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The Price of Vulnerability on The Bachelor
March 3, 2016 by charishreid	Leave a comment
I admit that I watch The Bachelor. It's been on for years and I'm just now getting around to it. Every Wednesday night (because I only have Hulu.com) my husband and I sit down to watch this train wreck and we love it. But there are some of the things I've seen have started to bother me. Let me break it down.
At this point of the game, with only two or three episode left, I believe that no female who wins this game, wins life. I desperately want the "winner" to leave Ben at the alter and make a phone call to her father to say: "Hey dad, we've probably got things to work on. Wanna get a coffee and catch up?" But here we are. There will be a winner and they will end up with Ben.
Let's talk about Ben. Ben Higgins, software engineer from Indiana, is a nice guy. America came to know him from the previous season of The Bachelorette, when Kaitlyn Bristrowe dumped him. We felt terrible for Higgins because he believe he "could never be loved." This season, however, everything is looking up for ol' Higgins because he's got the cards now. 26 of them, in fact. What bothers me about Ben Higgins is not quite his humorless personality, but his somewhat obsessive demands that his girls be more vulnerable around him. Ben wants honestly, like anyone I assume, but he is constantly badgering the women to be more open. Be more vulnerable.
Which should be easy enough for the female contestants, since it is literally their jobs. The whole show depends on the women constantly being their feelings. Whether it's through their own insecurities or the steady stream of alcohol offered to them, these women are all about their feelings and they have not been afraid to tell Ben Higgins.
What I would like to know is: How vulnerable do the women have to be for Ben to take them seriously? After all, Jubilee Sharpe (you know, the black one) laid everything on the line and revealed to Higgins that she was the only person in her family to survive the an earthquake in Haiti. She was literally the last of her bloodline. Nothing gets more vulnerable than that.
Amanda Stanton bared her soul about how much her two children meant to her and how they've picked up the pieces after a turbulent relationship with Stanton's ex-boyfriend. Higgins met her children. He told her how wonderful her children were and how he had no qualms about being a step-father.
Caila Quinn was badgered by Higgins to open up, say what was on her mind, be more vulnerable. He said that Quinn was so very smiley, but wondered what else was there. Well Quinn was vulnerable too, much to her demise. After introducing Higgins to her family, after voicing her reservations about being too open, she broke down and told Higgins: "I'm in love with you."
Ben's response? A placid smile. He didn't return the favor, instead he took her to the Fantasy Suite and probably had sex with her.
What happened to these women?
Jubilee Sharpe's pain and heartache was just too real for Higgins to handle. In the face of it, he may have kept Sharpe on the show out of pity. When she rebuffed him in the form of not acting grateful enough to go on group dates, he had to let her go. While Laura Stanton was gung-ho from the start, one has to wonder if the potential non-traditional family was to be avoided at all costs. Stanton raised an important point for Higgins when he dismissed her: "If you knew you had doubts. . ."
Which was similar to Caila Quinn's sentiments. While her expression looked as if she wanted to ask an important question, Higgins started rambling about how difficult decision-making was and revealed to Quinn that he was in love with two women that weren't here. Had she taken a breath and collected her thoughts, I believe she would have asked: "Did you know I wasn't the one before sleeping with me? A question that must have hung on the lips of many viewers as they watched the fiery car crash that was Ben and Caila.
Vulnerability. What on earth does this mean on The Bachelor?
Ben doesn't want to know the truth behind any of these women. And if we look really hard at ourselves, we viewer don't want truth and honesty either. What worries me the most, is that this show teaches women the same awful lesson: women are wholly responsible for supplying the emotions and vulnerability in their relationships. In order to please "any man" (and Ben is our substitute for "any man") women must be available and open at every turn.
On this show, Ben has absolutely no obligation to be open and vulnerable. In fact, it's impossible for him to be open and vulnerable because there are too many women and this is a competition where the audience should be surprised in the end. Maybe Jojo Fletcher's brothers were right: "Ben, you're brainwashing these girls."
The dangerous thing about this show is that men have no reason to vulnerable with women. Sure, Higgins cried while talking to Lauren Bushnell's sister (he made that very very clear when he told Bushnell all about it). But on the whole, this show's narrative gives men permission to be completely closed off from their emotions and it demands that women must stay open and available to men they barely know. Yes, the current Bachelor is a "nice guy," but these women don't know him.
Women already have anxiety about being nice to men they don't know. Any woman who is approached by a man in a bar, feel obligated to be open. The consequences of not being open can be dangerous for a woman. We've seen news reports that show what happens when a woman keeps to herself and rebuffs a man. The results are not as trivial as a rose refusal, no, women can get killed for it. Janese Talton-Jackson was gunned down after she refused a man's advances. Because she said no, she's dead.
In a world where women are trying to keep safe in the face of misogyny, The Bachelor (which we're all watching. . . ), only teaches us that gender constructs in popular culture are a dangerous thing. Men don't have to be vulnerable, honest or open. Women, on the other hand, must stay in their place. Since popular culture shape can the way we interact with one another, viewer have to remain critical about thing junk we watch.


Halfway through the month, and I'm finally getting around to making a post! And to help ease myself back into the world of blogging, I'm going to do brief reviews of the movies I've seen so far this month.
Well, now to put money on which one of us actually continues updating!


Special thanks to Lyn G. who made the beautiful name pillow using our new Lucy Applique Font. Lyn used a 6x10 hoop and the Medium size letters to create her pillow. BEAUTIFUL job Lyn. Thanks so much!
This lovely applique font includes 26 Capital letters, 26 lower case letters and 10 numbers. The finishing stitch around the letters is fast and very unique. Complete instructions for merging names is included (you must have software to merge letters). Here's a close up of the unique finishing stitch.
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A World War II soldier's gift to his wife — a small sweetheart bracelet lost for some 70 years — is now in the hands of his family in Georgia.
Ron Stowe's father, Joe, who died 20 years ago, served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Iceland during the war.
The younger Stowe, who lives in Gainesville, Ga., recently received an unusual message from a stranger — an 80-year-old British woman who claimed to have a bracelet belonging to his father.
The gold, linked bracelet — with his father's name engraved on the front and his name and his mother's on the back — had been in the woman's possession for years, Stowe told Fox affiliate WAGA-TV.
Stowe, whose mother died two years ago, said he had no knowledge of the bracelet's existence. He said the British woman, identified as Audrey Jackson, had somehow received the bracelet from her father, who served in the British Royal Air Force and who was also stationed in Iceland during the war.
Some 70 years later, Jackson used the Internet to track down Stowe's family.
"The bracelet has been in my family since the war," Jackson wrote to Stowe.
"I don't know how my father came to have it, but as a child I do remember him saying that it belonged to an American," Jackson said.
"It didn't have any sentimental value to her, but she said she couldn't bring herself to throw it away," Stowe told the station.
When the bracelet finally arrived in the mail, Stowe said he was overwhelmed by memories of his late father — and the bracelet he never knew about.
"He was just about to go to England and the invasion of Normandy," recalled Stowe.
"I was wondering what went through his mind. Did he wonder, 'Will this be the last thing I'll send to my wife?'" he said.
Stowe treasures the bracelet as a piece of history — and his father — and plans to pass it down to his own son and grandson someday.
"They'll look at it and remember the story and remember World War II," he said.


Hubert Reeves (born July 13, 1932), CC GOQ is a French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
Reeves was born in Montreal on July 13, 1932, and also as a child lived in Léry. Reeves attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a prestigious French-language college in Montreal. He obtained a BSc degree in physics from the Université de Montréal in 1953, an MSc degree from McGill University in 1956 with a thesis entitled "Formation of Positronium in Hydrogen and Helium" and a PhD degree at Cornell University in 1960. His PhD thesis was "Thermonuclear Reaction Involving Medium Light Nuclei."
Reeves resides in Paris, France. He often speaks on television, promoting science.
In 1976 he was made Knight of Ordre national du Mérite (France).
In 1986 he was made Knight of the Légion d'Honneur (France). He was promoted to Officer in 1994 and to Commander in 2003.
In 1991 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2003.
In 1994, he was made Officer of the National Order of Quebec. He was promoted to Grand Officer in 2017.
Asteroid 9631 Hubertreeves is named after Reeves: see Meanings of asteroid names (9501-10000).
In 2011 was created the Prix Hubert-Reeves.
Reeves, Hubert (1998). Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind (1st English-language ed.). London: Arcade Publishing. pp. 192pp. ISBN 1-55970-408-X.
Reeves, Hubert (July 1971). Nuclear Reactions in Stellar Surfaces and Their Relations with Stellar Evolution. London: Gordon and Breach. pp. 88pp. ISBN 0-677-02960-8.
Reeves, Hubert (1968). Stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. New York: Gordon and Breach. ISBN 0-677-30150-2.
Reeves, Hubert (1981). Patience dans l'azur : l'évolution cosmique. Paris: Seuil. p. 282. ISBN 2-02-010170-X.
Reeves, Hubert (1986). L'heure de s'enivrer : l'univers a-t-il un sens?. ISBN 2-02-014400-X.
Reeves, Hubert (1994). Dernières nouvelles du cosmos. ISBN 2-02-022831-9.
Reeves, Hubert; Lenoir, Frédéric (2003). Mal de Terre. Paris: Points. p. 272. ISBN 2-02-079064-5.
Reeves, Hubert (2005). Chroniques du ciel et de la vie. ISBN 2-02-080030-6.
Reeves, Hubert (2007). Chroniques des atomes et des galaxies. ISBN 978-2-7578-2297-5.
^ Reeves, Hubert (2008). Je n'aurai pas le temps. Paris: Les Éditions du Seuil. p. 11. ISBN 2-02-097494-0.
^ Reeves, Hubert (15 March 2015). "Biographie détaillée". Hubert Reeves Site officiel. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
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Arts & CultureAtlantaout on film
'Bad Ass Gays' makes its manly debut in Atlanta
Christopher Hines knows gay men. Since leaving CNN to become a filmmaker, this former Atlantan has created a number of documentaries focusing on them. He's back this weekend to screen his latest work at Out on Film.
Hines (second photo) does manly, hairy men well and often includes gay Atlanta in his film projects, which include "Legalize Gay," "Man 2 Man: A Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love," "The Adonis Factor," "The Butch Factor" and "The Long & Short of Body Hair." And when he's got a new project to debut, he often unveils it at Out on Film, where he returns on Sunday for the world premiere of his documentary "Bad Ass Gays" before it hits Logo this fall.
Hines once again focuses on a different part of the gay community with "Bad Ass Gays." This time around, Hines takes a look at gay men defying stereotypes – whether they're driving around a NASCAR track or leading a combat mission. Before the premiere, we caught up with Hines to talk about his new film, his upcoming projects, and what Atlanta audiences can expect.
You've tackled different aspects of the LGBT spectrum in previous films. What inspired "Bad Ass Gays?"
Since I completed my first gay film, "The Butch Factor," five years ago, there has been so much progress in the struggle for LGBT equality. This new generation of gay men sees no boundaries in what they can accomplish, while at the same time being open and honest about who they are. These "Bad Ass Gays" are actually the first men to be openly gay in their sports and professions, from a Navy SEAL to a mixed marital arts fighter, WWE wrestler, professional boxer and mountain climber. These guys are also excelling in what are considered more masculine or manly roles, helping to show the diversity of the gay community and hopefully serving as role models for other gay men and creating a better understanding for their straight counterparts. One thing these guys all do share in common is their drive and determination to succeed, no matter what.
How did you find the "Bad Ass Gays" featured in the film?
I found a lot of these guys by just researching on the Internet, looking at certain professions, word of mouth and reaching out to see if the they were interested in telling their story. Luckily for me, most of them were. There's still a lot of "Bad Ass Gays" out there I would like to feature in future films.
The film's screening at Out on Film marks its official premiere. What are your thoughts on showing it here in Atlanta?
Out on Film screened my first film, "The Butch Factor," and that was the year that Jim Farmer and Craig Hardesty took over the festival. They have really turned it around, making it one of the premiere LGBT film festivals in the country and one of my personal favorites. I love Atlanta, lived there for four years while I worked for CNN, always great to come back. Guys always sell-out my screenings, so I am very loyal to them. I'll be giving away free tickets at a premiere party at the Eagle on Saturday night, Oct. 4. Some Bad Ass Gays from the film will be there and at the screening for a Q&A. Should be a fun weekend!
What's on the horizon for you, professionally?
I'm working on some new film projects with Logo, including one titled "Gays in Prison," hosted by "RuPaul's Drag Race" star Latrice Royale, who talked about her prison experience of the reality show. The film takes a look at the unique struggle of gay men currently behind bars and those who were recently released. Gay men actually have a much higher rate of incarceration than their straight counterparts.
I would also like to reach out to any gay men in Atlanta who have been in prison to contact me about being interviewed about their experiences. I can forward them more information if you email me.
Convince the gays to come see 'Bad Ass Gays.'
This is an action-packed, dramatic, fun and thoroughly entertaining film about gay men breaking out proud for the first time in an unprecedented variety of sports and professions. Whether taking a hard punch in the ring, careening 180 mph around a race track or leading a combat mission, it's a brave new world for gay men openly pursuing their professional passions, defying stereotypes, discrimination and setting the stage for a new generation. "Bad Ass Gays" is a documentary that tells the personal stories of gay men in "manly" professions, going on the job with them, revealing their motives, passions, joys, challenges and struggles to succeed.
"Bad Ass Gays" screens Sunday, Oct. 5 at Midtown Art Cinema, noon. Learn more on the film's Facebook page.
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In his two-and-a-half-hour Archive interview, Mark Burnett details his upbringing in England and his time in the British Army before discussing his move to Los Angeles, CA. He describes several of the jobs he held before venturing into television production and recounts his love of the outdoors and adventure sports -- passions that led to his involvement with the physically demanding Eco-Challenge race and its corresponding television show. Such experience proved invaluable for his next hit competition-based reality series -- and perhaps the show most closely identified with him -- Survivor. Burnett goes on to discuss the production of Survivor, as well as that of several of his other successes, including The Apprentice and Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? He also touches on a few of his more short-lived series, like The Contender and The Restaurant, and comments on what the term "reality television" means to him. Stephen J. Abramson conducted the interview in two parts: on September 1, 2010 in Santa Monica, CA and on September 29, 2010 in Malibu, CA.
"If you're a person who needs to be sure and have 100% of things lined up logistically, financially, common sense-wise before you take a step, you will go nowhere. You have to jump in. You have to be about half sure, and believe that you'll figure out the other half on the way. Every TV production I've ever done, I haven't had enough money or enough time, so if I actually were a worry wart, I wouldn't have done any of them. I've made huge mistakes, and I'll tell my people who make mistakes, you know what? I'd rather you make mistakes than just be safe and do nothing."
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On casting Survivor: "a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker"
On Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
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Entry from December 27, 2008
Tin Roof Sundae
The "tin roof sundae" usually contains peanuts and chocolate sauce on top of vanilla ice cream. "Tin roof sunday" is cited in a 1907 Mansfield (OH) newspaper; "tin roof sundae" is cited in a 1908 Marion (OH) newspaper. It seems likely that the concoction was named in Ohio.
Why the name "tin roof sundae"? Did red-skinned Spanish peanuts make it look like a tin roof? No one knows for sure about the name.
It's sometimes claimed that Harold Dean "Pinky" Thayer invented the tin roof sundae at Potter Drug Co. in Potter, Nebraska, in 1916. However, "tin roof sundae/sunday" had been cited from Ohio about ten years before this.
Food Channel
Tin Roof Ice Cream
Posted by Editor at The Food Channel®
From the author: Do you know how tin roof ice cream got its name? Neither do I. Nor does anyone, it seems. I've tried to find out but have always come up empty-handed. I do know that it's one of my favorite ice cream combinations, and I guess I need to be content with that. Tin roof sundaes are traditionally made of vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate sauce and a scattering of red-skinned Spanish peanuts. I couldn't resist using chocolate-covered peanuts instead and folding them into the ice cream, where they become embedded between layers of fudge ripple.
Recipe reprinted with permission from The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments by David Lebovitz, copyright © 2007. (Recipe follows—ed.)
Edy's
Vanilla ice cream with swirls of fudge and chocolaty-covered peanuts. Our Tin Roof Sundae is sure to satisfy those ice cream cravings! We start with creamy vanilla ice cream, swirl it with ribbons of rich chocolaty fudge throughout and add just enough chocolaty-covered peanuts to make you go nuts! So, dig into the delicious, nutty, chocolaty experience we like to call Tin Roof Sundae!
Vanilla flavored ice cream swirled with chocolate fudge and choco peanuts.
23 May 1907, Mansfield (OH) News, pg. 5, col. 6 ad:
The Western Ice Cream Parlors
For Buffalo Sundays, Tin Roof Sundays and the famous Chocolate Float, Sodas and Cream.
8 June 1907, Mansfield (OH) News, pg. 16, col. 5 ad:
Tin Roof Sunday
(Western Ice Cream Parlors—ed.)
14 April 1908, Marion (OH) Daily Star, pg. 6, col. 1 ad:
Tin Roof Sundae...5c
At KALER'S
Caste-Three
By Gertrude M. Shields
New York, NY: The Century Co.
Pg. 356:
He bought a "tin roof." This was not real property, but ice-cream decorated with chocolate syrup and peanuts in their brown skins. Hewitt hated it, but it was a popular concoction and he was willing to go the limit with figs. Becker's store sold hundreds of "tin roofs" a day. It was the thing in Alston.
June 1926, The Soda Fountain, pg. 48, col. 1.
College Ices (sundaes)
Tin Roof… .25
(Brooks Store, Fitchburg, MA—ed.)
9 March 1934, Hamilton (OH) Daily News Journal, pg. 2, col. 7 ad:
Tin Roof Sundae...10c
(Paramount Sweet Shoppe—ed.)
23 October 1936, Clearfield (PA) Progress, pg. 5, col. 4 ad:
Two scoops of our delicious Ice Cream covered with smooth, rich chocolate and smothered with fresh roasted Spanish peanuts. Don't miss this appetizing treat.
(Dairy Foods, Inc.—ed.)
12 July 1949, El Paso (TX) , "Party Dessert Treat," pg. 7, col. 3:
We like to make the ever famous "tin roof" sundaes with generous scoops of creamy vanilla ice cream topped with a rich chocolate saucee and then sprinkled with toasted slivered almonds. It's a party dessert of there ever was one but it is also an easy-to-make treat for special family occasions.
The deep sleep
By Wright Morris
New York, NY: Scribner
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...such as the summer afternoons that the Judge sneaked off to eat a Tin Roof. That was a chocolate sundae with a lot of salted peanuts sprinkled on the top. Right at a time when he swore he wouldn't eat ice cream, peanuts, or salt.
Star-Herald (Scottsbluff, NE)
The Tin Roof: Potter Sundry famous for yummy creation
By: ROGER HOLSINGER, Assistant Editor Mar 10, 2009
From all accounts, the structure was built in 1914, two years after Potter was incorporated. The Potter Drug Co. opened its doors around 1916 and served as a drug store.
The pharmacist at the sundry was James Earl Thayer, whose son, Harold Dean "Pinky" Thayer is credited for inventing the ice cream treat. According to Dr. J.E. Thayer of Sidney, the family lived above the pharmacy and as a teenager, Pinky worked at the soda fountain. Thayer said there are two stories as to how the ice cream treat got its name. The first is that the treat was named the Tin Roof Sundae because of the tin ceiling in the business. The other, Thayer said, is that there was a stable business across the street that had a tin roof and that he named it after that.
Omaha (NE) World-Herald
Potter, Nebraska, population 300, preserves its rich legacy as the home of the Tin Roof Sundae
By Sarah Baker Hansen / / World-Herald staff writer Jun 13, 2017
The Sundry dates from 1914, and The Potter Drug Co. opened there around 1916. James Earl Thayer ran the pharmacy in Potter, and his family lived above it. Pinky, his son, who got his nickname because of his bright red, wavy hair, worked at the soda fountain. Sometime in the early 1930s he made the first Tin Roof Sundae.
(Trademark)
Word Mark FLORESVILLE TIN ROOF SUNDAE
Goods and Services IC 030. US 046. G & S: Ice cream. FIRST USE: 19880900. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19880900
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Filing Date August 16, 2002
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition March 30, 2004
Registration Number 2855569
Registration Date June 22, 2004
Owner (REGISTRANT) HEB Grocery Company, LP HEBCO GP, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, its sole general partner LIMITED PARTNERSHIP TEXAS 646 South Main San Antonio TEXAS 78204
Attorney of Record Kirt S. O'Neill
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/* ptr to the `running' I/O module context */
extern io_module_func *current_iomodule_func;

/* dev_ioctl related macros */
#define PKT_TX_IP_CSUM          0x01
#define PKT_TX_TCP_CSUM         0x02
#define PKT_RX_TCP_LROSEG	0x03

/* registered psio context */
#ifdef DISABLE_PSIO
#define ps_list_devices(x) 		0
#endif
extern io_module_func ps_module_func;
struct ps_device devices[MAX_DEVICES];

/* registered dpdk context */
extern io_module_func dpdk_module_func;

/* registered netmap context */
extern io_module_func netmap_module_func;

/* Macro to assign IO module */
#define AssignIOModule(m) {						\
		if (!strcmp(m, "psio"))					\
			current_iomodule_func = &ps_module_func;	\
		else if (!strcmp(m, "dpdk"))				\
			current_iomodule_func = &dpdk_module_func;	\
		else if (!strcmp(m, "netmap"))				\
			current_iomodule_func = &netmap_module_func;	\
		else							\
			assert(0);					\
	}
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#endif /* !__IO_MODULE_H__ */

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Steve now has the needed information, and will file the paperwork soon.
Google docs would be good for cooperation. Toby should be involved; Steve will ask him.
Geir: still some mail coming in, but it's slowing. Geir has a spreadsheet on google docs. Transfers are a bit painful due to ip address issues. We'll seek a person with light sysadmin skills to handle this.
Matt was cut off the call and we postponed this.
This was just an informational item.
Do we want to have a category of membership for corporations. This was purely discussion, no action or motions. Nothing will be done soon or without consulting the full membership.Geir will bring a proposal to the board at some point. This would move through full membership approval process if we can come up with a good proposal.


I had the pleasure of visiting Stockholm for a week a short while ago attending some very interesting training at work.
While there, I visited the fabulous Country Sports Tweed shop, hoping to find a gem among their end of season sale.
While that didn't happen, I did find this fantastic three-piece suit from Bladen, with a jacket in safari-jacket style.
I always have trouble with off-the-rack sizing, but the gentlemen in the store were very helpful, allowing me to mix-and-match between sizes. I got a 36R jacket with 38L trousers. Obviously with the trousers being from a long-sized suit, they had to be shortened by something that felt like almost half a meter, but on the positive side, they had quite a high rise making the end-result quite flattering.
Off the rack there were a multitude of problems with the suit: It was too long in sleeves and jacket length, the trousers were a little too tight around the waist, and as mentioned almost half a meter too long. I also wanted some fundamental things changed on the trousers, namely removal of the belt loops and installation of side adjusters.
I decided to try out a new tailor for this, and found some really stellar online reviews of the tailor located in the basement of the shopping mall, Steen og Strøm here in Oslo.
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By Juli Weiner
We were bored just trying to remember who this is.All the interesting Republican presidential nominees are dropping like flies: large-headed Atlantic City casino boss Donald Trump ended his fake campaign, star of Fox News's Huckabee Mike Huckabee declined to run, and celebrated hypocrite Newt Gingrich is on the path to an inevitable concession. If a bright new star doesn't emerge soon, voters and journalists may have to start paying attention to the likes of Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and Mitch Daniels. Below, we've suggested a few viable G.O.P. candidates whom we hope will consider presidential bids and save us from the monotonous, gaffe-free 2012 election we so dread. Chuck Norris
Who?: The Internet meme who was an actor of sorts at some point.
The appeal: He's strong on U.S.-Muslim relations.
The downside: He's definitely a bit too strong on U.S.-Muslim relations.
Dennis Hastert
Who?: Exactly!
The appeal: He's utterly indistinguishable from most other once-prominent Republicans, which means no one can remember if he did something scandalous or not.
The downside: Ridiculous official portrait is downright un-presidential.
Neil Bush
Who?: George H.W. Bush's fourth child, he of checkered financial history.
The appeal: Dynastic cachet, nationwide name recognition.
The downside: Shady business dealings, lingering memories of his brother's tenure.
Who?: The well-liked and effective former Minnesota governor.
The appeal: We just remembered he's already running.
The downside: We remember him being sort of forgettable.
Who?: This British woman we found on Facebook who shares a name with a formerly popular half-term governor.
The appeal: She already has 106 friends.
The downside: Manchester residence and possible United Kingdom birth would render her ineligible for the presidency.


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R&R Partners Welcomes Four Rock Star New Hires
July 18, 2016 Kayla Wright, Marketing & Communications	Comment
It's no secret that finding top-tier talent can be challenging − but definitely not impossible. We've certainly been winning with our hires this year, and we're happy to share that we've recently been joined by the best of the best, cream of the crop, in-it-to-win-it type of people. We'd like to officially welcome Steve Palmer, Mary Kay Hogan, Monica Bouldin and Michon Martin to the R&R family. With over 60 years of combined experience, they'll prove to be incredible assets in multiple areas of the company. With varying expertise in government affairs to marketing communications, we're thrilled to have them on board.
Serving previously in senior positions for Grayling, Steve Palmer and Mary Kay Hogan come to us as national government affairs strategists based in R&R's Denver office. While Steve will focus on national clients, Mary Kay will focus on her specialty: state government affairs. Prior to her time with us, Mary Kay was a legislative director under former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter. As R&R's foundation is rooted in politics, it only makes sense to continue expanding our government relations department to thrive with the dynamic political times and help our clients to pave their way through them.
Our next rock star is an elite marketing communications executive who brings quite a few prestigious awards with her. She's not only a multi-award-winning marketing communications leader, she's also the recipient of the 2016 Pat Tobin Award from the Black Public Relations Society, as well as the chairperson of the Advisory Council for Dress for Success West. Monica Bouldin, now serving as vice president in the Los Angeles office, is nothing short of an expert in the industry. With experience at mega companies like Warner Bros., FOX Broadcasting Company, and H+K Strategies, she's developed profound knowledge in numerous aspects of marketing, brand strategy and communications − all of which will lead Monica to excel in her role at R&R Partners.
Lastly, coming to us from Resorts World Las Vegas as senior vice president and deputy general counsel of public affairs, Michon Martin now serves as vice president and strategic adviser for R&R's offices all throughout the nation. With Michon's skills as a policy adviser and negotiator, she makes an incredible addition in growing and diversifying the agency as well as facilitating client wins. She's been dubbed "Most Valuable Player" of the 2015 Nevada legislative session, has served under Governor Brian Sandoval, and was influential in shaping the language used for Nevada's human trafficking bill. Michon says she is thrilled to join the R&R family and sees herself as a natural fit, considering that #winning is ingrained in her DNA too. Coincidence? Absolutely not.
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Published by Eric Stashin on May 5, 2009
Justin Masterson is a pitcher that always seems to be in limbo for the Boston Red Sox. Is he a starter? Is he a reliever?
With Daisuke Matsuzaka on the disabled list the team opted to slide him into the rotation for the short-term instead of recalling someone like Clay Buchholz from Triple-A. He was tremendous in his first two starts, giving up two runs on 10 hits and three walks, striking out seven, over 10.2 innings. On Friday night against Tampa Bay things went a little bit south for him, yielding six runs on six hits and three walks, striking out six, over six innings. It was his first loss of the season.
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The European Institute of International Relations (Institut Européen des Relations Internationales IERI) is an independent research center, providing training and debates on major international issues. It was established in 1997.

IERI's areas of study and research cover different fields of international relations, including economic, political, strategic and security aspects.

IERI is a founder of an institution of higher education named ADE (Academia Diplomatica Europaea), organizing conferences and representing  a forum for diplomats, military and senior officials.

Objectives

The IERI's initiatives are preserved in the perspective of the emergence of diplomatic, geopolitical and strategic culture according to the provisions related to the European External Action Service.

History

At the beginning of 1990, following the German and European reunification, the activation of a political role of the European Community led to a new impetus of European integration.

From the year 1992, now named the European Union had in its hands the first tools to assert its existence on the international level.
It is in this perspective that has placed a University professor, Mr. Irnerio Seminatore in the creation of the European Institute of International Relations.

Organization
 Disciplinary Fields

The studies of IERI include 3 areas:

 analysis of political and military strategies with the focus on foreign policy, defence and security policy (CFSP/PCSD), including Euro-Atlantic and Euro-Asiatic relations
 analysis of European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) of the EU, Russia, and central Asian countries
 forms of  integration and regional security institutions : OSCE, SCO, APEC, ASEAN, NAFTA, MECOSUR, UMP, GCC, etc.

 Publications

IERI regularly publishes "working papers" and "IERI news" on topics dealt with the annual courses and conferences of the Academia Diplomatica Europaea (ADE), as well as on current issues.
Theoretical essays are devoted to international system, doctrinal or epistemological approaches ("Europe between Utopia and Realpolitik", "Essays on Europe and International system" and "Six studies on International Balance"), to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Institutions of regional integration in the Gulf, Asia and America. IERI also publishes the "Journal of CFSP-ESDP", the Journal of European Common Foreign Policy, Security and Common Defence.

 Academia Diplomatica Europaea

Academia Diplomatica Europaea is an institution of higher education specialized in providing a post-graduate training in diplomacy, security and defence. It includes a set of introductory seminars to the geopolitical and strategic thinking and to the study of globalization and international security.
ADE is addressed to diplomats officials, experts on foreign and defence policy, international affaires leaders, doctoral students and university researchers.
ADE issues a diploma.

Over 300 conferences have been held since the founding of ADE.  They have gathered a faculty composed of European Commissioners, Ministers, Ambassadors, Diplomats, Senior Staff of the EU and of Member States, specialists, academics and other professionals.

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External links
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TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams
The Lake Most Likely
I t's hard to believe, but January 24 will mark the 25th anniversary of Texas's current state record bass.
Weighing a whopping 18.18 pounds, the heavyweight fish was reeled in on a chilly Friday afternoon by Barry St. Clair, then of Klondike. St. Clair and some buddies were dunking shiners for crappie in 42 feet of water near the mouth of Little Caney Creek at Lake Fork when he hooked the fish.
It certainly didn't come as much of a surprise to learn that Lake Fork had produced a pot-bellied lunker heavier than the former 17.67-pound state record caught from Fork in 1986 by fishing guide Mark Stevenson. Fork was in its hey-day in the late 80s/early 90s.
In fact, the 27,000-acre reservoir was cranking out double-digit bass like a gumball machine at the time, including four more 17 pounders and several in the 15-16 pound range that preceded St. Clair's fish.
What has come as somewhat of a shock is the fact that no one has caught a bass in the last quarter century that comes remotely close to eclipsing the state record title.
Bryan Turner's 16.89 pounder from Fork is the biggest Texas bass reported during the last 24 years, and Keith Burns' 16.17 pounder from Caddo is the heaviest in the last decade. Tommy Shelton was the last angler to crack the Texas Top 10 list when he caught a 16.8 pounder from Sam Rayburn in May 1997. That fish currently ranks No. 9.
It's anybody's guess as to if or when Texas might see another state record largemouth from public waters. My guess is it will more than likely happen amid a perfect storm that might come sooner than many bass junkies might think.
So, which lakes have the best shot at such a fish in the near future?
In my book, there are only a handful. Here they are in descending order.
1. NACONICHE: Located in northeastern Nacogdoches County, Naconiche is Texas's newest bass lake. The 700-acre reservoir was impounded in 2009 and has been salted with Florida bass from the get-go. This includes hundreds of adult ShareLunker offspring and retired hatchery brood fish that are now protected by a 16-inch "maximum" length limit. The rule prohibits anglers from retaining bass longer than 16 inches, unless the fish is a potential candidate for the ShareLunker program.
Good genetics and restrictive limits aren't the only things Naconiche has going for it. It's a constant level reservoir fueled by spring-fed creeks. The water here is extremely fertile, and the lake's forage bases of threadfin shad and bluegill are thriving as a result.
Those factors, coupled with great habitat comprised of hydrillla and jungles of timber and dense brush left intact prior to filling, have set the stage for a perfect storm that already appears to be brewing.
Naconiche produced a 14.12 pounder last July, yet it has been open for fishing for only four years.
2. TOLEDO BEND: This Texas/Louisiana border lake has always been a big bass hotspot, but it has been on fire with lunkers the last couple of years. This is reflected by the impressive numbers of 10-plus pounders caught and released as part of the Toledo Bend Lunker Program.
From May 2015 to May 2016, Toledo Bend anglers turned in 139 fish to the Louisiana-based program, including a pair of 13 pounders and one fish weighing 14.16 pounds.
Texas fisheries scientists credit excellent water quality, an exceptional forage base, great habitat and a banner spawn in 2007 with the sudden upswing in number of trophy-class largemouths. The fishing has been so good that the lake has ranked No. 1 among Bassmaster Magazine's Top 100 Bass Lakes in America the last two years.
Another thing you have to consider is the sheer size of the massive reservoir, which spans more than 181,000 surface acres at full pool. Many anglers believe some bass in the lake have never seen an artificial lure.
3. FORK: Only a fool would compose a list of lakes like this one and exclude Texas' most famous big bass lake of all-time. There is way too much big bass history there. The lake has produced 257 of the 565 entries for TPWD's Toyota ShareLunker program, including two state records and seven of the state's Top 10 bass.
The reason I didn't rank it closer to the top is because the lake has been in something of a big fish funk the last couple of years. Fork hasn't produced a ShareLunker entry since 2014, but it did kick out a 16.04 pounder in 2013 and a 15.02 pounder in 2012—rock-solid evidence that some melons are finning around out there.
What is really encouraging about Fork is the huge numbers of fish under the 16-24 inch slot limit that are currently being caught by lake regulars, some reporting daily catches 40-60 fish per day. The rash of "unders" are the direct result of banner spawns that recently occurred after the lake refilled following several years of low water.
The young fish are sure to get bigger with age, and some are certain to have what it takes to reach double digits. Only time will tell whether or not one of them is able to grow beyond 18.18 pounds—and be willing to bite a hook.
4. AMISTAD: Built along the Texas/Mexico border, Amistad is a deep, clear, fertile impoundment nurtured primarily by the Rio Grande and Devil's Rivers. The bass fishing there has a history of seesaw cycles resulting from ebb and flow water levels, and it appears to on the upswing as the result of good rainfall the last couple of years across parts of the Big Bend country.
Habitat-wise, Amistad is flourishing and the bass fishing is steadily improving as a result. In addition to fields of flooded mesquites, huisache, cactus and other forms of terrestrial vegetation, the lake's hydrilla has returned with a vengeance after all but disappearing after severe drought caused the lake to reach historic lows a few years ago. Local fishing guides tell me the grass can found in water as deep as 30 feet these days.
Amistad hasn't produced a Top 50 fish since 2005, when Tom Sutherland reeled in a 15.68 pounder on crankbait. It's due to produce another giant.
Email Matt Williams at ContactUs@fishgame.com
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Government Shutdown Is the Best-Ever Argument for Privatization
February 14, 2019 by IWB
I was starting to feel sorry for the 800,000 federal employees who hadn't received paychecks for more than a month. Then Donald Trump caved to the Democrats and ended the government shutdown.
There's now a bipartisan effort in Congress to enact a law that would make government shutdowns less likely. But I have a much better and more permanent solution: privatize most of the functions that Uncle Sam's intrepid bureaucrats perform.
Take the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), for instance. A big reason Trump ended the shutdown was that so many TSA employees had called in sick that flight delays were becoming intolerable. That wouldn't have happened if the government hadn't been in the airline security business.
Not that it's doing an especially good job. In 2015, the TSA sent undercover agents to dozens of America's largest airports to test security protocols. Shockingly, the agents were able to smuggle fake explosives or weapons through security checkpoints 95% of the time. The TSA failed in 67 out of 70 tests.
Two years later, the TSA tried again. The good news is that the failure rate fell from 95% to 70%. The bad news is … well, a 70% failure rate is nothing to celebrate.
One reason the TSA performs so poorly is that the politicians in charge of our national security believe catering to lobbyists is more important than security.
Consider the saga of the Rapiscan scanner. It began after an inept terrorist with a bomb hidden in his underwear tried to blow up an airplane in 2009. The bomb failed to explode, but America's national security bureaucracy went into high gear after the "Underwear Bomber" incident. Its mission was to come up with new ways to detect bombs or weapons hidden under clothing.
It quickly became apparent that no one in the national security bureaucracy really cared if a proposed solution worked. It was far more important to direct the billions of dollars Congress had appropriated to "fight terrorism" to the right place.
Rapiscan's chief lobbyist was none other than former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff. Within weeks, the government ordered more than 300 of Rapiscan's machines, at $150,000 each. That's not chump change.
From the outset, it was clear the devices didn't work. For instance, body fat and plastic explosives look a lot alike on the scanners. They also fail to detect firearms reliably.
The government eventually canceled the contract with Rapiscan, but not before spending $118 million on technology from the company.
This is the system you finance with your tax dollars. It's worse than you ever imagined. It is, in the words of security expert Bruce Schneier, "security theater" at its finest.
If I had the power to do so, I'd eliminate the TSA, fire its 51,000 employees, cut its $7.6 billion budget to zero, and turn responsibility for airport security over to the companies that have the biggest stake in making sure it's done right: the airlines. I suspect we'd wind up with a security apparatus a lot like the one used by Israel. We can learn a lot from airport security in Israel.
If each airline oversaw security for the flights it operates, they would suffer devastating consequences if a terrorist managed to blow up a jet. Ticket-holders would cancel their reservations by the hundreds of thousands. Along with cancellations, lawsuits from families of the victims would quickly bankrupt the company. The commercial incentive to prevent such incidents would be overwhelming.
That's just one example of how privatization could work. And I'd hardly stop there. Nearly half of the 2.6 million federal employees work in jobs that are essentially commercial. According to the Reason Foundation:
Federal employees are engaged in a wide range of commercial activities that have little to do with governing, including architecture, apparel, construction, debt and bill collections, campground operation, engineering, equipment repair and maintenance depots, film studios and theater management, food service and security, furniture, graphics, insurance, laboratories, landscaping, laundry and dry cleaning, pest management and wildlife control, manufacturing, mapping, meeting planning, marketing research, printing and chart production, public storage, recycling and waste management, surveying, tax preparation, travel planning, and zoology. The federal government is the nation's largest banker, insurer, homeowner, landlord, utility provider, and bus, transit and passenger train operator.
Many of these jobs could be privatized, saving American taxpayers massive amounts of money and shrinking the bloated federal deficit, which is now growing at a rate of $1.2 trillion annually.
But that's not likely to happen. Indeed, according to influential lawmakers like Senator Bernie Sanders, the scope of the federal government's responsibilities should be dramatically expanded. "Medicare for all" is one such proposal. Another is free tuition for any young person who wants a college education.
Naturally, an army of newly-minted government employees will be required to oversee these new government responsibilities. Far from shrinking government involvement in our lives, they promise to greatly expand it.
So, if you enjoy being groped by TSA screeners, you'll love dealing with the bureaucrats that will administer Medicare for all and free college. And you'll enjoy paying their salaries with higher taxes even more. Have fun!
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On Sunday morning, Yuri Hronsky, Head of School at Ilan Ramon Day School in Agoura Hills, had to briefly step away from a phone interview with the Journal because his young children were arguing over the animals.
The animals in question are the rabbits and birds that Hronsky rescued from the school early Sunday morning from the fires that destroyed part of the school's campus.
"It's a bit of a zoo here," he quipped from his Sherman Oaks home. The Hronskys have also taken in Jesse Lefton- Zilberstein's family, who voluntarily evacuated from their Woodland Hills home on Thursday night. Lefton-Zilberstein is both a parent and a board member at Ilan Ramon.
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Lefton-Zilberstein told the Journal that on Thursday around 3:30 p.m., when people were in the carpool line to pick up their kids, "We were seeing the smoke coming from Newbury Park as well as from the Bell Canyon fires and it was apparent that it wasn't terribly far from the school. At that point Yuri realized if nothing else he should take the Torah, which he did." He also managed to grab his laptop and the head of the Judaic Studies' department's laptop.
Hronsky said, "There was just something about the skies that afternoon that made me think 'better safe than sorry.'" He also called all the parents who still had kids at the school for after-care programs on Thursday to come and collect their children. Hronsky's instincts that the fire could spread and the freeway could potentially be shut down proved to be correct.
Using the school's online communications network, on Friday morning Hronsky and his staff began contacting all the teachers, and the teachers contacted all the families to make sure everyone was safe and accounted for.
"Most of our [evacuated] families ended up with other Ilan Ramon families," Lefton-Zilberstein said.
Like most people Lefton-Zilberstein watched the fires unfold on television. "On Friday we saw firefighters fight back an avalanche of flames on our property," she said.
He added he knows that could change because as of Sunday morning, evacuation orders were still in place and there was no way of knowing if the fires would continue to spread.
But since the fires began on Thursday, Hronsky and his staff have had to think on their feet. On Saturday night they managed to pull together an impromptu Havdallah service at de Toledo High School in West Hills, where close to 250 community members attended.
"That's our school," Hronsky said when asked how Ilan Ramon managed to pull the gathering together so quickly.
The school graciously offered their space. A local synagogue offered food.
The second path is families have been told the school is closed at least until Wednesday. "Our goal is to then put into place a way to operate either half day mode and to be somewhere as a community for Shabbat," Hronsky said.


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My ultimate favorite Christmas song sung by none other than Judy Garland. This ought to get you into the holiday spirit. It's almost Christmas, everyone! Image Credit.
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Borges, Manuel F., of Somerville, November 20, 2018 at age 97. Devoted husband of Nair (Raposa) Borges for 72 Years. Loving father of Maria Lurdes Borges, Margaret Borges and her husband Joe Davalos, Carlos Manuel Borges, Shelia Borges Foley and her husband Robert Foley and the late Mario Borges. Cherished grandfather of Mario Borges, Celeste McNerney, Krista Burke and Robert Mario Foley. Adored great-grandfather of Arianna and Nicholas Borges, Liam and Hunter McNerney, Kaylie and Aiden Burke. Also survived by his sister Ana Maria Tavares, his brother Antonio Borges, many nieces, nephews, and other loving relatives and friends. Funeral from the Rogers Funeral Home, 380 Cambridge St., Cambridge on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 8:00 am. Funeral mass at St. Anthony's Church, 400 Cardinal Medeiros Avenue, Cambridge at 9:00 am. Visiting hours at the funeral home on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden.


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"4chan Hacked", Most Popular Image-Bulletin Board Compromised
April 30, 2014Wang Wei
The founder of 4chan, Christopher Poole, aka "moot" has confirmed few hours ago, in a blog post that the popular image-based bulletin board was hacked.
The attacker gained access to the administrative functions and successfully hacked into one of 4chan's database by exploiting a website's software vulnerability last week. The motive behind the hack was to expose the posting habits of a specific user the attacker didn't like, moot wrote.
It is believed that the software vulnerability allowed the attacker to hack into only the image-board moderation panels, and some tables in the 4chan back-end database. According to the blog post, the way hacker extracted the information from its database, 4chan knows the "detailed logs of what was accessed", which indicate that the "primarily moderator account names" and their "credentials" were targeted and compromised by the hacker.
"Due to the way the intruder extracted information from the database, we have detailed logs of what was accessed. The logs indicate that primarily moderator account names and credentials were targeted," reads the blog post.
The hacker was able to access the Pass credentials of three 4chan Pass (paid account without CAPTCHAs system) users, who have been notified by the company shortly after the discovery of the attack and offered refunds along with the lifetime Passes.
The founder of the 4chan assured its users that their financial information has not been compromised in the attack as 4chan doesn't process any payment information and all the payment information is "processed securely" by the Stripe.
After 4chan aware of this software vulnerability exploited by the hacker, it was patched quickly and 4chan assured its users that they continue to review its software and systems to prevent future attacks and breaches.
A week ago, Moderators of Social-sharing website Reddit were under attack after being accused of censoring posted links containing words like "National Security Agency," "Edward Snowden" and even "Bitcoin" on the website's subreddit r/technology.
The Reddit moderators have lost their focus of what they were there to do. Their job is to moderate effectively, but this secret censorship is a "disaster" as it lost the transparency between the user and the service.
4chan apologized for the inconvenience caused to its users, but this is not first time hacker targeted 4chan. Back in June 2012, the hacker UGNazi changed the DNS for 4chan and redirected its visitors to UGNazis Twitter account.
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Hold the Front Page: Former editor creates dictionary of "lost language of newspapers"
Hold the Front Page: Former editor creates dictionary of "lost language of newspapers". "Neil Benson has created a glossary of both current and extinct newspaper production terms after launching an appeal on Facebook for journalists to contribute to it. The glossary features dozens of terms used throughout the newspaper industry's history and has been widely shared since being published on his blog."
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CNET: Don't Stress, but 'Permacrisis' Is the 2022 Word of the Year
CNET: Don't Stress, but 'Permacrisis' Is the 2022 Word of the Year. "Over the last few years, it's seemed like the 'new normal' keeps getting weirder and darker as historical events pile up. This month the Collins Dictionary acknowledged our apparent spiral into ever darker timelines by naming 'permacrisis' its 2022 Word of the Year."
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Engadget: Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary
Engadget: Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary. "The list of new words includes additions that clearly illustrate how these past years have gone for everyone. 'Booster dose,' which became a commonly uttered phrase because of the pandemic, gets its own Merriam-Webster page, so do 'false positive' and 'false negative' lab test results."
NiemanLab: Lost for words? A new, free resource offers journalists guidance on thorny topics
NiemanLab: Lost for words? A new, free resource offers journalists guidance on thorny topics. "Using funding from Google News Initiative, the project brought together a long list of news leaders to write a style guide with more than 275 entries — including ones for 'crisis pregnancy center,' 'opportunity gap,' and 'DREAMer' — containing detailed definitions, notes on usage, and additional resources."
The Verge: The Linguistics Search Engine That Overturned The Federal Mask Mandate
The Verge: The Linguistics Search Engine That Overturned The Federal Mask Mandate. "Using corpora to answer legal questions, a strategy often referred to as legal corpus linguistics, has grown increasingly popular in some legal circles within the past decade. It's been used by judges on the Michigan Supreme Court and the Utah Supreme Court, and, this past March, was referenced by the US Supreme Court during oral arguments for the first time."
New York Times: The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word
New York Times: The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word. "'Pашизм' is a word built up from the inside, from several languages, as a complex of puns and references that reveal a bilingual society thinking out its predicament and communicating to itself. Its emergence demonstrates how a code-switching people can enrich language while making a horrific war more intelligible to themselves. Putin's ethnic imperialism insists that Ukrainians must be Russians because they speak Russian. They do — and they speak Ukrainian. But Ukrainian identity has as much to do with an ability to live between languages than it does with the use of any one of them."
Mozilla Blog: A glossary of terms about cyberattacks, from ransomware to DDoS
Mozilla Blog: A glossary of terms about cyberattacks, from ransomware to DDoS. "If you read news about technology, you're bound to run into some jargon. Here at Mozilla, we believe that information should be as accessible as possible regardless of your level of expertise. We want to help you approach stories about technology with more curiosity and with a little less head-scratching involved. We'll break down headline-making topics through a glossary of terms often used to discuss them. Consider it your cheat sheet to all things tech. This month, we'll give you terms to know about cyberattacks."
Washington Post: Internet 'algospeak' is changing our language in real time, from 'nip nops' to 'le dollar bean'
Washington Post: Internet 'algospeak' is changing our language in real time, from 'nip nops' to 'le dollar bean'. "Algospeak refers to code words or turns of phrase users have adopted in an effort to create a brand-safe lexicon that will avoid getting their posts removed or down-ranked by content moderation systems. For instance, in many online videos, it's common to say 'unalive' rather than 'dead,' 'SA' instead of 'sexual assault,' or 'spicy eggplant' instead of 'vibrator.'"
NPR: The war in Ukraine has reintroduced these words and phrases into our vocabulary
NPR: The war in Ukraine has reintroduced these words and phrases into our vocabulary. "Russia's invasion of Ukraine has many of us using new words and phrases, from geopolitical terms like 'rump state' to military lingo such as 'MANPADS.' We're also learning to decipher slogans and spot differences between Russian and Ukrainian spellings during a conflict in which information is treated as its own battlefield. Tracking surges in the words we use is part of linguist Grant Barrett's job. He is the co-host of A Way with Words, a public radio show about words and language, and a vice president of the American Dialect Society."
Mashable: Amanda Gorman kicks off new 'Word of the Day' series with 'Sesame Street' muppets
Mashable: Amanda Gorman kicks off new 'Word of the Day' series with 'Sesame Street' muppets. "On Monday, poet Amanda Gorman taught Sesame Street's Grover about a new word, 'upstander.' Gorman is the first guest in a new "Word of the Day" video series from Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street. Produced in partnership with media company WarnerMedia Kids and Family, the series 'harnesses the power of language to nurture children's positive and healthy senses of self,' according the announcement."
CNET: Learning new words may mean thinking new thoughts
CNET: Learning new words may mean thinking new thoughts. "Philosophers, psychologists and linguists have debated the hurdle for years, wondering whether language somehow influences, or even restricts, our thoughts. How firmly are our minds stuck inside our vocabulary boxes?"
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Google Blog: "New normal" and other words we used a lot this year
Google Blog: "New normal" and other words we used a lot this year. "As a writer, something I've been thinking about in the last few weeks of 2021 are the words we used this year. 2020 was the year of 'now more than ever,' a phrase that began to feel meaningless as the 'now more than ever'-worthy moments kept coming (and admittedly, as we all kept calling them that). If 2020 was the year of "now more than ever," then what was 2021?"
Fakelish: generative English words (Boing Boing)
Boing Boing: Fakelish: generative English words. "Want some more words from the other English language? Ryo Ota's Fakelish has them all. Unlike Thomas Dimson's English word generator, it doesn't use AI, preferring more mundrial generative techniques."
PR Newswire: Dictionary.com Announces "Allyship" as its 2021 Word of the Year (PRESS RELEASE)
PR Newswire: Dictionary.com Announces "Allyship" as its 2021 Word of the Year (PRESS RELEASE). "Dictionary.com, the leading online and mobile English-language educational resource, today announced its Word of the Year: allyship. The word carries special distinction this year as it marks the first time Dictionary.com has chosen a word new to its dictionary as its Word of the Year."
Mass Live: Merriam-Webster names 'vaccine' as Word of the Year for 2021; 'Insurrection,' 'woke' and 'cicada' follows as top lookups
Mass Live: Merriam-Webster names 'vaccine' as Word of the Year for 2021; 'Insurrection,' 'woke' and 'cicada' follows as top lookups. "Merriam-Webster has named "vaccine" as its Word of the Year for 2021, a tribute to scientific advancements that aimed to end the COVID-19 pandemic and the heated arguments over inoculation mandates that the shots brought on."


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Der Kanton Machecoul-Saint-Même (bretonisch Kanton Machikoul-Sant-Masen) ist ein französischer Wahlkreis in den Arrondissements Nantes und Saint-Nazaire, im Département Loire-Atlantique und in der Region Pays de la Loire; sein Hauptort ist Machecoul-Saint-Même.

Geschichte
Der Kanton entstand 1790. Von 1790 bis 2015 gehörten sechs Gemeinden zum Kanton Machecoul. Mit der Neuordnung der Kantone in Frankreich stieg die Zahl der Gemeinden 2015 auf 15. Zu den bisherigen sechs Gemeinden kamen 5 der 8 Gemeinden des bisherigen Kantons Le Pellerin und 4 der 6 Gemeinden des bisherigen Kantons Bourgneuf-en-Retz hinzu.

Anlässlich der Gründung der Commune nouvelle Machecoul-Saint-Même erfolgte die Umbenennung des Kantons von vormals Kanton Machecoul zum aktuellen Namen per Dekret vom 24. Februar 2021.

Lage
Der Kanton liegt im Süden des Départements Loire-Atlantique.

Gemeinden
Der Kanton besteht aus 13 Gemeinden und Gemeindeteilen mit insgesamt  Einwohnern (Stand: ) auf einer Gesamtfläche von  km²:

Der alte Kanton Machecoul umfasste sechs Gemeinden auf einer Fläche von 200,61 km². Diese waren: La Marne, Machecoul (Hauptort), Paulx, Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte, Saint-Mars-de-Coutais und Saint-Même-le-Tenu. Er besaß vor 2015 den INSEE-Code 4418.

Veränderungen im Gemeindebestand seit 2016
 Fusion Arthon-en-Retz (Kanton Pornic) und Chéméré → Chaumes-en-Retz
 Fusion Machecoul und Saint-Même-le-Tenu → Machecoul-Saint-Même
 Fusion Bourgneuf-en-Retz und Fresnay-en-Retz → Villeneuve-en-Retz

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Politik
Im 1. Wahlgang am 22. März 2015 erreichte keines der drei Wahlpaare die absolute Mehrheit. Bei der Stichwahl am 29. März 2015 gewann das Gespann Jean Charrier/Karine Fouquet (beide DVG) gegen Jean-Raymond Audion/Fabienne Merceron (beide Union de la Droite) mit einem Stimmenanteil von 55,16 % (Wahlbeteiligung:49,13 %).

Seit 1945 hatte der Kanton folgende Abgeordnete im Rat des Départements:

Einzelnachweise

Machecoul-Saint-Même
Gegründet 1790


The Week in Links 12/7/18: Avengers 4 Trailer Released!!!!!
It would be really lazy to have The Week in Links just be Avengers 4 but...what timing. After a lot and I mean a lot of chatter about when the new trailer would drop, today, we got a first look at Avengers: Endgame!!!!!
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Ally Brooke Signs to Latium Entertainment/Atlantic Records
Every member of Fifth Harmony now has a solo deal. Ally Brooke celebrated her signing with Latium Entertainment/Atlantic Records on Tuesday (Aug. 28) with a heartfelt post about how the occasion marked the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
"Story time friends... I had a dream since I was 12 years old to be signed to a label," she wrote alongside a photo next to the Atlantic logo. "My parents brought me from San Antonio to LA at that tender age, simply because they believed in me. We didn't have much, but we sure had a dream. We took every meeting, every session, every opportunity imaginable, and worked our behinds off for YEARS. Laughing, crying, sacrificing, hoping, wishing, and praying."
Ally also posted a pic (shown above), with what she called her "Dream Team," which includes Atlantic Records Chairman/COO Julie Greenwald, Atlantic Chairman/CEO Criag Kallman, Latium CEO Charles Chavez and manager Will Bracey.
On Aug. 5 Brooke hinted that her solo debut was coming, posting a video from the studio where she said she's been "working my tail off on this music." Brooke joins fellow Latium acts MAGIC!, Play-N-Skills and Messiah. Since 5H announced their hiatus in march, Brooke has been a featured vocalist on DJ Topic's "Perfect" and Lost Kings' "Look At Us Now."


(February 27, 2018) – NACWA participated in meeting of the Infrastructure Working Group last week -- a collaborative effort led by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). This month's roundtable discussion featured Alex Herrgott, Associate Director for Infrastructure at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), who discussed details of President Trump's recently released infrastructure plan and Congress' role in crafting the proposal into a comprehensive legislative infrastructure package. The meeting provided an opportunity to discuss the importance of ensuring that any legislation moving forward includes clean water as a key component.
Earlier this year, NACWA joined the Working Group in sending a letter to congressional leadership encouraging Congress to develop and advance a bipartisan infrastructure investment package that will transform U.S. infrastructure beyond the status quo. NACWA joined over 100 Working Group members on this strong showing of broad support for forging ahead on an infrastructure package.
NACWA plans to continue engaging with the Working Group on joint congressional outreach in the coming weeks. Please contact Jason Isakovic or Kristina Surfus, NACWA's Legislative Directors, to discuss further.


A NEW £2 million mosque could be built in York under plans unveiled by the city's Muslim community.
The York Mosque And Islamic Centre wants to replace its current building in Bull Lane because it is becoming too small to accommodate the growing number of people attending its main prayer times.
The design of the new mosque, which would be built on the same site off Lawrence Street, includes a small central dome flanked by two minarets, a prayer hall, classroom, library and indoor community hall which children will be able to use for sporting activities. There would be no calls to prayer or any other amplified sound from the building.
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Archive: Media and Representation
WWDA at UN COSP12: Full Report
This year Women With Disabilities Australia attended the 12th Conference of State Parties (COSP12) on the Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities (CRPD) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York city. We were represented by Heidi la Paglia, as well as WWDA member and performance artist, Sarah Houboult. You can read the…
July 23, 2019	/ Media and Representation, United Nations
Royal Commission to Bring Justice for People with Disability
Royal Commission to Bring Justice for People with Disability 3 April 2019 People with disability welcome the Federal Government's commitment to fully funding our Royal Commission, as revealed in the 2019-20 Budget. "We very much welcome the $527m allocated to our Royal Commission into the epidemic of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation against people with…
April 2, 2019	/ Media and Representation, Media Releases, News Bulletins
Joint Position Statement on Review of the National Disability Agreement
The Productivity Commission is currently reviewing the National Disability Agreement (NDA). The NDA is a high level agreement between the Federal and State and Territory governments that informs how services are provided for people with disability. The roll-out of NDIS has meant that the existing NDA needed to be reviewed. In August 2018, WWDA made…
October 26, 2018	/ Media and Representation
Latest News from Women with Disabilities Australia – 23 April 2018
WWDA News Welcome Here's the latest updates from Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) Keep up to date with WWDA on Facebook, Twitter and our Website. Policy and Submissions WWDA released our Performance Report for the period July 2016 to December 2017. The report details our activities over the last 1.5 years. Check it out over…
April 23, 2018	/ Media and Representation, News Bulletins
WWDA Meets with Researcher To Talk Sexual Citizenship and Disability
Last week, founding WWDA member Helen Meekosha met with Dr Julia Bahner, a researcher from the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, to discuss WWDA's ongoing work in the sexual and reproductive rights space. Dr Bahner's current research focuses on sexual citizenship and disability. She is exploring disability organisations' advocacy on sexual…
April 9, 2018	/ Media and Representation, News Bulletins
Disability Groups Stand Together Against Transport Cuts
"People with disability need more access to transport, not less" WWDA has joined with over 25 disability groups from across Australia to release a joint statement opposing cuts to vital transport funding for people with disability. The Social Services Legislation Amendment (Transition Mobility Allowance to the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Bill 2016 will restrict access…
March 21, 2017	/ Australian Cross Disability Alliance, Media and Representation, Media Releases
Report on CRPD 10 Years Conference, Seoul, Korea
WWDA has an international reputation as a leader in the promotion of human rights for women and girls with disability. In August 2016, WWDA Executive Director, Carolyn Frohmader, was invited to speak at an International Conference: Promotion of the Rights of Women and Girls with Disability by the UN CRPD in Seoul, South Korea from…
November 25, 2016	/ Media and Representation, News Bulletins, United Nations
WWDA Presenting Paper at International Conference Commemorating 10 Years of the CRPD
This week WWDA Board Member Karin Swift will be presenting at the Disability Arts and Cultural Network International (WWDACN) Conference in Seoul, Korea. With representatives from thirteen countries in attendance, the two day conference commemorates the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD). The conference theme is 'The promotion of…
October 19, 2016	/ Media and Representation, News Bulletins, United Nations
WWDA News October 2016
WWDA Submission to UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) WWDA recently made a submission to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women who are currently reviewing General Recommendation No. 19 (Violence against women) which was originally written in 1992. Under Article 21 of…
October 13, 2016	/ Development, Media and Representation, News Bulletins, United Nations


Jan. 22--Educators and others who work at schools are often trained in medical first aid and workplace safety, but Monday another area of training was the focus at the Hays campus of North Central Kansas Technical College.
Sandra Gottschalk, dean of the Hays campus and a registered nurse, said the training is part of a holistic approach to students' well-being. She attended mental health first aid training at the college's Beloit campus and sought the grant to bring it to Hays.
"Mental health is just as important as physical health," she said.
"We've got some very challenging programs and they go very quick," she said.
"If faculty and staff are a little bit more in tune to those stressors and can help identify, maybe we can help those students a little quicker," Gottschalk said.
In addition to educators, HPMH has also provided the training to law enforcement and first responders in Ellis and other counties. It's meant for anyone, however, Conner said.
"We can't teach people to be therapists and diagnose. We can help them know what resources are available and effectively help people in their lives," Conner, HPMC's marketing director, said.
"Just like with physical health, early intervention is very important for mental health," she said.
Questions about suicide should be direct, the instructors said, and had the faculty and staff ask each other the questions -- "Have you thought about suicide?" and "Do you have a plan of how would do it?" for example -- to get used to being able to say it to someone.
While some of the NCK Tech faculty -- especially those with nursing or social studies backgrounds -- said the information reiterated what they had already learned, they appreciated the training and the action plan.
"I haven't been in school for 20 years, so it's interesting to have the updates on what our kids today are experiencing," said Rene Meyers, general education instructor for social studies.
"I'm eager for the application part, because that's where it really comes into play," Jennifer Younger, business technology instructor, said. "If you notice somebody who has these symptoms, what's the 'do' part of it? What do you do?"