bard College in New York and had spent months writing fiction in a secluded hotel in Ghana. He said Binyavanga Wainaina, who was director of the Achebe Center, described the four seasons in America to him, which impacted him because he had just read Mark Twain's "Cannibalism in the Cars." As a result, when it came time to choose between the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan and the Michener Center he picked the University of Texas because the thought of experiencing a Michigan winter frightened him.
Nwachukwu earned his doctorate in English/Creative Writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he worked closely with the Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler. He also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Scranton (Pennsylvania) prior to accepting his position at The W.
"We feel very fortunate to bring an international writer of the caliber of Iheoma Nwachukwu to our faculty," said Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg, chair of the Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy. "His work in Afrofuturism especially adds to the range and diversity of styles among the fiction faculty in our MFA program. We are also thrilled to have him teach American and World Literature at the undergraduate level. He is currently developing a class in African Literature, which we hope to offer soon."
Nwachukwu, who is a former professional chess player and a karateka, a practitioner of karate, has published several stories, poems and non-fiction. His story "Urban Gorilla" published in "The Southern Review," a quarterly literary magazine, earned him a Pushcart Prize Special mention and a Best American Short Stories Notable. Another story, "A Good Daughter," translated into Italian, was nominated for the Cain Prize for African Writing.
Nwachukwu credits Alan Gurganus' fiction workshop at the Michener Center for introducing him to Welty. He said he recently read Welty's story "Why I Live at the P.O." and loved it but still considers "A Still Moment" his favorite because of its interrogation of religion.
"I was born in an insanely religious country, and the spiritual will always be a component of my reality," Nwachukwu said. "I often interrogate religion in my own work. This is why 'A Still Moment' speaks to me so much."
Nwachukwu said he hopes to find the inspiration to continue work on his novel in Mississippi, even if it comes early in the morning due to the fact he and his wife have three children. He doesn't mind writing at 3 a.m. because his yearning is part of the process that fuels his quest and feeds and drives his characters, just like Welty.
"This yearning I talk of is how a character attempts to find her place in the world. Self-definition," Nwachukwu said. "The Buddhists say no one can exist in this world for even one second without desiring something. That core, life-defining, desire (yearning) is sensual. Fiction is a very sensual art. How can anyone live in this world without feeling?"
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Member of secretive church gets probation in benefits scheme
A member of a secretive North Carolina church has been sentenced to 10 months of home confinement for taking part in an unemployment fraud scheme benefiting businesses with ties to the congregation …
A member of a secretive North Carolina church received 10 months of home confinement for taking part in an unemployment fraud scheme benefiting businesses with ties to the congregation.
Diane McKinny, 66, of Rutherfordton, was sentenced by a federal judge in Asheville on Thursday, several months after she pleaded guilty to making a fraudulent claim for unemployment benefits for workers at a plastics manufacturing company run by a church leader. The sentence also includes three years of probation.
She was the fourth person to plead guilty and be sentenced in a probe of the scheme involving multiple businesses linked to Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale.
Her employer Kent Covington, who was a Word of Faith minister, was sentenced earlier this year to 34 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Two others listed on a church website as ministers have been sentenced to probation after admitting fraud at a podiatry clinic.
Prosecutors have said Covington's Rutherford County business, Diverse Corporate Technologies, laid off employees in 2008 so they could collect unemployment benefits. But the employees continued to work at the company, with government money paying for their work and essentially giving the business free labor, according to court documents.
McKinny was the back-office manager who oversaw payroll and made false reports about workers' unemployment eligibility to the government, according to court documents.
A news release issued Thursday by prosecutors said that "at least five of the employees for whom McKinny made claims for (unemployment benefits) then continued to work at DCT on a full-time or near-full-time basis while collecting (benefits) every week."
Prosecutors added that "the codefendants obtained more than six months of free labor for DCT, paid for by the government, instead of by the business itself."
Covington used his position as a church leader to coerce employees, many of whom were members of the congregation, to comply, prosecutors have said. Prosecutors say in court documents that the workers themselves suffered because the unemployment benefits were less than the pay they had been receiving.
When other businesses run by Word of Faith members faced financial struggles in 2009 related to the Great Recession, Covington and McKinny shared how the scheme worked, "and several additional businesses implemented versions of the scheme," prosecutors said in the news release.
Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence McKinny to as many as two years in prison.
A defense attorney, however, argued for a lighter sentence, writing in a filing this month that: "She has no criminal record, is known for honesty, hard work, and service, and overcame significant odds to lead an active, meaningful, and purpose-filled life."
Her defense attorney, Amos Tyndall, declined further comment in an email Friday.
The sentencing follows a news investigation by The Associated Press that, beginning in 2017, documented claims of physical and emotional abuse at the church. AP also reported that authorities were looking into the unemployment claims of congregants and their businesses.
Former members have told AP that congregation leaders encouraged the schemes to help the businesses survive the economic downturn and keep money coming into the church.
In a news release Thursday, U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray said McKinny's sentencing concludes the federal investigation that began in 2017 "after an exhaustive review and evaluation of all of the available information."
Kidnapping and assault charges are still pending in state court against five current or former Word of Faith Fellowship members accused of beating a gay man in the church sanctuary in 2013 to expel his "homosexual demons."
Read more of AP's Broken Faith series here .
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[ARCHIVED] Hayward to present proclamation to Special Olympics-Escambia County
Mayor Ashton Hayward will present a proclamation to the Special Olympics-Escambia County to recognize their long-standing partnership with Parks and Recreation as well as to recognize the athletes who competed at the Special Olympics Florida State Summer Games in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
This summer over 40 athletes from Escambia County participated in the State Summer Games in May. Bringing home more than 50 medals, these athletes competed in sports such as basketball, volleyball, bocce, stand-up paddle boarding, bowling, decathlon, powerlifting, swimming, track and field, tennis and gymnastics.
The City of Pensacola and Parks and Recreation want to recognize these athletes for their dedication to Special Olympics sports and encourage them as they embark on a new year of training and competition. The partnership with Parks and Recreation continues to strengthen the Special Olympics Escambia County program and the department is looking forward to supporting this outstanding program again for the 2015-16 season.
The presentation to the Special Olympics of Escambia County will be made at the August 20 City Council meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m.


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This morning at 6 a.m. at Central Baptist Church in North Little Rock, Arkansas, twenty men gathered to begin a five week journey through Ted Roberts' "Conquer Series." The series is designed to address issues of sexuality in general and sexual addiction in particular for men. I am honored to be co-teaching this course with Travis Burns, a dear friend and Central Baptist member. In promoting this, we made it abundantly clear that this course is not just for men who consider themselves to have a problem and coming to it is not an admission of anything at all. On the contrary, we asked the men of the church to prayerfully consider coming simply because it is such a massive issue and an area in which lots of men do struggle and any man potentially could. I am writing to recommend this tremendous resource.
Ted Roberts is a former Marine fighter pilot who served in Vietnam. He is also a brother in Christ who had to overcome the ensnarement of sexual addiction. As a result of what God has done in his life, he founded Pure Desire Ministries out of which the Conquer Series has come and from which numerous other resources are offered. This morning as I watched the first (of five) dvd session, listened to the amazing and encouraging discussion among the men that came, and received feedback as the day went on, I determined that I wanted to draw attention to this very well done and very effective resource.
The dvd sessions are thorough, of impressive production quality, and quite moving. Ted Roberts' is an amazing man with a truly transformative ministry and his passion is evident as one observes the Conquer Series. The approach is not a quick fix and is realistic about how difficult the journey can be for men who are stuck in this addiction, but is ultimately hopeful about the power of Christ to free us. Roberts is most emphatic that this takes a community of accountability in which men help men to break free.
As a pastor, I have long been alarmed by the number of men who come to me with confessions of sexual addictions. Please understand: I am not ashamed of or angry at or confused by these confessions. It only makes me angry at Satan and his efforts to destroy men. Rather, I am simply saddened that we have created a church culture in which men do not feel free to confess their struggles in this area until they have gone too far or until they have done serious damage to themselves or their families. The Church simply must find a way to address these issues in a timely, sophisticated, biblically faithful, Christ honoring, and redemptive way. To that end, I can think of no better first step than this series.
If you are a pastor or lead a men's ministry or a small group, I would encourage you to consider this resource. (By the way, I am NOT being paid to say this!) Your men will be challenged and encouraged and, ultimately, your church family as well as the families of your men will be strengthened.
We completed the first night, signed all registrations with Leader Bob Giles of Faith Family CC.
Upon reviewing the material, that was very well spelled out and the descriptions of a person in Sexual Addiction very much paralleled that of Heroin Addiction. It appears to me that the process followed a Ne Freudian process with Behavior modification rapped up in it. How would you differ with this description? If at all?
Thank you for your comments Chuck. It's been a while since I was in that material. I'll have to go back and review. I remember it being helpful at the time.


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It is difficult to get an idea of the difficulty of developing EUV technology. To get a rough idea of what this important industry milestone means, we have to remember that its development started in 1997 and now, 23 years later, it is ready to be used on a larger or smaller scale.
A simple example of the difficulty at the start of the EUV journey is the bottom figure, which reflects our galaxy, where we are the orange point (solar system) while the EUV technology It would be about 100,000 light years away, at the top of the spiral, inaccessible to humans. Progress has been difficult, costly and complex, so the big guys are fighting to get there first, so how is the battle going?
ASML holds the global key to EUV technology
As we have already seen in other articles related to ASML and EUV technology, only this European company has the necessary technology and high performance scanners capable of bringing wafers made with this technique to life.
The problem is logically to build each scanner in record time and without the slightest failure in precision. On November 8, 2018, ASML on its Investor Day said that in 2020 it had two predicti ons for its scanners:
High demand -> 35 EUV scanners provided.
Low demand -> 33 EUV scanners provided.
But all forecasts have been truncated, as of this 2020, the company will close with 40 units shipped, including 4 High-NA units for Samsung of the latest generation. This gives us a clear picture of the demand and pressure on ASML from TSMC and Samsung, as the latter's customers push even harder to have the densest and cheapest EUV nodes, increasing their profits and s 'imposing. to competition.
A clear example is Apple, where TSMC almost exclusively manufactures its 5nm EUV for Bitten Apple chips. After EUV, as we have seen, High-NA will arrive, the next step of this technology, with which ASML, in high demand, plans to deliver 9 scanners + 55 traditional EUV until 2025, while in low demand , they plan to provide 7 + 43.
For next year, TSMC and Samsung are together expecting 80 EUV scanners, but it is possible that this high number will not be reached, because as it happens in consoles or GPUs at the moment, the demand is higher than the offer, much higher, and costs are enormous (318 million per scan on average and lower).
TSMC steps on the accelerator and already finalizes its 3 nm and less
The TSMC data is brutal, since in 2018 it was selling 7nm wafers and since then until today this lithographic process represents 35% of the total, and if we add to that the 5% goes up to at 43%, indicating that the business relies heavily on its new nodes.
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Next year these two processes are expected to account for over 51% of shipments and this production will finally focus on EUV. Demand is such that when Huawei kicked out of the conglomerate of companies that need TSMC, its gap was instantly closed by rivals (-15%).
What will TSMC need for years to come? By 2020 and at the start of the year, it was calculated that the company would need 35 new EUVs to start producing the 5nm for Apple and the 3nm pilot tests, which turned out to be very accurate. as a prediction because it overflows with ASML. .
By 2021, 5nm will transition to high performance with AMD at the helm and 3nm will, in theory, enter risky production, so the number of scanners is expected to be increased to at least 54, a number which will be seen lightly. surpassed by 2022. That year the 3nm is expected to go into mass production and start with the 2nm testing, or at least with the new 3nm +, as it looks like they will have issues with the GAA.
The years 2023 and 2024 will need 62 new scanners for each of them and therefore a minimum number of 292 units is expected until 2025, an average that if all goes well, it should approach 60 scanners per year, 5 for each month.
Samsung tests its high-performance NAND flash with EUV
As strange as it may sound, Samsung is using its NAND Flash memory chips to test its EUV technology, and while this is not an announcement as such as the company has made almost no statement about it, they have left a pearl about it long ago with their 4th gen 10nm DRAM, saying it was made with EUV
Samsung's bet is astronomical for EUV, literally. In 2019, he invested 133 billion won in a business strategy for 2030, where it has hired 15,000 professionals, from teachers to doctors, including engineers, in all sectors and fields, its objective is therefore to overthrow TSMC as a leading foundry, there is nothing .
Samsung's problem is precisely the TSMC itself, as it was previously to order scanners. Therefore, this 2020 could not have 9 scanners, and the forecasts are not much better, since it is estimated that they will reach 20 units each year until 2025, which is almost 3 times less than TSMC.
The most realistic predictions are that by 2025 TSMC would have around 353 scanners and Samsung 119, but, since there is always a but, Samsung would be given the first High-NA units, which TSMC will not have.
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And Intel?
Intel is upside down right now, they are looking for a new CEO because Bob Swan hasn't set clear goals and where he has they haven't been met. Surely the 7nm setback was his condemnation in the company …
In any case, we are currently discussing the quantity of production that will be allocated to TSMC and especially for which products. They talk about the new High performance Xe GPU and low performance, Pentium and Celeron processors and maybe a new batch chipset thinking of the LGA 1700 socket.
All very volatile for the moment, nothing confirmed and therefore too much fog in the blue giant that it must dispel if it wants to compete in the years to come as a foundry.
ASML is and will be overwhelmed despite the investments made
The reality is ASML goes as fast as it can get, but scanners have to be assembled and manufactured by engineers in what's called clean rooms, known internally as Cabin.
Therefore, ASML must create a series of additional buildings to increase these cabins and thus meet the demand, where by the end of this year 35 of them. But how long does it take to assemble a complete and functional scanner? Well almost 12 months per unit and of course that brings up an adjacent question as ASML is not going to create 80 cabinets to meet customer demands, ergo, how do you expect to get shipping 80 high scanners EUV performance?
Shorten the assembly period of each unit. To achieve this number of units, each scanner must be assembled in less than 6 months with the current infrastructure, so for this, all parties and companies involved in creating the necessary parts must tighten their belts.
The main one would be Carl Zeiss, as he is in charge of the optics and the EUV super reflective mirror of each scanner. It seems that the company has increasingly refined the technique of creating these mirrors, which, combined with the fact that other parties are also ramping up production, could allow ASML to increase production to a volume of 65 or 70 units per year.
Complicated? A lot, as predictions are usually insufficient, but there is no one in the industry who can do what they do with the technology required for EUV and on-chip etching, so from there all customers will need to understand that units are limited and therefore the number of wafers will be the one available each quarter, which they are already used to as this has been happening since 2018.
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Ted Cruz Blazed a New Trail to Higher Office
R.G. Ratcliffe
https://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/ted-cruz-blazed-a-new-trail-to-higher-office/
The Texas path to the Governor's Mansion or the U.S. Senate for decades has followed two paths: First, be wealthy. Second, win election to a lower state office before running for higher office.
As U.S. Senator Ted Cruz launched his bid for president this week, I was struck by the idea that there is a new third path: the unelected post of Texas solicitor general, an office that did not even exist before 1999.
Cruz's 2012 victory in the Senate race marked the first time in almost five decades that a Texas politician has won high office without following one of those two traditional paths. College professor John Tower won a special election to the U.S. Senate in 1961, and John Connally jumped from Secretary of the Navy in 1962 to the governor's office.
The Texas solicitor general argues cases for the state on appeal, including before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. That job was Cruz's from 2003 until he resigned in 2008. So who have been the solicitors general who have followed Ted Cruz in office?
Cruz's most immediate successor under then-Attorney General Greg Abbott was James C. Ho. During his two-year tenure, Ho defended the University of Texas against legal challenges to its affirmative action admissions system. Ho also defended the state's fee on strip clubs, known commonly as the Pole Tax. As a private attorney in Dallas, he was among a bipartisan group of lawyers last year who asked that criminal charges against then-Governor Rick Perry be dismissed. In a Texas Lawyer piece last year, Ho argued that state appellate lawyers are coming to dominate state politics.
Media coverage of this transition has focused largely on political trends. The press has noted, for example, that incoming Governor Greg Abbott has hired several long-time aides from the Attorney General's office—while soon-to-be Attorney General Ken Paxton is poaching from the staff of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.
But that coverage misses an important legal trend. The top legal positions in government are increasingly drawing from one particular specialty—appellate litigators—and from a narrow band of that specialty at that.
Few legal jobs are more demanding than counseling a powerful political official. These lawyers must provide substantive advice and strategy in the most difficult areas of constitutional and public law—matters that often lack clear precedent. The world is scrutinizing and questioning their every move. And the pace is unrelenting. Virtually every major legal issue on their desk presents a perfect storm of big stakes, powerful constituencies and ambiguous law.
Following Ho was Jonathan F. Mitchell, who now is on the University of Texas law school faculty. Mitchell had some of the hottest cases in recent memory. He defended the abortion law that Wendy Davis tried to filibuster to death. He also defended the state's voter identification law, as well as the state's constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage. As Pamela Colloff reported in Texas Monthly, Mitchell argued to the 5th Circuit that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was valid because of "the biological reality that same-sex unions cannot produce offspring."
Our newest solicitor general, Scott A. Keller came to Attorney General Ken Paxton's office directly from Ted Cruz. From January 2013 until December, Keller was the chief counsel in Cruz's Senate office. He has quickly gone to bat for state's rights. In this case, the right of the state to reject a rebel battle flag license plate sought by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
"The state of Texas etches its name onto each license plate and Texas law gives the state sole control and final approval authority over everything that appears on a license plate," Keller said. "The First Amendment does not mean that a motorist can compel any government to place its imprimatur on the Confederate battle flag on its license plate."
This was not Keller's first visit to the Supreme Court. The University of Texas law school graduate spent a year clerking for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Whether any of these young lawyers – or any of those who preceded Cruz – will ever go into politics is unknown, but Cruz has cut a new upward path out of the solicitor general's office.
The wealthy class of political ladder climbers has included governors Dolph Briscoe, Bill Clements and George W. Bush and U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Although he fell short of the top rings, former Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst also fell into this category. Although Briscoe and Bentsen held a lower office, their wealth played the largest roll in their ascendency, and Bush had the advantage of being a former president's son.
The political path to Texas highest offices in the past has included attorneys general John Cornyn, Mark White, Price Daniel and Allan Shivers; lieutenant governors Rick Perry and Preston Smith; treasurers Ann Richards and Kay Bailey Hutchison; and congressmen Phil Gramm and Lyndon Johnson.
Sorry, George P. Bush, the Texas General Land Office has not been a springboard to higher office. Just look at the careers for former commissioners Jerry Patterson, Garry Mauro and the late Bob Armstrong. One former commissioner, Bascom Giles, spent three years in prison as part of the 1955 veterans land scandal. Sure, that David Dewhurst guy went from the land office to lieutenant governor, but Dewhurst's ascent had a lot more to do with being a millionaire than using the land office as a launch pad.
There's still the possibility, Commissioner Bush, that the son of a president path will work out – unless former Solicitor General Ted Cruz gets in the way.
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You also forgot to mention that Railroad Commissioners Carole Keeton Strayhorn (R), John Sharp (D) & Bob Krueger (D) jumped to higher statewide office too.
Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs (R) went to Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Comptroller Bob Bullock (D) went to LG.
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Shivers was a state senator and lt. governor, not attorney general. He moved up to the governor's office was Buford Jester (dorm named after him) died in a Pullman train car between Austin and Houston.
And how could you forget Bill Hobby who went straight from the offices of the Houston Post to that of the Lt. Governor……His daddy had been lt. gov. in 1917 and moved up to governor when Pa Ferguson was impeached and convicted.
Hobby, Sr., only served 1 full 2-year term before NOT seeking reelection to a 2nd term in 1920.
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and Dewhurst served how many years in the Texas Senate before becoming Lt Guv? Yawl need me to write something credible here, the ship is sinking.
Dewhurst served not a second as a member of the Texas Senate before becoming Lt. Governor….
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Yeah, like actual facts matter to him.
Dewhurst served no time which was my point, unfortunately you missed it.
Which brings up a question, am I being too subtle for dems?
Awright I've seized control …here's something you'd never see from TM
Why don't democrats pay taxes?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/09/federal-workers-owe-35b-in-back-taxes/
Here's something you'll never see on Faux News: We do pay taxes! We have to, as we don't have all those tax loopholes and dodges that the rich Republicans lobby successfully to create.
The Texas Senate today advanced the proposed "property tax relief" constitutional amendment, SJR 1, by Sen. Nelson that increases the homestead exemption and gives the real estate industry a constitutional exemption from every being taxed. But REFUSED to grant the same constitutional protection to food and medicine–thus leaving
the door open to some future legislature to tax those basic necessities.
The proposed constitutional amendment also exempts any spending to reimburse local school districts for the revenues they will lose from the increased exemption from the state's spending cap thereby allowing future legislatures to spend more than otherwise would be the case.
The rejection of the Amendment by Sen. Ellis to give food and medicine the same constitutional protection was by a vote of 21-10.
One point worth noticing is that, although the implementing legislation (SB 1) provides for
reimbursing local school districts for any lost revenues, NOTHING in the constitutional amendment guarantees that the legislature will continue to reimburse school districts in future years since future legislatures could repeal the law authorizing that reimbursement. It should be noted that the Legislature made a similar promise back in 1978 when it adopted the increased in the homestead exemption but soon dropped any specific provision for that reimbursement, claiming that the money was included in the regular school finance system.
Estimates are that the increased homestead exemption will provide about 61 cents per day in "tax relief" to the average homeowner. It, of course, provides NO relief to the
estimated 40% of all Texans who live in rented housing.
The proposed constitutional ban on taxing real estate sales was added to win the support of the powerful Texas Association of Realtors for the proposal. It is unfortunate that those who would have benefited from a similar ban on taxing food and medicine did not have such a powerful friend. However, it is possible that those senators who voted against
the food and medicine tax ban may find themselves attacked in future years for not protecting the people from a tax. After all, they had a chance to do so and REFUSED.
By banning sales taxes on real estate the proposal also delivers a strong blow to the proposal by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a rightwing lobby group, to repeal all property taxes as a major feature of that proposal would have been a tax on
real estate sales. That tax was seen as being necessary to keep the rate of the sales tax, which with the TPPF would replace the property tax, down to a level that had some chance of passing the Legislature. Without that tax, the proposed sales tax will have to be nearly double what it could have been had a real estate tax been included
Pat Neff was later elected to the TX Railroad Commission in 1928, but resigned in 1932 to become President of Baylor University.
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I've always felt the left was a little unbalanced, and this article gives credence to that thought. As the old saying goes keep doing the same thing and expecting different results is the same as writing laws that promote regulating behavior/morality/values to control actions. This explains why the left is unbalanced, they are driving themselves batshit crazy try to make us conform to their ideology.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/26/why-is-the-angry-left-so-angry/
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All The Avengers: Endgame Predictions You Never Asked For!
By Quirky Neuron - 3/28/2019
Over the past few months, numerous fan theories, predictions, fake "leaks," and easter egg articles have come out. Many harp on the same kind of tropes: Is Tony Stark going to die…? Captain Marvel saves everyone, wait…no… Ant-Man saves everyone… wait…, time travel – Huzzah!
However, all of these predictions seem WAY off-base. Everyone is framing their predictions around what they believe the biggest characters will do, or what they saw in the trailers or post credit scenes. There hasn't been an article yet that focuses on what would give us some real clues as to what the writers would be focusing on: following the character arcs of our favorite characters from the past decade. Seriously… the Marvel universe has been building since 2008, and you think that the writer's are going to slap Brie Larson into a new super-suit and have her literally fly-in, nuke Thanos, and call it a day?
No! Of course not! A writer is going to lead you down that path and then pull the rug out from under you, and (hopefully) you'll be left slapping your forehead saying "Oh, OF COURSE!"
We are not covering all the characters, since some have to be relegated to the benches after the snap, but we'll hit a good chunk of them. So without further ado: Here is a character-by-character breakdown of why, among other educated guesses, Tony Stark will live, Captain Marvel will be a non-factor, and Drax will kill Thanos.
IRON MAN: Contrary to popular belief, Tony Stark's character arc is not the Selfish Playboy to Selfless Hero story… Rather it is the journey from loving only himself and loathing his father, to loving others (namely Pepper Potts) and becoming his father. This has been HEAVILY foreshadowed, including an overt scene in Infinity War, where Pepper and he are walking together talking about making babies and their upcoming marriage vows. Oh, and… did anyone even see the first trailer where he is going on and on about dreaming of her as he drifts through space towards impending death? And we think that this means he is just going to die? This will be his kick in the pants to officially put a ring on it, take the glow stick off his chest, and actually pull back; allowing other heroes to take over in the next phase of Marvel's series. Case in point, the byline of Gwyneth Paltrow's recent headline was that she would not star in another MCU movie, but she might do small cameo style roles. They're not bringing back a widow for a fun cameo folks. Tony Stark will become the new shield benefactor and background Brainiac. BONUS PREDICTION: Will Pepper Potts surprise everyone by unleashing some Extremis power from Iron Man 3?
CAPTAIN MARVEL: So, the biggest driver of Carol Danvers' story-line prediction is that she barely has a story-line as of yet. As we know from the trailers (I'll avoid any spoilers here), Carol has some trouble keeping her story straight due to a military aircraft accident of some kind. Believers that she will be the big counter to Thanos' power is mistaken. Her weakness is mental, and Thanos has… the mind stone. It is most likely that an overly-confident Captain Marvel flies in to battle Evil Barney, but is easily brushed aside or even momentarily turned against the rest of the team. Her entire presence is to throw fans off the scent and to provide a character link to the next phase of the MCU. Alternatively, she could be a vessel for either the destruction of an infinity stone, or to wield one to change the timeline. This all relies on the Samuel L Jackson "leak," (where he claimed Captain Marvel could time travel) being intentionally misleading.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: He dies. Sorry, but there is no way Cap doesn't sacrifice himself and pass on the mantle of Captain America to a new figure, allowing for a pseudo-reboot of this franchise, but for far less money on the studio. He misses Peggy, his whole arc has been about self-sacrifice, we know a big name is going down, and honestly…. After seeing his mopey face in the group-therapy session from the trailers, you have to believe he would give anything to correct the course of history.
THE (real) HULK: Admittedly, this is one of the harder characters to read. He has not had any real designated movies (Nope, The Incredible Hulk with Ed Norton does not count), and his recent struggles to go green caught everyone off-guard. Best guess is that Bruce Banner, one of the most brilliant minds in the MCU, needs to prove to himself that he is good enough without the Hulk as his backstop. Bruce went from never wanting Hulk out, to calling on his alter ego any time he was mildly alarmed, to staying the Hulk, to not being able to summon the now-lovable giant. Bruce needs to get his own mojo back to get the Hulk to come out for one last encore. Thus, the best money is on him becoming Bruce somewhat permanently after one final showing in a battle for the ages at the finale of Endgame (which ties into the shot from the first Infinity War trailer where he was seen in battle in Wakanda, though he never actually ended up there in the movie). Banner will retire to an advisory role in shield, like Tony, to be next in line after Nick Fury vacates his position.
HAWKEYE and BLACK WIDOW: Hawkeye has turned into Ronin, following the loss of his family during the snap. While grittier, likely Hawkeye will remain a support character. All he's ever wanted was his family. Black Widow will have a similar story line, doing whatever needs to be done to make things right. Part of her role will likely be helping Bruce Banner get his groove back… if you know what I mean… because even if Captain Marvel was handled tastefully, the studio can't seem to stop fetishizing our leather-clad super-spy.
SPIDER MAN: What do you want from this article on Spider Man? … He lives! Otherwise he and Jake Gyllenhaal couldn't give each other high fives this summer while hanging out in Venice.
BLACK PANTHER, OKOYE, and SHURI: Among the genius group, Shuri is supposedly at the top of the heap. With Tony not back home from space yet, and with Bruce in a funk, Shuri will go from mourning to being on a mission to contribute in any way she can to the downfall of Thanos. I believe, similar to Scott Lang, Shuri's face among the deceased is a false lead, and that she is just in hiding…. Similar to how she hid an entire African empire from the modern world. Okoye though, may not recover from watching the man she swore her life to protect, vanish in front of her very eyes. Black Panther will be back. His film was too lucrative to not make sequels, but his role won't be groundbreaking in this film.
THOR: While the first two Thor movies were a little aimless, Ragnarok and the team-up films of late have seemed to create a pattern for Thor. He gets intimidated, whether it is Hela shattering Mjolnir, trying to live up to his Father's dreams, or having Thanos kill all the Asgardians and Loki right in front of his very eyes. Then, he acts overly confident and cocksure, in a thin veil over his daddy issues – case in point, his goading of Peter Quill upon being recovered from space. Then he "finds himself" and swings back into action as his godly-self. Well, imagine how low he's going to feel after he sees half of all living creatures in the universe die because he didn't go for the head. He will play a prominent role in avenging his people, but not after a long, sulking, self-blaming story-line. Hemsworth has expressed interest in reprising the role, so most likely they will leave Thor to rebuild Asgard following this film, but still able to return if needed.
NEBULA and GAMORA: One recent hint from the cast of Endgame, was when Karen Gillan (Nebula) herself said that Endgame would have us rooting for Nebula. Nebula's story arc has been consistent from day one. Her father, Thanos, pitted her and Gamora against each other, breeding contempt, resentment, and violent competition. Nebula went from murderous rage upon hearing Gamora's name, to a sister undergoing torture at her father's hands to protect Gamora, albeit mostly off-screen. Some have gone so far as to say that Nebula will kill Thanos, but that doesn't complete her arc. Her arc is only complete if she SAVES Gamora from the Soul Stone world where she is trapped. Nebula will be embarking on a side mission to save Gamora before the infinity stones are destroyed…
STARLORD, GROOT, MANTIS, ROCKET: The majority of the Guardians of the Galaxy are both slated to return in future movies, and likely immobilized for the majority of this film due to the snap. Once back in action, they will be their own typical selves, but not a major role overall in this movie. We're saving that action for GOTG3.
DRAX: Stands alone for good reason here. While Peter Gunn may be getting a second chance, it seems to me that the outspoken Dave Bautista gave both the studios and the writers perfect incentive to write his character out in a tasteful and meaningful way. Our overly literal brute has maintained his mission from the beginning – to kill Thanos, the puppet-master who engineered his family's death at the hands of Ronan. Stormbreaker, Thor's new axe, is not bound to the same honor-code as Mjolnir. But can Drax wield it without his mind collapsing? Probably. He's a strong dude with sincere motivation, who does not seem like he would care if he died in order to avenge his family. Bautista's open criticism of Marvel/Disney was the final straw to get the comic-relief, ex-con to have an emotional goodbye where he sacrifices himself to save everyone else, reunite with his family in the afterlife, and complete his mission from day one, all wrapped up with a neat little bow.
DOCTOR STRANGE: Doctor Strange, upon having the snap undone, will play a significant role in the final battle, as one of the only avengers to have ever successfully wielded an infinity stone, but he'll be around at the end of the movie to remain a protector of earth.
VISION: Sorry, everyone, there are a lot of heavy losses coming in this film, and Vision will be one of them. We can get into the "why" below, but really… are you connected enough to his character to really be upset?
SCARLETT WITCH: Dang… if the above is correct… Scarlet will have truly led a tragic life. Her twin brother Quicksilver died in Age of Ultron, she doesn't know her parents, she turns to friggin' dust, Vision is killed first at her hand, then at the hands of Thanos, and then again when the snap is undone? What the hell! Actually, this solves a big MCU problem: Villains who are less-developed than their respective heroes. Forced loss of all your family and friends seems to be a pretty good vehicle to turn Scarlet Witch into a sympathetic but powerful, new big-bad. This fits in with her original comic story-line where she started bad and went good. Maybe the MCU wanted to flip it this time.
ANT-MAN: The key to this theory is with Ant-Man. No, Endgame is not going to just invent a new power from the Quantum Realm to solve the Snap. We already have what we need: Quantum Entanglement. In Ant Man and the Wasp, quantum entanglement allows characters to superimpose their consciousness on another. In addition, each of the characters left alive and shown marching wearing what appears to be quantum suits has at some point had access to an Infinity Stone in their lifetimes. Rocket (Power Stone), Captain America and Captain Marvel (Space Stone), Tony Stark and Bruce Banner (Mind Stone), Nebula (knew whereabouts of Soul Stone once Gamora confessed), and Thor (Reality). Only the Time Stone is unaccounted for, although, who knows what groundwork Dr. Strange laid while he still had it? Rather than time travel, the group is traveling into the quantum tunnel to have an entanglement orgy. With the help of Scott Lang, who was apparently abandoned in the quantum realm for a few years after the snap, they will superimpose their consciousnesses in the various histories of their own lives, and try to steal and hide the stones for themselves. Each attempt will fail, until it comes down to killing Vision to retrieve the mind stone. Vision's departure will be a difficult executive decision made by Stark, causing strife within Scarlet Witch. Scarlet will refuse to destroy the stone too early and risk killing Vision. At this point, as far as we know, only Captain Marvel (or surprise extremis-enabled Pepper Potts?) could have the power to destroy the mind stone. Once destroyed, the Snap will be officially undone, enabling the final battle sequence against a still-super-powerful Thanos who has all but one stone in his possession.
So what do you think of all these theories? Have any twists on it? We find the truth on April 26th!
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Captain America: Civil War Spoiler-Free Review: "Sometimes I Want to Punch You in Your Perfect [Movie]"
Captain America: Civil War is more than just another superhero movie. It's more than a two-and-a-half-hour special effects smorgasbord/fanboy wet dream (although it is that too). It's more than Captain America vs Iron Man. Captain America: Civil War is a consequence. A consequence of almost a decade's worth of films and the events that have spanned them. For years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has existed under the assumption that the world's need for superheroes outweighs its need to regulate them. Our heroes arrive to save the day, only to bound off for the next adventure before the dust ever settles from the last. The world is then left to contend with the aftermath of a conflict they usually played no part in. And, as the damage to infrastructure, and more importantly, casualties, pile up, so too does the public's impatience for the free reign that our destructive, albeit well meaning, heroes are afforded. Civil War asks, "Are the Avengers above the law?"
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The seeds of this question were planted as far back as the first Avengers film when, in the aftermath of the Battle of New York, the public wondered whether the Avengers would answer for all the collateral damage they caused during their triumph over Loki and the Chitauri. In the movies since, we've seen our heroes' trust of government organizations, and of each other, challenged, as well as an exponential rise in global chaos, with each catastrophe more devastating than the last. Avengers: Age of Ultron's Battle of Sokovia serves as the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back, prompting the world's leaders to finally take a stand for increased superhero accountability, turning the Marvel Cinematic Universe on its head in the process.
Civil War is one of Marvel's most iconic storylines; however, fans have long wondered whether a film adaptation would ever be possible. The comic book arc pits characters from every corner of the Marvel universe against each other, in an all-encompassing battle of ideologies that transcends mere kicks and punches. When Civil War was first announced back in October 2014, it was hard to overlook the MCU's then seeming lack of heroes. At the time, outside of the six core Avengers, Civil War could really only rely on Don Cheadle's War Machine and Anthony Mackie's Falcon to round out its rosters. Less than two years later, however, and the ranks have been bolstered considerably. 2015's Age of Ultron introduced us to Wanda Maximoff and Vision, while Ant-Man debuted in his surprisingly successful solo film just three months later.
Even with the requisite number of good guys, Civil War faces a tough task in finding enough screen time for all of them. However, unlike Age of Ultron, which crumbled beneath the weight of its own cast, Civil War gets the most out of its characters by maximizing the utility of their scenes, and ensuring that every secondary storyline stays relevant to the film's wider plot and overall theme. Tertiary players like Hawkeye and Ant-Man really only show up about halfway through the movie, but their impact seems much greater because the few scenes they are in play so well in complementing the rest of the film. Simply put, Civil War is able to juggle an even larger cast than Age of Ultron by keeping its characters in their lanes. The film's heavy lifting is left to Steve Rogers and Tony Stark - the story very much flows through the consequences of their actions, while supporting characters support them by filling in the narrative gaps - helping to move the plot forward, rather than peeling off in their own directions. Contrast this with Age of Ultron, whose focus vacillated between Tony Stark and Hawkeye, only to become even more clouded with the tangential exploits of Thor and Bruce Banner and Black Widow.
Above all else, Civil War is a story about the characters we've grown to love during the past eight years, and the relationships between them. There's a feeling that our heroes are actual people, whose playful banter speaks to an authentic level of friendship, something that was missing from the contrived quip-fest in Age of Ultron. Civil War manages to recapture the magic of The Avengers, bringing characters together who had previously never met, and the results are just as rewarding, especially for fans who have followed this fictional universe since its inception. It also does a great job of laying the groundwork for future movies, building genuine interest for newly introduced characters by organically blending them into the film's plot. Because Civil War builds off character development that has taken place over a dozen films, we have an immediate sense of emotional investment before the opening title card ever drops. As the film progresses, we find that its central conflict is driven, not by the typical escalation of bad guy-overpowers-good guy-overpowers-bad guy, but by a nuanced chain of events that eventually forces our protagonists to pick sides opposite the same morally grey line. After these alliances start to crumble, the fallout resonates with us in a way that a Batman -Superman slap fight never could. And, in some ways, this is exactly the kind of grounded, intimate conflict that the comic book movie genre so desperately needs.
It seems like every May the movie industry churns out yet another summer blockbuster built on the same tried and true formula that always seems to conclude with a special effects-filled final battle. And while I'm clearly a fan of said fare, the tendency for these films to favor style over substance is hard to ignore. Obviously, Civil War has its share of action-heavy scenes; however, the scale is noticeably more intimate than in its fellow summer blockbusters. Even its giant, soon to be iconic airport fight pairs its combatants off in 1-on-1 matchups that manage to provide us with surprisingly compelling micro-interactions between characters, giving us bite-sized insight into heroes both old and new. Civil War consistently hits that hard to find combination of fun and engaging action sequences that can simultaneously drive the narrative and provide relevant character development. Civil War is an example of what comic book movies can and should be: not just a collection of fight scenes set in the foreground of a narrative; but rather, a strong character-driven story that just so happens to feature superhero action.
At the time of this writing, Captain America: Civil War currently sits fifth on the all-time opening weekend list, grossing $179 million in just three days. And while this does fall about $20 million short of initial projections, Civil War has firmly entrenched itself as Marvel's finest outing to date, and arguably as the greatest comic book film of all-time. It's not a flawless movie, but it's pretty damn close - maybe as close as we'll ever get within the genre. For fans of the MCU, movies, and just strong storytelling in general, I highly recommend Captain America: Civil War as a film that will likely change your opinion, for the better, on all three.
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Everything's Coming Up Deadpool - Deadpool Movie Review
Despite its record-breaking opening weekend, Deadpool will likely be remembered as the film that almost wasn't. Plans for a Deadpool film actually materialized all the way back in 2000, when Artisan Entertainment announced it would bring the 'Merc with a Mouth' to the big screen. In the following years, however, the project found itself caught in development hell, bouncing from studio to studio and director to director, never quite finding a home that was willing to give Deadpool the push it needed to get to production.
Deadpool in Wolverine: Origins - Source: FOX
An appearance (widely considered one of the worst comic book character adaptations ever) in 2009's global disaster, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, likely soured any interest Fox had in a Deadpool solo film. And, to make matters worse, Ryan Reynolds' superhero stock sunk to an all-time low after the disappointing release of 2011's Green Lantern. As recently as 2014, Deadpool was considered a lost cause, with even Reynolds admitting his doubts on whether his divisive passion project would ever be made.
Deadpool Marketing. Source: FOX
But just like that, everything changed. In July 2014, test footage from director, Tim Miller's stab at the character two years prior, leaked onto the internet, immediately going viral, and giving Fox no choice but to fast track the project. Ryan Reynolds credits this fan response as the catalyst for Deadpool finally getting the greenlight; and, just two years and one ridiculously clever marketing plan later, fans were finally greeted with the Deadpool movie they've craved for so long.
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Deadpool actually kicks off with a freeway scene based heavily on the leaked test footage, forgoing the traditional origin story, and instead exploring Wade Wilson's background through interspersed flashbacks. This unconventional narrative structure does a great job of immediately throwing us into the action and avoiding the possibility of a slow-to-go origin story that can sometimes plague comic book films. There were a few times when the movie jumped to and from a flashback that left me wishing the focus would stay on the narrative at hand, but overall, this didn't detract from my enjoyment all that much.
Hilarious but deceptive Deadpool marketing. Source: FOX
Additionally, by introducing the audience to Deadpool, post-mutation, fans unfamiliar with the source material are initially meeting the character when he's at his most interesting. Although, for what it's worth, the flashback scenes do a great job of painting Wade Wilson as a likeable anti-hero, and also develop his onscreen romance with Morena Baccarin's Vanessa Carlysle, in a way that does not feel forced. (Which, if you read my piece on Avengers: Age of Ultron, you'll know is a hard thing to pull off.) Ryan Reynolds reaches back into his old bag of romcom tricks, and the two actors actually demonstrate a charming bit of chemistry that helps the audience feel more invested in a love storyline that could have easily fallen by the wayside.
Baccarin does a solid job in her role, despite its fairly limited scope; and overall, the supporting cast is solid, headlined by the scene stealing TJ Miller (Weasel). There were some worries about Gina Carano (Angel Dust) and her acting chops, or lack thereof, but I'm happy to say that those worries are mitigated by the fact that she only has about five lines. Ed Skrein plays a decent villain in Ajax/Francis, but suffers from a lack of character development all too common for comic book movie villains, and does little to differentiate himself from the genre's brooding, sociopathic, sometimes British archetype.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Deadpool and Colossus - Source: Entertainment Weekly/FOX
Rounding out the cast are the two featured X-Men characters, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Negasonic is a newcomer to the X-Men film franchise, while Colossus gets a retcon (he's Russian now!), as well as a new paint job. From a continuity perspective, these are the first two X-Men we encounter post-Days of Future Past; though, for the most part, references to the wider X-Men universe are limited, which is okay. This film needed to develop Deadpool as a viable solo character, but the shared interactions between the three mutants is just enough to whet the palate, and I'm excited to see where Fox takes these two properties in terms of future crossovers.
Deadpool fighting Ajax - Source: Entertainment Weekly/FOX
Unfortunately, and somewhat predictably, Deadpool starts to veer towards the generic with the start of the 3rd act. In typical villain fashion, Francis takes Vanessa hostage inside an abandoned junkyard, forcing a damsel in distress situation that serves no purpose, other than to raise the stakes for a movie that desperately needs them. Deadpool's formulaic plot, while a fair satirization of the comic book movie genre, really starts to unravel when you pull just hard enough at its threads. The climatic battle is a fun ride, although nothing we haven't seen before. And, while there are moments towards the end where the humor starts to feel a bit forced, the finale keeps this in check, for the most part, and manages to maintain the focus on the action.
Deadpool stands as an underrated testament to the power of fandom. Its legacy will live on for this reason, and as one of the best R-rated comic book films of all time. Yes, the plot is rather thin, and your mileage may vary depending on how you feel about Ryan Reynolds, but there's a high degree of difficulty associated with a film of this nature, which Deadpool manages to navigate quite nicely. It's easy to look at Deadpool as nothing more than an appeal to the lowest common denominator, an endless mill of toilet humor and violence, designed to cash in on the cheap laughs you'd associate with an R-rated film. But don't let the poop jokes fool you. Every sexual innuendo, every 90s reference, every twistedly charming one liner is a calculated step towards engaging the audience in a fictional character and reality that remains true to the 4th wall breaking, over the top nature of the source material, while still remaining accessible to the casual filmgoer. This was one of Fox's biggest fears. How would the general public respond to such an unconventional and quite frankly strange character? The answer so far is really f*cking well.
Written by A Play On Nerds Contributor, Garrett Yoshitomi. You can find his tweets @garrettweets
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Tomgram: Dahr Jamail, Missing Voices in the Iraq Debate
January 27, 2008 / By Dahr Jamail
There's an old joke in which a fellow natters on endlessly about himself. Finally, he turns to his friend and says, "Well, enough about me, how about you? What do you think of me?" Sometimes, we in the U.S. seem to be that guy. There are so many voices crucial to understanding our world that we seldom or never hear. They just aren't attended to. This week at Tomdispatch, Nick Turse brought us the forgotten voices of a lost war in Vietnam and now Dahr Jamail offers voices from an ongoing lost war in Iraq. In many ways, we Americans, whether supporters or critics of the war, manage to fill all the roles when it comes to that country. Watch your TV set and ask yourself how often, in the last years, you've heard an ordinary Iraqi speaking at any length about his or her life — or seen the Iraqi equivalent of a "talking head." We've talked our heads off about Iraq and yet how often have we even fulfilled the second part of that old joke and asked Iraqis what they thought of us — or the lives the United States has brought them?
Dahr Jamail has been an exception. If you pick up a copy of his riveting book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, perhaps the most striking thing about it is how many Iraqi voices you do hear and what a different perspective they offer us on our version of their country. Here, then, is the latest from Jamail. Tom
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Iraqis on "Success" and "Progress" in Their Country
By: Dahr Jamail
This March 19 will be the fifth anniversary of the shock-and-awe air assault on Baghdad that signaled the opening of the invasion of Iraq, and when it comes to the American occupation of that country, no end is yet in sight. If Republican presidential candidate John McCain has anything to say about it, the occupation may never end. On January 7th, he assured reporters that he was more than fine with the idea of the U.S. military remaining in Iraq for 100 years. "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea 50 years or so… As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. That's fine with me."
He said nothing, of course, about Iraqis "injured or harmed or wounded or killed." In fact, amid the flurries of words, accusations, and "debates" which have filled the airways and add up to the primary-season presidential campaign, there has been a near thunderous silence on Iraq lately — and especially on Iraqis.
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История
В конце XVIII века деревня входила в состав Брестского повета Великого княжества Литовского. С 1630 по 1810 годы являлась владением магнатского рода Радзивиллов. В 1810 году имение было куплено Анджеем Сервинским. В 1880 году Мария Сервинская вышла замуж за Генрика Ружичку де Розенверта, при этом Целесница была передана во владение последнему в качестве приданного.

По данным на 1827 год имелось 38 дворов и проживал 301 человек. Согласно «Справочной книжке Седлецкой губернии на 1875 год» деревня входила в состав гмины Рокитно Константиновского уезда Седлецкой губернии. В период с 1975 по 1998 годы Целесница входила в состав Бяльскоподляского воеводства.

Население
Демографическая структура по состоянию на 31 марта 2011 года:

Примечания

Населённые пункты Бяльского повета

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Brassens ... à la lettre est une étude biographique sous forme de dictionnaire sur le chanteur Georges Brassens écrite par Chloé Radiguet.

Introduction
Il s'agit d'un ouvrage sous forme de dictionnaire, de A comme Accordéon à Z comme Zizanie où l'on découvre l'homme Brassens avec son univers musical, ses amis et ses amours, ses ambivalences concernant les femmes et la religion... Toute une foule de détails sur sa vie et son comportement avec ses amis, les nombreux personnages qui l'ont marqué ou qui ont traversé son existence.

Grand admirateur de Brassens, Georges Moustaki y dénote « richesse de l'anecdote, confidences insolites, citations éloquentes, tout ce qui rend Brassens si attachant, si familier, si surprenant. »

Présentation et synthèse
Il s'agit d'une sorte de dictionnaire amoureux, un « Brassens de A (comme Accordéon) à Z (comme Zizanie) » où défilent son univers, sa vie, ses amours, ses faiblesses, ses passions, sa vénération pour la musique et la littérature, ses doutes et ses antipathies, son art, sa philosophie, ses amitiés, les secrets et l'historique de ses chansons, les détails et les grandes lignes de son itinéraire, la face cachée et les facettes lumineuses de l'artiste, les pérégrinations de l'homme, les savoureuses digressions, la galerie de portraits des fidèles et des courtisans.
Car il y a d'innombrables Brassens en Brassens, mille personnages qui composent son personnage...
Chloé Radiguet les a approchés méticuleusement, avec humour, lucidité, impartialité, avec tendresse et admiration. Il y a, dans cet ouvrage, un pied de nez à l'hagiographie laudative et barbante, en lui préférant la richesse de l'anecdote, les confidences insolites, les citations éloquentes ; tout ce qui rend Brassens si attachant, si familier, si surprenant.
Extrait de la préface de Georges Moustaki

Bibliographie
 Loïc Rochard, Brassens par Brassens – Prologue de René Fallet, Le Cherche midi, coll. « Autoportraits imprévus », 2005 .
 Agnès Tytgat, L'univers symbolique de Georges Brassens, Éditeur Carpentier Didier Eds, , 112 pages,

Voir aussi
 Hervé Bréal, Brassens de A à Z, éd. Albin Michel, 2001 .
 Présentation de Chloë Radiguet

Notes et références

Liens externes
 Site officiel consacré à Georges Brassens

Essai français paru en 2006
Livre sur Georges Brassens