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The Human Experience in Objects: The Case for Museums in the 21st Century (Rerun)
Neil McGregor, the former director of the British Museum, analyzes the enduring validity of museums in the age of technological upheavals and fake news. He recently visited Israel to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Van Leer Jerusalem...
Red Is the New Green: Carbon Pricing in Israel
Nathan Sussman, Prof. of Economics and leader of the "Israel 2050: Climate Crisis Preparedness" project, explains how carbon tax can lower emissions while having virtually no adverse effects on business activity and growth
Level-Headed Men Seldom Make History (Rerun)
Derek Penslar, Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, discusses his book, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader, an addition to more than 200 biographies of the founder of Zionism.
Palestinian Refugees: The Third Rail of the Conflict (Rerun)
Einat Wilf discusses her book "War of Return," arguing that the conflict will never end until the world recognizes that Palestinian refugees do not have the right to return to their pre-1948 homes
Jewish Life in the Time of 'Illiberal Democracy'
Hungary's Jewish community is the largest in central and eastern Europe, and its regime the most 'advanced' among its neighbors in undoing the tenets of liberal democracy. How does this affect the memory of the Holocaust in the country?
Take Notice: The Power of the Unremarkable (Rerun)
How do our linguistic priorities characterize the way we perceive the world, and how do they reinforce cultural norms? Eviatar Zerubavel, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, explains.
Bibi: The King is Alive, Long Live the King (Rerun)
Benjamin Netanyahu's endurance as Prime Minister is matched only by his mystique: what lies behind his grip on Israeli society? How did he climb to the top, and what is the price of his long stay at the summit? Anshel Pfeffer, of Haaretz and the...
Putting South Africa Together Again (And Surviving a Bomb) (Rerun)
After fighting apartheid for forty years and surviving a bomb attack in the process, in the early 1990s, Albie Sachs found himself helping to draft the constitution that would become the foundation of the democratic South Africa
The Tel Aviv Review LIVE in New York: Timothy Snyder on Tyranny (Rerun)
Timothy Snyder discusses his book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." History doesn't repeat itself, but what can contemporary Americans learn from 20th-century Europe?
Imagined Religion: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Judaism (Rerun)
In his book, "Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notions," Daniel Boyarin argues that Judaism, as a full-blown concept, is a modern creation


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Chris O'Donnell, two-time Academy Award-winner Gene Hackman and Oscar-winner Faye Dunaway star in this gripping suspense thriller based on John Grisham's explosive best-selling novel. O'Donnell stars as idealistic young attorney Adam Hall who takes on the death row clemency case of his onetime Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman). With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions and dark secrets that ultimately lead him to the startling truth.


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Winston Churchill's Childhood
This article on Winston Churchill's childhood is from James Humes's book Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman. You can order this book from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Many of Churchill's views of politics, warfare, and even international affairs can be traced back to formative views that developed in Winston Churchill's childhood. He even predicted events that came true decades later.
When contemplating the whole of Churchill's great career, it is important to look past the most spectacular chapter- his "finest hour" leading Britain in World War II-and recognize that the central issue of Churchill's entire career was the problem of scale in war and peace. As his letter to Bourke Cockran- written on his twenty-fifth birthday, a few weeks before he escaped from a Boer POW camp-attests, Churchill saw how changes in technology, wealth, and politics not only would create the conditions for "total war" but also would transform war into an ideological contest over the status of the individual.
Churchill was writing to Cockran, a Democratic congressman from New York City, about the economic problem of the "trusts," which was then front and center in American politics. As we shall see, Churchill had strong views about how governments would need to respond to social changes in the twentieth century-indeed, that question was the focus of his early ministerial career-but from his earliest days, even before he entered politics, he saw that the new scale of things in the modern world would be felt most powerfully in the area of warfare. His observations about the "terrible machinery of scientific war" in The River War led him to ask what would happen when two modern nations-not Britain and the Sudanese Dervishes-confronted each other with the modern weapons of war. It was a question no one else was asking.
Nearly every politician and military commander associated with the 1898 Sudan campaign regarded it as just another in a series of minor military skirmishes or border clashes necessary to maintaining the British Empire in the late nineteenth century. The era of epic continental warfare-of megalomaniacal ambition like that of Napoleon or Louis XIV-was thought to be over. "It seemed inconceivable," Churchill wrote later in The World Crisis, "that the same series of tremendous events, through which since the days of Queen Elizabeth we had three times made our way successfully, should be repeated a fourth time and on an immeasurably larger scale."
This was no mere flourish of retrospection. In fact, Churchill himself had first conceived the possibility of intense conflict among the continental powers-occurring in 1914 no less-when he was a schoolboy. It was the first of several astonishing predictions of World War I.
One of the persistent misconceptions of Churchill is that he was a poor student. It is more accurate to say he was, by his own admission, a rebellious student, often bored with the curriculum and chafing under the standard teaching methods of the time. It was obvious from his earliest days in school that he was extremely bright and facile with the English language, a prodigy at learning history and extending its lessons. Still, he was often "on report," or ranked near the bottom of his class at the end of the term.
One of Churchill's instructors at Harrow, Robert Somervell, recognized the boy's abilities. In fact, Somervell thought Churchill ought to attend one of Britain's prestigious universities rather than the military academy at Sandhurst, where he eventually enrolled. When Churchill was fourteen, Somervell challenged him to write an essay on a topic of his own choosing. He wanted to give his pupil free range to see what his imagination and comprehensive knowledge of history might produce. Churchill's father, Lord Randolph, had been chancellor of the exchequer, and some speculate that Somervell, expecting an equally illustrious political career for the son, wanted to have a record for the school of Churchill's early prowess.
Churchill framed his essay as a report of a junior officer from a battlefield on which the British army was fighting Czarist Russia. The date he chose: 1914.
The Engagement of
"La Marais"
July 7th, 1914.
By an Aide de Camp of Gen. C. Officer Commanding H.M. Troops in R.
In his essay, which filled seventeen lined pages, Churchill manifested his knack for map-making and his knowledge of geography. He appended five pages of maps on a scale of two inches to a mile depicting the placement and movement of batteries, trenches, artillery, convoys, tents, and regiments of cavalry and infantry, as well as topography.
Churchill's essay is a personal, first-hand account of two days of combat, interspersed with personal asides. The aide-de-camp is exhausted after two days: "I am so tired that I can't write anymore now. I must add that the cavalry reconnaissance party found that there is no enemy to be seen. Now I wish for a good night, as I don't know when I get another sleep. Man may work. But man must sleep."
He describes a meeting of the junior officer with senior officers: "Aide-de-camp," said General C., "order these men to extend and advance on the double." On another occasion, the general is smashed in the head with a fragment of an artillery shell. Churchill wrote, "General C. observing his fate with a look of indifference turns to me and says 'Go yourself-aide-de-camp.'"
At times, Churchill's descriptions of battlefield carnage are suggestive of the American novelist Stephen Crane, who published his classic The Red Badge of Courage a few years later. The astonishing number of men killed in a single encounter foreshadowed the numbers in World War I, a quarter of a century later.
The fields which this morning were green are now tinged with the blood of 17,000 men… Through the veil of smoke-through the stream of wounded-over the corpses, I ride back to our lines in safety.
And a crackle of musketry mixes with the cannonade. Smoke clouds drift and gather on the plain or hang over the marsh… Bang! A puff of smoke has darted from one of their batteries and the report floats down to us on the wind; the battle has begun.
The aide-de-camp reports of his near escape from injury or death when he was dismounted in a clash with Cossack cavalry.
I jumped on a stray horse and rode for my life. Thud! Thud! Thud! And the hoofs of a Cossack's come nearer and nearer behind me. I glance back-the point of a Cossack's lance-ahead smoke. The Cossack gains on me. A heavy blow on my back-a crash behind. The thrust strikes my pouch-does not penetrate me. The Cossack has fallen over a corpse.
As might be expected, the English army eventually routs its Russian adversaries. Despite the Czarists' initial success in a skirmish, the British infantry pushes back their counterparts on the second day of battle.
The enemy retreated slowly and deliberately at first but at the river Volga, they became broken and our cavalry, light and heavy, executed a most brilliant charge which completed the confusion. And thus, the 63,000 Russians fled across the Volga in disorder pursued by 6,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry.
Churchill concludes with an observation of "the superiority of the English lion over the Russian bear."
Churchill's Harrow essay is exhibited today in the underground War Rooms in London, where Churchill managed World War II during the Blitz.
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What if the Obama administration fully sided with Iran's Green Movement?
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A YEAR ago on Saturday, a movement was born that offers the best chance of ending the threat posed by Iran's support for terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapons. Millions of Iranians turned out to vote against the extremist government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a presidential election — and were outraged when the regime announced an improbable landslide victory for the incumbent. Since then, what is now known as the Green Movement has swelled into the most consequential challenge ever mounted to Iran's Islamic theocracy. Through sheer brutality — shootings, mass arrests, tortures, rapes and executions — the regime has mostly driven it off the streets; leaders called off demonstrations that had been planned for Saturday. But the popular revulsion with Iran's rulers that drives the opposition has not faded. To a large extent, the Green Movement is leaderless. The opposition presidential candidates it initially rallied behind are aging adherents of clerical rule who have little in common with Iran's huge ranks of frustrated young people. Yet it seems likely that a victory by the opposition would mean a shift toward democracy and liberal reforms. The White House was slow to embrace the movement — so much so that protesters held up signs last year asking President Obama, "Are you with them or with us?" Lately, Mr. Obama has made some strong… >>>
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For reasons stated in Part Two (AM214), gallery-less dealers are not a generally recommended agent for promotion and sales.
However, there are those few who have succeeded in establishing respectable dealerships with reliable collectors, and they would normally offer a written agreement to artists to act as their ongoing representative or agent, for all or most art-related income-generation purposes. In these circumstances artists would normally expect to receive a cash advance, to be recouped from anticipated commission on sales or against the dealer 'buying-in' works from the artist. Essential features of such agreements, preferably and normally in writing, would include all or most of the provisions which a full blown gallery dealership would also contain:
Parties' names and contact data
REPRESENTATION: agent's engagement exclusively (or in connection with other agents) to promote and represent the artist by one or any combination of:
selling work
arranging commissions
arranging exhibitions
arranging lectures, talks, media appearances
WORK: which ones – all visual work, only paintings, only works on paper, sculpture alone, and so on; and whether in relation to existing or future work.
COPYRIGHT: does the artist allow the agent to deal with authorisation of reproductions or works; if so, on what terms, and under what arrangements (eg only in writing after the artist has agreed to all the terms including payment).
MORAL RIGHTS: does the artist require the dealer to assert the artist's moral rights not to have the work treated in a derogatory way (by any addition, deletion, alteration or amendment) whenever it is seen in public; and require full credit to be obtained for the artist as the author wherever it is shown (by agreeing a standard form of words).
GEOGRAPHY: territorial limit of the representation (ie UK only; EU; USA but not Canada; and so on).
LENGTH OF REPRESENTATION: whether for a fixed term (normally no more than two years) or periodically renewable (eg two years initially, renewable annually thereafter) or indefinite subject to, say, 6 months written notice by either side.
SALES: the method and manner of execution (always in writing, preferably using a standard Contract of Sale pro-forma); pricing; timing of release into the primary market-place; gallery's commission; VAT arrangements on UK sales, export taxes on foreign sales); artist's rights in the decision-making process.
COMMISSIONS- the method and manner of execution (always in writing, preferably using a formal Commission Agreement containing all relevant details of work to be executed, by when, for what price, delivery and installation, copyright and moral rights); artist's right to be consulted and/or to veto acceptance of commissioners' offers.
EXHIBITIONS: the method and manner of execution both in-house and elsewhere (written documentation); timing and venues; artist's right to be consulted and/or to veto acceptance of exhibition offers.
CONSIGNED WORKS: details of finished or future works to be deposited with (consigned to) the gallery for sale/nfs; how many required per annum (or other fixed period); how frequently, content and media to be used.
BOUGHT IN WORKS: which works and how many will be (or may be) bought in by the gallery at the outset and periodically thereafter; prices (including discount to the gallery, re-sale prices and whether the artist will have a right to share in the resale profits).
ARTIST'S PAYMENTS: when and how; statements of account regularly to be given to the artist; details of all transactions including names of purchasers, commissioners, fees, prices, and so on; whether cash advances / stipends are to be set-off against future income, if so, how and when.
AUDIT: artists right to have access to the gallery's accounts and records, for the purposes of audit by an independent auditor named by the artist, in the event of a dispute over the gallery's statements and payments to the artist.
RESTRAINT OF TRADE: whether, and if so to what extent, the parties wish to restrict their respective use of information and trade achieved (while the deal was operating) after it has ended; for example, the gallery may wish to continue to act as agent, perhaps not exclusively, for a defined 'mopping-up' period after the deal has ended; likewise the artist may want' to be able to sell works directly to collectors achieved by the gallery, on the understanding that some commission is paid to the gallery.
ARBITRATION: agreement to refer future disputes to an independent arbiter, mutually agreed.
CONTACT DATA: mutual notification of any changes
ASSIGNMENT: whether or not the gallery can transfer the benefits and obligations of the deal to any other agent/gallery, without achieving the artist's written consent.
ARTIST'S DEATH: agreement as to what should happen to the works, benefits and obligations covered by the deal in the event of the artist's death
PROPER LAW: if one party is resident trading/practising beyond the UK, the parties should agree which law is to be used to decide any disputes that may arise in future performance, failure to perform, or interpretation of the deal.
Some Classic Disputes
The following three examples have been chosen to illustrate the types of deals that are still being made in the UK, and the problems that can arise.
CASE ONE: artist showing with the gallery for two years; substantial number of works sold; partial payment to artist; thousands of pounds outstanding; artist engages new dealer and consigns new works to them; no written documentation exists between first gallery and artist nor between artist and second gallery. Issues arising include: was the artist entitled to make a new deal with the second gallery; how does the artist hope to prove the terms and conditions of either deal, so that he or she can begin to receive outstanding payments from the first gallery; will the same thing happen again with the new deal.
CASE TWO: artist exhibited a body of work (nfs) and stored them at the exhibition venue; the gallery had represented the artist for many years; no written documentation of the artist/gallery deal (it had worked well for over a decade, so why create 'unnecessary' paperwork!); gallery goes bankrupt and its proprietors reemerge trading under a new name; artist seeks works stored with bankrupt gallery from 'new' gallery, works not found. Issues arising include: difficulty of artist proving the nature and extent of the dealership with the first gallery, and of proving that the works in dispute were in fact stored there: was the first gallery a company that was wound up by the courts, and what happened to its 'assets'; is the 'new' gallery really the old one trading under a new name.
CASE THREE: artist offered a deal with 'gallery-less' dealer who promised to establish a primary and secondary market-place for the 'unsold' artist's work; artist consigns his or her whole body of work to the dealer; nothing happens for two years; artist wants works back and regards deal as at an end; written documentation of the deal, signed by the artist, agreed to last for two years. Issues arising include: the documentation made no provision as to what would happen to works unsold at the end of the deal; no arrangements made and agreed for the gallery recouping its outlay for merchandising and/or framing works; artist did not take expert legal advice before signing the documentation, which was drawn up by the dealer's solicitors.
Each of the above cases is real, suitably anonymised; all are ongoing legal disputes.
The artists concerned are having to raise substantial amounts of money to pay the fees of their lawyers, whose main problems lie in the absence of documentation in the first two cases and, in the third case, the absence of provisions in the documentation dealing with the events that eventually happened – a failed deal and how to mop up the loose ends.
During the period the first two of these three articles were published, the volume of enquiries from artists seeking information and help has been significant. The one common error made by every artist in all such cases was the complete failure to achieve any documentation of the deal and its operating. All of which returns us to the first of these pieces (AM213) which explained the legal basics and good practices.


Belle Isle from Lyon's View, a view along the Tennessee River at Knoxville, by James Cameron, 1861. Oil on Canvas.
In October, a bold new vision for the Tennessee State Museum will be realized when it opens at the northwest corner of Rosa L. Parks Boulevard and Jefferson Street at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. It's the first and only building in the museum's 81-year history dedicated exclusively for its use. Housed in a 137,000-square-foot facility, the new location is built with the visitor in mind, with ample room to engage with history and the museum's vast collection of art and artifacts.
The permanent and temporary exhibitions on view when the Museum opens to the public on Oct.
4, at 1:30 p.m. tell a variety of stories ranging from the First Tennesseans up to the present day. There will be no admission charge for any of the Museum's new exhibitions.
In the permanent galleries, Natural History introduces visitors to the origins of Tennessee's amazing landscapes as well as its diverse animal and plant life, while also using fossils to show examples of life from long ago. First Peoples (13,000 BCE to 1760 CE) tells the story of how the First Peoples of Tennessee lived, about their culture, and how they defended their homelands against the European encroachment. Forging a Nation (1760-1860) delves into the stories of Southeastern Indians and Overmountain People, enslaved and free African Americans, the Creek War and War of 1812, Andrew Jackson, the Trail of Tears, President Polk, westward expansion, and more. In The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1870), visitors will learn how Tennesseans determined to secede from the Union and how the state remained divided on the issue throughout the war. Major battles and personalities are featured, including the experiences of common soldiers. African Americans are highlighted as they seek their own freedom, and some eventually fight for the Union. Also examined is how Tennesseans struggled to find a place in a world without slavery during the era of Reconstruction.
Following Reconstruction, Change and Challenge (1870 to 1945) explores how Tennesseans found ways forward through economic upheavals, social changes, and international conflicts. Visitors will learn how Tennessee women fought for the right to vote. Visitors will also examine how Tennesseans shared the nation's challenges in World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, and see artifacts such as World War I hero Alvin C. York's Medal of Honor. Exhibits in the most contemporary permanent gallery, Tennessee Transforms (1945 to Present), highlight the impacts of post-war innovations on Tennesseans, the struggle of African-Americans to share in the new prosperity, the development of Tennessee's music industries and their importance in shaping how outsiders view Tennessee, and how today's Tennessee has emerged as a reflection of these dynamics.
The Tennessee Time Tunnel serves as the backbone for the entire permanent gallery experience, combining content-rich artifacts, exhibits and stories from our permanent collection with engaging media and thought-provoking interactives for a multi-layered experience.
Five additional galleries provide an opportunity for the Museum to tell even more stories. The State of Sound: Tennessee's Musical Heritage uses artifacts, images, performance costumes and audio-visual media to introduce you to the stories of the people, places and events that transformed Tennessee into an internationally celebrated music center. Tennessee and the Great War: A Centennial Exhibition explores the state's role in the Great War. Also opening are Early Expressions: Art in Tennessee Before 1900, In Search of the New: Art in Tennessee Since 1900, and Red Grooms: A Retrospective (through January 13, 2019).
"Tennessee has stories to tell," said Ashley Howell, executive director of the Tennessee State Museum. "Our permanent exhibitions highlight our collection to tell those stories; to introduce our visitors to the people and places and events that have made the state's history so dynamic. Our opening temporary exhibitions highlight eras, individuals and artists that have further contributed to the development of Tennessee's identity within the state, and role on the national and international stage.
Thursday, Oct. 4: 1:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 5: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 6: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 7: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 8: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
More extensive information about each gallery, along with information about directions, parking and extended hours, will be available when the Museum's new web site at tnmuseum.org launches in late September.


Hyderabad: Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said it was Congress President Rahul Gandhi who sent him to Pakistan to attend ground breaking ceremony of the Kartarpur corridor.
"My captain is Rahul Gandhi. He sent me everywhere," Sidhu said to a query at a news conference here.
He was asked why he ignored the advice of his captain to visit Pakistan.
"Which captain you are talking about. Oh.. Captain Amarinder Singh. He is Army Captain. My captain is Rahul Gandhi. Captain's captain is also Rahul Gandhi," he said.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had declined Pakistan's invitation to attend the ceremony, citing Islamabad's continued support to terrorism in India. He was also reportedly unhappy over Sidhu's visit.
Sidhu, however, said that Amarinder Singh is like his father. "He is the chief minister. He is our boss, but this is not the first time I had gone without informing. The last time when I went there (Pakistan) I had said that I will come again for people," said Sidhu, who returned from Pakistan on Thursday.
Stating that the Congress party has 50 to 100 senior leaders, he said they patted him on his back.
The cricketer-turned-politician once again played down his photographs with pro-Khalistan elements which went viral during his three-day trip to the neighbouring country.
"When I was in Pakistan every day, 10,000 people were coming to me for selfies. How do I know who is Chawla and Cheema," he said adding that same fellow was there with Harsimrat and Longwal. "He was there everywhere. So how do I know him? This is absolute rubbish," he said on the allegations by BJP leaders.
"I am popular here. I won six elections. Ask Smriti Irani how many elections she won," he said reacting to the central minister's criticism.


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Measure R++? Maybe in 2014. Probably in 2016
When Should Metro Push for a Measure R or Measure J Type Ballot Initiative
I don't care just do it
In November of 2012, the Measure J ballot initiative went down to a narrow defeat despite garnering over 66% of the vote. Measure J would have extended the 2008 Measure R sales tax so that further bonding would be possible and promised transit projects could be completed sooner. From pretty much the moment the final vote was counted, transit watchers have wondered when Metro would try to pass another funding measure on the ballot.
The 2012 initiative received 66.2% of the vote. It needed 66.67%. The successful Measure R initiative in 2008 funds almost every rail transit expansion project now occurring in L.A. County.
A staff report discussed at yesterday's Planning and Programming Committee of the Metro Board of Directors examines the major questions surrounding a proposed future sales tax to fund transit expansion. As The Source notes, nobody on the Metro Board of Directors is saying they support such a measure, yet, but pretty much everyone who watches the agency believes that a new transit funding ballot initiative is just around the corner.
A read of the report raises many questions, but two stand out:
1) What makes more sense, a 2014 or 2016 ballot initiative?
2) Should the initiative fund an extension of the existing tax and project acceleration or should their be a new project list?
The lack of a new project list is one reason that many critics, including this one, give for the near miss in 2012. However, others argue that a list is likely to anger the people who's project isn't included. Indeed, one of two people to testify at yesterday's hearing on the report was Doug Arseneault, legislative affairs manager for the Valley Industry and Commerce Association. Areseneault warned that if projects that benefit the San Fernando Valley were not accelerated in a hypothetical future transportation bond measure, VICE would likely oppose the measure.
Metro staff reported that one reason a new project list wasn't prepared for the 2012 Measure J initiative was the rushed timeline. The timeline for a 2014 initiative would be similar to the one for 2012, so if a new project list is vital to the initiative's success both at the ballot box and for building a county-wide transit system, then it makes sense to wait until 2016.
Making an argument for good government, Bart Reed, executive director for The Transit Coalition, pushed for a ballot measure to be placed on the 2016 election.
"In terms of looking at this potential election…there seems to be a strong belief that more projects would benefit the initiative by creating more support from the community," Reed testified.
For example, "…if the Measure came about with new funds, we could finance part of a project that a public private partnership didn't do and get funding out to Montclair-Claremont (for the Gold Line) and finish out to the airport. (for the Crenshaw/Green Line.)"
If Metro decides to move a new funding measure to the ballot in 2016, the expenditure plan would not be released until August of 2015, a full 16 months later than it would be for the 2014 plan which would need to be finalized in April of 2014.
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The 2016 process allows for better and deeper public input throughout the process of creating the measure, including having local governments submit their own project list. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who figures to be a major player in any campaign for a county-wide ballot initiative, outlined such a plan at the Mobility 21 Summit earlier this fall.
There's also the small matter of whether or not an initiative has a better chance of passing during a presidential election, where turnout is expected to be close to 60% of registered voters, or a mid-term Congressional and Gubernatorial election where participation generally slips closer to the 50% mark. Metro Board Members take it as an article of faith that the higher the turnout, the better a sales tax will do. But with the popular Governor Brown leading the ticket likely against an unknown and underfunded rival, we could see a disproportionate percentage of progressive voters heading to the polls in 2014 as well.
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Metro Board Can Move Measure R Funds with Two-Thirds Vote
By Damien Newton	| Aug 6, 2012
Despite near unanimous opposition by a parade of public speakers, the Metro Board of Directors voted with near unanimity. In fact, there was more disagreement among the present Board Members over grammatical changes to the ordinance that will allow voters to vote on extending the Measure R sales tax than there was over Duarte City […]
Measure R 2 (or 2.1) Season Is Underway
By Damien Newton	| Oct 8, 2015
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 767 authorizing Metro to place a sales tax on a future ballot to fund transportation growth.The ballot measure would likely appear on the 2016 fall ballot, along with the presidential race, Congressional races and a variety of local races. Within minutes of the signing, Move L.A. released a […]
Will Measure R+ Reach the Fall Ballot? At Least Two County Supervisors Need a Change of Heart
By Damien Newton	| Jun 6, 2012
(Update: An earlier version of this post identified Don Knabe as voting against Measure R at the Metro Board and again at the L.A. County Board of Supervisors last year. In fact, Knabe voted for Measure R with the Supervisors but against with the Metro Board of Directors.) With yesterday's election in the books, it's […]
By Damien Newton	| Jun 25, 2012
Metro Board: Let the People Vote on Extending Sales Tax
Just after high noon, the Metro Board of Directors voted to place a ballot proposition on the November 2012 ballot to extend the Measure R sales tax's horizon year from 2039 until 2069. Los Angeles County voters passed the Measure R half-cent sales tax in 2008 to pay for a massive extension of the county's […]
Beyond the Spin, Breaking Down Measure J
By Damien Newton	| Nov 5, 2012
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It has been more than five decades since Ivan Acosta has lived in exile, but this year, his dream of returning to his birth land and finally filming a movie is closer than ever to coming true. He will be making history, as no other Cuban-American director has ever been able to film on the island.
In 1979, Ivan Acosta became a legend with his humorous, but tenaciously raw tale "El Súper" about the emotional tragedy of an immigrant family. Since then, he has not ceased to create wonderful, compelling stories like "Amigos", "Rosa and The Executioner of The Fiend", "Candido Hands of Fire", and "How to Create Rumba". He is a playwright, a composer, a musical producer, a film and a theater director and was the founder of The Cuban Cultural Center in New York, perpetually advocating for his roots and culture.
GJS: Tell us about your new project "Guantánamo", which has been in the making for close to thirty years.
IA: "Guántanamo" is based on real events. Thirty years ago I met this man who told me his experience swimming across Guantánamo bay with his two children tied on his back. I decided I wanted to make a film inspired by that story. In 1984 we were going to produce the film in Dominican Republic, but the amazing event of Mariel exodus was all over the news, so producer Marcelino Miyares encouraged me to write about it and I decided to draft a different screenplay, "Amigos", about a "marielito", which is how they called Cuban refugees during that event. On April 1980, more than 10,000 Cubans in Havana broke into the Peruvian Embassy and asked for political asylum. Fidel Castro got very angry and declared that any Cuban who wanted to leave the island could do it if their family in Florida would go to the Port of Mariel to rescue them. About 130,000 Cubans left the island on the largest refugees exodus ever in this Continent; they all came to the United States. During the summer of 1984, we started filming, "Amigos" in Miami and New York. I put "Guantánamo" aside again, and waited all these years, till now.
GJS: When you compare old drafts vs. new drafts of this project, how has the story evolve?
IA: Well, the first draft took place during the 70s, when Cuba was going through a lot of international activities, including the war in Africa: Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, and Eritrea. The last version takes place during the "Special Period", when the Soviet Union collapsed, and every body thought Cuban communist regime would also collapse, but it didn't happen. It has been one of the worst periods of the 57 years of Castro's revolutionary government. A lot of interesting stories happened during those hard years.
GJS: When and where are you planning to film in Cuba, and what is this process like?
IA: We are trying to start pre-production around December of this year. Ideally, we would like to film in the Guantánamo area, where the story takes place. The location includes the City of Guantánamo, the beautiful rural areas in Oriente, and some spots near the long fence that separates Cuban territory from the American Navy base at the entrance of Guantánamo bay. That area is covered with more than 50,000 personal explosive land mines.
In terms of the process, we are soliciting permits from the Cuban government through I.C.A.I.C. Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Industry and the Ministry of Culture. We have to be patient in dealing with Cuban bureaucracy, censorship and constant replacements of government officials. Assuming the Cuban government gives us green light to go ahead and film in the island, this would be the first time a Cuban-American film would be produced in Cuba with Cuban technicians and artists from outside Cuba and compatriots living the island.
GJS: Do you have a cast lined up yet and will local Cuban actors appear in the film?
IA: We do have a list with some actors and technicians living in Cuba and Cuban-Americans and Latinos living abroad. But nobody has been confirmed yet. We are also in contact with key personnel in Dominican Republic, in case we might have to do some filming there.
GJS: Most if not all your stories ruminate on the subject of Cuba. Can you express what it means to you to be able to go back to Cuba and film your movie?
IA: I left Cuba in 1961. I was very young then. Cuba has always been present in my life and in my creative endeavors in film, in theater, in music and in literature. To me it is a double dream. First, to be able to visit my own country after living in my beloved United States for more than 50 years now would be a dream come true and a personal realization. Second, to be able to film a movie about a real human drama based on a true story in my own land would be great for both, the Cuban government, whose message to the world now is about change and opening censorship, but also for Cubans living outside the island. It would mean for us to be able to go back and embrace our family, our friends, and our land without any fear of "reprisal" from the militant hard liners. "Guantánamo", aside from having the potential to be a superb film, it would also mark a historical event.
GJS: Sounds like you would like to crate bridges to unite Cubans living in the island and outside. Given you are granted the green light to film in Cuba, what is next?
IA: Definitively. The real changes will come when the people of Cuba are able to walk, talk, dance and love, without any obstacle. And of course, when the two millions of Cubans living in the U.S. and several other countries, are able to return to the island without any political restrictions or fears. I firmly believe, the film "Guantánamo" will help to create the bridge of love, respect, and freedom for all.
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Investing In Cuba Remains 'Very Risky,' Panelists Say
It was a full house at the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald's CEO Roundtable titled "The Future of Cuba — Investing and Tourism," where panelists spoke about the opportunities and risks involved in investing in Cuba on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. C.M. GUERRERO CMGuerrero@elNuevoHerald.com
Exploring business potential on the Communist island has surged since December
The infrastructure is dated but so is the mindset
For now investors must get used to the state as the majority partner
Panelists at a CEO roundtable about the future of Cuba painted a mixed and ever-evolving picture of the opportunities — and risks — for businesses that want to invest in the Communist island.
"Cuba is like the Galapagos Islands," Augusto Maxwell, chair of Akerman LLP's Cuba practice told a standing-room only audience in the community room of the Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald on Tuesday. He went on to describe a country in evolution, where what holds true today may not work tomorrow and where establishing a business remains a "very risky" endeavor.
But like other panelists in the morning program titled "The Future of Cuba — Investing and Tourism," he said changes are occurring, though not as always as quickly or as efficiently as foreign investors would like. He pointed to the entry of Airbnb, the San Francisco-based company that launched its home-booking service in Cuba in April. Since it went live, Airbnb, has accumulated more than 2,000 listings, making it the fastest-growing launch in the company's history.
But Airbnb's entry into the island, Maxwell said, "was inconceivable a few years ago."
Maxwell was among a group of Cuban experts — a lawyer, a bank president, an airline vice president, three travel and tourism executives and even a former U.S. senator — who debated the business potential on the island in a pair of panels that focused on investing and tourism in Cuba. Restrictions on both travel and business have eased since the Dec. 17 announcement by President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro that the two countries would renew diplomatic ties and open embassies after half a century of frosty relations.
While the panelists steered clear of the political fireball that the recent rapprochement sparked in Miami, they all agreed on one theme: Cuba is still the great unknown. Those who venture there should be prepared to commit time, effort and capital without a clear or quick return on their investment.
Steven N. Zack, a partner with Boles, Schiller & Flexner and the first Cuban-American president of the American Bar Association, said he is often asked about the legal system in Cuba. His response? There is no legal system in Cuba because there is no due process and a businessman has to be willing to take a back seat to a government that acts as a majority owner in all enterprises.
He told the cautionary tale of a Canadian businessman who had invested on the island for almost two decades, until he was thrown in jail on corruption charges. The Canadian, Sarkis Yacoubian, spent more than two years in jail before being found guilty and expelled. His case is not unique.
"We know one thing for sure," Zack said. "He didn't get his business back. Raul Castro's son-in-law did."
He added that any time he asked a question of a Cuban lawyer during a recent law conference on the island, he never got a concrete reply. "The answer is always the same: Es muy complicado." (It's very complicated.)
Other panelists talked about the difficulties of dealing with an inefficient system that, even when trying its best, simply didn't have the technology or infrastructure to meet business or tourism demand. Tessie Aral, president of ABC Charters, which has provided limited air and travel services to the island since 2000, said there aren't enough hotel rooms to meet the surging demand. Casa particulares (or bed & breakfasts) have picked up on the demand.
But lack of rooms is only one of many obstacles, she added. Government bureaucracy is a problem, too, and any investor considering Cuba needs to "learn to work with their infrastructure but also their mindset."
Cuba's interest in opening itself up to the United States is all about economics. The island desperately needs about $2.6 billion a year in foreign investments. But, said former U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, opening the door "is not an invitation to business." Martinez, who came to the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor in the Pedro Pan airlift, warned that the government rhetoric may havechanged but the rules of the game haven't. He expressed dismay that the U.S. had made too many concessions.
"What did we give? What did we get? What should we have gotten?" he asked.
Zack compared the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Cuba — and their respective business interests — as a complicated dance in which the first step has been taken but the question remains: Do potential American investors truly have a partner in Cuba?
"My position is we should engage in the dance," he said, "but we shouldn't dance by ourselves."
First published in The Miami Herald.


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Carl Schlechter vs Jacques Mieses
"Of Mieses and Men" (game of the day Nov-07-2005)
St. Petersburg (1909), St. Petersburg RUE, rd 5, Feb-21
Scandinavian Defense: Main Lines. Mieses Variation (B01) · 0-1
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Nov-07-05 Calculon: <you vs yourself> Won't white lose another pawn after black takes the queen? The pawns at b2 and e5 are attacked and both cannot be defended.
White's pawns are all isolated while black still has a strong pawn structure.
It looks like a fairly easy win for black.
Nov-07-05 you vs yourself: <Calculon> I included one of the pawns lost at b2 or e5 when I said black won 2 pawns. Maybe the endgame is won, but there's no forced win here though. So, I might've played a few more moves to make sure black doesn't blunder away his advantage.
patzer2: <chess crazy> Just looked at your game. Great job of punishing 7. d4? After 7...exd5! your opponent was busted.
If instead, your opponent had played the line 7. Bg5! Be7 8. Nd2 =, then you'd have had a game on your hands. Always a good idea to look at your games for your opponent's best moves, especially if they prepare and play you again
Nov-08-05 Averageguy: <chesscrazy>Good game, doesn't seem much to improve on, you showed good tactical skills. Here are what I think are possible improvements. 9...d5 looks better, opening the game more to exploit your superior development. The simple 13...Bxf2+ or 13...Nxf2 looked better than retreating. You missed 19...Qxd3 exploiting the pins on the queen and bishop. You won the rook anyway but 20.Rxc3 would have saved it for white. 30...Qxe3+ forces mate after 31.Kxd1 Rd8+ 32.Kc2 (32.Bd3 Rxd3+ 33.Kc2 Rd2+ 34.Kc/b1 Qe1#)32...Rd2+ 33.Kc/b1 Qe1#
patzer2: <Averageguy> In <chesscrazy>'s game, Black wins after <20. Rxc3> if he replies 20...Nd4! to attack and win the Bishop pinned on e2.
Nov-09-05 Averageguy: <patzer2>Hmm, can't white simply play 21.Be3 after 20...Nd4 ? I don't see anything for black here. Of course, he is still winning, but I don't think there is a win on the spot.
patzer2: After 26..Qxg3!, Schlecter, seeing the damage being caused by Meises' active Knight and Queen, is rumored to have said "I hate those Mieses' two pieces!"
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patzer2: <Averageguy> In the game in question, look at the position after 21. Be3 Nxe2 22. Kxe2 Nxh5 . It's a win on the spot, only unless White wishes to continue playing with a huge material deficit in a clearly lost position.
Nov-10-05 Averageguy: <patzer2> Yes, this is winning, but not as much as after 19...Qxd3, which wins a whole rook as well as the queen. Your line only wins a pawn.
Jan-22-07 Fast Gun: At first glance I thought that 27. Qd4 would have held the game, but then I saw Nh2+ 28.Kg1 Nf3+ winning the Queen (win by pin & Knight fork)
Oct-06-08 Whitehat1963: Spectacular finish after 22. e5. It appears Mieses saw the entire combination from there, as it seems all but forced. Bloody brilliant!
Oct-06-08 ughaibu: Have a look at this, from a blindfold match: Schlechter vs Mieses, 1909
Oct-06-08 Whitehat1963: <ughaibu> Amen! That is an amazing game you linked to. And NO ONE has kibitzed on it!
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scormus: Interesting and instructive puzzle, largely for the pitfalls awaiting both players (and puzzle solvers).
Just looking at it 22 ... Bxe5 seemed right. If 23 exd5 I first thought ... Rxd1+ 24 Rxd1 Ne3 25 Rxe3 Qxe3+. However, 23 ... Nxe5 24 Qc3 Ncf3+ 25 Qxf3 is better, leaving B with R+3p vs 2N. Problem solved? If so remarkably easy for a Sunday.
But instead B went 23 ... Qh4 and W went 24 Rg3? allowing an easy way for B to get a winning advantage. Surely W has a better defense. Yes, an engine check gives 24 Qc5 and a modest advantageous to B.
But W did not need to play 23 exd5 at all. Engine gives 23 h3 as W's best damage control move, also with a modest advantage to B. However that does look to give W a difficult time over the next moves so would have unappealing to play OTB.
So with best play B has a clear edge, chiefly beacuse he's a pawn up and can win another, while W has little compensation.
agb2002: Black has a bishop and a pawn for a knight.
White threatens 23.exd6.
The first idea that comes to mind is 23... Bxe5 to deliver a knight fork on e5:
A) 24.dxe5 Nxe5 (24... Rxd1+ 25.Rxd1 Ne3 26.Rxe3 (26.Qc1 Qxg2#) 26... Qxe3+ 27.Kh1 Qxe5 28.Qd3 looks bad for Black)
A.1) 25.Rg3 Qxg3 (threatens 26... Qe1#, 26... Nxc4 and 26... Nf3) 26.Nxg3 Nxc4 wins an exchange and two pawns (27.Rxc4 Rxd1+).
A.2) 25.Qc3 Nxf3+ wins again an exchange and two pawns (26.Qxf3 Qxd1).
A.3) 25.h4 Nxf3+ 26.Kf2 Nxh5 - + [R+3P vs N].
B) 24.h4 Qxh4 25.dxe5 Qe1+ 26.Rf1 Qxf1+ 27.Kxf1 Rxd1+ 28.Rxd1 Ne3+ 29.Kf1 Nxc4 - + [3P].
C) 24.h3 Bxd4+
C.1) 25.Nxd4 Ne5 26.Qc3 Nxf3+ 27.Nxf3 Qh6 28.Ne5 Re7 and Black has a rook and three pawns for two knights but its position looks unconfortable.
C.2) 25.Kf1 Nh2+ wins the exchange at least.
C.3) 25.Kh1 Ne3 26.Nxe3 Bxe3 - + [B+3P vs N].
Apr-12-15 morfishine: <22...Bxe5> I settled on this move though 22...Nxe5 23.dxe5 Bxe5 looks playable
23.dxe5 forced, but I then went with <23...Nxe5>
This looks awkward for White. Black is up 3-pawns for the piece and is winning an exchange back
Unfortunately, I got sidetracked with an inferior defense noting: 24.Rg3 Qxg3 25.Nxg3 Nxc4 and Black is up 3-pawns plus an exchange; However, much better is 24.Qf4 :(
Hats off to Mieses!
Interesting, in the game, Black goes immediately to h-file with 23...Qh4, yet the same theme that I focused on
in my inferior defense [ie: exchange Q for R on <g3>] is seen to win material; This is instructive in that move-order is critical here: Mieses threatens a powerful check
<scormus> Thanks for looking at 23.h3
Apr-12-15 Pedro Fernandez: << OhioChessFan>: I know it didn't work, but what was the supposed point of Rg3?> Yeah! My variation was 22...Bxe5 23.dxe5 Qh4 <(the last two black moves are not so hard to find since we need activate our rook on d7-square)>, but instead of 24.Rg3 I did play 24.h3 Qe1+
.Rf1 Qxf1+ 26.Kxf1 Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 and
27...Ne3+
Apr-12-15 erniecohen: <morfishine> Your instincts were right - the obvious move 23...♘xe5, is far better than the game continuation. After 23...♕h4 24. ♕c5 ♕xh2+ 25. ♔f1 ♕h1+ 26. ♘g1 ♘h2+ 27. ♔f2 ♘xf3 28. ♘xf3, the aborted hunt has yielded no more material than 23...♘xe5, but has left Black out of position for the coming counterattack.
Simply a cooked puzzle today.
Apr-12-15 Amarande: <al wazir> Every chess program I've ever used automatically claims the draw when the third repetition occurs.
That's because most of the time in a game *in isolatio*, by that point you're usually best off doing so; exceptions usually occur in the greater setting of a tournament, such as with Rotlewi vs Teichmann, 1911 where the extra half-point was thought to be worth taking a risk for due to the score.
In addition, as with this game and Rotlewi-Teichmann, or even Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 where White dodged the third repetition altogether it's notable that stretching for that extra point frequently results in a loss, with (Rotlewi was hit especially hard in his game; I would have to go back through the St Pete 1909 tournament book to see how this one impacted Schlechter, or the Baden-Baden 1925 games round by round for Reti) sometimes a significant further slip back in the tournament!
(Furthermore, in the case of computers specifically, generally speaking they are already assessing the game as drawn as soon as the second repetition, for given the nature of engine analysis if a better move were to be found, the engine would have found it the first time the position occurred.)
Apr-12-15 devere: A strange game! Schlechter plays like a patzer. The following year he almost takes Lasker's World Championship away. Was Schlechter hiding his prep? LOL. On the 22nd move Black is already a pawn up, and 22...Bxe5 wins another pawn. White's best reply is 23.h3, and after 23.dxe5 Black's best is simply 23...Nxe5. A strange game! Maybe the food in Russia didn't agree with Schlechter?
Honza Cervenka: A bit too famous. Black could have played also 23....Nxe5 24.Qc3 Nxf3+ 25.Qxf3 Rhd8 with Rook and 3P for 2 Knights but Mieses choice, though allowing white with best defence to resist longer, was perfectly sound. After 24.Qc5 black can play 24...Qe1+ 25.Rf1 Qxe2 26.Qxa7 Qa6 and black has an extra Pawn. Wheather it is enough for win is difficult to say but he has fair chance to win the game here. 24.Qc3 allows 24...Qxh2+ 25.Kf1 Qh1+ 26.Ng1 Nh2+ with next 27...Nxf3 once again with Rook and three Pawns for two Knights, though here black pieces are less coordinated and white pieces are more active than in the line after 23...Nxe5 mentioned above. Still it is good for black. Schlechter's 24.Rg3(?) should have been defence against threat 24...Qe1+ (apparent form line 24.h3 Qe1+ 25.Rf1 Qxf1+ 26.Kxf1 Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 Ne3+ and 28...Nxc4 ) but it did not work as Mieses demonstrated on the board.
Apr-12-15 scassislusor: Jacques Mieses, in later life, was once introduced as "Mr. Mieses" (pronounced by the introducer "Myses") Mieses corrected him, "Rather I am Meister Mieses!" The Ducheyne-Mieses introductory "Handbuch", started about 1890, has been continued to this day as one of the best one volume books of instruction for the ambitious amateur. May have been the book that inspired the late, great Gisela Gresser, in her 30's, to take up chess competition.
Apr-12-15 TheaN: Sunday 13 April 2015 <22....?>
It's very late in the night (1:22am) but I promised myself to have a thorough look at this Sunday puzzle because I'm on 6/6 this week.
In all fairness, it seems as if this Sunday is more of a straightforward and forced nature than most; usually they contain speculative sacrifices that don't really have to accepted. In the position at hand, black is looking at two strong center pawns locking in the bishop and a white major pieces battery on the c-file, but black is a pawn up. This suggests black resolves at least one strength of white with <22....Bxe5!>.
Why move away if you can break through? Typical of this sunday is that there are no real declines for white: black simply picks up white's strongpoint without compensation, threatening Bxh2+ and black wins fairly easily.
<23.dxe5 Nxe5> this forks Qc4 and Rf3, and black just obtained the open d-file. Because g2 is pinned, white has two alternatives: defending the rook with his queen or counterattacking the black queen. The latter certainly does not work:
A) <24.Rg3? Qxg3! > and a counter-capture sequence begins: if <25.hxg3 Nxc5 >, then if <26.Rxc5 Rxd1+ >. In any case, black is up an exchange and three pawns.
B) <24.Qf4> the square on which white defends Rf3 doesn't matter per se, but Qf4 at least forced Nxf3+ <24....Nxf3+ 25.Qxf3 Rhd8> the black rooks currently dominate the board over the d-file. I only see <26.Ndc3> being reasonable, preventing Rxd1+, Qxc1 and the sting out of Rd2.
Now black given the final blow and puts the question on the white pieces with <26....Qd2!>. If white baits into defending the b-pawn <27.b4 Rd3!> putting the pressure on c3. If white tries to counterattack <28.Qxf7 Qe3+ 29.Kf1 Rxc3! > and black can't recapture because of 30.Rxc3 Rd1# or 30.Nxc3 Qxc1+ .
Time to see if I missed something.
Apr-12-15 TheaN: Okay this is a weird situation. I did not play the game line and missed the obviously strong 23....Qh4, yet after 24.Qc5! it seems white can hold slightly better in a similar variation, despite the defense being extremely difficult. Doubt whether Schlechter and/or Mieses saw this.
My idea of 26....Qd2?! is odd, though still winning, because 27....Qxb2?? is no threat due to 28.Rb1! with a skewer on b7. The tactical shot after 27.b4 Rd3 28.Qxf7 holds, but white has no reason to play this.
Not sure. I'd say by playing 22....Bxe5 23.dxe5 Nxe5 24.Qf4 Nxf3+ 25.Qxf3 Rhd8 I was well underway to win. Gonna count this one. Yay 7/7 (benefit of the doubt, at least).
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Evidence suggests that chiropractic may play a significant role in headache management. In fact, in a new study, 72% of migraine sufferers experienced improvement after chiropractic treatment.
Chiropractic care, which involves several different areas of treatment, can be used to reduce underlying muscle tension, alleviate pain and symptoms and create a headache prevention plan. Today we'll go in depth on how chiropractic care can help with headaches.
Spinal manipulation is one of the most common chiropractic treatments, which can help in headache relief. This treatment involves applying gentle force to a specific section of your spine.
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A common underlying problem for headaches is neck tension. A chiropractor may also use neck flexion exercises to move your muscles and joints in the neck region to get tension release and put your neck muscles in a more stable, natural position.
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Q: playing with awk command trying to remove first line in input below is my input file, results keep returning "Breed has Votes votes"
    Breed, Votes
    Black Lab, 30
    Chihuahua, 2
    Pug, 1
    Corgi, 45
    Shar Pei, 21
    Shih Tzu, 5
    Maltese, 7

#!/bin/sh/awk
##comment The below awk script runs on the file dog_breed.txt, FS refers to field separator which is a comma in this case. We initialize our max variable to 0 and max_breed to the first breed, then iterate over the rows to find the max voted breed.

    BEGIN{
            FS=", "
            max=0;
            max_breed=$1
    }
    {
            if(max<($2)){
                    max=$2;
                    max_breed=$1;
            }
    }
    END{
            print max_breed " has " max " votes"
    }

A: You can skip the first record (line) by adding a rule to the block:
NR > 1 {
        if(max<($2)){
                max=$2;
                max_breed=$1;
        }
}

However it's worth trying to understand why you get the result that you do when you don't exclude the first line - that's because:

*

*when NR==1, the value of max is 0 (numeric - assigned in the BEGIN block) but the value of $2 is Votes (which is a string). So the expression max<($2) converts max to a string and performs a lexicographical comparison. If 0 is less than V in your locale, then the result is TRUE, and max is assigned the string value Votes

*for subsequent lines, $2 is numeric, but max is now a string so $2 gets converted to a string and again the comparison is lexicographical. Assuming V has a greater lexicographical weight than any of the digits 0 thru 9, V always wins.
As an aside, your shebang looks invalid - it likely should be
#!/usr/bin/awk -f

or
#!/bin/awk -f

depending on your Ubuntu version. Also, assignments like max_breed=$1 aren't really meaningful in a BEGIN block, since it is executed before any records have been processed.

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The Political Economy of Hydrocarbon Pollution: Assessing Socio-Ecological Sustainability of Nigeria's Niger Delta Region
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