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12 Best New and Noteworthy LGBTQ Children's Books You Have to Read
Looking for the best LGBTQ children's books? These LGBT picture books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Books with lesson plans and activities linked. Picture books about various topics such as gay families, gender, LGBTQ rights and history and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books!
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Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. But what will Abuela think about the mess he makes — and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself? Mesmerizing and full of heart, Jessica Love's author-illustrator debut is a jubilant picture of self-love and a radiant celebration of individuality.
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Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love
Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It's not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side. Jessica Love returns with a joyful story of friendship and individuality in this radiant follow-up to Julián Is a Mermaid.
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Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
In this deeply moving and empowering true story, young readers will trace the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings in 1978 with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world. Award-winning author Rob Sanders's stirring text, and acclaimed illustrator Steven Salerno's evocative images, combine to tell this remarkable – and undertold – story. A story of love, hope, equality, and pride. The way that it teaches about the history of such a well-known symbol makes it one of the best LGBTQ children's books.
Stonewall: A Building, an Uprising, a Revolution by Rob Sanders
A powerful and timeless true story that will allow young readers to discover the rich and dynamic history of the Stonewall Inn and its role in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement–a movement that continues to this very day. In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raided by police in New York City. Though the inn had been raided before, that night would be different. It would be the night when empowered members of the LGBTQ+ community–in and around the Stonewall Inn–began to protest and demand their equal rights as citizens of the United States. A book more suited for upper elementary and middle school students.
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
The heartwarming true story of two male penguins who create a nontraditional family is now available in a sturdy board book edition.
At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own. A story great for talking about having same sex parents.
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Forever Home by Henry Cole
What child hasn't wanted a pet? How many parents have asked their kids to show that they can be responsible to get a pet? In this book, a boy with dog fever sets out to prove to his dads that he can be responsible enough for a dog going so far as to go on walks with a leash. He finally proves it to them and he notices a stray dog that he eventually rediscovers at the humane society. The boy follows through with all of his plans for his dog being a responsible dog, something many kids need to see, as he gives the dog its forever home. Henry Cole finds ways to communicate some of the deepest messages and changes in time while still including a lot of action and heart. He has another couple of books on this list as well. In the spreads with only the most essential color to draw attention, he tells a story that every student will relate to and inspire them to try similar things in their lives.
In Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polacco
Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together. But some of the other families don?t accept them. They say they are different. How can a family have two moms and no dad? But Marmee and Meema?s house is full of love. And they teach their children that different doesn?t mean wrong. And no matter how many moms or dads they have, they are everything a family is meant to be.
Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola
Oliver Button is a sissy. At least that's what the other boys call him. But here's what Oliver Button really is: a reader, and an artist, and a singer, and a dancer, and more. What will his classmates say when he steps into the spotlight? At first glance it is not necessarily one of the standard LGBTQ children's books but it shows students that not all kids like things that follow standard gender roles.
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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves wearing the tangerine dress in his classroom's dress-up center. The children in Morris's class don't understand. Dresses, they say, are for girls. And Morris certainly isn't welcome in the spaceship some of his classmates are building. Astronauts, they say, don't wear dresses. One day when Morris feels all alone and sick from their taunts, his mother lets him stay home from school. Morris dreams of a fantastic space adventure with his cat, Moo. Inspired by his dream, Morris paints the incredible scene he saw and brings it with him to school. He builds his own spaceship, hangs his painting on the front of it and takes two of his classmates on an outer space adventure.
My Footprints by Bao Phi
Every child feels different in some way, but Thuy feels "double different." She is Vietnamese American and she has two moms. Thuy walks home one winter afternoon, angry and lonely after a bully's taunts. Then a bird catches her attention and sets Thuy on an imaginary exploration. What if she could fly away like a bird? What if she could sprint like a deer, or roar like a bear? Mimicking the footprints of each creature in the snow, she makes her way home to the arms of her moms. Together, the three of them imagine beautiful and powerful creatures who always have courage – just like Thuy.
Mommy, Mama and Me by Lesléa Newman
A heartwarming board books about gay parents! A great purchase for new parents and new babies alike, and the perfect gift to show your love for mommy, mama and more! Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together.
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
Join the call for a better world with this New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. Discover a school where—no matter what—young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated. Follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms. A school where students from all backgrounds learn from and celebrate each other's traditions. A school that shows the world as we will make it to be.
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What are some of your favorite LGBTQ children's books? Are there any must read LGBTQ children's books that I left out? Let me know in the comments, and I'll add it!
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How Western Michigan University Dewatered a Football Stadium Overnight
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Torrential rain left 2 million gallons of water on the field, delaying a game
Heavy rainfall and flooding delayed Western Michigan University's homecoming game against Akron, but an all-night effort to pump nearly 2 million gallons out of Waldo Stadium kept the game on track.
The game was scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 14, but torrential rain pounded the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan that afternoon. The 78-year-old stadium is in a flood plain and has three pumps that eject water to a 60-inch concrete pipe that Arcadia Creek flows through.
There were several catch basin inlets by the stadium that also drained to the 60-inch stormwater line. The line was at capacity, so stormwater moved backward and pushed water back around the stadium, contributing to the field flooding.
Western Michigan University's Waldo Stadium is flooded, delaying a college football game by a day (Images courtesy WMU)
The creek was flooded. Eventually, water backed up and there were two feet of standing water on the turf.
After the adjacent baseball field couldn't hold any more water, the first floor of the connecting Bill Brown Alumni Football Center began to flood. At that point, Peter Strazdas, WMU's associate vice president for facilities management, made the decision to turn off the three pumps to keep the building from flooding more.
As Saturday went on, the rain finally stopped. The plan was to play the next day at 1:05 p.m., but a contingency plan was set to play at the field of Kalamazoo College, the nearby Division III school whose stadium sat on higher ground.
The all-night effort from WMU's facilities team and Clean Earth Environmental Contracting Services kept WMU from having to give up a true home game.
"It was all about the will of the people," Strazdas said. "My facilities team said, 'We don't play home games on someone else's turf. We play on our turf.'"
But WMU needed help. Clean Earth provided four vector trucks and two large tanker trucks to transport the water elsewhere on campus. The effort was halted at 2:30 a.m. when another deluge put 12 inches of water on the field. That passed and, at 5:30 a.m., the entire turf was visible.
Western Michigan University's Waldo Stadium is cleared and WMU is able to play football.
There were five rips on the turf that were seamed and rubber palates on the turf that were repositioned, but the field was deemed safe at 8 a.m.
"By 10 a.m., we had that baby looking good," Strazdas said.
Six hours later, WMU fell 14-13 to Akron, but Broncos coach Tim Lester gave the overnight workers plenty of credit for getting the stadium game-ready.
Strazdas said that out of every crisis comes an opportunity, and WMU is consulting with engineers on how to pump water elsewhere. There will also be more people and equipment on standby when more heavy rainfall is in the forecast.
Still, it was a victory for the school even if it didn't show up on the scoreboard.
"We're still pinching ourselves wondering how the hell we did this," Strazdas said.
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Updated: Darren Aronofsky Talks 'The Wolverine'
Darren Aronofsky has spoken a little about 'The Wolverine' to superherohype, 'The Wolverine' deals with Logans escapades in Japan:
"There's all the samurai elements that are really exciting," he told us. "I'm a big fan of Japanese movies, we're going to try to have a good time." Aronofsky confirmed that he'll be casting a lot of Japanese actors, but is still unsure whether they'll be speaking in Japanese or English. "It's still under discussion, we'll see what happens," he said about that.
Not everyone was a fan of Gavin Hood's previous movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which partly suffered from nearly half a dozen writers (not all credited) being involved with the screenplay, but clearly, this movie should be different going by what we were told. "Chris McQuarrie wrote a great screenplay. We're trying to get it into a slightly better place but he's working on it, and I think it'll be easy to fix. Chris is an amazing writer and I'm very lucky to have him as a collaborator."
The thing to remember is that Aronofsky's main focus for the next three months will be making sure people go to see his new movie Black Swan, and because of that, he hasn't spent a lot of time on developing The Wolverine just yet. "Literally, we haven't even started to gear up. I'm at the same studio and the film comes out December 3, so they know I'm busy until then," he said. A press release from 20th Century Fox about their new deal with Aronofsky's production company Protozoa stated that filming would start in April.
Our one less-than-subtle attempt to find out if Liev Schreiber might make a cameo as Sabretooth, something we asked the actor about earlier this year, was met with a quick rebuff of "I'm not going to talk about any of that stuff."
Some may remember that Aronofsky was at one point developing a Batman movie with Frank Miller, and The Wolverine will be his first attempt to direct a studio franchise film. We wondered about how that experience may have differed from this one and he told us, "I was really trying to make 'The Fountain' at the time and that's what I was doing so I wasn't very focused on (Batman), I was focused on making 'The Fountain,' and then after that, they went off and made the film that they did and it's great."
Fox Filmed Entertainment have also signed Darren Aronofsky and his production company Protozoa Pictures to a new two-year, overall deal. Aronofsky's debut picture under the pact will being 'The Wolverine,' starring Hugh Jackman and written by Oscar-winner Christopher McQuarrie, the film is scheduled to begin production in April next year.
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The Soul Purpose product line was created and developed by company Founder and CEO Nadine A. Thompson, who envisioned an artistic collection of products that would be both beautiful to behold with intriguing, classy packaging and equally as beautiful to touch, smell, feel and experience. Her goal—with each product she develops—is to redefine the notions of beauty from a multicultural perspective, focusing on four categories: body, beauty, style and spirit.
The Soul Purpose collection was developed with a global vision in the hope of utilizing earth friendly and socially responsible vendors from around the world, as well as using the highest quality natural ingredients and extracts.
The fragrance line which is referred to as a Journey of the Senses is filled with exquisite fragrances, all inspired from various parts of the world and the ingredients found in these regions, such as Brazilian Jackfruit, Hawaiian Tuberose and Haitian Vetivért Pepper.
Nadine's vision is to deliver to her Soul Purpose customers an exquisite fragrance experience with perfume accords that they would not find elsewhere. It is also important that the fragrances have a global feel so the user can feel transported to exotic places like Thailand, Armenia, Ghana and the Caribbean.


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#TBT: Broadway Playbill: Getting Away With Murder: March 1996
Being the devout Stephen Sondheim fan that I am, there was no way I was going to miss a play that he wrote. Add George Furth - his co-playwright and book writer of Company - and there was absolutely no way I'd miss it. The added attraction of John Rubinstein (the original Pippin!!) and Terrence Mann (the original Rum Tum Tugger, Javert and Beast!!) made this a must-see for me. Christine Ebersole was an unknown to me; I became an instant fan and have followed her ever since. Back then, I was almost exclusively seeing musicals on Broadway, so this was quite a departure for this (then) 20-something! The critics hated it, and it closed quickly. Turns out that I saw the final Saturday matinee. I enjoyed it, knowing full well that as with any Sondheim show, there was more there than meets the eye. Heck, even the character names were part of the mystery (clever ways of naming them after the seven deadly sins, e.g. Gregory Reed - greed, Dossie Lustig - lust). And it lived up to its genre; it was both funny and thrilling. I recall a rather vivid depiction of a crime, and some every intense moments throughout. Thinking back on it like this makes me long for a new Broadway thriller.
31 previews, 17 performances
March 1996 Cast: John Rubinstein, Christine Ebersole, Terrence Mann, Josh Mostel, Jodi Long, Kandis Chappell and Frankie R. Faison
A comedy thriller by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
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I'll say it again. I miss the Dear Playbill column.
Also, I saw the balloon guy in Victor/Victoria. A wise cut.
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A great time to see variety on Broadway: big musicals, musical revues, TWO one-man shows, classic revivals of both plays and musicals - some of the most beloved titles of all time all at once! "New" Rodgers and Hammerstein, old Rodgers and Hammerstein. And the stars! Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Rachel York, Michael Nouri (and that's just one show!), Betty Buckley, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Gould, Zoe Caldwell, George C. Scott, Charles Durning, and Nathan Lane. And guess what? The soon-to-be-back-on-Broadway Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. Everything old is new again.
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\section{Experimental implementation}
The setup is detailed in Fig. \ref{fig2}(a) and relies on a single 2.5 cm-long atomic ensemble. At a 20 Hz repetition rate, the experimental runs start with a loading phase of 37.5~ms in the magneto-optical trap. To achieve a large OD, the trap is based on two pairs of rectangular coils and on 2-inch-diameter trapping beams with a total power of 350~mW. An additional 8-ms compression stage, with ramping of the trapping coils current from 3.5 to 15~A, is performed. The MOT coils are then switched off and polarization gradient cooling is performed for 1~ms. Finally, the atoms are prepared in the ground state $\ket{g}$ by sending a 950-$\mu$s long pulse resonant with the $\ket{s}$ to $\ket{e}$ transition (see Fig. \ref{fig1}). Residual magnetic fields are cancelled and the inhomogeneous broadening of the hyperfine ground state transition is limited to 50 kHz. Overall, the OD on the signal transition reaches 500.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\columnwidth]{fig2.pdf}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\caption{Setup and memory characterization. The experiment consists on two stages operated with the same ensemble of Cs atoms. (a) A 2.5-cm-long ensemble is prepared in a compressed MOT, with an OD up to 500. At first, a single photon is generated using the DLCZ protocol in a small transverse part of the ensemble. After sending a write pulse, the detection of a Field-1 photon, with a probability $p_1$, heralds the creation of a single collective excitation. A read pulse produces then a Field-2 single photon that propagates in a 1-$\mu$s fibered delay line and impinges on a beam displacer (BD). The resulting single-photon entanglement is mapped into and out-of two memory ensembles via EIT, with a control propagating at $1^{\circ}$ angle. Entanglement is finally characterized using a phase shifter (PS), a polarizing beamsplitter (PBS) and two APDs. Before detection, Fabry-Perot cavities (FPC) filter the control background. (b) Suppression $w$ of the two-photon component for Field 2 relative to a coherent state before and after retrieval as a function of $p_{1}$. (c) Storage-and-retrieval efficiency for a single photon in one of the memories as a function of OD. The efficiency reaches $(87\pm5)\%$. The line corresponds to the full model (see text). The error bars are obtained from the Poissonian error of the photon counting probabilities.}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

After the preparation of the atomic sample, the experiment consists on two stages, performed subsequently 250 times per MOT cycle.  A single photon is first generated based on the DLCZ protocol \cite{DLCZ2001,Laurat07a} operated on a small transverse part of the elongated ensemble, with an OD of 6. A 150-ns write pulse detuned by -15~MHz with the $\ket{g} $ to $\ket{e}$ transition induces spontaneous Raman-scattered fields. The detection of a Field-1 photon with the single-photon detector APD1, with a probability $p_1$, heralds the creation of a collective atomic excitation. After a programmable delay, set at 200~ns, a pulse resonant with the $\ket{s}$ to $\ket{e}$ transition reads out this excitation and a field-2 single photon is emitted into a well-defined spatio-temporal mode. To match the spectral-temporal properties of the subsequent EIT storage, the single photon is temporally shaped via the shaping of the read pulse \cite{Farrera2016}. With a 500-ns Gaussian read pulse, a 300-ns Gaussian-shaped single-photon pulse is obtained. Due to the limited OD used for this stage, the heralding efficiency, i.e., the probability to get a single photon out of the ensemble, is equal to 10\%.We note that a larger OD would enable to reach a larger efficiency, with values up to 50\% demonstrated in free-space experiments with OD about 20 \cite{Laurat07a}. However, with an angle between the fields as generally used for filtering and an elongated atomic ensemble necessary for a large OD, the phase-matching mismatch due to the splitting in the ground state can effectively limit the achievable efficiency. This limitation is not present for the EIT process due to the different configuration of the beams.

To characterize the emitted single photon, the suppression $w$ of the two-photon component relative to a coherent state is measured via a Hanbury Brown-Twiss setup. It is given by the ratio $p_{1}p_{1,2,3}/(p_{1,2} p_{1,3})$, where $p_{1,2,3}$  indicates the probability for triple coincidences and $p_{1,2}$ ($p_{1,3}$) the probability for coincidences between APD1 and APD2 (APD3). This antibunching parameter depends on the excitation probability $p_{1}$ and the values are given in Fig. 2(b).

The single photon is then sent through a 200-meter long single-mode fiber that introduces a 1-$\mu$s delay. After this propagation, the single photon impinges on a birefringent beam displacer (BD1) with a polarization at $45^{\circ}$ from the axis, generating in the ideal case the single-photon entangled state
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left ( \ket{0_{a}}\ket{1_{b}}+e^{i\varphi}\ket{1_{a}}\ket{0_{b}} \right)\nonumber
\label{entangle in}
\end{eqnarray}
where $a$ and $b$ denote the two optical paths. The relative phase $\varphi$ is passively stable due to the small interferometer defined by the BDs \cite{Matsukevich2004,Chou07,Laurat07}. Entangling remote memories would require active phase locking, as demonstrated in \cite{Chou2005}. The focus of our study is here on the efficiency of the entanglement transfer that can be achieved.

The second stage of our experiment consists in coherently mapping the entangled fields into two memories by dynamical EIT. The ensembles are defined by two crossed optical paths, which are obtained by focusing the two 4-mm-apart parallel paths into the MOT with a small angle of 0.5$^{\circ}$ and a waist of 250 $\mu$m. A control field, on resonance with the $\ket{s}$ to $\ket{e}$ transition and with a waist of 3 mm, opens a transparency window in both atomic ensembles. When the entangled fields propagate through the ensembles, the control is switched off adiabatically to coherently map them onto long-lived collective excitation, leading here to one excitation delocalized among the two memories. After a tunable delay, set to 1~$\mu$s for the presented results, the atomic entanglement is converted back into entangled photonic modes by switching on the control. Both control and entangled fields have the same circular polarization. To avoid leakage during the mapping, i.e., to ensure that the signal can be contained entirely in the ensemble when the control is switched off, the control power is chosen to provide a slow-light delay equal to twice the signal duration. In order to achieve an efficient entanglement transfer, a large storage-and-retrieval efficiency and therefore a very high OD is required for both path. The small cross angle enables to preserve a value up to 500. However, as studied in \cite{VernazGris2018,Hsiao2018}, the off-resonance excitation of multiple excited levels in alkaline atoms result into an effective decoherence rate that can limit the efficiency for large OD. For this reason, the experiment is performed here on the D$_1$ line, where the separation between the two excited states is larger than 1.1~GHz and this effect is thereby minimized relative to experiments on the D$_{2}$ line for which efficiency peaks at about 70\% before decreasing \cite{VernazGris2018}.

\section{Memory characterization}
We first study the mapping of the heralded single photon into and out of one memory, using one path of the interferometer. Figure \ref{fig2}(c) displays the measured storage-and-retrieval efficiency as a function of OD. Similar results are obtained for both memories. The efficiencies are compared to a full model based on Maxwell-Bloch equations, which takes into account the interaction of the signal and control with all the Zeeman and excited levels \cite{VernazGris2018}. For this model, we consider an intrinsic ground-state decoherence rate $\gamma_0=10^{-3} \Gamma$, as extracted from EIT spectra measurement, where $\Gamma/2\pi=4.5$~MHz is the decay rate for D$_1$ line. The data agree well with this model. The maximal achieved efficiency reaches (87$\pm$5)\% for an OD of about 500. As can be seen in Fig. \ref{fig2}(b) that provides the suppression $w$ of the two-photon component before and after storage, the single-photon character is very well preserved. For the lowest excitation probability $p_1\simeq10^{-3}$ used in the memory experiment, $w$ is equal to $0.11\pm0.08$ and shows no degradation within the error bar. Relative to the only other work on single-photon storage with high efficiency \cite{Wang2019}, this value is here three times lower, which is a stringent requirement for quantum repeater applications \cite{Chou07,njp}.

In this implementation, the memory lifetime $\tau$, given by a gaussian decay $\exp\left(-(t/\tau)^2\right)$ as it comes from the residual inhomogeneous Zeeman broadening \cite{Choi}, is measured to be $15~\mu s$. Motional dephasing due to the angle between the signal and the control would otherwise limit the lifetime to about 200~$\mu s$ while the transit of the atoms from the interaction area when the MOT is released puts an upper limit below 10~ms. Various improvements could lead to a few-millisecond timescale, e.g. reducing the angle, which will require a more efficient filtering, optical pumping, which is challenging in high-OD media, or magnetic field bias to lift Zeeman degeneracy \cite{Xu2013}. To access the sub-second regime, other optical trapping methods, e.g, dipole trapping, are required as demonstrated in Refs. \cite{Radnaev2008,Yang2016} with 3D optical lattices. In that case, a cavity around the atomic ensemble might be necessary as in Ref. \cite{Yang2016} to preserve a large OD.

For completeness, we give here the typical experimental rates. During the 1-ms phase when generation and storage are performed, the heralding rate to generate the single photon is of about 25 per second and the rate of entanglement generation is reduced to 18 per second due to couplings and loss in the delay line. After storage-and-retrieval, propagation and filtering (30\% transmission), and detection (50\% efficiency), the single-photon detection rate is of about 1.7 per second. Given the specific duty cycle of 1/50 in our implementation, the overall entanglement generation rate and single-photon detection rate are of about 0.3 and 0.03 per second, respectively.

\section{Entanglement transfer}

We now turn to the entanglement characterization. For this purpose, we follow the model-independent determination introduced in \cite{Chou2005} that consists of measuring a reduced density matrix $\tilde{\rho}$ by restricting to the subspace with no more than one photon per mode and assuming that all off-diagonal elements between states with different numbers of photons are zero. This method provides a lower bound for the entanglement. In the basis $\ket{i_{a},j_{b}}$ with the number of photons $\{i,j\}=\{0,1\}$, $\tilde{\rho}$ can be written as
\begin{eqnarray}
\tilde{\rho} = \frac{1}{P}
\begin{pmatrix}
p_{00}&0&0&0\\
0&p_{01}&d&0\\
0&d^*&p_{10}&0\\
0&0&0&p_{11}
\label{matrix}
\end{pmatrix}\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where $p_{i,j}$ corresponds to the probability to find $i$ photon in mode $a$ and $j$ photon in mode $b$, $P=p_{00}+p_{01}+p_{10}+p_{11}$, and d is the coherence between the states $\ket{0_{a},1_{b}}$ and $\ket{1_{a},0_{b}}$. The coherence term is given by $d=V(p_{01}+p_{10})/2$ where $V$ is the visibility of the interference fringe between mode $a$ and $b$ when their relative phase is scanned. The reduced density matrix enables to calculate the concurrence $\mathcal{C}$ \cite{Wooters}, i.e., a monotone measurement of entanglement, as
\begin{eqnarray}
    \mathcal{C}=\frac{1}{P}\textrm{max}\left(2d-2\sqrt{p_{00}p_{11}},0\right)\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where $\mathcal{C}$ takes values between 0 for a separable state to 1 for a maximally entangled state.

Experimentally, upon the detection of a heralding photon on APD1, we first measure the $p_{i,j}$ probabilities with APD2 and APD3. The two detectors assess the presence of photons in mode $a$ or $b$ by monitoring the two outputs of a polarizing beam splitter placed after recombination of the two paths of the interferometer. The measured probabilities are provided in Table \ref{table1}. The next step is to measure interference fringes by mixing the two modes and scanning their relative phase $\varphi$. This can be done by using a set of two half-wave plates placed after BD2, with their axis parallel to the field polarizations and varying their relative angle. The experimental fringes are given in Fig. \ref{fig3}(a) and \ref{fig3}(b). The average raw visibilities are $V_{\textrm{in}}=0.96\pm0.03$ and $V_{\textrm{out}}=0.87\pm0.04$. The decrease in visibility after storage is mainly due to a slight contamination by the control field. After correction of this background we obtain a visibility $V_{\textrm{out}}=0.94\pm0.03$. The reconstructed density matrices $\tilde{\rho}_{\textrm{in}}$ and $\tilde{\rho}_{\textrm{out}}$  are given in Fig. \ref{fig3}(c) and \ref{fig3}(d), respectively.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.96\columnwidth]{fig3.pdf}
\caption{Measurement of entanglement for the input and output entangled fields. The relative phase $\varphi$ between the two modes is scanned and lead to interferences fringes for (a) before storage with visibility $V=0.96\pm0.03$ and (b) after storage and read-out with $V=0.87\pm0.04$ ($V=0.94\pm0.04$ after background correction). The density matrix is then derived for (c) before the memory with a concurrence $\mathcal{C}_{\textrm{in}}=(5.9\pm1.2)\times10^{-3}$ and (d) after the memory with $\mathcal{C}_{\textrm{out}}=(4.7\pm0.9)\times10^{-3}$. The error bars correspond to the propagated Poissonian error of the photon counting probabilities and the $1\sigma$ confidence interval of the sine fit applied to the fringes.}
\label{fig3}
\end{figure}

We note that when measuring the entanglement for the input modes, we could not remove the atoms since we use the same atomic ensemble to generate the single photon and store subsequently the entanglement. Therefore, we built another path with an identical interferometer next to our atomic cloud. This reference path is recombined with the memory path before filtering and detection. We estimate the input entanglement by correcting on the losses ratio between the two interferometers.

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\begin{table}[b!]
 \caption{Measured probabilities ${p_{ij}}$ and estimated concurrences $\mathcal{C}$ before and after storage, without correction for loss, detection and noise. The error bars correspond to the propagated Poissonian error of the photon counting probabilities.}
 \begin{tabular}{lll}
  \hline\hline
   & ${{\tilde{\rho} }_{\textrm{in}}}$ & ${{\tilde{ \rho} }_{\textrm{out}}}$ \\
  \hline
 ${{ p}_{00}}$ & $0.991 \pm 0.001$& $0.992 \pm 0.001$ \\
 ${{ p}_{10}}$ & $\left( {4.57 \pm 0.12} \right) \times {10^{ - 3}}$ & $\left( {3.87 \pm 0.09} \right) \times {10^{ - 3}}$ \\
 ${{ p}_{01}}$ & $\left( {4.95 \pm 0.12} \right) \times {10^{ - 3}}$ & $\left( {4.18 \pm 0.09} \right) \times {10^{ - 3}}$ \\
 ${{ p}_{11}}$ & $\left( {2.58 \pm 1.80} \right) \times {10^{ - 6}}$ & $\left( {1.35 \pm 0.95} \right) \times {10^{ - 6}}$ \\
 $\mathcal{C}$ & $\left( {5.9 \pm 1.2} \right) \times {10^{ - 3}}$ & $\left( {4.7 \pm 0.9} \right) \times {10^{ - 3}}$ \\
 \hline\hline
 \end{tabular}
\label{table1}
\end{table}}

The raw data given in Table \ref{table1} allow to characterize the entanglement transfer performances. The first crucial parameter is the suppression of the two-photon component. It can be evaluated here by the ratio $w=p_{11}/(p_{10}\cdot p_{01})$. This parameter amounts to $w_{\textrm{in}}=0.11\pm0.07$ and $w_{\textrm{out}}=0.08\pm0.06$ before and after storage respectively, thereby confirming the preservation of the single-photon character. Also, the overall storage-and-retrieval efficiency $\eta$ is given by the ratio of the one-photon probabilities $(p_{10}+p_{01})_{\textrm{out}}/(p_{10}+p_{01})_{\textrm{in}}$. This ratio is equal to $\eta=(85\pm4)\%$, in agreement with the efficiencies measured for each memory operated independently. These values combined with the achieved visibilities confirm the efficient, noiseless and reversible coherent mapping.

From these data, one can estimate the concurrence of entanglement. Without correcting for losses, detection efficiencies and residual background noise, we obtain a value for the concurrence before storage of $\mathcal{C}_{\textrm{in}}=(5.9\pm1.2)\times10^{-3}$ and a value after retrieval of  $\mathcal{C}_{\textrm{out}}=(4.7\pm0.9)\times10^{-3}$. The entanglement transfer can be evaluated by the ratio of the concurrences, $\lambda~=~\mathcal{C}_{\textrm{out}}/\mathcal{C}_{\textrm{in}}$, as initially done in \cite{Choi2008}. In our implementation, this parameter reaches $\lambda=(80\pm20)\%$. In the ideal case, this value is equal to the storage-and-retrieval efficiency of the involved memories. If the visibility of the fringes obtained after retrieval is corrected from background noise, the output concurrence is increased to $(5.3\pm0.9)\times10^{-3}$ and the ratio $\lambda$ to $88^{\tiny{+12}}_{\tiny{-23}}\%$. These numbers represent more than a 3-fold increase in transfer efficiency relative to previous works.

The error bar on $\lambda$ is mainly due to the uncertainty obtained on the values of $p_{11}$. This parameter is known to be difficult to measure as it corresponds to events for which the occurrence decreases rapidly with the suppression of the two-photon component \cite{Choi2008}. 180 hours of data taking were necessary to specifically access these probabilities and few coincidences were obtained. Indirect methods could be used to assess entanglement but would require specific assumptions about the initial state and noise statistics \cite{Usmani2012} or performing homodyne measurements \cite{Sangouard}. In the broad context of quantum networks, this result also emphasizes the topical importance of developing efficient benchmarking tools \cite{Eisert}.

\section{Conclusion}
In conclusion, we have reported the first realization of a highly-efficient and reversible entanglement transfer between light and quantum memories, together with a strong and preserved suppression of the two-photon component. The demonstrated capability is an important step towards the development of scalable networking architectures. A central challenge remains to demonstrate a \textit{quantum link efficiency} greater than unity \cite{Hanson,Laurat}, i.e., a preparation rate of entangled memories much larger than the decoherence rate, a cornerstone yet to be demonstrated in a cold atom setting. Combining high efficiency as shown here with longer lifetime \cite{Xu2013,Radnaev2008,Yang2016} and with multiplexing in multiple degrees of freedom \cite{Nicolas2014,Pu2017,Parniak2017,Simon2010} will be necessary. \\

This work was supported by the European Research Council (Starting Grant HybridNet), the EU H2020 FETFLAG Quantum Internet Alliance (820445), and the French National Research Agency (quBIC project ANR-17-CE39-0005). M.C. and A.S.S. acknowledge the support from the EU (Marie Curie Fellowship projects 705161 and 708216) and S.Q. from the China Scholarship Council. We also thank P. Vernaz-Gris and K. Huang for their contributions in the early stage of the experiment.

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Growing out of the author's experience as Special Assistant to the International Prosecutor of the Cambodia Genocide Tribunal in 2008, this article examines the concept of "Grotian Moment," a term the author uses to denote a paradigm-shifting development in which new rules and doctrines of customary international law emerge with unusual rapidity and acceptance. The article argues that the paradigm-shifting nature of the Nuremberg precedent, and the universal and unqualified endorsement of the Nuremberg Principles by the U.N. General Assembly in 1946, resulted in accelerated formation of customary international law, including the mode of international criminal responsibility now known as Joint Criminal Enterprise (JCE) liability. As such, the Cambodian Genocide Tribunal may properly apply JCE to crimes that occurred in 1975-1979, twenty years before the modern international tribunals recognized JCE as customary international law. The article uses this example to demonstrate the value of the "Grotian Moment" concept to explain an acceleration of the customary law-formation process and the heightened significance of certain General Assembly resolutions during times of fundamental change.
Scharf, Michael P. (2010) "Seizing the Grotian Moment: Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change," Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 43 : No. 3 , Article 1.


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European values, rules and European goal(s): The Political Landscape of the EU Elections.
April 26, 2019 Adriano DirriEuropean Union, Opinion
Picture the European Union as a community which, steadily, has organized itself around principles and values. Thus, around these principles and values it decided to build a common arena where the community wanted to play a game. Usually, in a game of any kind there are winners and losers, there is a certain degree of competition and cooperation; it was the latter that represented the aspiration of the Europe after World War II, after ages and centuries of "unfair" competition. In the EU process (integration) there is, of course, the issue of uneven economic development with some countries economies far outstripping others, , but the first aim of the EU is to improve, for instance, the health and education of the community as a whole; secondly, to enhance the quality of the "living conditions" of the players (citizens), and coaches (National and EU institutions); and last but not least, to promote greater understanding each other. The game is a tool to foster greater understanding of each other, in order to bring together different and similar cultures and peoples. The goal of this game is to improve the quality of cooperation: by playing the game of "cooperation" unfair competition can be ended.
The Arena in the Making
Nonetheless, the context matters: the European community that wants to prove itself in this metaphoric cooperative game, was created during the cold war, after WWII and when Europe was extremely weak. The Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 represented the first official step in the economic integration of France and Germany. This declaration represented the beginning of economic cooperation in Europe, which eventually led to the adoption of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 and, in 1957, to the Treaties of Rome: European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). Afterwards the European Community became more attractive to other countries: this has led to the enlargement of the European Union, which went beyond the purely economic integration, thanks to the adoption of newly improved Treaties, from Maastricht (1992) to Lisbon (2007).
European Values: the pillars of the Arena
The rules of the Statutes (Treaties) are inspired by the desire to share common values and principles: these common values are the backbone of the agreement. Again, any game encourages the strengthening of one's community from the within: the EU project seeks "ever closer union" as stressed in Art. 1 of the Treaty of the European Union (TEU). The subsequent article (art. 2 TEU) highlights the main feature of the EU game, "playing" with the purpose of learning to live together and aiming at better cooperation: cooperation through shared values. The enforcement of and compliance with the abovementioned principles is the main task of the EU. Member States and EU institutions must guarantee that each State follows the basic rules of the game. Furthermore, Art. 4 TEU strengthens Art. 2: Member States shall assist each other and facilitate the achievement of the Union's tasks and duties and must refrain from any actions that hinder the completion of these tasks. What happens when there is a clear violation of the foundational values by a member state? One of the remedies is the procedure outlined in Art. 7 (TEU), which empowers the Member States and EU Institutions to suspends the advantages (rights) deriving from the Treaties. Currently, EU values are under threat from within by certain Member States who are flouting the rules of the game and, it is proving very difficult for the EU to deal with these internal renegades. Furthermore, the EU is being challenged by outside threats from hostile powers and it is not helped by the fragility of its own institutions.
Elections and direction(s) of the EU
Cooperation is at stake and some teams are not playing according to the rules, others are playing unfairly and others are taking other paths (Brexit and its never-ending story). This is the current state of the EU arena in which some players are unclear about their commitment to its values and others are tempted to join different 'championships'. Perhaps, the renewed agreement between France and Germany (Franco-German Treaty of Aachen of January 22, 2019) might be taken as an opportunity to recall the main reason for the establishment of the EU: cooperation to avoid conflict in Europe. Then, the EU elections represent a crucial if not a critical match in the course of the EU integration process. Undoubtedly the weaknesses and shortcomings of the EU are under the spotlight, particularly due its inefficiency in the face of the outbreak of 2007 economic crisis, but also because of political divergences between the North and the South of the Continent. Even though some teams are weaker than others, the answer remains in cooperation, in an "ever closer political union" through the enforcement of EU values and the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Adriano Dirri got his PhD in State Theory and Comparative Political Institutions at Sapienza – University of Rome in Februrary 2019. His main research interests are Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Federalism, Constitution-Making Process, African Constitutionalism and African Federal Studies. Keen in running and playing football. Running (similarly to Forrest Gump) from one country to another for research, to be specific.
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Kuwaiti Foundation Head Al-Babtain on the Culture of Sustaining Peace
"Nowadays, more than ever before, for the survival of humanity, there lies the need to transform our perception of peace from possibility to necessity," said Abdul Aziz Saud Al-Babtain, a Kuwaiti poet and activist who is director and Founder of the Al-Babtain Foundation.
Speaking to a lunchtime side event of the annual United Nations High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, he said that too often "the question of what causes war and how do we avoid it comes after the disaster of war has already struck; it's a postwar question." Instead, he said, "to build our ultimate goal of how to sustain peace, we think that developing peaceful societies is the ultimate solution."
To that end, he said, the foundation was developing an "action plan" defining the concept of the culture of peace and assessing the mechanisms of achieving and implementing the goal. Within this framework, he explained, specialists were working on the practicalities of the plan and teaching the culture of peace through the creation of 17 educational manuals to be presented to guests at an International Court of Justice gathering of political, social, and cultural actors in The Hague on June 13, 2019.
In a panel discussion that followed Mr. Al-Babtain's remarks, Karen Pierce, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN, said, "I welcome this emphasis on how we can actually embed a culture." She suggested that key elements to developing such action were inclusivity, accountability, strict adherence to the rule of law and observation of human rights, including economic, political and cultural ones. "And sticking with it," she added, "be prepared for it to take a long time, we are too short term, and we don't put the effort in to make these efforts long term and sustain them."
Tareq Md. Ariful Islam, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, also argued for persistence. "Sustaining peace is not designed to be a mere theoretical construct; it is, in fact, aimed at making demonstrable changes on the ground that can be monitored and measured over time," he said.
Kevin Rudd, the IPI chair and moderator of the panel, pointed out that the changes being proposed were "attitudinal as well as institutional," and Fabrizio Hochschild, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination, elaborated on the point. "Too often in the aftermath of conflict," he said, "we think of peacebuilding in terms of mediation, physical reconstruction of assets destroyed in the conflict, and we don't think enough about the intangibles without which conflict will inevitably return, like the reconstruction of social cohesion and trust between citizens and the state."
An imperative starting point, he said, was ending the "dehumanization of the 'other.'"
He explained, "The first victim of conflict is the perception of the enemy, the 'other,' as inhuman, and until the 'other' is recognized, there are no chances of truth taking root, which is necessary for the resolution of conflict."


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WTF er I mean WTO
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The World Trade Organization announced last Friday it has ruled in support of complaints by Canada and Mexico that U.S. Country-of-Origin Labeling violates global trade rules and unjustly harms agricultural commerce. COOL was a contentious issue when enacted under the 2008 Farm Bill, and remains contentious today, with livestock groups offering distinctly different reactions to the latest ruling.
NCBA VP Government Affairs Colin Woodall expressed his organization's support for the ruling. "This is a strong ruling from the World Trade Organization that proves COOL was not only a disservice to U.S. cattlemen and women but also contained far-reaching implications for two of the most important trade partners for U.S. agriculture," Woodall says. "NCBA strongly advises the United States not to appeal this ruling. Instead, we urge U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to work with NCBA and other pro-trade organizations to apply pressure on Congress to bring the United States into WTO compliance across the board. We must act quickly before U.S. farmers and ranchers once again face unnecessary and unfortunate retaliatory tariffs on their products.
"This ruling solidifies our concerns that COOL would have extensive trade implications as NCBA expressed during 2008 Farm Bill deliberations. U.S. livestock producers have yet to see any financial benefit from COOL provisions. In many cases, ranchers who feed imported cattle have incurred significant discounts, which have not been offset by benefits proponents of COOL claimed would be available. Just as importantly, cattlemen have yet to discern any positive reaction from consumers regarding mandatory origin labeling.
The Texas Cattle Feeders Association reacted similarly. "I'm glad the WTO also recognizes the absurdity of this law," TCFA Chairman Jim Peters said in response to the ruling. "Mandatory COOL hasn't done what its proponents promised. In fact, it's done the complete opposite, adding unnecessary costs throughout the production chain without a return on investment. Mandatory COOL has cost American, Mexican and Canadian cattle producers millions, confused consumers and antagonized the two largest importers of U.S. beef. I hope the U.S. government will do the right thing for our industry and choose not to appeal."
R-CALF USA, however, has long supported the COOL regulations, and issued a news release titled "U.S. sovereignty usurped by WTO's COOL decision."
The group had this to say about the WTO panel that issued the ruling: "The panel consists of a diplomat from Pakistan – the country that harbored the world's most dangerous terrorist, Osama Bin Laden; a diplomat from Switzerland; and, a diplomat who is a former WTO employee."
The release goes on to say the complaint against the United States' COOL law "was filed with the WTO in 2008 by livestock importers Canada, which introduced mad cow disease into the U.S., and Mexico, which continually reintroduces bovine tuberculosis (TB) into the United States. Joining the complaint as third parties were 12 additional countries, including China, which has a long history of importing tainted products into the United States."
"We're not surprised that a panel of countries that want to weaken the U.S. would support complaints by countries that want more control over our U.S. food supply. The WTO is trying to usurp our nation's sovereignty," says R-CALF USA COOL Committee Chair Mike Schultz. "Since when do we allow an international tribunal to dictate to our U.S. Congress what is or is not a legitimate objective of providing information to United States' citizens?"
S.S.A.P.
Yes agreed ... WTF ... any r-calfers present who can provide the factual proof that "Canada, which introduced mad cow disease into the U.S"
Thought not ....
S.S.A.P. said:
You must be forgetful there ssap- the first mad cow ever found in the US was traced back to have been imported from Canada- where eventually over 95% of all mad cow cases in North America were found....
That alone gave the US consumers the right to ask that imported food products- especially Canadian imported beef be labeled, so they could make an informed decision and the purchase choice of what they want to feed their family left to them....Not to the packer/importer profiteering by passing off Canadian/Mexican/Chinese possibly tainted product to consumers as US product...
Yanuck
but they sure want our oil....remember we're friendly....
Mid-western Ontario
Oldtimer said:
You must be forgetful there oldtimer!
How old was the Texas cow when she was "discovered"? :!: :!:
As I recall, she was already sub-clinical before your first imported case stumbled into the news! ! It was not necessary for any other country to introduce BSE to the USofA - you already had your home-grown version!!! But thanks for the mention!
And for labeling, why do your US stores not follow our example in Ontario and label your US beef under your own specialty label!! I know, I know, it would take WORK to develop it! No laws against that!! Or do you want the government doing for you what should be done by your own industry (like we did here!)? :!: :!:
Seems that "Ontario Corn Fed" is having a tough times getting enough supply to keep the labelled product on the meat counter shelf! But gradually guys are meeting the criteria and filling the line!
By the way, how's your testing coming along? SSS still the control of choice? Any guesses how many cases you buried "undetected" or how many you turned into lunch meat?
Oldtimer, surely there is more in life for you than to spew bitterness, blame and hate! What do you want to leave for your progeny? Are you going to leave them an honorary rcalf membership and continue to propagate the hate??
2 hell with all the above bitching, all spilt milk, handled wrong , WHY don't we have the oppertunity to label our product as does every body else in this world
i think its bull **** wether your from canada or usa or where ever, why can't we label our product. to hell with ncba,rcalf, or any body else that says beef can't b labeled
VB RANCH said:
i think its bull s*** wether your from canada or usa or where ever, why can't we label our product. to hell with ncba,rcalf, or any body else that says beef can't b labeled
I thought I gave a pretty good illustration of how it can be labeled. We do it here in Ontario and it is working well!
No one can stop you from labeling your meat (or whatever product) with your own label, can they?
MCOOL looks to me like more government interference..... rather socialist don't you think? If there is a demand surely private industry will supply their label, just like Burnt said.
Silver said:
WAY socialist don't I think
Sask
Would you care to explain how you could guarantee the US label you would be putting on the Meat package? Canada has a industry implemented nation wide Cattle ID system to prove where our beef comes from last I heard the US has nothing to back the label.
the first mad cow ever found in the US was traced back to have been imported from Canada
Not that I'm going to get into this argument again with you Oldtimer :roll: but the US had BSE in their native herd before the Canadian cow was found or did you forget the incubation period for a case of BSE. YEARS OLDTIMER NOT MONTHS so the time frame of the Texas and Alabama cows proved you had BSE before the Canadian cow was ever found. So to blame Canada for your BSE is a friggin lie. But then what more can we expect from the R-CALF spokesman. :roll:
Old Timer, you representing American Agriculture online is a disgrace, just STFU and go away.
label the beef however you want. personally, we buy very little, just go to the freezer because we KNOW where that beef came from...however, when I go grocery shopping with the Mrs. , I enjoy a trip past the meat counter to look....sure looks like a lot of money goes into Angus advertising, I don't see why we can't advertise America on the label too.....
hopalong
Go back and do your home work oldtimer!!
May 2003 the first Canadian cow was discovered with bse,
December 2003 a 6 1/2 yr old dairy cow was discovered in Texas
Canada has an active surveillance program!!!!!
the US does not (only a limited one) Unlike you i will provide a link for my source of information.
EH???? OH VEY busted again!!!
There are approx. 80 [USDA] certified beef programs in the US.
It appears that r-calfers/USCA want to ride on the shirt-tails [premiums] of the USA producers whose cattle & beef meet the specific requirements of each program.
I found it easy to locate the verification process required to 'label' beef - I'm going to assume r-calf/USCA has tried to set up it's own program [one that requires accurate and relevant information] and has failed to meet even it's own standards.
It ain't no big deal-- except that it again shows our country and the leadership keeps giving up more sovereignty... Laws passed by the US Congress and signed into law by the President should not be able to be thrown out by an International entity...
And it still saddens me that Canadians don't have enough faith in their meat products that they think it has to be passed off as a US product in order to sell....
hypocritexposer
So you have no problem with a "progressive" President wanting to control the global community, but do not want to participate in any of the rules agreed upon by that global community......
......Is that what you are saying?
Whitewing
Laws passed by the US Congress and signed into law by the President should not be able to be thrown out by an International entity...
This from the same guy who gave a thumbs up to the assassination of an American citizen (without a single shred of evidence presented against him in an American court of law) because some International entity had declared him a criminal. :lol:
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-- and that he has been declared an International Criminal not only by the US National Security Council- but also NATO and foreign courts...
See what I mean you old delusional fool? You really are the gift that keeps on giving.
Oldtimer we have faith so much so that we ID every animal back to place of birth nation wide. We also brand every animal back to country of origin. Beside that you must remember we also label our beef when it is in the box otherwise how would you have known it was Canadian beef the neighborhood meat shop was selling when you went dumpster diving and saw PRODUCT OF CANADA printed on the meat boxes. :wink: Tell me Oldtimer do you ID and brand all the cattle your fellow US ranchers ship around the world? As I would sure like to know if the beef I'm eating in the US is coming from the area in which the Texas and Alabama NATIVE BORN BSE cases came from. :?
What saddens me Oldtimer is you, you are completely incapable of looking pass your blind hatred and seeing the facts. If you have half an ounce of common sense you would stop your lieing and clean up your act for the sake of your family and friends if you have any left. :roll:
From what the two snow bird couples that are from his neck of the woods and spend the winters here in AZ tell me he only has two friends left and they are family
and we know there is more than two in his family guess the rest have seen the light! :wink: :wink: :wink:
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Nice catch WW. It sure pays to have a good memory when that old fart tries to slip something past, eh
We might have to have you change your name to "Hypocritexposer2.1"


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Indie feature
posted Dec 4, 2019, 4:13 PM by Matt Foster [ updated Dec 4, 2019, 4:13 PM ]
Next week, Matthew will be in Oklahoma shooting scenes for writer/director Josh Brandon's new feature film. The psychological drama, titled A Thousand Little Cuts, stars Rebecca Liddiard and Marina Sirtis.
Smith & Jones Management
posted Oct 7, 2019, 6:23 PM by Matt Foster [ updated Oct 7, 2019, 6:23 PM ]
As Matthew continues to split his time between Sydney and Los Angeles, he is beyond excited to officially be working with David Smith of Smith & Jones Management as his Australian agent. To get in touch with David, please see the Contact page.
Episodes streaming
posted Sep 2, 2019, 3:08 PM by Matt Foster
Catch all of Matthew's recent television appearances on the following streaming platforms:
The Good Place - Season 3, Episode 1 - "Everything Is Bonzer!"
The Orville - Season 2, Episode 5 - "All the World Is Birthday Cake"
For the People - Season 2, Episode 3 - "Minimum Continuing Legal Education"
Sneaky Pete - Season 3, Episode 3 - "The Stamford Trust Fall"
posted Jan 22, 2019, 10:15 PM by Matt Foster [ updated Jan 22, 2019, 10:15 PM ]
You can catch Matthew on this week's episode of The Orville on FOX. In the episode titled "All the World Is Birthday Cake", Matthew plays alien Dr. Feylar.
Metropolitan Talent Agency
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Matthew is thrilled to be adding theatrical agents Lauren Gibson and Tom Markley of Metropolitan Talent Agency to his team. To contact Lauren or Tom, please see the Contact page.
For the People on ABC
posted Sep 7, 2018, 9:08 PM by Matt Foster [ updated Sep 7, 2018, 9:09 PM ]
Matthew's string of TV roles this year continues as he prepares to shoot an episode of ABC's For the People, executive produced by Shonda Rhimes.
Sneaky Pete on Amazon
posted Aug 17, 2018, 11:40 PM by Matt Foster [ updated Aug 17, 2018, 11:40 PM ]
Next week, Matthew will be on the set of Amazon's drama series Sneaky Pete, shooting scenes with star Giovanni Ribisi.
Untitled Miranda July Project
Matthew recently shot scenes for director Miranda July's latest feature, starring Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger. The as yet untitled film is scheduled for release in 2019.
posted May 17, 2018, 4:17 PM by Matt Foster [ updated May 17, 2018, 4:17 PM ]
Matthew is now officially a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after appearing as Confederacy Leader Joqo in an episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that aired earlier this month on ABC.
Three network shows
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It's been a busy few weeks for Matthew as he booked roles on three different network shows - The Good Place, The Orville and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Watch this space for details on the air dates of those shows.


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United American Committee confronts "subway jihad" in NYC
UAC confronts 'subway jihad' in New York City
An array of respectable American organizations lead by the New York chapter of the United American Committee are standing up against a New York City subway advertisement campaign being promoted by known supporters of Islamic terror.
(NEW YORK, NY – 7/31/2008) – What started out as a campaign disguised as promoting dialogue between people of different faiths according to its sponsors, may actually be a promotion for Islamic terror according to groups confronting this highly questionable campaign. The "Why Islam?" campaign, dubbed "Subway jihad" by its opponents, entails a series of advertisements in New York subway cars promoting the Islamic ideology. Concerns arose when radical Imam Siraj Wahhaj, unindicted co conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, came out as a promoter of the project. "In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam," Wahhaj is noted as stating in one of his regular sermons, causing an uproar from Americans all across the nation. Yet Wahhaj continues to issue sermons and statements on a regular bases that are shocking and gravely concerning to many. "Why has the Muslim community not denounced this man? Instead he is being recruited to promote campaigns such as the subway advertisements." remarked Pamela Hall, Chairwoman of the New York chapter of the United American Committee. " This is deeply concerning." Hall continued.
A variation of 3 Islamic advertisements will appear in 1,000 of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 6,200 subway cars according to a statement by the campaign's organizers. This latest campaign comes as no surprise to veteran groups such as the United American Committee and others involved in the anti-jihad resistance confronting this campaign such as the Stop the Madrassa Coalition, who all have a focus on tackling issues pertaining to Islamic radicalism. "They will use any resource necessary to fight their jihad against America, be they bullets or through non-violent means such as this." remarked U.A.C. Vice Chairman Jim Horn when questioned about the advertisement campaign.
The anti-jihad groups are urging all concerned citizens across the nation to contact New York city, state and federal representatives, as well as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to express their concerns over the advertisements.
More information on this and other anti-jihad resistance activities can be found at http://thesilentmajority.wordpress.com or http://www.UnitedAmericanCommittee.org
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FAS/Moscow anticipates swine inventories to reach 19.7 million head by the end of 2015, a 1.5 percent increase in inventories and a slightly smaller increase than was realized in 2014. The Russian swine herd has being growing over the last decade, and the trend is expected to continue in 2015, but at a slower pace as a result of the current economic conditions. The Russian industry continues to consolidate production at large-scale agricultural establishments. Agricultural establishments accounted for 80 percent of the total swine herd inventory in 2014, a three percent increase over 2013 levels, and further consolidations are expected this year. Swine inventories at backyard farms will most likely decline due to increased feed/production costs and continued efforts to control African swine fever (ASF).
Total 2014 swine inventory estimates have been revised pursuant to official year-end 2014 statistics published by Rosstat.
FAS/Moscow forecasts Russian pork production will reach 2.55 MMT in 2015, a 1.5 percent increase over revised 2014 levels. According to the National Union of Pork Producers (NUPP), the top twenty Russian pork producing companies accounted for nearly 60 percent of total pork production in 2014, and NUPP forecasts this share to reach as high as 80 percent by 2020. Despite the current economic challenges, several of the largest pork producing companies in Russia – e.g., ABH "Miratorg" (Kursk region), "Rusagro" (Tambov region, Primorsky Krai) , Cherkizovo (Lipetsk region), "Agropromkomplektastsia" (Kursk region, Tver region), Sibirskaya Agro-Group (Krasnoyarsk, Buriatia, Tyumen, Tomsk) and "Agroeco" (Voronezh region, Tula region) – intend to invest an additional 193.3 billion rubles (approximately $3 billion), combined, to add another 1.146 MMT of pork production capacity to their current collective capacity of 1.026 MMT by 2020.
Although pork production increased roughly 1.3 percent in 2014, accounting for approximately 80 percent of domestic consumption, the Russian market, particularly in the second half of the year, was characterized by extreme volatility, including for prices, producer margins, and supply and demand. Trade restrictions were imposed on EU pork in February 2014, after a ban had already been placed on Belarusian supplies -- both due to the detection of ASF in their territories. Subsequently, a ban on pork from the United States and Canada (as well as Australia and Norway) was imposed in August 2014. These bans resulted in shortage of pork, particularly for the Russian meat processing sector. Wholesale prices for pork, which had already been growing before the imposition of the August ban, continued to increase after the additional trade restrictions and margins increased for domestic Russian producers.
However, shortly thereafter, beginning in November 2014, notable changes in the Russian Ruble exchange rate were realized, resulting in a much weaker ruble versus the U.S. dollar and Euro and, in part, an increase in Russian grain exports in the fourth quarter of 2014. The spill-over effect was that Russian feed prices, in turn, increased as well increasing the production costs of Russian pork producers. Although pork prices started to fall in late 2014, reduced consumer demand outpaced the decline in prices as buyers quickly started to turn towards less expensive protein sources (e.g., poultry meat). In addition, Russian meat processors reportedly began to purchase less expensive poultry meat as the predominant component in their processed meat production. As such, and based on year-end data, FAS/Moscow has reduced the estimate for Russian pork production by slightly more than 5 percent, to 2.51 MMT.
Despite the continued expectation of year-on-year growth in Russian pork production, consumption is expected to fall in 2015 as imports are anticipated to be significantly lower than they were in 2014, and as consumers are expected to continue to increase their consumption of less expensive poultry meat. FAS/Moscow forecasts 2.749 MMT of pork consumption in 2015, nine percent lower than 2014 levels.
Average retail prices for pork steadily increased in 2014 (i.e., prices were 25 percent higher in January 2015 than they were at the same point in 2014), while wholesale prices were even more volatile. The wholesale price for pork reached record levels in October 2014 (i.e., 197 rubles per kilogram of grade 1 pork and 175 Rubles per kilogram of grade 2 pork).
As stated above, pork prices declined in November and December 2014 as a result of reduced consumer demand for pork in the market as meat processors and consumers increasingly utilized less expensive poultry meat in lieu of more expensive pork– a trend that is anticipated to continue in 2015.
Despite having imported 86,000 hogs in 2013, Russian live swine imports dropped precipitously in 2014, to only 8,000 head.
The Russian veterinary service has placed restrictions on several foreign suppliers of live hogs to Russia. For example, Russia has restricted supplies from the European Union and Belarus because of detections of African swine fever in those territories, and the United States and Canada because of detections of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. The only country which supplied live swine to Russia in 2014 that currently still has market access is Norway. As such, it is unlikely that live swine imports will exceed more than 1,000 head in 2015 if current restrictions remain in effect. As such, FAS/Moscow has forecasted 1,000 head of imports this year, an 87.5 percent decline in trade from significantly reduced 2014 import levels.
Russian pork imports in 2015 are forecasted to total 200,000 MT, roughly 60 percent less than revised 2014 import levels (i.e., 515,000 MT). Given the current economic situation in Russia, it is anticipated that consumers will decrease their consumption of red meats in 2015. Moreover, the decline in consumption is anticipated to largely come at the expense of traditionally more expensive imported product – given the increase in domestic production in recent years and, more importantly, the Russian ruble's decline in value against the dollar and Euro.
Russian pork imports in 2014 were significantly lower than they were in 2013 – 515,000 MT (40 percent lower than 2013 levels). This decline in imports was a result of restrictions imposed on certain foreign suppliers during 2014 (e.g., Belarus, the European Union, Canada, the United States, etc.), and the ruble's volatility towards year's end.
As for exports, Russian trade is traditionally quite small, and that trend is expected to continue in 2015 (i.e., 1,000 MT). In 2014, Russia exported nearly 1,000 MT of pork – the vast majority of which was shipped to fellow EAEU Member States (i.e., Kazakhstan and Belarus).


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The Crafts of Cinema at the IC-CUNY Academic Festival
At the Graduate Center of the City University of NY, the second edition of the festival with the participation of noted Italian and American costume designers
by Giulia Po De Lisle
Italian Cinema at CUNY Graduate Center: Carlo Poggioli, Piera De Tassis, Eugenia Paulicelli, Massimo Mascolo, Ann Roth (Photo Simone Caprifogli )
I have always been a proud alumna of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York: its outstanding professors and world-class researchers have shaped my education beyond the years of my doctoral program in Comparative Literature. Their stimulating work has continued to engage scholars like me with new intellectual and artistic learning experiences.
On Halloween night, The City University of New York and Queens College offered an exceptional treat to the city (and me) during the second edition of the Academic Festival IC-CUNY (Italian Cinema CUNY) at the Graduate Center. In a special collaboration with The Academy of Italian Cinema David di Donatello, the university presented a master class on The Crafts of Cinema with Italian and American award-winning costume designers.
Eugenia Paulicelli (Photo Simone Caprifogli)
Professor Eugenia Paulicelli, Founder and Director of IC-CUNY, an educational project created to foster a deeper understanding of Italian cinema and a dialogue between Italian and American cultures, and Massimo Mascolo, David di Donatello Awards Consultant and IC-CUNY 2019 Associate Director, worked together to bring on stage internationally renowned costume designers: Oscar and Tony winner Ann Roth (Midnight Cowboy, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The English Patient, Mamma Mia, The Hours, Julie&Julia, Angels in America, and Cold Mountain); Emmy and David di Donatello nominee Carlo Poggioli (assistant designer for The Name of the Rose, The Voice of the Moon, The Age of Innocence; and costume designer for films like Silk, Brothers Grimm, Divergent, Cold Mountain, Youth, Loro 1, Loro 2, The Young Pope, and The New Pope); two time Emmy winner Donna Zakowska (Crimes and Misdemeanors, Kate and Leopold, Original Sin, Romance and Cigarettes, and the TV series like John Adams and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel); and four-time Oscar winner and David di Donatello winner Milena Canonero (Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Out of Africa, Chariots of Fire, Marie Antoinette, Grand Budapest Hotel) was also supposed to attend, but was forced to cancel at the last minute.
Professor Eugenia Paulicelli, a distinguished scholar of fashion and film, opened the night with remarks on the ongoing involvement of CUNY in the fields of fashion and cinema, two industries that, according to Paulicelli, "have always had a synergetic relationship insofar as they both use the technology of the camera, as well as that of the body and performance." Film costumes, she explained, have not just borrowed from fashion and haute couture, but have inspired the production of fashion, and have been vital to cinema from its very birth by becoming "a virtual shopping window for clothes."
Italy has played a key role in the field of design and innovation, and the relationship between Italy and America has a long history of collaboration that started during the period of silent film and continues today. It is precisely this bond that the opening night wanted to celebrate by hosting masterclass award winning costume designers.
On the stage with Paulicelli to discuss the relationship between American and Italian cinema and the work of Ann Roth, Carlo Poggioli, and Donna Zakowska, was Piera Detassis, President and Artistic Director of the Academy of Italian Cinema David di Donatello Awards. Detassis talked about the history of the David di Donatello Awards, and the special bond between Italy and the United States. She also offered one of the most emotional moments of the evening by showing a video of Marilyn Monroe receiving the David Award at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York in 1959. In the clip, another legendary actress, Anna Magnani, presents Monroe with the David; Marilyn asks Magnani for the translation in Italian of the words that she wants to say, then reaches for the microphone to share her thoughts: "sono commossa, grazie" she says in Italian, almost whispering.
Special guest Monica Branetti from BVLGARI was then introduced on stage. For this special occasion, Branetti brought to New York the David statuette that was originally awarded to Gina Lollobrigida for her best performance by an actress, in the film La donna più bella del mondo (The World's Most Beautiful Woman). The David di Donatello, completely made of gold, was crafted by BVLGARI in 1955.
Costume designers Roth, Poggioli and Zakowska later engaged in dialogues concerning the role of costume designers, the problems they encounter, and the rewards their work offers. Zakowska believes that "clothes are words" and costume designers write "visual poems" through their work. She evoked the excitement and the "magic moment" in which a designer understands that a character is born thanks to the costume. Roth stressed the importance for an actor to find his or her character: some actors just want to be themselves, but in a film "it's not about them, it's about the character!" she exclaimed. According to Poggioli, a costume designer must know how to cut a costume and dye fabric, but also how to be a psychologist. The ability to communicate with directors and actors is a key factor to create characters that are in synch with the setting and the story.
Both Roth and Zakowska addressed the disappearance of craftspeople like tailors and seamstresses, a phenomenon that now threatens the profession. The problem, however, is not just in the shortage of specialized craftsmanship, but in the number of films that are now massively produced, so the time to prepare costumes, as Poggioli explained, has been drastically reduced. Both Roth and Zakowska also lamented the conflicts that sometime rise with producers: as "artists in business," the designers claim that it is better not to engage in any conversation with producers. The two female costume designers also stressed their commitment to turn down offers to work on films and series whose settings and stories are degrading to women.
Master class (Photo Simone Caprifogli)
The guests gave the audience some unforgettable memories: Poggioli's encounter with Anthony Hopkins and his work on Fellini's last film The Voice of the Moon; Roth's recollections of finding clothes for Dustin Hoffman, and her purchase of a red fox coat for Brenda Vaccaro in Midnight Cowboy; Poggioli reprimanding Zakowska because you "cannot make a costume with the computer!" were just some of the gems of the night.
Clips of the designers' work were also shown, and the evening continued with an illustrated conversation between Professor Paulicelli and film producer Roberto Bessi, who talked about the history of Annamode, its role as one of the greatest cinematic and theatrical costume workshops, and the launch of "Annamode1946" a new fashion brand.
The evening ended with the American Premiere of a short film by Maria Tilli about a project and workshop funded by Louis Vuitton on a modern reinterpretation of a 1780 dress, featuring costume designers Maurizio Millenotti and Piero Tosi.
Piera Detassis (Photo Simone Caprifogli)
The next appointment for this second edition of the Academic Festival IC-CUNY (Italian Cinema CUNY) is scheduled for November 13. This time he focus will be on Contemporary Italian Cinema. Eugenia Paulicelli, Massimo Mascolo and Claudio Napoli will introduce the screening of The New Made in Italy Series on Cesare Attolini: Made in Naples; the event will also screen Stolen Caravaggio (2018), directed by Roberto Andò. Both screenings will be followed by discussions.
The final masterclass "Hybrid Intersections: Fashion, Costume, Cinema and Television" will be held on December 5. It will feature a discussion with Professor Deepsikha Chatterjee and Siobhan Nestor, principal women's draper at the Metropolitan Opera; a screening of The New Made in Italy Series showcasing the story behind Italian excellence in Fashion, Costume Design and Cultural Heritage by Massimo Mascolo, Claudio Napoli, and Eugenia Paulicelli. The night will conclude with a conversation with two time Donatello Award winner costume designer Daniela Ciancio and Costume Concept Artist Christian Cordella.
John Turturro with Donna Zakowska (Photo Simone Caprifogli)
During the opening night of the Academic Festival, the Italian American actor John Turturro was in attendance. He has worked closely with Donna Zakowska since they were both in the Theater program at Yale. He remarked that his mother was a seamstress, and he grew up surrounded by fabric. A perfect ending to a perfect evening! I am certain that the next two master classes will be as memorable as this one.
Giulia Po De Lisle
Giulia Po DeLisle, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Italian Studies
Italian Program Coordinator
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Ann Roth
Carlo Poggioli
Christian Cordella
Claudio Napoli
Donna Zakowska
Eugenia Paulicelli
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Massimo Mascolo
Milena Canonero
Monica Branetti
Piera Detassis
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