Looking to add a league maximum 23rd player to the roster, the St. Paul Saints stayed local. They signed All-Midwest Region outfielder Ben Buerkle, who just completed an impressive career at St. Mary's University in Minnesota. He made his professional debut on Friday night as a pinch-runner in the eighth inning against the Winnipeg Goldeyes.
The 22-year-old Buerkle hit .405 with eight home runs and 27 RBI in 39 games this year. In 131 at bats he scored 39 runs, clubbed 13 doubles, one triple, stole 17 bases, had a .524 on base percentage and a .702 slugging percentage. Buerkle, who opened each of his four collegiate seasons with hits in at least 10 consecutive games, was held off the base paths just twice this season—failing to reach base in Game 1 against UW-Oshkosh on April 2 and in Game 2 vs. St. Thomas on April 13. Buerkle recorded at least one hit in 30 of the team's 39 games this season and closed out his career having collected at least one hit in 140 of the 158 games he played in—while reaching base safely in 153 of those 158 games.
Buerkle concluded his four-year Saint Mary's career as the program's all-time hits leader with 233, while also owning career records in doubles (51), triples (13), runs (162), RBIs (150), and games played (158). Just one of two players in program history with more than 200 career hits—and the only one with 50 or more hits in all four seasons—Buerkle's .413 career batting average is second only to Tim Piechowski's program-record .417 mark.
Buerkle was a standout baseball player at Roseville High.


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Kansas Dem Backs Gun Confiscation
Hopefully the people of Kansas will not elect Barbara Bollier dog catcher let alone U.S.Senator.
Senate Nom Bollier: Australia 'took them all away and, you know what, it's pretty darn safe.'
The Democratic Senate candidate in Kansas came out in support of Australian-style gun confiscation during a campaign event last weekend.
When asked about adding a training requirement to the state's gun-carry permit application process, Democrat Barbara Bollier said U.S. gun-control measures do not go far enough. After noting that she has a daughter living in Australia, Bollier praised a controversial gun-confiscation program the country instituted in the 1990s.
"They have no guns. They don't allow them. They just took them all away," Bollier said with a chuckle in a video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. "And, you know what, it's pretty darn safe. It's this amazing thing."
The outcome of the race could impact who controls the Senate after the election since Bollier is running to replace retiring Republican senator Pat Roberts. Bollier's stated support for gun confiscation could make her campaign against Republican Roger Marshall harder to win in the traditionally red state. Bollier already faces an uphill but not unwinnable battle, with The Cook Political Report rating the race as currently leaning toward Marshall.
The Bollier campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
After offering praise for Australia's gun-confiscation program, Bollier said a limited number of Australians were able to own guns "out in the Bush" but noted "there's all these specific requirements and training." She said she similarly supports training requirements for gun ownership in America.
"Who thinks you can just go out and have a gun?" she said. "Seriously, you can't drive a car without training, you can't basically do anything without some kind of training."
Eric Pahls, the campaign manager for the Marshall campaign, told the Washington Free Beacon that Bollier would bring a radical gun-control agenda to the Senate.
"This may sound good to Bollier's donors in San Francisco, but to Kansans, this is disqualifying," he said. "Even among Democrats, forced gun confiscation is an alarming concept."
Bollier's comments supporting gun confiscation come as gun-control groups have begun to shy away from the issue. In a recent swing state ad campaigns, Everytown for Gun Safety completely avoided the issue of guns in favor of ads about health care and energy issues.
They also come as Kansas and the rest of the country are experiencing record gun sales. Industry estimates suggest there could be nearly 7.5 million new gun owners across the country. If even a fraction of those new gun owners become politically active gun voters, the impact in races like Bollier's could be significant.
Author deplorablesunitePosted on October 14, 2020 October 12, 2020 Categories The Second AmendmentTags Backs Gun Confiscation, Gun Control, Kansas Dem, Second Amendment
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bppettie says:
Actually Barbara Boiler, what would be good would be to make sure all Senators have some training in what it means to follow the Constitution of the US.. you clearly do not understand the concepts that Government has only those rights and obligations given to it by the people who have retained to themselves all other rights, one of which is to buy, own and use firearms.
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Jewels, though more personal than paintings, should be treated as great works of art...
Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1925, David Webb got his start as an apprentice in his uncle's silver shop prior to moving to New York, where he worked repairing jewelry in Greenwich Village. A charming and talented young man, the social elite were enamored by him and, with the backing of wealthy patron Antoinette Quilleret, he eventually opened his own shop in 1945. He swiftly became successful enough to buy out Quilleret in 1948 and established David Webb, Inc. in 1948.
Webb was a self-taught jewelry designer and developed his unique style through years of studying ancient jewels from Greece, Mesopotamia, and Central and South America, as well as traditional jewelry styles from China and India. These sources, coupled with the contemporary trends emerging in American and European jewelry—especially the figural and natural themes of industry titan Cartier and their creative director Jeanne Toussaint—led Webb to develop his own visionary motifs that propelled his company to immense success.
His bold, colorful designs could be seen on some of the most influential jewelry collectors of the 20th century, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diana Vreeland, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ava Gardner. Webb's animal-themed jewels were especially popular: the Duke of Windsor purchased an enameled frog bangle for his wife in 1964, and Diana Vreeland was particularly fond of her dramatic and bold zebra bangle. Tragically, Webb's life was cut short by pancreatic cancer at 50 years old. Despite such a monumental loss, the company continued and today remains one of the most important jewelry firms in the world, producing imaginative and bold jewels from the workshop above Webb's flagship store on Madison Avenue in New York.
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Significance of ANSI standards with respect to OSHA requirements, specifically A92.6-1999.
Mr. H. B. Bud Hayden, Jr.
Hayden Enterprises
Winslow House, Unit 801
100 SE Second Street
Re: American National Standards Institute, ANSI, A92, 1910.1, 1910.6
Dear Mr. Hayden:
This is in response to your March 24, 2000, letter addressed to Ms. Jule Jones, at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in which you ask OSHA to clarify how the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards affect OSHA's enforcement program, and the effect of later revisions to consensus standards on OSHA standards. You ask that we comment on the ANSI A92 series, specifically the A92.6-1999 standard for Self-Propelled Elevating Platforms.
Question 1: What is the significance of ANSI standards with respect to OSHA requirements?
Answer: A number of ANSI and other industry consensus standards have been adopted as OSHA requirements. 29 CFR 1926.453 Aerial Lifts (previously numbered §1926.556), which is part of OSHA's construction scaffolding standard, Part 1926 Subpart L, is one example where OSHA incorporated by reference an ANSI standard. This provision, which was originally promulgated under the Construction Safety Act and then adopted as an OSHA standard in 1971, requires that aerial lifts be designed and constructed in accordance with ANSI A92.2-1969, titled Vehicle Mounted Elevating and Rotating Work Platforms.
Industry consensus standards can also play a role in evaluating employer responsibilities under section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act, also known as the General Duty Clause. That provision requires employers to:
"furnish to each of [its] employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to [its] employees."
Industry consensus standards can be evidence that an industry recognizes a hazard and that there are feasible means of correcting the hazard.
Question 2: Where an OSHA standard incorporates an old consensus standard, what is the significance of an updated ANSI standard for OSHA requirements?
Under OSHA's de minimis policy, where OSHA has adopted an earlier consensus standard, employers who are in compliance with the updated version will not be cited for a violation of the old version as long as the new one is at least equally protective.
Remember, though, that where an OSHA standard incorporates an earlier consensus standard, the only way the OSHA standard can be changed to adopt the new version is through rulemaking. For example, as stated above, the aerial lift standard references ANSI A92.2-1969. Even though ANSI A92.2 has been revised, the OSHA aerial lift standard continues to require only compliance with the 1969 standard.
Subpart L, which was published in 1996, contains a non-mandatory appendix that lists the A92-1990 and 1993 consensus standards that are considered to provide employee protection equivalent to ANSI A92.2-1969. Appendix C reflects the proliferation of equipment-specific ANSI standards since the adoption of the 1969 document. Employers complying with these later versions are considered to have provided protection equivalent to the 1969 requirements.
If you need additional information, please contact us by fax at: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA, Directorate of Construction, Office of Construction Standards and Guidance, fax # 202-693-1689. You can also contact us by mail at the above office, Room N3468, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210, although there will be a delay in our receiving correspondence by mail.
Russell B. Swanson, Director
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NCG member, Marin Community Foundation, published the letter below from it's President & CEO, Dr. Thomas Peters. We whole-heartedly agree! Take a look below:
As a life-long resident, I've never been more proud than now to be a Californian.
Amid the loud rhetoric and heated debate of the day, one can literally feel the upwelling of support for the human values and welcoming traditions that are the virtual watermark of our state. Anyone who knows the history of California knows that it has been the great flow of immigration that continually refreshes and revitalizes our culture, creativity and productivity.
There is no better time than the present to celebrate and defend California's dynamic force.
That's why we created a statement from MCF, California Rising, which you'll see below.
As a community foundation, we are committed to doing everything we can to uphold the values and traditions that make California, California.
As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions. You can reach me at tpeters@marincf.org or 415.464.2508.
Dr. Thomas Peters President & CEO
P.S. If you'd like to download the piece as a PDF, just click here.
See the letter on MCF's website
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Superior to both Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and (by a smaller margin) Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, The Martian will disappoint only those who were waiting for Marvin to show up at some point to wreak looney havoc. Perhaps not since Ron Howard's 1995 Apollo 13 has a movie paid such loving tribute to star-struck visionaries and their egghead enablers, those brainiacs who work tirelessly to send them soaring past the heavens and just as feverishly toil to return them safely to the fold.
Matt Damon plays the title character – not a Martian per se, but an Earthling who becomes stranded on the planet after his team mistakenly believes him to have been killed in a freak accident. While his fellow astronauts, a dedicated group led by expedition captain Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), hurtle back toward Earth – a journey that will take many months – Damon's Mark Watney calmly assesses his situation and determines that if he can sufficiently secure the man-built outpost on the Mars surface and if he can not only ration his food but also grow some more, he might be able to survive long enough until the next U.S. rocket comes visiting in a couple years time.
Or maybe not even that long, once the NASA suits realize that he's in fact not dead (as reported by Lewis) and is very much alive. With NASA engineer Vincent Kapoor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) taking the lead, agency head Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) exploring every option, and p.r. rep Annie Montrose (Kristen Wiig) waiting for instructions on how to handle the media, everyone becomes committed to bringing Mark back home.
Andy Weir's novel has been adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, TV's Alias), and the film's strength largely derives from the characterization of Mark Watney. As expertly brought to life by Damon, he's easy to like and even easier to admire, as he employs his sense of humor to take the edge off his dire predicament, thus allowing him to rationally face challenges one step at a time.
Yet despite Damon's star billing and his face looming large – and alone – on the poster, this is hardly a one-man show like Cast Away (or a one-woman show like Gravity).
Instead, the picture frequently cuts away from Watney, not only to focus on the various earthbound players as they argue, compromise and coordinate but also to check in on Watney's fellow space travellers and get their take on the situation.
Not surprisingly, everyone comes to the same conclusion: Like Damon's Private Ryan, Damon's Mark Watney is worth saving. The Martian, then, represents that other type of inspirational drama, one that moves us not through oversized action but through understated intelligence.
The Martian is not showing in any theaters in the area.
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This pattern belongs to Azores embroidery (that I will review soon), called the Long and Short stitches embroidery, usually embroidered with two shades of blue.
Embroidery pattern adapted from "Traditional Embroidery of Portugal".
Design sheet from "Traditional Embroidery of Portugal"
I believe that in 2013 "all we need is love"... And as the Portuguese word for LOVE is AMOR, this is my way of wishing you all the love in the world!
Thank you! This is a lovely pattern and it carries very sweet wishes for the new year.
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Looking Ahead by Looking Behind: The Year 2018 in Digital Ethics and Policy
2019 Symposium on Digital Ethics
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Seeing isn't Believing: Photo Manipulation in the Digital Age
When Rich Lam went to bed early on the morning of June 16 last year, he had no reason to suspect he'd wake up to a media frenzy.
The night before, Lam was on assignment for Getty photographing riots in Vancouver after the city's hockey team, the Canucks, lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins. According to Canadian news reports, several people were stabbed during the riots, cars were set on fire, stores were looted and police carrying shields moved in to control the crowd.
Lam had shot protests and riots before, so the dangerous environment was nothing new to him. At one point while Lam was standing behind a police line, he snapped a few frames of what he believed to be a man helping a woman who'd fallen in the street. The pair were about 30 to 50 yards away, so Lam zoomed in, making sure the woman's legs were in focus. Then he "never looked at that photo again."
Lam returned to his editors, who were on-site for the big game to assist with cropping photos and writing captions. "Another photographer told me, 'Hey, nice picture of the couple kissing,'" Lam recalls. "I only saw it on the screen for about 30 seconds."
The next day, that photo went viral. Questions about the kissing couple circulated around the globe as the photo was shared on Twitter and Facebook. News media searched for the couple's identity. Bloggers started to question if the shot was staged or if the photo had been manipulated.
That's when Lam's phone started to ring with questions he didn't have answers to. He hadn't gotten the couple's names because they were on the other side of the police line. And if the moment was staged, "I knew I wasn't any part of it," Lam says. At the request of his editors, Lam provided other photos from the kiss sequence to prove the moment wasn't staged.
By June 17, the couple had come forward and an amateur videographer produced video from the scene that showed the photo was authentic. "I felt the weight of the world was off my shoulders," Lam says.
But the doubts from bloggers were almost insulting. Lam had built a solid reputation as a photographer for the past 15 years. "I understand it's their job to hear from the horse's mouth if it was doctored," Lam says of the journalists who questioned him. "No one could accept a good photo for just that — a good photo."
So why is the public starting to see problems where there are none?
Part of the problem has to do with the existence of more savvy news consumers, who, ethicists and photojournalists say, have become more skeptical of news photos in recent years, as coverage of photo manipulation scandals becomes more frequent and prominent. Consumers also have seen for themselves what they themselves can do with relatively inexpensive and easy-to-use digital manipulation software like Photoshop.
"The credibility of the photojournalist that we once had as documenters of what's happening in the world, it definitely takes a big hit when people start fooling around with it," Lam says. "It's that whole thing of one rotten apple spoils the bunch. Once you fool the reader... they'll have that perception of 'What's stopping this person or that person from doing it?'"
But that skepticism isn't necessarily a bad thing.
"Your average citizens are learning about journalism and how it works and to not trust everything they see or read," says Paul Martin Lester, a professor at California State University, Fullerton, who's written extensively about evolving photojournalism ethics. "I would think you want to be skeptical of what you see. So it's really a positive influence on the public's state of mind."
Lester notes that photo manipulation didn't begin in 1990 with the release of Photoshop. In his book "Photojournalism an Ethical Approach," Lester traces the first faked photo back to 1840 when a Frenchman posed as a corpse. Throughout photography's early history there have been examples of photographers who made photo composites and passed them off as one moment in time, bodies of Civil War soldiers that were moved for dramatic effect and mash-ups done in the darkroom. For example, the popular full-length portrait of President Abraham Lincoln that appears on the $5 bill is actually Lincoln's head atop a Southern politician's body.
And in the early 20th century, staging a shot wasn't considered as unethical as it is today. Lester uses Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photo as an example. In it, the children were directed to turn away from the camera and part of a distracting hand holding the tent flap was airbrushed from the image.
This changed by the 1950s, Lester says, when academic institutions like the University of Missouri started offering photojournalism majors and professional organizations like the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) started to group photographers together, offering them guidance and making them think more like professionals. Eventually, codes of ethics for photographers were drafted and universities added ethics courses that became integral to photojournalism programs.
Since the 1950s, photojournalism codes of ethics have consistently stated that you cannot add or subtract from an image in a way that distorts reality, Lester says. The current NPPA code of conduct urges photographers to stay away from stage-managed photos and prohibits them from doing anything that deliberately alters the events unfolding before them. The editing process must "maintain the integrity of the photographic images' content and context." Images shouldn't be manipulated in a way that misleads viewers or misrepresents subjects.
The fundamental philosophy of photojournalism ethics might sound intuitive, but that's because the problem has less to do with ethics than how they are put into practice, says Kevin Connor, president of Fourandsix, (a word play on "forensics"), a company that's working to develop tools that analyze and authenticate digital images.
Many photojournalists say they stick to alterations in Photoshop that they could have done in the darkroom. But for journalists who were raised on digital cameras, that might be a difficult basis for judgement calls.
To solve this, some organizations provide specific limits on what can be done in Photoshop. For example, the Associated Press allows photographers to make "minor adjustments" such as cropping, dodging and burning, converting to grayscale, toning and color adjustments that "restore the authentic nature of the photograph." Use of the cloning tool (which copies and pastes part of the picture) is only permitted to eliminate dust on camera sensors or scratches on scanned negatives. Removal of "red eye" is not allowed.
But there are no hard and fast rules as to which Photoshop tools are off limits.
"The challenge here is it is contextual," says Connor, who worked at Adobe for 15 years, mostly on Photoshop products, and now blogs about photo editing. "Those same things that you do that are valid, if pushed too far can become inappropriate."
One of the most famous examples of taking photo manipulation too far is Time's 1994 cover of O.J. Simpson, which darkened Simpson's mugshot in a way that made him look menacing. Lightening or darkening is not inherently wrong, Connor says, "but if you do it in a way that has a specific meaning or impacts in a sensitive way, that's out of line."
Most photo editors and contest judges know to look for certain clues that a photo has been doctored. According to a 2007 American Journalism Review article about photo manipulation, "the most common signs are differences in color or shadows, variations in graininess or pixilation, blurred images or elements in the photo that are too bright or much sharper than the rest."
Of course, many photo manipulations are too slight to see with the naked eye, which is why increasingly sophisticated methods are being developed to tell a user where and how an image has been changed. Known as "digital image forensics," the field is still rather new and niche, but companies like Fourandsix see the image verification tools they are developing as being useful not only to newsrooms but also within the scientific community and for law enforcement.
In a 2008 feature for Scientific American, Hany Farid, Fourandsix's chief technology officer and a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, wrote about the algorithms he'd developed to help detect if a photo had been manipulated. Because there are many different ways to manipulate a photo and many degrees of manipulation, Farid worked on several methods.
One algorithm estimated the direction of light sources to see if a photo composite had been made. Another determined the consistency of light being reflected back into people's eyes, to see if they'd actually been photographed in the same place and time. A third looked for identical blocks of pixels repeated throughout an image that would suggest the cloning tool had been used. A fourth examined the image's pixel correlations, which if incorrect for the camera used would suggest spots of the photo or the entire image had been changed.
But a major problem, Farid wrote, is that as software continues to improve, "forgers will work on finding ways to fool each algorithm."
"As with the spam/antispam and virus/antivirus game, not to mention criminal activity in general, an arms race between the perpetrator and the forensic analyst is inevitable," he continued. "The field of image forensics will, however, continue to make it harder and more time-consuming (but never impossible) to create a forgery that cannot be detected."
Connor says that ideally, future manipulation detection products will have a suite of tools that look for different signs of what's been done to an image. But he doubts any photo manipulation detection software would ever be completely automated, since it depends on how far one takes an editing tool, not whether it has been used at all. "You really can't remove the human judgement from it," he said.
Part of the NPPA code of conduct dictates that "visual journalists should continuously study their craft and the ethics that guide it." And as photographic technology evolves, newsrooms and photojournalists are constantly reevaluating and redefining the boundaries they follow, often becoming more specific in their code of conduct language, Connor writes.
Lester says it's possible that certain technologies that are frowned on now could become more acceptable as they're used more frequently. He uses an example HDR, or high-dynamic-range imaging, which is a technique that involves taking multiple pictures at different exposure levels. Those pictures are then "stitched" together in a way that better shows dark and bright areas.
On its Jan. 13 cover, The Washington Post used an HDR image of a bridge at sunset with a plane flying overhead as the water and sky turned a bright orange color. The caption the Post decided to use accompanying the photo read: "This image is a composite created by taking several photos and combining them with computer software to transcend the visual limitations of standard photography."
Poynter spoke to the Post's director of photography, Michel du Cille, about the choice; du Cille said he wanted his photographers to experiment with new techniques and technologies, reasoning, "Ten years from now, HDR may be built into cameras, and who will know it?" But NPPA's president told Poynter that HDR is a digital manipulation "not appropriate for documentary photojournalism" because it goes against the organization's code of ethics tenant to "respect the integrity of the photographic moment."
The use of camera phones as a reporting tool has become increasingly accepted, though the use of camera phone applications still raises quite a bit of controversy. Critics have lashed out at journalists who use apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram, which develop photos with a vintage feel, arguing that they produce images that are just as unethical as those that have been manipulated in Photoshop.
But other photojournalists say you can't categorically dismiss such apps as "always wrong," in the same way Connor says that no Photoshop tool is always used to mislead.
Deciding whether a certain camera or an app is appropriate to use all boils down to two questions, says Chicago-based photojournalist Sally Ryan: "What are you shooting and what are you trying to say?"
Ryan, who shoots for the New York Times, says that as a photographer, you need to decide before you shoot what message you're trying to convey and how you'll present the image after it's taken. It comes back to context, she says.
Last year, New York Times photographer Damon Winter won an award from Pictures of the Year International for a series of photographs taken on his iPhone using Hipstamatic. The photos accompanied a feature story that detailed the unglamorous day-to-day life of soldiers in Afghanistan.
Critics argued Winter should not have won the award, or used the app to take the photos, and after some time, Winter responded in a lengthy post on the Times' photo blog.
He argued in support of using the camera phone, which is more discreet and less intimidating for soldiers. In adherence to photojournalism ethics, no content was "added, taken away, obscured or altered," he wrote. The issue that inflamed critics, he argued, involved not content, but aesthetics, something that, like the field of photojournalism itself, is subjective. Ultimately, viewers must accept that photographers are in control of the image they present, and trust them to tell the truth, if only a version of it.
"We observe, we chose moments, we frame little slices of our world with our viewfinders, we even decide how much or how little light will illuminate our subjects, and — yes — we choose what equipment to use," Winter wrote. "We are not walking photocopiers. We are storytellers."
Kalyn Belsha is a freelance journalist based in Chicago whose work has appeared in The Texas Observer, Time Out Chicago and Hoy Chicago. She holds a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. kbelsha@gmail.com
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Le Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville 2012, la  du festival, et s'est déroulé du  au .

Jurys

Sélection officielle

Révélation Cartier

Sélection

En compétition

Premières

Les docs de l'Oncle Sam

Les hommages

Carte blanche
 Agnès b. présente La Monstrueuse Parade (Freaks), Les Fiancés en folie, Lost Highway, Reflets dans un œil d'or (Reflections in a Golden Eye), Reservoir Dogs, The Big Shave, Trash Humpers

Le nouvel Hollywood
 Paul Dano

Les nuits américaines

Deauville, saison 3
 Girls
 Homeland
 The Newsroom
 Shameless

Séance culte
 Mondwest de Michael  Crichton

Palmarès
 Grand prix :  Les Bêtes du sud sauvage de Benh Zeitlin
 Prix du jury : Una Noche de Lucy Mulloy
 Prix de la critique internationale : The We and the I de Michel Gondry
 Prix de la Révélation Cartier : Les Bêtes du sud sauvage de Benh Zeitlin
 Prix Michel-d'Ornano : Rengaine de Rachid Djaïdani

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Festival de cinéma
 Festival de Cannes 2012
 Berlinale 2012
 Mostra de Venise 2012

Liens externes

 Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville 2012 (édition n°38) sur Allociné
  Le Festival de Deauville par année sur l'Internet Movie Database

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Does a new, conservative XFL mean WWE will lose its diverse fan base?
Vince McMahon's old XFL: No rules! McMahon's new XFL: All of the rules!
By David Dennis Jr.	@DavidDTSS
Maybe WWE chairman Vince McMahon didn't know what was coming. Maybe he didn't know, as he stood in front of digitized helmets for a WWE.com livestreamed news teleconference, how wrong things could go. He announced, 10 days before Super Bowl LII, that the XFL — his ill-received football league full of wacky rules, gruesome injuries, terrible play and poor ratings, the league that imploded in 2002 after only one season — was returning.
Maybe McMahon didn't know that on the other side of the cameras were WWE fans, sports journalists, political pundits and amateur comedians looking to poke fun at the "new" XFL concept. Fingertips full of potential energy were poised to pounce on the keyboards like linemen on a loose ball. They were waiting for him to say it, and he did.
"People don't want social and political issues coming into play," said McMahon, "when they are trying to be entertained. … We want someone who wants to take a knee to do their version of that on their personal time." The meaning was clear: The XFL, which originally rebelled against the NFL by promising more violence, individuality and unpredictability, wants to provide a safer, presumably whiter alternative to the NFL where rules, especially those likely to appeal to a more conservative demographic, are the new name of the game.
The reactions were swift and unrelenting: Memes about the XFL's coded language and impending racism dominated social media for the ensuing 24 hours. Why? McMahon's comment supported a widespread belief that the XFL, this time, will be a league for white conservatives turned off by black athletes speaking up about racial inequality during NFL games: kneeling for the anthem, locking arms, being generally more outspoken about their political passions.
The NFL, of course, has been consumed by political drama. The weekly will-they-or-won't-they of anthem protests. The midseason drama of an anti-NFL tirade by President Donald Trump, ending in a Super Bowl battle that saw the Eagles, who maintained protests throughout the season and featured some of the league's more outspoken players (Malcolm Jenkins, Chris Long), triumph over the Trump-friendly New England Patriots. All while Colin Kaepernick was one of the league's biggest stars while never taking a snap.
McMahon must of course believe there's a substantial opening for the XFL, which has been the butt of sports jokes for the better part of 15 years. When the league was launched in 2001, it was supposed to be an edgier version of the NFL with more scantily clad cheerleaders, harder hits and innovative camera angles. However, as documented in 2017's This Was the XFL, the league never really stood a chance. The original XFL featured wrestling announcers as play-by-play guys, "scrambles" for loose balls instead of coin tosses and kickoffs, and no fair catches, meaning players had to field every kick return. But most importantly, the play on the field, to use a technical term, sucked.
XFL games were closer to minor league exhibitions than displays of competitive excellence. Fans noticed, and when the XFL caved, it was McMahon's biggest embarrassment as a businessman. So it would take some remarkable circumstances for McMahon to want to revive a brand with such a stench. He clearly believes the state of the NFL has provided that opening.
There are plenty of reasons for McMahon to want to launch another football league, many he addressed in his news conference. The NFL is as vulnerable to a competitor as ever before. Ratings are down to the tune of 10 percent this season, causing a $30 million drop in ad revenue for networks. Ratings for the Super Bowl itself were down 7 percent from last year. The NFL is in the middle of its most volatile period from a media relations standpoint as well, with scandals and controversy leading news cycles as much as final scores and stat lines.
McMahon addressed NFL games as being too long, often teetering beyond three hours, and said that his broadcasts, which don't have a network or online home as of yet, will be around two hours, maybe with no halftimes. "Sitting and watching a three-, three-and-a-half-hour game is laborious sometimes," he said (unironically, even though he airs a three-hour wrestling program every Monday). The NFL is facing safety concerns and chronic traumatic encephalopathy/brain injury scandals, so McMahon promises a "safer" game, but he's not sure exactly how to execute that added safety. McMahon was unsure about a lot of details around his newish league. "We have two years, which is enough time to really get it right."
Which makes his defined stance on the national anthem stand out even more. It's one of the only firm points about the league McMahon was able to offer.
"The national anthem is a time-honored tradition that's played to this day and many years in the past before sporting events. One of our rules is what everyone will abide by. There's opportunity and plenty of ways players, coaches and members of the media can express their own personal views in terms of social issues. Again, we're here to play football. That's everyone's job."
The fact that standing for the anthem is essentially the only fortified rule of law, set two years before opening night, makes one particular brand of flag-worshiping patriotism a defining characteristic of XFL 2.0. The far-right website Breitbart News Network is head over heels about the XFL, with headlines such as "Move Over NFL, The XFL Is Back!" and "MAGA Football League Coming to a Stadium Near You."
McMahon, to his credit, insisted that the league would be politics-free. "The XFL will be having nothing to do with politics. And nothing to do with social issues either. We are there to play football. I think that's what fans want when they tune in."
Of course, the "politics-free" rhetoric is immediately contradicted by demanding athletes stand for the anthem, as forced participation and hampering athletes' free speech is, in itself, a political act. McMahon can't claim neutrality while at the same time making a statement about the biggest political fight involving sports in 2017. And despite the fact that McMahon has indicated he will have a "hands-off" role with regard to this incarnation of the XFL, it's impossible to divorce his personal/familial politics from the league's direction.
Vince McMahon and his wife, Linda, who was WWE's CEO until 2017, have become power donors to GOP candidates and platforms. Linda McMahon is a politician in her own right, running for a Connecticut Senate seat as a Republican in 2010 and 2012.
"We want someone who wants to take a knee to do their version of that on their personal time." — Vince McMahon
Then there's the biggest elephant in the room: the McMahon/Trump relationship. He and his wife donated $4 million to the Trump campaign in 2016, continuing years of spending millions on Republican politicians and organizations. In 2010 and 2012, Linda McMahon also spent upward of $100 million trying to get elected as a Republican senator in New York. She is currently a member of Trump's cabinet, serving as the leader of the federal Small Business Administration. The McMahons have maintained a close business relationship with Trump for decades: WrestleManias IV and V were held at Atlantic City's now-bankrupt and closed Trump Plaza. In 2007, Trump was a featured guest in a "hair vs. hair" match with Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 23. The current president was also elected into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2013.
So when Trump called NFL players who kneel for the anthem "sons of b—–s" and the husband of one of his cabinet members launches a football league where kneeling is prohibited, the logical leap is to believe that the XFL is a league that will at least be heavily endorsed by the commander in chief.
McMahon addressed that very question during his news conference, chuckling at the idea of a Trump endorsement: "I have no idea if President Trump will support this." Trump also hasn't commented on the XFL announcement. Yet.
The XFL's success, however, won't depend on its politics. Even if the league appeals to a certain right-wing populace, that alone won't create viewers. The league has the same dilemma it had in 2001: How does it put a good product out on the field? The NFL talent pool is going to be shrinking as more parents grow concerned about the long-term physical and mental effects of the game. A 2016 HBO/Marist poll found that 44 percent of parents with sons under age 18 are reluctant to let them play football. And even if there were a wealth of incoming talent, the XFL would clearly be getting the players who couldn't cut it in the NFL.
The league, then, has two years to figure out how to put a compelling product on the field, because that will matter infinitely more than any moral high ground supporting the XFL can provide. And let's not look over the fact that the XFL will need black athletes. XFL will need to prove that the league can be a worthwhile career choice for the overlooked athlete from a historically black college, the player who suffered an injury and wants to battle back into prominence. The possibility is there for these players to get nationwide exposure, but will the league use that to boost the XFL brand or just treat it like a farm league for the NFL? And how many are going to want to put their bodies on the line for a league that flies in the face of their culture?
"This might be the last you see of me," said McMahon, who has not spoken again publicly about the new XFL since, "in terms of being out front. … We are going to hire people who really know what they are doing, experienced executives who will be out in front. It won't be me." He's even using a separate entertainment company, Alpha Entertainment, to fund the XFL with $100 million of his own money. But regardless, the XFL will be seen as an extension of McMahon and his WWE brand, and that brand has a long history of the kind of xenophobia, sexism and racism that the current presidential administration has been accused of perpetuating.
WWE has featured more diverse representation in recent years, thanks to the popularity of black stars such as New Day and Sasha Banks, more female wrestlers in prominent roles and wrestlers such as Shinsuke Nakamura and Jinder Mahal raising the company's popularity in global markets. But decades of peddling stereotypes are hard to forget. Despite it all, more than 40 percent of WWE's audience is nonwhite and more than 35 percent are female.
Fans cheer for their fighter at the WWE SummerSlam 2015 at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on August 23, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by)
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These numbers have persisted thanks to a willingness to overlook the stereotypes and lack of positive representation, WrestleMania headliners and champions on WWE programming. While the XFL most likely won't subscribe to the same stereotyped representations seen in the WWE, the distance between those characters and a league that reaffirms alt-right sentiments will likely not only spell doom for the league but finally be the move that causes fans to pass on McMahon's wrestling empire.
If XFL presents a full-on extension of the WWE, a football league that embraces Trumpism and pro-Make America Great Again sentiments, then it could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back, and the common thread is McMahon.
No matter how much McMahon distances himself from the XFL or how much he insists it will be politically neutral, the league still has to combat the notion that it is simply a proxy for alt-right ideals. And if it isn't able to do so, it could finally lead fans to find support of McMahon's WWE cash cow as a bridge too far.
McMahon has his own competition on the horizon — something more diverse and a compelling alternative for anyone looking for a more liberal brand, especially if they're turned off by the XFL's potential conservatism. New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) has always been a massively popular brand overseas with the most die-hard of wrestling lovers in America following along. Mark Cuban has been broadcasting the company's shows on his AXS TV network since 2015 and has been dipping his toes into the possibility of pumping more money into the company as a genuine WWE competitor.
Right now, NJPW is a far cry from coming close to the American fan base of the WWE, which Cuban has acknowledged. "He thinks we're just little s–ts," Cuban told Sports Illustrated in December. "We're not a threat because of the language. … But if you're a purist for wrestling, and you like the action, it's the best promotion by far. People here aren't going to connect as directly, but if you really love wrestling, then it's a no-brainer." It's hard to imagine NJPW overtaking WWE in popularity anytime soon, but if McMahon is trying to get conservative fans to leave the NFL for the XFL, he may run the risk of having progressives and minorities slip out of the WWE's backdoor for NJPW.
The XFL news should be sparse in the immediate future as McMahon gathers the personnel to execute the revival. The silence will be filled with speculation and expectations of a league that can end up as divisive as any in sports. Race and sports have forever been intertwined, and if the XFL carries out in the way we expect, as a league that pits conservative Americans against protesters and people of color, then we are looking at a battle over race in sports taking center stage like never before.
David Dennis Jr. is a writer and adjunct professor of Journalism at Morehouse College. David's writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Smoking Section, Uproxx, Playboy, The Atlantic, Complex.com and wherever people argue about things on the Internet.
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Pre-Super Genesis Wave characters, Material from Mobius Encyclopedia, Robots
A Cyclops, from Sonic the Hedgehog In Your Face!.
Sonic the Hedgehog In Your Face!
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Purple, yellow, orange, tan
The Cyclops, also known as Mechanoid,[1] is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It was a tall, Overlander-shaped mechanoid of unknown origins with a single optic sensor similar to a giant eye.
Sally Acorn encountered the Cyclops while on her soul-quest from her late mentor Julayla Chipmunk, in the Forbidden Zone of Mobius. NICOLE scanned the Cyclops after it proved to be able to impervious to Sonic the Hedgehog's attacks. NICOLE revealed that its targeting system was entirely motion-based. Sonic then walked up to the robot and stood perfectly still, whereupon the Cyclops went back into standby mode with no target to follow, and allowed the Knothole Freedom Fighters to pass safely.[1]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Sonic the Hedgehog In Your Face!, "The Quest Princess Sally's Crusade: Conclusion"
Cyclops Robot at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.
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By: Dwight Weingarten
Nakasone 'Confident' in Election Security, Calls Influence Ops 'Next Great Disruptor'
Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, today expressed confidence in the country's ability to conduct safe and secure elections in November, while also warning that foreign influence operations pose an ongoing challenge for the U.S.
Asked by retired Gen. James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and others, how cybersecurity preparations for the elections are going, Gen. Nakasone said that issue is the "number one priority at NSA and U.S. Cyber Command" with 48 days to go until the elections.
"We're looking at three different areas in how we really ensure our goal of a safe, secure election," said Gen. Nakasone, speaking at the online Intelligence and National Security Summit on Sept. 16.
He said the first area is: "How do we generate incredible insights on our adversaries?"
"Secondly, how do we share information and intelligence with the lead for our nation's elections security which is DHS [Department of Homeland Security] and also FBI?" he said.
"And the last piece, how do we impose outcomes on any adversary that attempts to interfere within our democratic processes," he said.
"Across all three, I am very confident we will have a tremendous continuing success," Gen. Nakasone said.
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In addition to expressing his confidence in election security, Gen. Nakasone said that influence operations will be something that the country will continue to have to address.
"Influence operations, just in general, for us, will be one of the things that we'll be dealing with, not just every two or four years," the general said, adding, "but this is the competitive space that we're going to be in, as intelligence agencies and as our nation."
Speaking on a panel moderated by Sue Gordon, the former principal deputy DNI, Gen. Nakasone called influence operations "the next great disruptor that's akin to what we've seen with COVID-19."
Parsing out the comparison, he said both the coronavirus pandemic and influence operations have a "low barrier to entry," and "affected those within nations pretty uniformly."
Influence operations are "below the level of armed conflict," said Gen. Nakasone, but allow for the "spread of messages that are far from true."
"We've seen it now in our democratic processes," he said. "I think we're going to see it in our diplomatic processes, we're going to see it in warfare, we're going to see it sowing civil distrust in different countries."
"The great technology that's enabling so much of what we are doing is also that dual-edge sword," he concluded.
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Ever since the new PLL spin-off was announced, fans have wondered: What are the Pretty Little Liars connections in The Perfectionists? ICYMI, the liars are back—well, two of them, anyway—and they're involved in a new murder mystery in the town of Beacon Heights. The show follows fan-favorites Mona Vanderwaal and Alison DiLaurentis as they investigate a mysterious murder after a Beacon Heights University student is pushed off a building and impaled by the fence below. Who murdered Nolan Hotchkiss? In typical PLL fashion, it won't be a while until we find out. But that doesn't mean that the show isn't worth a watch, especially for longtime PLL fans.
What happened to Emison? Where are Hanna and Caleb now? And are Spencer and Toby still together? These questions and more were answered in the first few episodes of The Perfectionists. Even star Janel Parrish, who plays Mona (the OG A), has said that there several Easter eggs scattered throughout The Perfectionists for PLL fans. We've already spotted 10 so far. Some of them are out-right details about where our favorite liars are now, while others are parallels to the original series. Either way, as the characters keep their eyes peeled for Nolan's murderer, we'll watch out for the PLL references.
Alex and Mary Drake May Have Escaped Mona's Dollhouse
In the first episode, Mona explains to Alison why she's in Beacon Heights and not in Paris, where we last saw her at the end of PLL. "Yeah, that was great for a while," Mona tells Alison. "But eventually the reasons I was there…escaped me. So I came back to the States to devote my time to something that suited my talents and my passions—game design for Hotchkiss." Pay attention to the word escaped. The last time we saw Mona was when she locked Alex and Mary Drake in her dollhouse. In their final words, the characters considered an escape. But did they actually do it? If Mona's "reasons" to stay in Paris (Alex and Mary" actually "escaped" her, perhaps she moved back to the U.S. to Beacon Heights to stay safe. Either way, we're confident this quote was an Easter egg for PLL fans.
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Alison and Emily Have Relationship Problems
Last we saw Emison, the couple had two babies, Grace and Lily. But at the start of The Perfectionists, it looks like the couple may be on a break or broken up (a la Ross and Rachel.) In her conversation with Mona, Alison tells her why she's in Beacon Heights and not back in Rosewood with Emily. "Emily loves me. She just can't get past the past, Alison says. When Mona says that she thought the couple was OK, Alison responds, "We are. And then we're not. It always comes back to trust. Creator I. Marlene King told TV Line that the show the show will explore Alison and Emily's fallout more. So sorry, Emison shippers. It doesn't look good for the couple.
Hanna and Caleb Are Still Raising Their Baby
It was revealed in the PLL series finale that Hanna and Caleb had a baby, and according to The Perfectionists, not much has changed since then. In the second episode of the spin-off, Mona calls Hanna (we can't hear her, but Mona provides enough context clues.) During the conversation, Mona asks, "How are you? How's Caleb? How's the baby?" We don't hear Hanna's response, but it sounds like things are A-OK for the couple. The conversation is also a sweet moment for Hanna and Mona fans. "It's so good to hear your voice too. I really miss you," Mona tells Hanna.
Spencer and Toby Eloped
Mona's phone call to Hanna also revealed that Spencer and Toby are married. In fact, they eloped in secret. "Wait, Hanna, back up. What do you mean Spencer and Toby eloped?" Mona says. The marriage was apparently such a secret that even Hanna, one of the core liars, didn't know. "Even you didn't know? Mona asks. Mona then asks Hanna where the couple is registered, so she can get them a wedding gift.
The Mona Look-Alike Easter Egg
In the first episode, Mona shoos away a student who's using the mirror in a bathroom, so she can talk to what we assume is the Beacon Guard. PLL superfans will notice that the student in the bathroom is dressed exactly like Mona from the first season of PLL, with her big glasses and conservative clothes. Parrish later revealed to TV Line that the cameo was an on-purpose Easter egg for fans. "That was a little Easter egg for our fans," she said. "We dressed [the actress] to look like a young Mona, a little nerdy Mona. I'm so glad you noticed that! We'll have a couple of those Easter eggs here and there throughout the season."
Ava and the Red Coat
The Perfectionists trailer shows Ava Jalali, one of the new characters, stroking a red coat. As PLL fans remember, a red coat was worn by many villains in the show. Alison wore it when she dressed as her alter-ego, Vivian Darkbloom, and the same-color jacket was also worn by Cece Drake/Charlotte DiLaurentis and Sara Harvey. Was Ava stroking a red coat simply an Easter egg or is it a clue that she may be more involved in Nolan's murder than we thought? Who knows, but it was a cute nod for PLL fans.
Ezra's Book
In PLL's season-5 time jump, it's revealed that Ezra wrote a book titled Ostinato, which made its way to The Perfectionists. Along with Ava in a red coat, the teaser also shows Ezra's book falling into frame, which seems like only an Easter egg PLL super-fans will spot. Good to know that Ezra's writing career is still going strong.
Mona's Paris Trinkets
In an interview with TV Line, Parrish revealed that another PLL Easter egg The Perfectionists included was Mona's apartment decor. Specifically, she told fans to look for doll parts and Paris references, which nod to Mona's time in Paris at the end of PLL, where she locked Alex and Mary in a doll house. "There are hints of weirdness all over the place," she told TV Line. "There are some doll parts around, lots of Paris references. You know, kooky Mona!"
The Funeral Text
One of the most iconic scenes of the first episode of PLL is when Aria, Emily, Spencer and Hanna receive the same text from -A outside of Alison's funeral. Their phones buzz one after another as they reach into their bags to read the menacing text. There was a reference to that in the second episode of The Perfectionists, where Ava, Dylan and Caitlin are at Nolan's funeral and receive a mysterious text one after another. It isn't -A though. The text is from Alison who tells them that she's around if they want to talk or need comfort after Nolan's death. Though the text wasn't as intimidating as the one from -A in PLL, it was still a cool Easter egg.
The Updated Theme Song
As fans remember, the theme song for PLL was the oh-so-creepy "Secret" by The Pierces. For The Perfectionists, the creators recruited the same artist for the spin-off's theme song, except with some small tweaks. The lyrics are pretty much the same, though the theme song of The Perfectionists is shorter than that of PLL, but the major change is how it sounds. IMO, it's a lot more creepy than PLL.
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Uh, no they weren't. Here, let's use an example you can understand. "Hey, you just shot Poodle". "It was self-defense, he came after me." "Uh, you broke into his house and you were stealing his stuff!" "Exactly. Self Defense."
It's a cute story, but like everything you post, it's ignorant and propaganda.
The Native Americans didn't establish a nation. They were hundreds of individual tribes with "territories". 95% of the US was unclaimed land, and the areas that Native Americans did inhabit didn't have "deeds" or anything else because there was no established government or legal system.
Thanks for playing, Joseph (Stalin). Class dismissed.
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That's left-wing dog-whistle for "I hate capitalism because it requires me to support myself".
Uh, what does complaining about the GENOCIDE of Native Americans have to do with capitalism?
Not much, really. But you leftists never were much for logic or reason.
Essentially the left-wing "plan" goes like this: "we can't denounce capitalism unless we convince people it was devised by evil people with evil intent. We can't do that unless we can convince people that the US is evil. And we can't do that unless we can convince everyone that the founders were Satan".
So then you people make false claims about slavery, rape, and genocide.
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95% of the US was unclaimed land,
Free range for bison or buffalo which were rounded up on a hunt from time to time by Native Americans -- whereas European people seemed to prefer European breeds of cattle on the round-up. The availability of beef was not the limiting factor to livelihood in either case.
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Wow, so it was okay to murder them en masse because they didn't establish the same kinds of laws we did? This is your argument.
Well, besides the fact that is wrong... The Cherokee were considered a "Civilized Tribe" that lived in houses and followed the law. They had won an injunction from the Supreme Court to protect their rights, but were still driven off their land on the "Trail of Tears".
Again, Genocide is one of those things we think everyone else is guilty of.
Well, it's actually kind of easy to do that... you just look at the history.
The 19th Century had three major features.
1) The Genocide of Native Americans
2) The Enslavement of black people
3) The exploitation of immigrant labor
These things were evil. they were wrong. They did happen.
Fortunately, in the 20th century, we had a lot of progressives who tried to right the wrongs of the past. But there is still much more to be done.
Wow, so it was okay to murder them en masse because they didn't establish the same kinds of laws we did?
No, propaganda princess. It's ok to defend yourself against attacking tribes. I made that abundantly clear, but of course, you always have to resort to lying because you're on the wrong side of the facts.
Then you attempted to claim that it wasn't self-defense because we were "stealing" their land. I pointed out how 95% of the land wasn't even inhabited, and the land that was had absolutely no legal outline/guideline for who owned what.
Thanks for playing, Joseph (Stalin). You are dismissed.
Those tribes weren't "attacking". They weren't getting in their canoes and crossing the Atlantic to attack Europe. They were on their land, minding their own business when Europeans showed up and started messing things up.
Except there was a legal outline, and that was the treaties that the United States government negotiated with native nations, and then proceeded to break every last one of them.
But as Stalin said, "Treaties are like pie crusts... they are meant to be broken."
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See a timeline of treaties signed and then broken by the U.S. government with various Indigenous peoples across the North American continent.
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Historically, Individualism Seen As Tied To Class Changes
Rising individualism in the U.S. over the last 150 years is tied to changes in social class and a societal shift toward more white-collar jobs, according to new research published in the journal Psychological Science
In the first study of its kind, researchers looked at U.S. culture over the past century and a half to determine how and why people became more independent and less reliant on family ties, conformity, and duty.
"We found that changes in the social class structure precede changes in individualism," said Dr. Igor Grossmann, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada and the study's first author.
"As demands of American society shifted from manual labor to office jobs, Americans gained education and wealth, both of which promote self-direction and ultimately facilitate individualism."
Grossmann and Dr. Michael Varnum of Arizona State University found that the significant cultural change American society experienced started before the turn of the last century.
They tested six factors commonly thought to influence cultural change toward individualism: urbanization, secularism, socio-economic structure, climatic demands, infectious disease, and disaster.
Then in the context of those factors, they examined the growth of eight indicators associated with cultural individualism, such as presence of individualist words in books, percentage of single-child families, percentage of adults living alone, and divorce rates.
Since preference for uniqueness is also a key factor of individualism, the researchers looked at the prevalence of unique baby names — those not in the top 20 for the time.
"Cultural levels of individualism affect everything from marketing to election outcomes to education — based on whether we tend to prefer unique or common products, politicians who appeal to achievement or to a sense of duty and whether we motivate students through their sense of belonging to the group and family obligation or due to their being special," said Grossmann.
"Knowing where it is heading and what may determine the change may help in many of these domains to prepare for the future."
While the research used the United States as a case study, the Canadian culture of individualism is similar, so it is possible that the pattern of cultural change would be as well.
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Nauert PhD, R. (2018). Historically, Individualism Seen As Tied To Class Changes. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 20, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2015/02/09/trend-for-non-conformity-and-individualism-began-in-19th-century/80996.html


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Student Activists Selected for ANCA Glendale Summer Internship
ANCA Glendale 2012 Summer Interns from left Sevag Alexanian, Tatevik Manucharyan, Pauline Pechakjian, Alique Berberian, and Gevork Terzyan
GLENDALE—Student activists from Glendale and Burbank marked the commencement of summer vacation with their acceptance to the ANCA Glendale 2012 Summer Internship Program on June 18.
During the next 12 weeks, Sevag Alexanian, Alique Berberian, Tatevik Manucharyan, Pauline Pechakjian and Gevork Terzyan will complete a number of projects concerning civic engagement, educational policies and programs and will collaborate to organize various community forums. In addition, the interns will participate in weekly lectures and workshops, featuring an array of guest speakers from a wide range of political fields.
"We are pleased to welcome a very diverse group of student leaders as participants for the 2012 Summer Internship Program," stated Elen Asatryan, Executive Director of ANCA Glendale. "We are confident that the students will gain a valuable experience from this internship as they interact with various public officials while working on projects, ranging from voter registration to putting together a series of educational forums for the Glendale community," added Asatryan.
A senior at Crescenta Valley High School, Sevag Alexanian is the President of the Armenian Club, the news anchor of his school's daily television program, the President of the CVTV Broadcasting Club, President of The Falcon Award, a member of Key Club, a member of the Speech and Debate team, and a student in the National Honor Society. He is an active participant in his community as a member of the Armenian Youth Federation Glendale "Roupen" Chapter and basketball team for La Crescenta Homenetmen "Shant" Chapter.
Alique Berberian, a sophomore at Occidental College, is pursuing a major in Diplomacy and World Affairs with a minor in Economics. She is actively involved in the Glendale community as the assistant swim and water polo coach for Glendale High School and a member of the Armenian Youth Federation Glendale "Roupen" Chapter. Her involvement also extends to the nearby Eagle Rock community as she is the President of Occidental College's Armenian Students Association and swims for the Occidental Tiger's Varsity swimming and diving team.
"I am grateful for the opportunity to work as a summer intern at ANCA Glendale as I am confident that this innovative experience will leave me with a broad and insightful perspective concerning local community issues. At the same time, I will gain first-hand experience in contributing to the organization's efforts to educate and engage our local community and further improve the lives of Glendalians," said Berberian.
Tatevik Manucharyan is a recent UC Berkeley graduate and a California Alumni Association Leadership Award Scholar. Having obtained a Bachelor's degree in Political Science, she plans to pursue a Master's degree in European Law in the fall. During her years in college, she was actively involved in the UC Berkeley Armenian Student Association.
As a member of the ASA Cultural Committee, she helped organize events for the annual UC Berkeley Genocide Awareness Week and assisted in putting together an on-campus Armenian cultural show amongst other events and programs.
Pauline Pechakjian, a senior at Crescenta Valley High School, is the Editor in Chief of the school's literary and art magazine Journeys – a position which requires countless hours of reviewing, editing, and publishing the artistic work of the student body. Additionally, she serves as the Publicist of the Armenian Club, the President of the Investing in People Club, a member of the Varsity Speech and Debate team, and a student in the National Honor Society. Pechakjian has also been a scholar athlete on Crescenta Valley High School's Varsity Pep Squad and a volunteer at the Crescenta-Canada YMCA.
"I am eager to learn how to become an effectively contributing member in my community through the ANCA Glendale Summer Internship Program and to work directly with the issues and needs of the local population," stated Pechakjian. "I am grateful for the opportunity to get involved with a grassroots organization as large and successful as the ANCA in order to help give back to my local community."
A junior at Burbank High School, Gevork Terzyan balances rigorous academics with a demanding athletic schedule as he plays on the water polo team, volunteers at Wonderland Child Day Care and attends Saturday Armenian School. Come fall, he plans to become an active member of the Burbank High School Armenian Club.
Established in fall 2007, The ANCA Glendale Internship program provides an opportunity for student leaders and activists to gain an in-depth understanding of Armenian-American issues as well as advocacy efforts on the local level. In addition to networking with community leaders, candidates participate in workshops featuring a variety of guest speakers, including public officials, ANCA leadership, and specialists from the community. Interns also partake in joint projects with fellow interns as well as individual sessions ranging from media relations and civic participation to grassroots advocacy.
The Armenian National Committee of America – Glendale advocates for the social, economic, cultural, and political rights of the city's Armenian-American community and promotes increased civic participation and awareness at the grassroots and public policy levels.
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hye4life - June 22, 2012 said:
Good job guys and girls!!! Proud of you all We are wishing you a big success in your future endeavors; academic, professional and community life. Don't forget to fight for our Armenian Cause, Armenian Dat, our cause is a just cause. Best of Luck!!!


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Seven Streets, Two Markets and a Wedding is a compilation of ten short archive films of London from between 1930 and 1980 – a mixture of rediscovered public information films and amateur footage.
The film is primarily a nostalgic affair, with each film introduced by modern footage from the same location. While the archive footage is vibrant, full of people and activity and often hand-held, the modern shots are tightly framed, steady, full of mundane naturalist sounds (sirens, alarms, traffic) and sparsely populated. Quite why the modern age is best represented by the techniques of 'slow cinema' is never quite addressed, nor is the question of why any of this archive footage is so nostalgic. The film prefers to merely show old footage and offers no contexts or opinions. As it is then, the film is merely a hodge-podge of old footage and is of little interest beyond some initial curiosity value.
The most interesting film is These Can Be Yours, a road safety film from Wembley Road Safety Council, a hopelessly dated and turgidly edited film that suggests that the most damaging consequence of a woman getting run over by a motorcycle is that her daughter will have to cook for her picky husband, who would much prefer his wife's cooking. Similarly, her son's attempts to help out in the kitchen will only lead to disaster – smashed dishes being worse than a smashed leg for a woman. Though amusingly archaic, it does lead one to wonder why this rather conservative project views such sexism with nostalgia.
More suffocating than nostalgic, Seven Streets, Two Markets and a Wedding offers little of interest, beyond certain observations such as: 'People seem so ill at ease when faced with a camera in those days.' But with no unifying theme, the film is ultimately dull.