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College successfully launches mentor program, looks to expand
By Adam Jones
From left, Henry Wang from electrical and computer engineering, Rachel Mitchell from chemical and biological engineering, JP Gravitt from chemical and biological engineering and Mackenzie Morris from mechanical engineering meet in the Ferguson Center.
Before coming to The University of Alabama as a freshman, JP Gravitt signed up for the College of Engineering mentoring program at the urging of his mom.
"I decided to go along with it," said Gravitt, a native of Columbiana, Ala. "I didn't think it would be useful or beneficial to me, but after the first meeting, I knew I was mistaken."
Through email and the College's website last summer, Gravitt's mom had heard about Mentor UPP: Undergraduate Peer Partnering, a new program in the College aimed at providing underclassmen an opportunity to develop through relationships with upperclassmen in the College as the juniors and seniors acquire and expand leadership and networking skills.
The program is a partnership between the Capstone Engineering Society, the alumni association for the College, and the UA Career Center, along with support from engineering student services. Nancy Holmes, CES manager, and Gayle Howell, a senior career counselor for engineering and computer science students, manage and oversee the program for the College.
"We want to make the transition easier when students first become part of the College," Holmes said. "Ultimately, our goal is to get students involved and increase their confidence as they work toward becoming a College of Engineering graduate."
Gravitt was paired with Rachel Mitchell, a senior in chemical engineering from Tuscaloosa. The two talked about questions and concerns Gravitt had regarding majoring in engineering, and Mitchell gave him a road map of what to expect as an engineering student, along with advice on what she would have done differently. Their conversations gave Gravitt confidence in his choice of chemical engineering, he said.
"It was incredibly insightful, and I thanked mom later for making me sign up," he said.
Mitchell said she has enjoyed her time as a mentor. "Not only did it allow me to pour into younger students — and tell them things I wish I had known — but it allowed me to develop as well," she said. "This is a program that benefits every participant in very worthwhile ways."
Holmes, Howell and a handful of students began a pilot program in Spring Semester 2012, using that experience to craft the undergraduate program that launched in Fall Semester 2012. The feedback from mentors and the mentees was overwhelmingly positive, Holmes said.
"So many of the mentors have told me that they wished they had had a program like this when they were freshmen," she said.
Even with the positive feedback from the pilot, the Mentor UPP leadership team was uncertain of what to expect when they opened the program up to the entire College. They were optimistic that enough upperclassmen would sign up in order to have one mentor joined with three mentees, taking into consideration that mentors in the Cooperative Education and Professional Practice Program might need a partner to continue mentoring during semesters away from campus. Leaders also hoped students from across the College would join because Mentor UPP is designed to commingle students from all disciplines to form a network of friends and associates for the students.
Concerns for modest participation dissolved with almost 210 freshmen and transfer students joining Mentor UPP for Fall Semester 2012 and nearly 90 upperclassmen as mentors, enough for a nearly 2-to-1 ratio, providing a good cross section of the College. Again, feedback has been positive, and the Mentor UPP leadership team checks in frequently through formal and informal meetings with mentors to gauge progress.
Two professors, Dr. Beth Todd from mechanical engineering and Dr. Kenneth Ricks from electrical and computer engineering, became faculty mentors to advise the student leadership team and to offer faculty support. According to Todd, "In the past when we've tried to have mentoring programs, we always ran into freshmen who didn't want it. Mentor is not part of their mindset. It is so clear to me that Mentor UPP is a professional growth opportunity for our students throughout their undergraduate career. It will help our students in ways that they do not expect."
Holmes and Howell plan to expand the program to include alumni. "We're in the process of ironing out the details," Holmes said. "We envision an alumni-mentoring component where alumni mentor juniors and seniors as they prepare for their future. Ultimately, a person will enter the program as a freshman and/or sophomore mentee, next become a peer mentor as a junior and senior while being mentored by an alum, then after graduation become a mentoring alum."
Author: Adam Jones / Posted on: March 30, 2013 / Posted in: Alumni, Faculty and Staff, Students / Features: Dr. Beth Ann Todd, Dr. Kenneth G. Ricks


BRENDAN RODGERS believes Steven Gerrard could return to Liverpool in the near future.
Gerrard, 34, will leave Anfield at the end of the season to join MLS side LA Galaxy.
The Kop legend has been heavily tipped to return to Anfield in the future to coach the Merseysiders - who are currently lying in fifth place in the Premier League.
And Rodgers, 42, believes the former England international has what it takes to manage his boyhood team.
The Northern Irishman told talkSPORT: "I've spoken to him a lot over the last year in terms of his future. This time was always going to come. He's one of the greats of the game.
"He didn't feel the coaching side was quite right for him right now. This is a guy who has prepared himself to play every single day over the last few years.
"He didn't want to sit on the side and come on in a game, it just wasn't for him. He wanted to get away for a couple of years and experience something different.
"We'll stay in contact over that time and, if coaching is something he really wants to do, then I would welcome him back into my set-up. He's a wonderful guy. He supports you 150 per cent as a manager.
"If coaching is something he wants to do then, as I do with all my staff, I will support and help them become what they want to be.
"He's been incredible. He's someone you only really appreciate when you've had the chance to work with him.
"Sometimes you see people from the outside and you know they're fantastic players but, when you come in and work with him, you see the standards he sets every day. He never has a lazy day.
"He comes in every day and wants to be the very best he can be. Sometimes people drop off but he never does. The standards he tries to set are high. He's a real, genuine man."


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Posts where I speculate on the future of a television show.
1 Day 'Til "Once Upon a Time"
Author: Laurel Green Date: September 29th, 2012 Time: 9:11 PM Modified: 2013-03-20T01:42:30-04:00 Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy Tags: Dr. Victor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale, Emma Swan, Evil Queen/Mayor Regina Mills, Once Upon a Time, OUaT, Rumpelstiltskin/The Dark One/Mr. Gold, speculation Comments: 0
Place Your Bets!
Season 2 of Once Upon a Time starts tomorrow.
Here my prediction for things that will happen in season 2.
Dr. Whale will be new, original character, not an established fairy tale character.
Some sort of time travel related hijinks are going to ensue.
The "true love's kiss" is going to be overused again.
A main character will die.
Chernabog will make an appearance.
One of the fairy tale characters will be forced to believe in science.
Emma is going to make that face every single episode.
Regina and Rumpelstiltskin will be forced to join forces against an even bigger evil.
Multiple personality disorder will abound.
More jazz about how believing in things gives them power.
Walt Disney's frozen head will be a macguffin.
The werewolves will get in a war with the fairies.
Disney owns Marvel now, so Spider-Man will show up.
Rumpelstiltskin's cane contains a sword.
Fairy tale creature racism!
Smoke monster
There will be a dance off.
That's all I can think of. Good Night.
Author: Laurel Green Date: September 28th, 2012 Time: 10:45 PM Modified: 2013-03-20T01:42:30-04:00 Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy Tags: Evil Queen/Mayor Regina Mills, Mad Hatter/Jefferson, Once Upon a Time, OUaT, Rumpelstiltskin/The Dark One/Mr. Gold, speculation Comments: 0
Religion in a Multiverse
So, in Storybrooke, there are a bunch of nuns, who used to be fairies, in a fairy tale world that was polytheistic. In season 2 the nuns will have their memories of the fairy tale world and the memories of their old belief system back. Christianity, being a monotheistic "burn the witches" type of deal, doesn't seem like it would gel very well with people from a magical world. The fairy-nuns, I assume, will promptly defrock themselves.
What about characters like the mad hatter? Technically, his god is Lewis Carroll and Lewis Carroll has been dead for quite a while. I imagine it would be devastating to find out that all the pain and suffering in your life was because a mere mortal thought it would make an interesting story, and, what's more, this creator is dead so you can't make them answer for it.
In the world of Once Upon a Time does every story written become a real world? Does this include internet fanfiction? What if a person wrote a story about themselves? Rumpelstiltskin could write 100 different versions of himself to create a clone army. Regina could write a story of a world where it was impossible to be defeated.
Oh, crud, this thing is going to turn out to be one of the ages of Myst, isn't it?
Author: Laurel Green Date: September 25th, 2012 Time: 11:28 PM Modified: 2013-03-20T01:42:31-04:00 Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy Tags: Belle/Lacey French, Emma Swan, Evil Queen/Mayor Regina Mills, Grumpy/Leroy, Once Upon a Time, OUaT, Pocahontas, Sleepy/Walter, Sneezy/Mr. Clark, speculation Comments: 0
Here a some little things, you may or may not have noticed, that I hope they flesh-out in season two of Once Upon a Time.
Gay Dwarfs?
In episode 14, Dreamy, Sneezy's counterpart, Mr. Clark, and Sleepy's counterpart, Walter, really want to sit together at the diner. Grumpy's counterpart, Leroy, tells them they should have dragged their sorry asses out of bed a little earlier, implying that they both get up at the same time and, possibly, that they sleep in the same bed.
There wasn't any implication that Sneezy and Sleepy had a romantic relationship in the fairy tale world, so how will the react in season two? How would a person feel if in one life they wear gay and in the other one straight, and then, they had those lives slammed together?
Then again, all dwarfs are male, so, maybe, it's weird for them not to be gay.
They love eachother. You can't tell me differently.
What's in Storybrooke's Library?
The Library and Emma's Butt
In the the season finale of season one, A Land Without Magic, we see that Storybrooke has a closed-up library.
A library in a town full of storybook characters seems like a very dangerous thing. We don't know how far all of the characters have reached in their own stories. What if some of them haven't reached the ends of their stories yet? What happens if they go to the library and read their own story and they don't like the ending?
Is That Dude in the Basement of the Hospital Pocahontas' Dad?
SWEEP THE LEG!
In episode 12, Skin Deep, Regina Mills, on her way to visit Belle in the basement psyche ward, passes a native american man sweeping in the hallway. This is an obvious play on Chief from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But, maybe, it's more than that. Pocahontas' dad is a chief. Maybe Pocahontas' tribe are enemies of Regina, so she locked their chief up, like she did Belle.
Of course, Pocahontas wasn't actually a fairy tale character. She was a real person that we actually know a lot about. Disney continuing to treat her life like it was a fairy tale is, perhaps, unwise.
Anyway, until we meet again (tomorrow).
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Two children attending their mother's funeral longed for comfort. They found it in a prayer shawl they received that day.
Sick or grieving people have received hugs in the form of crocheted or knitted prayer shawls made by prayer shawl ministries at diocesan churches that meet weekly or monthly to create these gifts.
Victoria Cole-Galo, co-founder of the Prayer Shawl Ministry in Hartford County, Conn. with Janet Severi Bristow, said prayer shawls are an expression of the maker's spiritual practice. The process begins with selecting the yarn and praying for the recipient throughout the entire process. Once the shawl is complete, another prayer is recited.
Cole-Galo said the ministry, which began in 1998, came about after she and Severi Bristow attended at the Women's Leadership Institute at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn. The goal is to combine a love of knitting and crocheting with compassion for those who are sick or suffering.
Holy Trinity Church in Portland, Ore., has a crochet pattern that uses scriptural references. The Holy Trinity prayer shawl pattern by Renee Dion-Jenness is available at h-t.org/prayer-shawls. The 80 chains represent 40 days and 40 nights, and the chain three reminds the crocheters of the three persons of the Holy Trinity or the Holy Family in a triangle shape. There are 12 chains on the fringe for the Twelve Apostles.
The prayer shawl ministry at Church of the Nativity in Burke dates back to 2008. It was founded by Toni Rausch after she received one. She ran the ministry with her friends, Flo Grike and JoAnne Dezuttti. Rausch died suddenly last summer and Bonnie Carpenter stepped in to keep the ministry going. Carpenter said there are close to 50 women in the group.
Half the women meet at church once a month and the others send completed shawls to the church office where they are distributed. They are blessed by a priest and the recipients' names are written in a book to be held in prayer.
People can knit or crochet at their own pace, Carpenter said. Some will complete several shawls during the year while others may only make one. Nativity has given away more than 2,000 prayer shawls — locally and across the world, including Iraq and Russia — since the ministry began.
The shawl impacted both Michael and his family.
Prayer shawl ministers see it as a way to give back to others. Kathy Dzialowy, a parishioner of Sacred Heart Church in Manassas, has been a member of the ministry for nine years. She received a shawl when her parents were ill.
"A lot of people couldn't help or be there all the time," she said. "The shawl equated to hugs from people who couldn't be there." She said when people are going through chemo or radiation they get cold and having a prayer shawl made for them gives them a little comfort.
Diane Anderson, director of outreach at Sacred Heart, distributes the shawls to anyone who knows or hears of someone who is sick. The shawls are given also to grieving families when there is a funeral at Sacred Heart.
The prayer shawl ministers will keep knitting and crocheting as long as they can.
"May this shawl made with love, through prayer, be a mantle and sign of God's healing presence. May it strengthen you when you are weary. May it surround you and ease your suffering. May it encircle you when you feel in pain. May it comfort you when you feel alone. May it remind you of God's abiding love. Amen."


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Philadelphia Political Agnostics
Organized by Brian B.
Bi-Weekly Discussion - The Implicit Politics of Fantasy & Historical Epics
Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 3:00 PM EST
This is going to be an online meetup using Zoom. If you've never used Zoom before, don't worry — it's easy to use and free to join.
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THE IMPLICIT (AND EXPLICIT) POLITICS OF FANTASY & HISTORICAL EPIC FILMS IN THE 21st CENTURY
What you're seeing below is a blank discussion outline. If there's no title listed above for this meetup, it probably means I haven't decided on the topic. If there's a title but not much else, it means I've picked a topic but I'm still looking around for articles & videos clips to stimulate discussion.
If you see the topic and think it's interesting, please RSVP early since this gives me a general idea of about how many people will be showing up.
I typically try to finish up the discussion outline the weekend before a meetup, but sometimes I can't finish it until a couple days before the discussion. Luckily, I only ask that people watch a few video clips prior to attending the meetup and they generally only come to 30-45 minutes total, so even if it takes me until the day prior to finish up the discussion outline you'll still have time to prepare.
So what's up will all the X's below? Meetup's new format gives me a very short character limit that makes long discussion outline impossible. However, I found a way around it - by copying old meetups before the new character limit was introduced. But there's a catch, if all of the blank space isn't filled when I copy the meetup, the new shorter character limit will be applied, so I'm forced to fill up all the available space with X's. I know that sounds kinda ridiculous, but it's the only way I can still write up long, detailed discussion outlines.
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DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PREPARE FOR OUR DISCUSSION:
The videos & articles you see linked below are intended to give you a basic overview of some of the major debates over the implicit political messages in the major fantasy movies & TV series of the 21st century. As usual, I certainly don't expect you to read all the articles & watch all the videos prior to attending our discussion. The easiest way to prepare for our discussion is to just watch the numbered videos linked under each section - the videos come to about about 55 minutes total. The articles marked with asterisks are just there to supply additional details. You can browse and look at whichever ones you want, but don't worry - we'll cover the stuff you missed in our discussion.
In terms of the discussion format, my general idea is that we'll address the topics in the order presented here. I figure we'll spend about 30 minutes on each section.
I. HOW AUDIENCES INTERPRETED FANTASY & HISTORICAL EPIC FILMS AMID THE WAR ON TERROR:
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1a) Tom Nicholas, "How the 'War on Terror' shaped Harry Potter" (video - 29:12 min, listen to 15:50)
https://youtu.be/Xp10THLEvYw
1b) Charlie Rose w/ Viggo Mortensen, The War on Terror and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (video - 10:56 min, start at 1:55 & listen to 6:27)
https://youtu.be/RwaXBDG0nFI&t=1m55s
Rax King, "How Lord of the Rings Shaped a Hopeless Generation: Two decades ago, our blind optimism dissolved as the real world fell into war. 'Lord of the Rings' became the ultimate millennial comfort viewing - a fantasy world in which the good guys actually win."
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lord-of-the-rings-millennial-movie
Nikita Richardson, "How 'Lord of the Rings' Became 'Star Wars' for Millennial Women"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/movies/lord-of-the-rings-millennial-women.html
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Helen Lewis, "How J. K. Rowling Became Voldemort: The backlash against the Harry Potter creator is a growing pain of her fandom." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/why-millennial-harry-potter-fans-reject-jk-rowling/613870/
Darren Mooney, "The Rings of Power Explores the War on Terror Legacy of The Lord of the Rings"
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-rings-of-power-explores-the-war-on-terror-legacy-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/
II. THE DEPICTION OF RELIGION IN MEDIEVAL & FANTASY FILMS IN AN AGE OF SECULARIZATION:
2a) Adriane Ivey, "Harry Potter: A Christ Figure" (video - 3:37 min, start at 0:45)
https://youtu.be/w9zPOQTQr8o&t=45s
2b) Brett Martin w/ Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig & Sam Elliott, "The Golden Compass. Is it anti-religion?" (video - 2:06 min.)
https://youtu.be/SLc8mS7T7Cg
2c) History, "Vikings: Clash of Religions" (video - 3:37 min.)
https://youtu.be/TCk5bLsPleY
Rev. Tom Emanuel, "Evangelicals saw their foes in Harry Potter and themselves in Lord of the Rings [in the wake of 9/11]"
https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/22661485/lord-of-the-rings-september-11-christian-evangelical-protest-harry-potter
Meghan O'Rourke, "The Lion King: C.S. Lewis's Narnia isn't simply an allegory"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/12/why-narnia-isn-t-just-a-christian-allegory.html
Nathan Smith, "'His Dark Materials' is Finally Getting Told Without (Much) Religious Backlash [unlike 'The Golden Compass']"
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/his-dark-materials-golden-compass-religion-church-hbo-movie
Bishop Robert Barron, "3 Reasons Why 'Vikings' is the Most Religiously Interesting Show on TV"
https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/barron/3-reasons-why-vikings-is-the-most-religiously-interesting-show-on-tv/
III. HOW MEDIEVAL INTRIGUE, LOW/DARK FANTASY & STEAMPUNK REFLECT OUR AGE OF INEQUALITY, CORRUPTION & POLITICAL VIOLENCE
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3a) George R.R. Martin, "Game of Thrones & Politics" (video - 3:29 min.)
https://youtu.be/JKiq2gOlUqM
3b) Nina Triaridou, "Arcane: The Politics of Steampunk" (video. 7:34 min.) https://youtu.be/D1fFnC_i1Bs
3c) Luke Pollard, "The Northman: Is Vengeance A Dish Best Not Served?" (video - 16:22, start at 9:17)
https://youtu.be/SNNWf882i7A&t=9m17s
Kevin D. Williamson, "Why Zombie Politics Resonate: Both Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are obliged by the nature of their dramatic structures to consider the fundamental questions of politics, and both invite deeply conservative interpretations."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/game-of-thrones-walking-dead-politics-conservative-interpretations/
Emily Nussbaum, "The Political Resonance of Game of Thrones" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/04/the-political-resonance-of-game-of-thrones
Alex Mell-Taylor, "How 'Arcane: League of Legends' Breakdowns Our Myths Surrounding Violence [and The 'Bad' Revolutionary Trope]"
https://aninjusticemag.com/how-arcane-league-of-legends-breakdowns-our-myths-surrounding-violence-a0948123c6e4
Ana Peres, "Explained: The Fantasy Genre Has a Problem With Sexual Violence"
https://movieweb.com/fantasy-genre-problems/
IV. THE DEBATE OVER WHITE SAVIORS, MULTIRACIAL CASTS, MARY SUES & FAN-BAITING AMID THE "GREAT AWOKENING"
4a) Yezen Abusharkh, "Game of Thrones & the White Savior Complex" (video - 5:50 min.)
https://youtu.be/QoKE8jjKvn4
4b) Will Jordan (Critical Drinker), "Why Modern Movies Suck - They Hate Their Own Fans" (video - 14:23 min, start at 8:24)
https://youtu.be/ngqO9Hp19_4&t=8m24s
Tyler Dean, "Game of Thrones complex relationship to racism and colonialism"
https://www.tor.com/2019/06/10/game-of-thrones-complex-relationship-to-racism-and-colonialism/
Alexander Beiner, "Nazi Elves and Cockney Orcs: The Rings of Power, Class and Royalty: How Amazon's new series gives us a new lens on the culture wars"
https://beiner.substack.com/p/nazi-elves-and-cockney-orcs-the-rings
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Brian B.
NYU Event: "War on Ukraine: The Impact on China and India"
Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:00 PM EST
"War on Ukraine: The Impact on China and India"
REGISTERING FOR THE EVENT:
To register & to watch this FREE event, go to:
https://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/war-on-ukraine-the-impact-on-china-and-india/
You will receive an email the week of the event with a link to join the Zoom webinar. (Check your "Junk" folder if you don't see the invite.)
Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
Russia's war on Ukraine has dramatically increased the uncertainty for the rest of the world, including such major powers as China and India. The war and the sanctions against Russia have raised economic and other risks for these countries, but there may have emerged new opportunities for them as well. The panel of leading experts on China and India will discuss how these momentous changes have affected these countries and their relationships with Russia, their foreign policies, and economic security, as well as how China's and India's regional and global roles may change in the aftermath of the war.
* Elizabeth Wishnick, Professor of Political Science at Montclair State University; Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University
* Deepa Ollapally, Research Professor of International Affairs and the Associate Director of the Sigur Center at George Washington University
* Elina Ribakova, Deputy Chief Economist at the Institute of International Finance
* Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Research Associate at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Oxford University
* Elise Giuliano, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Columbia University, Director of the Program on US-Russia Relations
* Joshua Tucker, Director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University
ABOUT THE EVENT HOST:
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University was established in 2011 thanks to a generous gift from the family of NYU alumni Boris and Elizabeth Jordan. The Jordans are a family of Russian-Americans with strong links in the worlds of business, culture, and religion on both sides of the Atlantic and a tradition of cultural sponsorship and philanthropy. The gift satisfied the twin goals of the donors: to promote knowledge and understanding of Russia past, present, and future, making Russia central to a global conversation; and to situate this ambition in a world-class research university in a vibrant center of business and the arts. The Jordan Center undertakes to make Russia intrinsic to all aspects of scholarly investigation: from history to journalism and visual culture, politics to literature, economics to anthropology. To learn more about the Center, go to: https://jordanrussiacenter.org/about/
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Braver Angels Book Club: Gehl & Porter, *The Politics Industry*
Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 8:00 PM EST
Book Club Topic:
"The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy" (2020) by Katherine M. Gehl & Michael E. Porter
Registering for the Online Event:
This is a FREE event; however, you will need to register for it. Go to the following link & fill out the registration form, and when you hit "register" you'll receive an email with a link to the Zoom meeting (check your Junk folder if you don't see it):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-discussion-the-politics-industry-by-gehl-and-porter-registration-518440618847
Who is the Organizer for this Event?
Questions? Contact Sharyn Dowd at [masked] or Len Breslow at [masked]
Who are the Authors?
Katherine M. Gehl is a businesswoman with an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. She was the president and CEO of her family-owned company, Gehl Foods, Inc. Before her departure from Gehl Foods in 2015, Gehl began supporting No Labels, a national organization working to break the political gridlock in Washington. She also serves on the CEO Fiscal Leadership Council of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and is a board member of Unite America (formerly The Centrist Project). She is co-chair of the nonpartisan Wisconsin group Democracy Found, which advocates for a new primary election system and general election system that reduce political campaign advantages for far-left and far-right candidates.
Michael Porter is the Bishopy William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and holds both an MBA and PhD in business economics from Harvard. He was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is generally regarded as the father of the modern business strategy field, and is the author of 20 books including Competitive Strategy (1980), Competitive Advantage (1985), Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), and On Competition (1998).
What Should We Know About the Book?
Our political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us ‐ for ordinary citizens.
Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly ‐ the Democrats and the Republicans ‐ and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected.
In "The Politics Industry," business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis ‐ and Porter's distinctive "Five Forces framework" ‐ to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today.
Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change ‐ a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits, campaign finance reform, and "Final Five Voting" ‐ a new way of balloting which can combine cross-party appeal with principles of ranked-choice voting.
NOTE: You don't have to read the book prior to attending the discussion, but if you're interested in exploring the author's ideas in depth, it's certainly worth your time. For a basic overview, check out this 78-minute discussion between Katherine Gehl and several members of the Cato Institute and the Brookings Institution back in Dec. 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8mcuxv6jQ&t=1m51s
What is "Braver Angels"?
Formerly known as "Better Angels", Braver Angels is an organization founded in 2016 to depolarize American politics through grassroots organizing. They do this primarily by hosting events for cross-partisan dialogue & civil debate. To learn more, go to https://braverangels.org/
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Bi-Weekly Discussion - The Ukraine War after 1 Year
Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 3:00 PM EST
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Free Library Event: Mehdi Hasan on "The Art of Debating & Persuading"
Thu, Mar 2, 2023, 7:30 PM UTC
Parkway Central Library
Event Title: Mehdi Hasan, Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Date & Time: Thurs., Mar. 2, 2023; 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. EST
* NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM NOVEMBER 17, 2022.
ALL PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED TICKETS WILL BE VALID ON THE NEW DATE.
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Copies of Mehdi Hasan's new book will be available for sale.
This program is free and open to the public and will meet in the auditorium of Parkway Central Library. Please use Wood Street entrance/exit.
* This program is currently scheduled for in-person yet is subject to change in cooperation with the city and the library's health and safety guidelines. Updates will be posted to the Free Library of Philadelphia's Events Calendar.
Details for Live Event:
Masks are required at all times while in the building.
Due to the changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and local health and safety regulations, please visit the Free Library before all events to get the latest information on vaccine and masking guidance - for more details, go to https://libwww.freelibrary.org/about/coronavirus/your-visit
About the Author and the Book:
British-American journalist Medhi Hasan hosts the eponymously titled The Mehdi Hasan Show, a news and politics program that airs on MSNBC and NBC's streaming channel Peacock. He is also the fill-in host for The Rachel Maddow Show, All in with Chris Hayes, and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, among other programs. A former presenter on Al Jazeera English, a former columnist and podcaster for The Intercept, and former political director of the UK edition of The Huffington Post, he has published opinion pieces in a variety of publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In Win Every Argument, Hasan not only presents a practical guide to the art of rhetoric, he posits a philosophical claim for good-faith argument's value to democracy and truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value—and can also simply be fun.
Arguments are everywhere—and especially given the fierce debates we're all embroiled in today, everyone wants to win. In this riveting guide to the art of argument and rhetoric, Hasan shows you how. As a journalist, anchor, and interviewer who has clashed with politicians, generals, spy chiefs, and celebrities from across the world, Hasan reveals his tricks of the trade for the first time.
Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit for tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world. Whether you are making a presentation at work or debating current political issues with a friend, Mehdi Hasan will teach you how to sharpen your speaking skills to make the winning case.
About the Free Library Author Events:
The Author Events program at the Free Library of Philadelphia offers the opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue with today's most celebrated voices in the humanities and sciences.
For more information, call the Author Events Office at[masked] or email [masked] or go to http://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/authorevents/?id=114988
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Bi-Weekly Discussion - Which Party's Coalition Will Crack First?
Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 3:00 PM UTC
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Bi-Weekly Discussion - The Administrative State: Friend or Foe?
Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 3:00 PM EDT
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In terms of the discussion format, my general idea is that we'll address the topics in the order presented here. I've listed some questions under each section to stimulate discussion. We'll do our best to address most of them, as well as whatever other questions our members raise. I figure we'll spend about 30 minutes on each section.
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Free Library Event: Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, by America"
Tue, Apr 4, 2023, 7:30 PM UTC
Event Title: Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
Date & Time: Tues., Apr. 4, 2023; 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. EST
Cost: $16.50/$38.00 book w/ticket - you can purchase tickets at: https://10991a.blackbaudhosting.com/10991a/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=b88bdb01-8b43-480c-94c9-abfe024eec07
A book signing will follow the presentation.
If you purchase a book with ticket, you will collect your book when you enter the auditorium
Masks are welcome but not required.
Sociologist Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), the "exhaustively researched, vividly realized and, above all, unignorable" (The New York Times) account of eight Milwaukee families on the brink of eviction and the larger system of economic exploitation that put them there. The Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab, Desmond is the recipient of a 2015 MacArthur fellowship. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, the author of the award-winning On the Fireline, the editor of a collection of scholarly studies about deprivation, and the co-author of two books on race.
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
In his latest book, Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.
Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty.
For more information, call the Author Events Office at[masked] or email [masked] or go to https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/authorevents/?id=119846
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Miquel Calçada i Olivella, auch bekannt als Mikimoto, (* 13. August 1965 in Sabadell, Katalonien, Spanien) ist ein spanischer Journalist und Kommunikationsunternehmer.

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Mit 15 Jahren begann er als Mitarbeiter bei einem lokalen Radiosender. Mit 18 war es seine Stimme, die die seit dem spanischen Bürgerkrieg unterbrochene Ausstrahlung des katalanischen öffentlichen Radios (Catalunya Ràdio) wiederaufnahm. Er ist Content Producer und Talkshow-Host. Im Sender TV3 erlangte er Bekanntheit durch die täglich ausgestrahlte Show Mikimoto Club. Als diese schließlich live zur Hauptsendezeit ausgestrahlt wurde, entwickelte sich Miquel Calçada zum bekanntesten Showmoderator im spanischen Fernsehen. Persones humanes  wurde bekannt für seinen ironischen, manchmal absurden aber immer sehr scharfen Humor, der vor nichts halt machte. Eine ganze Generation erinnert sich an seine legendären Auftritte, oftmals begleitet von dem Schriftsteller Quim Monzó.

Für die nächsten sieben Jahre unterbrach er seine Fernseh-Laufbahn, um sich den von ihm gegründeten zwei Radiosendern zu widmen: Flaix Fm und Ràdio Flaixbac. Inzwischen haben sich diese in ihrer Beliebtheit unter den ersten drei Musiksendern etabliert. Als er im Jahre 2003 seine TV-Karriere wiederaufnahm, erreichte er mit der Sendung Afers exteriors höchste Einschaltquoten und Anerkennung. Afers exteriors – in fünf Serien ausgestrahlt – ist ein soziologisches TV-Projekt, in dem er katalanische Auswanderer weltweit, in über 60 Staaten, besuchte und seiner Zuhörerschaft vorstellte. Als unabhängiger Producer bekam er das Angebot der katalanischen Regierung, eine Serie mit 70 Kapiteln über Umweltfragen zu produzieren: El capità Enciam. Nachdem er selbst das Rauchen aufgab, war er so beeindruckt von der Methode, dass er sie in einer zweiteiligen Sondersendung vorstellte: El mètode Larson.

Öffentlichen und historischen Themen zugetan, schreibt er als freier Kolumnist in den Tageszeitungen La Vanguardia und Avui.  Er ist Mitbegründer des Club de Riva de Catalunya, Unterabteilung der Riva Historical Society.

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Bei Catalunya Ràdio moderierte er unter anderem:
 Catalunya DX
 En pijama el cap de setmana
 Mikimoto Club
 Pasta gansa

Von ihm produzierte und moderierte TV-Serien:
 Oh, Bongònia, TV3 (1987)
 Mikimoto Club, TV3 (1989–1990)
 Mikimoto Clip, La 2 (1991–1992)
 Persones humanes, TV3 (1993–1996)
 Solvència contrastada, TV3 (1996)
 Afers exteriors, TV3 (2003–2009)
 El mètode Larson, TV3 (2005)
 Prohibit als tímids, TV3 (2006)

Weblinks

 Miquel Calçada i Olivella, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana (auf Katalanisch)
 Interview veröffentlicht in lavanguardia.es (auf Spanisch)
 Miquel Calçada i Olivella, Universitat de Lleida (auf Katalanisch)

Journalist (Spanien)
Person (Sabadell)
Person (Barcelona)
Spanier
Geboren 1965
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It's a sunshine day! Lauren Conrad, who is pregnant with her first child, celebrated her baby shower on Saturday, May 20.
The Hills alum, 31, took to her Instagram Story to share a photo from the sunny celebration. "So lucky to have these wonderful ladies in my life! They spoiled me with a beautiful shower today," she captioned a shot of herself and a group of girlfriends posing outside in front of a pool.
Conrad appeared to be in great spirits and looked gorgeous in a blue-and-white striped sundress, which hugged her growing baby bump. She also posted a photo of a beautiful cake topped with white flowers and blackberries.
The Paper Crown designer announced her first pregnancy on January 1. "Happy New Year! I have a feeling 2017 is going to be the best year yet," she captioned a sonogram picture on Instagram at the time.
Conrad married musician William Tell in September 2014.


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Home Home Facebook Let OFA Data Mine Millions Since They Were "on Obama's Side"
Facebook Let OFA Data Mine Millions Since They Were "on Obama's Side"
IJR reported that Carol Davidson, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America [OFA], said Facebook discovered their campaign was misusing Facebook to massively mine user data by "sucking out the whole social graph." They allowed it because they agreed with OFA.
Like Cambridge Analytica, Obama for America was able to look at a user's friend list once they applied for the Obama campaign. The campaign then used the data to append their email list. It was called "targeted sharing."
An example of how we used that data to append to our email lists. pic.twitter.com/VHhSukvXDY
— Carol Davidsen (@cld276) March 19, 2018
Facebook was aware of the Obama campaign's activity. Davidsen says they were "surprised" at the campaign's actions. They were okay with it. Facebook representatives came to the campaign office and told them to continue because Facebook was on Obama's side.
Facebook deleted Cambridge Analytica for doing essentially the same thing. One might safely assume they were deleted because Facebook is not on their side.
Davidsen admits that while OFA technically didn't break any rules, the action on OFA's part still felt dirty.
Mitt Romney might have done the same thing. It was a well-known tactic and many did it.
It is not only Miss Davidsen who is making these claims about inappropriate data mining.
An insider at Facebook named Sandy Parakilas told the Guardian he found it "horrifying" that numerous companies deployed these techniques used by Analytica, possibly affecting hundreds of millions of Facebook users.
Between 2011 and 2012, he was one of the software engineers policing possible third party breaches. He found these flaws and warned the senior management they risked serious breaches.
Parakilas said Facebook had terms of service and settings that "people didn't read or understand". Also, the company did not use its enforcement mechanisms or employ audits.
Parakilas said he "always assumed there was something of a black market" for Facebook data that had been passed to external developers. One manager told him not to look too deeply for fear of what he might find.
Making this unexpected use of data an issue solely about Cambridge Analytica is ridiculous. Deleting Cambridge Analytica's Facebook page and not Organizing for America's is typical of the left.
Many were doing it and Facebook knew it. Facebook and Zuckerberg are not victims.
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Dee Dee March 20, 2018 At 4:34 pm
Facebook has long censored its users and content while allowing access to anyone with enough money and a liberal cause. Zuckerberg will do anything for a buck and to advance his own personal agenda. Facebook is a cancer in America.
jeff martin March 20, 2018 At 4:39 pm
The bottom line is liberal DEMONcrats are ok with being dishonest. We need a civil war to set things right.
Bev March 20, 2018 At 5:33 pm
No wonder Facebook stock is dropping. People have had enough of censoring & corruption. Bye-Bye two-faced Facebook!
bydesign001 March 21, 2018 At 12:08 pm
Considering the fact that Mark Zuckerberg practically set up shop in the White House and on the golf course with Barack Obama, I find it hard to believe that Facebook was caught off guard by OFA's actions especially since there were endless reports about the use of algorithms, etc. to control the narrative on social media by Progressives since Obama sullied the White House.
It is more than likely that they were covering their sixes. Hoping that karma bites them in the ass times ten.
P.S. Wth? Cher just thanked the staff at FB for helping with her charity, where else? On Facebook. She said that she really appreciates the great staff there but now she's deleting her account, as if anyone gives a damn.


AT&T has begun to crack down on iPhone customers who use their smartphones to connect laptops to the wireless carrier's 3G network without the purchase of a tethering plan, reports OSX Daily.
Offending customers, which includes those who use the MyWi unofficial iPHone Wi-Fi hotspot app, have begun to receive letters and text messages indicating that AT&T requires the purchase of a $45-per-month tethering plan to use the functionality in an authorized manner. If off-contract tethering use continues, says AT&T, failure to sign up for a tethering plan will result in AT&T signing you up for one, whether you like it or not.
One of the main reasons people jailbreak their iPhones (i.e. remove the carrier-specific restrictions that come with the handset) is to use if for tethering without paying the $45 per month.
So far, reports have only mentioned AT&T contacting iPhone users, with no word whether the same applies to those customers using Android devices. Also, AT&T has not indicated that it will retroactively penalize anyone for tethering their phones without a plan.
All IP packets have something called a TTL associated with them. It stands for Time To Live. Every "hop" along the network from one router to the next reduces the TTL by one. When it reaches 0, the packet is dropped. This was introduced to keep routing problems from overloading the network. If for example, by some error a packet was going around in a circular path, the TTL would eventually reach 0 and prevent a packet storm.
The thing is, ALL routing devices do this. OSes use standard TTLs. For example, let's say both your iPhone and laptop use 127 for the TTL. AT&T will receive packets from your iPhone with a TTL of 127, but since the packets from your laptop pass through your iPhone first, they arrive at AT&T with a TTL of 126. They can detect a tethered device this way.
So there you have it — no unofficial tethering, unless you want to pay $45 extra per month for your service.


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Damazer and blast it.
Culture, Music, Nonsense
It's official. I'm an old git.
Mark Damazer wants to get rid of BBC Radio 4's "UK Theme". I am enraged, in the manner of a retired colonel or blue-rinsed WI matron.
I first heard the theme when I had about a month of getting up every morning at 5.30am to go to Norwich for an IA gig. It's whimsy is just what you want while trying to pry your eyes open and rouse yourself to the service of late-capitalism.
More evidence I am an old git – the best explanation of why so many people are upset by the decision is in the Torygraph:
"What shall we do with the drunken sailor, early in the morning? This question has been put to listeners of Radio 4 at 5.30am daily for 33 years. Or rather, it is not put in words, but in music, as part of the late Fritz Spiegl's brilliant UK Theme, incorporating traditional airs from the British Isles.
If this country has a folk memory, these songs without words tap into it. Whatever the day ahead brings, we shall meet it with our co-heirs to the complicated heritage of our still united kingdom.
Wordlessness is the point. Music speaks more directly than words. Who has not had the experience of listening to the full weather forecast and yet missing the section devoted to our own area? And yet the Controller of Radio 4 wishes to extirpate the UK Theme in favour of "a look ahead to stories likely to develop in the day". Not even news, then, good or bad, but inchoate babble. So leave us music, for a few minutes, just till we get started, early in the morning."
p.s. I really like the name Damazer. It reminds me of Mazinger.
Yubnub, Skype and Vodafone web access
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Trying to use Foe's yubnub command on a Nokia N70: Grrrr, originally uploaded by blackbeltjones.
Foe wrote a simple yubnub command on the weekend, and suggested it might be quite neat when accessed from a mobile, in order to see whether the other person was available to call (over cellular, not Skype…)
Tried it this evening, to find that mystatus.skype.com was treated as a 'restricted access' site by Vodafone's web gateway.
This is the bar put in place by default by Vodafone in order to stop kiddywinks downloading 'premium adult content' (surely they're all busily making their own with camphones and uploading it to youtube?) – which after ages of wandering around Voda's Heathrow-Airport of a website and two registrations (one of which involved entering a creditcard number to which I got charged £1 to prove my age, and reimbursed £2.50!?!?!!!) I finally managed to get removed.
I switched the phone on and off (!) and then tried the yubnub.org 'Skype' command again. It worked fine.
I tried it again with a different friend's Skype handle, and I got bounced back to the "Restricted Access" page!!!
One can't help but wonder what Vodafone is doing classing Skype in with porn, and making it as difficult as possible to get to their site online on your phone, it's not as if Skype have even got a cellular product live yet.
Cockup… or conspiracy?
Don, Interrupted
From Issue 2 of Ambidextrous magazine, Don Norman on constant partial attention and interruption:
"My take is that we have evolved to become interruptible and distractible. I think of it not as distraction but attention to change. The problem isn't that we are continually interrupted, but rather that the technology of interruptions has far too much overhead. the overhead is often far more onerous that the content. So let's make the interruptions have more content – [and] make it easier to resume afterwards."
The full interview will apparently be on the Ambidextrous site in the near future.
Humanity, Late Capitalism, Society and culture, Sufficiently-Advanced Lifestyle
Reposted from Bruce Sterling's Viridian List, BP's Lord Browne in Fortune magazine on why humanity better start with it's GTD:
"Build 700 nuclear stations to replace fossil-fuel-
burning power plants, or increasing the use of solar
power by a factor of 700, or stopping all deforestation
and doubling present efforts at reforestation. Achieve
all three of these, and pull off four more equally
large-scale reallocations of capital and
infrastructure, and the world would probably stabilize
its carbon emissions."
Ay yi yi.
Let us begin.
Sufficiently-advanced literature, Sufficiently-Advanced Technology
Brain switched on fully this morning.
Woken by, like a bell ringing backward from tomorrow, this headline – heralding the terrible, wonderful material future:
Fullerene Super-Armour
Let's have that again.
Along with the rollicking arphid-blistered-rollercoaster of a ride that's been "Shaping Things", I'm getting just-enough medicinal futureshock to crank the year into the gear.
More Rolf
The more I read, the more I think he is the Magister Ludens.
From a profile in sunday's Observer:
Now 75, he is able to say: 'I know who I am and what I like to do, and all I ever wanted was to splosh around with my brushes and palette and show people that painting can be fun. My advice is to just do something you love to do.
'You need to do something that means you wake up with a smile on your face, and look in the mirror and say, "I really love you, son. Good on ya. Get on with it!" I just feel about 20, still.'
Oh, and George – he's Welsh-born.
Flickr impacts consumer-culture: "It's Playtime"
Culture, play, TV, web 2.0
Still from Canon EOS350D advert: "It's Playtime", originally uploaded by blackbeltjones.
Above is a still from Canon EOS350D advert: "It's Playtime"
I'll wager it is both directly inspired by, and deliberately targetted at ludic Flickr users and the visual culture they have built.
Here's the quicktime of the ad on Canon's site.


Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Gasoline prices have on average gained 3 cents on the week, rising to $2.91 per gallon, despite moves to a cheaper winter blend -- and the current levels, highest for a fall period in four years, are likely to remain "unseasonably expensive" through the end of the year, the AAA reported.
Experts say fall gas prices have not been this high since 2014, and they don't see them decreasing any time soon as crude oil is selling about $25 more per barrel than at this time last year and market analysts expecting the high price of a barrel of oil to stay that way.
"The September switch-over to winter-blend gasoline ushered in cheaper gas prices compared to the summer, but that drop was short lived," Jeanette Casselano, AAA spokesperson, said in a note.
"That means fall and year-end prices are going to be unseasonably expensive," the report added.
The biggest week-on-week gains were in Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana, California and Indiana with average increases between 9 cents per gallon and 7 cents per gallon. Meantime, fuel stations in New Jersey, Georgia and Washington, D.C., saw gains by 6 cents per gallon.
The gains in the Great Lakes and Central region could be justified by regional refinery maintenance -- which decreases production -- and inventories at one of the lowest levels for the region this year. However, the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions are seeing higher price levels despite a gasoline inventory buildup, the AAA said.
Despite the gain in Louisiana, the South and Southeast region carries the top six cheapest gas prices in the country, but still 25% above the same period a year ago.
States in the Rockies saw either small declines or flat levels compared with a week earlier. In the West Coast, where prices are the highest in the country, fuel costs to motorists rose despite inventory buildups.
Hawaii, where a gallon costs on average $3.84, and California, at $3.80 per gallon on average, are the nation's most expensive fuel markets.
The AAA mentioned high crude oil prices as the key factor leading to higher gasoline costs. It attributed that to volatility linked to announced U.S. sanctions against Iran, a major exporter, and also to concerns about a possible collapse of the economy of Venezuela, another key producer.
"Crude oil accounts for half of the retail pump price and crude is selling at some of the highest price points in four years," Castellano said.
WTI crude futures were trading Tuesday morning at $74.81/barrel compared to $50.92/barrel a year ago.
Meantime, Patrick DeHaan, analyst at GasBuddyGuy, estimated on Saturday that U.S. motorists are spending "$175 million more on gasoline today alone versus a year ago today."


Dual citizenship is the result of the interaction of the laws of two countries. People can become dual citizens automatically (normally by birth or marriage), or after successfully applying for the citizenship of another country.
When it comes to dual or multiple citizenship, the world is divided: there are countries whose laws allow their own citizens to acquire another citizenship without losing their present one. In contrast, other countries do not allow the acquisition or holding of another citizenship and the acquisition of another citizenship may lead to the loss of the present citizenship.
Therefore, the acquisition of a second citizenship is only legally possible for citizens of those countries which allow dual citizenship.
The following is an overview of citizenship laws in selected countries with regard to dual citizenship. The information is based on Henley & Partners' interpretation of citizenship legislation in the relevant countries.


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All the Way NPR coverage of All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters by Joe Namath, Sean Mortimer, and Don Yaeger. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
My Life in Four Quarters
by Joe Namath, Sean Mortimer and Don Yaeger
Hardcover, 232 pages, Little Brown & Co, List Price: $30 |
Joe Namath, Sean Mortimer, et al
Published to mark the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl "Guarantee," the NFL icon and Pro Football Hall of Famer traces his meteoric career, role in the commercialization of sports and private struggles with addiction. 200,000 first printing.
NPR stories about All the Way
Joe Namath speaks during halftime of a New York Jets game in 2018. As quarterback, he led the Jets to a Super Bowl win in 1969. Mike Stobe/Getty Images hide caption
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He Could Go 'All The Way': Joe Namath Enters His 4th Quarter
May 22, 2019 • In a new autobiography, the great NFL quarterback details his ups (like a Super Bowl victory) and downs (like the Suzy Kolber incident and alcoholism) as he stares down his legacy.


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Journalists earning big money? The lavish lifestyles of Shanghai's foreign press corps revealed
Shanghai in the lead-up to World War Two was a hotbed of writers and journalists covering an infinitely bigger China story than is being covered today, according to the author of a new book about the city during that time.
Acclaimed writer Paul French recounts tales from old Shanghai at the FCC. Photo: Sarah Graham/FCC
With more trade coming out of Shanghai before the Japanese invasion of 1937 than comes from the entire country today (depending on how you calculate it), it was not only the big global story of the day, but it was being read around the world by those watching the build-up to World War Two, said Paul French.
Award-winning author French shed light on a lawless city, partitioned into various international settlements, that was a haven for outlaws from all over the world – larger-than-life characters who, due to the lack of immigration control at the time, were able to reinvent themselves and make their fortunes. Some ran casinos in the Shanghai Badlands, others brothels.
And there to capture it all was the foreign press corps, itself leading a fascinating existence in the so-called Paris Of The Orient, many being freelancers reporting for major international newspapers including the New York Times, Reuters and the Times of London. And in contrast to freelancers today, they made a significant amount of money that afforded them a lavish lifestyle in the city.
Broadway Mansions, home to the Shanghai FCC during World war Two. The club later became the Hong Kong FCC. Photo: Sarah Graham/FCC
French told of writers Edgar and Helen Snow's sumptuous hutong courtyard home where they had seven servants and a racehorse; The New Yorker's Emily Hahn and her stylish Shanghai apartment; and the city's largest private library, owned by Times of London correspondent George Morrison, aka Morrison of Peking.
When asked how journalists of the time could afford such lavish lifestyles, French said: "There were so many journalist jobs – everybody had two or three jobs."
He said writers were often stringers for international newspapers but would also get jobs on local English-language newspapers in Shanghai. The world was fascinated by what was happening in the cosmopolitan city pre-1937, particularly as the Battle of Shanghai kicked off fighting between China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
"China was such a bigger story then that it is now," said French, adding that far more column inches were given to coverage, whereas now China's economy is the only story being covered by the international media.
The colourful characters of the time are brought together by French in his soon-to-be published book, City Of Devils: A Shanghai Noir, a painstakingly researched novel about a now vanished old China.
French's talk on April 19 included photos of the old Shanghai FCC building in Shanghai's Broadway Mansions, which would later become to the FCC Hong Kong when, in 1949, its president, Clyde Farnsworth, moved the club to the city after the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan and Mao's Communists created the PRC.
The Human Rights Press Awards are run by the FCC, Amnesty International Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Journalists Association. The 24th annual awards will be held on May 6, 2020, in a ceremony at the FCC. See last year's winners.
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If you are thinking seriously reshape your garden, terrace, balcony, if your decision has to do with stop wasting time and sour by not having a harmonious green space in your home and is determined to join as many others to enjoy the advantages of artificial turf, you must take into account that the same total value may vary according to the work and the place where it will be installed. Sale of artificial turf Best Garden are professionals and experts in everything that involves this work and especially in the advice, installation and sale of artificial turf. Variant in artificial turf may have variations depending on location which is to be applied, the extension of the land, and for this reason these two firms have advisers that not only will know advise you in the best way, taking into account their needs, but that you're not with unpleasant economic surprises, will design a budget without charge. Anyway, you not only must keep in mind the final price for the purchase and installation of artificial turf, but also between several of the advantages that this new system, you must take into account that the spending pays for itself in two years, offering your family enjoy it for more than 15 years. It significantly reduce the expense of water, since it must not be watered and obviously does not require specialized labor for maintenance, since you can do it yourself in a short time and in a very simple way. Buy artificial turf both companies also realize interesting discounts in budgets to buy artificial turf, because factors are taken into account as a greater dimension of the ground carried out special rates, or if the field does not require prior preparation also is cheaper the final cost.


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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a meta-heuristic that was first used for symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), but is now used for various NP-hard discrete Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COP). An Ant System (AS) or merely Ant Algorithm (AA) uses a population-based approach which is a particular Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) called Swarm Intelligence (SI). Three basic implementations of AS were performed: Ant-Density, Ant-Quantity and Ant-Cycle. According to their authors, the last variant performs better than the two first ones.
The aim of this paper is to achieve an experimental study and assessment of Agent implementation of the three basic variants of AS using the Influence or Reaction Principle. Added values of this principle and its further usefulness will be demonstrated through various benchmarks of symmetric TSP.
Agent paradigm, influence or reaction principle, swarm intelligence, ant algorithm, traveling salesman problem, combinatorial optimization.


Yup: I have a finish. I actually finished it yesterday but couldn't get a decent photo. I still can't..it is stitched on a lovely creamy fabric which I just can't get the camera to show..and the tails can be seen quite happily by eye, just not in the picture. I think it is my camera but can't find my old one anywhere so I guess you will have to take my word for it!
January the First...and the first finish and first new release for 2014!
Poor Holmsey Hare was trying to teach Fergus about Valentine's day in a manner fitting to reflect love and respect between friends. As always, Fergus got a little carried away and over-enthusiastic. He just grabbed the largest rose he could! It is nearly bigger than Holmsey!
Holmsey sighs and reminds himself it is the thought that counts as he presents his sensible but pretty pink rosebud.
Stitched on cream Brittney using threads from The Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe threads (with DMC conversions on the chart instructions). Size = 79 x 89 stitches.
Charts will be on sale from next week. To be put into a draw to win a free pdf chart just leave a comment at the bottom of this post and share! I will make the draw next week. Good Luck and a very happy new year!
I would love a chance to win please!
Ohh isnt Holmsey cute!!! Gorgeous chart.
I'm loving Holmsey and Fergus - hope they show up often this year!
What a cute pattern! Your finish is great! I love the stories that go along with your patterns. Do you include them with the pattern. If someone were to stitch them up maybe they could print out the story and put it on the back or if they framed it they could do the same thing. Just a thought.
Do not include me in this draw as I have enough planned for 2014. Plus I am taking part in the Stitch from Stash this year. I am going to work hard at this one!
Wising you a wonderful weekend!
Love your designs! They are so cute.
You could write a book - the Adventures of Holmsey and Fergus :) The stories really add a lovely touch to your designs! I love the font that you chose for this pattern...very elegant. Take care!
This is adorable Gaynor!! Great first finish of 2014!! I love the colours in this design!
Oh, how adorable!! I love it even more after reading the story!!
An other cute creation beautifully stitched!
Gaynor, I love this and the back story is lovely. I could have swore I had already entered your giveaway, but don't see my comment, so here goes again. Thank you for the opportunity to win one of your charts.


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Adam Sheridan opened his own record label
Trancers, a good news! The DJ Adam Sheridan, aged 23 opened his own record label. It is called Soundstage Music and there will be released Sheridan's own productions, but also some others artists' productions with a similar sound.
Adam Sheridan announced that the music will vary from trance to techno, but also 'dirty house'. If Adam Sheridan considers that a track is good, he will mix it no matter what; that's what will happen with the releases at his record label.
Adam Sheridan is one of the artists who had a flourishing carrier in the last few years. Starting with underground gigs and ending with mixing before Paul Van Dyk aty Love Parade. The artist announces many surprises for this year.
February 21, 2007 at 7:45 PM CET


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SPIRIT GUIDES Part I: Silver Birch
by Karen | Nov 28, 2017 | Karen's Korner
The third principle of Spiritualism is The Communion of Spirits and the Ministry of Angels. "The Ministry of Angels brings enhanced wisdom to enlighten the individual, society and the world in which we live."
Spirit guides are some of the angels that contact us through mediums. Because their instruction can be enlightening, I want to take a few blogs to discuss some of the more noteworthy spirit guides of the past.
Silver Birch was a spirit guide who spoke through Maurice Barbanell (1902-1981). Barbanell was the founder and editor of the Psychic News of London. Silver Birch's teachings became popular in the late 1930s and resulted in the publication of nine books documenting his communications.
Silver Birch took on the identity of a Native American and he said he was only acting as translator. "I am but a humble servant," he said. "an interpreter for those who have sent me to expound forgotten laws that must be revived as part of the new world that is gradually dawning. Think of me always as a mouthpiece. I represent the voice of the spirit that seeks to make its presence felt in your world and which is succeeding in increasing measure." His described a group of communicators who harmonized their minds to create the messages that he communicated to Barbanell.
Silver Birch gave few details about his own earthy existence, but mentioned that his last lifetime occurred about 3,000 years earlier. While on earth, he said he worshiped many gods, but had learned in the spirit world that "there is only one Great Spirit, who has provided eternal laws for the control of every phase of life throughout the boundless universe."
Barbanell's book, Thou Shall Be Comforted, discusses Silver Birch's teachings on existence after physical death. When we pass on, he said that we do not enter Heaven through "pearly gates", neither do we descend to Hell through lakes of "fire and brimstone". The person who has died will be the same individual as they were in life, except that they will have no physical body. The spirit body is a replica of the physical one, but without any of its physical imperfections.
Silver Birch made it clear that the spirit world is not "dreamy or nebulous." Spirits are busy with activities just as they are in the physical world. In the spirit world, the mental is real and the physical is a shadow. For example, when one dreams, things seem real at the time. The dream only becomes ethereal when the person wakes up. It is the viewpoint that makes the difference. He also said that the spirit world isn't a separate place. It is all around us, intermingling with the physical world.
When one arrives in the spirit world, the person meets those who have preceded him. Families and friends are reunited most of the time, but because of the law of attraction, only those of similar spiritual qualities will meet on the same plane. Married couples or family members who held no real love for each other will not be together in the spirit world.
The spiritual world may take on the trappings of physical existence, including homes, clothing and food. Silver Birch said this is a habit from our physical make-up. The houses are not made of bricks and mortar, but constructed out of thought. Desire for food is a mental craving and a spirit can maintain the illusion if it requires it. People are free to express their talents, with no physical limitations. People also speak the same language – thought. Those thoughts are never hidden and lying is impossible.
After a person passes into the spirit world, he naturally gravitates to the correct spiritual sphere according to the life lived and the character evolved on the earthly plane. A person cannot occupy a higher sphere than the spiritual status he has reached, but spirits can evolve over time to reach higher spheres.
Reference: They Shall Be Comforted by Maurice Barbanell and Silver Birch
Karen's Korner
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Poet and Spiritualist January 18, 2022
The Child in Heaven December 29, 2021
Dickens' Spiritual Message December 21, 2021
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Q: "netstat" data for Multicast, Unicast and Broadcast I am looking to get netstat for BroadCast, Multicast and Unicast sent and received packets. This can be obtained from "/proc/net/netstat". But the problem here is, it does not give statistics data for different interfaces(like "eth0", "eth2" etc..). It only gives total data for all the interfaces.
How to get this data for each interfaces?

A: You can get a subset(including multicast) of the information per device from:
/proc/net/dev

A: You can get rx and tx broadcast and multicast for each interface from
#ethtool -S ethX . The same multicast data is there in /proc/net/dev file.

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Crooked Lake - Horsefly, BC | Michael Bednar
Alkali Lake
Barkerville
Dog/Canoe Creek
Kersley
McLeese Lake
Quesnel Lake
Quesnelle Forks
Soda Creek
Outdoor lovers head here for camping, hiking, fishing, kayaking, mountain biking and backcountry skiing. Horsefly, the gateway to Quesnel Lake, Horsefly Lake, Crooked Lake and the Cariboo Mountains, hosts entertaining events, including July's Arts on the Fly Music Festival, the September Salmon Festival, Fall Fair and Horsefly Follies Theatrical Review. Visit the Pioneer Museum, which also serves as the area's Visitor Info Booth. The first gold discovery of the Cariboo Gold Rush was in the Horsefly River in 1859, three years before Billy Barker made his big strike on Williams Creek. The prospectors, led by American Peter Dunlevy, were guided by native Long Baptiste and the gold was easily visible, having been exposed by sockeye salmon during gravel churning spawning. The party picked up 2,835g/100oz of nuggets in a week – and so began the great gold rush of 1859 into B.C.'s Interior. Those easy-to-find gold nuggets are long gone, leaving the area's approximately 1,000 residents to work in forestry, ranching, mining and tourism.
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Crooked Lake Resort
A beautiful, picturesque spot in the Cariboo Mountains of British Columbia, private and secluded. An off-the-grid, remote wilderness resort where our guests can escape the pace and encumbrances of modern day life, to enjoy seclusion, solitude and back-country recreation. We…
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Come to scenic Horsefly Lake, just an hour from Williams Lake, BC. Enjoy your stay in a comfortable, and fully-equipped rustic log cabin. While you're here, discover the serene waters of Horsefly Lake and the scenery surrounding it while you…
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Willow Grove B&B Inn is situated within the beautiful, historical gold rush town of Horsefly, British Columbia. Christina Mary, owner and operator of the Inn, is a long time local Horsefly resident and artist. The Inn is your ideal destination…
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 001 Page 0355 Chapter IV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
WAR DEPARTMENT, January 29, 1861.
SIR: The dispatch of which the inclosed is a copy was transmitted to-day, and the hope is indulged that it will be received before the arrival of the Brooklyn. Lieutenant Saunders goes as the bearer of this communication in order that the Department may be assured that the dispatch has reached you safely, and has suffered no alteration in its transmission, and also that his return may afford you an opportunity of reporting fully all that has occurred in connection with your command since the transfer of your forces to Fort Pickens. In the absence of any detailed information as to the circumstances under which this movement was made, I can only commend its patriotic purpose and express the gratification felt by the Department at its success.
You are instructed to act strictly on the defensive, and avoid as far as possible a collision with the hostile troops concentrated at Pensacola and in the adjacent forts. Should you, however, be attacked you will make the best defense of which your position and resources are capable. The naval forces of the United States now at Pensacola, or which may hereafter arrive there, it is expected will cordially co-operate with you. You will observe that it is expressly understood as the basis of instructions forwarded to you that the communication between yourself and others in command at Pensacola and the Government is to be kept open and unobstructed. You will avail yourself of this provision, and report by special messenger to the Department as events may justify or require it.
In your dispatches by Lieutenant Saunders you will make known the details of the transfer of your command, the forces which you now have available for active service, the strength of your position, the character of the preparations, if any, in progress which look to an assault upon the fort, and all other matters in any manner bearing upon your ultimate safety.
In consequence of the assurance received from Mr. Mallory in a telegram of yesterday to Messrs. Slidell, Hunter, and Bigler, with a request it should be laid before the President, that Fort Pickens would not be assaulted, and an offer of such an assurance to the same effect from Colonel Chase, for the purpose of avoiding a hostile collision, upon receiving satisfactory assurances from Mr. Mallory and Colonel Chase that Fort Pickens will not be attacked, you are instructed not to land the company on board the Brooklyn unless said fort shall be attacked or preparations shall be made for its attack. The provisions necessary for the supply of the fort you will land. The Brooklyn and other vessels of war on the station will remain, and you will exercise the utmost vigilance and be prepared at a moment's warning to land the company at Fort Pickens, and you and they will instantly repel an attack on the fort.


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Q: Disable http timeout in the Firefox 29.0 How to disable timeout in Firefox 29.0 / Ubuntu 14.04?
I have some web scripts that need time (up to 30 minutes) to complete.
The connection has timed out

The server at ... is taking too long to respond.

I tried to change network.http.connection-timeout to 99999 but timeout message still pops up after 1-2 minutes...
In previous version (28.0? not sure...) firefox used to wait forever which was OK for me (there was no need to change config)
Currently I run my scripts using wget but executing scripts in proper net browser was way more convenient for me.

A: In the list of changes between version 28 and 29 the key network.http.response.timeout was set to 300. Try to change it to something higher.
Ben Morgen wrote in his blog that this would work.

A: OK... at a guess,
open a new tab and go to about:config
Click "I'll be careful, I Promise".
Change the
dom.max_chrome_script_run_time and dom.max_script_run_time to unlimited
Restart Firefox and see if this works for you.  Remember to make a note of the old settings and you may want to revert this if it doesn't work.  I've just tried it and I've had a recursive pointless loop running for a couple of minutes on my box without timing out.
Hope this helps