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A literary analysis of the argument in man and the universe by pascal
One thirsts, and there exists water to quench this thirst; One hungers, and there exists food to satisfy this hunger.
And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover…. However, individuals are everything when compared to nothingness. He further posed that the unquenchable desires of this life strongly imply that we are intended for a different life, necessarily governed by a God who can provide the desired intangibles.
Whoever considers himself in this way will be afraid of himself, and, seeing himself supported by the size nature has given him between these two abysses of the infinite and nothingness, he will tremble at these marvels.
The notion that God never intervenes or communicates with the universe, or may have evolved into the universe, makes it difficult, if not by definition impossible, to distinguish between a universe with God and one without. I believe that, as his curiosity changes into admiration, he will be more disposed to contemplate them in silence than to examine them with presumption.
Islam's devotees argue that these cartoons have desecrated a symbol of their faith, a pillar of their belief. There is no conflict between science and religion.
If God could rationally be proven, his existence would be unimportant to humans.
That is yet another limitation of humankind. He introduced into Greece the gnomonthe sundial and cartography. For in the end, what is man in nature. The non-overlapping magisteria view proposed by Stephen Jay Gould also holds that the existence or otherwise of God is irrelevant to and beyond the domain of science.
In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God. The above is an excerpt from the introduction to his book Without Excusein which he utilizes the insights of information science to demonstrate that the origin of life can only be explained as the result of a conscious, intelligent creator.
All these philosophies were leagued together against Scholasticismand very often against Catholicism. They believe it would contradict the transcendent nature of God for mere humans to define him. When Pascal wrote this, he did not intend to make it something literal; as in showing a comparison between the universe and an atom.
The Life and Times. The only possible answers are religious. Poetic modes are identified according to their means of imitation, the actions they imitate, the manner of imitation, and its effects.
It is microscopic in comparison to the immensity of the desert. The Pleasure of the Text. Indian philosophy The philosophy of India is recorded principally in the sacred books of the Vedafor it has always been closely united with religion.
Whittaker, winner of the Copley Medal, which is the most prestigious award in British science. The true owner of their works is the public, which will appropriate them for its own concerns regardless of the critic. vol 6 pg 1. A Philosophy of Education Book 1.
Introduction. These are anxious days for all who are engaged in education. We rejoiced in the fortitude, valour and devotion shown by our men in the War and recognize that these things are due to the Schools as well as to the fact that England still breeds "very valiant creatures.".
Written by Tim O'Neill. Tim O'Neill is an atheist blogger who specializes in reviews of books on ancient and medieval history as well as atheism and historiography. It is a very provocative argument that a number of thoughtful theologians from Groothuis to McKenzie have opined upon quite recently, and it is an argument that deserves extensive thought not just about the Christian religion, but about the very nature of man and whether Pascal's grasp of it is correct or not.
Detailed article on the history of the 'love of wisdom'. Books on the topic of this essay may be found in The Imaginative Conservative Bookstore.
Notes: Blaise Pascal, Pensées Trans. by W. F. Trotter (New York: E.P. Dutton, ), The first number corresponds to the entry. The second gives the page reference.
Ibid., New Criticism. A literary movement that started in the late s and s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text, e.g., with the biography or psychology of the author or the work's relationship to literary history.
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Celebrities Who Found Love Later In Life
Those three words pack a lot of meaning. It means that love doesn't discriminate; it sees no color, no gender, and no age.
It's why we have couples in Hollywood with big age gaps who are insanely happy together and adorable same-sex couples to swoon over.
It's also why celebs can find love later in life, as evident by these 18 celebs!
1. Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor
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Although Sarah was dating someone else at the time when they met, she couldn't pass up the opportunity to be with her crush.
So 30-year age gap be damned, Sarah and Holland fell in love with each other when they were 41 and 72, respectively.
2. Jennifer Aniston
After her very high-profile divorce from Brad Pitt, everyone was rooting for America's Sweetheart to find love again.
And she did! At 46 with Justin Theroux. Sadly, the pair divorced, although they remain friends. This means Jen is single in her 50s.
3. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
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The talk show host was 52 when she married the Arrested Development star.
"I just walked over to say hello to her, and I couldn't believe it, but she turned around and it was like an arrow was shot through my heart," DeRossi told Oprah about meeting Ellen.
4. David Foster
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After divorcing Yolanda Hadid, the music producer reconnected with Katherine McPhee, whom he had met in 2006 on American Idol.
He was 70 when they finally got married. They welcomed a child together in 2020.
5. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
After one failed marriage, the actor gave love another go in 2007 when he met his wife, Lauren, on the set of The Game plan.
The pair, who have two children together, tied the knot in 2019!
6. Bruce Willis
Instagram | @emmahemingwillis
Everyone knows about the actor's high-profile marriage to Demi Moore.
After their divorce, he met his second wife, Emma Hemming. Despite their 23-year age gap, he was 54 when he married her. They have two kids.
7. George Clooney
The handsome actor traded in his bachelor life for married life at the age of 52.
He wasn't going to give it up for just anyone, which is why he chose the gorgeous and sophisticated, human rights lawyer, Amal Alamuddin.
8. Mariska Hargitay
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The Law & Order star was in her late 30s when she met her husband, Peter Hermann, on the show. He had a recurring role.
They dated for several years after that before finally getting married when Mariska was 40.
9. Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo
Instagram | @amyadams
The pair first met in 2001 in acting class. Despite getting engaged after seven years together, they didn't get married until another seven years later when they were both in their 40s.
10. Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault
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Salma was 40 when she announced her engagement and pregnancy with the French businessman, whom she met on a blind date.
They got married when she was 42 and he was 46.
11. Barbra Streisand and James Brolin
Both Barbra and James met each other late in life. They got married when Streisand was 56 and Brolin was 58.
Waiting clearly was the right move, as they've been together for over 20 years.
During his wedding speech, Brolin even shared how lucky he was to find love late in life.
"I can't tell you how lucky I am that this would happen to me so late in life," he said. "Every night is a new adventure. Sleeping is a waste of time. I can't wait to see her again in the morning." Aww!
12. Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello
Instagram | @sofiavergara
After a failed marriage, the Modern Family star was lucky to meet the Magic Mike star at 42.
They got married after a year of dating when Vergara was 43 and Joe was almost 38.
13. Elton John
"I was attracted to David immediately," Elton told Parade about meeting his husband, David Furnish, at a last-minute dinner party.
"He was very well dressed, very shy. The next night we had dinner. They eventually married when Elton was 66.
14. Julianne Moore
When you look as good as Julianne does, you can find love at any age!
The actress was 42 when she married director Bart Freundlich in 2003. This was her second marriage, following her 1995 divorce from John Rublin.
15. Jerry Seinfeld
Instagram | @jerryseinfeld
In both his show and real life, Jerry has had a tough go at love. I mean, he was once dating a high schooler!
Thankfully, Jerry got it right when he met his wife in 1997. He was 45 when they wed.
16. Cynthia Nixon
Unlike her Sex and the City character, Nixon didn't settle down and get married in her 30s.
She was 46 when she wed education activist Christine Marinoni in New York City in May 2012.
17. Gabrielle Union
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The nine-year age difference between her and NBA star, Dwayne Wade, originally put the Bring It On actress off.
But she eventually let the age gap go and the pair got married when Union was 42.
18. Cameron Diaz
When you know, you know. And after 10 months of dating Benji Madden, Cameron Diaz knew he was the one. The pair got married in 2016 when Diaz was 42 and welcomed a daughter in 2020.

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MAYBE THEY REPLACE IT WITH AN IPOD IN THE FUTURE: Grammy nods are out, and a few noteworthies:
Neither Timberlake nor Kanye gets into any of the top categories, with your five nominees for album of the year being Taylor Swift, Macklemore, Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, and Sara Bareilles. The Bareilles nod is particularly odd, given that "Brave" doesn't crack song or record the year. Bruno Mars gets in for record and song, but not for album.
Despite her cultural omnipresence and both "Wrecking Ball" and "We Can't Stop" being eligible? Not a single nod for Miley.
Best New Artist is seriously weird. Though Lorde is up for record/song of the year for "Royals," she's not in, nor is Imagine Dragons (up for record of the year for "Radioactive"). Joining Macklemore and Kendrick Lamar as nominees are EDM artist James Blake, country singer Kacey Musgraves, and Ed Sheeran.
Despite the love for Red in the top category, not much for Ms. Swift elsewhere--indeed, "I Knew You Were Trouble" seems to have been completely snubbed, despite being considered a big contender.
EGOT Watch--Billy Crystal (who needs an Oscar and a Grammy to complete) is up for Spoken Word, as is Carol Burnett (who shockingly, has only an Emmy).
Other interesting nominees? David Sedaris (in spoken word), the Broadway Matildae (cast album),
THE OTHER FOOTBALL: We have a World Cup draw for 2014, including a brutal quartet for Sam's Army: Germany, Portugal, Ghana.
CHRISTMAS BELLS ARE RINGING ... SOMEWHERE ELSE: There are parts of America where I would still expect Rent: The School Edition to prove controversial, but canceling a production in Trumbull, Conn.? The principal is offering the b.s. grounds that he wasn't consulted far enough in advance, because "Without proper planning, Rent: The School Edition has the potential to become a speech rather than a meaningful dialogue to capitalize on all significant themes it presents."
(I'm sure there was a lot of meaningful dialogue around The Wiz and The Music Man, which they've done in the past.)
FORD EVERY STREAM: So many of us were excited to see The Sound of Music live on NBC last night, and knew that at least if it sucked we'd have a lot to talk about, and it ... well, it didn't completely work.
The primary problems, as I see it, were one avoidable problem and one unavoidable one. The latter is aesthetic: outside of soap operas and SNL, viewers are no longer used to seeing fake sets on live (or shot-to-tape) television. The hills in particular were not alive, and it was jarring to have to get in one's head "okay, I'm supposed to use my imagination here," because we're just so used to seeing on-location shooting.
The avoidable problem was Carrie Underwood. Could she sing the part? Yes, actually pretty darn well, esp. with something as demanding as "The Lonely Goatherd." The acting, however, wasn't there in any compelling way, and it distracted the whole time. I think it was just a fundamental miscasting—had NBC started with Underwood and then figured out what musical to adapt, they could've found something more suitable like, say, South Pacific? Because I can totally see Underwood as a more credible Nellie Forbush. (Hugh Jackman as Emile, Matthew Morrison or NPH as Lt. Cable, Alec Baldwin as Luther Billis?)
Despite that, I want NBC to try again next year with a different musical, because live television and big events are fun and there is so much great talent out there. Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, and Christian Borle (basically doing Rooster Hannigan) were all great, as expected. The kids were fine, even if Rolf's shorts remained jarring throughout.
So, what do you want to see NBC try next? Previously.tv has some thoughts.
HANDLE THIS: How bad is it for fans of the Houston Texans? Rather than discussing playoff prospects, they're busy discussing who should replace Gary Kubiak as coach and whether it would be insane or brilliant for the Texans to draft Johnny Manziel (assuming he opts in to the draft) as the new franchise QB. Heck, it's so bad that even in football-crazy Houston, there are people upset that tonight's Thursday game (featuring the hot competition for worst record between the Texans and Jacksonville) will air on the local ABC affiliate, preempting Scandal.
TRAPPED IN THE KHAN-SET: Benedict Cumberbatch reads R. Kelly lyrics.
CAN YOU HONESTLY TELL ME YOU FORGOT? FORGOT THE MAGNETISM OF ROBIN ZANDER, OR THE CHARISMA OF RICK NIELSEN? Twelve movie scenes about how you have to listen to a certain piece of music.
(#13: "Listen to Tommy with a candle burning, and you'll see your entire future.")
FROM A TOWN KNOWN AS OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND: Billy Joel, no stranger to these pages even though one co-blogger doesn't particularly care for him, has signed a deal to play Madison Square Garden once a month in perpetuity, as long as there's demand. (He's also doing a New Year's Eve concert at the arena in Brooklyn with the Ben Folds Five.)
THE SUBSTITUTER: The forty-four worst people in every restaurant.
PRIMITIVE CULTURES: I think it's impossible to revisit Animal House in 2013 and not find it deeply problematic, as The Dissolve's writers did last week. It's one group of overprivileged WASP assholes against the other, with the racists, peeping toms, would-be rapists, and vandals of Delta House labeled the heroes and the student government/ROTC crowd the villains, but, spoiler!, nothing they do in college actually matters, because white male privilege ensures that they can still be gynecologists, White House aides, and United States Senators no matter what happened in college. Really, is this a movie I'm going to encourage my daughters to watch? Keith Phipps:
I feel like talking about this movie has made me sound a bit like an Omega House snob, too uptight to appreciate the outrageous antics of the liberated Delta slobs. Sigh. Sorry. This won't change things, but I'd like to talk about some of the film's attitudes toward women and minorities. When we finished watching it in The Dissolve screening room a couple of weeks ago, Scott said, "There are gags in that movie you would not see today."
NOT EVERYTHING HAS ITS SEASON: A list of Broadway songs with which to never audition. (HT: @TheatreProblems)
AMADRONE: I cannot be the only one who would prefer that rather than a swarm of drone octocopters, Amazon's new delivery system involved an armada of flying monkeys like the ones from Oz.
P.S. "Cyber" Monday? 1996 called; it wants its once-trendy adjective back.
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4:30 on a Friday afternoon and I am leaving the office – should be an exciting time, right? After all it is the official start of the weekend and what could be better? How about an I-95 on ramp that isn't backed up onto the street! This is not looking good – so I go to Plan B. I'll travel up Delaware Ave in my quest to get home. Resistance is futile. The YEARS of construction on and around 95 continues and that means almost constantly changing traffic patters. Seems like a new pattern today has me moving two city blocks in roughly 20 minutes. So it's onto Plan C – one that I rely on often: find a spot close to where I am and EAT! Thankfully my commute home passes by the Fishtown section of Philly. Fishtown has come alive in recent years with countless places to grab a really good bite to eat.
I wasn't far from Cedar Point Bar and Kitchen. I have been here a couple of times before for brunch after a couple of races in the city. But it has been a while, and I was never here for dinner so I figured I may as well give it a play. It was early enough that the place wasn't packed yet – they have outside seating and since it was a nice night it was already full. The bar was also full but the dining are had plenty of seating and I got seated right away.
Looking over the menu they have a few vegan options and I decided that tonight I was going for a couple items I haven't tried in the past.
Cauliflower Fritters – I have become a huge fan of cauliflower as of late, and the menu description mentioned peanut butter – so how could I not order this? Really I can eat almost anything with peanut butter! The collards were creamy and tender with a good level of spice to them and a distinct flavor of peanut – think Thai Peanut Sauce. The fritters were crispy outside yet soft inside. They had a nice smoked flavor; probably from a nice dose of smoked paprika. I tried them both separately, and while I could eat lots of the collards alone, the cauliflower was slightly one dimensional. I definitely suggest eating them together as a bite as this makes a really good plate of food.
Kale Burger. In my pre-vegan days burgers were always one of my favorite things to eat, so I am always on the search for a great vegan burger. I was a bit disappointed that my search couldn't end here. The flavor is good and I could taste both main ingredients of kale and white beans, though it ate more like a pate than a patty. I didn't mind that as much as the fact that it was a little flat with no real big punch of flavor that one looks for in a burger. Even a nice shot of salt and pepper would have helped. The brioche bun was slightly dry but the sage aioli helped out a bit with that situation; however unless I read the menu description I would have never guessed it was a sage flavor. Unfortunately even the last saving grace of the plate, the fries, couldn't help. I love fries with the skins still on, but these were pretty mushy and I left the majority of them behind, which is unusual for me. I have to keep myself from eating fries off others' plates normally!
So I wish I could say this helped make my commute home a bit better, but it seemed I just hit another road block with the burger. However I am not giving up on this place. The brunch items I have had were really good and worth going back for; I will review a brunch sometime soon. My recommendation: if you find yourself here for dinner, skip the burger and order a couple of appetizers – the above fritters and their veggie wings (ordered at a previous brunch visit) should do the trick to satisfy any hungry vegan!
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Q: global variables within functions changing across script sections in order to display a number I am trying to use window.score within two different functions within two different scripts to make an updated score display when I click the button.
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<button type="button" style="position: absolute; bottom:50px;" onClick="submit();">Submit</button>

Expected: Button is clicked, the score appears as 10
Result: Button is clicked, the score does not appear at all

A: As plalx mentioned in his comment, the innerHtml for the score element and window.score are not bound, because window.score passes by value. This means score's innerHtml is assigned to whatever window.score initially is (in this case, the actual score element as giving an element an id declares a global variable with that name), and doesn't change if window.score changes.
If you want the score element to reflect, you should assign its innerHtml to the new value of window.score once it changes (for example, on the submit function).
Btw, I think you are missing a curly brace in the first script.

A: I think you still have 2 or something to learn
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Just a minute… Anja Sandström, Deputy Dean for first and second cycle education, who has a central role in the Faculty of Pharmacy's ongoing strengthening of its organisation working with the Master and Bachelor of Science Programmes in Pharmacy.
Anja Sandström, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy
What are the most important changes regarding the faculty's Programmes?
"At the start of the autumn term 2022, we will launch two new Program Committees that will work with a focus on our Master and Bachelor of Science Programmes, respectively. Each committee will be chaired by a program manager that, together with a coordinator and a team of ten members, will handle, among other things, follow-up work, plans and task preparation."
What added value do you expect the committees to generate?
"That we are now engaging more people in the work with our programmes, who will work more program-focused will bring many positive effects. For example, we hope that we, by gathering representatives of teaching staff, study guidance, course administration and students, will enable increased collaboration and a better overview of our programmes, thus, strengthening our abilities to develop and ensure the quality of our educations."
Why this initiative at this specific time?
"The new structure corresponds directly to an urgent need, since our faculty in the last decade has expanded its educational activities with several new programmes and courses. We have also undergone a revision of our Master and Bachelor of Science Programmes in Pharmacy, which has contributed to a significant increase in issues of different natures. By introducing Program Committees, we will ensure that operations stay close to the programmes and enable a more strategic and forward-oriented work within GRUFF (Undergraduate and Master's Education Committee)."
Who will chair the new Program Committees?
"In the Master of Science Programme, Jörgen Bengtsson will be new chair and Lisa Carreras Fredriksson coordinator. Jörgen is currently Program coordinator and Lisa is involved in PUFF (Professional development and skills training at the Faculty of Pharmacy). In the Bachelor of Science Programme, Fredrik Jernerén will become chair and Emma Lundkvist retains her title as coordinator. With these four, I am convinced that we will succeed in combining both the experience and the commitment needed to establish the committees within our operations."
Do you plan to appoint committees for other educations?
"At present, we are focused on providing our first two committees the resources they need for a great start. If these pilot activities turn out as well as we hope, it is entirely conceivable that we, in the long term, will expand the activities to include our Faculty's Second cycle programmes."
Anja Sandström
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This is an undergraduate as well as graduate level course. The course starts with an introduction to multi-objective optimziation basics and spends almost 50% of the course on theory and classical multi-objective optimization techniques. The remaining 50% of the course is spent on discussing evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) methods in details. This is a unique course where students get an exposure to both theory and numerical optimization methodologies involving classical and evolutionary methods. Strengths and weaknesses of each method are highlighted. The course also discusses a number of current research issues, besides discussing a number of interesting case studies.
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It's time to give high tech workers equal basic rights
By David Fairey
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The BC government recently announced an update to its BC Jobs Plan that focused on measures to encourage increased employment in nine key sectors of the economy. One of those sectors is technology and innovation. To facilitate employment growth in this area the Premier announced that an "Innovation Network" would be created, headed by UBC president Professor Santa Ono—the Premier's Chief Advisor on this file.
Professor Ono convened Innovation Network stakeholders at a forum during the recent 2017 #BCTECH Summit. Over the next year the Network will focus on the development of talent, research and innovation, and super clusters. One of the main elements of that focus will be the development and implementation of strategies to attract and retain talent. However, missing from this strategy to promote employment growth in the "high tech" sector is an examination of the conditions of employment in the sector, including consultation with workers.
The exemption of high tech workers from basic employment standards means they can be required to work longer hours without the benefit of overtime pay.
For the past 18 years "high technology professionals" and "high technology companies" have been excluded from the hours of work, overtime and statutory holiday provisions of the Employment Standards Act. The Employment Standards Act is legislation designed to provide basic minimum terms and conditions of employment applicable to all employers and employees, providing basic floors and a fair competitive playing field where the rules are the same for everyone. As stated by the committee of special advisors reviewing employment standards in Ontario, unless there are conditions to warrant otherwise, exemptions from the Act (such as those for high tech workers) are inconsistent with the principle of universality—which is that minimum terms and conditions set out in the Act should be applicable to all employees.
Under employment standards the maximum daily and weekly hours of work after which overtime rates of pay must be paid are eight hours and 40 hours respectively. The exemption of high tech workers from these basic provisions means that they can be required to work longer daily and weekly hours without the benefit of overtime pay, which they invariably are required to do. This exemption therefore represents a significant and unreasonable wage subsidy to high tech companies at the expense of their employees.
As noted in the recent interim report of the Ontario Changing Workplaces Review Special Advisors "Unwarranted or out-dated exemptions may have unintended adverse impact on employees in today's workplaces. The concern is that many employees may be denied the protections under the ESA that are essential for them to be treated with minimum fairness and decency."
In submissions made to that government review it was argued that the cost of exemptions is borne not only by employees not covered by the Act who suffer lost income and insufficient time off, but also that there is a social cost to health and safety resulting from excessive overtime and long hours of work.
Submissions made to the Ontario Changing Workplaces Review committee with respect to the exemption of information technology professionals from the ESA were echoed by a significant number of BC high tech workers, particularly those in the digital animation of visual effects industry, who attended the recent workers story forums held by the BC Employment Standards Coalition.They all complained about their working conditions and the exploitative and discriminatory nature of their exclusion from the right to receive overtime pay—and in some cases any pay—for work beyond an eight hour day and 40 hour week.
It is imagined that high tech workers are somehow removed from the drudgery and exhaustion of other more traditional occupations. And oddly, it is assumed they don't have to balance the same work-home-life challenges and obligations.
Underlying the exemption of high tech workers from these basic employment rights and protections are some troubling myths and misperceptions about the industry. It is imagined that high tech workers are somehow removed from the drudgery and exhaustion of other more traditional occupations. And oddly, it is assumed they don't have to balance the same work-home-life challenges and obligations. So this exemption is accepted because it is imagined that all high tech workers are young and childless, happy to work late hours and camp-out at work because work at high tech firms is so enjoyable and stimulating? Do the powers that be think all these workers are content to trade in their rights for easy access to ping-pong tables and a lax dress code? And by what logic is the work life of a receptionist or a computer programmer in the high tech sector fundamentally different from a receptionist or a computer programmer in any other industry, and therefore undeserving of basic overtime rights?
The simple truth is that the high tech sector is a workplace like any other. And the workers in that industry need and deserve the same protections.
According to government documents BC has grown to become one of the world's largest clusters of visual effects and digital animation companies. This is due in part to BC tax payers subsidizing film, television, digital animation and visual effects companies to the tune of $500 million a year through tax credits that pay for a significant portion of their labour costs. According to recent BC government statements there are 25,000 jobs in the BC industry and BC taxpayers contribute an estimated average of $25,000 for each individual employed in the industry.
Given the extent of government direct wage subsidies to companies in the high technology sector, and the unfairness and discriminatory nature of the exemption of high tech workers from the hours of work and overtime provisions of the ESA, it is high time that high tech workers were restored their full rights and that they be consulted on their conditions of employment during Professor Ono's review of the sector.
Topics: Employment & labour
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Historic gains in Ontario workers' rights: What BC can learn
David Fairey
David Fairey is a labour economist, a research associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office, and co-chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition.


We all live in a zoo, of sorts. Each of us sharing some cages, and others walled off in our own private cages within the bigger cage of life. In fact, some of us have enclosed ourselves within multiple cages, each smaller and more cramped than the next one. Others have managed to break out of most of their cages, and now only huddle within the largest of them, with edges so far flung that they can't even see the bars. For others, the edge of their cage is so close that they feel hunched and crowded no matter what they do.
However, most of us don't wish to see or acknowledge these cages, so we don't; after all, we are the creators of our cages, so we are hardly going to admit (even to ourselves) that we have placed these boundaries around ourselves. But think about it…how often have you told yourself that you can't do or say something, or that you mustn't do or say something? Every time you do that, you put another layer of boundaries (another cage) around yourself. These are cages built of fear. Whether it's the fear of being perceived as "different than the norm", the fear of failing, the fear of being rejected, or the fear of appearing silly or stupid, it's still a barrier that you create around yourself.
What if it didn't matter what anyone else thought? What if there were no way to measure success and failure? Would you do or say something then? Probably. Because it would be more difficult for the fear to take hold. Maybe not impossible, but definitely more difficult.
Some fears cause you to create a cage of solitude, walling out anyone and everyone that would even try to get close to you. Arrogance builds a fear in people of being seen for what they are rather than what they want others to believe they are. This causes someone with arrogance to build a cage around themselves to lock others away; keeping them from coming too close. Greed is another one that causes people to create a cage of solitude because they are more intent on obtaining more of whatever it is they feel they don't have enough of. This causes the greedy ones to push people away (unless, of course, it's people that the greedy one needs to "collect"), because they only have time for people that can help them obtain what it is they need.
Some people build cages not just around themselves, but around others, too. It could be that they fear being alone so they cage themselves together with a select chosen few to keep them close. It could be a widow who holds her grown children too close, or a clingy friend. Some people are afraid of being abandoned, so they, too, build cages around family members or friends in an attempt to hold them close.
Others build cages of "love" but the love is unbalanced, because their love is based on fear. They're afraid that their partner might leave them, or they're afraid that their partner only loves them because they're beautiful/rich/powerful.
Most people do not analyze their reasons for "loving" someone else, at least not until that relationship starts to fall apart. However, even then, they will rarely recognize that their love was anything but that all shining icon called true love that we were all raised to expect and so look for endlessly.
But even an honest, balanced love can become a cage; although, it is usually a less restrictive, less inhibiting one. That is because it is constructed by all the participants in an equal and balanced way. It is more of an exclusionary barrier, keeping out those too frightened by such beauty as pure love to be able to understand or share the emotion. However, this is a rare occurrence, and this type of cage is seldom seen by the majority of us, and when it is, we usually see it as something to fear.
So, next time you think we only put animals in zoos, think about the cages you've built around self, and realize that we're all in our own personal zoo.
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Such an interesting perspective you have on life. Thank you for giving me something to think about.


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"Възкресение Господне" е православна църква на Софийската епархия на Българската православна църква, разположена в софийското село Кътина.

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Според ктиторския надпис църквата е построена в 1841 година църква, вероятно върху останките на по-малък стар православен храм, чийто останки личат около камбанарията на църквата. Надписът сочи имената на братята Дренъо и Вълчо като дарители на средствата за построяването ѝ.

Около 1880 година видните български зографи, представителите на Дебърската художествена школа Никола Янев, Алексо Василев и Евгений Попкузманов рисуват църквата в село Кътина. На западната стена отвътре има надпис "Кой исписалъ църквата Никола Ѧновъ Евгениѧ п. КȢзмановъ Алексо Василовъ Дебрели: о: с: Галичникъ". Със стенописи са покрити стените, таванът и куполите. Дело на Никола Янев са изображенията в южния певник – светците Георги, Теодор Стратилат, Тарах, Сергий, Никита и Меркурий с Христос Вседържител над тях в купола, евангелисти и пророци. Останалите стенописи са дело на Алексо Василев и Евгений Попкузманов. На южната стена са светците Пантелеймон, Трифон, Стилиян, Теопемп, Агапий, Константин и Елена, на северната – Сава, Антоний, Козма и Дамян, Никита, Артемий и Прокопий, Петър Александрийски с Христос, а на западната – Йосиф, Йон, Дамаскин, Пахомий, ангел, Арсений Нови, Симеон Дивногорец, Взятие Илино, Анастас и Марина. Фигурите са с обикновен колорит и излъчват суровост. Като величина са по-големи от естествената и са несъразмерни и разкривени. Иконите не са подписани и датирани, но са дело на Никола Янев.

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By Philip Maughan17th October 2022
If a giant space rock struck Earth, how would we rebuild our food supply? Philip Maughan explores the consequences for our diets.
Imagine a giant asteroid strikes the Earth a few years from now, blocking out the Sun and collapsing agriculture worldwide. We see it coming, but all attempts to redirect its trajectory fail.
At first glance, our chances don't look good. The planet is engulfed in flames. Dead fish carpet the rivers and canals. Farmers lose most of their livestock. After just a few days, the air begins to cool, and global average temperatures plummet. Crops fail catastrophically, and the food supply system as we know it falls apart.
Yet what if I told you we were able to survive – that we managed to build a new food system by repurposing heavy-duty infrastructure and excavating knowledge from the past?
Focusing on how we'd respond to a post-apocalyptic scenario like this is not about pessimism or a macabre fixation with disasters. Instead, it is an exercise in research-based "future history" – a way to travel backwards in time from a possible future, inspecting every juncture that takes us from then to now. It's a practice beloved of both corporate leaders and military strategists because it encourages preparedness, but also because it requires imagination. It helps us see the present in a different light.
So let's begin. It's been one year since the rock struck. This is how we survived.
Catastrophic lessons
Our best means of predicting what will happen when a colossal object smashes into us involves studying past events. When the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago it turned ocean bedrock into plasma, vaporised all life within a 2,400km (1,500-mile) radius, and sent debris circling the globe, only to rain back down in a hail of incandescent destruction. Around 25 trillion tonnes of disinterred matter entered the atmosphere, blocking out sunlight.
Unlike the dinosaurs, many of our mammalian ancestors survived the terrible consequences because they were burrowers. We would need to do the same for a while. But it wasn't just their lifestyle and morphology that helped them. It was their diet, too.
One reason that mammals outlived the dinosaurs is because they had adaptable diets (Credit: Getty Images)
Dinosaurs that made it through the earthquakes, fires and tsunamis soon found they had nothing to eat. Our mammalian ancestors, by contrast, lived on insects, nuts and aquatic (low-sunlight) plants. Only a small number of theropod dinosaurs – a clade that once included Tyrannosaurus rex and from which all contemporary birds evolved – managed to cling on thanks to their omnivorous diets, dextrous beak and a gizzard that helped them extract nutrition from seeds.
This lesson might suggest that we should prepare caches of basic emergency food. Indeed, in a testimony before the US Congress as the Cold War was heating up, US officials proposed an "all-purpose survival cracker" made from bulgur wheat, a substance whose "shelf life has been established by being edible after 3,000 years in an Egyptian pyramid." Cans of Campbell's soup, General Foods' Tang drink mix, and General Mills' "Multi-Purpose Food" (fortified dehydrated vegetables and soy grits) were all produced under government orders to line the shelves of fallout shelters.
Yet storing enough food to feed everyone for a decade – or even a year – would create problems of its own. It has been estimated that existing stores of dried food could feed around 10% of the global population for five years. If governments or the UN were to adopt the prepper mindset and produce the roughly 1.6 billion tonnes needed every year to feed all humans on Earth, prices would skyrocket. This too would be a catastrophe. We will need to find ways to grow food once again.
Underground farms
When the US detonated an atomic bomb above the Japanese city of Nagasaki, those who hid in old mine tunnels were able to survive so long as they weren't too near the entrance. In one famous case, 20-year-old Akiko Takakura held onto her life despite being within 300m (1,000ft) of the explosion hypocentre because she happened to be inside a reinforced concrete building – the Nagasaki branch of the Bank of Japan.
Faced with an asteroid strike, citizens in Ankara, Beijing, Moscow and Montreal will therefore have a head start. Each of these has large transit, storage, or commercial spaces deep underground – like uncanny inversions of the cities above. Turkey might even utilise the vast network of underground cities in Nevşehir Province, first constructed by the Phrygians 2,500 years ago, and expanded by Greek Cappadocians fearing persecution in the Byzantine era.
Underground settlements, like this one in Turkey, could be a suitable place to cultivate new types of crops (Credit: Getty Images)
The UK will be in a strong position too. Aside from underground train networks in London, Newcastle and Sunderland, Glasgow and Liverpool, there are subterranean vaults, shelters, caves and cellars in Nottingham, Edinburgh, Chislehurst and Stockport.
In addition to sheltering humans, subterranean spaces could be used to grow nutritious foods. Despite the lack of light, and the damp, poorly circulating air, certain crops can thrive here with the right approach. Thankfully, small-scale experiments in subsurface urban farming are already underway. For example, Paris harbours six sq km (2.3 sq miles) of untapped space in the form of redundant car parks, a portion of which the company Cycloponics has turned into mushroom farms. Meanwhile, the firm Growing Underground is cultivating vegetables in a former air raid shelter in Clapham, London.
For a short while, sprouts, microgreens, wheatgrass, white asparagus, rhubarb and mushrooms can be grown with either zero or minimal artificial light (many plants will germinate into seedlings without light, but will only develop so far). Sprouts are a great source of vitamins, fatty acids and fibres, and use energy stored in the seed to grow. The same is true of microgreens, which can provide a range of flavours – from spicy to sour to sweet – to garnish other foods.
None of these is a long-term solution, but we could use our time underground to start building one. In December 2020, the Coal Authority and British Geological Survey released heat maps for the estimated 25,000 sq km (9,650 sq miles) of disused coal fields across the UK, mostly in the English midlands, north, southern Wales and southern Scotland. The map is aimed at developers so future housing can be built to extract heat from the waters that returned to the mines after they were decommissioned. It might also prove useful for farming.
A week has passed. We climb out of our temporary refuge and witness a landscape we no longer recognise. Everything green is dying. Soot whirls in the air and the light is reminiscent of pre-dawn twilight, promising a brightness that never comes (or at least might take 5-10 years to arrive). We contact other survivors and agree that all knowledge and technology will be open sourced. We each have starter packs: bacteria, seeds, cells and spawn.
Since mushrooms do not contain chloroplasts – the tiny sunlight-powered factories in plants that convert CO2 into sugars – they do not need light to grow. What they require is warmth, moisture, and a substrate of organic matter on which to fruit, newly abundant in the felled vegetation of the old biological world.
Unfortunately, mushrooms are not a great source of calories. Many are poisonous. Most produce spores that are toxic to humans in high concentration and tear through buildings we'd prefer to use as shelter. Mushroom farming should take place in specially assigned basements, buildings and tunnels.
Mushrooms are a reliable food that grow without sunlight, but come with downsides (Credit: Getty Images)
It won't be easy to achieve a balanced diet – but it can be done. People will continue to eat surviving ruminant species like deer, cows, goats, and chickens, feeding the reduced number we keep on dead grasses, leaves, and decomposed wood.
As for tricky vitamins, E, A, and B12 can be synthesised by industrial processes. Others, such as K or D, will be more difficult to acquire. Most commercial vitamin D today comes from refining and radiating sheep's wool. In the short term, we can extract nutrients from flowers, leaves, and the non-woody parts of trees. Pine needle tea, for example, has many times the vitamin C of orange juice. Nettle tea contains vitamins A, C, and K, and dandelion tea is rich in potassium.
Computer models built to study all-out nuclear war – often used as an analogue for an enormous asteroid strike – predict that less than 40% of normal light will persist near the equator, with just 5% closer to the poles. Sugar beets have shown tolerance against lower temperatures, and we may have limited success growing carrots, cabbages, potatoes and peas.
Many more essential crops, such as potatoes, wheat, barley, rice, maize and soy could be relocated to the tropics and supplemented by cassava, baobab, wild spinach and yams, which are already there. Here we will build greenhouses – assuming that cooperation and trade remain possible – simple structures made from timber, polymer film, gravel and nails that maximise the sunlight we do receive.
Post-farm food
A common sight in cities today is rivers and canals choked with algae blooms. Yet this immense growing power could make algae highly valuable in a disaster. Species like chlorella and nannochloropsis, among others, are rich in nutrients, including rare omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and can be grown in low light and harvested year round. One research paper noted the speedy recovery of phytoplankton after Chicxulub, a reminder of "the great resilience of the unicellular biosphere".
If farming algae in abandoned swimming pools, tanks, ponds and canals sounds like a solar punk daydream, well, it probably is. There are in fact other, more stable means to achieve our nutritional essentials. It's well known that algae thrives in cities due to fertiliser runoff from agriculture. Of the thousands of known species, many are toxic to humans and other animals. Perhaps in the future we might reframe this mishandling of chemistry and biology, and harness the process to use it deliberately instead.
If algae growth could be harnessed safely, it could be a food source (Credit: Getty Images)
With feedstocks such as petroleum, natural gas, CO2, or the inedible parts of crops (the so-called residues leftover during harvesting or logging) we can produce "synthetic" proteins, sugar, and fats – all three human macronutrients. Last year, Nasa awarded three major prizes to teams pioneering the conversion of CO2 to sugar for use in future space missions.
Historically, in periods of war or economic crisis, infrastructure has been redirected to address society's most pressing needs. During World War Two, the US retrofitted 66% of automobile manufacturing to produce aircraft. And after the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020, the clothing company Barbour made hospital gowns, and Land Rover reprogrammed its 3D printers from prototyping car parts to making protective visors.
Again, in the UK at least, the hottest action will be in the north. Biofuel refineries and paper mills in Selby, Grimsby, Wilton, Manchester and elsewhere could be repurposed to produce edible sugars from lignocellulosic biomass. One study found paper mills are in fact best suited to the job, boasting an 85% component match with a biochemical sugar plant.
Transforming hydrocarbons into waxes and digestible fats – literally turning fossil fuels into food – could help plug various shortfalls. It wouldn't be the first time. In the 1910s, the chemist Arthur Imhausen adapted a process known as paraffin oxidation to create butter aus kohle, or "butter from coal", in response to inflation in Germany. Another wartime innovation, culturing single-cell yeast proteins to feed soldiers, was adopted in Britain to produce an animal feed additive in the 1960s and ultimately became the meat-substitute Quorn.
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A new plant in Chongqing, China uses a chemical synthesis process refined on Teesside to produce 20,000 tonnes of protein from bacteria. This single-cell protein requires only methane, oxygen and nitrogen to grow, and will be used to feed fish, but it could be adjusted to feed humans.
It may not sound especially delicious, but the most critical survival tool we have is one history suggests we can rely on – culinary innovation. Perhaps we can think of today's plant-based foods as a laboratory for fabrication – in which pea proteins replicate the fibrousness of meat or soy roots to make plant burgers "bleed." It's the continuation of a technology that has been utilised in all cultures to intensify flavour, make foods longer lasting, transform their shape, colour, texture, or to unleash psychoactive effects – fermentation. Results so far include bread, beer, kimchi, tempeh, soy sauce, wine, and cheese, as well as citric acid, ethanol fuel, and penicillin. The story is far from over.
It is difficult to predict what will happen to the oceans after the strike. Research into nuclear winter foresees acidification, increased UV, and collapsing food webs. Some argue that a well-managed "buffer", reducing current fisheries as the day of impact approaches, could provide us with a seafood frenzy when we need it most. Currently less than 2% of our calories come from the ocean. Only 22% of all seaworthy vessels are used for fishing. When the time comes, aircraft carriers, container ships, tug boats and yachts should be commandeered for aquaculture, using sea lanes devised for an entirely different purpose.
The offshore services company Roxel Aqua has devised a modular system (known as "the Octopus Concept") that converts drilling platforms into fish farms, and is seeking regulatory approval. Elsewhere, in the Gulf of Mexico, business and academia have collaborated on "integrated multi-trophic aquaculture" systems that use decommissioned oil rigs to farm mussels, finfish and kelp while also producing renewable energy.
Life thriving below an oil platform (Credit: Alamy)
Seaweed grows in low light, meaning it can be protected from hazardous UV by submerging growing lines to greater depths. Species like wakame, kelp, emi-tsunomata and Welsh favourite laver are a more efficient machine, when compared to fish, for converting limited resources to valuable nutrition for humans.
Bivalves like clams, mussels and oysters are excellent sources of iron, the most common nutrient deficiency among humans worldwide. They grow in cramped spaces and do not suffer from lice and diseases as fish do. For another quick starter, wild sardines and anchovies are loaded with ever-scarce vitamin D. They also have the added bonus of maturing within six months and laying thousands of eggs.
Marine ecosystems flourish where hard, stable surfaces become available – on abandoned oil rigs. Aside from the plants, anemones, fish and seabirds that congregate around them, these platforms can host accommodation, silos filled with feed, gigantic holding pens and extremely long downlines for growing bivalves or seaweed. Most importantly, they are linked to onshore facilities once used for importing oil and gas. They are built to withstand bad weather: islands from the past from which we can stimulate regeneration in the seas. If the climate is cold enough – it's possible we could walk to the Douglas Complex off the coast of Liverpool and use its drill to access the bounty of the deep.
Cooking Earth
Nasa's recent success at altering the path of the asteroid Dimorphous is comforting, and researchers estimate the probability of a Chicxulub-sized collision at just 0.000001%. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't prepare for a catastrophic food supply collapse. After all, asteroids are not the only threat we face: there's also climate change, bio-terror, plant pathogens and ultra-resistant weeds, nuclear winter, and supervolcanoes.
In the future, we may need to loosen our idea of what farming looks like. Here I used an asteroid to do it – but art, commerce and science all have a role to play.
Our existing food system is held in place by government subsidies, corporate monopolies, and a cultural bias towards foods we perceive as being natural or traditional. Yet both man-made and natural disasters are inevitable. To prepare, we must reconsider the places and knowledge that may become viable when fields and sunlight no longer are: tunnels, mines, mills, factories and ocean platforms. This might not always seem palatable to some, but our species' survival may depend on it.
* Philip Maughan is a writer and researcher based between London and Berlin. He is a co-founder of the food research platform Black Almanac.
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by Holly Greenhagen January 11, 1990 August 20, 2021
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Empty Big Mac containers, napkins, and french-fry wrappers are some of the materials used to make the clothes in today's McDonald's Paper Products Student Fashion Show, which starts at noon and again at 12:30 at the Daley Civic Center, Dearborn at Washington. Twelve students at the International Academy of Merchandising and Design made the clothes as part of a school contest in November, with, a spokesman from the school emphasized, "clean and unused materials." The show is free. 346-3278.
Myron Kartman, chairman of the strings department at the Northwestern University School of Music, didnt have to look far for members for the chamber-music group he recently formed. His daughter, Lise Kartman McDonough, his son-in-law, Michael McDonough, and his son, Stefan Kartman, are all practiced players with a variety of music degrees. With Lise on viola, Stefan on cello, and Michael and Myron on violin, the Kartman Chamber Players makes its debut tonight at 7:30 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 1977 Sheridan Road in Evanston. Award-winning Los Angeles pianist Jeannie Yu will accompany them. Tickets are $3; call 491-5441 for more info.
Everybody generates more garbage than usual around the holidays. So the Chicago Academy of Sciences, as part of its Recycling Day today, invites visitors to the museum to bring in the most ridiculous, wasteful packaging they can find that's no bigger than nine inches square. The academy will pick the best items to become part of an "outrageous rubbish" display. You can also pick up free info on recycling, watch videos about recycling, and take home free mulch ground from used Christmas trees. Bring a bag if you want mulch; drop off your tree before Saturday if you want to contribute. Recycling Day runs from 9 AM to 2 PM, and it's free; the academy is at 2001 N. Clark. 549-0606.
Dena Epstein's mother never finished her autobiography, I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl. So Epstein finished it and got it published after her mother died. Epstein will talk about the book and how it compares with documented history at the Chicago Area Women's History Conference meeting, from 2 to 4 today at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, in the second-floor Fellows Lounge. Mary Ann Johnson, editor of The Many Faces of Hull-House: The Photographs of Wallace Kirkland, will also talk about her book. The talks are free, and copies of both books will be for sale; details at 943-9090.
Anton LaVey, the leader of the California-based Church of Satan, opposes animal sacrifice, has never been implicated in any criminal activity, and does not play records backwards at the meetings he presides over. Not impressed? Learn more at the Psychotronic Film Society's screening of Satanis–The Anton LaVey Story, which starts at 7:30 tonight at the 950 Club, 950 W. Wrightwood. There's a $3 admission. More at 738-0985.
Self-help groups aren't a product of the 80s; Chicago immigrants were forming them as early as the turn of the century. Landsmanshaften, as they were called, helped immigrants adjust to the strain of new surroundings. Today's Chicago Jewish Historical Society talk, Our Second Home: A History of Landsmanshaften In Chicago, will include a question-and-answer session and info about a group founded in 1907 that's still active. The talk will be given at the Spertus College of Judaica, 618 S. Michigan. Refreshments start at 1, and the talk runs from 2 to 3:30. An exhibit of the same name is also on display at the museum. Everything's free; details at 663-5634.
Two-hour Tours of the Lyric Opera–the stage, the prop room, the wig and makeup department, wardrobe and dressing rooms, the orchestra pit, the lighting installations, and practically every other place that has anything to do with putting on a performance there–start today, beginning every eight minutes between 1 and 4. Tours continue Saturday, January 27, from 11 AM to 2 PM, Sunday, January 28, from 1 to 4 PM, and Sunday, February 4, from 1 to 4 PM. They cost $12.50, $10 for seniors; lunch is available before or after the tour for $7.50. Reservations are required, so make them at 332-2244; then show up at the stage-door entrance, on Wacker near Washington.
Monday 15
Today would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 61st birthday, and the Peace Museum is celebrating with an exhibit of paintings and drawings of the civil rights movement by Chicagoan Franklin McMahon. McMahon, a recipient of the Art Institute's Renaissance Prize, covers more than ten years of history in this show, including the Emmett Till murder trial (1955), the Deerfield housing controversy (1959), the Alabama march from Selma to Montgomery (1965), and King's visit to Chicago (1966). An Artist's Notebook: Civil Rights, Selma to Chicago runs through March 31 at the museum, 430 W. Erie. McMahon will speak about his work at tonight's opening reception, 5:30 to 7:30; regular museum hours axe noon to 5 daily, except noon to 8 Thursday. Admission is $3.50, $2 for seniors and students. 440-1860.
Tuesday 16
Will inflation get worse in the 90s? Will oil prices go up again? Three panelists will make economic projections for the 90s at today's breakfast meeting of the Greater O'Hare Chapter of the International Association for Financial Planning- The Next Decade–Boom or Bust starts at 7:45 AM at Rupert's Banquet and Conference Center in the Continental Towers, 1701 W. Golf, Rolling Meadows. The $15 fee ($10 for members) includes breakfast; make reservations at 291-0211.
The winners of last year's Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition made their five-ton block of snow into three icy dolphins. They defeated 11 teams from around the state and went on to the international competition in Milwaukee. This year 15 state teams and three high school teams will compete, and three international teams will demonstrate their skills. The snow-sculpting starts today and runs through Saturday, when judging takes place. Teams work from 9 AM to 7 PM each day until Saturday, when they finish at 11 AM. Spectators get into the park free throughout the competition. It all happens in Sinnissippi Park, at the corner of Highway 251 and Ethel Avenue in Rockford. For more information call 815-987-8692.
"This series is for anyone who ever knew, was, or is a youthful criminal," says Lawrence Steger, a member of Boys Behind Bars, about the performance-video-poetry series he helped organize, Crimes of Reckless Youth. Every Wednesday night at 9 through January 31, the group presents various forms of entertainment that celebrate the antihero: Huck Finn, James Dean, Oliver North. Tonight's offerings include five performance pieces, a video called This Town Will Tear You Apart, and music-video clips. Each show at Lower Links, 754 W. Newport, costs $3, $1.50 if you're female. More at 276-4226.
A complete 15-volume set of Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia is among the literary bargains offered at Children's Memorial Hospital's White Elephant Resale Shop's used-book sale. The sale runs from 10 to 5 today, 10:30 to 7 tomorrow, and 10 to 5 Friday and Saturday. The resale shop is at 2380 N. Lincoln; details at 281-3747.
Thomas Ashby was director of the British School in Rome from 1906 to 1925, during which time he established himself as an authority on the topography of Rome and collected 7,000 drawings and prints of the city by artists from Italy, France, Holland, Britain, and Germany. Two years after his death in 1931, his widow sold the collection to the Vatican. Today through March 18, Views of Rome: Watercolors and Drawings From the Collection of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, an exhibit of 81 works, will be up at the Smart Gallery at the University of Chicago, 5801 S. Ellis. Gallery hours are 10 to 4 Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 Sunday. Admission is $2, $1.50 for seniors, and $1 for children; everyone gets in free on Tuesday. Call 702-0176.
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John Jacob Niles (ur. 28 kwietnia 1892, zm. 1 marca 1980) – amerykański kompozytor, piosenkarz i kolekcjoner tradycyjnych ballad. Nazywany "Dziekanem amerykańskich balladystów", Niles miał istotny wpływ na odrodzenie amerykańskiej muzyki folkowej z lat 60. i 50, z Joan Baez, Burlem Ivesem, i Peter, Paul and Mary, którzy m.in. nagrywali jego piosenki.

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Urodzony w Louisville, w stanie Kentucky, Niles nauczył się teorii muzyki od matki i zaczął zapisywać muzykę ludową jako nastolatek. Stał się poważnym badaczem muzyki ludowej Appalachów przez przepisywanie tradycyjnych pieśni z ustnych źródeł jako wędrowny pracownik Burroughs Corporation we wschodnim Kentucky od 1910 do 1917. Po służbie w United States Army Air Corps podczas I wojny światowej, w której został ranny, uczył się muzyki we Francji, najpierw w Lyonie, następnie w Paryżu w Schola Cantorum, również poznał Gertrudę Stein. Po powrocie do Stanów Zjednoczonych w 1920 roku, kontynuował studia w Konserwatorium Muzyki w Cincinnati. Śpiewał opery w Chicago i pieśni ludowe we wczesnym radiu. W 1925 roku przeniósł się do Nowego Jorku i zajmował różne stanowiska pracy w przemyśle rozrywkowym. W roku 1930 odbył tournée po Europie i Stanach Zjednoczonych z kontraltem Marion Kerby. Występował w Białym Domu w 1938 roku, a przy okazji na Newport Folk Festival w 1950.

W 1920 Niles rozpoczął wydawanie muzyki. Odbył cztery długie wycieczki do południowych Appalachów jako asystent fotografa Dorisa Ulmanna, ponownie przepisywał tradycyjne pieśni z ustnych źródeł, w tym ballady "Pretty Polly", "Barbara Allen" i "On Goin 'Away". Przy innych okazjach, przepisał utwory usłyszane śpiewane przez Afroamerykanów i kolegów żołnierzy podczas I wojny światowej.

Niles był też autorem tekstów. Jego utwory, z których wiele opiera się na tradycyjnych źródłach, to "Wenezuela" i świąteczna pieść "I Wonder as I Wander". "Plexus" Henry'ego Millera zawiera hołd dla tego nagrania Nilesa. Niles skomponował "Go 'Way from My Window " gdy miał zaledwie 16 lat, ale nie wykonał jej aż do 1930 roku. Marlene Dietrich nagrała i śpiewała ją na scenie. Bob Dylan zacytował ją w pierwszym wersie jego piosenki "It Ain't Me Babe". W późniejszym okresie życia, Niles publikował kompozycje w stylu bardziej klasycznym, w tym dzieła na chór i pieśni artystyczne na głos i fortepian. Te ostatnie obejmują jego ostatni utwór, zestawienie wierszy Thomasa Mertona.

Począwszy od 1938 roku, nagrał wiele swoich kompozycji i utworów spisanych, wykonując materiał w intensywny, dramatyczny sposób. Uczynił znakiem szczególnym wysoki falset do przedstawiania postaci kobiecych, i często akompaniował sobie na cymbałach z Appalachów, lutni, lub innych instrumentach strunowych szarpanych.

W 1936 roku ożenił się z Reną Lipetz. Zamieszkali w gospodarstwie Boot Hill w Clark County, w stanie Kentucky, gdzie spędził resztę swojego życia.

Niles zmarł w Lexington, w stanie Kentucky 1 marca 1980 r. w wieku 87 lat. Pochowany jest w pobliżu Kościoła Episkopalnego Św. Huberta. Na Uniwersytecie Kentucky na jego cześć nazwano Centrum dla Amerykańskiej Muzyki Johna Jacoba Nilesa gdzie wystawione są tradycyjne instrumentów wykonanych ręcznie przez Nilesa.

Dyskografia
 "The Tradition Years: I Wonder as I Wander"(1958, Tradition Records; 2006, Empire Musicwerks)
 "American Folk & Gambling Songs" (1956, Camden Record LP)
 "An Evening With John Jacob Niles" (1959, Tradition Records LP; 2002, Empire Musicwerks)
 "John Jacob Niles Sings Folk Songs" (1964, Folkways Records LP)
 "The Asch Recordings, 1939 to 1945 – Vol. 2" (1967, Folkways Records)
 "No Direction Home" (Bob Dylan documentary DVD) – contains a video clip of Go 'Way From My Window.
 "Mister Lonely" Directed by Harmony Korine in 2008 – contains "The Maid Freed from the Gallows".

Przypisy

Amerykańscy instrumentaliści
Amerykańscy wokaliści folkowi
Ludzie urodzeni w Louisville
Lutniści
Urodzeni w 1892
Zmarli w 1980