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The Periphery of the Brand
(Updated Dec 8 with comment from IKEA)
I'm always amazed at how companies work really, really hard on their brand, and then blow it all on the periphery.
The pictures here are taken from the Milton Keynes branch of IKEA, an otherwise wonderful store that caters to kids, has the usual IKEA range of stuff and generally lives up to the company's brand in spades.
Except at the entrance. The trash repository is right in front of the door, and is littered with cigarette butts, burger wrappers, ash, IKEA cups and a half-drunk glass of orange that, presumably, came from the IKEA cafeteria:
It stands out like a sore thumb, depressing newcomers and those leaving the store alike. At a guess it's not maintained, or maintained enough, because it's just beyond the scope of the store, and so is probably not, strictly speaking, the responsibility of the store. There's probably no guideline for this sort of situation in the IKEA manual. But IKEA is the only user of the building, and the stuff being left here is all from IKEA shoppers—some of it sporting the IKEA logo.
The periphery of the brand is often just beyond the reach of all the normal boxes a manager would tick in ensuring the brand is looking good. But that is often the exact point of contact for a customer—coloring either their first impression or the lasting one they have when they leave.
IKEA have promised to address the problem: In an email, they said: "At IKEA Milton Keynes, we strive to maintain high standards of tidiness across our store both inside and out to give our customers the best possible shopping experience. On this occasion, the maintenance of the bin does not reflect these standards however, we are addressing this, and are stepping up measures to make the necessary improvements."
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This entry was posted in PR and tagged Furniture, IKEA, Jardine Matheson Group, manager, Milton Keynes, STØR on December 5, 2008 by jeremy.
BT Brings Broadband To 'Remote' Milton Keynes
I couldn't help passing this one on, though I don't mean to mock either Milton Keynes, a charming artificial town in England, or Online Journalism, a very worthy project of the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review.
Online Journalism today picks up a piece from the BBC about how British Telecom is trying to extend broadband connections across the country. (I've written about this before after visiting a village in Northamptonshire, which got around the problem of BT's glacial broadband program by building their own Wifi network.)
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the BBC article talked about extending ADSL reach from its present range from a broadband-enabled exchange from 6 km to 10. Testing site: Milton Keynes, a town that could not be more in the middle of England since that was why it was built there a few decades back. It's a garden city, and its sprawling layout and majestic avenues make it the butt of jokes, and more importantly, broadband a hotbutton issue. not But remote it's not: An hour from London, an hour from Birmingham, an hour from more or less everywhere.
Unfortunately Online Journalism got the wrong end of the stick and wrote about "Remote towns in U.K. to get broadband service: Soon, remote areas in the U.K. will have broadband Internet access, reports the BBC News. BT, the leading ISP in the U.K., is currently running a test in the remote town of Milton Keynes in hopes of establishing broadband service for the area. The town was chosen because 18% of residents experience great frustration over Internet access, a higher percentage than in most U.K. towns due to the city's remote location."
I don't know whether Milton Keynesians are going to be happy about this. The Shetlands are remote. The Scilly Isles, maybe. Milton Keynes? No.
This entry was posted in Rants and tagged ADSL, Birmingham, British Telecom, broadband, Broadband Internet access, BT Group, BT Group PLC, Buckinghamshire, Counties of England, Internet access, ISP, John Maynard Keynes, London, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynesians, online journalism, Online Journalism Review, Scilly Isles, telecommunications, the BBC News on April 22, 2004 by jeremy.


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In July 2020, ZHD Stevedores (ZHD) ordered two eco-efficient Konecranes Gottwald Model 6 Mobile Harbor Cranes for their operations in the Netherlands – one for Dordrecht and one for Moerdijk. With delivery in February and commissioning by the end of March 2021, the cranes will handle dry bulk, steel coils, breakbulk and containers.
Established in 1968, ZHD Stevedores is a privately owned, independent stevedoring company with over 50 years of stevedoring experience. Active in the so-called Rotterdam-Rijnmond area, ZHD operates terminals (including open and covered storage) in the ports of Dordrecht and Moerdijk. ZHD also renders floating stevedoring services in the Port of Rotterdam.
Today, this fourth-generation family business handles cargo from ships of all sizes. In order to maintain its continuing success in one of the largest port regions in the world, ZHD regularly renews its equipment to improve their technology and competitiveness. ZHD is already operating several Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbor cranes. The present investment is made to both further improve services towards customers as well as to further comply with future environmental requirements.
"Exactly 20 years ago, we ordered our first legacy Gottwald mobile harbor crane – a HMK 300 EG," says Alain Bornet, Managing Director of ZHD Stevedores. "This crane has served us well, but it's time to get a replacement. We already have two Model 6 cranes, one of which is placed on a self-propelled pontoon and has been constructed and engineered as a one-of-a-kind 50-ton floating crane called "Ahoy 50". We believe an investment in two more cranes is the right answer to our growing operations. The cranes have proven to be durable, high-performance machines and have really helped to build our business. So, it was logical for us to rely on Konecranes again to expand our capacity."
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The "Galerie der Gegenwart" (Gallery of the presence) is the established place for contemporary art in Hamburg. I am long term impressed by one piece that was installed there from the very beginnig. The stalactite machine. You enter a small room throught a narrow passage. A wall of glass is dividing the room. Through the glass you can see a tube construction coming through the ceiling with a drop of water in an opening. Directly underneath is a plate based in a loudspeaker-membrane–look-a-like–construction. On the membrane you see traces from the water that dropped down over the years in form of a stain, but you have to wait some time (20 seconds) to see a drop falling down. And there is NO stalactite.
On the wall you find a graphic, that shows how the machine is working: rain is being catched by a funnel and held in a tank. From there it's led to a place that looks like a filter-system and then further on to the room you're standing in.
The walls consist of limestone-plates with a width of ca 50cm. One of them has a zero, a vertical line and a 5000 printed on it. You can guess that it takes 5000 years for the stone to grow 50cm, and yes, I read in an information about the stalaktite machine, that it will take 100 years to let the stalactite grow one single cm. Exacly like in nature.
On the ground level of the gallery you will find the filter-system: it's a biotope. Laurel is growing in the earth of the biotope and under the earth is a 20cm-layer of chalky pepples. Here the water is enriched with carbon dioxide and chalk which is essential for building stalatites.
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EuropeJul 3rd 1999 edition
European tax harmonisation
Free but dutiful
Jul 1st 1999
SINCE July 1st, travellers inside the European Union can no longer stock up on duty-free cigarettes, booze or scent in airports or on ferries. To Brussels-bashers (not to mention the vociferous duty-free industry), the abolition of such tax perks for itinerants shows that EU bureaucrats are out to reach ever deeper into Europeans' pockets in the name of "harmonisation". Indeed, Finland, which this month took over the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union, says it gives "high priority" to pushing through yet more tax measures at the summit it will hold in December.
Will Brussels tax Europe into oblivion? No sign of it yet. Despite some confused mutterings by Oskar Lafontaine while he was Germany's finance minister, there are no real plans to harmonise tax rates on companies or individuals. What the European Commission claims it wants to do is to protect Europe's single market. This, it says, means removing distortions in indirect taxes (such as VAT, excise duties and energy taxes), ending preferential tax treatment of foreign companies, and stamping out tax evasion.
Mario Monti, the single-market commissioner, even asserts that co-ordination of some of Europe's tax systems is "not about harmonisation, and not about raising taxes, but about reducing them." In the case of duty-free, for instance, it was Europe's taxpayers who, unknowingly, were subsidising the vast profits of tax-privileged retailers. Nor is the main point on the Finnish agenda, a proposed code of conduct to end "unfair tax competition", to be misunderstood as calling for convergence in tax rates. Rather, Mr Monti defines "unfair" as "preferential"—as when, say, Spain charges a Spanish company in Spain one rate but a German firm, whose investment it wants, a lower rate. This is no different in principle to a preferential subsidy that should be challenged on grounds of unfair competition.
More contentious is the tax treatment of savings. At the moment, 13 of the 15 countries in the EU do not tax non-residents on what they get in income from interest. In effect, this means that each country could play tax haven to residents of others. Germans, for instance, have long made it a hobby to drive suitcases of cash over their border to Luxembourg, where banks may not pass on information to foreign tax authorities. The commission wants to stop this by giving countries a choice between sharing information with other EU members and imposing a withholding tax at source.
Bank secrecy, however, is etched into the constitutions of Luxembourg and several other EU countries. And a withholding tax, it is feared, might simply switch the suitcases to tax havens outside the EU, such as Switzerland. So agreement will take not only "some arm-twisting at the ministerial level", as Finland's ambassador to the EU puts it, but also co-ordination with third countries. The Swiss, at least, may be forthcoming; they are especially concerned, these days, about outsiders' views of them. And in any event, as Mr Monti reminds them, a withholding tax would be for them to keep.
That leaves one sticking-point. If interest on Eurobonds—securities issued, mainly in London, to investors overseas—were taxed at source, Britain fears that the whole market might move outside the EU, taking City of London jobs with it. But the commission argues that a withholding tax would hit only private investors, and only those in the EU, who account for a sliver of the total market. Institutional investors would be unaffected.
In all, the commission says it is suggesting little more than a mild tinkering with taxes. One idea that Mr Monti is keen on, however, is to harmonise the accounting methods used to calculate taxable profits. The hope is that this would help make business in the EU more open.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Free but dutiful"
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The Culture of Nastiness
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By Teddy Wayne
Perhaps the most memorable line from last year's presidential debates was Donald J. Trump's characterization of Hillary Clinton after she alluded to his tax issues.
"Such a nasty woman" immediately entered the national lexicon, inspiring feminist Halloween costumes, T-shirts and sundry other merchandise. Liberals seized on Mr. Trump's comment not only because they felt it was sexist, but because it registered as textbook projection from a man whose speeches, interviews and Twitter feed could hardly be held up as paragons of Lincolnesque diplomacy. Even when wishing his countrymen a happy New Year, he cited "my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do." That tweet received well over 300,000 "likes."
America has always harbored virulent strains of coarseness and cruelty, and political campaigns are customarily bitter, mudslinging affairs. But we have come a long way from George H. W. Bush (contra his urgings for a kinder and gentler nation) quaintly calling Bill Clinton and Al Gore "bozos" in 1992 to Mr. Trump's huge index of tweeted affronts, or from previous presidents being caught cursing on live mikes to the new one's penchant for gleefully bellowing epithets at rallies.
Despite efforts to curb hate speech, eradicate bullying and extend tolerance, a culture of nastiness has metastasized in which meanness is routinely rewarded, and common decency and civility are brushed aside.
Those who oppose Mr. Trump can also be meanspirited; just check out the toxic debate below any of his tweets. Mrs. Clinton's "Delete your account" tweet last June was the most retweeted post from either candidate. Though the longstanding internet put-down was a relatively benign retort (the tweet she responded to called her "Crooked Hillary"), the barb was not quite the "going high" that her fellow Democrat Michelle Obama suggested during the campaign.
In liberal circles, mocking Mr. Trump's hair and skin tone is commonplace when referring to him — true, he has a history of objectifying and attacking others based on their appearance — in a manner that would incite furor if leveled against Mrs. Clinton.
Nonetheless, Mr. Trump's own social media accounts surely embolden hordes of his supporters to make similar comments without fear of consequence. As Meryl Streep put it in her Golden Globes speech about the incoming president's words and deeds, "Disrespect invites disrespect."
But Mr. Trump is less enabler in chief than a symptom of a free-for-all environment that prizes cutting smears. Humor, of course, is often the refuge of the disenfranchised and disaffected, but there's a difference in both tenor and objective between hypocrisy-dicing irony and its weak cousin: detached, fatalistic, teenage-style sarcasm.
Social media has normalized casual cruelty, and those who remove the "casual" from that descriptor are simply taking it several repellent steps further than the rest of us. That internet trolls typically behave better in the real world is not, however, solely from fear of public shaming and repercussions, or even that their fundamental humanity is activated in empathetic, face-to-face conversations. It may be that they lack much of a "real world" — a strong sense of community — to begin with, and now have trouble relating to others.
Andrew Reiner, an English professor at Towson University who teaches a seminar called "Mister Rogers 101: Why Civility and Community Still Matter," attributes much of the decline in civility, especially among younger people, to Americans' living in relative sequestration. The majority of his students tell him they barely knew their neighbors growing up, corroborating thinkers like Robert Putnam, who in his 2000 book, "Bowling Alone," argued that civic engagement is diminishing. Consequently, Professor Reiner believes they have little experience in working through conflicts with people with whom they must figure out a way to get along.
"Civility is the idea that you're not always going to agree but you still have to make it work," he said. "We fear our ideas clashing with somebody else's, even when we're all ultimately pulling for the same thing."
This leads to a vicious cycle in which the breakdowns of civility and community reinforce one another.
"People think, 'If I disagree with you, then I have to dislike you, so why should I go to a neighborhood meeting when it's clear I'm going to disagree with them?'" he said.
Professor Reiner also chalked up some of the devolution of basic courtesy to people's increasingly digitized existence and engagement with their phones, not one another. For an assignment, he asks his students to experiment with old-fashioned civility by committing random acts of kindness and eating with strangers.
"It's about trying to get beyond our own insecurities and get past the possibility of rejection, and that never has to happen with our online lives," he said. "It reintroduces the idea of social risk-taking, which not that long ago was the norm, and learning how to be uncomfortable and relearning the skills of how to talk face to face."
Though the internet receives the brunt of censure for corroding manners, other elements of popular culture aren't much more elevated. In my neighborhood subway station a few months ago, two posters near each other for the TV shows "Graves" (about a former president) and "Those Who Can't" (a comedy about teachers) both featured lightly obscured depictions of the middle finger. After the election, as I looked at the one depicting Nick Nolte in front of an American flag with the presidential seal covering his offending hand, it no longer seemed so shocking that Mr. Trump would soon occupy the Oval Office.
And the putative employer wielding all the power over labor is a trademark of reality TV, where Mr. Trump honed his brand for 14 seasons on NBC and trained us to think of a blustery television personality like him as a regular and revered figure in contemporary America. We have long had game and talent shows, but elimination from them used to be gentler — or, in the case of "The Gong Show," at least goofier — than being brusquely told, "You're fired," "You are the weakest link" or receiving Simon Cowell's withering exit-interview critiques.
In the dog-eat-dog environments of these programs, cooperation and kindness are readily abandoned for back-stabbing and character assassination. Short-term strategic alliances sometimes form among rivals, but the rules of the games preclude the possibility of something like collective bargaining. Likewise, union membership has drastically shrunk in the private sector over the last four decades. Why sacrifice for another person when there can be just one top chef or model or singer, one bachelorette with the final rose, one survivor — or in your own workplace, one promotion this financial quarter amid a spate of layoffs?
As evinced by the long-running "Real Housewives" series, calm conflict resolution does not make for good ratings. Even cake baking is now a fight to the finish.
Rather than seeking the comfort of known faces with the fictional, loving families and buddies from "The Brady Bunch," "Cheers" and "Friends," we now crave the company of supposedly "real" squabbling family members or acquaintances from documentary-style shows, perhaps as consolation for most likely watching them by ourselves, on a small laptop or phone screen.
"We would rather watch families on reality TV than do the hard work of being in a community with our own families," Professor Reiner said.
Many critics of Mr. Trump have drawn parallels between this era and 1930s Germany. But when it comes to incivility and the 45th president, a more apt epoch may be 1950s America and its Communist witch hunts, specifically a quotation from the lawyer Joseph N. Welch in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. (The chief counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy was Roy Cohn, who later went on to become a close friend and business associate of Mr. Trump's.)
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" Mr. Welch asked Mr. McCarthy after Mr. McCarthy alleged that one of Mr. Welch's fellow lawyers was a Communist.
It is a question many would like to pose to Mr. Trump — and one we all, nasty sirs and women alike, should be asking ourselves.
Teddy Wayne is the author of three novels, most recently "Loner."
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The show, which began in mid-January, has 10 white rappers compete, via different performance-related challenges, for a $100,000 prize. There are 10 episodes.
Michael Berrin, also known as MC Serch. Berrin may not be a "rap legend," as VH1's website calls him, but he was a co-founder of Third Bass, a well-known rap group from the late '80s and early '90s.
Berrin, who is Jewish, worked until recently for a very popular Detroit radio station that mostly plays hip hop music and whose listening audience is mostly black. He was the only white DJ on the station since Casey Kasem worked for the station back in the '50s.
As reported in a January 25 issue of the Detroit Jewish News, Berrin, 39, and his wife, Chantel, are members of Congregation Sharrey Zedek, a large Conservative synagogue in suburban Detroit.
In a 1993 profile in the News, Chantel, who is black and a convert to Judaism–talked about her conversion and Michael talked about race and religion.
The Berrin family always check "other" or the "multicultural" box when to comes to race. "It's not fair for a child to have to choose in claiming one parent or the other when [a child is] a combination of both," says Chantel. "When people ask me what race my kids are, I say, 'human,'" says Michael.
On Jan. 29, Jessalyn Gilsig, 36, joined the cast of the hit NBC show "Heroes" as the mother of teenage "hero" Claire Bennett (Hayden Panttiere). Gilsig, a very pretty actress who co-starred on TV's "Boston Public" and "Nip/Tuck" (as Gina Russo), will appear in a fairly large "arc" of "Heroes" episodes this season.
Gilsig was born in Montreal, the daughter of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. In a 2000 interview, she said that she grew up celebrating the major Jewish and Christian holidays. In 2005, she married Jewish producer Bobby Salomon in a Jewish wedding and the couple had a daughter last September. Salomon, Gilsig says, was the "cool guy" in their Montreal high school (quarterback of the football team) and they briefly dated in high school. He called her when he moved to Hollywood in 2002 and their friendship soon became a renewed romance.
On Monday, Feb. 19, "Heroes" will introduce Israeli character Hana Gitelman, a new "hero." Hana's grandmother fought the Nazis and her mother fought in the Six-Day War. Both were killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack, which Hana survived. Playing Hana is actress Stana Katic, who I don't believe is Jewish in real life.
British film director Stephen Frears, 65, is nominated for the best director Oscar for his work on The Queen. This film covers the period following the death of Princess Diana in which the British Royal family was heavily criticized for not appearing to share the country's sadness about Diana's death.
Frears mostly directed British TV shows until his 1985 film, My Beautiful Launderette,became an unexpected box office and critical hit. Since then, he has directed a number of other critically acclaimed films, including The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons and Dirty Pretty Things. His 2001 film, Liam was about British anti-Semitism in the 1930s. While an honorable effort, Liam is not ranked among Frears' best films.
Stephen Frears is the son of an Anglican (Episcopal) father and a Jewish mother. He was raised an Anglican and didn't know his mother was Jewish until he was in his late '20s. His brother, who knew the truth, told Stephen about their mother not long after Stephen married his current wife, highly respected Jewish painter Annie Rothenstein.
that he thought his mother hid being Jewish because of the low-key anti-Semitism so prevalent in Britain–especially right after World War II. Frears added that this atmosphere contrasted with the much more open attitude about being Jewish he found when he got a chance to work in America.
Frears' comment is somewhat seconded by a personal anecdote told by British actress Helen Mirren, 61, who played Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. Mirren, who is a virtual shoo-in for the best actress Oscar for her performance, is the daughter of a Russian Orthodox aristocrat who got stranded in Britain by the Russian Revolution and an English Christian mother. While her parents were liberals, she said, they hit the roof when they found out her first serious boyfriend was Jewish. They weren't "that liberal," she said.
Peter Morgan, who wrote The Queen, is nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay. Morgan's Jewish father, Arthur Morgenthau, fled Nazi Germany for Britain just before World War II. His mother, a Polish-born Catholic, fled her native country for Britain following the Soviet occupation of Poland right after the war. His parents met in London.
Morgan, 43, calls himself "spiritual," although he was raised in no faith. His wife, he says, is a practicing Roman Catholic and their children are being raised in her religion.


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Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (Avenay-Val-d'Or, Marne, Xampanya, 9 d'agost de 1839 - Canes, Alps Marítims, 5 de març de 1903) fou un filòleg francès. Estudiós de la literatura francesa medieval, marcà de manera determinant la filologia de la darrera part del .

Intentà, nogensmenys, negar l'existència de la llengua occitana evocant una continuïtat entre totes les varietats lingüístiques de l'estat francès, que seria "un vast tapís en el qual els colors variats es fonen en tots els punts en matisos insensiblement degradats".

Vida
Gaston Paris era fill del també filòleg Paulin Paris (1800-1881), cosa que feu que de petit ja conegués la Biblioteca Nacional i les obres de la literatura medieval francesa. Per indicació del seu pare viatjà a Bonn, on fou alumne de Friedrich Diez que tingué un paper important en la seva orientació cap a la filologia romànica, i a altres universitats alemanyes. De retorn a París, estudià a l'École des Chartes on es graduà el 1862 amb la tesi Étude sur le rôle de l'accent latin dans la langue française. Obtingué després el títol de doctor en lletres amb la tesi Histoire poétique de Charlemagne (1865), obra que marcà els estudis sobre l'èpica medieval i que importà la metodologia que havia adquirit a Alemanya.

El 1868 fou nomenat "répétiteur" de llengua francesa a l'École pratique des Hautes Études i des de 1872 fou professor de literatura i lingüística francesa al Collège de France.

Obra
Paris treballà sobretot en el camp de la literatura francesa medieval, tot i que també feu aportacions en el camp de la lingüística com la Grammaire historique de la langue française (1868) o la traducció francesa de la gramàtica històrica romànica de Diez que havia conegut a Bonn. Contribuí a crear l'escola de la romanística francesa i a la consolidació d'aquesta disciplina com a ciència independent, seguint el model de la romanística alemanya. Introduí el mètode de Karl Lachmann a l'edició de textos francesos i occitans antics. El seu llibre sobre la Histoire poétique de Charlemagne (1865) ha estat un dels punts de referència en la discussió sobre els orígens de l'èpica romànica: la seva teoria afavoreix la idea que l'èpica té uns orígens populars i col·lectius; és la teoria que s'ha anomenat "tradicionalisme", i que fou discutida, sobretot pel seu alumne Joseph Bédier.

Fou fundador de la Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature (1866–1935) i de la revista de referència per la romanística Romania (1872–).

Fou escollit membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres el 1876 i de l'Académie Française el 1896 com a successor de Louis Pasteur; hi llegí el discurs d'ingrés el 1897. Va obtenir dues vegades el premi Gobert de l'Académie des Inscriptions: el 1866 per l'Histoire poétique de Charlemagne i el 1872 per la Vie de saint Alexis. Va ser nomenat administrador del Collège de France (1895).

Fou nomenat candidat al premi Nobel de literatura el 1901, 1902 i 1903, però en cap d'aquestes ocasions obtingué el premi. Ell mateix contribuí a la nominació de l'escriptor occità Frederic Mistral per al Nobel.

Publicacions
 Étude sur le rôle de l'accent latin dans la langue française (1862)
 Friedrich Diez, Introduction a la grammaire des langues romanes, traduite de l'allemand par Gaston Paris, Paris, Leipzig: L. Herold, 1863
 Histoire poétique de Charlemagne (París, Franck, 1865)
 Dissertation critique sur le poème latin du Ligurinus attribué à Gunther (1872)
 La Vie de saint Alexis, poème du s. XIe et renouvellements des XIIe, XIIIe, et XIVe siècles, publié avec préfaces, variantes, notes et glossaires par Gaston Paris et Léopold Pannier (1872)
 Chansons du s. XVe, publiées d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris par Gaston Paris et accompagnées de la musique transcrite en notation moderne par Auguste Gevaert (1875)
 Le Petit Poucet et la Grande Ourse (1875)
 Deux rédactions du Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (1876)
 Miracles de Nostre-Dame, par personnages, publiés d'après le ms. de la Bibliothèque nationale, par Gaston Paris et Ulysse Robert (9 volums, 1876-1897)
 Le Mystère de la Passion, d'Arnoul Greban, publié d'après les manuscrits de Paris, avec une introduction et un glossaire, par Gaston Paris et Gaston Raynaud (1878)
 La Vie de saint Gilles, poème du s. XIIe par Guillaume de Berneville, publié d'après le manuscrit unique de Florence par Gaston Paris et Alphonse Bos (1881)
 De la prononciation française depuis le commencement du XVIe, d'après les témoignages des grammairiens (2 volums, 1881-1883)
 La Poésie du Moyen Âge (1885-1895)
 Trois versions rimées de l'Évangile de Nicodème, par Chrétien, André de Coutances et un anonyme, publié d'après les ms. de Florence et de Londres, par Gaston Paris et Alphonse Bos (1885)
 Les Romans en vers du cycle de la Table ronde (1887)
 Manuel d'ancien français : la littérature française au Moyen Âge (s. XIe-s.XIVe (1888)
 Extraits de la Chanson de Roland et de la Vie de saint Louis, par Jean de Joinville publiés avec introduction, notes et glossaires complets, par Gaston Paris (1889)
 Extraits des chroniqueurs français : Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Comines, publiés avec des notices, des notes, un glossaire des termes techniques, par Gaston Paris et Alfred Jeanroy (1892)
 Penseurs et poètes : James Darmesteter, Frédéric Mistral, Sully-Prudhomme, Alexandre Bida, Ernest Renan, Albert Sorel (1896)
 Récits extraits des poètes et prosateurs du Moyen Âge, mis en français moderne, par Gaston Paris (1896)
 Chrestomathie du Moyen Âge, extraits publiés avec des traductions, des notes, une introduction grammaticale et des notices littéraires (1897)
 Jean, sire de Joinville (1897)
 Aventures merveilleuses de Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France, et de la belle Esclarmonde, ainsi que du petit roi de féerie Auberon '1898)
 Orson de Beauvais : chanson de geste du s. XIIe, publié d'après le manuscrit unique de Cheltenham par Gaston Paris (1899)
 Poèmes et légendes du Moyen Âge (1899)
 François Villon (1901)
 Légendes du Moyen Âge : Roncevaux ; le paradis de la reine Sybille ; la légende du Tannhäuser ; le Juif errant ; le lai de l'Oiselet (1903)

Obres publicades pòstumament pels seus deixebles
 Mélanges linguistiques : latin vulgaire et langues romanes, langue française, notes étymologiques, appendice, index (1906-1909)
 Esquisse historique de la littérature française au Moyen Âge (depuis les origines jusqu'à la fin du s. XVe) (1907)
 Mélanges de littérature française du Moyen Âge : la littérature française au Moyen Âge, l'épopée, le roman, l'histoire, la poésie lyrique, la littérature du quinzième siècle (1910-1912)

Referències

Bibliografia
 Ursula Bähler, Gaston Paris et la philologie romane, Ginebra, Droz, 2004,

Enllaços externs

 Pàgina a la web de l'Académie Française
 Biografia de Gaston Paris, per Lara Vilà, a la web de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid [conté també algunes dades sobre el pare, Paulin Paris]
 Obres de Gaston Paris al CCUC
 Article a l'Enciclopèdia Catalana

Alumnes de l'École des Chartes
Membres de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Persones del Marne
Romanistes francesos
Historiadors de la literatura europeus
Distingits amb el Pour le Mérite (classe civil)
Cavallers de la Legió d'Honor
Oficials de la Legió d'Honor
Comandants de la Legió d'Honor
Morts a Canes
Persones del Calvados
Historiadors francesos
Professors de l'École pratique des hautes études

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A three-judge panel is going to hear Mozilla's appeal to restore net neutrality.
The current Congress might have failed to bring back net neutrality but Mozilla isn't giving up. The company is challenging the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom order that took effect last June 2018. The hearing is slated on Feb.1 and three judges are appointed to handle the case.
"Ultimately, only Congress can provide the certainty consumers and businesses need and must redouble its efforts to pass a permanent, modern, and sustainable open internet framework for all Americans," said industry trade group USTelecom president Jonathan Spalter.
The judges that will handle Mozilla's appeal include Patricia Millett, Stephen Williams, and Judith Rogers. Judge Williams has been one of the three judges as well as the senior judge who rejected ISP and others' petition back in May 2017. This is regarding the en banc reevaluation of the earlier decision by a three-judge panel about the FCC's justification to reclassify ISPs as common carriers during the Obama-era administration.
The late President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Williams while the other two judges are both Democratic appointees. Former President Bill Clinton appointed Judge Rogers while previous President Barack Obama appointed Judge Millet who vigorously disagreed for reproductive rights and was addressed to be a deserving scion to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, America's Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Judge Rogers is deliberated a politically reasonable judge and precise in her experience on how federal agencies rightly make resolutions. It is expected when Mozilla and the FCC deal with each other on February 1.
The new regulation has reclassified Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as information services. It likewise abolished the guidelines that prohibited broadband providers from blocking and throttling contents aside from paid prioritization. Moreover, it handed over the implementation of net neutrality to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Justice's authority.


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Time, TV set for Tennessee-Georgia game on September 29
Photo: Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY Sports
Georgia's game at home against the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday, Sept. 29 will be televised by CBS at 3:30pm ET, the conference has announced.
UGA defeated Tennessee 41-0 last season in Knoxville. The Volunteers currently lead the overall series with the Bulldogs 23-22-2.
This will be Georgia's second appearance on CBS this season. The Bulldogs defeated South Carolina 41-17 earlier this season on CBS. UGA plays at Missouri this weekend and the game will be televised by ESPN at noon ET.
Kickoff and television for the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville is already set for 3:30pm ET on CBS.
SEC Schedule – Week 5 (Sept. 29)
Arkansas vs. Texas A&M (in Arlington) – Noon, ESPN
Louisiana at Alabama – Noon, SECN
Tennessee at Georgia – 3:30pm, CBS
Southern Miss at Auburn – 4pm, SECN
Tennessee State at Vanderbilt – 4pm, SECN Alt.
Florida at Mississippi State – 6pm, ESPN
South Carolina at Kentucky – 7:30pm, SECN
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Archive for June 2021
Social Media Guidelines for Community Review
All of us at the Eclipse Foundation are very proud of the fact that the many thousands of individuals who collaborate across our many channels have always communicated in a very professional, respectful, and welcoming manner. It's particularly gratifying for me that, while we've had a Community Code of Conduct for years, we've received very few complaints.
However, even our most effective policies need to be updated to reflect the way our community, and the channels we use to communicate, are evolving. Recently, we published a new Communication Channel Guidelines document. Our next significant update is to draft a set of social media guidelines. The purposes of these social media guidelines are to provide guidance to the many community members who represent our projects, working groups, and events through various social media channels. I encourage all community members to review our proposed social media guidelines and provide constructive, actionable feedback on the content. We're collecting community input until July 12 at 11:59 PM PT through GitLab.
With our extensive use of social media platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slack, and engagement in online conversations based on blogs, YouTube videos, news articles, Reddit posts, and wikis, it's extremely important that everyone officially representing the Eclipse Foundation adheres to a consistent set of responsible and professional behaviors across all channels.
Ongoing Improvements in Policies and Processes
Our proposed guidelines for social media communications are the first step in a larger effort to better clarify how the standards and responsibilities outlined in the Community Code of Conduct apply to the various aspects of "life at the Eclipse Foundation."
Over the coming months, we'll be providing additional guidelines related to our code of conduct. In the spirit of the open collaboration and full transparency that we all value so highly, we'll keep you up to date on our latest proposed guidelines and processes as they become available for review.
Shaping the Future of the Eclipse IDE
I'm very pleased to share the news that multiple Eclipse Foundation members have joined forces in a new working group focused on advancing and sustaining the Eclipse IDE used by millions of developers the world over. The Eclipse IDE Working Group members will leverage our governance framework to openly collaborate and ensure the Eclipse IDE software suite continues to meet developers' needs for high quality tools.
To achieve this goal, the working group members — which currently includes Bosch, EclipseSource, IBM, Kichwa Coders, Renesas, SAP, VMware, and Yatta Solutions — will provide governance, guidance, and funding to the communities that deliver and maintain the Eclipse IDE software components. They will also oversee the related planning, delivery processes, and delivery technologies for the software suite. The projects that make up the Eclipse IDE such as Platform, JDT, and CDT are already wonderfully active, diverse, and vibrant. The working group will further support and strengthen their contributions by providing additional resources.
This is great news for everyone who already relies on the Eclipse Platform, desktop IDE, and underlying technologies as well as those who are thinking about adopting the software. With the focus and open collaboration the working group structure enables, everyone can rest assured there is a strong, shared vision for the future of the IDE and its related components. The software will remain relevant, sustainable, and high quality as it evolves.
In the 20 years since the Eclipse IDE was first released, it has become one of the world's most popular and prolific desktop development environments. With tens of millions of downloads and billions of dollars in shared investment, the Eclipse IDE is a critical platform for millions of developers globally, so it's very important that it remains vital.
Check Out the Latest Eclipse IDE Release
We timed the announcement of the Eclipse IDE Working Group to coincide with the latest quarterly Eclipse IDE simultaneous release to highlight how robust this community is. The Eclipse IDE 2021-06 release is the result of a huge collaborative effort from our dedicated community that encompasses:
· More than 70 participating projects
· 110 committers
· 174 contributors
· Almost 80 million lines of code
Congratulations to all of the committers, projects, and Foundation staff involved!
I encourage everyone to check out this latest Eclipse IDE release. It provides a number of new features that will help you develop modern, world-class applications, including:
· Java 16 support
· Improved Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) capabilities such as new cleanups and enhanced debug capabilities
· Mac AArch64 (Arm64) support for Apple M1-based systems
· Improved embedded terminal support, including the ability to open files and links with Ctrl+Click, and remembering working directory, shell, and other settings
For more information and the links to download the software, visit the Eclipse IDE 2021-06 release page.
Get Involved in the Eclipse IDE Working Group
If the Eclipse IDE is important to your organization's development efforts, joining the working group is a great way to help support and shape the evolution of a resource your teams rely on.
To learn more about how to get involved with the Eclipse IDE Working Group, visit the Eclipse IDE Working Group website, or see the working group's Charter and Participation Agreement. Working group members benefit from a broad range of services, including exclusive access to detailed industry research findings, marketing assistance, and expert open source governance.We also welcome companies that want to support the Eclipse IDE without joining the working group. To learn more about sponsoring the Eclipse IDE, please see the working group's Sponsorship Agreement. Individuals can also donate to the Eclipse IDE.
How Real Is IoT & Edge Commercial Adoption in 2021?
Our 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption survey results are out now.
In this second edition of the survey, we wanted to gain a better understanding of the overall IoT & edge ecosystem challenges and concerns of today's organizations. This year's survey not only focuses on how today's organizations are perceiving IoT and edge adoption on a macro level, but also to gain valuable insights on the overall IoT & Edge ecosystem's challenges and concerns. We found — as organizations adapt to market changes and a world impacted by COVID-19 — that IoT and edge adoption has risen.
Here are some of the key findings from the survey:
IoT technologies are being adopted at an accelerated rate. 47% of respondents currently deploy IoT solutions and an additional 39% plan to deploy within the next 12 to 24 months.
Edge computing adoption is also picking up. 54% of organizations are either utilizing or planning to utilize edge computing technologies within 12 months. Another 30% have plans to evaluate edge deployments over the next 12 to 24 months.
74% of organizations factor open source into their deployment plans, a 14% increase over the 2019 survey. This clearly demonstrates that the dominant IoT & Edge platforms will either be open source or based on open source.
The top 3 IoT and edge operational challenges are: 1) End-to-end IoT solution monitoring and management; 2) Device management; and 3) Securing the network / devices / data.
There is a trend towards a Hybrid Cloud strategy. 44% of respondents suggest that their IoT deployments are using, or will use, a Hybrid Cloud (i.e. composed of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures such as private and public), an increase from 22% in 2019.
Reading Between The Commercial Lines
The survey asked respondents to identify the requirements, priorities, and challenges they're facing as they are planning, implementing, and managing commercial IoT and edge solutions, including those based on open source technologies. The survey ran for two months in early 2021 and received responses from more than 300 individuals from a wide range of industries and organizations. You can download the 2021 IoT & Edge Commercial Adoption Survey Report now.
As our survey results revealed, each player in the IoT and edge ecosystem has an important role in driving commercial adoption. Here are some key recommendations broken down by stakeholder group.
Enterprises:
Should select vendors and service providers that embrace open standards and the use of customizable, production-ready open source building blocks. Open source enables scalability and flexibility in IoT and Edge solutions, while avoiding the lock-in and cost issues associated with proprietary solutions.
Should start planning deployments of IoT and edge technologies at scale. The ecosystem has matured significantly, allowing enterprises to be more ambitious in their IoT and Edge initiatives. With a robust ecosystem, industry leaders can confidently deploy and start realizing the full benefits of the technology.
Solution Providers:
Should incorporate open source platforms that are capable of running seamlessly across all environments (i.e. at the edge, on-premises, and in the cloud), with a focus around hybrid, multi-cloud and private cloud offerings that enable customers to avoid using a public cloud for their mission-critical data.
IoT-focused solution providers should add edge computing into their offerings. Enterprises are increasingly becoming aware of the benefits of edge computing, including reduced latency and bandwidth savings. To stay competitive, solution providers need an edge computing strategy if they do not have one already.
Platform & Software Vendors:
Should implement data security and sovereignty solutions across devices and applications. Organizations must pay particular attention to their ability to retain control over data flow and storage, e.g. for data gathered from IoT sensors and devices.
Should create offerings that optimize certain workflows and/or mitigate specific challenges. While Enterprises and Solution Providers are adept at integrating and deploying the various components, broadscale adoption will be accelerated through targeted platform innovations that simplify critical processes and resolve deployment challenges out of the box.
Be Part Of Something Big
It will take a diverse community co-developing a uniform set of building blocks based on open source and open standards to drive the broad industry adoption of IoT and edge technologies. If you're interested in participating in the industry-scale collaboration in open source IoT and edge technologies, please visit Eclipse IoT and the Edge Native Working Group to get involved. As an added benefit of membership, Eclipse IoT and Edge Native members receive early and exclusive access to detailed industry research findings and expert guidance.
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Here are some terrific kid activities to help your children with learning letters.
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Polaroid, the pioneer of instant photography turns years
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Without a Polaroid, that moment would have faded over the years. He lived in Jerusalem and had just married his wife, whom he met in the same city. They decided to celebrate by smoking a shisha in the middle of the Arab neighborhood. Shortly after sitting down on the terrace, before taking the first puff, a habibi - he prefers to call it - appeared with a Polaroid in his hand. Without saying a word, he took a photo of them, gave it to them, and in about 60 seconds the magic emerged: portrayed forever. "It is the first photo I have with her and she is still at home. We immortalized that unique moment thanks to a Polaroid ", comments Emilio Morenatti, director of photography for AP in Spain and Portugal.
This Saturday marks 72 years since the first instant camera on the market, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, was marketed . With an eye to Christmas, the company thought that 57 units would be enough. They could only be bought at Jordan Marsh stores in Boston, but as soon as they went on sale, they sold out. Its simplicity, ease of transport and immediacy of development made it the photographic innovation of the moment and of decades after, such as in the 1960s, when he created a film that took instant color images.
Edward H. Land, founder of Polaroid, changed the history of the industry . He made the cover in 1972 of Life magazine, which referred to him as "genius" and spoke of a "magic camera." Ansel Adams, Chuck Close and Robert Frank were some of the most reputable photographers who completely bet on this new style of portraying reality. Such fascination caused that, even 10 years ago, the photo that Andy Warhol took of the actress Farrah Fawcett was sold at the Sotheby's auction house for 35,578 euros. "Polaroid still has a retro, vintage touch that is still cool. You go to a party, take out your camera and have a great time, "suggests Morenatti.
Although perhaps the greatest characteristic in the transformation it caused in the sector came from its infinite possibilities . It allowed an unprecedented creativity, that people saw the photograph and gave it to the moment. In the words of photographer Juanma Castro, everything was very pictorial. What he refers to, for example, is one of the first films he put on sale, the SX-70. Its chemical composition made it possible that, when pressing the image with a pointed object, the colors were mixed in a strange way. "The effects were extremely rare. Something like very artistic ", he maintains.
Magic was also used with low-sensitivity film - " it was a displeasure for the photographers who stopped making it, "says Castro - . If in the middle of the development process we detached the cardboard from the film and took it to an absorbent cardboard, the image would be transferred creating pictorial effects. And to finish off this window of creativity, if you put the images in hot water, the emulsion of the film where they were exposed would come off. That is, they floated and you could pick them up to transfer them to other media, such as wood or paper. "Polaroid allowed you to dream of a different kind of photography. Its virtue was that it generated a photographic object in itself. I didn't need anything else. "
'Impossible Project'
Polaroid faced two bankruptcies in just seven years. The first in 2001, which managed to overcome it because it was acquired by Petter Group Worldwide in 2005. But what no one expected is that this same company would be accused of fraud by the US authorities on September 24, 2008. As of this moment, just one year after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world, the situation was irreversible. The bankruptcy had no turning back and the company began to be called Polaroid / PLR IP Holidngs, just as, in a desperate attempt to avoid its analog death , three entrepreneurs founded the Impossible Project and invested more capital to acquire the machinery that was being dismantled and a factory in Holland.
Despite the fact that Polaroid continues to operate today - under the Polaroid Originals name and 100% owned by the Impossible Project - the price of films is expensive, the quality is inferior, and the market is pointing in another direction. "All the chemist has passed away, but the project is true that it has not died. I think it is worth mentioning that it is still going ahead ", Morenatti argues. Paradoxically, during this troubled time, instant photography has been in some good health. Fuji has opted for this style of cameras and for continuing with the manufacture of instant films. Its success was such that, four years ago, Amazon claimed that the best-selling photographic product was Fuji's instant films. Although the images are smaller than the classic Polaroids, the colors are similar and the result satisfies the most exquisite palates.
For a professional like Morenatti, wearing the legendary Polaroid among his team has served as both inspiration and a passport to many countries . Remember that when you started in photography, you saw a movie in which an anthropologist earned the trust of a tribe by giving them photos. When he toured Morocco about 30 years ago, he used the same technique. And in Malawi he repeated modus operandi . "I was collaborating with an NGO. That Polaroid opened a lot of doors for me. People were surprised to see themselves in a snapshot. I gave them to him and he could work more easily ", he says.
Magnetized in the fridge, framed or hung with a thumbtack. It is not difficult to find a Polaroid lost at home. Even some directors of photography use this camera on set to check what they are recording at the moment. Nowadays, a minute seems like an eternity when in seconds we take dozens of images . It is the result of having at your fingertips the option to portray everything instantly. Much the same as Polaroid achieved in the late 1940s through a completely innovative technique. "It generated a number of photographic objects of great value. He had a virtue or a defect, depending on how you look at it. He did not repeat the results. The photos were always different even though you did the same ", concludes Castro.
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Bob Vollmer, now age 102, on Aug. 2, 2016. Vollmer, who is Indiana's oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job.
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This Aug. 2, 2016 photo provided by Indiana Department of Natural Resources shows Bob Vollmer. Vollmer, 102, who is Indiana's oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job.
Indiana's oldest state employee retiring at 102
INDIANAPOLIS — A 102-year-old man who is Indiana's oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job, saying that "your body tells you when it's time to go."
Bob Vollmer plans to report to work for the last time Feb. 6 as a surveyor for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The southern Indiana man, whose mother lived to be 108, joined the state agency in 1962.
The World War II veteran still travels Indiana collecting technical field data and confirming boundary lines for DNR-managed properties, but he said that his body finally is telling him it's time to retire.
"I guess your body tells you when it's time to go," Vollmer told WXIN-TV. "Doctors tell me that's one reason I'm still going. I got good lungs."
Vollmer said he plans to spend his retirement devoting himself to reading and farming. He also plans to take trips to some of the South Pacific islands he was on during his wartime service with the U.S. Navy.
Vollmer enlisted in the Navy after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, according to a state announcement in 2016, when Gov. Eric Holcomb awarded him a Sagamore of the Wabash — one of Indiana's highest honors.
After the war, Vollmer graduated from Purdue University with a degree in biological and agricultural engineering in 1952. He then worked for the Wabash Valley Association on reservoir and flood control projects before coming to work for the DNR.
During his DNR career, the tools of the surveying trade evolved from paper and pencil to high-tech gear such as a handheld GPS device.
Vollmer said that spending time on ships during World War II provided inspiration for his later career with the DNR.
"One of the officers got on a bridge with a sextant, and a wristwatch," he said, adding that the officer was charting their position. "Of course later on I just realized that's part of surveying."
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Local and national Jewish organisations in the US are condemning a Muslim lawyer, a civil rights attorney to be precise, who leads the San Francisco office of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and is accused of antisemitism owing to a 27 November speech. Zahra Billoo's speech, which drew sharp criticism after excerpts were republished by the Israel-advocacy website Israellycool on 2 December, implored attendees gathered at a pro-Palestinian conference in Chicago to vehemently oppose not only extreme right-wing forces but also "polite Zionists," including the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federations, Hillel and "Zionist synagogues," reported Jewish Exponent.
"When we talk about Islamophobia, we think oftentimes about the vehement fascists," Billoo said. "But I also want us to pay attention to the polite Zionists. The ones that say, 'Let's just break bread together.'"
"They are not your friends," she said.
In the speech, delivered at an annual conference of American Muslims for Palestine, Billoo described a well-funded campaign to bolster Islamophobia around the world and an interconnected network of Zionist-supporting organisations working to harm Muslims. The Muslim lawyer also repeated an unsupported claim, one that circulates among some activist groups, that "police officers in the United States who kill unarmed black men, women and children are trained by the Israeli military".
A number of Jewish organisations damned her comments, saying they echoed antisemitic tropes of Jewish power and control. The ADL's national director Jonathan Greenblatt issued a searing rebuke on Twitter, calling them "textbook vile, antisemitic, conspiracy-laden garbage attacking the mainstream US Jewish community."
The San Francisco-based office of the Jewish Community Relations Council abraded the speech in a statement, calling it "antisemitic and deplorable, seeking to divide and besmirch efforts at cooperation and coexistence."
The development shines a harsh light on the political chasm that separates many mainstream Jewish organisations from pro-Palestinian Muslim activists on the subject of Israel, even as they may agree on other political issues such as gun control, immigrant rights and combating racism.
The statements were also a provocative rebuke of not only right-wing, pro-settlement religious Zionism, but also more moderate Zionist views widely held in the American Jewish community, including by members of so-called "Zionist synagogues." According to a recent Pew survey, roughly 8 in 10 American Jews say they feel a connection to Israel and that it is an important part of their Jewish identity.
Billoo said during the speech she does not support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Allah has promised us victory," she said.
The Muslim civil rights attorney has not yet commented on the controversy. Billoo, a member of CAIR since 2009, is a celebrated civil rights attorney with a law degree from UC Hastings who appears frequently in television news interviews and newspapers. Over the last 12 years she has helped pursue civil rights lawsuits against Southwest Airlines, Abercrombie & Fitch and the US Justice Department, and has won accolades for her work — she was recently named a Pioneer in Justice fellow, a five-year program for social justice advocates, by the SF-based Levi Strauss Foundation.
Billoo has also partnered with left-leaning Jewish groups. In 2019 she joined a Hanukkah event to speak to congregants at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, California, a congregation that often holds events in support of Palestinians, and a couple of years before that spoke on a panel about fears of rising Islamophobia and antisemitism.
In 2016, a few weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Billoo posted on Facebook, "He's going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews."
She is also, evidently, a fan of New York bagels. And yet this is not her first time drawing scrutiny from Jewish and pro-Israel groups. In 2019 Billoo became one of a handful of Women's March organizers who either left or were removed from organizing roles amid claims of anti-Israel animosity and antisemitism. Her removal came after criticism from the ADL and others stemming from a 2015 tweet in which she wrote: "I'm more afraid of racist Zionists who support Apartheid Israel than of the mentally ill young people the #FBI recruits to join ISIS."
The national office of CAIR did not respond to a request for comment.
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Godzilla – The Most Recognizable Icon of Post War Japanese Culture
cinematography	 3. November 2015 0 Tabea Tietz
Suit fitting on the set of Godzilla Raids Again (1955), with Haruo Nakajima portraying Godzilla on the left.
On November 3, 1954, the very first of a series of 28 Godzilla films premiered. The film focuses on Godzilla, a prehistoric monster resurrected by repeated nuclear tests in the Pacific, who ravages Japan and reignites the horrors of nuclear devastation to the very nation that experienced it first-hand. Since his debut, Godzilla has morphed into a worldwide cultural icon.
The Most Recognizable Symbol of Japanese Culture
Godzilla belongs to the most recognizable symbols of Japanese culture and is especially considered successful due to the 'demonstration' of where science and technology can fail and for its allegory of nuclear weapons in general. In the early Godzilla films, especially in the original from 1954, the creature is described as a frightening nuclear monster and it is believed that it represented the fears that many Japanese held about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through the years, Godzilla changed its appearance from a destructive frightening character to a more heroic as the films became more and more targeted to children.
1954 Japanese movie poster for 1954 Japanese film Godzilla.
Godzilla's Atomic Breath
During the early planning stage of the first Godzilla, the creature was defined as a 'cross between a gorilla and a whale' taking into account its size, power, and aquatic origin. Godzilla's iconic character design was conceived as that of an amphibious reptilian monster based around the loose concept of a dinosaur with an erect standing posture, scaly skin, an anthropomorphic torso with muscular arms, spikes on its back and tail, and a furrowed brow. Its iconic weapon is the 'atomic breath', to be understood as a nuclear blast that generates inside of its body and unleashes from its jaws in the form of a blue or red radioactive heat ray. Godzilla is immune to conventional weaponry thanks to its rugged hide and ability to regenerate, and as a result of surviving a nuclear explosion, it cannot be destroyed by anything less powerful. Godzilla's overall moral 'understandings' are not clear. It is said that he does not like humanity and does not care about destruction and property in general, it fights humanity against common threats and also will not eat humans.
Godzilla's characteristic roar came about after unsatisfactory sound experiments with various animal voices. Akira Ifukube, the composer of the film music for the first Godzilla film from 1954, finally suggested using a musical instrument for the voice. The roar was produced with a double bass, over the strings of which a leather glove coated with pine resin was painted lengthwise.
It's a Matter of Size…
Throughout the movies, Godzilla's size is inconsistent. While the creature was scaled to be 50 meters tall in the original movie from 1954, it was estimated to be 122m tall in the American adaptation from 1956. Its general appearance ranges from actors wearing latex costumes to being rendered in animatronic, stop-motion and computer-generated form. In the 2014 Godzilla film, the character was portrayed entirely via CGI. Godzilla's design in the reboot was intended to stay true to that of the original series, though the film's special effects team strove to make the monster "more dynamic than a guy in a big rubber suit."
In general, Godzilla's fame as well as appearance had an impact on the scientific community. Paleontologists have written tongue-in-cheek speculative articles about Godzilla's biology, with Ken Carpenter tentatively classifying it as a ceratosaur based on its skull shape, four fingered hands and dorsal scutes, and paleontologist Darren Naish expressing skepticism while commenting on Godzilla's unusual morphology.
[1] The Origins of Godzilla
[2] The History of Godzilla
[3] Godzilla at Wikidata
[4] What's In A Roar? Crafting Godzilla's Iconic Sound. NPR.org
[5] Godzilla on IMDb
[6] Timeline of Monster Movies with Dinosaurs, via Wikidata
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The Nimrod Expedition, more formally known as the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by the explorer Ernest Shackleton, who would become one of the most famous Antarctic explorers. Despite its name, the expedition was not sponsored by the state or any large institutions, but by wealthy individuals, who benefited by having natural features named after them.
The Nimrod Expedition, named after its ship, the 300-ton Nimrod, departed Great Britain on 7 August 1907. The expedition was characterized by the use of fancy flourishes, such as motor traction and Manchurian ponies, which hindered more than helped it. The expedition also brought sledge dogs, which in 1911 were used by Roald Amundsen to reach the South Pole, but these were only employed by Shackleton at base camp.
The Nimrod Expedition was led by Ernest Shackleton.
After journeying overseas from Britain to New Zealand, the Nimrod was towed by a government ship to the Antarctic circle, a distance of 1,650 miles (2,750 km). Upon the first sight of pack ice, the ship was cut free to travel under its own power. After several attempts to land in King Edward VII Land, the Nimrod Expedition had to change course to McMurdo Sound, which Shackleton had previously promised to leave entirely to the more popular Antarctic explorer Robin Falcon Scott.
After a difficult landing and unloading, the Nimrod Expedition made camp at Cape Royds. To give his expedition an immediate purpose, Shackleton ordered an attempt to summit Mount Erebus, a 12,450 ft (3,790 m) tall mountain on Ross Island that had never yet been summitted. After a week of hiking up and down the mountain, the team completed a successful summitting, and returned to Cape Royds "nearly dead."
The greatest part of the journey was yet to begin. On 28 October 1908, a four-person party, including Shackleton, began a southward march — a South Pole attempt. From the beginning, the party was encumbered by the ponies it brought along, with a pony needing to be shot every few days due to lameness resulting from walking on the broken ice surfaces.
After about a week of travel, the Nimrod Expedition began to venture into unknown territory, ascending the foothills of the Antarctic Mountains and passing through them via the newly-discovered Beardmore Glacier. During its ascent, they lost a pony — and nearly an expedition member — down a deep crevasse.
After nearly a month of continued travel past the mountains, the expedition reached as far as it could go — about 100 miles (160.93 km) from the South Pole, or 88 degrees south. After 73 days total travel, the party made it back to Cape Royds just in time to catch their ship before it had to leave to avoid being frozen in pack ice. Meanwhile, another, separate party from the same expedition had reached the South Magnetic Pole and surveyed the McMurdo Dry Valleys region. Successful in numerous ways but without reaching the grand prize of the South Pole, the Nimrod Expedition concluded on 14 June 1909, when the party made it back to England.
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growing up i often heard the expression "you nimrod", and only knew it meant you were stupid. now i understand where it came from - my grandparents were all born 1896-1904. very interesting, thanks. maybe I'll have to look up more of their expressions!
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this was very helpful. thanks.


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It is expected that the Constitutional Court is considering the fate of the president of the country, and consider this issue will continue at least 180 days. And was president of South Korea, Pak John Hay, had previously announced that it would resign from her post, as soon as the parliament a plan to transfer power securely in the country.
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