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Christopher Bell crosses the finish line to win a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race, Sunday, June 16, 2019, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Crew members change tires on Christopher Bell's car during a pit stop in a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race, Sunday, June 16, 2019, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Christopher Bell celebrates after winning a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race, Sunday, June 16, 2019, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cole Custer, left, leads Christopher Bell during a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race, Sunday, June 16, 2019, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Christopher Bell does a burnout after winning a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race, Sunday, June 16, 2019, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Christopher Bell races his car during a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race, Sunday, June 16, 2019, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
NEWTON, Iowa — Christopher Bell won the NASCAR Xfinity series race Sunday at the Iowa Speedway, his fourth victory of the season and second straight in Newton.
Bell led 186 of 250 laps in the No. 20 Toyota to claim his second short track win of 2019 by nearly two seconds. He also won at Bristol in April.
Pole-sitter Cole Custer was second, followed by Justin Allgaier and Harrison Burton. Zane Smith of JR Motorsports was fifth in just his fifth start in the series.
Custer briefly snagged the lead with 32 laps left on a restart, but Bell quickly grabbed it back as the two cars made contact on Bell's low pass. Bell then held Custer off on a restart with 10 to go by grabbing the high line.
Bell gave Joe Gibbs Racing its fifth win in its last seven starts at Iowa, and Bell was able to celebrate back-to-back wins with his parents in attendance.
"Man, I got to win at Dover (the week before) Mother's Day weekend...with my mom there. Now I just won on Father's Day weekend with my dad here," said Bell, who won for the 12th time in the series. "It was pretty special."
The first race of Sunday's doubleheader produced some unexpected drama, as Truck series winner Ross Chastain had his victory taken away from him after his truck failed the post-race inspection.
Bell ensured that the nightcap was largely a snoozer.
Custer won his 10th career pole earlier Sunday and led the first 54 laps. But Bell took over after a restart late in the first stage and won a frame for the seventh time this season.
Bell increased his edge over the next 60 laps, pushing his lead to as much as six seconds to take the second stage as well.
A caution with 72 laps left gave Custer a shot at overtaking Bell. But Bell held Custer off by going high — an approach that appeared to become quite popular this weekend.
A flag about 35 laps later laps left gave Custer one more crack at Bell, and Custer edged Bell by a half of a second in the race off pit road to retake the lead.
Bell went low a few laps later though, nudging his way back out front as Custer struggled to keep his No. 00 Ford out of the wall.
"I think it was racing," Custer said when asked if he had any hard feelings about how Bell raced him. "It was fun. Christopher and (his team) had the best car all day."
Tyler Reddick, the series leader and the winner of three of the last five races, finished a season-worst 15th. A flat tire late in the first stage put Reddick in a hole he couldn't climb out of.
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COMPLICITY is a series of songs that I wrote over the past year. It is a compilation of what rose to the surface when I sat quietly alone and let my mind wander. It is not intended to be a purposeful manifesto but is in every way deeply personal to me. I spent a series of recent years learning what it means to be your own worst enemy in many cruel and heartbreaking ways. I learned how insidious self doubt can be, the consequences of losing your principles in the face of love, and the shame of being too weak to honor your own instincts. I have been lucky to come out of these experiences in a better situation surrounded by better people, although I have found myself on the other side realizing I'm still here, and my head is still here, and that you can change the scenery but you're still the one standing in it. I guess that's why even now I continue to write about entrapment, how we are entrapped by others, but more importantly, how we entrap ourselves.


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Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW) has succeeded in becoming a progressive institution, while retaining the Lutheran, Christian tradition on which it was founded. Concordia is a four-year, co-educational, liberal arts college offering 61 undergraduate majors and over 20 graduate level programs. It's the largest Lutheran University in the United States with over 7,400 undergraduate, traditional, and nontraditonal students attending 16 different locations. The university has many co-curricular programs including all major sports, drama, music, spiritual life, student government, intramurals, and social activities and has one of the largest field houses of any private college in Wisconsin with an indoor track and soccer surface.
The educational and athletic facilities available to Concordia soccer players are unparalleled in NCAA Division III soccer in the Central region of the United States. Over the past six years, Concordia has invested millions of dollars into renovations and upgrades that are so impressive that the St. Louis Rams professional football team used the CUW campus for its summer training camp. Located in Ozaukee County, Concordia is situated on the north shore of Lake Michigan. Cities of interest within a ten minute drive of Concordia are Cedarburg,which has a historic downtown area (Cedar Creek Settlement) filled with an array of specialty stores, art exhibits and museums, restaurants and inns; Grafton, with a thriving downtown area located on the Milwaukee River, and Mequon which boasts of majestic lake bluffs, stately homes, lush farmland and expansive open space.
Top left – Students from 45 different states and 34 different countries attend Concordia University while working towards one of the 70+ available undergraduate degrees. Top right – The city of Mequon has been consistently ranked amongst the safest cities in Wisconsin, and our campus safety officers aim to uphold the honor. Bottom right– The Concordia Center for Environmental Stewardship overlooks the Lake Michigan bluff and provides classrooms, laboratories, meeting spaces, and offices both for environment-focused academic programs and learning opportunities students. Bottom left – Coburg dorm is located along Lake Michigan and offers suite-style living.
Located in Ozaukee County, Concordia is situated on the north shore of Lake Michigan. Cities of interest within a ten minute drive of Concordia are Cedarburg, which has a historic downtown area (Cedar Creek Settlement) filled with an array of specialty stores, art exhibits and museums, restaurants and inns; Grafton, with a thriving downtown area located on the Milwaukee River, and Mequon which boasts of majestic lake bluffs, stately homes, lush farmland and expansive open space.
A short fifteen minute drive from Concordia's campus is the city of Milwaukee. With a population of over 500,000, Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and the 22nd-largest city in the nation. Milwaukee is a fun and exciting place to experience with music festivals throughout the summer, a vibrant downtown night life throughout the year, and professional sports teams to follow such as the Milwaukee Wave Indoor soccer team, the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, and the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. Other cities of interest, such as Madison and Chicago, are a ninety minute drive from the city of Mequon.


Maybe I am bit selfish or egocentric but I think sometimes that certain releases come out just for me. It makes me feel special. We all have our special little secret bands we like and it is always exciting to hear some new band for the first time, especially when you feel like you may already like every band that you are ever going to like.
I have been really obsessed with the Explosions in the Sky for the last couple of years. It is nice to have an instrumental album to escape into every once in a while, for the times you don't really want to hear anybody talking and just need time alone to think for yourself. It helps me focus myself and think about my life. I often use electronic music on these types of days, but sometimes that gets a little too intense and I need some more smooth instrumental music. I really am starting to sound like some smooth jazz new age dude right now. What is going on? I guess it is sort of like some dude that is into crazy free jazz but every once in a while just needs some smooth jazz. I guess I really should not compare instrumental rock music to smooth jazz. It really is in its own category. I have really worn out my Explosions in the Sky albums, so I was excited to find the new band The Photographic. Their debut album Pictures of a Changing World comes out today. They come from the land of Louisville, Kentucky. And they really sound nothing like smooth jazz.
I seem to go through phases of liking music from one area of the world. For a while I seemed to be listening to a lot of music coming out of Austin, Texas. At the end of last year I was really obsessed with music coming out of Sweden. I don't intentionally go out and try to find bands from one certain city or country, it just sort of happens-- so it might just happen that I all of sudden start liking a bunch of Louisville bands. I thought I would check to make sure I already don't. I did also find out some interesting facts about the city.
Louisville was founded in 1778 and was named after the great King Louis XVI. I am quickly realizing I know very little about Louisville or Kentucky in general, although I did have a pen pal in elementary school who was from Louisville-- but that was a long time ago. I may try and find those letters to find out what he told me about the great Louisville. Maybe he ended up being in the band The Photographic. I knew that Hunter S. Thompson was from Kentucky, but I had no idea this is also where Tom Cruise came from. I also didn't know that the first ever hand transplant took place in Louisville. I didn't really even know that there had been a first hand transplant. One of the characters on the TV show Prison Break had sewn his own hand back on, but that did not work out so well for him. I guess he should have gone to Kentucky.
Will Oldham was born in Louisville. Slint are also from Louisville. A whole lot of folk and country hasalso come from Kentucky, as you would expect. Loretta Lynn and her sister Crystal Gayle. The Everly Brothers, The Judds, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Ray Cyrus and Ricky Skaggs all come from Kentucky. But there is also another one of my new favorites. My Morning Jacket also comes from the land of Louisville, and although the band has been putting out albums for years, it really took the movie I'm Not There to get me to finally listen to them. Rodan, Freakwater, and Gastr del Sol are also from Louisville, so I have been liking some of the music of Louisville but just not knowing it, which is often the case. I really do love this new album by The Photographic. I have been listening to it a lot over the last couple of days. You will either like it or you won't. You've really got to be ready for some mellow instrumental post-rocky sort of music. If you are a fan of the Explosions or Mogwai or Mono, then you will like them. Think of it as smooth instrumental post rock. There is another sort of similar band with an album out today. They are called Them Roaring Twenties. They are from Chicago. I don't have the album yet, but I like what I have heard so far. They sort of sound like a band like Hella or The Numbers mixed with a Mogwai/Explosions in the Sky type band. I like it.
I just got back from Disneyland this last weekend. I had not been in a couple weeks but I had to go check it out since Amoeba was just up against Disneyland in a contest sort of competition that Los Angeles Magazine is running. You should go to the website and vote right now -- it is basically a contest to pick the best thing about Los Angeles. It probably will not make much sense unless you have spent a significant part of your life in Los Angeles. The first round is over -- we beat Disneyland but are now up against In N Out. I figured Disneyland would be the hardest to beat even though Disneyland is in Orange County and not Los Angeles. I voted for Amoeba of course, but I do really love myself some Disneyland. Curt was down for a visit and I made him run around the park all day and go on almost every ride. We even went on the Buzz Lightyear Toy Story ride. And we went to the wonderful "Enchanted Tiki Room." I had not been to this animatronic "show" in a long time, but it is just as weird and amazing as I remember. I wish I had a room like this in my house that I could go into whenever I was feeling a little sad. I seriously think a lot of people could deal without yoga and therapy if they just spent some time in the Tiki Room.
I have also been wanting to get one of those silhouette cut outs that you can get on Main Street in Disneyland. Ever since my pal at the Haight St. store got one with her boyfriend I knew that I had to get one. The cut out of Curt came out better than I did, but you can tell it's me because of the glasses. My head really is not that big, but the little old lady that made it was awesome and seriously cut it out in like one minute.


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7 December 2018 by Mark Westall
Hauser & Wirth to open St. Moritz gallery with Louise Bourgeois exhibition
On 28 December 2018, Hauser & Wirth inaugurates its St. Moritz gallery with 'Papillons Noirs', an exhibition of works by renowned French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010). On view until 10 February 2019, the exhibition spans two floors of the gallery space on Via Serlas facing the Palace Hotel, where Hauser & Wirth has made its home.
All images: © The Easton Foundation / VAGA at ARS, NY / ProLitteris, Zurich Courtesy The Easton Foundation and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Christopher Burke Untitled 2002 Fabric and wood in Steel, stainless steel, glass and wood vitrine, Untitled 2003 Fabric and stainless steel in Stainless steel, glass and wood vitrine.
Comprising a selection of works from the last decade of Bourgeois's life, 'Papillons Noirs' includes a series of black fabric heads alongside late experimental works on paper that belong to the artist's collection. The fabric heads were created roughly between the years of 2000 and 2003, when Bourgeois was in her late eighties and early nineties. The title of the exhibition, 'Papillons Noirs', is drawn from one of Bourgeois's 'psychoanalytic writings', a group of texts written while she was undergoing intensive psychoanalysis. Penned on a loose sheet of paper dated 31 January 1966, the phrase is an old French metaphor for melancholic thoughts, and references her depression and anxiety. She often referred to colour as representative of emotional states; for her, black was symbolic of mourning, despair, regret and guilt.
Bourgeois layered hand-sewn scraps of black terry cloth, tapestry, and fragments of her own clothing to form the features of her fabric heads. In these works, she reveals a deep identification with her mother, who died when Bourgeois was twenty years old. Her mother and maternal grandparents originated from the French town of Aubusson, famed for its textile industry, and her mother ran a tapestry restoration workshop – thus, Bourgeois came to associate sewing with the act of reparation: 'I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair the damage. It's a claim to forgiveness'. Employing familial techniques from her childhood, Bourgeois confronted her past literally and metaphorically, stitching together scraps of old fabric to gain a semblance of understanding and reconciliation. For her, art was inextricably entwined with personal experience – it was a channel through which she explored the depths of her emotions. In her art-making, Bourgeois fused the intensity of the moment with memories of events and people from her past.
Beginning in 1991 Bourgeois began employing the Cell as an archetypal structure, which she described as 'environmental sculpture', to represent themes of trauma, memory, and architecture. She played on the linguistic meaning of 'cell' to reference the biological unit that constitutes the body, as well as the idea of isolation or imprisonment. The Cells on view here comprise a distinctive subgroup of the series, called 'Portrait Cells.' They are composed of steel mesh, glass, and wood, with the black fabric heads either sitting at the base or suspended from above. In 'Cell XXIV (Portrait)' (2001) three heads, each with two faces, are bound together at the neck and hang from the top of the mesh enclosure. Adjustable mirrors are situated at the base of the vitrine, further multiplying the heads and their double faces in the reflected space.
Bourgeois was not concerned with traditional portraiture or an image of any one individual, but instead with the effect that the individual can have on another, and the emotional dynamic played out by the encounter with the other. With her fabric heads, she explores a range of psychological expressions and complex emotional states – love, sexuality, suffering, and death – through the heads' features and the ways in which they have been constructed and sewn. The maternal, feminine, and familial aspects of fabric provide a sense of tenderness. With these deeply intimate forms, Bourgeois revealed many facets of the human experience, and conceived a beautifully haunting language that extends far beyond her life.
'Papillons Noirs' is curated by Jerry Gorovoy, who worked closely with Bourgeois from the early 1980s until her death in 2010.
Louise Bourgeois Papillons Noirs Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz 28 December 2018 – 10 February 2019
Opening: Friday 28 December 2018, 6 – 8 pm hauserwirth.com/st-moritz
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There are four games to get stuck into on Tuesday night as the Premier League gears up for its first midweek action of the season.
The evening kicks-off with Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace and Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur at 19:45.
Then Watford v Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United get underway at 20:00.
We're expecting Brighton to come out on top in what promises to be a fiery clash between two historic rivals. The Seagulls have lost just once at home all season. By contrast, Palace have lost six from six on the road.
Chris Hughton's side are 8/5 to collect all three points.
However, we think it could be worth enhancing those odds to 3/1 by backing Brighton to Win to Nil.
The Eagles haven't scored away from home all season and will likely struggle again on the South Coast.
Tottenham are unbeaten at the King Power Stadium in their last four visits, winning their last two.
Mauricio Pochettino's side are a 3/4 chance to make it a hat-trick of wins against the Foxes on Tuesday.
With both sides also impressive in-front of goal, Both Teams to Score appears a near certainty at 7/10. England pair Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane are rated as 7/4 and 5/6 to find the back of the net anytime.
Manchester United have won 12 of their last 13 matches against Watford. They're 4/6 to continue that run against a Hornets side who are 4/1 to nail consecutive home wins against the Red Devils.
Fixtures between the two sides tend to be dominated by goals. Eight of the last 10 head-to-head clashes have provided three or more goals. That makes Over 2.5 Goals the one to be on at 4/5.
Romelu Lukaku scored twice against the Hertfordshire side last season and is 16/5 to open the scoring in this one.
These two sides have shared just 21 goals in 26 Premier League games so far this season. Both clubs will be eager to avoid defeat and that makes the draw an interesting selection at 2/1.
In-keeping with results so far this term, we think goals will be at a premium. You can get 8/5 on there being Under 1.5 Goals in the match.


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Oregon, Washington Propose $12 State Minimum Wages
By Tom Banse • Jan 27, 2015
File photo. Activists rally in support of a $15 per hour minimum wage on the steps of the Washington capitol building in Olympia.
Austin Jenkins / Northwest News Network
Originally published on January 26, 2015 10:00 pm
Oregon could leapfrog Washington to have the highest state minimum wage in the country if the Democratically-controlled legislature approves a proposed increase.
Different Democrats in the Oregon Legislature have filed proposals to raise the state minimum wage in stages from the current $9.25 per hour up to $12.20 or $15. But the Washington State Legislature Monday got a head start in considering a similar increase to $12 per hour.
Washington currently has the highest state minimum at $9.47.
An overflow crowd showed up in Olympia for the first hearing on a proposal to raise that in four steps to $12 per hour. Several small business owners spoke in favor of it.
"Retention is so important in our bottom line," Long Beach, Washington, hotel owner Tiffany Turner said. "Paying our employees well and treating them well makes a huge difference to our employees and our customers."
But then others, like fast food operator JoReen Brinkman of Pullman, warned of consequences.
"Last year, we were forced to raise prices two percent due to an increase in minimum wage and rising cost of goods," Brinkman said. "We had a huge backlash from customers."
The narrow partisan majorities in the statehouses in both Salem and Olympia make it hard to predict the outcome on raising the minimum wage.
A proposed increase to $12 per hour failed to clear the Democratically-controlled Washington House last year.
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Regional Minimum Wages Continue To Rise, Idaho's Unchanged Since 2009
By Emilie Ritter Saunders • Dec 30, 2014
Five of Idaho's neighboring states will ring in the New Year with an increase in their minimum wage. Idaho, meanwhile, hasn't seen an increase in its minimum wage since 2009.
Idaho's wage is the federal minimum, $7.25 per hour.
Not only is Idaho nearly surrounded by states with a minimum wage above the federal baseline, but it's nearly surrounded by states with the highest minimum wages in the country.
Report: It Takes A 73 Hour Work Week To Pay Rent On Idaho's Minimum Wage
By Emilie Ritter Saunders • Mar 26, 2014
National Low Income Housing Coalition
An Idaho worker earning the minimum wage would need to work 73 hours per week in order to afford a modest two-bedroom rental according to a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.


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Jörg Demus
At the age of six, Jörg Demus received his first piano lessons. Five years later, at the age of 11, he entered the Vienna Academy of Music, studying piano and conducting. His debut as a pianist came when he was still a student: at the age of 14, Demus played in the Brahms-Saal for the prestigious Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. He graduated in 1945, then 17 years old, after which he continued to study conducting with Josef Krips and Hans Swarowsky. Demus studied in Paris with Yves Nat from 1951 to 1953. In 1953 he studied interpretation further with Wilhelm Kempff, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Edwin Fischer, and attended master classes with Walter Gieseking. In 1956 he won first prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. He has been active as a Lied accompanist and a chamber music partner, appearing with such singers as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elly Amelingand Peter Schreier and string players like Josef Suk and Antonio Janigro. He has performed widely as a soloist both on modern and on historical instruments and has collaborated with Paul Badura-Skoda on the concert platform and in a book on the interpretation of Beethoven's piano sonatas. In 1974, Demus performed for the Peabody Mason Concert series in Boston. Demus played Romantic works quite often: among his recordings are sets of the complete piano works of Schumann and Debussy. Among his students is the pianist Domenico Piccichè. Demus is also a composer, chiefly of music for the piano, chamber music and songs, composing in a generally conservative style. Recorded works include Schubert Impromptus on the Deutsche Grammophon label; and a recital of chamber music for cello and piano taking their inspiration from the poems of Paul Verlaine and the later music of Robert Schumann. He received the Mozart Medal of the Mozartgemeinde Wien in 1979.
Arthur Schoonderwoerd
Arthur Schoonderwoerd is one of the most important fortepianists of his generation. His areas of special interest include the interpretation of music for the piano of the 18th and 19th, the unjustly neglected repertoire of this period, and the study of the various keyboard instruments of this period. After receiving a Master of Music Degree in Modern Piano at the Conservatory of Music, Utrecht (the Netherlands), Arthur Schoonderwoerd attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he studied Historical Keyboards with Jos van Immerseel. In 1995, he was unanimously awarded First Prize and obtained his Master's Degree. He went on to earn his Cycle de Perfectionnement with first-class honours. In 1995, he was awarded both Third Prize and the Belgian Radio (BRT3) Prize at the 32nd Early Music Festival of Brugges, Belgium. In 1996, he was nominated the Juventus Laureate by the European Council at the sixth European Meeting of Young Musicians. He also was awarded the prize for the best solo performance for the 1996 Van Wassenaer Competition at the Ninth International Competition for Early Music Ensembles. Arthur Schoonderwoerd performs solo concerts throughout the world. He also devotes his time to chamber music and to the repertoire of the Lied. He performs frequently with well-known singers such as Johannette Zomer, Hans Jörg Mammel, Sandrine Piau, Isabelle Druet, Jan Kobow, David Wilson Johnsen, and Mark Padmore, and with musicians such as Eric Hoeprich, Jaap ter Linden, Barthold Kuijken, Wilbert Hazelzet, Miklos Spányi, François Leleux, Marcel Ponseele. He conducts and performs with his orchestra, Cristofori, exploring and illuminating the repertoire for piano and orchestra in his own unique style. All recordings in Arthur Schoonderwoerd's discography are performed on historical pianos or facsimiles thereof. Since 2001, he has worked mainly with the Alpha label (awarded best label in 2005); his Alpha recordings include, among others, Dutch piano concertos and the complete piano concertos by Beethoven. Since 2011 he has start with Ensemble Cristofori a complete recording cycle of the Mozart piano concertos for the label "Accent". Since 2004, Arthur Schoonderwoerd has been teaching classes in historical keyboards and chamber music at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) Barcelona, Spain.
Temenuschka Vesselinova
Temenuschka Vesselinova was born in Schumen, Bulgaria, where she received her first piano lessons. She soon demonstrated musical talent, giving her first concert at the age of eight. In 1968, after training in Sofia, she settled in Italy. A pupil of Maria Tipo, she obtained the "cum laude" diploma at the Conservatory of Florence. Interested in the study of performance practice on historical instruments, she graduated in harpsichord with "First Prize" under the guidance of Robert Kohnen (Mons Royal Conservatory, Belgium). Alternating with numerous tours as a soloist, she taught piano at the Conservatories of Vicenza and Verona. She was commissioned by the Ministry for Universities, Scientific Research and Technology (Higher Education in Art and Music) for the first five-year course of "Old Piano" at the Conservatory of Vicenza. Using period instruments (or copies) she has recorded the complete piano sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Accent, Belgium) and the complete sonatas for piano and violin by the same author, with violinist Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi, France). For the Carisch Editions (Milan) she edited the Urtext edition of the Sonatas for fortepiano by W. A. Mozart. She founded the "Museo del Pianoforte Antico" and the "International Academy of Musical Interpretation on Antique Instruments" in Ala (Trento). Conservatory of Vicenza. Using period instruments (or copies) she has recorded the complete piano sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Accent, Belgium) and the complete sonatas for piano and violin by the same author, with violinist Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi, France). For the Carisch Editions (Milan) she edited the Urtext edition of the Sonatas for fortepiano by W. A. Mozart. She founded in Ala (Trento) the "Museo del Pianoforte Antico" and the "International Academy of Musical Interpretation on Antique Instruments".
Romano Vettori
Romano Vettori has a degree in musicology and a PhD in Musicology and Musical Heritage from the University of Bologna. He has published essays in international musicological journals and published numerous editions of sacred and secular music of the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries. His research is accompanied by intensive organisational and concert activity as artistic director of the Academy of Ancient Music of Rovereto (Euregiomusica Project – Mitteleuropean Baroque Orchestra and Choir, PremioBonporti International Baroque Violin Competition and Premio Ferrari International Fortepiano Competition), and conducting in Italy and abroad. He has made recordings, mostly of unpublished works (Viadana, Cavalli, De Kerle), for Fonè, Stradivarius, Bongiovanni. He is the archivist of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna and Professor of Choral Conducting and Choral Repertory at the Trieste Conservatory of Music "G. Tartini".
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If a recession comes anytime soon, the US government will not have the tools to fight it. The White House and Congress will once again prove inept at deploying fiscal policy as a counter-cyclical stabilizer; and the Fed will not have enough room to provide adequate stimulus through interest-rate cuts.
Running the economy hot has produced some good numbers in the short run, but warning signs are beginning to accumulate. Although there is no natural life-span for a business cycle, this one has already been the longest on record, measured the previous peak of December 2007. It is only prudent to give some thought to our preparedness for the next recession — or our lack of it.
Let's start with the monetary side. The Fed's primary tool for fighting recessions is to cut its key interest rate, the federal funds rate, in order to encourage lending and maintain liquidity of the banking system. However, for that tool to work well, the rate has to be high enough before the downturn starts to make room for significant cuts.
The following chart, in which gray bars show recessions, allows us to compare the present situation with business cycles of the past. For example, in late 2000, as the dot-com boom began to wind down, the fed funds rate stood at 6.5 percent. Over the next year, the Fed cut the rate by four and a half points, helping to keep the 2001 recession short and shallow. That still left room to cut another point over the next two years, speeding the recovery.
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In both 2001 and 2007, the Fed was able to begin cutting the fed funds rate based on early indications of trouble, and still have room for maneuver. Today's situation is not as favorable. If a strong expansion continues through 2019, the rate may rise a bit higher than its current 2.4 percent, but if a recession were to come sooner, the Fed would have far less countercyclical ammunition than it did at the two previous cyclical peaks.
Let's turn now to fiscal policy. As the next chart shows, the federal deficit normally moves toward surplus as the business cycle approaches its peak. When a recession begins, or seems about to begin, having the deficit under control creates "fiscal space" that makes it easier to use tax cuts and spending increases to moderate the downturn and boost the subsequent recovery.
This time, however, the budget began moving toward deficit already in 2016. The turning point came with a package of spending increases and tax cuts, designed to keep the government running through the 2016 elections, that was passed in December 2015. That was followed by an even larger tax cut, not matched by spending cuts, at the end of 2017. Although final numbers for 2018 are not yet available, the deficit for 2018 (shown by the extension of the line at the far right) is estimated to have been 3.9 percent of GDP. That makes the downturn earlier and the pre-recession deficit larger than in any other business cycle since World War II.
Under these conditions If a recession were to come any time soon, the deficit will quickly eclipse the 10 percent mark that it approached at the bottom of the Great Recession. Even if we accept the technical feasibility of large-scale stimulus under those conditions, it would take a Congress with a lot more political courage than the one we have now to pass a robust countercyclical package of tax cuts and spending increases under those conditions.
The bottom line: DeLong is right. We are not ready for the next recession.


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La Rosa nel Pugno - Laici Socialisti Liberali Radicali era una formazione politica italiana nata il 17 novembre 2005, sulla base di un progetto di ispirazione radical-socialista siglato tra Socialisti Democratici Italiani, Radicali Italiani, Associazione Luca Coscioni e Federazione dei Giovani Socialisti. Hanno aderito al progetto anche personalità indipendenti di orientamento laico-socialista.
Il progetto nasceva come federazione fra questi partiti ed associazioni e si presentava come alleanza elettorale in occasione delle elezioni politiche del 2006, all'interno della coalizione di centro-sinistra denominata L'Unione. La Rosa nel Pugno ha sostenuto una visione molto marcata della laicità dello Stato, ispirandosi esplicitamente ai nomi di Tony Blair, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero e Loris Fortuna.

La RnP ha eletto 18 deputati e nessun senatore.

Storia

Il progetto radical-socialista
Già in vista delle elezioni regionali del 2005, i Radicali Italiani - che si sono generalmente mantenuti fuori dalle due coalizioni della politica italiana - chiedono "ospitalità" a entrambi i poli per presentare delle liste nel nome di Luca Coscioni. Il tentativo non trova riscontri soprattutto per l'opposizione manifestata dai cattolici di entrambi gli schieramenti, che contestano la matrice libertaria, e dalla sinistra che si oppone alla ricetta economica liberista e del filo-atlantismo adottati dai primi anni novanta.

Così il partito non presenta liste alle regionali (ma dei radicali sono "ospitati" dallo SDI in Abruzzo) e preferisce dedicarsi alla campagna elettorale per i referendum sulla fecondazione assistita, in programma due mesi più tardi: in questa occasione ha l'opportunità di stringere rapporti con lo SDI, in cui trova un alleato fondamentale nella campagna per il Sì.

Per lo SDI questo progetto costituisce un'alternativa alla sua partecipazione alla Federazione dell'Ulivo, all'interno della quale aveva alterato i suoi rapporti con La Margherita, accusata di clericalismo per l'atteggiamento propenso all'astensione nei referendum del 2005.

La Rosa nel Pugno costituisce, dunque, la relativa certezza di poter disporre nel nuovo Parlamento di una rappresentanza parlamentare e di poter aspirare a far parte del nuovo governo. Il progetto ha però anche obiettivi strategici di più lungo respiro, riconosciuto da intellettuali come Biagio De Giovanni e Luciano Pellicani che entrano a far parte degli organi dirigenti della nuova formazione politica, da editorialisti come Francesco Giavazzi, e dall'adesione di personalità della cultura e della scienza che decisero di candidarsi, come il regista Marco Bellocchio, il fotografo Oliviero Toscani e gli scienziati già attivi durante la campagna referendaria sulla legge 40, o che invitano a votare per la Rosa nel pugno, come Vasco Rossi e Aldo Busi.
Come scrive Gianfranco Spadaccia, quel progetto

La prima convention costitutiva si tiene nel settembre 2005 a Fiuggi, siglando il progetto di un soggetto socialista e radicale sul modello spagnolo.

Un gruppo di radicali guidato da Benedetto Della Vedova lascia il partito, in aperto contrasto con la scelta dell'alleanza con i socialisti e il centro sinistra, e fondano i Riformatori Liberali, che si alleano con la Casa delle Libertà.

Intanto il Nuovo PSI convoca il suo congresso straordinario, per decidere o meno l'abbandono della Casa delle Libertà: si contrappongono due mozioni in uno scenario convulso che mette in dubbio la validità del congresso. Lo scontro, non privo di elementi drammatici, è fra Gianni De Michelis e Bobo Craxi: il primo chiede in sostanza di posporre un'eventuale adesione al progetto radical-socialista, preferendo comunque mantenere un dialogo più aperto con lo SDI; il secondo chiede di ritenere sciolto l'accordo con la CdL e di confluire nel nuovo soggetto e, dunque, nell'alleanza di centrosinistra.

Al termine del congresso, avviene una scissione nel Nuovo PSI. Gianni De Michelis e la maggioranza del partito decidono di rimanere all'interno della CdL e, successivamente, di presentarsi alle elezioni di aprile 2006 con una lista unica insieme alla Democrazia Cristiana per le Autonomie di Gianfranco Rotondi. Bobo Craxi e i suoi seguaci abbandonano invece il partito. Alla scissione segue una lunga lotta sulla proprietà del simbolo del Nuovo PSI, ma soprattutto un inaspettato ripensamento da parte di Bobo Craxi riguardo alla Rosa nel Pugno: il leader socialista infatti chiede di realizzare prima l'unità socialista con lo SDI e poi, eventualmente, di raggiungere un accordo elettorale con Radicali Italiani. La proposta non viene accolta e Craxi fonda un suo proprio movimento (I Socialisti, che comunque appoggia L'Unione) e poi accetta di candidarsi nelle liste dei DS in Lombardia. Le scelte di Bobo Craxi e Gianni De Michelis  vengono contestate da diversi esponenti tra cui Donato Robilotta che con il gruppo Socialisti Riformisti aderisce alla Rosa nel pugno.

SDI e Radicali a congresso: le linee guida

La decisione di scegliere la Rosa nel pugno come simbolo del nuovo progetto radical-socialista arriva nel corso del congresso dei Radicali Italiani dal segretario Daniele Capezzone e viene accolta con favore da Enrico Boselli e dal congresso dello SDI, perché la rosa rappresenta uno dei simboli socialisti per eccellenza. Intanto, Boselli si fa promotore presso i vertici de L'Unione affinché si aprano le porte ai Radicali, esortando a considerarli d'ora in poi come un tutt'uno con i socialisti:

Linee guida dello SDI scuola pubblica e superamento del Concordato

Lo SDI assume, di fatto, una nuova linea: il primo passo, infatti, è quello di chiedere il "superamento" del Concordato stipulato fra lo Stato Italiano e la Chiesa cattolica. Boselli ritiene inaccettabili le ingerenze della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana sulla politica interna, con riferimento probabilmente all'ultimo referendum sulla fecondazione assistita, quando la Chiesa invitò all'astensione. Il tema centrale per lo SDI è comunque quello dell'istruzione e formazione, individuati come i settori su cui investire il massimo delle risorse e delle attenzioni per lo sviluppo del paese, con una decisa presa di posizione a difesa della scuola pubblica secondo il dettato della Costituzione.

Linee guida dei Radicali droga, pacs e ordini professionali

Obiettivi dei Radicali sono: trasformare i Pacs (Patti Civili di Solidarietà) in legge dello Stato, «per cancellare discriminazioni odiose e assicurare pari dignità e protezione alle scelte di milioni di donne e di uomini, omosessuali come eterosessuali»; cambiare rotta sulle politiche in materia di droghe, «per cancellare le norme troppo proibizioniste»; abolire gli ordini professionali, o almeno larga parte di essi, «per spazzare i privilegi di pochi».

Il simbolo della Rosa nel pugno viene presentato ufficialmente il 17 novembre 2005 presso la Residenza Ripetta di Roma. Il nuovo soggetto politico è stato dotato di organismi direttivi provvisori.

Della segreteria nazionale entrano a far parte Emma Bonino, Enrico Boselli, Daniele Capezzone, Marco Cappato, Ugo Intini, Cesare Marini, Marco Pannella, Roberto Villetti.

La direzione nazionale è costituita da 45 membri, fra cui Ottaviano Del Turco, Pia Locatelli e Claudio Signorile. Ne faceva parte anche Luca Coscioni, deceduto il 20 febbraio 2006.

La campagna elettorale
Sull'incertezza del rapporto fra Rosa nel Pugno e coalizione di centrosinistra scrivono undici componenti del direttivo DS, tra cui Lanfranco Turci, Cesare Salvi e Fabio Mussi in una lettera aperta a Piero Fassino e Massimo D'Alema su l'Unità del 7 gennaio 2006:

Solo alla fine di gennaio, infatti, la Rosa nel pugno partecipa ufficialmente ad un vertice de L'Unione, celebrando il suo ingresso "ufficiale" nella coalizione, con tanto di riconoscimento da parte del leader Prodi.

Contemporaneamente, nasce il problema della nuova legge elettorale che reintroduce il sistema proporzionale puro (abbandonato nel 1994). La Rosa nel pugno ostacola fortemente la nuova legge, a causa dell'obbligo previsto dalla stessa per tutte le nuove formazioni politiche (o comunque quelle che si presentano con un nuovo simbolo) a raccogliere circa 180.000 firme per presentare le proprie liste di candidati per il Parlamento. Liste che, inoltre, vanno presentate almeno 30 giorni prima rispetto alle altre formazioni politiche.

I parlamentari della Rosa nel Pugno (ovvero dello SDI che hanno acconsentito a mutare denominazione in Parlamento) ed altri esponenti della sinistra cercano di emendare la legge prima della definitiva approvazione, mentre Marco Pannella inizia uno sciopero della fame e della sete. La nuova legge viene tuttavia approvata il 1º febbraio senza le modifiche proposte.

I rapporti con L'Unione
Il 9 febbraio 2006 la Rosa nel Pugno, rappresentata da Emma Bonino, abbandona il tavolo programmatico de L'Unione a Roma in piazza SS. Apostoli perché vengono escluse dal programma tutte e quattro le proposte avanzate dalla Rosa nel Pugno: una presa di posizione più netta sui Pacs, l'abolizione del finanziamento pubblico alle scuole private e confessionali, il salario minimo garantito per gli inoccupati, l'abolizione degli ordini professionali. La Rosa nel Pugno non partecipa alla convention tenutasi al Teatro Piccolo Eliseo di Roma il 10 febbraio 2006, dove viene ufficialmente presentato il programma.

Il 22 febbraio 2006 sottoscrive comunque il programma dell'Unione ma, contemporaneamente, presenta un documento autonomo, nel quale SDI e Radicali Italiani mettono in chiaro che non hanno partecipato alla stesura del programma della coalizione.

Nonostante la chiara scelta politica di campo e il sostegno alla candidatura di Romano Prodi a Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri, nel corso della campagna elettorale si verificano alcune tensioni con i DS e la Margherita: i primi polemizzano per il passaggio alla Rosa nel Pugno di esponenti di primo piano come Lanfranco Turci, Biagio De Giovanni, Salvatore Buglio, Maurizio Mian e di altri esponenti a livello locale; con i secondi il confronto è sul tema della difesa della laicità.

Le elezioni politiche del 2006
Si svolgono le elezioni. Il centro-sinistra vince per poche decine di migliaia di voti alla Camera dei deputati, dove ottiene il 49,81% dei consensi contro il 49,74% della CdL. Al Senato, si rivela determinante il voto della circoscrizione Estero, che consente a L'Unione - pur avendo conseguito meno voti della Casa delle Libertà - di ottenere due seggi in più.

La Rosa nel Pugno ottiene un risultato inferiore alle attese, essendo molto inferiore alla somma delle percentuali raccolte in passato da SDI e Radicali. Il raggruppamento ottiene il 2,6% alla Camera e il 2,5% al Senato (nel 2001, i Radicali da soli ottennero il 2,2% nella quota proporzionale).

Il risultato della Camera permette comunque alla formazione di superare lo sbarramento nazionale del 2% e di vedersi eletti 18 deputati, tra cui i capofila Emma Bonino ed Enrico Boselli. La presidenza del gruppo viene affidata a Roberto Villetti, mentre Daniele Capezzone diventa presidente della Commissione Attività Produttive. Al Senato la formazione radicalsocialista supera lo sbarramento regionale del 3% solo in Calabria ed in Umbria, regioni in cui lo sbarramento non garantisce tuttavia alcun eletto.

Restano dunque fuori da Palazzo Madama i capofila Ugo Intini e Marco Pannella. La Rosa nel Pugno ha comunque presentato ricorso presso la Giunta delle elezioni e delle immunità parlamentari, sostenendo che la legge elettorale non richiederebbe alcuno sbarramento qualora la coalizione abbia avuto accesso al premio di maggioranza regionale (essendo lo sbarramento previsto esplicitamente dalla legge Calderoli solo nei casi in cui una coalizione rimanga al di sotto del 55% dei voti validi complessivi). Dopo una trattazione durata quasi due anni in sede di verifica dei poteri, il ricorso avanzato dalla Rosa nel Pugno non fu accolto.

Nelle elezioni politiche di aprile 2006 è stato eletto alla Camera dei deputati per la Rosa nel Pugno anche Sergio D'Elia, il quale in seguito stato nominato segretario alla Presidenza della Camera, suscitando accese proteste sia da parte dei familiari dell'agente Fausto Dionisi, sia da parte di alcuni sindacati delle forze di pubblica sicurezza. Sergio D'Elia inoltre, fa parte della III Commissione - Affari esteri e comunitari (dal 6 giugno 2006) e al Comitato di vigilanza sulle attività di documentazione (dal 29 giugno 2006).

La Rosa nel Pugno nel Governo Prodi
Nasce, intanto, il nuovo governo guidato da Romano Prodi, di cui la Rosa nel Pugno entra a far parte con una sua delegazione: l'unico ministro nominato è Emma Bonino, che assume la carica di Ministro del commercio internazionale e le deleghe in materia di politiche europee, dopo una sua discussa candidatura al Ministero della Difesa.

Della delegazione di governo fanno parte inoltre Ugo Intini, viceministro agli Affari Esteri, Emidio Casula (sottosegretario alla Difesa), Tommaso Casillo (sottosegretario alle Infrastrutture) e Raffaele Gentile (sottosegretario ai Trasporti).

La fine del progetto
Ma già negli ultimi mesi del 2006, il progetto della RnP subisce un rallentamento dovuto ad una sostanziale difformità tra la cultura socialista e quella radicale, che si concretizza soprattutto in un diverso modo di intendere l'azione politica: da una parte un'azione storicamente di governo, dall'altra un'attività referendaria e movimentista. Posizioni in tal senso vengono espresse dal congresso dei Radicali (novembre 2006), dal cui pulpito anche Lanfranco Turci (leader terzista della RnP, già esponente dei DS) riconosce la crisi del progetto.

Quella che era nata come alleanza politico-elettorale non è riuscita a trasformarsi in un vero nuovo partito ma, anzi, socialisti e radicali sono destinati a dividere le loro strade, pur mantenendo inizialmente il loro gruppo unitario alla Camera. Lo stesso Boselli ammette che la diversità di strategia è un limite per il progetto che ormai, pur condividendo un comune campo ideologico d'azione, si mantiene solo come alleanza elettorale e come azione comune nel Parlamento e nel Governo. Per lo SDI si propone, piuttosto, come nuovo obiettivo quello di ricomporre la diaspora socialista. L'alleanza tra socialisti e radicali, tuttavia, prosegue sui temi come i diritti civili, il garantismo, l'economia, la politica estera, la laicità.

Il 9 gennaio 2007 si tiene la Direzione nazionale della RnP che di fatto sancisce il divorzio fra SDI e Radicali.

Nell'aprile 2007 si svolge il V Congresso dello SDI, convocato in forma straordinaria, che esprime contrarietà all'adesione al Partito Democratico in contemporanea progettazione, ma dà l'avvio ad una Costituente Socialista che raggruppa esponenti che fanno riferimento, a vario titolo, al socialismo democratico e al Partito Socialista Europeo, ponendo le basi di quello che prenderà il nome di Partito Socialista.

Il 18 dicembre 2007, delineati i caratteri del nuovo PS, anche il gruppo parlamentare alla Camera perde la denominazione di "Rosa nel Pugno" e assume quella di "Socialisti e Radicali-RnP". Con questo atto si considera conclusa l'esperienza politica della Rosa nel Pugno.

Il programma politico

Pacs
La proposta dell'Unione è troppo lacunosa e vaga: è sparito il concetto di coppia, e non c'è alcuna garanzia pubblicistica, che invece è assolutamente necessaria per assicurare alle coppie di fatto (omosessuali o eterosessuali) anche la reversibilità della pensione, l'eredità, la tutela in caso di separazione, e così via.
Divorzio breve
Semplificazione delle procedure e drastica riduzione dei tempi per l'ottenimento del divorzio.
Superamento del Concordato e dell'Otto per Mille
Non esiste paese occidentale in cui le gerarchie di una chiesa da una parte godano di straordinari privilegi (Concordato, esenzioni Ici, 8 per mille, insegnanti di religione scelti dal vescovo e pagati dallo Stato) e dall'altra intervengano a gamba tesa nel dibattito politico o addirittura nelle campagne elettorali.
Libertà di ricerca scientifica
Proseguire la battaglia di Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca sulle cellule staminali embrionali, contro malattie devastanti.
Scuola pubblica
No al finanziamento delle scuole confessionali; abolizione del valore legale dei titoli di studio.
Aborto
Possibilità di ricorso all'aborto farmacologico (RU486); facilitazione dell'accesso ai metodi contraccettivi e alla pillola del giorno dopo.
Droga
Legalizzazione dei derivati della cannabis; sperimentazione della somministrazione controllata di eroina.
Eutanasia
Legalizzazione, regolamentazione e controllo della somministrazione, nei casi terminali, di farmaci contro il dolore anche se a elevato rischio. Interruzione del mantenimento artificiale in vita, nei casi di coma profondo e irreversibile, e comunque in quelli in cui non ci sia ulteriore aspettativa di vita che non sia puramente vegetativa: la scelta deve essere espressamente indicata in un apposito testamento biologico da prevedere per ogni cittadino.
Prostituzione
Legalizzazione e controllo, contro lo sfruttamento sessuale.
Amnistia
Ci vuole una amnistia, la più ampia possibile, per ridurre di almeno un terzo il carico processuale della Amministrazione della Giustizia perché essa possa, liberata da processi meno gravi, impegnarsi a concludere quelli più gravi. È necessario un indulto, di almeno due anni, per sgravare di un terzo il carico umano che - in tutte le sue componenti, detenuti, personale amministrativo e di custodia - soffre la condizione disastrosa delle prigioni. Responsabilità civile dei magistrati.
Promozione della democrazia
Impegno per il cambiamento in senso democratico di quei paesi del mondo che non garantiscono diritti umani e civili. Nascita di un Fondo Italiano per la Democrazia e di un'analoga struttura a livello europeo, sul modello della NED americana.
E-democracy (democrazia su internet)
Legalizzazione del peer-to-peer e revisione in senso liberalizzante delle norme sul diritto d'autore e sul copyright.

Risultati elettorali

Congressi
Costituente - Residenza di Ripetta (Roma), 17 novembre 2005

Simboli
Il simbolo è basato su quello utilizzato dal Partito Radicale fino al 1989, a sua volta ispirato alla "Rosa nel Pugno" utilizzato da alcuni movimenti e partiti socialisti europei, come ad esempio il Partito Socialista Francese. In realtà la rosa è quella dell'Internazionale Socialista, che è stata ripresa dalla  "rosa nel pugno" usata da alcuni partiti della socialdemocrazia riformista, che la usavano in seguito alla scelta del simbolo effettuata dal Partito Socialista francese nel 1971.

Note

Voci correlate
 Socialisti Democratici Italiani
 Radicali Italiani
 Partito Radicale (Italia)
 Movimento Liberale Indipendente
 Partito d'Azione
 Rosa (simbolo)

Collegamenti esterni

Liste elettorali italiane

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With an extremely slow collection, I will add Versailles pictures when we get home.
It was a long day, but a very good day.
Up early, early breakfast, 8am bus to Versailles. It was cold and windy when we got there, even a snowflake or two. Hasn't France gotten the memo that spring is here?
We waited in the group line to get in, but not very long. I had been to Versailles with Ellen, but it was back in 1986, so I don't remember it well.
We started the tour, with our tour guide leading us from room to room. At first I was wowed by it all. But after awhile, the excess and the vanity of Louis XIV got to me, and my end takeaway was that the place is vulgar, in the same way Donald Trump places are. Excess for the sake of excess, especially when king and ruling over subjects who are paying for it all, is just too much.
We got to go back to the gardens briefly, which was about all we felt like, as the cold and the wind were really uncomfortable.
We were then faced with the easiest decision in the history of decisions: do you ride the bus back to the ship and sail 5.5 hours to get to Paris or do you hop a train and get there in 1/2 an hour? I think we all know what choice we made.
We took the train and then transferred to the subway, getting off near the Bastille. We walked along, entering the Marais district, stopping into churches, chocolate shops, grocery stores, whatever struck our fancy. After all, we were in Paris!
We made it to the Pompidou Center, the strangest building to ever grace France. It is no wonder that the Parisians hate it. After a bit more walking, we found ourselves within sight of Notre Dame. Ellen wasn't going to miss an opportunity to see her favorite spot. Allas, it was closed in the early evening to prepare for Easter services, so we couldn't go in.
We found a cafe to stop at on the Left Bank for a glass of wine and to set a dinner strategy. Ellen had of course done some advance planning and had a list to consider. We read through TripAdvisor reviews and selected one, Boucherie Rouliere, known for their meats.
I gotta give a plug now to a TripAdvisor feature. They have something called "Point Me There." Instead of putting a street map in front of you with a blue dot to follow, it has a compass and the number of feet to your destination. You just walk, turning when the compass points and watching the distance decrease. We used it to and from the restaurant, it was fabulous.
Dinner was great, a small restaurant with tables impossibly close together, so they had to pull them way out so you could get in. Ellen had steak, I had lamb chops, and we shared a 1/2 bottle of wine. It was such a great dinner, just to watch the waiters hustle, the patrons come in, the food being served. It was so French!
We took the subway back to the Eiffel Tower, and walked to the ship, in the same place as when we left Paris on Tuesday morning. We packed and prepared for the trip home.
I hope you enjoyed reading along. Leave a comment or a like so I know you dropped by.
I'll update this post with pictures and do a brief post on our trip home.
Look forward to our next trip, Sweden & Iceland in July.
A calm day today. Too calm for Ellen, but we had no choice in the matter.
We finally left Rouen this morning. Breakfast on the ship, disembarkation briefing at 10, lunch at noon, all on the ship.
We got to Les Andelys just before 1, and took off on our own. The town had not much, a nice church in the center, a few shops and restaurants, and a Richard The Lionhearted castle on the top of the hill. It was a steep walk up, but worth the climb for the views of the town and the Seine.
We stopped at a bakery in town and Ellen picked up a few things.
We set sail again around 3. Viking was offering a gallery tour today, so we took it and got to see the kitchen. Interesting how small it is to feed 150 people.
In the evening, held prisoner on a moving ship, we dined aboard for the captain's dinner. It was 4 courses, all the staff paraded around the dining room, it was quite the production. We dined with a couple from Colorado, retired educators. They made good dinner companions, and the 2.75 hour meal went by reasonably fast.
The end of the trip, unfortunately is in sight. Tomorrow we visit Versailles and return to Paris. One more dinner in town, and we fly back on Sunday.
I wrote 3 special blog posts the last couple of days, on the ship, the technology behind the blog and Passover. Check them out in your leisure.
So just a little post on the what it takes to make the magic of the blog happen while we are traveling. Wait, who said "what magic?"????
I've gotten the set-up as simple as possible. My Nikon D3100 has an Eye-Fi card in it, so I can wirelessly move pictures from the camera to the iPad. I use the WordPress app on the iPad, bring pictures in and voila!
You may have noticed there was no discussion of SIM cards on this trip. Since our ship had WiFi, we figured our data needs would be limited on shore. I had read about getting a French carrier's SIM card, but it seems to require some amount of French speaking. I may have faked my way through the same exercise in Spanish when in Argentina, but Ellen didn't feel up to it. We also know that sometimes it isn't as simple as it seems, and you can waste time troubleshooting.
So we took the path of least resistance, and let Verizon Wireless provide us with 100mb of data for $25 each. It's a different sensation to be minding data usage, but we were able to use our phones for Foursquare check-ins and Instagram and Facebook photo postings. You know, the absolutely essential activities! We used out iPhone data counter for the first time, and put our phones in airplane mode whenever they weren't in use.
We might have done things differently in retrospect. The WiFi on the ship was mostly slow and sometimes impossibly slow. That made the blog postings difficult and sometimes maddingly frustrating. So I might have tried to get a decent data quota and wrestled with a French mobile company, but not upset that we didn't have to hassle with that. In the end, I was able to get the blog up every night.
Next trip is to Sweden, where they are technological and speak English, so we are likely to go the prepaid SIM route next time.
Here is a view of the Viking Spirit, our floating hotel for 7 days. It holds about 140 passengers, has a dining room on one end, a lounge on the other, and cabins in the middle. There is a sun deck up top, not that it is getting much use on this trip.
What we enjoy most about river boats is that their size allows them to dock right in the middle of the towns we visit, so no time is wasted getting to see the cities along the river.
We are truly treating it as a hotel, since we most like to travel independently. We are skipping the walking tours in most cities in favor of doing our own, using guidebooks or tours from the TI office. And if all goes to plan, we will only have eaten dinner on the ship the first night, as we are taking advantage of the schedule of being docked each night and, well, being in France where the food is amazing.


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Election News March 14, 2018
Cozen O'Connor's Insight: Illinois State Attorney General Primary Election on March 20
Democratic Nomination Still Too Close to Call; Harold Likely to Win Republican Nomination
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The 2018 primary election season for the 31 State Attorney General ("AG") contests officially kicked-off last week in Texas, but the first high-profile and competitive AG primary election will take place in Illinois on March 20. This is an open seat race since AG Lisa Madigan is not seeking a fifth term. A total of 10 candidates (eight Democrats and 2 Republicans) are vying for their parties' nominations.
In Illinois, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes, even if he or she does not win an outright majority of total votes cast. With eight candidates running for the Democratic nomination, a candidate needs only more than 20% of the total vote. Reports indicate that even at this late stage in the race, a significant percentage of potential Democratic voters remain undecided. That means that a late surge of momentum by a candidate could propel them to win the race.
Since declaring his intention to run in late September 2017, State Senator Kwame Raoul emerged as the reported front-runner early on with key endorsements from the Cook County Democratic Party (Chicago), the AFL-CIO, and the Chicago Teachers Union, among others. He also has consistently led his Democratic challengers in fundraising. Heading into the primary election, Raoul has over $2.4M cash on hand[1], having raised over $1M since January.
However, in the last month, the dynamics of this race have shifted and continue to remain fluid. According to reports, former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn may now be the one to beat. Quinn has been a prominent figure in Illinois politics for decades and has the benefit of wide name recognition. He still trails Raoul in fundraising, but his momentum is evident given that most of his campaign funding has been raised in the last two months. He now has $1.3M cash on hand having raised $1M of that since January.[2]
There is also a very real possibility that Sharon Fairley, a former Assistant AG, federal prosecutor, and Chief Administrator of the Independent Police Review Authority, who has received the coveted endorsements of the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, and State Journal-Register, may surprise everyone and rally to win. The Democratic race has included a great deal of criticism and complaints about special interest money, fundraising tactics, and ethics, meaning that Fairley may be perceived by voters as the political outsider who will clean-up alleged corruption. That said, Fairley herself has publicly acknowledged her fundraising disadvantage in the race with only $545k cash on hand.[3]
A poll released on February 28, 2018, by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University ("SIU") showed Raoul leading with 22%, followed by Quinn with 18%. While none of other candidates, including Fairley, managed to garner double digit support, it is important to note that 40% of voters are still undecided.
On the Republican side, Erika Harold is the reported heavy favorite to win over litigator Gary Grasso. Harold is a former Miss America who used her winnings for her education at Harvard Law School. This race's momentum has always been on her side, and she is also the favorite of the Republican Attorneys General Association.[4] In addition to support from a long line of state legislators including House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, she has also received the endorsements of the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, and State Journal-Register.
That being said, Grasso remains a factor in the race. The latest SIU poll cited above showed the Republican primary to be a "dead heat" with Harold garnering 18% and Grasso 14%. As with Democrats, however, two-thirds of the voters polled were undecided.
Like our readers, we will be watching closely on March 20 as the results come in to determine who will vie in November to become the next AG of Illinois. To receive real-time AG primary and general election results via text message or email, please click here to be directed to Cozen O'Connor's State AG Election Tracker's sign up page.
While visiting the State AG Election Tracker, you can also find more information about the candidates and stay up-to-date on the latest news, insights, and polls about the Illinois race and the other 30 AG elections in 2018.
[1] Total as of 3.11.18. http://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/raoul-for-illinois-18261/
[2] http://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/taxpayers-for-quinn-1212/
[3] http://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/34120/
[4] https://www.republicanags.com/2018/03/05/icymi-illinois-attorney-general-candidate-erika-harold-continues-pick-endorsements/
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