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Class Conflict
Here in Massachusetts, in the birthplace of Horace Mann's free American 'common school', an intense battle over charter schools — one with outsized national stakes — will be decided at the ballot box next week. ...
Here in Massachusetts, in the birthplace of Horace Mann's free American 'common school', an intense battle over charter schools — one with outsized national stakes — will be decided at the ballot box next week. The fight, at least on the surface, concerns a question of expansion: Do we need more charter schools to meet the demands of over 32,000 students currently on the waitlist for charter enrollment, or do we need to limit the growth of new charter schools, whose growth may spell a decline in the public system?
Zoomed out, however, the question of expansion morphs into several different debates: market driven forces versus publicly funded services, stricter discipline versus free expression, longer school days and greater teacher demands versus union standards and protections.
But what if 'yea' or 'nay' on charter schools misses a bigger point? Amid all the divisiveness, all the rancorous disputes, a near-consensus still abounds: Reforms are needed to drastically improve the quality of education across the board. The real question may be: If the reachable goals are a full day's learning, a path to work, higher education, and self-reliance, a bond with families and the real world, why shouldn't kids find those essentials in shaped-up modern versions of community public schools?
This week we enlist the help of pioneer education reformers Linda Nathan and Paula Evans.
Both Nathan and Evans have had long careers in education reform. Both are disciples of the great reformer Ted Sizer, author of Horace's Choice and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, and both have served in positions in the public and charter system. Yet they have also been at odds with each other over specific reform tactics over the years. We brought them in to talk about the real issues overshadowed by the ballot debate.
Bringing the debate outside the commonwealth borders, we've also recorded a segment with Dale Russakoff, author of The Prize, which tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg's 100 million dollar pledge to transform Newark schools, with a little help from Corey Booker and Chris Christie. The fiery and very funny education blogger Jennifer Berkshire joins us, too. She runs the Edushyster blog, which has been skewering various aspects of "market-based education," from joy and achievement culture to the basic problem of teaching obedience. She serves as moderator and provocateur for this debate over the charter choice.
'The Great Derangement'
The most urgent existential risk facing the world today has received barely a footnote's worth of attention in this presidential campaign. Over the course of the past three presidential debates, a grand total of five ...
The most urgent existential risk facing the world today has received barely a footnote's worth of attention in this presidential campaign. Over the course of the past three presidential debates, a grand total of five minutes and twenty-seven seconds were devoted to discussing climate change and the environment. (That equates to 2% of the total time.)
But it's not just us Americans and our presidential candidates who are slouching away from the looming climate crisis: a recent global survey done by the United Nations reveals that climate change ranks dead last on a list of the issues that matter most to people around the world.
Climate scientists have sounded the alarm and the world has responded by hitting the snooze button. What's going on here?
The novelist Amitav Ghosh says our inability to grasp the scale of climate change is a failure of imagination. It's a long story that's tangled up in the spectacle of global politics, western imperialism, and a world-wide obsession with growth. In his new book, The Great Derangement, Ghosh examines how the public consciousness has been made impotent by a neoliberal machine. We must be deranged, Ghosh says. "We live in an era that worships science. Scientism is all around us, but we can't take on the lessons science is teaching us."
Later, we're joined by the acclaimed biographer Andrea Wulf who tells us about the remarkable life and mind of Alexander Von Humboldt — an 18th century Prussian scientist, who Emerson once hailed as "one of the wonders of the world." We'll find out what environmental insights one of the greatest scientists of the 18th century has to offer the 21st. Journalist and naturalist Michael McCarthy enters the conversation and shares with us the abundance of joys to be found in nature, as well as the heartbreaking realities of contemporary species loss.
Contemporary illustration of Alexander von Humboldt – from the cover of 'The Invention of Nature'.
We're joined also by transgender signer Anohni, whose politically-charged new record Hopelessness takes direct aim at the Obama administration and its failure to bring sanity to our deranged situation. Anohni urges us to look past the charade of identity in this campaign season and turn our attention towards the existential threats to our planet. Hear an extended part of the conversation:
Illustration by Susan Coyne
American Wreckage
Thomas Paine, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Saint Augustine, and Thomas Hobbes all agreed: A house divided against itself cannot stand. In this election season, the massive fault lines of gender, race, and class—snaking deep underneath the ...
Thomas Paine, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Saint Augustine, and Thomas Hobbes all agreed: A house divided against itself cannot stand. In this election season, the massive fault lines of gender, race, and class—snaking deep underneath the foundation of American democracy—have been revealed for all to see.
In many ways, Campaign 2016 has been one long series of seismic quakes, laying wreckage to any semblance of a shared national identity. And the Big One, Trump has teased/threatened, is possibly still to come — a contested election that spills out into the streets.
Gordon Matta Clark, Splitting (1974)
We're joined by journalists Sarah Smarsh and Matt Taibbi. Smarsh's recent article in the Guardian takes the media to task for their monolithic presentation of the white working-class, particularly in her own state of Kansas. Taibbi, Rolling Stone contributor and fierce Wall Street critic, envisions for us a scenario in which the specter of Trump continues to exert enormous influence long into foreseeable future of U.S. politics. He takes the long view ahead: how Trump might end up being the best thing to happen to Clinton (and her friends in finance and the pentagon) — acting as an instrument to suppress dissenting voices of any stripe. As Taibbi writes:
Trump ran as an outsider antidote to a corrupt two-party system, and instead will leave that system more entrenched than ever. If he goes on to lose, he will be our Bonaparte, the monster who will continue to terrify us even in exile, reinforcing the authority of kings. If you thought lesser-evilism was bad before, wait until the answer to every question you might have about your political leaders becomes, "Would you rather have Trump in office?"
More than Hitler or Mussolini, Bonaparte may be the most apt comparison for Trump. Even if he loses, he will continue to be an imminent danger (conveniently, for some in the Establishment) to democracy.
Illustration by Susan Coyne.
Podcast • October 13, 2016
The Locker-Room Election
Donald Trump's gross behavior towards women has been self-evident for years. Even The Donald himself, seen in this Howard Stern video from 2006, agrees that Donald Trump can be called a sexual predator. So how do ...
Donald Trump's gross behavior towards women has been self-evident for years. Even The Donald himself, seen in this Howard Stern video from 2006, agrees that Donald Trump can be called a sexual predator. So how do we explain the shocked (shocked!) reaction to the non-revelation of the Billy Bush bus tape?
Perhaps an answer can be gleaned from an entirely separate incident. It's October 1971 and William Friedkin's The French Connection is playing to a packed, all African-American audience in a movie theater in Harlem. Up on the screen, Gene Hackman's character, Popeye Doyle, turns to his partner and mutters, "Never trust a [N word]." The audience erupts — in cheers.
Why? Because finally, African-Americans were hearing the language they had always known was being said by NYC cops in real-life behind closed doors.
Jill Soloway, the creative force behind Transparent, writing in Time magazine this week describes a similar reaction to watching the bus video: "I was thrilled because it was finally out in public. What men say behind closed doors. Currently renamed as locker-room talk."
One big takeaway: Language matters.
This week on Open Source we're unpacking the gender politics operating behind the scenes in the Locker-Room Election.Eileen Myles wants to take Trump's defensive words at face value: let's talk about what "locker room banter" actually is, another hidden domain for patriarchy.
And Felix Biederman, creator of the centrist pundit parody Carl Diggler and co-host of the brilliantly vulgar Chapo Trap House podcast, helps us turn the corner into a conversation about language and the fine line between what different generations find forgivable and unforgivable in speech.
Plus, Labor of Love author Moira Weigel, political philosopher Rafia Zakaria, and Atlantic contributor Caitlin Flanagan join us live in studio to flesh out what we're really talking about when we talk about Trump's words.
Podcast • September 15, 2016
What Would Keynes Do?
This election has been about everything but the economy, stupid (according to John Harwood of The New York Times). Americans are split right down the middle—48 to 48—on which candidate will handle money matters better; ...
This election has been about everything but the economy, stupid (according to John Harwood of The New York Times). Americans are split right down the middle—48 to 48—on which candidate will handle money matters better; instead the wedge issues are tolerance, territory, immigration, constitutional rights, political (and factual) correctness. Why is that?
There are a lot of theories bouncing around this week, and we imagine them all overlooked by John Maynard Keynes, the economic wizard behind the Bretton Woods world order and the boom years between 1930 and 1970. He may have been the last genius of economics who also understood human life, in all its excesses and "animal spirits." What would his keen mind have brought to a moment with so much ambiguity?
1. We're on the comeback.
Harwood argued last Thursday that the lukewarm economy gives neither side an advantage: the Obama recovery was neither strong enough to gloat over nor weak enough to attack.
But early this week, a Census survey of economic indicators revealed that in fact, 2015 looked like a historic uptick: median household income rose 5.2%, the biggest jump since 1967. 3.5 million Americans climbed out of poverty; unemployment dropped to 4.9%, half its post-crash high. All three stock indexes have hit record highs, and more than half of Americans say the economy seems "good"—there's genuine relief in the air.
2. But we're still a long way from "morning in America."
Yet 60% of Americans still think the country's headed in the wrong direction. The median wage may be up this year, but it's still below its balmy 1999 high. The body is recovering, but the collective psychology is still anxious and depressed. When people look in their wallets—or toward their futures—they feel shortchanged and blame Washington.
Our guest, the protest journalist Sarah Jaffe, calls attention to the people who are really still feeling the squeeze—of anti-Keynesian austerity and casino capitalism, for example—in her new book, Necessary Trouble. It's a chronicle of people on the march against punitive student debt, foreclosures, and slashed public budgets—and for moving the conversation forward.
3. Growth may be ending.
Heavy-hitting economists like Larry Summers have started to worry aloud about "secular stagnation": a period in which growth itself may slow—or stop—in our Energizer-bunny economy. What would that mean for the American dream, which depends on rising wages buying more and better goods at cheaper prices?
4. But our minds are changing, too.
A radical shift that the new bipartisan consensus emerging in the candidates: that signing onto NAFTA, letting infrastructure languish, and cutting spending was a mistake—in short, that the government still has a stimulating role to play in the American economy.
To make the case, our good friend Mark Blyth—the Brown University political economist whose magisterial book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea lowered the hammer on the false promise of cut budgets. Mike Konczal, one of the big-thinking financial reformers and fellows at the Roosevelt Institute, will make the case that this fraught election might be concealing a new and healthy economic consensus.
Finally, Lord Robert Skidelsky paints us a portrait of Keynes himself, as a cosmopolitan elite who nonetheless empathized with those out of work and on the dole. Keynes is the kind of economist we wish we still had around, offering not only timely economic prescriptions (extend global financial regulation, double down on government infrastructure spending, experiment with basic income plans), but also a model—of a holistic, cross-disciplinary, concerned mind:
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts …. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.
Podcast • September 8, 2016
Election 2016: Unreality T.V.
Barack Obama has kept his distance from this campaign, but he did intervene last month to remind Americans that they're not voting to give someone a recording contract: "This is a really serious job. This ...
Barack Obama has kept his distance from this campaign, but he did intervene last month to remind Americans that they're not voting to give someone a recording contract: "This is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show."
Hillary Clinton likes that line, too, and has used it more pointedly against the former host of The Apprentice: "You can't say to the head of another nation's government… if you disagree with them, 'you're fired!' That is not the way it works in the real world!"
It's true, of course—but the rise of Trump reminds us that American politics lost their humble, aldermanic relationship with a simple "real world" a long way back.
Obama's own victory was telegraphed and televised—the dignified, better-than-human First Black President got screen-tested more than once in Morgan Freeman and Dennis Haysbert. And a Brooklyn-ready media rollout teased an age of "hope" and "change" that the candidate was unable fully to bring about.
The gap between the real and the imagined isn't a new phenomenon—it's old as politics itself, and only accelerated by TV. As early as 1960, Norman Mailer read John F. Kennedy aright—not as a job applicant but as an avatar for two Americas, old and new:
this candidate for all his record; his good, sound, conventional liberal record has a patina of that other life, the second American life, the long electric night with the fires of neon leading down the highway to the murmur of jazz.
The author and journalist Ron Suskind is in our studio—he was the one who transcribed a gem of ideology from a secret source in the Bush White House:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Trump may be imperial in that same sense, if Matt Lauer's botched tackle of the two presidential candidates is anything to go by.
For more on the realm of unreality we're in, we turn to Veep's Frank Rich, and The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum (above), if the age of mass-media politics that began with the glow of Kennedy is ending with the groan of Trump—himself made-for-TV. His unpredictability, his familiar pout, his Lorax coloring and proportions are keeping him in a race and a conversation he might have lost, on the merits, long ago.
To millions of Americans, Trump has some real effects; he represents hope—maybe for boardroom efficiency or a frank simplification of political questions—or a change in atmosphere, away from managed expectations and polite coastal contempt. His may be a dark fantasy, but he sees that politicians, like TV personae real and semi-real, are in the business of fantasy, and that the "show horse" part of the job can't be so easily shrugged off.
How do we talk about political reality from so deep inside the world of the reality show?
Give 'Em Hill?
When almost everyone you know is scared to death at the prospect of The Donald as The President, it can feel like we're barely thinking about his opposite number. She's become the default choice—the option that ...
When almost everyone you know is scared to death at the prospect of The Donald as The President, it can feel like we're barely thinking about his opposite number. She's become the default choice—the option that isn't chaos.
So, after the year of Trump, at last a meditation on Presumptive Candidate #2—and she's a Hill of a lot more difficult to get a handle on. As we stand at the altar, are there any objections to this marriage? Do we have a real picture of this woman after her 40 years in politics?
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been America's most admired woman in the world for 20 years running. She's also the most disliked candidate (other than Trump) since 1984, and the first Democrat more disliked than liked. Can the Hillary puzzle be solved?
The Clintons' legacy is unclear, at best. The name conjures that strange period in the 1990s: peace and prosperity right alongside scandal, pettiness, and selling out. Our guest Doug Henwood wrote a whole book called My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency. (the cover is the now-iconic painting by the visual artist Sarah Sole, above).
My Turn is a well-written laundry list of private complaints and public scandals that's bound to make you think twice about the couple, and Hillary herself. From Honduras to Libya, "superpredators" to superdelegates, Hillary isn't just historic in the good ways—she and Bill would bring a lot of our checkered past back into the White House with them.
Then again, Ellen Fitzpatrick reminds us that female presidential candidates tend to get a lot more than the usual scrutiny—and in her book The Highest Glass Ceiling, she has the history to back it up. If you didn't know that more than 200 women have sought the highest office in the land, then you knew that before H.R.C., none of them even got close.
And Hillary has a further, post-feminine mystique. The critic Terry Castle—who wonderfully wrote up her meeting with Clinton at a fundraiser earlier this year in the London Review of Books—sees her, admiringly, as both woman and not-a-woman. Even as first lady, she left the familiar female identifiers in the kitchen with Tammy Wynette a very long time ago.
As "Val," a salty old bartender on Saturday Night Live, Hillary is comic, charming, even "hot"—a glimpse of the private person that so many people have come to adore. But then the last time we elected the person we'd like "to have a beer with," we wound up with George W. Bush—who is only now, eight years after his unhappy departure, more popular with voters than Hillary.
Hillary Clinton—overexposed but uncomprehended—raises all kinds of questions for voters and citizens. Where does the personal end and the political begin? What can we learn about a potential presidency by everything that came before it? And how should we read her—by what standard? As woman or war-maker, private self or public persona, historical breakthrough—or more of the same?
American Hearts and Minds
With the presidential primaries practically over, let's take a moment on the psychiatrist's couch, with an eye on the health of American hearts and minds. We spent months and months inside two overheated political races, ...
With the presidential primaries practically over, let's take a moment on the psychiatrist's couch, with an eye on the health of American hearts and minds.
We spent months and months inside two overheated political races, and nearly half of all Americans are displeased with our options. We're left without a feeling of confidence, let alone consensus.
But Marilynne Robinson—novelist, essayist, and friend of POTUS—declares that the political pandemonium is all to the good, if it can reintroduce us to ourselves, and to a country that many of us have ceased to understand.
Robinson sees the world through her own Christian moral learning. So for her, America is an old and venerable civilization that has finally come to appreciate what we had in Barack Obama. We're often saved by human ingenuity, we make a few simple requests, for solid public education and affordable healthcare, and yet we're tempted by fear, greed and division.
Robinson recalls that we've been in worse scrapes before. In 1968, after the death of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Chicago convention that nominated Hubert Humphrey was marred by the protests of young antiwar voters.
After that, Humphrey was stranded, Richard Nixon ascended—and brought with him a period of democratic decay.
What if we had a replay of that strange fractured moment in the 1960s and '70s? And what if we asked the wisest Americans we know what to do in another moment of democratic uncertainty and disappointment?
With a very wise panel—of psychologist Andrew Solomon, philosopher Nancy Rosenblum, and historian Bruce Schulman—we're talking through just what we've learned.
Donald Trump Is Breaking News
This spring and summer, millions of Americans will go to the polls and vote. For most of us, our political participation begins and ends at the ballot box. The rest is mediated: through a mix of respectable ...
This spring and summer, millions of Americans will go to the polls and vote. For most of us, our political participation begins and ends at the ballot box. The rest is mediated: through a mix of respectable newspapers and radio firebrands, punditry, hearsay, and Tweets.
The play of politics came with a set of old-saw formulas. The respectable candidates ended up winning. Ad spending buys votes. Gaffes are costly. And the party decides.
None of that has proven true this unconventional year. So maybe it's no surprise that the big papers and networks seem to have first missed, then dismissed, then discouraged the popular movements behind Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
This exciting, profane, profound election has served as chum on the water for a media industry that was already agitated by the Internet, "disintermediation," and vanishing income.
But has the frenzy diverted American journalism from its fourth-estate duty: of holding candidates accountable? Giving voice to the voiceless? Referring readers to history and policy? Staying straight and honest with the citizenry? Or is that all 20th-century nostalgia?
Some of our guests, and most of our Twitter followers, feel that the big story this year was of a confrontation between a dissatisfied people and an establishment — that goes for the media, too. The big papers and networks seemed to have first missed, then dismissed, then discouraged the popular movements behind Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. But that's just the beginning — there were lots of weird media stories on the trail this year.
Let us know your favorite subplot in the grand electoral soap opera in the comments below, on Facebook or on Twitter.
2016: Protest Vote or Cry For Help?
Act One of the freaked-out 2016 campaign for president may be drawing to a close, with Clinton and Trump continually atop polls. So what have we learned? Trump may be the big story, with more ...
Act One of the freaked-out 2016 campaign for president may be drawing to a close, with Clinton and Trump continually atop polls. So what have we learned?
Trump may be the big story, with more than 3.5 million Republicans checking his box. But then Bernie Sanders — whose path to the presidency may be murkier now — has received 2.5 million votes himself.
Seen from afar, that's nearly 6 million primary protest votes for the unlikeliest of outsider candidates.
There's next to no chance of an left-right merger, for all sorts of reasons. But when Sanders says working folk have had enough of a "rigged game," and Trump tells them he'll help them start winning again, can we hear the resonances?
Dan Ariely is the behavioral economist who charts the gap between what we want and the many ways in which we fail to get it.
Ariely has found that almost all Americans — 93.5% of Democrats and 90.2% of Republicans — want good healthcare, redistribution, and economic fairness, as a matter of deep principle and instinct.
But just as we end up buying checkout-line chocolate in addition to broccoli and milk, something happens on the way to the polling-place. Single-issue fixations, character biases, and media distractions come into play, and we end up voting against what we think really matters.
Ariely cheers the appearance of Sanders as a sign that a misdirected electorate has begun to realize where to apply its energy. Our third-party panel of Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader cheer on convergences of working people's interest, in spite of the deep partisan divide.
Meanwhile the leftist novelist Benjamin Kunkel begins to look for utopia, or at least a healthy national psyche, after years of panic, crisis, and self-deception.
We put the big question for our guests: what can be made of the many "change" votes for Sanders and Trump, if neither of those candidates finds his way to the White House? If Americans are angry now, what do they want instead – and do they stand any chance of getting it in the near future?


Taxation without representation was the call to action during the Revolutionary War, and justly so. While the hefty taxes imposed by England on the colonists were widely unfair due to the lack of commoner representation in parliament. However, it is an inescapable fact that taxes are an essential part of a country's economy. While George Washington wanted to try his best to avoid taxes, several states had incurred debt from the war so Alexander Hamilton felt taxation was a necessary course of action. Washington then took it upon himself to travel and listen to various voters opinions on the matter to gage his support of the bill; the result was unexpectedly pleasant. With reassurance in his mind, Washington gave the okay to Hamilton to push a federal tax to assist with debt and add an additional tax to whiskey as a backup fund if anything went wrong. This maneuver did not go well, however. Protests started almost immediately after the law was put into place in 1792. It seemed the offended parties were farmers, who had to pay cash only for taxes, and smaller distillers, who had to pay nine cents a batch while larger distillers received several tax breaks. From the beginning sporadic violence arose across the countryside- mostly in Pennsylvania- against tax collectors and other authority figures. By 1794 the conflict had reached a point of do or die for the angry mobs who had been warned several times by the government to stand down or they will be facing a militia. This threat only came after the destructive attack on John Neville's Pennsylvania estate after he had served writs of summons to several people who did not pay their taxes during the summer of 1794. The pot was quite literally near boiling over as the seasons changed and the simplest thing would set either side off. The crux of the conflict came after flames had just been put out on another in Pittsburg after an angry tax payer had intercepted mail that expressed the distaste officials had for the attack on Neville's home. David Bradford, the man who read the letters, threatened to destructively riot through Pittsburg the next day, but this was quickly deterred with some whiskey barrels and an apology. Soon, new signs of a reignited conflict had arisen so Hamilton voted for a militia to be sent, but Washington opted for a peace envoy instead- which ultimately failed. Finally, Washington marched with an army of twelve thousand men into Western Pennsylvania to end this rebellion. Oddly enough, however, the opposition failed to show up so suspected rebels were arrested and brought back for trial instead. It turns out that most of the rebel leaders had fled; among the twenty men who were arrested all but two, who were charged with treason, were acquitted. After the conflict mellowed from its rolling boil in 1794, there was little conflict in the following years. Eventually in 1802 the tax was repealed and all was well that end well.
Sometimes starting something up does not always prove to be as easy as it was on paper and there are often several hiccoughs along the way once the ball gets rolling. The same could certainly be said for the start of a new country and all its ins and outs. After the end of the Revolutionary War, the newly establish United States of America had to learn to stand on its own two feet. Essentially everything had to be built from the ground up- this included government, law, and currency. While many of these tasks were daunting, it seems perhaps that the most difficult obstacle they had to overcome was currency. In fact not only were conversations regarding the Nations money delayed, but so was the establishment of the mint, coin value, materials, and officials. Thankfully by 1792 congress had finalized the currency system and mint establishment in the Coinage Act. Still, actual mintage was a ways away since the mint had difficulties with copper coinage, which began two years after the Act. Once it was time to move on to precious metal coinage, silver was the first to come, but there was still significant obstacles. To begin, the reserves of precious metals for coinage was absolutely laughable, so they mint had to rely on wealthy depositors to contribute metals to produce coins. The mint planned to pay these men back through coins equal to their deposits as soon as possible. Once the metal was in, the government filled the production with red tape and decided both the Chief Coiner and the Assayer had to put up a bond of $10,000 each, to offset malfeasance. This, by no means, was not easy money to come by; in fact it was nearly impossible for these men. Congress reluctantly relented and lowered the bonds to $5,000 for the coiner and $1,000 for the assayer; both men were assisted by two other wealthy men to post their bonds. Finally coins could be minted! The first three silver coins struck were the dollar, half dollar, and half dime- all of which bore the Flowing Hair Liberty designed by engraver Robert Scot. Unfortunately, the struggle was not over for these precious coins. The mint began with the dollar since it was heftier, carried more value, and was meant to be the "showoff" coin for the nation. However, the dies could not keep up with demand and most of them broke after a thousand or so strikes. Repairs would take a while, but depositors pressured the mint for their return, so they began the half dollars. Finally, after a successful production of 5,300 coins the mint was ready to produce more, but this time the metal roller system broke down so blanks could not be rolled to their proper thickness. This issue was not resolved until the beginning of 1795; despite the date change, the mint still utilized the 1794 dies well into 1795 since there was no use in trashing something that was still useful. Mintage ran more smoothly the following year as reflected in the numbers, regardless the design saw its final few strikes in the remaining months of 1795 and was exchanged for the capped bust liberty in 1796.


I feel dizzy and have a dry mouth after taking antibiotics – should I be worried?
I have just completed a week on antibiotics for an abscess I am feeling dizzy and have a dry mouth. Is this likely to be a side effect of the treatment or should I see my GP?
Dizziness and a dry mouth are both possible side effects of many antibiotics, so this could be the reason for these symptoms, but they are also signs of dehydration, so make sure you're getting enough to drink.
Without knowing more details about your abscess, or the type of antibiotics you have taken, it is not possible to give you an exact answer. However, as you're still unwell after a week of treatment, it would be sensible to follow up with the doctor that prescribed you the antibiotics (especially if the abscess has not gone).
These aren't usually too severe and should pass once you finish taking the tablets. If you experience any other side effects, contact your doctor.
Some people have an allergic reaction to antibiotics. This only affects around 1 in 15 people and is not usually too severe. Antihistamines usually treat these symptoms effectively. If you do not respond to treatment, call your doctor.
A tight throat that makes breathing hard.
In rare cases, you can experience a severe allergic reaction, called anaphylaxis. This is a medical emergency and you should call 999 immediately.
For more information and support about allergic reactions, visit our allergies centre.


The Cities Act confers on local authorities which adopt it powers to establish ConnectedCities, supervise their development, and eventually transfer the administration of each to a ConnectedCity council.
The Act is adoptive so that only local authorities which embrace the ConnectedCities approach need do so. However. it mostly confers powers rather than creates duties, so not adopting cuts them off from its benefits.
Where a potential ConnectedCity covers more than one district or borough, the councils co-operate in implementing the Act by appointing a joint committee for each ConnectedCity, to which they delegate the powers. They can also appoint a joint transport committee covering the area of several ConnectedCities.
The Act will not apply to large cities o metropolises, but as some of these are "natural" hub towns it will give the Secretary of State power to extend the Act by Order if requested.
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Trevor Noah Condemns Shooting of Daunte Wright, Says 'Police Don't Give a S—t' About Harming Black People
The Daily Show's Trevor Noah Reacts to Rayshard Brooks' Death in Emotional Monologue: 'When Is It Enough?'
Trevor Noah Condemns Jacob Blake Shooting: 'For Some People, Black Skin Is the Most Threatening Weapon of All'
An incredulous Trevor Noah was among Monday's late-night hosts who addressed the recent police shooting of Daunte Wright, an unarmed Black man who was killed during a traffic stop in Minnesota.
Tim Gannon, the police chief in Minneapolis suburb Brooklyn Center, told reporters on Monday that 20-year-old Wright had been pulled over for expired registration tags on his car, which led to the discovery that Wright had a warrant out for his arrest. As the cops attempted to detain Wright, the man got back into his car, and police officer Kim Potter shot him; Wright drove several blocks before crashing into another vehicle, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Monday's The Daily Show, Noah was most flabbergasted not by Wright's death, but by Gannon's explanation that Potter intended to use her Taser on Wright, but instead grabbed her gun.
"You have got to be f—king kidding me," Noah began. "A man was killed at a traffic stop because the police officer mixed up their gun and their Taser? Is that even supposed to be a legitimate excuse?"
He added that even though "tragic mistakes" do happen occasionally, "maybe if the police weren't so quick to draw any weapon, then maybe people wouldn't die because of a mix-up from Officer Urkel over here."
Noah was equally incensed by recently released body cam footage of an incident in Virginia, where Army lieutenant Caron Nazario — who is Black and Latino — was pepper-sprayed by police officers after getting pulled over for allegedly having no visible license plate. During the encounter, an officer told Nazario, "You're fixing to ride the lightning, son," and when Nazario said he was "honestly afraid to get out" of his vehicle, one of the cops responded, "Yeah, you should be."
"If you're surprised that a member of the military is having his rights abused, then you need to understand the police don't give a s—t," Noah continued. "They don't care if you're a member of the military, they don't care if you're a beloved member of the community, they don't care if you're recording them. S—t, they don't even care if they're recording themselves. And the reason they don't care is because they know they're going to get away with it. And until that changes, they're just going to keep not caring."
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» A Movie Review by Walter Albert: THE LADY (1925).
A Movie Review by Walter Albert: THE LADY (1925).
THE LADY. Norma Talmadge Film Corp., 1925. Norma Talmadge, Wallace MacDonald, Brandon Hurst, Alf Goulding, Doris Lloyd, Marc McDermott, Paulette Duval. Screenplay by Frances Marion. Director: Frank Borzage, director. Shown at Cinefest 28, Syracuse NY, March 2008.
Polly Pearl (Norma Talmadge) marries the dissolute son (Wallace MacDonald) of a British aristocrat. The father disinherits his son who gambles away what remains of his money in Monte Carlo and dies, leaving Polly with an infant son.
She is singing in a Marseilles dive when her father-in-law turns up with his lawyer and attempts to take custody of the child. Polly entrusts the child to a British couple (a curate and his wife) and then spends years looking for him. Their reunion leads to momentary tragedy but the possibility of an eventual happier resolution.
Norma Talmadge shines as the unfortunate Polly and the gifted director handles the unpromising materials with consummate skill, spinning cinematic gold out of straw.
May I confess that I've never seen a Norma Talmadge film? She only made 160 of them, all but two of them silents, like THE LADY. Is this one I should start with, if I can find a copy, or might I be better off with another?
I've not seen either of her sound films and have seen just a handful of her silents. There was a Talmadge DVD set issued within the last year (possibly by Kino, but I'm not certain of this) that included films of two of the Talmadge sisters, Constance and Norma. I've reviewed the films I've seen but since I have no index to my reviews I can't give you any more information or make a recommendation to you at this time. Maybe an index is a project I should do sooner rather than later.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I've written reviews for maybe 90% of the books I've read over the past 40 years, but it's still hit-or-miss which of them show up as I go hunting through my notes or old fanzines.
I'll check out the Talmadge DVD set you mentioned. Someone who was as popular as she was, even though for a relatively short period of time, ought not to be forgotten.
No contents listed on Amazon. Both sets released in June 2010.
Released by Kino in March. I may start with this one.


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The Meaning of Genocide and the Political Stakes of Naming
July 4, 2019 July 4, 2019 / Guest Authors
Following Ben Meiches's introductory post yesterday to our symposium on his new book The Politics of Annihilation, we welcome a first guest contribution from Jelena Subotic. Jelena is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, Atlanta. She is the author of two books: Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans (Cornell University Press, 2009) and Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, forthcoming, 2019). She is the author of more than twenty scholarly articles on memory politics, national identity, human rights, and the politics of the Western Balkans.
In his deeply thoughtful book, The Politics of Annihilation, Benjamin Meiches invites us to reconsider one of the fundamental concepts in the contemporary study of mass violence – the concept of genocide. He then asks us to separate the construction of the term genocide from its political usage. Meiches carefully traces the development of the concept of genocide, and in the process challenges the conventional narrative that situates the birth of the term squarely with the individual entrepreneurship of Raphael Lemkin in the mid-1940s. Instead, Meiches demonstrates, Lemkin built on a vast array of already existing scholarship in philosophy and international law. The concept of genocide – and Lemkin's understanding of it – was immediately contested both theoretically and politically and has remained an unsettled field of meaning, prone to politicization.
It is this political power of the concept of genocide that truly bothers Meiches and that forms the heart of the book. As The Politics of Annihilation persuasively demonstrates, the fluidity of the concept of genocide has allowed for pervasive international hypocrisy – where only some conflicts, in some countries, among some groups, in some time periods get to be understood and processed as genocide, while many other instances of mass atrocity, brutality, and political murder do not earn the same designation, leaving them outside political conversation but, much more important, also outside any meaningful political response.
Meiches is particularly concerned with the fact that the conceptual framework of genocide that focuses on mass killing rooted in ethno-religious identity ignores many other horrific instances of violence, including contemporary campaigns of mass atrocity, past colonial extermination campaigns, as well as ongoing displacement and eradication due to climate change. We have a concept, Meiches shows, that is so limited in its scope that it sets the bar for recognition and response so high that it prevents meaningful action. At its strongest, The Politics of Annihilation argues that the concept of genocide allows for more genocides to go on, unchecked, unnoticed, and with impunity. The implications of this argument, therefore, are not only academic; they are also firmly political.
This symposium comes at a time when the discussion about the language of mass violence is consuming the public discourse in the United States. With the introduction of a system of camps for Central American migrants set up by the Trump administration since 2018, and with the amassing evidence of horrendous conditions migrants, especially children, are subjected to in these spaces, there is a raging debate about whether we can call these camps concentration camps (which by the very definition of concentrating undesired people extrajudicially in indefinite detention they certainly are) or whether the use of the term is offensive as it minimizes and trivializes the unique history of Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Migrant camp at the US-Mexico border in Tijuana (November 2018)
It is here that the issue of language Meiches warns us about is directly and painfully obvious. The problem with the current debate about ongoing mass violence against migrants in the United States is that the debate has become one about language and not one about the violence. It is the political gatekeeping of the use of certain historical terms and the prohibition of analogizing from the past to today that is freezing political action. And, as Meiches documents so thoroughly in the book, this institutional gatekeeping when it comes to language use is itself a form of political action, one that perpetuates the system of violence that nominally it was set up to prevent.
But this issue of language policing – especially policing the language of mass violence – and its political implications is an issue of great concern well beyond our current moment of state violence in the United States. For example, the understanding of the Bosnian genocide as genocide continues to be the issue of extreme political potency, twenty-five years after the war ended. While the Bosniac victims of violence have always conceptualized their experience as one of victims of genocide, as they experienced a systematic attempt at annihilation specifically due to their religious and ethnic identity, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has determined that it was only in Srebrenica, in July 1995 that an act of genocide occurred when Bosnian Serbs troops and Serbian paramilitaries killed 8,000 Bosniac boys and men over the course of five days. According to the ICTY's ruling, the "other" violence that was committed in Bosnia since 1992 did not qualify for this designation.
This determination has extremely significant political consequences – in a political world where ethno-religious genocide is the "crime of crimes" and, as Meiches shows, other types of violence do not merit the same kind of attention and response – the fact that genocidal violence was unleashed on Bosniac civilians very early into the war, in the spring of 1992, has remained completely outside of the major narratives about the Bosnian genocide. In this case, it was not even a different kind of conflict, a different historical period, or a different group of victims. All that was different between the killing in Prijedor in 1992 and killing in Srebrenica in 1995 was the technology and method of murder.
But this stratification of violence – affixing different labels onto the same conflict, victims, and murderous ideology – matters enormously for the everyday politics in genocidal spaces, both during and after the violence. The fact that Srebrenica – and only Srebrenica – has been determined to be the "place of genocide" in Bosnia has created a particular type of post-genocide identity of the city, where Srebrenica has trouble rebounding and reintegrating in the aftermath of the mass atrocity. It has also created much resentment elsewhere in Bosnia, in cities and towns across the country where crimes are forgotten, memorials do not exist, and talk of reparations falls on deaf ears.
Srebrenica Potocari Memorial (2005)
Even further, the designation of genocide for some mass atrocities and not for others also allows for a very particular type of denial of responsibility. Genocide is such a high bar to meet that, as long as it exists in the conversation the responsibility for other, "lesser" mass crimes is also avoided. This is why the Prime Minister of Serbia can so routinely argue that genocide did not happen in Srebrenica and Serbian forces were not responsible – because by denying the "crime of crimes" she can also more easily deny all the other, "lower-grade" violence carried out by the state she now represents. The injustice of the violence, and the injustice of recognizing and elevating only some violence as "genocide," and other unspeakable horrors as not-quite, continues.
Benjamin Meiches has done us all a huge service by analytically exposing the deep conceptual and political problems inherent in the construction of "genocide." It is a deeply erudite, learned, and passionately argued case for deconstructing one of the most consequential concepts in the studies of mass violence. About time.
Genocide, History, Humanitarianism, War and Collective Violence
Bosnia, concentration camps, genealogy of genocide, Srebrenica
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UK Government supports wages of 1.73 million workers across wholesale and retail sector
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Since the launch of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), the UK Government has supported the wages of 1,736,800 jobs in the wholesale and retail sector.
The CJRS and SEISS were announced by the Chancellor, and are run by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), as part of a package of support measures for businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
Businesses have furloughed 1,609,800 jobs in wholesale and retail, up to 31st May, 2020, since the CJRS was launched on 20th April, 2020. This is to help UK employers who have been severely affected by coronavirus to retain their employees and protect the UK economy. An announcement was made on 12th May that the scheme will run until the end of October to continue the support for jobs and businesses as people return to work.
The SEISS was rolled out ahead of schedule in May and has financially supported 127,000 self-employed individuals in wholesale and retail who have been adversely affected by the coronavirus outbreak. On 29th May, 2020, the Chancellor announced an extension to this scheme. Those eligible to claim the SEISS grant will be able to claim a second and final grant in August of up to £6,750.
In total, for both schemes, a total of £3.707 billion has been paid out up to 31st May, 2020. Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: "The UK Government is doing everything we can to protect jobs and businesses across the UK during the crisis. Our unprecedented job retention and self-employment support schemes have supported the livelihoods of millions and will help ensure our recovery is as swift as possible."
Further guidance on both schemes is available at www.gov.uk


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The Repedea (in its upper course also: Coșeana) is a right tributary of the river Latorița in Romania. It discharges into the Latorița near Ciungetu. Its length is  and its basin size is .

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The Aquarum (tank), lights and base: Firstly, you need to consider where to put your tank, once it is full of water it will be very difficult to move. Your aquarium should be positioned near a mains power supply, away from draughts and direct sunlight to avoid the growth of algae, and out of reach of small children or pets. It is always better to use a stand that is made for the aquarium, in fact some manufacters will not guarantee the tank if you don't. However I do recommend you use a specially made aquarium stand or cabinet to hold the tank level or hairline cracks may occur. Use aquarium foam or polystyrene pads to cushion the tank if it does not have raised glass on the bottom and place your tank away from electrical equipment. Most tanks will come with a hood containing lights this is important in that you can create a natural day and night environment for your fish and live plants. Howver there are various options if not. I would also advise that you put your ighting on a timer, too much light can cause algae.
You can also add a background on your aquarium to further enhance its appearance.
There are other things that you will also need.
Heater: This is essential if you want to keep tropical fish, the size required depends on the size of your tank.
Thermometer: If you are keeping tropical fish you need a thermometer that is visible so that you can check that the temperature stays constant and doesn't fluctuate.
Aquarium Filter: Internal or external, this is a matter of choice and dependant on the size of the tank. It is a critical components of both freshwater and marine aquaria. Filters remove physical and soluble chemical waste products from tanks, simplifying maintenance. Filters are necessary to support life as tanks are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish. Fish, kept in tanks produce waste from excrement and respiration. Another source of waste is uneaten food or plants and fish which have died. These waste products collect in the tanks and contaminate the water. As the degree of contamination rises, the risk to the health of the aquaria increases and removal of the contamination becomes critical. Filtration is a common method used for maintenance of healthy aquaria.
Gravel/Sand (Substrate): Provides a natural environment for your fish and a good rooting base for live plants.
Plants: Live or artificial: they help to create a natural environment for your fish. Live plants also provide an important alternative food source for many types of fish.
This is Elodia one of the more common oxygenator plants.
I have noticed when browsing the internet that there is some doubt whether or not there are any underwater flowering plants for aquariums. Amongst other plants I have Anubias and these do have a white flower.


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We have all heard the adage "If it can be measured, it can be managed." So true.
It's the best way to accurately examine how your practice has performed in the past, understand where it is today and help predict – and control – what it could do by year end.
The concept of Big Data is not big news. We've all by now embraced the term to describe the sheer volume of information that accumulates through electronic record-keeping. Corporate America is investing heavily in digital transformation; many organizations are already skillfully analyzing their data and applying their findings to better understand their customers, attract new ones, influence consumer behaviour, and personalize their business relationships.
There is tremendous potential in the digital records of dental practices that – to date – remains largely untapped. This fact is one of the drivers of ABELDent's Practice Management By Objectives™: Our strategic methodology that guides dentists in turning their big data into smart data.
You may recall the invitation I extended last month in this space to attend a Digital Transformation seminar we co-hosted with Microsoft. The response was overwhelming… and so was some of the information presented.
Jaw-dropping numbers, to be sure. (I had never even heard of zettabytes before this seminar!) Lynne went on to discuss the aspiration of the health industry to transform today's "sick care" system by improving care outcomes, promoting population wellness and harnessing the data explosion.


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Q: how to get CurrentItem.duration without getting nan I was following A simple iOS view to play video that helps you to display an AVPlayer in a UIView. It was very helpful, but unfortunately in the VideoView (custom created) it didn't include currentItem?.duration
So, I tried adding it by myself this way:
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        let durationSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(duration!)
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But when I tried to print it in my UIViewController, I got: Nan
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            player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL)
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            if let playerLayer = self.playerLayer {
                layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
            }
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        }
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    func play() {
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    func pause() {
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     func getCurrentItemDuration() -> Double
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        let durationSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(duration!)
        return durationSeconds
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    @objc func reachTheEndOfTheVideo(_ notification: Notification) {
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I don't know how to fix this error so if anyone is familiar with this error please guide me to fix it. :)
Thank you for your time.

A: As you want to get he duration of the asset. So, try using :
CMTimeGetSeconds(player.currentItem!.asset.duration)

It'll give you the duration of the current playing item in seconds.

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Earl Tappan Stannard
December 9, 1882 - September 9, 1949
Earl Tappan Stannard, undated
Photo: Louie Cononelos, Rio Tinto
Earl Tappan Stannard was born on December 9th, 1882, in Chittenango, New York, a small town better known as the birth place of L. Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard of Oz. Stannard's technical brilliance and his ability as planner and strategist were well known. In his work for Kennecott Copper Company and Guggenex, Stannard would perform his own brand of wizardry with the recovery of copper.
Earl's family had comfortable means, and funds for his education were never in doubt. He prepared for a Yale education at Phillips Andover, leaving there in 1902 to enroll in Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Stannard chose Mining Engineering as his major and did well as a student. He received honors in mathematics in his freshman year and general honors in his junior year (in the second year of Sheffield's unusual 3 year curriculum). He repeated with general honors in his senior year. Stannard graduated with the class of 1905 and earned a graduate scholarship for his senior thesis on mine ore-crushing machinery. Further recognition of Stannard's collegiate accomplishments is suggested by his induction into the national scientific fraternity Sigma Xi and into Yale's Book and Snake society. Stannard's later interest in a paper trail in all aspects of mine management can perhaps be foreseen from his position as the chair of class statistics (Yale University, 1910). Unlike some of his Eli brothers Stannard left Yale and apparently did not look back. He missed his class Triennial dinner celebration in 1908 where a high point of the festivities seems to have been the loss of the beer wagon and its timely recovery by class biographer Bill Barber.
Shortly after his graduation in 1908, Stannard was named Milling Superintendent for the Federal Mining Company of Flat Rock, Missouri. Stannard stayed at Flat Rock until 1910 when he had the opportunity to trouble shoot the new mill erected at Braden, Chile for the El Teniente copper mine, an acquisition of Guggenex that, in 1915, would become a major asset of Kennecott Copper Corporation. In 1913, Stannard arrived in Kennecott, Alaska with general mandates to enlarge and update the existing 300 ton/day gravity mill and to develop other methods for recovering the ore.
As a day-to-day mine manager Earl Tappan Stannard left a few things to be desired. He was aloof, looked down on the miners and even some of his peers. In his years at the Kennecott Mine (1913-1920), some long-time Kennecott officers, like company secretary Carl Ulrich, found Stannard a bit hard to take, especially in comparison to his mentor Stephen Birch. Stannard did receive some popular acclaim as a baseball player on the Kennecott team, as baseball and the accompanying gambling were major Kennecott sports. In the July 4, 1913 game against McCarthy, Kennecott won largely on the strength of Stannard's hitting (Wesley E. Dunkle tapes).
In the long term, Stannard's technical brilliance prevailed. A special assignment was to recover the copper carbonate ore that formed as much as 50 percent of the ore in parts of the mine but was largely lost in the mill's gravity circuits. Stannard solved the copper carbonate problem with an ammonia leaching plant that was only one of three in the world at that time, all built about simultaneously: one at Kennecott, another in upper Michigan and the third in Africa. The principles involved in the ammonia plant were relatively simple, but the engineering was complex. Copper carbonates were dissolved in an aqueous ammonia solution, and then copper oxide was precipitated as the ammonia was boiled off to be recycled through another batch of carbonate ore. To recover the very fine-grained copper carbonates that fouled the circuit, Stannard sulfidized the copper carbonate with alkali sulfides that enabled the materials to be recovered by flotation, also a relatively new technique at the time. Altogether, Standard's additions allowed recovery of more than 95% of the copper in the ore. Stannard's rebuilt mill at Kennecott had a throughput of 1200 tons per day, but usually operated at about 1000 (see Douglass, 1954 and Hawley 2003).
Besides his work at Kennecott, Stannard also designed and constructed a flotation mill at the company's Beatson mine in Prince William Sound. In its early years Beatson ore was mined selectively to maintain a copper content of 4-8 percent. The ore body was large, larger than those at Kennecott, but of lower grade. Stannard proposed a mill large enough to process all the ore. The flotation plant successfully upgraded the pyrite rich massive sulfide ore from about 1.5 percent copper to 15 or somewhat more percent copper. Although the mill was capable of further enrichment, it balanced the copper grade with moderately high iron content necessary to flux the sulfur-poor Kennicott and Chitna Valley ores.
Stannard came into his own when he was moved out of Alaska and was given more executive responsibilities. As Stephen Birch's chosen successor, Stannard left Kennecott stronger than he found it. In 1920 Stannard was transferred to Seattle and in 1923 was named vice-president for operations of Kennecott Copper Company. At the same time Stannard was made president of Alaska Steamship Company and the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad. In 1933, Stannard became president of Kennecott Copper Corporation answering only to Birch, but essentially equal in rank to D. C. Jackling who ran the affiliated Utah Copper Company. At about this time, Stannard became active internationally, as part of an industry group studying the problem of global oversaturation of a depression- limited copper market (Time, Inc., April 1935). In addition to his position in Kennecott, Stannard served as a director to the J.P. Morgan and Johns Manville companies.
Stannard retained his position with the CR & NW Railway and Alaska Steam and managed a long term mine closure plan for the company's Alaska mines as their ore was depleted. Beatson closed as the developed copper ore was depleted in 1930. The Wrangell Mountanis Mines continued to operate, but shut down in 1932 when the copper price dropped below the cost of production. In 1935 every newspaper in Alaska headlined that the mines would be reopened (Time, Inc, June, 1935). The copper price had not increased substantially, but Stannard announced that the amounts of silver (and gold) in the ore were sufficient to allow reopening of the mines. The remaining ore in the mines was largely composed of the high grade chalcocite ores preserved in pillars, and the chalcocite could carry as much as 20 ounces of silver per ton.
Under the local control of mine superintendent W. A. Richelsen, the last of Kennecott's high grade ores were mined, and in early December 1938, Kennecott's Alaska mines closed.
After the 1938 mine closure, Stannard was in contact with representatives of the National Park Service about a possible future for the Kennecott area as a National Park. Stannard pledged road maintenance and preservation of some buildings that might be valuable to a future park.
In 1940, Stephen Birch died and Stannard took over Birch's role on the management committee. Stannard acted as Kennecott CEO from that time until his own death eight years later. As in World War I, the demand for copper seemed insatiable. Little Kennecott-Alaska was hardly missed as Kennecott's great porphyry mines in the western US and in Chile went back into full production. Kennecott, having played tag with Anaconda for years, now became the world's largest copper company.
In 1944, Stannard disposed of the last significant Kennecott-Alaska asset when the company sold Alaska Steamship Company to Seattle interests. In 1948, Stannard was due to retire. Essentially all senior managers of the original Kennecott Copper venture were also at retirement age, and the company had to look outside for someone to take Stannard's place. They found an excellent man in Arthur D. Storke, who had directed copper mines in Africa and molybdenum mines in Colorado. To guide exploration, the company picked Russell J. Parker.
Stannard, uncertain about the future of post WW II copper demand, had guided the company towards diversification, and Parker found a large titanium project in Quebec that might serve as the flagship of a diversified Kennecott (esp. see Navin, 1978).
Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 aircraft that was blown up by a bomb September 9th, 1949, the third in-flight bombing incident in history. Stannard, incoming Kennecott CEO Arthur Stoke, Vice Kennecott's Manager of Exploration Russell Parker, and 20 others were killed.
Photo Credit: Jacques Trempe Collection #2469
Arthur Storke, Stannard, and Russ Parker were all killed in one of the first airplane bomb incidents on their way to visit the titanium project in Quebec. It was found that Albert Guay, a French Canadian citizen from Quebec, had planted a bomb to kill his wife, also a passenger, for her $10,000 insurance policy. All 23 on board, 4 crew and 19 passengers, on a Canadian Pacific DC-3 (C-47) perished. The fatal crash was on September 9, 1949. Kennecott's loss that day was huge, and the company's management was decapitated. Arthur Storke was to be Stannard's successor to run the company. R. J. Parker was Vice President of Exploration for Kennecott Copper.
Only a few months before his death, Stannard and a very distinguished group of men and women, including Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Alfred P. Sloan Jr., had founded the National Fund for Medical Education, Inc. in response to a plea from the medical profession.
The Kennecott board picked Charles Cox from U.S. Steel to run the company. Cox proved an exceptional manager, but the company's direction was now his and not the Alaska-connected Kennecott that was managed since its inception by Stephen Birch or his proteégé Stannard.
A copper mining company that grossed $50 million a year in Stannard's early years, grossed $350 million annually at his death. When Stannard came to his sudden and unusual death, Kennecott was the world's largest copper mining company. Stannard was recognized with an honorary doctorate by the Michigan School of Mines at Houghton.
Written by Charles Hawley, October 26, 2008
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I found that a restaurant chain Red Robin has launched a special burger called "The Genisys Burger" featuring "Terminator Genisys" on June 15, 2015.
We called a restaurant to make sure they have the burger, and last night, we tried both The Genisys Burger and Blue Haze, a special T-800 cocktail, even though I rarely drink.
HP had a special feature and when I paced the tip of cursor on the burger, ingredients appeared.
When I placed the cursor on avocados, a cut and whole avocado appeared in a red square with the following line as if Terminator was calculating the item.
The Genisys Burger consists of a jalapeño-cornmeal bun, jalapeño aioli, fiery roasted jalapeños, Pepper Jack cheese, bacon, tomatoes, romaine lettuce and avocado.
I was afraid the aioli would have strong mayo flavor, so I asked to put it on the side.
It comes with fries, but I upgraded and substituted with Mac & Cheese.
We had a little hope that they'd actually put a wooden stick with the red eye of Terminator, but they sure did.
"I'll be back," on the back side.
Underneath the bun, there're 2 slices of tomato.
Then 3 bacon strips, avocado slices, a patty with melted cheese and shredded lettuce.
I didn't see any roasted jalapeño, so I got some from my husband's burger.
As you can see, the burger was quite heavy and tall.
The patty was cooked medium as I requested, and the buns were fluffy.
The top was covered with cornmeal, but I didn't taste any jalapeño in the buns.
The patty wasn't that juicy but not dried, so it's just ok.
Tomatoes and lettuce added refreshens, avocado was creamy, jalapeño that I got from my husband was spicy but had some sweetness as it's roasted, and bacon strips were very crispy, that I really like.
It's tasty as it was and I ate the whole burger though it's large.
Jalapeño aioli smelled like mayonnaise.
There's some diced jalapeño in the sauce, but it didn't help to reduce mayo taste and I didn't use this sauce.
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Cuba gave the world actors like Andy García and Ana de Armas, film directors like Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Roberto Monticello, singers like Celia Cruz and Gloria Estefan, baseball stars like Adeiny Hechavarría and José Fernández, and many other talented and remarkable people who left (or are leaving) their mark on this world. Artists are no exception. Armando Mariño, Carlos Estévez, Yoan Capote, and Roberto Fabelo are just some of the Cuban artists whose names are known to art connoisseurs worldwide. In this blog post, we want to draw your attention to another noteworthy name in the Cuban and Latin American art scene. Please meet Lilivet Peña Echemendía, a talented artist whose colorful original art won't leave you indifferent!
Colorful Original Art by Lilivet Peña Echemendía
Lilivet Peña Echemendía (b. 1984) is a medical doctor and self-taught artist from Camagüey, Cuba. While medicine is her main profession, Lilivet has always been passionate about art, developing her skills and talent as a painter. Throughout her artistic path, she has been awarded many prizes and honors, including the Cuban National Prize for Art Miniatures, the Finalist Certificate of the San Diego Show Contest, and the Mexican International Illustration Contest "Lunar Vision 2020," among others. Lilivet Peña Echemendía has also been featured at a number of solo and group shows in Cuba, Spain, and Italy. Her original works and limited edition prints are in many private collections worldwide.
Lilivet Peña Echemendía creates colorful original art with great personal introspection. Distinguished by their seemingly playful imagery, her paintings are deep in meaning, often questioning life and behavior. The artist also uses her work to express concerns for the environment and to challenge the viewers to step outside common assumptions and look at things in a new way.
Lilivet's art is charming and stirring. It inspires and motivates to achieve new heights. It is unique and original, and it is definitely worth exploring and buying.
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New contributions to the library are welcome, just a couple of guidelines:

 * Tabs for indentation, not spaces please.
 * Please ensure you're changing the individual files in /src, not the concatenated output in the Chart.js file in the root of the repo.
 * Please check that your code will pass jshint code standards, `gulp jshint` will run this for you.
 * Please keep pull requests concise, and document new functionality in the relevant .md file.
 * Consider whether your changes are useful for all users, or if creating a Chart.js extension would be more appropriate.
 * Please avoid committing in the build Chart.js & Chart.min.js file, as it causes conflicts when merging.

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Chart.js is designed to be modular. See http://www.chartjs.org/docs/#advanced-usage-writing-new-chart-types

All discussion of new chart types (horizontal bar charts, X-Y scatter plot, etc.) should be done in the Chart.js Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chartjs-user-discussion This will get the most exposure for getting people to help define requirements, complete programming and documentation of your vision.

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Do You Have Dusty Agreements?
Gonzo bankers can take Inspector Holmes' mantra to heart. With earnings and capital pressures abounding, it's surprising to see how much theory and how little data banks have applied to their third party vendor relationships. The vast landscape of service providers has changed drastically over the last several years. As a result of accelerated consolidation, many of the 800-pound gorillas now need to increase (or retain) market share to pay for their investments.
This could be good news in Gonzo land – if banks lay out a few strategies for working through their vendor agreements to maximize revenue and reduce some of our highest expense items.
Annual outlays in these seven key areas are likely to constitute a bank's second largest non-interest expense category after employee compensation. And these expenses are growing quickly as banks add new services such as online account creation and mobile banking to better support customers.
Too many banks have executed these major vendor agreements and simply tucked them in a drawer. With the shakeup in the vendor community and the continued industry "assistance" coming from Washington, it's time for banks to dig into this stack of agreements and begin to manage vendors and costs more proactively.
Any bank serious about 2010 earnings should conduct a review of all third party vendor agreements and develop a catalog containing vendor name, service, termination date, automatic renewal provisions, annual expense/revenue and other critical information. These days, allowing an agreement to auto renew without doing competitive pricing could mean needless expenses flowing out the door or missed revenue opportunities for years to come. In many cases, Cornerstone finds that agreements reviewed and negotiated holistically have much better cost savings opportunities with vendors.
With a clear inventory of major vendor contracts in hand, banks can begin to size their renegotiation opportunity. Unless a de facto decision has been made to replace an incumbent vendor, revisiting an existing contract should be done prior to exhaustive new vendor due diligence efforts. Bankers that have agreements with auto renewals need to understand what their vendors are going to offer for a contract extension. In today's heated vendor market, same terms, same price doesn't cut it, and no agreement should ever be permitted to auto renew without a formal contract review.
In addition, it typically makes sense for banks to compare their incumbent vendors' bids against competitive pricing options in the market. The thought of switching vendors is so painful that it wrongfully discourages many financial institutions from soliciting competitive pricing. Cornerstone suggests that competitive pricing reviews are key ingredients to healthy ongoing relationships with vendors and a clear obligation from a vendor management perspective.
Some vendors have invested heavily in acquisitions and now need to build up their business. They can't afford to lose what they have.
Some services are relatively easy to change. All conversions are not of the same level of difficulty, e.g., an EFT network can be moved on short notice with the change of a routing table.
Some services, such as Internet banking, bill pay and EFT processing, have steadily declined in price over the years. Those with older, longer term agreements have baked in prices that are above current market. Auto renewal locks in these high prices to the vendors' benefit.
Some services, such as debit/credit card branding and EFT network interchange, have been waging price wars. Almost every EFT debit card network has changed their interchange income tables in the last three months. Having the right one in place could mean the difference in obtaining millions of lost revenue.
Cornerstone finds banks today still lacking in the rigor they apply to analysis of vendor bids. Any bank working with its vendor to get a proposal for a new agreement should request a "pro forma" invoice that will simulate what the first monthly bill would be under the new agreement. It is not unreasonable to ask the vendor to walk through the invoice line by line until it has been explained to the bank's satisfaction. Later, after the agreement has been signed, the mock invoice can be compared against the first bill. Any discrepancies should result in a quick call to the vendor account rep. Sounds simple, but it amazing how rare this ongoing discipline can be in our industry.
Vendors are getting competitive out there. Don't let those once good agreements sit around and get stale.
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Great article Bob – Being in charge of vendor management at my company, I can vouch that it is one of the most overlooked and complex risk areas.
I had to make one comment though, as an avid Sherlock Holmes fan. Holmes never worked on the police force; he was an unofficial consultant and never held the title of Inspector.
Great article, every banker has been bitten at least once by an auto renewal contract and whether it cost them a little or a lot, it's a bite you never forget.
Every banker big or small should be embracing tech and automation as a great way to drive down costs and improve efficiency.


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Infinix Zero 4: Here's What You're Getting
Infinix is unveiling its latest flagship smartphone, the successor to the Zero 3 we had earlier in the year.
The Infinix Zero 3 combined both a premium design and a better camera than Infinix had ever put on any of its devices up to that point. The Zero 4 is set to continue that tradition and even take things a notch higher.
Jumia has the Infinix Zero 4 as one of its Black Friday star attractions and the e-commerce platform will exclusively have the device for the next two weeks before it hits the open market. For those who are willing to part with Kshs 18,500 to get Infinix's latest and greatest, here's what they will be getting:
1. Two models
Infinix Zero 4 is the name one can use to refer to the family of devices that Infinix is unveiling this month. Specifically, it also refers to one of the models. This is because there are actually two Infinix Zero 4s, the Zero 4 itself and a bigger sibling, the Zero 4 Plus, just like we anticipated.
As is always the case, the two do differ in several aspects like hardware specifications and the size but the overall design and software enhancements will remain the same.
While you can immediately head over to Jumia and place an order for the Infinix Zero at the above-stated price, you cannot really do that for the other model, the Zero 4 Plus. The device is not expected in the market until after another week and we do not have pricing details yet.
2. Metal design
The Infinix Zero 4 has an all-Aluminium body that is complemented on the front by the 2.5D glass.
3. New colour options
The Infinix Zero 4 comes in a variety of colours new to the Infinix brand. These include Filbert Brown, Barbie Pink, Silver Purple and Galaxy Blue.
The cameras on the Infinix Zero 4 are the standout feature. Just like in the Zero 3, Infinix is sticking with 20.7 megapixels for the main camera on the larger Zero 4 Plus and a 13-megapixel sensor on the front. The Zero 4 itself makes do with a 16-megapixel sensor at the back and an 8-megapixel shooter on the front.
The cameras on both devices benefit from 6-lens optical image stabilisation (OIS) and hybrid focus (a fusion of Laser-Assisted focus and Phase-Detection Auto-Focus.
For those who know their cameras and would appreciate an extensive manual shooting mode, that is now possible with Pro Mode version 2.1 which comes with the Infinix Zero 4. Metering modes, inspired by clock dials, are added on top of what has been there previously like ISO, white balance and the like.
Instead of the standard digital zoom, Infinix has opted for its own Sharper Zoom technology in order to produce high-quality images with up to 4x zoom.
The selfie cameras can take wide-angle selfies and stitch up more through the Pan0-Selfie feature which allows users to take wider selfies.
5. More Sound
The Infinix Zero 3 was never the best sounding device. Infinix aims to change that with the Zero 4 which gets a new power amplifier and a 3-way speaker system.
6. Smart functionality
The Infinix Zero 4 arrives running Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Infinix's own customizations in place as well. Some of the more notable ones which bring newer functions previously not available on Infinix devices include the ability to wake up the device using voice commands (a feature exclusive to the Zero 4 Plus), the ability to set up two Facebook and WhatsApp accounts on the same device in order to separate one's work and home setups as well as the ability to capture extended screenshots i.e. more than the screen one is on.
7. Fast fingerprint sensor
The Infinix Zero series finally boasts of a fingerprint sensor thanks to its inclusion in the Zero 4. It is located at the back and should be very fast as it takes only 0.4 seconds to unlock the device using it. It can also be used for other tasks like receiving calls, take photos or browse through the image gallery by swiping left and right on the fingerprint scanner. It can also be preset to quick start any application(s) the user desires.
8. Fast-charging
Infinix has had fast-charging on its devices for a while now. Dubbed X-charge, fast-charging is enabled and supported on the Infinix Zero 4 when using the bundled charger and USB cable. Talking about USB, the company has not made the jump to USB Type-C yet and users will be getting the all-too-familiar microUSB port for charging and data transfer.
9. Lots of options for accessories
These include a lens kit and a smart cover which will be available for purchase alongside the Infinix Zero 4.
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Michael Shayne Restoration Comparison
Silver Series #5, The Complete PRC Michael Shayne Mystery Collection makes its debut on November 12th.
Check out this restoration comparison which shows the work that went into making the films in this set look presentable for all to enjoy.
Locked away for decades, all five Michael Shayne films made at PRC Studios are making their DVD debut in this special collection from ClassicFlix!
Lloyd Nolan starred as Private Detective Michael Shayne in seven features made at 20th Century-Fox in the early 1940s. After the major studio dropped the series, Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) brought Brett Halliday's ace crime-solver over to "Poverty Row" in 1946 for these five fun, action-packed whodunnits starring Hugh Beaumont (Leave It to Beaver) as the famed fictional detective.
Whether you're a fan of Brett Halliday, B-mysteries or Hugh Beaumont, The Complete PRC Michael Shayne Mystery Collection delivers the goods with over five hours of crime-solving excitement that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Murder Is My Business (1946, 64 min.)
When a former hood and acquaintance of Michael Shayne is found dead alongside a wealthy client, the private eye looks to stay one step ahead of Chief Detective Pete Rafferty, who wants to implicate Shayne in the crime.
This clever mystery sets the pace well for the remainder of the series and co-stars Cheryl Walker in her first of three turns as the loyal and longing Phyllis Hamilton. Also featuring Ralph Dunn, Lyle Talbot, George Meeker and Virginia Christine.
Larceny in Her Heart (1946, 68 min.)
A desperate step-father pleads with Michael Shayne to find his missing step-daughter, and after clues start piling up, the detective goes undercover in a sanitarium in an attempt to solve the case.
Cheryl Walker is back again as "Phil" and Paul Bryar makes his first of three appearances as reporter and sidekick Tim Rourke. Also featuring Ralph Dunn, Douglas Fowley, Charles C. Wilson and Marie Harmon.
Blonde for a Day (1946, 66 min.)
Michael Shayne has relocated to San Francisco, but returns to Los Angeles when he learns that reporter Tim Rourke is near death after being shot for getting too close to solving three murders tied to a gambling syndicate which uses a blonde to do its dirty work.
Kathryn Adams (real-life Mrs. Hugh Beaumont at the time) played Phyllis Hamilton for the first and only time and retired from acting after this film. Also featuring Cy Kendall (as Inspector Rafferty), Paul Bryar, Charles C. Wilson and Frank Ferguson.
Three on a Ticket (1947, 62 min.)
A man drops dead in his office, a woman asks him to bump off her husband and two mugs jump and beat him unconscious. It's all in a day's work for Detective Michael Shayne who tries to piece together the mystery of what makes a baggage check ticket so valuable that it's worth committing murder.
Cheryl Walker and Ralph Dunn are back in their respective roles of "Phil" and Inspector Rafferty while Paul Bryar takes his third and final turn as Tim Rourke. Also featuring Louise Currie, Douglas Fowley and Gavin Gordon.
Too Many Winners (1947, 60 min.)
When too many winning tickets are claimed at Santa Rosita Race Track, everybody's target is Michael Shayne: the curvaceous tipster who won't take no for an answer, the shady operator who offers him dough to lay off and the criminal mastermind whose thugs tangle with the sly detective at every turn.
Hugh Beaumont's last appearance as Brett Halliday's wisecracking crime-solver co-stars Trudy Marshall as Phyllis Hamilton, and also features Ralph Dunn, Claire Carleton, John Hamilton, Grandon Rhodes, Ben Welden and Byron Foulger.
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