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Gender Quality Plan | Letter of Presentation
Gender Quality Plan Letter of Presentation
Gender Equality Plan (Horizion 2020 – R&I PEERS)
The University of Salerno is the coordinating beneficiary of the European Project R&I PEERS (Grant Agreement n. 788171) Piloting experiences for improving gender equality in research organisations, financed by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 (Call: Science with and for Society, H2020-SwafS-2017-1) and started in May 2018.
Besides the University of Salerno (from now on UNISA), supported by the Interdepartmental Centre for Gender Studies (from now on OGEPO), the Project involves the following 9 International Bodies and Research Institutes: Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute (Cyprus), National Research Council-CNR (Italy), Confidustria Salerno (Italy), Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Nanociencias (Spain), MIGAL Galilee Research Institute LTD (Israel), Digital Leadership Institute (Belgium), ZRC SAZU Institute of Culture and Memory Studies (Slovenia), National Agency for Scientific Research Promotion (Tunisia) and General Secretariat For Family Policy and Gender Equality (Greece).
The R&I PEERS main objective is the creation and implementation of 7 Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in the R&I related organisations of the Mediterranean area (including our university) [1], with the aim of ensuring, through a series of targeted actions defined in each GEP, a full participation of men and women both in the scientific research and in the organisational life of the research bodies involved in the Project. Each Gender Equality Plan has been formally adopted by the highest bodies of each research organisation. UNISA's GEP, outlined with the aim of guaranteeing equal opportunities for the enhancement of the well-being of our Community, after being approved by the OGEPO and the CUG in their respective Councils, both held on 29 October 2018, was officially approved by the Academic Senate and the Board of Directors on 6 and 7 March 2019.
The R&I PEERS project and the University of Salerno
For what concerns UNISA, the only public University of the entire R&I PEERS Consortium, the realisation of this Project marks the outcome of a set of gender-related initiatives that, for years, our university has been carrying on.
Gathering the experience gained by UNISA through the commitment of the OGEPO (since 2011) and the CUG (since 2014), the GEP, in line with the Guidelines for Positive Actions of the MIUR (2018), aims at integrating teaching and research in the perspective of Genders studies and Gender equality. Therefore, it is not a project meant exclusively for female researchers but a project for both female and male researchers to ensure equal opportunities, improve people's wellbeing and make the University of Salerno a model of best practices on the national and European level. Equal opportunities are not merely intended from a gender perspective but include diversity in its multiple implications.
UNISA's Gender Equality Plan
The GEP provides a set of strategic actions whose actual implementation, within a specific time frame (2019-2022), will be progressively monitored by indicators and will be subjected to external evaluation by the members of the International Advisory Board, appointed by the European Commission. It includes 5 (five) key areas, all equally important for achieving gender equality at UNISA. The key areas of intervention are:
gender perspective in research and curricula
This area includes 7 (seven) strategies: a) dissemination and analysis of a questionnaire for researchers and professors about the inclusion of the gender perspective in research with particular attention to STEM disciplines; b) workshops for students (Master's Degree), PhD students and researchers on how to include the gender perspective in their research projects; c) promotion of teaching courses on Gender studies as free choice courses among students of all disciplines; d) introduction of an interdisciplinary teaching on GE in the educational offering of all UNISA PhD courses; e) fundraising activities for financing grants for research projects and post-doc projects that include a gender dimension (also with the support of funds and resources outside the University); f) guidance sessions for high school students to promote the GE, the presence of women and jobs opportunities in the STEM area; g) activation of a Master and of Postgraduate courses on GE and diversity management.
This area will take into considerations the work done for the 2013-15 OGEPO project of "ConciliAzioni. Interventi di sostegno ai tempi di vita e di lavoro delle donne lavoratrici" (P.O.R. CAMPANIA FSE 2007.2013 ASSE II OCCUPABILITÀ - Obiettivo f). The area is structured around 6 strategies: a) the creation of ad hoc rooms/ nurseries, as dedicated spaces for breastfeeding, milk pumping, diaper changing; b) the design and implementation of a study area for children (6-14 years) of UNISA's students and employees; identification of suitable spaces for the creation of a playroom for children; c) strengthening the existing initiative Summer Camp for the children of UNISA employees, ensuring the canteen service and opening hours throughout the parents' working day; d) identification of flexible working methods more congenial to the conciliation of time: such as smart-working and teleworking; e) incentives aimed at supporting young scholars with children in tow during research periods abroad; f) services to promote the employees' well-being.
Improving the use of gender neutral language in the organisation's documents
The following area takes into consideration the guidelines published by the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) about the correct use of gender-neutral language. It includes two main strategies: a) analysis of national legislation and screening of a selection of institutional documents and communications from a gender perspective (for the introduction of the correct use of gender neutral language); b) revision of the place-names of the two Campuses of UNISA, Fisciano and Baronissi, and renaming of streets, squares and areas after those female figures who enriched our culture, our history and our heritage.
Raising awareness of gender equality
This key area is structured around 5 (five) strategies: a) questionnaire on equal opportunities for UNISA's personnel; b) the improvement of Gender Budgeting; c) promotion of the R&I PEERS website on UNISA's official site, OGEPO's website and social pages; d) strengthening and improving the existing initiatives on gender-based violence; e) involvement of students and PhD students' associations in the main strategic actions of the project.
Reducing gender gap in decision-making bodies
The following key area includes 3 strategies: a) the analysis of annual statistical indicators of the career paths of female and male researchers at the beginning of their careers; b) awareness-raising activities on the importance of the presence of women in leadership positions, in the decision-making bodies (Academic Senate and the Board of Directors) and in evaluation committees; c) support to female candidates in decision- making-bodies of the University, also with the request of the introduction of a quota system.
[1] The 7 organisations implementing the GEP are: Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute (Cyprus), Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Nanociencias (Spain), MIGAL Galilee Research Institute LTD (Israel), ZRC SAZU Institute of Culture and Memory Studies (Slovenia), National Agency for Scientific Research Promotion (Tunisia), General Secretariat For Family Policy and Gender Equality (Greece) and the University of Salerno (Italy).


Ronald Reagan is thought of as a Californian, a westerner, but the values that guided him all his life are straight out of the American heartland where he was born and spent the first twenty-one years of his life: northwestern Illinois. He was the product of four generations of rural settlers. The characteristics associated with him--self-reliance, self-confidence, modesty, optimism, loyalty, tolerance, determination, good humor, and reverence for God--all came from his teachers, clergy, role models, the circumstances of his youth, and especially his parents.
Through the experiences, challenges, and adventures of his childhood, youth, and young adulthood, Reagan's Roots traces the development of all these elements of his character so that the reader will come away with a better understanding of what made this man a successful and beloved president.
15 historic and 3 modern photographs. Three appendixes: Visiting Reagan's Illinois; Reagan at Eureka College; and Going Home: Reagan's Later Visits. Index.
Peter Hannaford has had a long career in American politics and public affairs. He is a former Reagan adviser and current senior consultant to APCO Worldwide, a public affairs/strategic communications firm based in Washington DC. In Mr. Reagan's 1976 presidential nomination campaign, Mr. Hannaford was Director of Issues and Research; in the 1980 campaign, he was Senior Communications Advisor to Mr. Reagan. He also served as Assistant to the Governor and Director of Public Affairs for then-Governor Reagan in Sacramento. He is the author of eleven books and numerous articles, columns, and essays.
"No one knows more about the history of Ronald Reagan than Peter Hannaford, and he has translated that knowledge into a fascinating book about the origins of our fortieth president. Ronald Reagan's success as a leader was based on the values and habits that he learned as a child and young man. Reagan's Roots explains how the foundation was laid for an outstanding life of patriotism and public service."
"As one of Ronald Reagan's favorite speechwriters and one of Ron and Nancy Reagan's favorite people, Peter Hannaford has a perspective and knowledge about this event-making man that few others possess. "With his newest book about the Gipper, Reagan's Roots, Peter proves that the body of Reagan scholarship is just being opened up on this utterly and endlessly fascinating man."
"A lively, fast-moving account of Reagan's formative years, with many new insights and stories about the places where Reagan grew up, the choices he made, and the talents he honed that took him from northern Illinois to the presidency."


The development of reliable single-photon sources is currently a priority, since such sources are an essential ingredient for a variety of quantum-enhanced technologies, ranging from quantum cryptography to quantum computing. In the quest for high-quality single photon sources, the development of techniques that may permit a full characterization of source properties is a highly important research area.
The usual criterion for determining single-photon source quality is the degree to which the second order correlation function g(2) evaluated at zero temporal delay approaches the ideal value of zero. It is very interesting to learn from M. Stevens et al. that the picture painted by a measurement of g(2) is at best a partial picture. Indeed, this paper shows that the multi-photon events including three or more photons play a significant role.
The authors present an analysis of a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer, as well as of a three-detector version of such an interferometer, showing that if the probability of progressively higher-order photon-number emission falls sufficiently fast, the histograms obtained from click detectors---i.e. those which are not photon-number resolving---approach well the ideal g(2) and g(3) functions. Armed with this analysis, the authors go on to present data for a "single" photon source based on a quantum dot embedded in a micro-cavity, both in the CW-pump and pulsed-pump regimes. The authors have exploited the power of modern time-tagging electronics in order to obtain comprehensive data for g(2) as a function of delay and of g(3) as a function of the two relevant delays.
While it is highly interesting to appreciate the full three-dimensional structure of the g(3) function, which exhibits a non-trivial structure in both the CW and pulsed regimes, the main conclusion of this paper relates to the inferred nature of the single-photon source. The authors propose a model for the source as an ideal single photon source showing perfect anti-bunching, incoherently mixed with a source characterized by Poissonian photon number statistics related to the cavity itself. The authors show that their simultaneous measurements of g(2) and g(3) are indeed consistent with this model. In order to further substantiate the validity of this model, a spectrally-resolved cross-correlation measurement was performed. It is shown that frequencies outside the quantum-dot emission peak are uncorrelated to frequencies at the peak. This lends credence to the model of the source as two independent emitters.
Most previous characterizations of single-photon sources have operated under the assumption that three-photon and higher photon number emission can be safely disregarded. On the one hand, this work shows clearly that the three-photon terms have an important impact on the source properties. On the other hand, this paper shows that measuring both two-photon and three-photon correlation functions leads to a better understanding of the nature of the source itself.


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Kamala Harris Features on Contact List of Hunter Biden's Joint Venture With Chinese Company – Report
by Sputnik News · October 22, 2020
Kamala Harris Features on Contact List of Hunter Biden's Joint Venture With Chinese Company – Report from Sputnik News
Joe Biden's brother Jim reportedly shared "key domestic contacts for the so-called 'phase one target projects'," which included a host of prominent Democrats, including vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and others.
WASHINGTON, October 22 (Sputnik) – US Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats appear on a list of key domestic contacts for a joint-venture involving presidential challenger Joe Biden's relatives and the now bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co., Fox News reported on Thursday.
The broadcaster said it exclusively obtained an email from Joe Biden's brother, Jim Biden, who shared "key domestic contacts for the so-called "phase one target projects."
In addition to Harris, the list also included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senators Amy Klobuchar, Dianne Feinstein and Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, among others, the report said.
The report acknowledged that it is unclear whether any of the listed Democrats were contacted about the joint venture's target projects, which reportedly also involved Joe Biden's son – Hunter.
The report said the email was sent from Jim to Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, Rob Walker and James Gilliar. Bobulinski was an institutional investor who was recruited by the Biden family to run their joint venture with CEFC China Energy Co.
"Once I realised that Hunter wanted to use the company as his personal piggy bank by just taking money out of it as soon as it came from the Chinese, I took steps to prevent that from happening," the report quoted Bobulinski as saying.
"I've seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business," Bobulinski added. "I've seen firsthand that that's not true, because it wasn't just Hunter's business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line."
Biden denies any involvement in a Chinese joint venture and the Biden campaign said it has released his tax forms that do not reflect any involvement with Chinese investments.
Last week, the New York Post published an article revealing two e-mails that Vadym Pozharskyi, a top official at Ukrainian energy company Burisma, sent to Hunter Biden. One of the emails reportedly thanks Hunter Biden for organising a meeting with his father, while in the second email asks Hunter how he could use his influence to support Burisma.
Joe Biden's office has denied meeting with Pozharskyi.
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Blowout 312K Jobs Report Gets Meager ABC 'World News Tonight' Attention
By Julia A. Seymour | January 8, 2019 9:50 AM EST
The December jobs report showing 312,000 jobs added was a "boom," a "surge," and a huge "surprise." While all three networks noticed the big economic story on Jan. 4, ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir didn't bother to spend much time telling people about it.
World News Tonight devoted just 22 seconds to the report that night. Anchor David Muir called it "encouraging news on the economy," that "helped the fluctuating stock market" rally by 746 points. But he didn't mention that the report crushed expectations — which had been around 176,000 new jobs according to CNBC. The final report was 136,000 more jobs than those expectations, not including the additional 58,000 jobs added from revisions to previous months.
Muir's delivery understated just how upbeat the report was and both of the show's competitors proved it by giving the good news more time. Much more time.
CBS Evening News spent two minutes, 21 seconds on the "strong" jobs news saying that the president "hailed" it in a press conference and delivering a story by reporter Dean Reynolds showing what the "hiring binge" meant for real American companies and workers. That's nearly seven times more coverage than ABC gave the report.
Reynolds interviewed a man who was offered a job by Graycor construction company six months before finishing his degree in engineering. He also spoke with the head of Graycor who said the company was accelerating hiring.
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt also aired a story on the jobs "boom" from correspondent Tom Costello that lasted 1 minute 34 seconds (or 4 times as much as ABC's World News Tonight). Costello noted that the job gains were "far more than expected" and came from many sectors. He said the "numbers lit a fire on Wall Street" that day sending the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ up 3 percent or more.
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Julia A. Seymour is the Assistant Managing Editor for the MRC's Business and Media Institute.


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Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Poetry Editor
KIMBERLY GLANZMAN (she/her) earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Kentucky. Her work has appeared in publications such as Puerto del Sol, Harpur Palate, perhappened, Santa Clara Review, Electric Lit, South Dakota Review, Sky Island Journal, Stonecoast Review, and Schuykill Valley Journal, among others. She was a finalist for the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. Her first micro-chapbook, my mother as a lighthouse, my father as the sea, was published by Ghost City Press in 2021. Previously, she served as the Managing Editor for the University of Kentucky's literary magazine, New Limestone. You can check out her work on her (probably outdated) website.
KAYLEN ROSE (she/her) earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky. She also holds degrees in the humanities and visual art from the Pacifica Graduate Institute and Rice University. These days, her efforts are focused on health, spiritual practice, and writing creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Watershed Review, Gnashing Teeth, and Meatyard [Untitled]. She previously served as the Art & Web Editor for New Limestone Review.
Associate Fiction Editor
JAY SAPINSKI (Issue 07 – present) (they/them) is a reader and writer from the Chicagoland area. They are currently an undergraduate student at George Mason University pursuing a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing. They are a part of Volition, George Mason University's undergraduate literary magazine. Jay writes in all genres of creative writing, but they specialize in fiction. As of now, they are working on pieces exploring love and death.
FRANKIE MARTINEZ (Issue 14 – present) (she/her) is a writer with an MFA in Fiction from Cal State Long Beach. Her work has been featured in 3 Moon Magazine, Poetically Magazine, and The Winnow, and she's been part of the editorial teams at RipRap Literary Journal, Sundog Lit, and 3 Moon Magazine. She is currently producing Stories Upon Stories, a short story podcast, writing book reviews for Southern Review of Books and Soapberry Review, and working on a slice-of-life column for The Daily Drunk Mag. Find out more at frankiemilktea.carrd.co
AMANDA EIDEN (Issue 14 – present) (she/her) is a writer and artist from rural Minnesota. She is working to get her MFA in creative writing at Concordia University, St. Paul. She holds a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato in which she chose to study Psychology, Sociology, English, and Creative Writing. So far, her work has appeared in the Mystery Tribune. Amanda mostly writes horror or thriller fiction pieces but enjoys reading anything fictional. When she's not writing or drawing, she loves to spend time outdoors watching birds and playing with her cats
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LISA FABISH (Issue 07-present) (she/her) is a freelance writer and an invited speaker, panelist, and workshop leader for community-based writing programs. She co-founded both YaleWomen Writers and Writing Outside the Lines, and her work appears in Epoch Literary Review, miniskirt magazine, and elsewhere. Lisa loves reading and writing about love, and is gloriously smitten with her girlfriend and two cats. Twitter: @lisafabishwrite | lisafabish.com
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NATALIE MARINO is a poet and physician. Her work appears in Atlas and Alice, Hobart, Isele Magazine, Pleiades, Rust + Moth, The Shore, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Memories of Stars, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (June 2023). She lives in California.
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Anti-Corporate, Anti-Capitalist Demonstrators Protest Bush Renomination
In fact, from the moment that more than 500,000 people stepped off at Seventh Avenue and West 15th Street on Sunday afternoon through the arrest of the last sixteen anarcho-kids at 30th Street and Eighth Avenue shortly after midnight on Friday, September 3, the anti-Bush, anti-war, anti-corporate, and anti-capitalist demonstrators who came together for more than four days to express their displeasure with the direction the world is heading cemented a bond that had been forming since before the infamous 1999 demonstrations in Seattle. In and about lower Manhattan all day and night last week, tens of thousands roamed with purpose, entirely sincere, and willing to prove it. Take Father Simon Harak, Jesuit priest and anti-militarism coordinator with the War Resisters League. As 4 p.m. approached on August 31, designated a day of direct action by many groups involved in the week's events, members of the War Resisters League, the School of the Americas Watch, the Latin American Solidarity Movement, and others lined-up two-by-two in front of Ground Zero, prepared to take an unpermitted march as close to Madison Square Garden as the police would let them. Many intended to participate in a "die-in" to protest U.S. military policy, at Madison Square Garden if possible, but, more likely, when the police officers decided the march had proceeded long enough. And Harak was ready to make a physical stand against war profiteering as well. "There used to be a war, and some people profited off of them," said Harak, moments before the march was to begin. "Now, especially under the Bush administration, these same people are making war for profit. What they've done in effect is commandeered our military to take over an entire nation. The economic cost is huge, and the human cost astounding. By staging a die-in, what we want to do is bring the idea of the human cost as close to the convention as possible." Harak is a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness and has been a priest for 24 years. Currently he serves the St. Vincent Parish in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on the weekends and works with peace activists during the week, he said.
Unfortunately, the march from Ground Zero to Madison Square Garden didn't go quite as expected. Shortly after a police commander, who remains unidentified, announced to the assembled demonstrators that, as long as they stayed on the sidewalk, walked two-by-two, crossed with the lights, and didn't block pedestrian or automobile traffic, there would be no problem, the group began crossing Church Street and headed up Fulton, toward a line of police who had closed off Fulton to traffic.
But, just as the sidewalk on Fulton began filling up, officers moved to the front and halted the march's progress, forcing several people who were expecting to step onto the sidewalk before the Church Street light changed to be momentarily stranded in the street, thereby blocking traffic and giving the NYPD "causes belie." What proceeded from there was incredible as several men and women were lined up on their knees and handcuffed. About 200 people on Fulton were surrounded by orange netting. Reporters were told not to move or they were "fair game," and the police proceeded to arrest the whole crew before the march had even had a chance to start.
The arrests didn't halt the protest from going forward, though, as about 220 people opted to march along the sidewalk up Church Street, toward the Garden via Washington Square Park. They were a quiet, solemn crew, who nevertheless managed to snake their way to Broadway and 28th Street, where 54 members of the group left the line to perform a die-in after dozens of police on bikes, cars, and vans halted the procession.
Eric LeCompte, SOAWatch events and outreach coordinator, estimated the Ground Zero crowd at 2,000 and said the decision to break away and march despite the arrests and heavy police presence was heartening. "I really feel that the action turned out well," LeCompte said as police attempted to close off the intersection where the 54 "dead" marchers lay. "It was terrible the way this started, with the police illegally arresting more than 200 people. But we intended, and did, let the Bush administration know what its foreign policy is doing to the world." Other events throughout the week followed a similar path, with police promptly moving to shut down entire blocks as protest sprang up, and demonstrators cropping up elsewhere. Sunday, August 30, is a perfect case in point. Loosely affiliated groups participated in an event known as 'Mousebloc," a series of confrontations aimed at RNC delegates and their hangers-on attending dinner and performances near Times Square, the heart of the city's theater district. Police, as if foreshadowing how they would handle the A31 day of direct action, moved in quickly and shut down streets, intersections, and corners each time a group of protesters moved to block an entrance, occupy a corner, or confront the Republican revelers.
Mounted police rode at a small crowd of about 100 gathered on the island in the Square, which caused a small splinter group of a dozen or so to run off in the direction of the Marriott Hotel. Officers on foot pursued them, blockaded the hotel entrance, and closed down the sidewalk to everyone, even credentialed reporters.
Around the corner a group calling themselves Queer Fist held a "kiss-in,' in which couples walked slowly along the sidewalk, stopping to kiss soulfully often enough that more than thirty police officers corralled the participants at the corner of 47th and Seventh and arrested them en masse, utilizing the now-familiar orange netting and metal barricades.
Small demonstrations kept popping up at and around Times Square throughout the evening. Police obliged, shutting down sections of the street, rounding up demonstrators and, at times, very few times mind you, getting rough.
One of those instances involved a group called "Food Kitchen," which brings food to demonstrations across the country. Several members were wondering outside the Palace Theater, where an angry confrontation between demonstrators and presumed RNC attendees leaving the musical Aida broke out, carrying trays of food when several officers moved in, grabbed one, identified by three other members as Mark Randall, knocked his tray of food to the ground and pulled him toward a waiting paddy wagon. As of press time, Alt Press has been unable to discern the whereabouts of Randall.
By the time that Tuesday rolled around, "Mousebloc" seemed a dry run for the protesters and police as lower Manhattan between the Garden and Union Square Park become the scene of untold protests. Marches broke out, seemingly at random. Protesters played cat-and-mouse with the police, allowing them to pursue a group only so long as it took to find a block which hadn't been shut down and then promptly stop, at times lying in the street until the officers had closed the area off from cars, pedestrians, and media alike. The official arrest count for the evening is more than 1,100, a number that includes many legal observers from both the National Lawyers Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union, reporters, and folks going about their daily business. Both the NLG and the ACLU are considering filing a class action civil lawsuit against the city and its police force for illegal and "pre-emptive" arrests that took place that night and throughout the week.
Other, calmer activities took place all week, including a tent city called "Bushville" in the blasted wasteland of Bedford-Stuyvesant, an American Friends Service Committee memorial for the fallen (military and civilian) in Iraq, a "Fox Shut-Up-a-thon," a march on the mass media, rallies throughout the day at Union Square (rallies that often resembled activist bazaars), the last of which culminated in a huge, un-permitted march to the Garden during Bush's acceptance speech, a labor rally attended by tens of thousands, and many similar, largely un-remarked upon events. All of which begs the question why? Why were sustained demonstrations against the sitting leader of this nation largely ignored by the mainstream, and most so-called alternative, media? If the government of another nation, say Iran, or even a democratic nation such as Mexico, faced half the numbers and half the actions that this one did, our daily press and cable news channels would be all over the scene. They'd pick "leaders" out of the crowd, ask them how horrible their government is, release them and pontificate for days on the few sentences anyone paid attention to. Not here, my friends. Instead, as a workplace colleague, Margaret Galambos, said to me the other day, upon returning from the U.S. Open in New York, "there weren't that many people, were there? I didn't see much in the papers or on TV."
And that, not Gitlin's paranoia or Taibbi's prodding, is the problem that the active left faces today. By Brendan Coyne
Despite dire predictions from the likes of Nation columnist Eric Alterman, Greenpeace USA director John Passacantando, and former sixties radical-turned-pundit Todd Gitlin, the demonstrations against the Republican National Convention in New York City last week failed to produce a Chicago '68 moment where middle America decided the left had gone too far. And contrary to the humorously vacuous Matt Taibbi's predictable rant in the most recent issue of New York Press (and, one can only assume, soon to appear in the Beast) about how pointless protests are, the record crowds and record arrests attest to something much deeper than a feel-good response to an inherently visceral dislike of Bush and his minions.


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The Christmas Music Top Ten Earners
Who wants a white Christmas when you can "make it rain"! A run down of the top Christmas music money men
It used to be the pop act dream ticket. Write a Christmas tune and you will have your pension plan sorted out. It was such a well known trope that Nick Hornby wrote a character in "About a Boy" who lived of the proceeds of his father's Christmas one hit wonder. In an attempt to answer the question whether it was possible to live a life of voluntary redundancy through the earnings of a Christmas song, financial services company Holborn Assets provide a handy top ten run down of the biggest Christmas song earners.
10: East 17 - Stay Another Day - £97,000 pa
There is a debate about whether this is even a Christmas song but it became a number one over Christmas 1994 and writer Tony Mortimer collects £ 97,000 annually from the royalties. It was understood to be a break up song but Mortimer revealed it was actually about his brother's suicide
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Tony Mortimer released this version with the Waltham Forest Youth Choir in December 2019 to raise money for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) a leading charity on the issue of suicide and run an anonymous helpline and webchat.
Christmas Song World Cup performance
9. Cliff Richard - Mistletoe and Wine - £100,000 pa
A 1988 number one and part of an era that felt like Christmas belonged to Cliff. It has recently been voted the most hated Christmas song of all time which does not prevent it from collecting hefty rewards for the writer and performer of the track. The story behind the track is fascinating. Originally written for a musical called "Scraps" in 1976 intended as a socialist criticism of the middle class and a lack of empathy for the poor. Cliff took the socialism out and putting religion in and transformed it into a Christmas winner
8. The Pretenders - 2000 miles - £102,000 pa
Another mournful ballad, originally written about the death of the band's original guitarist James Honeyman-Scott. It only reached a modest number 15 in December 1983 but the tune features on most Christmas compilations and has gone on to be an evergreen popular Christmas tune even though it was never a hit.
7. Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry - £120,000 pa
This song was originally released in 1980 and reached number 3 being beaten by two re-released Lennon songs following his murder. Jona Lewie never intended it to be Christmas song but a reference to Christmas in one line and some warm brass arrangements it became considered a Christmas tune. He says the song sold between 3 and 4 million copies and Jona says he never needed a proper job because of it. The one song accounts for 50% of his lifetime earnings.
6. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time - £260,000 pa
Another Christmas offering that recently got banned from a international coffee shop playlist. McCartney performed all parts and played all instruments in the song and therefore all performance royalties as well as the writing royalties go directly to him. It has taken on a successful second revenue stream as it has been covered by many well established artists. It is believed to have earned McCartney £12 million!
5. Wham! - Last Christmas - £300,000pa
Written and produced by the late George Michael this Christmas stonker never made it to number one in 1984! The hit topped out at number two in the UK but topped other charts across Europe. All royalties were donated to the Ethiopian famine charity that year. The tune has been a constant favourite ever since and been regularly covered as well
4. Bing Crosby - White Christmas - £328,000 pa
Written by Irving Berlin in 1942 for the film of the same name it is the best selling Christmas song of all time and the world's best selling single with sales in excess of 50 million. A regular classic that gets constantly reinterpreted and covered by numerous artists.
3. Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is You - £376,000 pa
East 17's Stay Another Day pipped Mariah to the top spot in the UK in 1994 but she did triumph in several European countries. It has sold 16 milion copies since and is considered a modern Christmas classic. Carey co wrote it with Walter Afansieff in an astounding 15mins and originally was not convinced it was worthy of recording. The payback for 15 minutes work is breathtaking!!
2. The Pogues feat. Kirsty McColl - Fairy Tale of New York - £400,000 pa
Declared Britain's favourite Christmas song in 1992 and has been in the UK top twenty fifteen times since release in 1987. Considered an anti Christmas song by many it tells the story of a couple deep in vitriolic arguments and the lyrics are a series of exchanged insults. Jem Finer and Shane McGowan have earned an impressive annual wage for their efforts.
1. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody - £500,000 pa
Wolverhampton 70's glam outfit Slade take the top spot. Written by Nodder Holder and his bass player Jim Lea it is the UK's highest earning Christmas tune since taking number one spot in 1973. The song describes a family Christmas day and tried to bring a note of hope and joy in a time of social unrest and uncertainty.
Nodder Holder has obviously been asked about the financial success of the song and he is quoted as saying "it was never designed to be ....[a pension plan]...but it has taken on a life of its own"
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Eugenio Fuentes (born 1958 in Montehermoso, Cáceres),
is an acclaimed Spanish novelist. Four of his novels have been translated into English, the crime novels The Depths of the Forest, The Blood of the Angels, The Pianist's Hands and At Close Quarters all published by Arcadia.

Bibliography

Novels
Las batallas de Breda (1990)
El nacimiento de Cupido (Premio Internacional de novela de Ciudad de San Fernando Luis Berenguer, 1993)
Tantas mentiras (Premio de Novela Extremadura, 1997)
El interior del bosque (1999); published in English as The depths of the forest
La sangre de los angeles (2001); published in English as The blood of the angels
Las manos del pianista (2003); published in English as The pianist's hands
Venas de nieve (2005)
Cuerpo a cuerpo (2007); published in English as At Close Quarters
Contrarreloj (2009)

Short stories
Vías muertas (1997).

External links
English Publisher's author page
Spanish publisher's author page, with a picture of the author

1958 births
Living people
People from Vegas del Alagón
Spanish novelists
Spanish male novelists
Spanish crime fiction writers

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Twila Reovan a record-setter for Great Falls High track
Grady Higgins
In her first three years at Great Falls High, Twila Reovan spent her springs on the softball diamond.
This season, the senior decided to shift gears and try her hand at track and field for the Bison.
You certainly won't find GFH head coach Bill Polk complaining.
"She was a great softball player and she's a tremendous track athlete," Polk said. "She gets it done in the classroom as well. She's a tremendous person and just excels in everything she does."
Reovan's contributions were immediate this spring for the Bison, surpassing the Class AA state-meet qualifying mark in the triple jump in her first varsity meet in mid-April at 34-06.5.
The girls' Athlete of the Week continued to build off that measurement, snapping a 21-year-old school record set by Julia Handwerk in 1997 with leap of 36-feet at the Big Sky Triangular on May 3.
Reovan broke her own record on Tuesday at Memorial Stadium as she topped the podium in the triple at the Great Falls City Meet against C.M. Russell High, earning the top mark in the history of the crosstown showdown at 36-06.5.
Reovan is currently ranked No. 1 in the Eastern AA in the triple jump and fourth overall in the state.
"She's quickly elevated herself into that team-leader role with the girls," Polk said. "She's very soft-spoken but she's extremely dynamic when she's on the track. She has a little bit of middle-school experience but nothing in the triple jump. She's just so strong, so powerful and athletic that she picked it up pretty quickly."
Reovan has the eighth-best mark in the long jump (16-04) in the conference and is ninth in the 100-meter dash. Polk said Reovan is in good position to earn more state-qualifying marks at the Eastern AA Divisional Meet next Friday in Butte.
"We just don't know what ceiling she has because she hasn't done it (until this year)," Polk said. "She just continues to get better every time she gets out on the track."
Also nominated for their fine performances this week were Andrea Hale of Poplar and Annie Toon of Great Falls High. All those nominated for Prep Athlete of the Week are invited to the Tribune's Northcentral Montana Sports Awards Banquet on May 21 at the Best Western Plus Heritage Inn and will receive free tickets.
Athletes are encouraged to email sportsawards@greatfallstribune.com to reserve their tickets as soon as possible. Additional tickets can also be purchased for $25 here. Former University of Montana star and NFL running back Chase Reynolds will be the featured speaker.


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UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Keith Fraser (Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Twitter: @MrKeithFraser
"Sadly Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East where Israeli Arabs are the only ones who live in a secular free society."
Alan Love (Lagan Valley)
Twitter: @AlanLove1
"I stress that any views I give on this subject are my own and not necessarily those of UKIP.
Personally, I don't agree with recognising the Palestinian State. The Palestinian people have been kept at arms length for decades by neighbouring states such as Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. The Palestinian refugee crisis dates back to 1948 and before. When you consider the enormous refugee situation in Europe at that time, which became a thing of the past within a couple of decades, it points to total intransigence by neighbouring states (other than Israel).
Both parts of Palestine are governed by groups to whom human rights are a foreign concept. Couple that with their policies hinging solely on hatred of Israel and you will see that a Palestinian State would rapidly become a rogue state.
I do not agree that the UK should stop trading with settlements in the West Bank. The overriding reasons for opposition to such settlements are those of so-called racial purity and are sectarian and racially prejudiced in motivation. Often industries in the settlements provide the only secure and fair employment to Palestinians in the area.
Personally, I think 143 is a ridiculously small number of refugees from the Syrian conflict to settle in the UK. I suspect the Government finds these people, and those like them, an easy target to show they are serious about controlling immigration. Until the UK leaves the EU and regains control of its borders we will be forced to accept unacceptably large numbers economic migrants from Europe and be cut off from the rest of the world. That means that genuine refugees will get a raw deal.
I agree that human rights needs to be a major element of our foreign policy.
I don't think we have a coherent Middle East policy. I am very uneasy as to the consequences of our backing off from supporting the only successful secular democracy in the region, Israel."
Matthew Brown (South West Wiltshire)
Twitter: @MattBrownUKIP
"To be honest, my priorities are:
1. SW Wiltshire
2. Great Britain
3. The rest of the world.
The situation in the Middle East is awful, as it is in Afghanistan, Ukraine, etc. As you know, UKIP is a challenger party, and we don't pretend to have solutions to these problems. The problems are - by their very nature - ancient, tribal and intractable.
I am in favour of putting party politics aside for this sort of challenge, and using our best minds to address the problem. I don't think that this would necessarily involve a role for Tony Blair.
This may not be the answer you were looking for, but for me to offer anything else would be dishonest."
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More Scottish students than ever in Scotland's universities
A record 183,025 studied at Scottish universities in 2021-22.
A record number of Scottish domiciled students have enrolled at the country's universities.
The latest Higher Education Student Statistics show the number of Scottish domiciled students studying at Scotland's universities rose from 180,170 in 2020-21 to 183,025 in 2021-22.
There was also a record number of full-time Scottish domiciled first degree entrants recorded, with 5,595 Scots from Scotland's most deprived areas entering university. This is an 41% increase since the establishment of the Commission on Widening Access.
Scottish universities also saw a record number of students qualifying in 2021-22, increasing by over 13% - from 82,850 in 2020-21 to 93,775 a year later.
Higher and Further Education Minister Jamie Hepburn said:
"It is hugely encouraging to see a record number of Scottish domiciled students taking advantage of the world-class universities on our doorstep. These figures demonstrate the continued strength of our university sector.
"We continue to make progress to widen access, with a record number of students from Scotland's most deprived communities securing a place at university.
"We are committed to the principle that access to education should be based on the ability to learn. Every child growing up in Scotland should have an equal chance of attending university, regardless of their background and circumstances.
"The sharp drop in EU students coming to Scotland's universities is bitterly disappointing – an inevitable consequence of the UK Government's hugely damaging Brexit.
"The Scottish Government has invested record amounts in student support over recent years, and we will keep working with universities to ensure this funding continues to pay dividends."
The Higher Education Student Statistics 2021-22 show:
A record number of students enrolled at Scottish HEIs in 2021-22: an increase from last year of 6.5% (+18,355) to 301,230 and a 30.9% increase since 2006-07.
Scottish domiciled 183,025 (+1.6%, +2,855 since 2020-21)
rUK domiciled 35,730 (+3.5%, +1,210 since 2020-21)
Non-EU domiciled 65,300 (+37.1%, +17,670 since 2020-21)
EU domiciled 17,140 (-16.6%, -3,410 since 2020-21)
There was also a record 33,880 Scottish domiciled full-time first degree entrants, an increase of 595 from 2020-21.
Maintaining the Momentum Towards Fair Access: annual report 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)


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1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass
Oldsmobile Gallery Specifications Recalls Valuation
Cutlass (1973 - 1977)
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1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Price Range: $4,355 - $5,270
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1974 Cutlass S
1982 Renault (1,491,853) Chevrolet (1,297,357) Toyota (1,068,321) 789,637
1981 Chevrolet (1,673,093) Renault (1,295,713) Toyota (1,068,321) 940,655
1980 Chevrolet (2,288,745) Renault (1,492,339) Ford (1,162,275) 910,306
1979 Chevrolet (2,284,749) Ford (1,835,937) Renault (1,405,330) 1,068,155
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1973 Chevrolet (2,579,509) Ford (2,349,815) Fiat (1,390,251) 922,771
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KNPR's State of Nevada
Nevada Marijuana Advocates Tell Feds: Hands Off Our Legal Cannabis
By Doug Puppel
Published January 8, 2018 at 7:08 PM PST
Brent Holmes
Dr. Nick Spirtos addresses a news conference at the Apothecary Shoppe marijuana dispensary, which he co-owns.
Nevada elected officials stood amid glass-shelved displays of marijuana last week to tell the federal government to keep its hands off the state's legal cannabis industry.
Rep. Dina Titus and state Sens. Tick Segerblom and Aaron Ford were at the Apothecary Shoppe marijuana dispensary in Las Vegas, responding to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' removal of Obama-era protections for marijuana operations in states, like Nevada, where it is legal.
The action "undermines Nevada's $622 million industry, threatens nearly $1 billion in new investments, and jeopardizes thousands of new jobs and more than $60 million in tax revenue for the state," Titus said.
Dr. Nick Spirtos, an expert in gynecologic oncology and co-owner of the dispensary, also spoke. He said the government should be addressing the opioid epidemic instead of going after the marijuana industry.
Spirtos echoed that statement when he talked to KNPR's State of Nevada.
"Instead of looking at a highly regulated industry such as the one that was constructed in Nevada, perhaps the attention and federal dollars should be better spent on the importation and manufacture of illegal and illicit opiates as well as the illegal and illicit market of marijuana," he said.
Both recreational and medicinal marijuana is available in Nevada, where voters twice approved statewide marijuana legalization measures. The drug remains illegal under federal law.
Spirtos said while there are concerns that the federal government could crack down on the industry, pursuing legalized marijuana is worth it because of the impact the drug could have on pain management.
"We are looking to replace opiates with a cannabis product," he said, "We've successfully in 20 out of 22 patients reduced their opioid intake by greater than 50 percent."
And Spirtos said unlike opioids, there has not been one documented case of someone dying from a marijuana overdose.
Besides the impact on his efforts to find a better way to treat pain, Spirtos has a financial stake in recreational marijuana.
He said the profit margins on marijuana is very slim because of the overhead to set up a dispensary and the taxes that have to be paid.
Since no one is sure what the federal government is going to do in the wake of Attorney General Session's announcement and no one is entirely sure what lawmakers could do to stop a crackdown, Spirtos said they're taking a wait-and-see approach.
"We're going to continue to conduct business in a very professional way with care being given to our medical patients as well as those in the retail side and hopefully by demonstrating the legitimacy of this business that the federal government will realize that this is a business that they should be paying attention to, taxing it and giving us tax relief if you will and move with the spirit that is crossing this country," Spirtos said.
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It was so hot yesterday that I ended up not taking a load over to the new place last night. Trying to make up for it by taking stuff over now, and hopefully I'll have enough energy tonight after gaming to take over another partial load, putting me back on track. I think I'm okay, though, the closet, bathroom, books and videos, most of the kitchen stuff and most of the electronics are over, so after this I've got part of the pantry left to move, the rest of the clothes, my stacked baskets and a few boxes of assorted crap and that's it except for the big items that Drew is going to help me move Sunday, like the couch and futon frame and desk, if I don't end up trashing the desk, which is the way I'm leaning. And my computer and TV are still here, of course, but I probably won't move those until Saturday.
I ventured to Ikea in the morning. I was still conflicted on the Sten vs. Ivar issues, so I ended up mostly looking at things and picking up a catalog and buying guide. I think I'm going to end up compromising, and going with a mix, as they each fit in different areas. I really need to go back when I am less stressed for time, I had to get back at 1pm to be at the new place for the DirecTV installer. Who was already sitting in the driveway when I rolled up at 1 minute to 1, so I'm glad I wasn't late. We parked the dish on the side of the back deck right below the other apartment's, and I ended up getting 2 free months from them to 'try out our most popular package.' Which was the one I was going to order anyway, but I refrained from telling them that. The phone line was turned on, but is apparently mis-wired, so I'm going to have to futz with that when it's a little cooler.


Here are the courses the department is offering now and next semester, along with their instructors' descriptions. General descriptions of all DePauw courses in philosophy, along with major and minor requirements, may be found under All Courses.
In this class, we will engage in a variety of activities to prepare for the Central States Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl competition at Marian University, which will take place in November, 2019. (The exact date has not been announced.) I hope to have two teams of 5-6 enter the competition. To prepare we will cover the basics of ethical theory and then explore the particular moral and social policy questions raised in the 15 cases that will be made available in early September. (It may be that only 9 are chosen to be used in the actual competition.) We can be flexible about how we distribute the case preparation and presentation duties: each case might be assigned to just one student, or all cases might be shared among all or some members of a team. Either way, all cases will be discussed in detail by all members of the class. We will meet as a group for 6 hours a week (perhaps more once in a while). Students will write several drafts of papers that will form the basis of their case presentations. Those drafts will be energetically (but charitably and in a friendly way) critiqued by me and by other members of the class. One goal will be for a DePauw team to win or place highly enough in the regional competition to earn a bid to the national competition in Atlanta in early 2020. Other significant goals will be to learn in depth about timely and important moral issues, hone your argumentative skills, and gain experience and confidence in the oral presentation and defense of your ideas. It is possible to enroll in the class as an auditor rather than for credit. Whether you sign up for credit or as an auditor, the instructor's permission is required to enroll in the course. Please see me as soon as possible so that I can answer your questions and we can determine if this class is a good option for you. You can learn more about Ethics Bowl at http://appe-ethics.org/ethics-bowl/.
We seem to know various things: that the Patriots won (yet another) Super Bowl last February; that there will be a presidential election in 2020; that 5+7=12; that DNA has a double helical structure. Maybe you think we don't actually know these things. Even so, we at least seem to have very good reason to believe them. This raises the question: what is it to know or have a reason to believe something? More generally, how should we form our beliefs so that we get at the truth? Since we're often interested in evaluating the beliefs that we (or others) hold, these questions seem to be important. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that attempts to answer them. In this course we will cover the central topics within epistemology. We will read some classic work by authors such as Plato, Descartes, and Hume, but the majority of our reading will be recent work by contemporary philosophers.
This class covers the philosophies of G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx as they relate to the understanding of social evolution through the struggle with alienation and the progress towards liberty. We will read selections from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Philosophy of History, and Philosophy of Right. We will read selections from Marx on his social and political writings. Some texts will be Economic and Philosophic Manuscript of 1844, Theses on Feuerbach, Das Kapital, and the Eighteenth Brumaire. The class will be a mixture of lecture and student seminar presentations. There will be two longer papers and a couple of tests.
Directed studies in a selected field or fields of philosophy. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
This course provides an opportunity for outstanding philosophy majors to produce a substantial (normally 30+ pages in length) research paper on an important topic in philosophy. Students who are planning to do graduate work in philosophy are encouraged to take this course. Students must apply to the department for approval to undertake this project. Accepted students will be assigned a thesis advisor who will set the schedule for the completion of the paper. The course culminates with an oral defense of the completed paper. Prerequisites: Major in Philosophy, senior status, and departmental approval. May not be taken pass/fail.
We will consider several important topics in philosophy such as our knowledge of the world outside our minds, God's existence, human freedom, and how we should live. To do so we will read, discuss, and critique philosophical works from ancient times to the present. Requirements will include written responses to readings, short papers, exams, participation, and possibly a presentation.
This course introduces students to some of the central topics and methods of philosophy. The course will focus on these questions: What is free will, and do we have it? Do we have non-physical minds or souls? What are the legitimate limits of the State's power over its citizens? Is civil disobedience ever morally permissible and, if so, under what circumstances? Does God exist? The readings for the course are drawn from a bewildering variety of classic and contemporary sources and include works by Plato, Martin Luther King Jr., C.S. Lewis, Patricia Churchland, Martha Nussbaum, Marilyn Adams, and Richard Dawkins. The requirements include tests, a paper, and unannounced reading quizzes.
Does God exist? Does the amount and kind of suffering in the world imply that there is no God? Can there be an adequate morality independently of God or religion? What is the meaning and value of human life? In this course, we will explore these and other related fun and engaging questions. Theists, atheists and agnostics alike are welcome.
It is purest common sense that a person needs a certain sufficiency of wealth, perhaps even a large sufficiency, to be successful or happy. But philosophers (and theologians and other social critics) have from time immemorial called the connection between wealth and happiness into question. And given another common sense belief, i.e., that the best things in life are free, one begins to wonder why so many are so frantically devoted to accumulating ever more wealth, especially in an age when the continuation of business as usual fossil-fuel driven consumption presents us with the near certainty of anthropogenic climate catastrophe. Even these initial ideas suggest that our 'common sense' ideas about wealth and happiness contain puzzles and tensions that deserve further scrutiny. The purpose of our course will be to read, discuss, and reflect upon classic and contemporary economists, philosophers, and other thinkers in the hopes of teasing out these sorts of puzzles, and more.
The highlight of this course will be teaching philosophy to elementary school students in the Greencastle area. We will do this by leading discussions based on popular children's books once a week at Ridpath Elementary School. In preparing to lead these discussions you'll learn about various areas of philosophy such as ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. You will also learn how to construct lesson plans that help facilitate good philosophical discussions. Throughout the semester we will also consider whether children are genuinely capable of philosophical inquiry and broader questions about the purpose of education. However, our primary focus will be on facilitating philosophical discussion among the elementary school students themselves.
Matthew Stewart argues that the study of management is a "lost art of the humanities" and that we are better poised to understand management if we approach the study of it as a philosopher would approach it. That is what we will do in the course, which will have two main parts. In the first part of the course we will critically examine different theories about the nature of management. What it is to be a manager? What is the difference between being a manager and being a leader, if any? The second part of the course will examine the question what does good management look like? What is it to be a good manager? In examining that question we will also examine some practical ethical questions and challenges that are unique to those in positions of management and leadership.
A survey of major figures in Continental and British philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular attention to problems in metaphysics and epistemology. We read selections from Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and a little from Kant, not only for their historical interest, but also for what they have to say about perennial philosophical problems. Classes are a mixture of lecture and discussion. Graded work consists of exams and papers. This is a challenging course but essential for those who wish to understand the development of Western philosophical thought.
The question, "What should I do?" is ubiquitous for us. Clearly, in most situations, some choices are better than others. Further, various explanations can be given for why some choices are better, and some explanations are better than others. In this course we will consider several major types of ethical theory-- that is, explanations for why some choices are better -- and examine their features, merits, and weaknesses. If time permits we may also consider various controversial issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and war. Requirements will include exams, papers, a presentation, and participation.
This course is devoted to an examination of some of the central questions in theoretical ethics. Specifically, we will consider each of the following questions: What makes a human life good for the one who lives it? What is the nature of good (and evil) character? What makes morally right acts right? What is the relationship, if any, between living a moral life and living a life that is good for you? We will critically examine both historical and contemporary attempts to answer each of these questions. The readings include some classics of ethical philosophy by Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, some works of fiction, such as Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, plus a smattering of shorter pieces from philosophy and psychology. The requirements include tests, papers, and unannounced reading quizzes.
The Philosophy of Art deals with two main questions. What is art? Whether art is "good"? The first question will be addressed by looking at various theories of art, such as, the Craft Theory, Expressionism, Significant Form, Instrumentalism, and the Institutional Theory. The second question deals with aesthetics (standards of taste) and evaluation through judgment. We will consider theories concerning beauty, emotion, connoisseurship, embodied meaning, and values of belonging to the art world. We will read both those who advance the idea that art has value and is good, and those who contend it does not and has no value. Various arts will be considered, including literature, painting, dance, and architecture. Class discussion is emphasized. There will be quizzes, papers, a final test, and oral or written response pieces.
We will look at activities that, despite our protestations of dislike for them, we engage in a lot: war and terrorism. Specifically, we will critically examine (a) realism, i.e., the view that morality is irrelevant to international relations, (b) pacifism, (c) traditional ideas concerning the morality of war and some recent innovations, (d) the nature of terrorism and responses to it. Assignments will include lots of readings, an exam or two, short papers and a long paper, and presentations.
Back in 2006, an official in George Bush's White House told the journalist Ron Suskind that the US was "an empire now," and that "when we act, we create our own reality." The official mocked Suskind and other journalists as members of a passé "reality-based community" who would forever lag one step behind the reality-creators, "history's actors," as the journalists struggled to report on the previous 'reality' even as a new one was being 'created' by the Administration, a new 'reality' that would make reports about the old one obsolete. Looking back on this exchange from the perspective of a post-Trump, fake news, Russian hackers, post-truth world where even photographic evidence that Trump's crowds are smaller than Obama's cannot convince die-hard loyalists – including the President and loyal Administration officials – of what their lyin' eyes are telling them, it seems truer than ever that some sort of 'reality' seems to be created by social actors, and that these social realities can have powerful impacts on all our lives whether they are 'really real' or not. Our goals in this course are twofold: to understand the process of constructing social reality, and thinking through the implications of the pervasiveness one sort of social reality – fake news – for our lives.
This class is the capstone course for majors in philosophy. It covers a broad range of advanced topics in philosophy; typically three or four topics are covered during the semester. Topics may be treated historically or systematically. The students are responsible for presentations and discussions of the material. Several papers will be assigned. May not be taken pass/fail. Open only to seniors.
This course provides an opportunity for outstanding philosophy majors to produce a substantial (normally 30+ pages in length) research paper on an important topic in philosophy. Students who are planning to do graduate work in philosophy are encouraged to take this course. Students must apply to the department for approval to undertake this project. Accepted students will be assigned a thesis advisor who will set the schedule for the completion of the paper. The course culminates with an oral defense of the completed paper. Prerequisite: Major in philosophy, senior status and departmental approval. May not be taken pass-fail.


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It's exciting to see that the MBA Oath's partnership with the Net Impact conference is having such motivating and inspiring effects, as evidenced by recent conference attendee Chris Dorrow. A student at the University of British Columbia. Dorrow believes that by pursuing integrity, society, faith, humility, honesty, and transparency, the MBA degree can regain an identity of respect and true leadership. We hope that many others will join Chris in hanging the MBA Oath on the wall next to their MBA degree.


When not founding tech companies, Damon Horowitz teaches philosophy through the Prison University Project, bringing college-level classes to inmates of San Quentin State Prison. In three minutes, Horowitz raps about philosophy meeting real life -- about how prisoners convicted of serious crimes come to terms with Socrates (who finished his days in prison), Heidegger, Kant, categorical imperatives, questions of right and wrong, and the rest. The "talk" was originally presented at TED 2011 last March.


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This Santa Carries a Tune: Pennington Brings Christmas Joy to Brookwood Village
Journal photo by Kaitlin Candelaria
By Kaitlin Candelaria
Steve Pennington has been in the music business his entire life. When he isn't teaching voice, he's producing music.
However, you may notice a change in the Birmingham-based musician's appearance starting about the middle of summer each year.
"I don't do any trimming to my beard after July 1," Pennington said. "That's the pattern I've kept for the past 10 years. I cut my beard back to what I call a business professional length in January and try to live six months of my life as a music producer and music executive-type person."
After July 1, he begins his transformation into the Singing Santa.
Pennington said he started dressing as Santa more than 30 years ago. With his musical background, he said the marriage between St. Nicholas and music was an easy one to make. He began his Christmas career working at churches, schools and corporate holiday events.
"Some of my most astounding events have been at elementary schools," he said. "They'll bring a keyboard or a piano out into the middle of a gymnasium and I'll have 400-500 kids singing along to Christmas carols with me."
He said that he grew out his beard for the role for the first time in 1999, which coincided with his first appearances in the mall circuit as Singing Santa.
"My favorite part about being Santa is just the reactions of everyone to seeing Santa doing something other than sitting in a chair and talking to kids," he said. "I have such exposure to it doing my corporate work prior to this, so I knew that it would translate to this venue effectively."
Singing Santa does, indeed, sing Christmas music. He also dances and sings other music such as football fight songs and fight songs for branches of the military, just depending on who's there to see him. And of course, he's always open to requests.
This year, Singing Santa is at Brookwood Village, but you may recognize him from other years at the Riverchase Galleria as well as the Summit. However, he takes his disguise pretty seriously.
"When my son was six years old, I had just started playing Santa and I went to his school and played the piano in front of him and he didn't recognize me," he said.
Pennington said he collects Santa outfits from all over the world and has more than 30 in his collection. He has everything from camo-themed Santa outfits to full-length velvet capes as well as the classic Santa uniform in many different colors.
"I decided if I was going to do the Santa sing-alongs, I was going to be the best-dressed Santa anywhere," he said.
Pennington said this year's hot Christmas wish list items are iPads, tablets, Zoomer Kitties, Xbox Ones, Star Wars Lego kits and Shopkins for the smaller children.
"I constantly stay in touch with the real Santa," he said, laughing. "Thank goodness for social media and email. It lets us keep up with the lists and keep the toy orders up to date and make sure all the elves are delivered on time after Thanksgiving."
Singing Santa will be at Brookwood Village for photos each day through Christmas Eve. For more information on photo pricing and hours, visit www.shopbrookwoodvillage.com.
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Adapter Sleeves with Metric Dimensions are measured differently than American screws. In addition to employing metric models, alternatively of measuring threads per inch, the metric screws file the distance involving the threads. If the threads are measured improperly, you can end up with a screw that will not match.
The metric course of action is a technique of evaluate centered on powers of 10. The metric program is the standard typical in a lot of nations outdoors of the United States and applies to quite a few various types of measurements in science and market.
By creating use of a quantity of uncomplicated measuring resources and referencing the metric screw dimension charts, you can size a metric screw according to its diameter, duration, thread pitch, head diameter, head height, make width, drive depth and duration. Start by measuring the main dimensions, diameter and thread pitch. Then dimension the remaining secondary dimensions. Ultimately, look at the metric screw charts to confirm your advantages.
A screw is a selection of fastener that binds objects collectively. The screw head is situated at the greatest where by the screwdriver is inserted the thread is the elevated element that binds the objects with each and every other.
Adapter Sleeves with Metric Dimensions is the similar as all all those measured in inches, other than the measurements are in millimeters (mm). The measurements indicate the diameter, duration and thread pitch of the screw or bolt.
Metric screws are designated with the letter M and anybody to two figures. The at first broad range represents the nominal diameter in the male thread (the raised element in the thread) in millimeters. A 2nd amount while in the designation could be the pitch, also it is optional. The pitch shows how substantially area is between threads at a supplied diameter, using the total amount specified in millimeters. For instance, a metric 10 x one.twenty 5 screw has an external diameter of 10 millimeters as well as a range between threads of one.twenty 5 millimeters.
The thread components of the metric screw show how the male and female threads are symmetric in an extremely cross area and how the vertex in the male thread and bottom in the feminine thread could be expressed like a sixty-diploma angle. The height in the male thread may possibly nicely possibly be shaved away by an eighth in the nominal exterior diameter to provide a rounded thread. The depth in the female thread may possibly properly have its last fourth of its nominal depth stuffed in. These modifications make the threading appreciably much less probable to catch when remaining worked.
There are numerous favored metric thread gauges and dimensions centered concerning the goal. common measurements only document the exterior thread diameter anticipated for that actuality the common pitch is defined with the specification and is also assumed. So, an M1 screw consists of a one-millimeter male thread external diameter and an assumed pitch of .25 millimeters. By comparison, M10 metric screws have ten-millimeter male thread external diameters but can be found in pitches of the individual to one.twenty 5 millimeters.
M8-by-one particular.25-by-30 is definitely an illustration of the frequent metric thread designation. It is generally while in the really identical order. The M signifies it is sometimes a Adapter Sleeves with Metric Dimensions.
The choice 8 shows how the bolt is eight mm in diameter. The unthreaded diameter in the bolt is this dimension. The exterior dimension in the threads could be the principal diameter, and necessitie for getting the truly identical since the uncut bolt. Screws and bolts are readily supplied using an extraordinary or extra great pitch.
The sum thirty signifies the time-span below the mind for that quit in the screw or bolt. This illustration is thirty mm prolonged, and even a touch extra than just one inch.
Hold your metric screw to make certain that you just can use a caliper for that bottom of it. Evaluate in millimeters the bottom in the screw with one another with your calipers. The complete consequence could be the screw diameter.You can use a bolt evaluate as appropriately to determine the diameter.


Jielde lamp, designed by the French engineer Jean-Louis Domecq in the 1950s for use in factories as a work lamp. It has a unique internal wiring system that allows the ball joints to be rotated without breaking the wire. The name "Jielde" comes from the French pronunciation of his initials: Ji-eL-De.
Fully functional. Adjusts and holds all positions as intended. Original switch, bulb holder and green maker's label.


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La saison 1994 du Championnat d'Ouganda de football est la vingt-cinquième édition du championnat de première division ougandais. Les équipes engagées sont regroupées au sein d'une poule unique où elles affrontent deux fois leurs adversaires, à domicile et à l'extérieur. En fin de saison, les trois derniers du classement sont relégués et remplacés par les trois meilleurs clubs de deuxième division.

C'est le Villa SC qui remporte la compétition cette saison après avoir terminé en tête du classement, avec deux points d'avance sur le tenant du titre, Express FC et seize sur Kampala City Council. C'est le neuvième titre de champion d'Ouganda de l'histoire du club.

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Le classement est établi sur le barème de points classique : victoire à 3 points, match nul à 1, défaite à 0.

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 Les résultats et le classement final de State House FC ne sont pas connus. Seul son maintien en première division est avéré. La raison de la relégation du Bell FC en lieu et place d'Entebbe Works FC est indéterminée.

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Tea was another of the era's Asian imports. As traders began importing teas to Europe, the beverage grew in popularity. The culture and tradition of drinking tea, which encouraged an appropriately elaborate mise-en-scène complete with tea sets, tea tables, tea chests, and the like, only helped bolster the demand for all things chinoiserie.Tea was another of the era's Asian imports. As traders began importing teas to Europe, the beverage grew in popularity. The culture and tradition of drinking tea, which encouraged an appropriately elaborate mise-en-scène complete with tea sets, tea tables, tea chests, and the like, only helped bolster the demand for all things chinoiserie.
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Q: Can an Akka anonymous actor access self? Can an Akka anonymous actor have access to self? In my particular case I'm wondering if I can reply back to the sender with code similar to this (does not compile due to self not being found):
val xmlLoader = Actor.init {
    println("xml loader started")
} receive {
    case LoadResource(url) => {
        try {
            val xml = XML.load( URL("content.xml") )
            self.senderFuture.foreach(_.completeWithResult(xml))
        } catch {
            case e => self.senderFuture.foreach(_.completeWithException(e))
        }
    }
    case _ =>
}

A: first of all, thanks for using Akka, hope you're enjoying it!
I'd recommend:
actorOf(
new Actor {
 def receive = { case "foo" => self.reply_?("bar") }
})

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Patrick White is one of the major English-language writers of the second half of the twentieth century, and still the grand old master of Australian literature. His strong narrative voice and his wrenching tales make him an always fascinating read. White's books evolved from the very traditional to, ultimately, the very experimental. Even in his early work he is resolutely modern, trying to do more with fiction than most novelists care or dare to.
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An eminently worthy Nobel laureate, he deserves a large audience. He is a demanding writer, but worth the effort.