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Chase, William Merritt
Carolyn Kinder Carr
(b Williamsburg, IN, Nov 1, 1849; d New York, Oct 25, 1916).
American painter and printmaker. Chase received his early training in Indianapolis from the portrait painter Barton S. Hays (1826–75). In 1869 he went to New York to study at the National Academy of Design where he exhibited in 1871. That year he joined his family in St Louis, where John Mulvaney (1844–1906) encouraged him to study in Munich. With the support of several local patrons, enabling him to live abroad for the next six years, Chase entered the Königliche Akademie in Munich in 1872. Among his teachers were Alexander von Wagner (1838–1919), Karl Theodor von Piloty and Wilhelm von Diez (1839–1907). Chase also admired the work of Wilhelm Leibl. The school emphasized bravura brushwork, a technique that became integral to Chase's style, favoured a dark palette and encouraged the study of Old Master painters, particularly Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals. Among Chase's friends in Munich were the American artists Walter Shirlaw, J. Frank Currier and Frederick Dielman (...
Kuroda, Seiki
Aya Louisa McDonald
[Kuroda, Kiyoteru; Seiki]
(b Kagoshima Prefect., June 29, 1866; d Tokyo, July 15, 1924).
Japanese painter. He is best known for introducing the plein-air palette of French Impressionism to Japan. He was the most successful and politically influential advocate of Western-style painting (Yōga; see Japan §VI 5., (iv)) in Japan at the turn of the century. Born into a wealthy aristocratic family, Kuroda was adopted by his uncle Viscount Kuroda Kiyotsuna (1830–1917) and educated in French and English in preparation for a career in the Foreign Service. In his teens he studied pencil sketching and watercolours under Hosoda Shūji (fl 19th century), a minor follower of the Western-style painter Takahashi Yūichi.
In 1884 Kuroda was sent to Paris to prepare for a career in law. It was then that his interest in art was reawakened, not only by the city of Paris itself but also by his contact and friendship with other Japanese such as Fuji Masazō (...
Steer, Philip Wilson
Jane Munro
(b Birkenhead, Dec 28, 1860; d London, March 18, 1942).
English painter. The son of a painter, Philip Steer (d 1871), he joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1875 but found the demands of the Civil Service examination too rigorous and turned to painting in 1878. He studied first at the Gloucester School of Art under John Kemp and from 1880 to 1881 at the South Kensington Drawing Schools. He was rejected by the Royal Academy Schools and went to Paris in October 1882, where he enrolled first at the Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau. In January 1883 he transferred to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and studied under Alexandre Cabanel.
Steer exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1883 and 1885 and at the Paris Salon in 1884. These early paintings were constrained student works, but after his return to England in the summer of 1884 he assimilated contemporary French painting. The popular rural naturalism of Jules Bastien-Lepage was particularly influential and evident in ...
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When it comes to car maintenance, there are two main things that people always say you need to know. The first is how to change a tire. The second is how to check your oil. While these basics are a good start, there are other car maintenance procedures that you should know how to do. One of these is how to remove and install a lug nut. After all, lug nuts are what hold your wheels onto your car. If they fail while you are driving, you can only imagine what it would do to your driving. While it is highly unlikely that all your lug nuts would fail at the same time, it is still good to know how to replace and install them.
When a lug nut breaks, the first thing you will want to do is remove it. To remove a lug nut properly, you will need a few tools, mainly a wrench, a jack, and a socket wrench.
The first step is to loosen the lug bolts. Your car should remain on the ground during this step. Using a wrench, you will want to loosen the lug bolts. But do not pull the lug bolts off once they are loose.
Second, you will want to raise your car using a jack. Be sure the tire is more than a few inches off the ground. Once the tire is off the ground, remove the lug bolts and the tire.
The third step is to remove the brake caliper. You should be aware that the driver bits needed to remove a caliper is different for each manufacturer. You should look up the correct one for your caliper. Once the caliper is off, hang it from your car with a wire hanger to keep the weight off the brake line. After the caliper is off, remove the caliper mounting bracket.
Finally, remove the rotor and set it aside in a place where it will not get scratches or oil on it. Using a metal hammer hit the lug bolt out of the back of the wheel.
After you have removed the old broken lug nut, you will need to install a new one. To install a new lug nut, your wheel must be turned to align the hole with the slot on the rear hub flange, which allows the clearance to thread it through.
The first step is to brush away any rust from the wheel using a metal bristle brush. After brushing the rust away, you will need to lubricate both the bolt and the bolt hole. Insert the bolt into the hole as far as it will go.
Second, thread a large nut over the end of the new bolt. The nut should not thread onto the bolt but slide over it like a washer. Finally, thread the new lug nut over the end of the new bolt. Using a lug wrench, tighten the nut. This will draw the hub until the bolt head is flush with the back the flange. Once you remove the large nut and tighten the lug nut, you are finished.
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How much do you know about your tires? You probably know they help the car move and they are the only part of the car that touches the ground. But, other than those couple of facts, you probably don't know much about tires or tire accessories. Tire maintenance is not something most people are familiar with. During driver's education, you learn the rules of the road, not how to maintain your car. In most cases, your mechanic does the routine maintenance. While regular maintenance is a good idea, you should also know how to maintain your tires and tire accessories. The following tips will help improve your car's performance, extend tire life, and protect your investment.
Most people only check their tire pressure when the low pressure light comes on or before going on a long road trip. However, it is important to check the pressure of your tires regularly. Low air pressure in tires can cause uneven wear, decreased breaking and handling, and excess heat. Any of these issues can cause structural failures like blowouts and tread separation. Properly inflated tires will maximize tread life, increase fuel efficiency, and improve the overall handling and safety of your car.
Installing one new tire is not a good idea. If you only install one new tire, it can mess with the handling of your car. It is better to install two tires at once to the rear of your car. The worn out tires should be moved to the front of the car. Having your tires this way will help with the overall handling of your car.
Rotating your tires helps with the wear on each tire. If tires are not rotated, then one tire can become too worn and mess with the performance of your car. You can find the tire rotation schedule in your owner's manual by speaking with your local mechanic.
Your car's system won't catch every issue right away. There may be a nail or hole in your tire that the system hasn't registered yet. This is why it is important to check your tires regularly. You should look for cracks, nail, holes, or anything else out of the ordinary. If you find any of these issues, you should have them taken care of right away.
Tire accessory maintenance is just as important as tire maintenance. If your tire accessories are not well maintained, then they can cause issues with your tires. The maintenance for every accessory will be different. It is important to read about the proper maintenance to ensure you do not have any issues with the accessory or your tire. You may need to grease up one accessory, while another accessory may need to be tightened every so often. For more information about tire accessory maintenance or to buy a new tire accessory, contact EZ Accessory today.


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5 clips from THE ART MOVEMENT – Episode 21 (RADIO SHOW)
Posted on August 15, 2020 August 11, 2020 Posted in Books, Fine Arts, history, MusicTagged Antonio Canova, Pablo Picasso, space, Virginia Woolf, WHSmithLeave a comment
Here are five clips from the latest episode of my radio show, THE ART MOVEMENT, the weekly radio show hosted/produced by arts presenter Matt Micucci. The show revolves around art and culture, and where all art forms and free thoughts are allowed.
(To listen to/download the full radio show, scroll to the bottom of the page.)
Trans-genderism in Virginia Woolf's novel, Orlando.
The problem with major bookstore chains like WHSmith.
The music of planets.
What Pablo Picasso told the Nazi secret police force about Guernica.
A tourist damaged a 19th-century Antonio Canova artwork while taking a selfie.
Lots more where that came from! You can listen to the full epsiode of THE ART MOVEMENT (including the music) via the player below.
Download the full radio show here.
Trans-genderism and Virginia Woolf
Posted on August 14, 2020 August 9, 2020 Posted in Books, Books and Thoughts, ThoughtsTagged Books, J.K. Rowling, Virginia WoolfLeave a comment
A partial transcript from Episode 21 of THE ART MOVEMENT. Scroll down to listen to the full radio show.
Regarding the #IStandWithJKRowiling, I should say I'm not a fan of her books. That's just personal taste, I realize that Harry Potter means a lot to a lot of people.
But in terms of trans-genderism, may I suggest Virginia Woolf instead? Not only was she revolutionary in experimentation with form and content, going against the norm of the novel during the Victorian Era and pioneering the stream of consciousness style of writing. But she was also modern-minded in her exploration of such themes as gender and sexuality in her books.
Actually, Woolf was a lesbian I believe. I'm not entirely sure whether she identified herself as such outright but she reportedly had affairs with women, especially with Vita Sackville West, who was an author herself, a prolific diarist and a garden designer. She also inspired one of Woolf's most celebrated and modern-minded novels known — Orlando.
If you haven't read it, it's difficult to kind of do its narrative justice both in terms of content and form in just a few words. Essentially, it's the story of Orlando, and it's a fictional historical biography that spans almost 400 years in the lifetime of the title protagonist. And all throughout the book's length, the protagonist constantly changes sex.
So, I suppose the novel explores such things as how gender roles are defined within society, confusion about gender and sexuality and all such things. There are a couple of lines that illustrate that, including the opening lines: "He–for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it–was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."
In another part, Woolf wants us to understand the force of gender roles in her own world and writes: "When the boy, for alas, a boy it must be – no woman could skate with such speed and vigour – swept almost on tiptoe past him, Orlando was ready to tear his hair with vexation that the person was of his own sex, and thus all embraces were out of the question."
But it's a wonderful book and I would recommend it, particularly for anyone who is looking for some type of representation or comfort about their own sexuality and gender in classic literature. Sally Potter directed an awesome version of the book in 1992, starring Tilda Swinton, that you can check out in case reading is not your thing.
But as far as I'm concerned, and in terms of how I feel about this whole thing, if you do stand with J.K. Rowling, that's cool. But I, on the other hand, stand with Virginia Woolf.
THE ART MOVEMENT – Episode 21 (RADIO SHOW)
Posted on August 9, 2020 Posted in Books, Fine Arts, history, The Art MovementTagged J.K. Rowling, Mars, Pablo Picasso, Virginia WoolfLeave a comment
Welcome to THE ART MOVEMENT, a radio show about arts and culture, where all art forms and free thoughts are allowed. The show is hosted and produced by globe-trotting arts presenter Matt Micucci, and features plenty of music, interview clips and thoughts on current events.
Listen to episode 21 via one of the players below.
The sound of the planets
Are people reading less?
Are tourists harmful to artworks?
What Pablo Picasso told the Nazi Gestapo.
and more, plus lots of music.

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How to reverse Australia's remand explosion
Rick Sarre
Burgeoning numbers of untried prisoners are fuelling an unsustainable rise in Australia's prison population. Only a shift in resources will bring the figure down
Growth industry: Victoria's Metropolitan Remand Centre at Ravenhall, west of Melbourne. Joe Castro/AAP Image
Jails were on the front page of the Melbourne Age last week, with news that the number of prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing in Victoria has almost doubled since Daniel Andrews's Labor government came to power in late 2014. The state's shadow corrections minister, Edward O'Donohue, says the blow-out reflects "chaos and dysfunction" in that state's courts and Labor's failure to manage heavier judicial caseloads. He's wrong: the trend is neither unique to Victoria nor unique to one side of politics.
What is true is that prisoner numbers have grown significantly, and a big part of the reason is a jump in the number of people on remand, who now make up a third of Victoria's prisoners. The vast majority are awaiting trial, with a much smaller number waiting to be sentenced. That might seem a surprisingly high figure, but it's by no means the highest in the nation: South Australia tops the charts with an astonishing 41 per cent. In fact, Victoria is almost exactly in line with the national figure of 32 per cent.
That rate takes Australia, for the first time in its modern history, out of the 15 to 30 per cent range — which includes Britain, the United States, Canada, Russia, Israel, Poland, New Zealand and Germany — and into the 30 to 50 per cent group with countries including Brazil, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, France and Mexico. As recently as 1997, the Australian figure was 14 per cent; the increase since then helps explain the growth in the overall national prison population.
Nationally, the rate of adult imprisonment per 100,000 population has grown from sixty-two to more than 200 since the late 1970s, with no sign of abating. With each adult in prison costing $286 per day, the annual national bill for remandees has reached nearly $1.4 billion. Yet, as Victorian research has shown, 40 per cent of remandees will either be found not guilty or will be sentenced to a period equal to or less than the time they have already served on remand.
Victoria's corrections minister, Gayle Tierney, was unapologetic: "With more police on the beat, tougher sentencing and bail laws and an increasing population, prisoner numbers are expected to continue to rise and we are planning for that growth." She is right on all counts, but only up to a point. Police numbers are indeed rising, but once again the trend isn't unique to Victoria. In 1996 there were 221 serving police officers per 100,000 Australians; now, there are almost 300.
And, yes, sentences are getting longer in Victoria, which is one driver of any state's overall prison population. But the key reason for the rise is the number of unsentenced prisoners, which increased across Australia by 87 per cent in the five years between September 2012 and September 2017. The number of sentenced prisoners (a figure more likely to be affected by sentencing trends) increased at a much slower rate: by just over a quarter.
The number of people on remand is affected not only by the rate of serious crime and the decisions of magistrates to hold those offenders in custody, but also by factors external to the courts, including changes to bail-related legislation, the increasing reluctance of risk-averse police (and bail justices) to grant preliminary bail, and the availability or otherwise of bail hostels and other services for those awaiting trial.
Although most states have tightened bail conditions in recent years, Victoria's changes have been the most comprehensive and onerous. The legislation in question includes the Honorary Justices Act 2014, the Serious Sex Offenders (Detention and Supervision) and Other Acts Amendment Act 2015, the Crimes Amendment (Carjacking and Home Invasion) Act 2016, and Bail Amendment Acts in 2013 and 2016.
The system will soon be tighter again as a result of the carnage inflicted in January 2017 when Dimitrious Gargasoulas, who had been bailed not long before, drove his car through a pedestrianised section of Bourke Street, in Melbourne's central business district. Within days, the Andrews government announced that a former justice of the Supreme Court, Paul Coghlan QC, would conduct a major review of Victoria's bail laws.
In his first report, released in May 2017, Coghlan recommended that the general presumption in favour of bail should remain, but that greater emphasis should be placed on assessing risk and deterring offending while on bail. He also recommended expanding the list of "show cause" offences, and proposed that only a magistrate or judge should have the power to grant bail to an accused in the "exceptional circumstances" category. In his second report, he recommended specialised training for bail justices and suggested that the Bail Act be rewritten to improve its structure, readability and internal consistency. Notably, he recommended that a new Bail and Remand Court be established at the Magistrates Court of Victoria.
The Victorian government immediately introduced legislation detailing a new set of guiding principles to promote the safety of the community and people affected by crime. Once it comes into effect, the new Act will also reinforce the presumption of innocence and the right to liberty, as well as promoting fairness, transparency and consistency in bail decision-making, and aiding public understanding of bail practices and procedures. This style of law-making, which highlights principles, values and community education, marks a refreshing change in Australian parliamentary practice.
It's to be hoped that the new Victorian legislation leads to a fall rather than a rise in remand numbers. The reason we should hope for this outcome is simple: there is no evidence that high imprisonment rates drive down crime or make us any safer.
Some defenders of the current trends might point to the fact that the decline in violent and property crime across Australia since 1995 has coincided with a growth in the national prison population. But the fall in offences is mainly a symptom of demographic change (the last of the baby boomers turned thirty-five, the age at which offending drops away markedly, in 1995) and improved security infrastructure (witness the vast array of security cameras, affordable alarms and readily accessible monitoring services). Significantly, crime has also fallen in jurisdictions where the imprisonment rate has declined. In Queensland, for example, the number of offences fell significantly between 2005 and 2012 alongside a steady fall in the imprisonment rate.
Another key issue in Australian corrections is the continuing disgrace of Indigenous over-representation. The national imprisonment rate among Indigenous people is about thirteen times higher than among non-Indigenous Australians. The disparity is worse still for Indigenous women and young people, who are about twenty-four times over-represented. Moreover, they are often serving short sentences for less serious offences, cycling through the prison system at a higher rate than is reflected in corrections data.
That problem is so great that it is often assumed that high imprisonment rates in Australian jurisdictions (and the differences between them) are mainly an "Aboriginal problem." This is only partly true. It is a valid explanation for the Northern Territory, where Aboriginal people make up 27 per cent of the population. There, tragically, Aboriginal people constitute 86 per cent of the prison population, and taking them out of the calculation would make the imprisonment rate in the Northern Territory plummet from 829 to 181 per 100,000. Outside the Territory, Aboriginal people make up 3 per cent or less of the population. Discounting them from the Victorian imprisonment rate, then, would not change the picture at all.
So what should we be doing instead of committing more sentenced and unsentenced people to periods in jail? There seems little doubt that a safe community is one that is built on trust, equality of opportunity and strong social capital. Safety can be compromised quickly if resources are pushed in the wrong direction, as they have been in recent years.
As I describe in a recent article for Current Issues in Criminal Justice, a significant proportion of the money that we spend on corrections in this country should be redirected into pre- and post-release programs and prisoner rehabilitation. It's by no means a small amount: net operating costs in Australian corrective services — not including capital costs, depreciation and community corrections — was $2.9 billion for the 2014–15 financial year. There's solid evidence that good rehabilitation programs and well-trained staff have been effective in prisons around Australia, and yet they remain underfunded. Together with post-release services, these programs have undoubtedly reduced recidivism. Therapeutic pre-release services, too, have been shown to make it less likely that an inmate who leaves prison will return.
We also know that rates of mental illness and cognitive disability — acquired brain injury and foetal alcohol syndrome, for example — are high among prisoners. We should be putting more money into programs designed to ameliorate the effects of these illnesses on the ability of ex-prisoners to rejoin society successfully.
Overwhelmingly, the research tells us that we can't sustain the current correctional trajectory, neither financially nor socially. With the right allocation of resources, we can turn broken lives around, divert young people from careers in crime, assist young families to cope with the vicissitudes of life, and bring stability to dysfunctional families, thus relieving current levels of crime and victimisation. But that can only happen if we continue to do the research, promote the successes, acknowledge our limitations, and extend our evaluative capacity.
Amid the reporting of Victoria's figures this week, it was easy to forget that the state still has the lowest imprisonment rate in the country, something the Andrews government should be holding up as an achievement worth celebrating. Governments should never hold up a high imprisonment rate as a badge of honour. With sufficient political will we can drive down crime rates (and thus imprisonment rates) in Australia. We won't eliminate crime, of course, but we can dramatically limit our heavy reliance on "correctional" services and the significant array of problems associated with them. ●
Rick Sarre is Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the University of South Australia.
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Kevin Benjamin Kolb (/ˈkɒb/; born August 24, 1984) is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He has also been a member of the Arizona Cardinals and the Buffalo Bills. He played college football for the Houston Cougars.
Kolb attended Stephenville High School in Stephenville, Texas, where he was a three-year starter at quarterback. He moved on to the University of Houston where he earned Conference USA Offensive Most Valuable Player of the Year honors in 2006. Kolb started for two games in place of the injured Donovan McNabb during the 2009 NFL season for the Eagles, and earned NFC Player of the Week honors following his week 3 performance against the Kansas City Chiefs. Following McNabb's trade to the Washington Redskins in April 2010, Kolb became the starting quarterback for the Eagles. However, after suffering a concussion in week 1 against the Green Bay Packers, Kolb was replaced at quarterback by Michael Vick. Vick suffered a rib cartilage injury in week four and Kolb was named the starter. When Vick returned after week eight, Kolb was relegated to a backup role. Kolb was traded to the Arizona Cardinals prior to the start of the 2011 season. Kolb was released by the Cardinals on March 15, 2013.
While attending Stephenville High School in Stephenville, Texas, Kolb became the starting quarterback for the Yellow Jackets during his sophomore year. He was a two-time UIL District 8-4A offensive MVP. His most outstanding year was his senior year, 2002, in which he completed 206 of 321 passing attempts for 3,357 yards and 29 touchdowns, as well as rushing for 197 yards. At the end of the 2002 season, he earned honorable mention All-State and second-team Academic All-State honors.
Kolb initially committed to Oklahoma State to play college football but rescinded this commitment when Houston hired head coach Art Briles, a former head coach at Stephenville High School. Kolb was also recruited by TCU, Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
One day before the season-opener in 2003, Kolb was named the starter in Houston as a true freshman, the first true freshman quarterback to start in the season-opener in school history, making his debut against Rice at Robertson Stadium. On September 20, Kolb threw for 321 yards and four touchdowns and went 20-for-29 passing in the 42–35 win over Mississippi State. He was named Conference USA Player of the Week for his performance. On October 25, Kolb accounted for over 400 yards passing and 100 yards rushing against TCU in a 62-55 loss to the Horned Frogs, only the fourth time this feat had been achieved in Division I-A. He tied the league record with 578 total yards, and earned Conference USA offensive co-player of the week honors for his performance. Kolb finished the season with 3,131 passing yards, 25 touchdowns, and only six interceptions en route to a 7-6 record on the year, which ended with a 54-48 loss to Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl. Following the season, Kolb was named Conference USA Freshman of the Year.
Kolb was named to the Walter Camp Award, Davey O'Brien Award and Maxwell Award watchlists prior to the start of the 2004 season. He started in all 11 games in 2004, finishing first in the conference in total offense with 256.1 yards per game, and he passed for 2,766 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Kolb was named to the Maxwell Award and Davey O'Brien Award watchlists for the second straight year in 2005. After a losing season in 2004, Kolb led the Cougars to a 6-5 regular-season record in 2005. He was named the Cougars' MVP in the Fort Worth Bowl in a 42-13 loss to Kansas after passing for 214 yards and scoring one rushing touchdown. He finished the season with 3,258 passing yards, and became the school's all-time total offense leader. He earned third-team All-Conference USA honors following the season.
Kolb was named to the Maxwell Award watchlist for the third consecutive year in 2006. He was named the consensus Conference USA Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, and he earned preseason all-conference honors. The 2006 season was Kolb's signature college year, in which he threw 30 touchdowns and only four interceptions on the way to a 10-4 record and a Conference USA championship. He went 22-for-35 for 235 yards and three touchdowns in a win over Rice University on September 2, and was named the Conference USA Player of the Week for his efforts. He was named as a finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award on November 1. He was named the Conference USA Offensive Player of the Year on November 30. Kolb won the conference's offensive MVP, but Houston lost to South Carolina 44-36 in the Liberty Bowl. He finished the season with 3,808 passing yards, 30 touchdowns and four interceptions. Kolb ended his career with 12,964 total passing yards, fifth all-time.
Kolb was invited to play in the 2007 East–West Shrine Game on January 20, 2007, and the 2007 Senior Bowl on January 27.
All values from 2007 NFL Scouting Combine.
Kolb was rated as the sixth-best quarterback in the 2007 NFL Draft by NFLDraftScout.com, and was projected to be drafted in the third or fourth round. He hired Jeff Nalley and Vann McElroy as his agents prior to the draft, and they hired former NFL quarterback Jerry Rhome to work with Kolb to get him ready for the pre-draft workouts. He worked out with Danny Arnold in Stafford, Texas in February 2007 in order to prepare for the NFL Scouting Combine. Kolb worked out for the Baltimore Ravens in the first week of April, and followed it up with a visit to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Kolb was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round (36th overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He was the third quarterback taken in the draft behind JaMarcus Russell (1st overall) and Brady Quinn (22nd overall). He signed a four-year, $4.285 million contract with the team on July 25, 2007. Kolb spent 2007 as the third-string quarterback behind Donovan McNabb and A. J. Feeley.
In his second year in the league, Kolb was promoted to second-string quarterback ahead of A. J. Feeley. He played the entire second half of the Eagles game against the Baltimore Ravens on November 23 after an infamous benching of McNabb. Kolb threw an interception in the endzone to Ed Reed, who took it back 108 yards for a touchdown, an NFL record. Kolb completed only 17 passes on 34 attempts for 144 yards, throwing no touchdowns and four interceptions during the season.
Kolb's first NFL start was a 48-22 loss against the New Orleans Saints at home on September 20, 2009 due to an injury to Donovan McNabb. His first career touchdown was recorded in the first quarter of that game on a 71-yard pass to DeSean Jackson; he threw for 391 yards on 31 completions. On September 27, 2009, Kolb made his second start in place of McNabb, throwing for 327 yards and two touchdowns in a 34-14 win against the Kansas City Chiefs. Kolb became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 300 yards in each of his first two career starts. He was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week after his efforts against the Chiefs.
Kolb expressed his desire to be the starting quarterback for the Eagles during the 2010 offseason: "Obviously my goal is to be the starter and to start for 16 games and to lead this team as far as we can go. Personally, I don't have a lot of personal goals right now, they're more team-oriented, besides me getting on the field and proving I can take over this thing." Kolb gained many comparisons to the situation Aaron Rodgers endured backing up Brett Favre during his first three seasons. Kolb and Rodgers reached out to one another to share their similar plights.
On March 26, Adam Schefter reported that the Eagles expected Kolb to be the starting quarterback for the 2010 season. On April 4, McNabb was traded to the Washington Redskins, making Kolb the starting quarterback. Kolb signed a one-year contract extension worth $12.25 million on April 29, keeping him under contract with the Eagles through the 2011 season.
In the Eagles' season-opener against the Green Bay Packers, the supposed start of the "Kevin Kolb Era," he was tackled by Packers linebacker Clay Matthews, and sustained a concussion. For precautionary measures, Kolb was withdrawn from the game. After passing a series of tests, he was nonetheless withheld for the game against the Detroit Lions. On September 21, backup quarterback Michael Vick was named the starting quarterback over Kolb for the rest of the season following Vick's win over the Lions. Kolb took over for Vick in a game against the Redskins in week 4 after Vick suffered a chest injury. Kolb went 22-for-35 with 201 passing yards, one touchdown and an interception in place of Vick. However, he was still beaten by the Redskins and their new starting quarterback, Donovan McNabb, 17-12. Due to Vick's injury, Kolb started the next three games. Against the Atlanta Falcons in week 6, Kolb went 23-for-29 for 326 yards, three touchdowns and one interception, and was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week following his performance. During the game, Kolb made an illegal horse-collar tackle on Falcons safety William Moore following an interception. The Eagles were penalized 15 yards and Kolb was later fined $5,000 by the league, the first time a quarterback was fined for a horse-collar tackle. Kolb's final appearance with the Eagles came in the regular season finale, as the Eagles were resting many starters to be healthy for the playoffs.
After the 2010 season, there was speculation that the Eagles would look to make a deal for Kolb since Vick was the clear starting quarterback. However, due to the 2011 NFL Labor Dispute, the Eagles were unable to trade away Kolb. On July 19, 2011, Kolb expressed interest in playing for the Arizona Cardinals, saying "Arizona would be a great place" to play.
Kolb was traded to the Arizona Cardinals on July 28, 2011, in exchange for cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and a second-round draft pick in the 2012 NFL Draft (which the Eagles traded for draft picks used on Vinny Curry and Brandon Boykin). Expected to start, Kolb had a decent preseason debut for the Cardinals in preseason play against the Oakland Raiders, going 4-for-7 for 68 yards; among the four completions was a 43-yard pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald.
Kolb started his first game for the Cardinals on September 11, 2011 against the Carolina Panthers in the first week of the 2011 NFL season. Kolb was 18 of 27 for 309 yards, two touchdowns, and no picks in the 28-21 win over the Panthers. He also posted a 130.0 passer rating in the game, third best in the NFL in Week 1. However, over the rest of the season, his play markedly deteriorated as the Cardinals lost several close games. Furthermore, he was hampered by various injuries. A foot injury (turf-toe) that he incurred in a game against the Baltimore Ravens sidelined him for several games. His backup quarterback, John Skelton, performed ably as he stepped in and won games against St. Louis (once at home, once away) and against Philadelphia. Upon return from his turf-toe injury, Kevin led the Cardinals to a comeback win against the Dallas Cowboys in overtime. The game was memorable for the blunder committed by Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett, who called a time-out to "ice" his own kicker on a potential game-winning field goal. The ensuing kick after the time-out was not good, and in overtime, Kevin threw a touch-pass to LaRod Stephens-Howling who ran it into the end-zone for the winning score. But in the very next game against the San Francisco 49ers, Kolb was inadvertently kicked in the back of the head early in the first series. He left the game with concussion-related symptoms, and did not return that season.
Following a Week 1 injury to Skelton, Kolb entered the game during the 4th quarter, leading the team on a come-from-behind victory. Skelton was eventually ruled out for the Week 2 matchup against the New England Patriots. Arizona was handed their first loss of the season by the 2-2 St. Louis Rams, by a final score of 17-3. Kolb completed just around 50% of his passes, and was sacked 9 times (The 2012 Cardinals became the first team since their 2003 counterparts to allow eight or more sacks in consecutive games).
Kolb proved his worth to the coaching staff following October 14's matchup against the Buffalo Bills, in which Kolb suffered a rib injury late in the fourth quarter. Skelton began taking snaps for the injured Kolb and was only able to complete 2 of 10 passes with a game-costing interception in the OT period. This injury caused Kolb to miss the following seven games, all of which the Cardinals lost.
The Cardinals released Kolb on March 15, 2013 after failing to agree to a restructured contract.
Kolb agreed to a two-year contract for $13 million with the Buffalo Bills on March 30, 2013. On August 24, Kolb suffered a severe concussion in a preseason game against the Washington Redskins. He was placed on injured reserve on August 30. Kolb was released on March 11, 2014.
Kolb retired in 2014 due to post-concussion syndrome, citing lingering effects from three career concussions.
Kolb married his wife Whitney Huddleston in February 2007. Whitney gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Kamryn June, on January 10, 2009, and their second child, a daughter named Atley Rose, was born in April 2010.
Kolb majored in business entrepreneurship at the University of Houston.
Kolb competed in North Texas fishing tournaments in the offseason. Kolb also enjoys hunting wild hogs in his spare time.
On June 28, 2014, Kolb was arrested in Willacy County, Texas, for boating while intoxicated.
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Mozilla registers swell of negative feedback following Eich ouster | Cactus Jack is on CRACK!!
Mozilla, the company that operates the web browser Firefox, experienced its highest level of negative customer feedback the day after its embattled co-founder Brendan Eich resigned as CEO after gay rights activists objected to his appointment.
On Thursday, Mozilla forced Eich to resign just two weeks after hiring him. At issue was a $1,000 donation Eich gave in 2008 in support of California's Proposition 8, a successful ballot initiative which banned gay marriage.
The decision to remove the man who invented the web scripting language JavaScipt did not sit well with many customers — many of them pelted Mozilla's website with a surge of negative feedback.
On Friday, 94 percent of the sentiments registered on the site were "sad," while six percent were "happy." That translates to about 7,000 negative responses, compared to nearly 500 positive responses.
"Your abject and pathetic condemnation of an individual's right to hold and support their own view on the world is simply unbelievable," read one user's feedback at the Mozilla site.
Eich's hiring last month generated outrage from Mozilla contributors, called Mozillians, over Eich's past support of Prop 8, which passed in California with 52 percent of the vote.
Outsiders protested Eich's hiring as well, and likely served as the tipping point for his removal.
The matchmaking website OkCupid posted a letter which greeted Firefox users informing them about Eich's political contribution. It urged them to find another web browser to search for dates.
Many conservatives expressed their outrage over the forced resignation. Talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh tackled the topic on his show on Friday. Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer called for a "counter-boycott" of the tech company. And many conservative Twitter users urged other conservatives to remove Firefox from their computers under the hashtag #UninstallFirefox.
Mozilla declined to respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment.
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**Hum? It rotates. And it's under development. But have a look at the demo page:
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## Prerequisites
* install `compass` from [here](http://compass-style.org/)
* install `grunt-cli` from [here](https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/wiki/Getting-started)

        $ npm install -g grunt-cli

## get started
* `$ npm install`

## build

    $ grunt

## watch

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Генрик Ку́нзек (; 28 лютого 1871, Самбір — 17 вересня 1928, Батовиці поблизу Кракова) — польський живописець, графік, скульптор, публіцист, лікар (доктор медицини); один із засновників товариства «Краківські майстерні».

Біографія
Народився 28 лютого 1871 року в місті Самбір (нині — Львівська область, Україна). 1894 року закінчив Ягеллонський університет у Кракові, де вивчав медицину. У 1895–1905 роках працював лікарем у Крайовому шпиталі у Львові. Навчався живопису у Львові в школі Станіслава Батовського-Качора, скульптури у 1902–1905 роках — у майстерні Станіслава Островського, у 1905 році в Академії Колароссі в Парижі та в 1905–1911 роках у Краківській академії мистецтв (майстерня Константія Лящки). Відтоді працював у ній, у 1919—1928 роках — професор і завідувач кафедри рисунка.

Помер 17 вересня 1928 року в селі Батовиці поблизу Кракова. Похований у Кракові на Раковицькому цвинтарі.

Творчість

Різьбив портретні погруддя, медалі, рельєфи. У 1906–1908 роках ілюстрував часопис «Nasz kraj» і видання казок Клеменса Брентано (Львів, 1911). Займався літографією, плакатом; малював олією та аквареллю пейзажі: «Потік», 1907, «Вісла», 1912, портрети.

Брав участь у виставках у 1910 та 1916 роках у Львові; 1932 року відбулася посмертна на виставка медальєрства.

Примітки

Література

 Бірюльов Ю. О. Кунзек Генрик //

Польські художники
Польські графіки
Художники XIX століття
Художники XX століття
Польські скульптори
Скульптори XX століття
Польські лікарі
Лікарі Львова
Медики XIX століття
Медики XX століття
Доктори медицини
Викладачі Краківської академії мистецтв
Польські художники-пейзажисти
Польські художники-портретисти
Польські плакатисти


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Q: Multiple questions related to Flutter basic I am coming from React and trying to understand Flutter. There are some differences between dart vs JS and React vs Flutter. However, it seems a bit similar to each other. However, there is some confusion toward Flutter.

*

*void
It does not return the value. Therefore, it is used to void main(). Does it mean like the function 'main()' will be executed and I will never be able to reuse void main()?

*<>
In the code, I have here
class LoginScreen extends StatefulWidget {
  createState() {
    return new LoginScreenState();
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class LoginScreenState extends State<LoginScreen> {
  Widget build(context) {
    return Container(
        margin: EdgeInsets.all(20.0),
        child: Column(
          children: [
            emailField(),
            // passwordField(),
            // submitButton(),
          ],
        ));
  }
}

I can see that State<LoginScreen> is related to class LoginScreen. It is an extension of the LoginScreen State?
Future<int> successor = future.then((int value) {

  },

However, in here Future <----- I do not understand why it has to state 'int' in this code. What is the proper use of <>?

*Stateful vs Stateless

Can I just use the Stateful all the time even if I do not have any state like React? Where there is no difference?

A: You need to learn basic dart.

*

*void main() is same as main(). The only difference is declaring the return type. main() is called only once by the flutter engine.

*Read about generics. <> is the called the diamond operator and is used to specify the type of something. Future<int> means the function will return something in future and it will strictly be of int type. If you don't specify the type flutter will treat it as dynamic.

*You can use stateful classes if you are using state management packages like provider or rxdart to maintain state.

A: class LoginScreen extends StatefulWidget {
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    return new LoginScreenState();
  }
}

    enter code here

changed to
class LoginScreen extends StatefulWidget {
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  }
}

    enter code here

Stateful vs Stateless`enter code here`
stateful has state object and stateless has no state object.using stateful you can changes widget data .on other hand in stateful you cant

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Microsoft's anti-malware tool, Windows Defender, can now run within a sandbox on Insider builds of Windows. The software maker said its product is the first complete anti-virus solution which can run in a sandbox, which consequently raises the bar for security. The firm said the procedure to sandbox Windows Defender was complex and that it had to take into account performance and functionality considerations. Researchers and partners are now being asked for feedback before the update is made broadly available.
The Redmond-based firm decided to implement the feature after researchers inside and outside the company identified ways to take advantage of vulnerabilities in Windows Defender's content parsers that allowed arbitrary code execution. With Windows Defender being put in a sandbox, hackers will no longer be able to damage the system as Defender is locked up inside an isolated environment.
Going forward, Microsoft said it will continue working on new anti-tampering defences for Windows Defender. Additionally, it plans to announce new measures in the near future. If you'd like to read more about Windows Defender sandboxing, be sure to read Microsoft's extensive blog post on the matter.
Tesla launches Navigate on Autopilot for those in the U.S.


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History & Religion
Veneta Nikolova
Bulgarian National Radio © 2021 All Rights Reserved
Escaping from Covid to… paradise?
For the better-off it is a mission possible
published on 1/12/21 2:22 PM
Hundreds of Bulgarians have been saying no to Covid-19 and escaping for a week or two to… paradise, exotic destinations such as the Maldives, Zanzibar, Egypt, Tenerife, places where the sea is emerald-green, the sandy beaches are dazzlingly white, where there are palm trees and where time has stopped. Amidst the corona-crisis and the resulting chaos, these destinations have become all the rage, with prices being brought down and a flexibility demonstrated with regard to anti-epidemic measures. People travelling to them are not subject to quarantine or self-isolation, the only requirement being a negative PCR test. After which the guests go to their hotels, leaving behind all anxiety and apprehensions.
Of course few can afford such getaways to distant lands. Still, even as restrictions are in place, judging by the number of pre-bookings, hundreds of Bulgarians are getting ready to escape to distant shores.
"I don't want to wear a mask. I want to forget the stress and strain, I want to forget the coronavirus," these are the reasons cited most often by people willing to pay up 2,000 or 3,000 Leva for one week in a faraway land.
Krasimir Zlatanov, manager of a specialized exotic travel agency, says that despite the pandemic, there is interest in charter programmes. Which are the most sought-after destinations for a holiday in paradise?
"First the Maldives. In these resorts – island hotels, the only people for whom mask wearing is mandatory are the members of the staff. The customers take their masks off as they arrive, and do not put them back on while they are there. The same is true of Zanzibar, where not even a negative PCR test is required for entering the country. For all that, no Covid-19 cases have been registered so far among tourists," Zlatanov says.
In his words the people travelling to these destinations now are mostly young people who have either already contracted and recovered from Covid-19, or who are not afraid of catching it. The reason is that a negative PCR test is required practically everywhere and the probability of contracting coronavirus at the airport or on the flight is minimal. In the conditions of coronavirus tour operators have been trying to bring package prices down by organizing off –season charter flights and holidays.
"In Zanzibar, for example, prices in February and March are very high, that is why we organize programmes at the beginning of April, when there is 40% off the packages. On the whole we are succeeding, together with airlines, partners on location and hotels, to get a price reduction," Krasimir Zlatanov says.
Tour operators and insurance companies were able to get their bearings quickly in the new situation. They are offering health insurance which includes Covid insurance with treatment on location. Tourists are taking out travel cancellation insurance which covers the eventuality of a positive PCR test result immediately before departure.
"Some airline companies are willing to revalidate tickets for another date, though not always. The same is true of hotels though they do not refund the money for the reservation. So that the insurance in question covers that risk as well," Krasimir Zlatanov says.
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Digital nomads opt for the atmosphere of Pamporovo
The annual laptop camps in Pamporovo and Chepelare offer excellent conditions in which people who work remotely are able to combine work with their favourite winter pastimes. This season the camps are open to individual tourists and families who..
published on 1/17/21 5:30 AM
Ski runs of Pamporovo reopen on January 16
On January 16, the resort of Pamporovo will be open again for winter sports and the operator of the ski area has announced that reduced prices of the lift passes would be kept until January 22. For the past 5 days snow-making..
6,400 flights expected during season 2021 in Burgas
Minister of Tourism Mariyana Nikolova inspected Burgas airport and met with Frank Quante, CEO of Fraport Twin Star Airport Management, concessionaire of Burgas airport. 6 , 400 flights are expected for season 2021 in Burgas. The summer..
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Data-in-memory databases have become popular where rapid response times are necessary, either to help process a lot of data and iterate rapidly (such as SAP HANA), or in transactional systems requiring sub-second response time (such as advertisement placement systems). For applications that need predicable low transaction latency, the bottleneck is never the processor: modern x86 processors almost always have enough GHz and cores to provide the processing power for transactions. The performance issue always comes from the storage. Until recently, the disk drive has been the only persistent storage device. However, unless the whole database can be held in DRAM, this makes low consistent latency (e.g., sub-second response times) almost impossible to achieve because of the very high variance of disk sub-systems.
The cost of protecting the data-in-memory with battery protection of memory and/or multiple distributed copies of data goes up sharply as the number of nodes are increased.
In general, it is cheaper to use a larger number of small servers with (say) 96GB of storage with a relatively small number of nodes, and the resulting database size is limited. However, the limitations of scaleability of database size are significant.
NAND flash has superb characteristics for reading random data, and although flash is slower than DRAM, it is possible to create a layer below DRAM and dramatically increase the size of the database. The forecasts that improvements in NAND flash performance and reliability could not be maintained have proven wrong.
However for write, flash is not so optimal. Only 0's can be written, so a block of data has to be set to 1's before data can be written. Writing is much slower than reading, especially random writes.
Figure 1 shows the architecture that Aerospike uses to incorporate NAND flsah productively in its database architecture. It utilized the strength to DRAM, the strength of flash as a read persistent layer, and the strength of blocking up writes to persistent flash storage. The duplication in DRAM within the data center and outside allows protection of data against loss.
Much lower costs of Data-in-Flash compared to Data-in-DRAM, particularly as the amount of data increases (Wikibon research shows that a comparison of two-year server and active data costs for a transactional analytic workload with a 2 Terabyte Replicated Database (4 Terabytes in Total), supporting 800,000 operations/second (5,000 Bytes/operation) costs seven times less for Data-in-Flash compared with Data-in-DRAM.
For very applications with very small amounts of data (1TB or less), and ultra-low latency, Data-in-DRAM will remain the preferred topology.
Figure 2 shows that range of new access techniques from companies such as Fusion-IO and Virident that are being tested in beta at the moment. As these techniques are implemented into traditional and new file systems and databases, the potential of Data-in-Flash topologies will become greater and will become mainstream. These file-systems and databases will increasingly utilize very large distributed flash-only storage and obtain storage services from a Software-led Storage architectures, as discussed in recent Wikibon research.


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If you were able to catch Grease Live! last week, Vanessa Hudgens's performance probably stands out in your memory. Her role as Rizzo proved that we have only seen a fraction of her range, and at the same time, that we had no idea how brave she really is. The day before the show's premiere, Vanessa's dad passed away from stage four cancer. Regardless, the actress went on and delivered an incredible performance. Now that the madness has simmered down a bit, it seems she's going back to her roots to mourn her loss (as she very well should be).
She posted a picture of a framed photo of her dad, resting on a ledge in what appears to be a cemetery. The caption reads: "Rest in peace daddy," and it's as heartbreaking as it sounds. This was only a few days after she posted a little quote that read: "I wish heaven had visiting hours."
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The Run-Up To JCPOA's Revival
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad - 03 March 2022
Conflict and security
Ali Fathollah-Nejad argues that the Biden and Raisi administrations have no other options but to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but that this does not mean tensions will reduce in the long run. And Russia's invasion of Ukraine may create some short-term diversion on the path toward the deal's revival.
On the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Iran nuclear negotiations were seen as finally seeing the light of a conclusion, reviving the moribund JCPOA after almost a year of back-and-forth diplomatic efforts in Vienna. Iran's top negotiator Ali Bagheri-Kani in the Vienna talks, tweeted on 16 Feb. that "After weeks of intensive talks, we are closer than ever to an agreement; nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, though. Our negotiating partners need to be realistic, avoid intransigence, and heed lessons of the past 4yrs. Time for their serious decisions." Similar statements were reported by Western diplomats who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Outlines of a deal
The next day, Reuters claimed it had obtained exclusive information of a 20-page draft agreement that envisages a sequencing compliance-versus-compliance mechanism toward restoring the JCPOA. According to the report, there is a first phase in which Iran would reduce its uranium enrichment, which has partly attained 60%, below 5% as originally envisaged in the 2015 JCPOA. Other measures would include the release of Western hostages held in Iran and the unfreezing of about $7 billion of Iranian assets locked in South Korea due to Washington's sanctions pressure. "Only once that initial wave of measures has been taken and confirmed would the main phase of sanctions-lifting begin, culminating in what many diplomats call Re-Implementation Day", Reuters added, a reference to the Jan. 2016 Implementation Day of the original JCPOA that saw all nuclear-related sanctions lifted in exchange for Iran's massive rollback of its nuclear programme. The period between a signing of an agreement and Re-Implementation Day is estimated at one to three months.
On the crucial issue of re-allowing Iranian oil exports, the report also suggests that a previous mechanism would be revived: Former U.S. Presidents Obama and Trump used to issue and renew 90- to 120-day waivers on Iran's oil sales until the latter's withdrawal from the JCPOA in May 2018.
Regarding Tehran's long-standing demand for U.S. guarantees not to renege from the deal again, also by a post-Biden administration, the report, citing diplomats, suggests that the issue could be circumvented through Tehran returning to a 60% enrichment purity in case of Washington violating the deal, i.e. not fulfilling its sanctions relief promises.
However, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh indirectly reacted to the Reuters report, referring to it as "misinformation" and "an unsourced spin". Iran's Foreign Minister, meanwhile, said to the country's official media that a "good deal" may be reached soon.
In these circumstances, more than 160 U.S. Republicans from the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Biden, warning that "If you forge an agreement with the Supreme Leader of Iran without formal Congressional approval, it will be temporary and non-binding and will meet the same fate as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)." They stressed that they will oppose a deal to lift sanctions if Iran has not "fully dismantled their [sic!] enrichment and reprocessing-related infrastructure capabilities." They also demanded that all U.S. hostages should be released and Iran ought to stop sponsoring terrorism. However, there is no indication that a new JCPOA would address either Iran's regional policies nor its expanding ballistic missile programme.
Convergence of interests
Since January 2021, the Islamic Republic has attempted to gain more concessions from the Biden administration, encouraged by the eagerness of the U.S. to rejoin the JCPOA. However, as the Reuters report indicates, Tehran is far from obtaining what it had demanded all along.
That a JCPOA revival has been seen to be within reach can be explained by interests that all negotiating parties have, both structural and contingent: (1) For the West, (a) it is the alarmism that Iran's "nuclear escalation" strategy has successfully induced, fearing a nuclear-armed Iran to soon emerge on the horizon. (b) Also, given the escalating conflict with Russia (the so-called Ukraine crisis), Western diplomacy believes it has too much on its plate, so that it would need to solve the Iran nuclear issue as soon as possible, even if a long-term solution cannot be guaranteed. (c) These Western pre-occupations not only pertain to be able to more thoroughly focus on the conflict with Russia, but also its systemic rivalry with China. It is perhaps in this vein that Foreign Minister of France, a major military power in the EU and NATO, who urged that the Vienna talks would need to conclude within days could be understood.
(2) For Iran, it's now more public willingness to forge a deal is driven by (a) its need to experience relief from onerous sanctions. While Iran has been able to partly circumvent sanctions, also benefitting from the Biden administration's more lax handling of the global sanctions regime, meant to show goodwill toward Tehran in view of reviving the JCPOA, it is questionable how much of its more than one million barrel per month of oil exports (mostly to China at a discount price) would effectively translate into sorely needed hard-currency income, especially given the barter-trade Tehran has been subjected to by many of its oil customers. Therefore, the apparently planned unfreezing by the U.S. of billions of dollars of Iranians assets in South Korea and perhaps also in Iraq and other contexts has been at best estimated at reaching $20 billion. Even this positive estimate pales in relation to the needs of Iran. However, the Tehran leadership seems to be willing to accept such a sub-optimal outcome, which lags far behind its long-held official demands to see all U.S. sanctions removed as well as calls for U.S. guarantees to remain in the deal regardless of a new administration in Washington.
On the guarantee issue, it seems Iran has lost all illusions that its demands can be satisfied. In order to calm domestic critics, Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has openly asked its negotiators to propose to Western parties that "at least their parliaments or parliament speakers, including the US Congress, can declare in the form of a political statement their commitment to the agreement and return to the JCPOA implementation." In reality, no such "political statement" can legally bind the U.S. in particular to stay in the deal.
In fact, Iran now needs hard currency to nurture and cultivate its proxy network (esp. Hezbollah in Lebanon and its militias in Iraq, the latter of which have seen signs of fragmentation, also as a result of Tehran running out of U.S. dollars) and, more temporarily, to help alleviate its domestic economic crisis (although the latter may be mostly handled by simply printing cash, thus sustaining high inflation); (b) concerns that Western patience may indeed running out (as reiterated by key Western leaders since about the turn of the year), leading to the ultimate collapse of the Vienna talks and the much-needed prospect for sanctions relief.
(b) Last but not least, even in the wake of such a sub-optimal deal, the Islamic Republic can claim victory in the sense that it was able to thwart a "longer and stronger deal", a stated goal of the Biden administration, which would have to include Iranian concessions on regional geopolitics and ballistic missiles.
(3) It is also clear that there is some pressure from Iran's indispensable, purported partners Russia and China to push Tehran toward a deal. (a) Moscow and Beijing are not only opposed to a "nuclear Iran", which could help free the Islamic Republic from its straightjacket in its relations with these non-Western great-powers and the massive power asymmetry it suffers in these ties, structurally anchoring Tehran in a position of weakness and of constant offers of concessions to them. (b) Both also hope to benefit economically from some, yet not full, sanctions relief Tehran would experience from a revived deal.
(4) Opposition from key Western regional allies seem to have calmed. While all of them would want to see Iran's nuclear programme contained, Israel has probably been given the assurance by the U.S. that it can continue its operations against Iran's nuclear infrastructure even after a deal is struck, while Gulf Arab countries have been informed about the Vienna talks as opposed in the case of those that had preceded the 2015 JCPOA.
In addition, there are important caveats to bear in mind: (1) Also in the absence of sanctions, Iran's FATF blacklisting would still not allow for full normalization of trade with the West, in this case Europe, and even beyond. (2) Contrary to some re-emerging claims echoing those surrounding the 2015 JCPOA, both the pacifying nature and durability of a deal are likely to remain quite limited. While Iranian authorities insist on guarantees, there appears that even a revived deal would not survive in the long term, as disputes with the U.S. are not limited to Iran's nuclear programme but also to its expansive regional policies and ballistic missile programme, both of which are very likely to continue unabated. One could even expect that the Islamic Republic will take this opportunity of a revived deal to increase its leverage against the U.S. by way of its regional policies and ballistic missiles.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Vienna talks
Last but not least, whereas on the nuclear issue, Russia (and China) are against a "nuclear Iran" and thus for a JCPOA revival, the Ukraine war may have two important short-term consequences that could create an adverse dynamic in the short run: (1) Russian torpedoing of the Vienna talks, be it through political or technical-detail means, as a way to show its power of nuisance in areas deemed as significant for international peace and security (such as Iran's nuclear issue) meant to elevate its leverage in times of escalation with the West; (2) Iran's negotiating posture may revert back to more intransigence, with Iran emboldened by Russia's apparent upper-hand in its confrontation with the West now pushing it to demand for more concessions in Vienna. Some reports about Iran's chief nuclear negotiator returning from Tehran may indicated such a hardened Iranian position. Despite its risk of alienating Western parties at a crucial time of the Vienna talks, Tehran may calculate that the costs of a short-term return to a more intransigent posture may be manageable, not least due to oil prices reaching $100 per barrel as a result of the war in Ukraine.
No "Plan Bs"
In sum, the Biden and Raisi administrations have no other options but to reach a common point, even though both of them allege that they have a "Plan B". The White House seems to be concerned about the rapid advancement of Iran's nuclear programme, while its unwillingness to sustain Trump's "maximum pressure" has deprived it from important leverage against Tehran to push for a "longer and stronger deal".
Therefore, the Islamic Republic and the Biden administration will probably restore the JCPOA, but it does not mean that the tension between the two countries will reduce even in the medium term. At this time, the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal would work as a sedative, even though it will lose its efficiency sooner or later. Indeed, it only provides an interval in which both Presidents, Biden and Raisi, can boast they solved a problem in favour of their country's interests.
Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a German–Iranian political scientist focusing on Iran, the Middle East, and the post-unipolar world order and author of the much-acclaimed book Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani (2021). He is currently an Associate Fellow with the American University of Beirut's Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB-IFI), where he publishes a monthly brief entitled »Iran in Focus«. Ali is also the former Iran expert of the Brookings Institution in Doha (BDC, 2017–20) and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP, 2015–18). He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and was the winner of 2016/17 post-doctoral fellowship of the Harvard Kennedy School's Iran Project.
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Claire Adams is a backstroke specialist from Carmel, Indiana. Her family moved from Houston when she was 9 years old and her parents put her on a swim team to help her make friends. Four years later, Adams was at her first Olympic Trials at her first national meet. High School Swimming Over the course of her career at Carmel High School, Adams became the first swimmer in Indiana state history to win 16 state titles and the first to win the 100 yard backstroke all four years. But the record she's most proud of was the one she earned with the rest of her team. Becoming the best high school sports team in American History. In her senior year Carmel High School won its 30th straight state title, which earned the school the longest state title winning streak of any high school sports team in US history. National and International Career In 2014 Adams made her international debut at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships where she finished 9th in the 100 meter backstroke and 11th in the longer distance. Breaking the Junior World Record At the 2015 US National Championships, Adams raced her way to national titles in the 100 and 200 meter backstroke setting …
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Lopez-Cantera's Senate Campaign Buoyed by Norman Braman and a Bunch of LLCs
By Alex Glorioso
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Florida billionaire Norman Braman's preferred presidential candidate is out of the running. Good thing there are Senate races, too.
Braman could still get another favorite, Florida Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera, nominated as the Republican candidate to fill the Senate seat left open by former presidential hopeful Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for whom Braman was a longtime patron. The wealthy car dealer leads the statewide finance committee for Lopez-Cantera. He's also given $200,000 to the single-candidate super PAC backing him — almost one-quarter of its total contributions — and has maxed out his personal donations to the candidate.
Norman Braman on a Fox News appearance in 2015.
Lopez-Cantera has a heap of competition, including two current House members and a couple of businessmen. But Braman's not the only one wearing multiple hats in an effort to make sure Lopez-Cantrera has all the resources he needs for a successful campaign; four other Floridians are both part of the candidate's finance team and are associated with major contributions to the super PAC supporting him, Reform Washington, according to a Center for Responsive Politics review of campaign finance data. Braman gave the largest amount, and did so under his own name.
The other four finance team members — Bernie Navarro, Trey Traviesa, Daniel Dosoretz and Pedro Martin — are listed as either managing members or managers of a series of nine different limited liability companies that gave significant sums to the super PAC. The LLCs' managers founded many of the companies themselves.
In all, Braman and these LLCs have provided nearly one-third of Reform Washington's total haul through the end of February: $306,000.
While Braman isn't breaking any laws, it remains unclear whether the other finance members are the sole owners of the LLCs they manage and how they report the companies' income on their taxes. That's significant, because so-called "straw donations" of the sort OpenSecrets Blog reported on last week aren't allowed under campaign finance law.
Coziness between campaigns and super PACs can cross the line into illegal coordination if they discuss strategy; despite the financiers' double-barreled efforts for Lopez-Cantera's campaign and Reform Washington, there's no evidence that's the case here.
While super PACs — creatures of the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision and subsequent legal developments — must disclose their donors, the groups are relying to an increasing degree on contributions from LLCs, which often mask the true sources of the funds. "Citizens United opened the door both legally and psychologically to corporations coming into elections, but the idea was that it had to be disclosed," said Larry Noble, a campaign finance expert at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington. "Now, individuals are hiding behind LLCs."
Reform Washington's donors include 27 LLCs in all, which have given $161,500 of the group's $923,642 in receipts.
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Lopez-Cantera and Rubio when they served together in the Florida House. (House photo.)
Braman was chosen to lead Lopez-Cantera's finance team in part because he is such a big donor and has vast fundraising networks in Florida, according to a campaign official. True enough: For one thing, he gave a whopping $7 million to Conservative Solutions PAC, making him the top donor to the super PAC that backed Rubio. One week after Lopez-Cantera announced his bid, on July 23, 2015, Braman and his wife, Irma, maxed out their personal donations to the candidate's campaign, giving $10,800. He made his first $100,000 donation to the super PAC on May 15, 2015, two months before Lopez-Cantera announced his Senate bid.
Two other finance committee members associated with LLCs that gave to Reform Washington — Tallahassee lobbyist and fundraiser for Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney Trey Traviesa and Ft. Myers oncologist Daniel Dosoretz — also maxed out their personal donations to the lieutenant governor.
Traviesa is a founder and principal of V3 Partners, an investment management firm in Florida, which gave $25,000 to Reform Washington. TEM LLC, for which Dosoretz is listed as the manager in Florida corporate records, gave $45,000 to the super PAC. Dosoretz's wife, Celia, maxed out her personal contribution as well, giving $5,400 to the campaign on Nov. 30.
None of the men behind the nine LLCs is a stranger to money in politics, though none has played at Braman's level. Since 2012, Navarro has contributed over $20,300 to a variety of Republican candidates and PACs, Center for Responsive Politics data show. In the last three years, he's given $9,000 to Rubio's Senate leadership PAC, Reclaim America.
Since 2005, Traviesa has given $133,858, all to Republicans. In 2012, he contributed more than $30,000 to the Republican National Committee and last year he gave $10,000 to the Republican Party of Florida. He's also given to former presidential candidate Jeb Bush's presidential campaign ($5,400 in 2015), $5,000 to Rubio's leadership PAC in 2012 and $1,000 in 2014 to Rep. David Jolly, one of Lopez-Cantera's current rivals for the GOP nomination.
Dosoretz has given over $250,000 since 1992. CRP records show that he's not historically loyal to Democrats or Republicans, regularly giving to candidates committees and PACs from both parties.
The Florida Republican Senate primary isn't until August 30th and the race is currently a crowded free for all. Running against Lopez-Cantera are businessmen Todd Wilcox and Carlos Beruff and Reps. Ron DeSantis and Jolly. So far, Wilcox and Jolly have raised over $1 million, but DeSantis has raised the most money by far, bringing in nearly $3 million by last December.
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