Although most eyes were on the results of the presidential election, voters on Tuesday also weighed in on measures to legalize and tax recreational and medical marijuana in several states. Legalization advocates won a stunning victory. Medical marijuana referenda passed in Florida, North Dakota, Arkansas, and North Dakota, and voters approved legalization measures in California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada, even as Arizona defeated a legalization measure because of safety questions.
After these results, 29 states allow the some medical use of cannabis, and eight, as well as the District of Columbia, permit recreational use. Roughly a quarter of the U.S. population now lives in a state with legal pot.
In California, Prop 64 passed with 56 percent support. Passed six years after voters rejected a similar measure, the law allows residents over the age of 21 to transport, buy and use up to an ounce of cannabis for recreational purposes, while taxing retail pot sales at 15 percent.
Proponents of the law hailed it as an opportunity to improve public health and safety by doing away with the War on Drugs. They also viewed the measure as a way to push California to the forefront of research and development in the industry.
Kyle Sherman, the CEO of FlowHub, a point of sale system for cannabis vendors, echoes Bradley's comments, hailing legalization as "fantastic news" that would create jobs while also improving public health and safety.
"Not only are tens of thousands of jobs going to be created but cannabis will be regulated in a system built to keep consumers safe from pesticides and other additives," Sherman said.
"When a regulatory system is put into place it protects society as well, removing criminal enterprise from the equation. Tax dollars are going to flow into the state instead of the black market," he continued.
Law enforcement groups, on the other hand, expressed concern that the measure had "prevailed at the cost of public health, safety, and the wellbeing of our communities," in the words of Ken Corney, president of the California Police Chiefs Association.
Corney noted several flaws in the proposition which would impact public safety, including a lack of prosecutorial tools for driving under the influence of marijuana. He said that his group would work with the state legislature to try to develop solutions.
Across the border in Nevada, where the ballot proposal had the backing of several powerful union groups, legalization was approved by a margin of nine points (54%-45%).
"I'm looking forward to Nevadans experiencing the same gains that Coloradans were fortunate to benefit from when Amendment 64 was passed in this state four years ago," said Alex Fanshel, a cannabis businessman, about the measure.
Legalization also garnered 51 percent of the vote in Maine, passing by a margin of around 5,000 votes. Mike Bologna of Green Lion Partners, a Colorado-based cannabis business strategy firm, hailed the passage there and in Massachusetts where the measure won 53 percent of the vote despite facing strong opposition from the Archdiocese of Boston.
"By passing adult use cannabis legislation in both Maine and Massachusetts, New England established itself as a leader for the East Coast," Bologna said. He also praised the "positive social and economic benefit" that cannabis tourism would offer area residents.
Supporters of marijuana legalization hope that the successful ballot proposals will pressure the federal government to reconsider the classification of cannabis as a controlled substance.
"The new administration is not going to want to continue this toxic and nonproductive war on drugs," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat who supports legalization.
However, others were less certain, pointing to Donald Trump's conflicting statements on the matter. Phillip Wallach, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who writes on domestic policy, noted that marijuana liberalization made big steps in the late 1970s before meeting with opposition from the Reagan administration.
His hesitance is supported by the results in Arizona, which rejected legal recreational use 52 percent to 48 percent. Medical marijuana is still available by prescription within the state.
Arizona's measure pitted businesses including Discount Tire and medical research company Insys Therapeutics against a well-organized legalization push from national organizations like the Marijuana Policy Project. Many opponents of legalization were concerned about contradictory language describing impaired driving in the bill. Although driving while impaired would have been illegal under the law, it also stated that a person could not be punished "for an action taken while under the influence of marijuana" solely because of the presence of cannabis in their body.
The results in Arizona were not entirely unexpected. Polling leading up to the election showed that the measure trailed in public support. For pot supporters however, the night went well on the whole.


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Q: How to Handle Recursively Nested Components in RivetsJS? I currently have a Model that is related back to itself in a parent-child relationship. I need to be able to display these in a tree-like structure on the page (i.e. Nested
 items). Each
 item will have an underlying HTML structure that has various data-binding and event handlers (all implemented with Rivets.js).
My initial thought is to create a component with Rivets.js, and then just nest it within itself. However, I can't seem to wrap my head around how these would be initialized and inserted into the DOM.
Here is what I would like to be able to do:
/** DATA LAYER **/
var item = {
    id: 1,
    title: "test item 1",
    description: "my description 1",
    someHandler: function () {
        console.log("handle something for Item 1");
    },
    items: [
        {
            id: 2,
            parentItem: 1,
            title: "test item 2",
            description: "my description 2",
            someHandler: function () {
                console.log("handle something for Item 2");
            },
            items: [

            ]
        },
        {
            id: 3,
            parentItem: 1,
            title: "test item 3",
            description: "my description 3",
            someHandler: function () {
                console.log("handle something for Item 3");
            },
            items: [
                {
                    id: 4,
                    parentItem: 3,
                    title: "test item 4",
                    description: "my description 4",
                    someHandler: function () {
                        console.log("handle something for Item 4");
                    },
                    items: [

                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
};

And the presentation layer:
/** TEMPLATE **/

        <button rv-click="someHandler">Click Me!</button>

            <my-new-item rv-each-item="items" item="item"></my-new-item>

And the business layer:
rivets.components['my-new-item'] = {
  template: function() {
    return document.querySelector('#item_template').innerHTML;
  },
  initialize: function(el, data) {
    return data;
  }
}

rivets.init('my-new-item', document.querySelector('#page'), item);

Is there a way to recursively nest components in RivetsJS?
UPDATE
I've put together a jsfiddle to illustrate this. I can't seem to get the data-binding to work during the recursion.
https://jsfiddle.net/0mv4r8w0/4/

A: OK, the solution is here:
https://jsfiddle.net/0mv4r8w0/5/
Apparently, I need to explicitly define a property to access the data.
The template changes to (note that I'm using item.* to access properties now):

        <button rv-on-click="item.someHandler">Click Me!</button>

            <my-new-item rv-each-item="item.items" item="item"></my-new-item>

and the rivits.init call changes to (note the data is set to a property now):
rivets.init('my-new-item', document.querySelector('#page'), { item: item });

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Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2: Ryan Reynolds Gave His Honest Review And The Internet Lost It
Since Ryan Reynolds was signed on to play a Marvel character known as Deadpool, the actor has shown his support for other films produced by Marvel as well. Recently, he decided to do the same for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
The 40-year-old Canadian actor tweeted an honest simple review after watching Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. He found the MCU film to be "SO DAMN GOOD!" that he "had no idea it was a follow-up" to the original movie.
Unfortunately, most of his followers couldn't see past the sarcasm and decided to troll Reynolds by sharing memes and GIFs. Fans can check out the tweet below.
Reynolds' tweet wasn't just humor as the sequel was entirely different from the first film. It was mentioned in our recent review as well. On the bright side, some fans were able to understand its actual reference going by their tweets.
Director James Gunn also reacted to Reynolds tweet and gave a hint that could possibly reveal it was a sequel. Fans can check it out below.
Humor aside, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has been performing at its best at the box office. In a recent report by Deadline, it has been revealed that the film has made $427.6M by far globally.
While fans rejoice over its success, Gunn has assured them more excitement in its third installment. For now, expect the Guardians in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War releasing in 2018.
Ryan Reynolds will also soon reprise his R-rated superhero character in Deadpool 2. The film releases in 2018.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is SO DAMN GOOD!! I had no idea it was a follow-up to Guardians of the Galaxy 1.
Congrats @JamesGunn cast/crew.
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) May 7, 2017
I thought the gun toting raccoon in the commercials would be a tip off it was a sequel, but I'm not a professsional marketer (and thanks!) https://t.co/roWdo0lY9e
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) May 7, 2017
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Reconstruct Society on a New Basis - Rally, Comrades!Rally, Comrades!
A recent survey by the Brookings Institution found 42% of the American people believe that capitalism is either "not working too well" or "not working at all." It also found that 44% believed that capitalism and the free market system are at odds with Christian values.
Along with this anti-capitalist sentiment comes a political awakening – an outrage against injustice and a loss of faith in the government.
They are right: Production without labor is destroying capitalist production relations. The ruling class is using its political power to protect private appropriation and their interests at the expense of the people of this country and the world.
Revolutionaries can and must politicize this awakening, unite the outrage with the vision of a new society that does away with privation and inequality, and infuse it with the confidence that this vision is possible. To do that we have to understand the underlying change. Only then can revolutionaries fight for its direction.
A new motive force is replacing human labor in production.
This is no small change. At other stages of social development, the defining motive force ranged from animal and human power to electro-mechanical power driving machinery. Today's microchip stores and transmits not only specific, programmed mechanical movements – but also the capacity to make virtually instant decisions based on new information received. As it transmits the decision-making capacity of human labor, the microchip is replacing living labor in one aspect of production after another.
As an economic system defined by the buying and selling of labor power as a commodity, capitalism cannot survive this new motive force. But the ruling class can use its political power to preserve its wealth and continue private appropriation of the social product.
Productive forces that replace labor mean that property relations built around mechanics, labor power and value are becoming untenable. Although the new motive force begins to destroy capitalist production relations, the State still has to protect and promote private property – the private appropriation of the social product. The ruling class uses its political power to give legal expression to the needs of private property under new conditions.
Private property is not simply a big accumulation of wealth. Nor is it the same as personal property, in the sense of someone's bed or books or bicycle. Property relations refer to relationships in society, relations between people and property.
At its essence, property is a legal question – in the broad sense of ownership and appropriation. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels described in their writings the main stages of appropriation of the social product – the stages of private property up to and including capitalism. In mediaeval society, the means of production were suited for individual use, and accumulation was based on individual production.
Property relations, in the sense of who owns what and who appropriates the product of labor, are the legal expression of the production relations at a given stage. They are the legal framework in which those production relations operate, whether those production relations be ancient slavery, feudalism, or capitalism.
Here we are not talking about "legal" simply in the narrow sense of "laws." There need be no law on the books that says the owners of the factories get to appropriate the product of the workers' labor. Yet everything in society is set up that way: Workers have to work in order to get money to buy the necessaries of life. Capitalists hire the workers and appropriate the fruits of their labor.
Changes in private property relations recast relationships within society – relationships among classes in society, government, the State, corporations, and property. When the owning and appropriating class needs to re-shape these relationships in order to continue private appropriation under new conditions, it uses its political power to do so.
Legal and political changes at the origin of capitalism shaped society to facilitate the new production relations. Capitalist relations of production first developed in agriculture, in a particular area in England. Beginning in the 16th century large landowners fought for a series of laws that began the private enclosure of lands that had previously been accessible to the whole village. People could no longer graze their sheep or cut their hay where they used to.
These laws began to reshape society in the interest of the rising capitalist class. They separated workers from the land, forced them to sell their labor power to the capitalists, in agriculture and then in industry. They promoted the rise and expansion of capitalist production relations and, ultimately, the export of a new form of inequality to places far beyond the English shores.
Specific legal and political relationships also shaped U.S. capitalism. Here there was no 19th century capitalism without the depraved and murderous enslavement of millions of African Americans. Propelled by the capitalist market, slave labor – especially on the cotton plantations of the Mississippi Valley – drove the explosion of the U.S. onto the world market.
In the irony and dialectic of history, at a certain point the property relationships of slavery had to be abolished in order for capitalist production relations in the U.S. to move on to their next stage of growth and expansion. After the Civil War the 13th Amendment abolished the right of one person to own another as property. But it did not end the capitalism whose expansion was made possible by that slavery. As the world so painfully knows, the period after the Civil War saw an expansion of capitalism that catapulted the U.S. from the second-rate country it had been in 1840 to a first-rate imperialist power within 60 years.
Particular relationships of private property were suited to capitalism's growth at one stage. At another stage they became a fetter. Laws were passed. Books were written. War was waged. Political and legal changes ensured capitalism's growth under new conditions.
Today, the foundation of American society is again shifting – this time in a qualitatively new way. The introduction of the microchip into production replaces human labor and introduces an antagonism to the production relations of capitalism. Production without labor calls for distribution based on need.
The ruling class cannot stop the economic revolution and its fundamental threat to exchange based on labor and value. But it can wield its political power to protect its interests under these new conditions. It is acting directly and openly to wield the power of the State against everything, from public education to the earth's endangered ecology.
This economic and political motion has been the merger of the corporations and the State. It uses the power of the State to direct key aspects of the economy, serve corporate interests and protect private property.
This merger is the basic structure of fascism. It has been a protracted process. But when the cyclical crisis of under-consumption came to a head in the financial crisis of 2008, it gave the ruling class the opportunity to advance this merger to a higher phase of its development. The merger required and made possible a wide spectrum of domestic laws and regulations, legal contracts and global agreements that subjugate society to the corporations.
Protecting private property today is not only police guarding surplus food from hungry people. As immoral and obscene as that is, there's more to it. Today a vast array of new laws, regulations, legal agreements and precedents aims to protect the economy and uphold the private appropriation of the social product, even as the production relations of capitalism are being destroyed.
One spot on this spectrum addresses the reorganization of the financial sector. The Federal Reserve granted exemptions to the financial sector and Congress approved its deregulation, opening new avenues of investment.
Banks are now allowed to buy up infrastructure that stores and delivers commodities. JPMorgan is moving to gain control of the copper supply. Goldman Sachs collected about $5 billion in fees over the last three years by moving aluminum back and forth among its 27 industrial warehouses in the Detroit area – money making money based ever more remotely on labor and production of value.
The path is cleared for the owners of money to make more money in new arenas of speculation made possible by the microchip. Credit default swaps bring in high returns for some investors – and wreak havoc on cities that have to pay off the banks and cut allocations for the public good. The microchip can put knowledge about anything – from the genetic structure of plants, animals, and humans to changes in interest rates and currency values – onto the market for sale or speculation. Scientific knowledge about natural resources is thrown onto private markets. Some hedge funds now focus their speculation on water supply, drought or how fast a glacier dissolves into the earth's warming waters.
Changes to the legal and political superstructure are destroying relationships in society once assumed stable. A new generation of global trade agreements protects the profits of the world's corporations at the expense of the people of the world. Banks that are deemed "too big to fail" become exempt from the rule of law, and are given the funds and liquidity to become even bigger. Under the banner of "austerity," legal contracts are broken, cities cut essential services, and public workers lose their pensions. The regime of austerity is reshaping society in the U.S., Greece, Ukraine, and around the world.
Adjustments to the legal and political superstructure are cementing the bonds of the merger between the armed force of the State and the economic power of the corporations. The consolidation of the economic, political, and legal framework of fascism is well underway.
These are not subjective choices, nor policies that can be chosen or repealed. They are the attempts of the ruling class to protect its interests in the face of the objective forces that are destroying a system based on labor and value.
Out of this process is evolving a new system of private property – a system where money makes money, where wealth and exchange become ever more detached from labor and the production of value. No new system springs fully developed from someone's mind. It takes place step by step, as the ruling class uses its political power to solve specific problems.
The ruling class has to try to ensure the continuity of private property. They cannot forever preserve a system of exchange based on labor when labor is being replaced and value is being destroyed.
In this objective sense the ruling class is on the strategic defensive. There is no economic solution. The only route to protecting private property is political force. They have political power, but political laws cannot overcome economic laws. They cannot ensure the continuity of a system of exchange in an economy that is increasingly separated from value.
But they have to try. As destructive and far-reaching these political and legal adjustments are, their offensive can only be a tactical one. The beginning of the end of value based on labor sets the objective basis for the abolition of private property.
Despite its dangers the current political moment also holds tremendous revolutionary potential. As it is for the ruling class, so too is it for the working class. The subjective, conscious aspect of the process is decisive.
Each political step awakens more people and brings them into awareness and struggle. Now is the moment to meet the anti-capitalist awareness and anti-fascist sentiment and politicize it with widespread propaganda.
With the political power of the State so openly in the hands of the corporate exploiters and appropriators, with these private interests so nakedly assaulting the public, there arises the potential for a break in the continuity of political thought. It is urgent that revolutionaries take advantage of the objectivity of this political moment to politicize the growing sense of the injustice of these laws and develop class consciousness.
The conscious aspect of the revolutionary process is more than the awakening and response of people to the disruption in society. It may start there. But more decisive is the stages of the consciousness of the need and possibility to reconstruct society on a new foundation. Consciousness is not just more and better struggle within the system and against its effects. Consciousness is indispensable to the struggle to rid society of the cause of injustice and inequality – the struggle for the political power to reconstruct society.
Will the abundant physical and cultural wealth, scientific understanding and productive capacity, that are the results of thousands of years of human knowledge and production, continue to be subjugated to private profit? Or will humanity transcend the world governed by the laws of private property to achieve a new level of its development? The future is up to revolutionaries who feel deeper and see farther – and who organize themselves to unite the consciousness of the solution with those who are struggling against the problems.


The Netherlands squad seem to be distinctly chummy this year, so it looks like France will have to implode alone.
With the fuel already doused – lacklustre warm-up games, losing Lassana Diarra to injury, and coach Raymond Domenech having one foot out the door – it appears the spark to set everything off is Thierry Henry.
According to the Daily Mail, "sources close to the French team" have revealed the squad is split over Henry's substitute role at this year's World Cup; with the majority demanding the Barcelona striker and Arsenal's Abou Diaby are put in the starting XI for tomorrow's match against Uruguay, at the expense of Yoann Gourcuff and Sidney Govou.
During their recent friendly against Costa Rica, it was suggested that Nicolas Anelka refused to pass to Gourcuff while Franck Ribery is also said to have been selective in his passing during the embarrassing recent defeat by China.
What would you do if you were Domenech? Risk losing the dressing room by not starting Henry and Diaby – or risk losing the match by playing them?


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Due to the nature of Covid, we're learning information as we go along. In this episode, Pat gives us the run down on previous advice from the Australian government and how this advice has changed now that we have more significant data on the effects of Covid and the Covid vaccine in pregnant women.
Pat explains what an mRNA vaccine is, how it works, the possible side effects and sheds some light on some of the "Instanews" you may have heard on social media.
[1:25]: Previous advice was that there was no recommendation for the vaccine in pregnant women due to significant lack of data
[3:00]: Who is RANZCOG and ATAGI
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[8:00]: The risks that are circulating on social media such as impacts on fertility and changes to your period
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The U.S. has more immigrants than any other country in the world. Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world's migrants in 2015. The population of immigrants is also very diverse, with just about every country in the world represented among U.S. immigrants.
Pew Research Center regularly publishes statistical portraits of the nation's foreign-born population, which include historical trends since 1960. Based on these portraits, here are answers to some key questions about the U.S. immigrant population.
How many people in the U.S. are immigrants?
The U.S. foreign-born population reached a record 43.2 million in 2015. Since 1965, when U.S. immigration laws replaced a national quota system, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. has more than quadrupled. Immigrants today account for 13.4% of the U.S. population, nearly triple the share (4.7%) in 1970. However, today's immigrant share remains below the record 14.8% share in 1890, when 9.2 million immigrants lived in the U.S.


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Ecuadorians Voted Today Updated: it's Moreno! Woot! (see update at the end)
Posted on April 2, 2017 by wendyedavis | 14 Comments
Lenin Moreno, left; Guillermo Lasso, right
First, some recent history.
From Roger Harris at CP on Feb. 21: 'Lenin Wins: Pink Tide Surges in Ecuador…For Now'
"Much more than the fate of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks rests on last Sunday's general elections in Ecuador. As Al Jazeera framed the election, "socialism is on the line."
Having ducked into Ecuador's London embassy in 2012 to seek political asylum, Assange has been unable to leave for fear of being extradited to the US. The right-wing candidates in Ecuador's presidential race promise to send Assange packing.
Pink Tide Ebbs
On a broader geopolitical scale, the so-called Pink Tide in Latin America has been receding after a decade of success by left-leaning governments in raising living standards for the poor and creating regional alliances independent of the US (e.g., ALBA, UNASUR, CELAC).
A commodities boom had buoyed the Pink Tide, allowing Latin American left-leaning governments to increase social spending. Then oil and other commodity prices crashed, eroding the ability of these governments to serve their constituents."
Harris then narrates some of the pink tide 'ebbs': soft coups in Brazil, Paraguay, right-wing takeovers in Argentina, Peru,a right-wing MUD win in Venezuela with a little help from the US and bogus human rights organizations. The US-backed candidate won in Haiti, in a fraudulent election in January. Hardest hit in the western hemisphere, still Ecuador had emerged as a success story, albeit against the wishes of the US and allies who'd actively sought regime change. But oh, my; Maduro is under the gun big time once again by not only the opposition, but the OAS and other puppets of the US wanting regime change. The calumny and soft coup afoot in VZ deserves a diary of its own.
"Correa's Alianza PAIS government achieved a 38% reduction in poverty and a 47% reduction in extreme poverty over the past decade. Social spending as a percentage of GDP more than doubled.
All hangs in balance with the elections in Ecuador."
After the run-off elections, Correa's VP, Lenin Moreno, if elected today, would be the first paraplegic head of state in Latin America. Lasso is campaigning on promises of tax cuts, austerity, and throwing Julian Assange out of the Ecuadoran Embassy.
Let's hear from WikiLeaks on Twitter:
CEPR: Media can't ignore financial scandal in Ecuador's presidential elections https://t.co/0GXEcERqJN
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 24, 2017
The Hill link goes to CEPRs Mark Weisbrot, who opens with:
"As Ecuador heads toward the second round of its presidential election on April 2, a scandal has broken out over the opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso's financial dealings.
The accusations are serious and largely based on public records, with most of it verifiable on websites such as the Panamanian Public Registry and Superintendency of Banks and the Ecuadorean Superintendency of Companies. The newspaper that broke the story was Página/12 of Argentina, with two articles there in the last week by journalist Cynthia Garcia, as well as on her website.
Yet, as of this writing, the major international media covering the election, as well as the big privately owned Ecuadorian media, have pretended for a week that the story does not exist.
Lasso has been routinely described as a "former banker" who allegedly retired from banking activities five years ago. However, he remains a major shareholder in Ecuador's largest bank, Banco Guayaquil (through a trust named with his initials, GLM). And evidence from minutes of board meetings of Banco Guayaquil's parent company indicate that he is still a key decision-maker at the bank, where he has been executive president for more than 20 years."
Weisbrot writes that that's bad enough, but in 2007, Lasso's bank created a bank in Panama with another sort of covert history, hidden money, that directly aided capital fight from Ecuador for his family and cronies and 50 discrete companies. All of this is illegal in Ecuador as per the Feb. 15 citizens' referendum.
Protests over plan to arrest our editor Julian Assange https://t.co/gVPjYEw0f8
Background: https://t.co/Mb6gXlhwsi
Future of WikiLeaks' Assange to be Decided on Sundayhttps://t.co/torkagY9Ja
Ecuadorian election Sunday. What do WikiLeaks cables say about presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso? https://t.co/tX8NDN6XpR
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 1, 2017
Telesur will offer live updates on the election; polls open at 7, close at 5 local time. Voting appears to be mandatory.
Polls closed a couple hours ago, and this from Telesur on the exit polls, whatever they're worth:
"Polls closed in Ecuador's presidential elections Sunday in the race between leftist candidate Lenin Moreno and right-wing banker-turned-candidate Guillermo Lasso, with Perfiles de Opinion releasing an exit poll showing Lenin ahead by 52.2 percent to 47.8 percent, with others putting Lasso ahead. The National Election Council will make its first official bulletin at 8 pm local time."
Ecuadoran indigenous art
Update: 'Ecuador's Lenin Moreno Defeats Banker in Presidential Election', via Telesur:
"Progressive candidate and renowned disability activist from the ruling Alianza Pais, Lenin Moreno has won the Ecuadorian presidential election Sunday. With 94.18 percent of the official vote counted, Lenin defeated former banker Guillermo Lasso, candidate for the right-wing CREO-SUMO alliance with 51.07 percent to 48.93 percent, according to results issued by the country's National Electoral Council on Sunday night.
In what many had already predicted, right-wing vice presidential candidate Andres Paez has called for a recount, even though the CNE said it was a transparent and successful election process, calling for everyone to respect the results.
Moreno is set to continue and expand social programs introduced under outgoing President Rafael Correa, for whom Lenin served as vice president from 2007 to 2013, before working as the UN special envoy for Disability and Accessibility.
Moreno who has been wheelchair bound after being shot and paralyzed in 1998, has been well known for his advocacy work for people with disabilities and supporting public education. Jorge Glass, who also served in the Correa administration will now serve as vice president. The new administration will be officially inaugurated on May 24." and so on.
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Jaango | April 2, 2017 at 6:14 pm | Reply
Congratulations, Wendy.
In readings of various websites focused on Latin America, getting the 'strait scoop' from the national media here in the US, is virtually non-existent.
Keep up the hard and diligent work to bring forth our mutually exclusive for "truth-telling and shaming the devil."
And yes, you are vital part of the "Deep State" when I view our internet as today's proverbial Deep State. As such, bringing people and ideas together defines my version of the Deep State.
Jaango
wendyedavis | April 2, 2017 at 8:19 pm | Reply
bless your heart, jaango, and more tomorrow i hope. for tonight i'm sincerely outta juice. but see:
'Ecuador Votes Today Updated: it's Moreno! Woot! (see update at the end)
https://cafe-babylon.net/2017/04/02/ecuador-votes-today/
Jaango | April 3, 2017 at 5:15 am | Reply
Wendy,
To date, I had had a one-sided and ongoing Argumentation with the National Security Center located at the Fordham Law School located in the Big Apple. And speaking of Ecuador, the non-public behavior within our National Security and Defense Systemic is very seldom publicized, and subsequently, my view that America is now a Dunce Nation, will stand the Test of Time.
So, here's my focused attention and posted at our Cactus Juice Commentaries segment and which is applicable to over 40,000 college-educated military vets.
The Chicano's "deep state"
During Eisenhower Presidency, and prior to leaving the Oval Office in 1961, he thoughtfully articulated his concern that our future should include the myriad results that are the rhetorical flourishes on capitalism, and thusly, that being his advisory that implored future presidents to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
And the "deep state" of today's political action comes from the "specialized experts" and who in the long term connect themselves to special interest entities such as think tanks. Further, these think tanks are not to be underestimated, given that the Reagan Agenda was crafted by the Heritage Foundation for the most part. Moreover, the Bill Clinton presidency was dedicated to the ""conservative" or "neoliberal" Democrats and espoused by the Democratic Leadership Council and which led to his presidency. And today, this "deep state" is presently visible from either side of the political aisle. To wit, the conservatives and ultra conservatives are the Republican Party and within the Democratic Party, the conservative Democrats are the movers and shakers, as evidenced by Hillary Clinton's presidential loss. And no political attention was given to the middle class but the focus was on the "wants and desires" of the large dollar donors.
Now, to the Chicano "deep state" I am reminded that any think tank dedicated to the advancement of our future, is seminally lacking, or so I am thinking. And yet, our historical think tank was the Chicano Movement that was created by returning military vets from World War, and subsequently, became well known in the 1960s and 1970s.
Consequently, with today's advent in Latino community politics, almost 50% of the "chicano" continues apace, especially when the person encounters the racism and hate of on periodic basis. Thus, the indisputable voter suppression behavior done locally and nationally is just one among the many other issues and which continues to animate this Chicano Movement.
With regard to our national governance mode and today's behavior, the Obama "deep state" consisting to the intelligence agencies and for their daily leaks made available to news media outlets, the Trump administration is crafting its own version of what he is determined to "manage and control" daily news story, as his starting point in combating the divisiveness that he has now encountered among the Republican faithful.
Therefore, President Trump has surrounded himself with the "nationalists," a circle of political operatives that arrived into this arena and were formerly campaign operatives with virtually no sizable experience in "governing." And this political behavior will define his presidential legacy for many years to come. However, had he reached into the "experience pool" readily available to him, he would have surrounded himself the requisite expertise that would have met with the approval of his base.
Take, for example, these well-experienced experts would have encouraged President Trump to "reorganize" government from the focal point and to bring forward the shortened span of control and starting with both the Department of Defense and the State Department, and done in the following manner.
Thus, the Argumentation for re-crafting the National Security and Defense Construct:
And first and foremost, is my Argumentation for re-organizing the Department of Defense and which is to be focusing on the following elements:
1.	A CINC for Naval Warfare
2.	A CINC for Mountain Warfare
3.	A CINC for Desert Warfare
4.	A CINC for Air Warfare
5.	A CINC for the Academic-Military Draft
6.	A CINC for Military-Civilian Affairs
And the above is just for starters.
As to the Second Element that is National Security and Defense, is the designated responsibility via the Secretary State and comes in this re-organized form and which is:
1.	Deputy Assistant for Sovereign Nations
2.	Deputy Assistant for Embassy and Consular Operations
3.	Deputy Assistant for International Organizations
4.	Deputy Assistant for Humanitarian Endeavors
5.	Deputy Assistant for Geographical Regions
6.	Deputy Assistant for Civilian-Military Affairs
And this is the shorter version that emanates from any of the non-existent Chicano think tanks. However, the Chicano Think Tank does exists and yet, it's called the "internet" and on an internet that is used effectively to bring people and ideas together and subsequently voters together. Take, for example, today's exemplar is found in the Great State of California and their approach to crafting legislation at the State Legislature and is to be seen as the forefront of national politics and a dire anathema or a competitive status to Trump's self-governing model. Further and pending on what occurs in the next few years, the Great States of New York, Florida and Texas, will re-institute a more effective and helpful governance model, and where these states will contribute to over half of all electoral votes cast at the Electoral College. And waiting in the wings are Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.
So, we, the military vets, Chicanos and Native Americans here in our wonderful Sonoran Desert, will target our attention, not to infrastructure but to the Appropriations process in both chambers of Congress and where the ultra conservatives and conservatives will attempt to exterminate the premise and elements that conjoined the politics and which led to President Johnson's War on Poverty.
And in one of today's issue is the historical funding for the Corporation for Legal Assistance, and which has proven beneficial and quite successful for our fellow veterans as well as for confronting domestic abuse and other neglected behaviors as well as a substantive frontline challenge at the Court for adequate delivery of this legal representation. And without this legal representation to over 70 million of our fellow citizens, we won't have Justice, of any sort.
In closing, President Trump effortlessly digressed when addressing our National Security and Defense Systemic, and consequently, we, the general public, will have to educate ourselves far better than we have, even when the well-intentioned "experts" address our collective future. And especially when the special interests have no particular advocacy for the inter-families located here in the US and the sovereign nations located in this Indigenous hemisphere. Thus, this early April's presidential election in Ecuador is just another of today's high drama exemplars.
wendyedavis | April 3, 2017 at 9:33 am | Reply
thank you, jaango, not that i understood it all. ;-) but no apology is necessary.
TarheelDem | April 5, 2017 at 6:18 pm | Reply
As I follow your proposals for reorganizing the national security and foreign service functions of the US government, I see a worthy attempt to revisit the institutions that the National Security Act of 1947 created 70 years ago, institutions that now absorb more money than the value they deliver. I was struck that the proposal did not include the intelligence community and it 16 agencies that emerged from the CENTRAL Intelligence Act of 1949.
Today's organization of both the Department of Defense and Department of State have functional (accounting, purchasing, logistics), regional (as would indicate and empire), and strategic chains of command, which always is anchored in the civilian-controlled Department of Defense chain of command. Some functions have more civilian levels before it gets to the uniformed military and some fewer. And all of this creates a matrix of support and personnel for a network of bases. Are you proposing continuing this matrixed structure or collapsing it to a single chain of responsibility in which each functional chain (Mountain, Naval, Desert, Air, Academic, Civilian Relations) has its own non-centralized functional offices to serve its particular requirements?
For State, what does Sovereign Nations do that Embassy Operations doesn't? Where exactly in this do ambassadors and the Foreign Service fall? And how do DoD and DoS coordinate with each other?
In the thread about Alexander Hamilton the other day, I mused whether it just might be helpful to go back to having a War Department, which ballooned out and receded as wars came and went instead of a permanent national security apparatus that upped the size of all competing national security apparatus of other countries. And a navy and air force that primarily had logistical assignments until a time or war. That is, most of national security was conducted through the effective use of diplomacy, detente, and some form of trade.
Interesting strategy to focus on the Appropriations process. I wish you well putting pressure on the folks from the states you named. And good luck getting ways of funding necessary legal representation to deal with the issues of daily life. The Corporation of Legal Assistance has been on the target list since the Nixon administration created it as a means of killing the legal assistance program under the Office of Economic Opportunity. Howard Phillips, the current right-wing shock jock botched up that by drawing a lawsuit that reversed his ham-handed failure to spend money that Congress had appropriated for its intended purpose.
My apology for this 'first' draft. Since, I have done the edit and is now posted and available to our military vet membership.
If you'll notice that in my "reorganization" of both Departments, I have included "civil-military" relations with the obvious purpose and reason, that what the "contractors' do that is detrimental to existing sovereign nations, and done on the behalf of Special Interests, must be disclosed and therefore, becomes part of the process that is required by both Chambers of Congress. And anything less is unacceptable. As such, our nation's "clean and clear hands"!!!!
And "its" this information that should and must be disclosed to the general public.
thanks for explaining, amigo. good to know that so many folks at cactus juice will be able to read your plans.
Bravo, Wendy. I've been looking for coverage of this election. You came through when most all of the regular media I checked overlooked it for other things.
well, silly mon; it's been up since april 2; dunno why you hadn't seen it. you have to wonder how many ecuadorians were made aware of lasso's dirty dealings offshore, and so forth, don't you?
but i'm happy you did find it; such good news! i get notifications from wordpress when folks 'follow' the café, but i dunno how they arrange that, to say the truth. hope your outside projects are going well. ha; it was 19 degrees here yesterday mornin'. brrrrrr.
cynicalseeker | April 11, 2017 at 2:10 am | Reply
I'm so glad to see this. An oasis of hope in a desert of gloom. And not just because Julian can be safe for now, God bless him.
See, that's what happens when I try to make corrections.
wendyedavis | April 11, 2017 at 6:49 am | Reply
it was a bit of cheery news, wasn't it? hell keeps marching onward for maduro and chavismo in VZ, though. i keep fearing he'll be assassinated instead of soft-putsched, though.
Yeah, they will try to undermine it in some way. As Trump would say, sad!
ha; i'd like to make herr T sad, myself, as he's continuing O's attack on venezuela (oil rich, nationalized oil) and has also declared maduro's VZ a direct threat to amerikan security. well, it is, in that the Empire can't afford to let any of the bolivarian socialist nations stand, can it? the citizens might get ideas about what democracy can really look like!
oh, and i just checked at telesur; apparently they did a recount, and lenin still won. it may be challenged again, of course…
did i get all your corrections and additions right? (she asked hopefully…) and a question: do emails i've sent to the address you use here get to you? if so, not responding to them via email is fine, truly.
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Holmes, Edith Lilla (1893–1973)
by Sue Backhouse
Edith Lilla Holmes (1893-1973), artist, was born on 9 March 1893 at Hamilton, Tasmania, third of five children of William Nassau Holmes, a schoolmaster from Ireland, and his wife Lilla Edith, née Thorne, a Tasmanian-born teacher. The family lived at Devonport and Scottsdale before settling on the outskirts of Hobart at Dilkhoosha, 62 Charles Street, Moonah, which remained Edith's home until her death. Her artistic talents were encouraged by her mother who had 'a good sense of colour' and created memorable interiors in their home. Edith studied art at the Hobart Technical College under Lucien Dechaineux in 1918-19 and 1922-24, and under Mildred Lovett in 1925-26, 1928-31 and 1935. She benefited from Dechaineux's emphasis on 'painting in tone' and acknowledged Lovett's encouragement, though her 'modern outlook at first was not well received in Hobart'. In 1930-31 Holmes attended Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School, under Ashton and Henry Gibbons, where she met George Lambert and Thea Proctor.
During the 1930s Holmes shared a studio in Collins Street, Hobart, with Lovett, Florence Rodway, Dorothy Stoner, Ethel Nicholls and Violet Vimpany. She travelled regularly to Melbourne where she held seven exhibitions (individual and joint) between 1938 and 1951. Her work was favourably received, and thought to be refreshing, particularly by Basil Burdett in 1938 and Rupert Bunny in 1941. In Melbourne she met the artists Danila Vassilieff and Eveline Syme, as well as George Bell and Arnold Shore. Tall and slender, with a striking figure, she had strong features with good bone structure. Her hair was dyed 'a wonderful orange colour and it flowed violently over her forehead almost covering up her bright eyes'. A flamboyant dresser, she sported large, 'old-fashioned hats . . . scarves and wide belts of amazing colour and pattern that allowed her to stand out from the crowd'. She was active in the Victoria League, the English Speaking Union and the Women's Non-Party League of Tasmania, and was a life member of the local division of the United Nations Association.
Holmes exhibited annually in 1927-72 with the Art Society of Tasmania and was a member (1930-52) of its council. A founding member (1940) of the Tasmanian Group of Painters, she also exhibited regularly with them until 1969. She travelled to England and France in 1958, 1960 and 1971, holding an exhibition at Tasmania House, London, in 1958. In an art competition in 1954 to mark Hobart's sesquicentenary she had won a special prize, and in 1972 she secured another, awarded by the Tasmanian branch of the Contemporary Art Society. She loved her natural surroundings, particularly Mount Direction which was visible from her home. Having been inspired in the 1920s by the outdoor work of Lovett and Vida Lahey, she painted in all weather and seasons, especially on a property at Carlton where she had a shack. She also enjoyed painting portraits, particularly of her relations, was 'interested in people and how they dressed', and felt it important to convey their character in her art. An instinctive, joyous painter, she was a vibrant colourist. Two self-portraits from the 1930s—'Summer', an intriguing oil showing three faces, and 'Self Portrait in a Sun Hat'—are in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Miss Holmes died on 26 August 1973 in Hobart and was buried with Anglican rites in Forcett cemetery. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Devonport Gallery and Art Centre, and in numerous private collections. Dorothy Stoner's portrait of Holmes is held by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.
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Moderna says it has reached major milestone with COVID-19 vaccine
Updated: 10:44 AM EST Nov 12, 2020
Julie Loncich
Even before the vaccine, though, there are tools to stopping the spread, and we now know just how important these masks are. Most of us have been wearing them in all variations for months. The CDC has wobbled on its mass guidance, first telling us they were necessary then that they protected others from us. And now that they do indeed protect us a swell, this is really great news, especially as we are seeing increase in the number of cases. Dr. Simone Wilds is an infectious disease physician at South Shore Hospital. She says the type of mask you use can better protect you. Not everything works. We want mass that are double layered mass. To help with the transmission off, different particles get more layers better. Unfortunately, those gators provide little to no protection. But hope is on the horizon, and more vaccines could be coming ready for approval. This time, it's Moderna have completed their face retrial. The Data Monitoring and Safety board will analyze this information and let us know how effective the vaccine is going to be. If approved, and if effective, modernize vaccine would also be given in two doses like fighters, but four weeks apart, not three. And it would only have to be stored at negative four degrees, not negative 90. It definitely gives us more confidence that you know will be way more effective, for instance, than the flu vaccine. But again, we have to wait to see the data. But during a expects toe, learn at the end of this month whether or not they're vaccine works reporting live in Boston Jalil unchecked WCVB.
The push for a COVID-19 vaccine took another step forward on Wednesday with good news coming from a Massachusetts company.Moderna, which is based in Cambridge, announced that its vaccine has reached a major milestone in its Phase 3 trial, the completion of case accrual. The company said that "substantially more" than 53 cases of the virus, the goal set for the study, had occurred among the trial's participants.That's enough to trigger the first interim analysis of the vaccine. Moderna is conducting a clinical trial of 30,000 participants, with half receiving a placebo and the other half getting the potential vaccine. Earlier this week, Pfizer announced that its competing vaccine is more than 90% effective. Moderna said in a statement that it is preparing its own data for submission to the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board."It definitely gives us the confidence that it will be way more effective, for instance, than the flu vaccine," said Dr. Simone Wildes, an infectious disease physician at South Shore Health. "But, again, we have to wait and see the data."If Moderna's vaccine is approved and effective, it would be given in two doses like Pfizer's. The doses of the Moderna vaccine, however, would be given four weeks apart instead of three.In addition, Moderna's vaccine would only have to be stored at -4 degrees Fahrenheit instead of -94 degrees Fahrenheit like Pfizer's does.Moderna is expected to release the data from its Phase 3 trial this month and says that it expects to know by the end of November whether its vaccine works.If the vaccine is determined to be effective, the company could apply for emergency use in December.Until a vaccine arrives, face masks will continue to be one of the best forms of protection against the coronavirus.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has wobbled on its mask guidance. At first, the CDC said masks weren't necessary. But then, the national public health institute reported that masks protected others from us. Now, health officials say masks also protect us from others."This is really great news, especially as we are seeing an increase in the number of cases," Wildes said.Wildes says the type of face mask people use, such as a double-layered mask, can better protect you than others, such as gaiters.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
The push for a COVID-19 vaccine took another step forward on Wednesday with good news coming from a Massachusetts company.
Moderna, which is based in Cambridge, announced that its vaccine has reached a major milestone in its Phase 3 trial, the completion of case accrual. The company said that "substantially more" than 53 cases of the virus, the goal set for the study, had occurred among the trial's participants.
That's enough to trigger the first interim analysis of the vaccine.
Moderna is conducting a clinical trial of 30,000 participants, with half receiving a placebo and the other half getting the potential vaccine.
Earlier this week, Pfizer announced that its competing vaccine is more than 90% effective. Moderna said in a statement that it is preparing its own data for submission to the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board.
"It definitely gives us the confidence that it will be way more effective, for instance, than the flu vaccine," said Dr. Simone Wildes, an infectious disease physician at South Shore Health. "But, again, we have to wait and see the data."
If Moderna's vaccine is approved and effective, it would be given in two doses like Pfizer's. The doses of the Moderna vaccine, however, would be given four weeks apart instead of three.
In addition, Moderna's vaccine would only have to be stored at -4 degrees Fahrenheit instead of -94 degrees Fahrenheit like Pfizer's does.
Moderna is expected to release the data from its Phase 3 trial this month and says that it expects to know by the end of November whether its vaccine works.
If the vaccine is determined to be effective, the company could apply for emergency use in December.
Until a vaccine arrives, face masks will continue to be one of the best forms of protection against the coronavirus.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has wobbled on its mask guidance. At first, the CDC said masks weren't necessary. But then, the national public health institute reported that masks protected others from us. Now, health officials say masks also protect us from others.
"This is really great news, especially as we are seeing an increase in the number of cases," Wildes said.
Wildes says the type of face mask people use, such as a double-layered mask, can better protect you than others, such as gaiters.


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These workshops have been run in other states and have received excellent feedback.
Please see the attached flyers for more details on the workshops and registration details.
Having Professor Willer in Tasmania is a great opportunity and not to be missed; it would be appreciated if you circulate this information as widely as possible.


I wonder you use a really BIG brush!
I like that idea of photoshopping other eye colours. How did you exactly do that? The colorize or hue/saturation effect doesn't match this well.
This is gorgeous Meredith! I think purple looks really great with your skin tone and your natural eye color!
You look so beautiful, I like it, thanks for your sharing!


��There are 68 spacious and individually decorated luxurious rooms suites and duplexes, with exquisite fabrics, as well as a variety of furnishing and fantastic beds. Local taxes are to be paid at the reception, not being included in the hotel accommodation cost.
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The Historian and New Approaches to History in the Schools
by Richard H. Brown - 1970
The director of the Committee on the Study of History (The Amherst Project), Richard Brown, discusses the challenge posed by American education to historians in the light of this project.
Purchase The Historian and New Approaches to History in the Schools
Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 72 Number 1, 1970, p. 73-80
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Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today : What Happened to Progressive Education (History of Schools and Schooling, V. 8)
Chicago School Reform as History
How Research Has Changed American Schools: A History form 1840 to the Present
Committee on the Study of History


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Without realizing it, even well-managed companies versed in modern practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. As a result, the authors argue that large companies need to have a distinct Innovation Unit, headed up by a senior executive who reports directly to the CEO. They provide a framework for designing the mission and scope for an in-house Innovation Unit, anchored by seven key tasks for the firm's innovation leader, including 'scanning for best practices' and 'designing shelter for innovations'.


It is with a joyful heart that I welcome you to My Music Starts Here. As passionate musicians and educators, Mike and I have always been fiercely dedicated to giving children and families the very best experiences with music. Now, as parents to our own two young children, that passion and dedication has only deepened. I credit them with pushing Mike and me to refine our strengths, work harder, and commit ourselves to pursuing our dreams. To have a platform through which we can reach and engage with a larger audience, providing them with high quality music education, a path to building a stronger, more resilient brain, and some joy and laughter is truly a dream come true. And we are so grateful to have you along with us.
Mike and I have been working on this project on and off for over five years. We loved our jobs as piano teacher and early childhood music teacher, but we were also feeling pulled to do more with teaching music than the physical limitations of our piano studio and classroom would allow, and we wanted to spend more time together and more time with our then 3-year-old son. After our second child was born, the pull to make a change so we could spend more time together as a family and to do more with our musical and teaching abilities became even stronger and we knew it was time to give this project a real chance.
Fast forward a couple of years, and Mike and I have had the opportunity to take our best teaching practices from early childhood music education and piano pedagogy and combine them into a complete, foundational curriculum for young children. We reached out to brain researchers, speech pathologists, reading specialists, and special education teachers to ensure that everything we did was not only accessbile, but incredibly beneficial to all children. We worked with a development team to make sure that our website was built with the magic and energy of young children at the heart of it. And we got to work together, creating something that filled us up as musicians, teachers, and parents. We are so grateful for this opportunity.
Thank you for taking the time to check out My Music Starts Here. We love having you as part of our community, and we hope that you find everything you need to surround the young kiddos in your life with musical joy.
Mary has had the wonderful opportunity to teach preschool and elementary general music for over twelve years. Through that experience, she has become solidified in her passion to give all children quality musical experiences and believes that it is something that children deserve, not something that only a lucky few get to experience.
Growing up in a musical household, Mary was surrounded by music and she soaked up every note of it. As she started her own musical journey, she had wonderful teachers who taught her the power of sharing and participating in music with others. This is something that she carries with her and strives to pass along to the children that she teaches ~ music connects us as human beings, and everyone can find a way to participate.
Mary received her Bachelor's degree in Trumpet Performance from Virginia Commonwealth University and went on to get her Master's degree in Music Education from Boston University…where she met Mike on the first day of class! Working on these two degrees helped her to find her own musical voice and prepared her for reaching children through music. However, her most powerful learning moments have come from watching children react to music in her classroom. Those are the moments that have driven her to this new platform, to try and reach more children through music – giving them authentic, fun, engaging, and developmentally appropriate musical experiences with the intent of building a strong, resilient brain with a musical foundation that will last their lifetime.
When she's not working together with Mike on My Music Starts Here or teaching her own students, she is performing classical trumpet, singing anything that comes her way, and practicing ukulele. She loves to be at home with her boys – playing in the yard, working on house projects, making a mess in the kitchen, and snuggled up on the couch.
Since starting his own private piano studio, Mike has found working with students one-on-one to be one of the most rewarding and enjoyable educational experiences. He believes in providing others with an opportunity to have an authentic experience while creating music. This occurs when sound is explored, discussed, analyzed, fused with physical technique, and felt in the heart. Teaching another to create music means involving yourself just enough into another's process as a guide to explore without becoming a tyrant who dictates. Mike always hopes to be the guide.
He has been teaching piano full-time since 2006. He completed degrees in music and psychology from the University of Dayton in 2001, then dove straight into diversifying his resume working as an agricultural research assistant, flower shop delivery driver, barista at a coffee shop, land surveyor, and roofer.
After coming to his senses and realizing that he should probably use the degree he earned, he went on to Boston University where two important things happened: he earned a Masters degree in Music Education, and he met his wife Mary on the first day of class!
In addition to working with his own students as well as My Music Starts Here, Mike is an active member of the local Music Teacher Association where he has served as president. He also works regularly as an accompanist, soloist, and composer when time permits.
In those few moments when he is not teaching, editing videos for My Music Starts Here, or preparing for lessons, Mike likes to be outside with his family and moving as much as possible, whether it's hiking, running, biking, boating or anything else!


By now, I'm sure there's no question how much I admire classics from fashion in film as well as how much they have influenced my own aesthetic. And in my most recent article on Steve McQueen in 1968's The Thomas Crown Affair, it should be evident that I am as much a fan of men's style from classic cinema as I am of the women's. This includes the likes of American icons like Cary Grant on the more formal side of the spectrum to McQueen and Robert Redford on the more casual side.
In a desire to share my own take on American classics for both men and women, I have recently joined forces with designer Alan Chan to create Time & Silence. Our clothing line is one that is classic yet contemporary...very much the essence of California casual cool. We focus on timeless design using only the highest quality fabrics (often limited) along with meticulous construction so that our clothing is not only guaranteed to last, but to become better and better with age.
We've launched the Time & Silence collection with Men's Shirting in fabrics like linens, flannels, and selvage denim. Our Selvage Denim Workshirt, in fact, feels a lot like Redford's key piece in 1975's Three Days of the Condor (below). We will be unveiling other classics for men in the next couple weeks, including a Wool Peacoat that also evokes his iconic American style.
And fear not, ladies...shirting, denim, and outerwear for women will also be among the pieces added to the store soon. Dresses, too! So now you can continue to get great vintage from GlamAmor and find originals in a wide range of sizes from Time & Silence.
I'll make announcements from time to time on GlamAmor about the line, but be sure to follow Time & Silence on Facebook and Twitter for news and updates when new arrivals hit the store.
For those of you in the Los Angeles area, we currently sell the men's shirting at Glory Sales & Service in Hollywood in addition to our online store. Don Draper himself, Mad Men star Jon Hamm, is already a customer and fan of Time & Silence. Hope you will be, too!
Isn't this super cool???? I've always thought a man in a softly faded denim shirt was the essence of male coolth...congrats on a new endeavor I'm sure will be a huge success!!! LOVE the Redford look!


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__author__ = "Stelios Sfakianakis"

from collections import defaultdict
import fileinput
import json

def parse_lines(lines):
    for line in lines:
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    yield stanza

if __name__ == '__main__':
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The kitchen is one of the most important rooms. It is the heart of a home and relates to nourishment. The most important object in the kitchen is the stove. In traditional Chinese feng shui, the stove relates to wealth so its placement and its Fire element have to be strong.
I have to admit, that it is much easier to implement feng shui principles for the kitchen and the best feng shui stove placement when we build a new home. A lot of feng shui knowledge goes into making these architectural and design decisions.
For example, the stove should not be visible from the entrance, and it is best if there is a solid wall behind it so the energy is not dispersed but gathered. Also, there should not be a bathroom on the other side of the stove, especially a toilet, shower, or basically any water pipes.
We have 3 main different types of energy in the kitchen: Fire (the stove), Water (the sink) and Metal (the fridge). The way these elements interact with each other is Water puts fire out and Metal cools fire down. Therefore we want these 3 objects to be separated. A triangular design for the kitchen works the best.
We also need to keep directions in mind for the ideal stove placement. The stove is better in the E, SE or S rather than W or NW areas. We also take into the consideration the DOB of the person who is going to cook, and calculate the Flying Stars. But even implementing just the tips that I mentioned earlier is a good start.
If the house is already designed and we cannot control placement then we can work on strengthening the fire of the stove. From my clients feedback these simple things can make a big difference.
Adding reds in the kitchen will add more warmth and strengthen Fire element of the stove. I love working with color and art as it is usually the easiest way to bring a desired outcome. Fire relates to fun and joy. If we can express these qualities in the kitchen the person who cooks will be in a good and creative mood. I guarantee, the food will not only taste better but will be more nourishing!
The other element that I love to implement in the kitchen is the Earth element. Earth relates to stability, nourishment, digestion and the corresponding color is yellow. Yellow brings sunlight and warmth to the kitchen, making it a happy place where people want to be.
I love having fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs in the kitchen. Any natural materials such as a woven basket or things made of ceramic or clay would bring a feeling of authenticity and fun.


For your picnic outings or camping meals, our designers have developed this stainless steel plate. Ideal for outdoors, it's highly resistant to drops and scrapes and very lightweight. Do be careful when using it for hot food as stainless steel is conductive and could burn you.
Ease of use Very simple, wide and lightweight. Be careful with very hot foods. 140 g.
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Be careful when using with very hot food, because stainless steel is conductive and there is a real high risk of burns.
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Restricted use : Caution: risk of burns with hot foods.


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Flint Water Crisis #492
This week we dig into the Flint water crisis: what happened, how it got so bad, what turned the tide, what's still left to do, and the mix of science, politics, and activism that are still needed to finish pulling Flint out of the crisis. We spend the hour with Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha, a physician, scientist, activist, the founder and director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative, and author of the book "What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City".
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Written by Mona Hanna-Attisha
Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha is a physician, scientist, and activist who has been called to testify twice before the United States Congress, has been awarded the Freedom of Expression Courage Award from PEN America, named to Time 100, and has attracted an army of allies across the country. She was the Union of Concerned Scientists' 2016 "Got Science" Champion, and was a 2017 March for Science Honorary CoChair. She is the founder and director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative, a model program to mitigate the impact of the Flint water crisis. She is also the author of the book "What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City".
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Home/ Artists/ Mannerism (Late Renaissance) / Bartholomeus Spranger
Bartholomeus Spranger
Bartholomaeus Spranger/ Bartholomäus Spranger
Self Portrait (c.1583) - Bartholomäus Spranger
Born: March 21, 1546; Antwerp, Belgium
Died: 1611; Prague, Czech Republic
Active Years: 1563 - 1611
Nationality: Belgian
Art Movement: Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Genre: religious painting, mythological painting
Field: painting
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomeus_Spranger
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Bartholomeus Spranger or Bartholomaeus Spranger (21 March 1546 in Antwerp – 1611 in Prague) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, sculptor and designer of prints. Working in Prague as a court artist for the Holy Roman emperor Rudolf II, he responded to his patron's aesthetic preferences by developing a version of the extreme style, full of conceits, which has become known as Northern Mannerism. This style stressed sensuality, which was expressed in smoothly modeled, elongated figures arranged in elegant poses, often including a nude woman seen from behind. Spranger's unique style combining elements of Netherlandish painting and Italian influences, in particular the Roman Mannerists, had an important influence on other artists in Prague and beyond as his paintings were disseminated widely through prints.
Bartholomeus Spranger was born in Antwerp as the third son of Ioachim Spranger and Anna Roelandtsinne. His father was a trader who had spent time abroad including a long stint in Rome. Showing a keen interest in drawing, he was first apprenticed with Jan Mandijn, where he stayed for 18 months. Upon the death of Mandijn, Spranger studied for some time with Frans Mostaert who died after only a few weeks. He finally studied wwth with Cornelis van Dalem for two years after which he stayed on for another two years in the workshop of van Dalem. As his three masters were mainly known as landscape painters. Spranger further copied prints of Frans Floris and Parmigianino. He traveled to Paris on 1 March 1565 where he worked for six weeks in the workshop of Marc Duval. He then travelled on to Italy, where he first stayed for eight months in Milan. He then worked for three months in Parma as an assistant to Bernardino Gatti on the painting of the dome of the Santa Maria della Steccata.
He worked on wall paintings in various churches. In Rome he became, like El Greco, a protégé of Giulio Clovio. Here he also met Karel van Mander who later included a biography of Spranger in his Schilder-boeck, first published in 1604 and containing, amongst others, biographies of important Netherlandish painters. Pope Pius V appointed him court painter in 1570. He was summoned to Vienna by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, who died soon after his arrival in 1576.
Maximilian II's successor Rudolf II was even more keen to employ him, and in 1581 he was appointed court painter and also valet de chambre, the court having moved its seat to Prague, where he stayed until his death there in 1611, shortly before Rudolf was deposed. Spranger occupied a house just outside the castle walls. The artist developed a close personal relationship with Rudolf and the two spent many days together engaged in conversation. The emperor would regularly visit Spranger's studio. The emperor bestowed on Spranger the coat of arms of a liegeman in 1588 and granted him a hereditary title in 1595. In the meantime, Spranger supplied the emperor with a continuous stream of paintings of mythological scenes with nudes drawn from nature as well as propaganda pieces which extolled the virtues of Rudolf as a ruler. An example of a work combining the two elements of eroticism and propaganda is the Allegory of the virtues of Rudolf II (Kunsthistorisches Museum) which shows Bellona (the Roman goddess of war) sitting on a globe surrounded by Venus, Amor, Athene and Baccus and emblems symbolising Hungary and the Croatian river Sava. The propagandic message is that the empire is safe with Rudolf at the helm. Thanks to the emperor's patronage, Spranger became very wealthy and owned many properties by the time he died.
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Lamentation of Christ Bartholomeus Spranger 1576
March On The Battlefield Bartholomeus Spranger 1580
Glaucus and Scylla Bartholomeus Spranger 1582
Hercules, Dejanira and the Centaur Nessus Bartholomeus Spranger 1585
Vulcan and Maia Bartholomeus Spranger 1585
Herakles and Omphale Bartholomeus Spranger 1585
Odysseus and Circe Bartholomeus Spranger 1580-1585
Odysseus and Circe Bartholomeus Spranger 1587
Jupiter and Antiope Bartholomeus Spranger 1596
Venus and Mercury Blindfold Cupid Bartholomeus Spranger 1597
Venus and Adonis Bartholomeus Spranger 1597
The Baptism of Christ Bartholomeus Spranger 1603
Vanitas - putto with a skull and an hourglass Bartholomeus Spranger ?
Salvator Mundi Bartholomeus Spranger ?
Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham Bartholomeus Spranger ?
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