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William Franklin McMahon (September 9, 1921 – March 3, 2012) was an American artist-reporter. of The Sunday Telegraph of London:

His artistic output also included films and books.

Other than in his very early years when he did illustrations "on spec", he was not an "after-the-fact" illustrator. In his own words, drawing from life made him an "artist-reporter" or a "reportorial artist." "That way," he said, "you can see around the corner."

Biography

Early life

Franklin McMahon was born in Chicago, IL in 1921. He and his parents lived in Beverly Hills, CA for a time, returning to Chicago in his teens. He commuted to the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, IL to attend Fenwick High School, where his cartoon drawings were published in the school's newspaper, "The Wick."  Collier's Weekly, a weekly national news magazine, noticed one of his cartoons. Thereafter, they paid him when they saw one they wanted to use. When he graduated in 1939, the Colliers connection helped land him his first job, as an apprentice in an art studio.
During World War II, he was an Army Air Corps B-17 navigator, and was shot down in action in January 1945. He spent several months in a German prison camp. On occasion, when he could get hold of some paper, he drew his guards.

Post-war years, family, and continuing life

After the war, he married high school sweetheart Irene Leahy and used the GI Bill to attend night classes at Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, American Academy of Art, Harrington College of Design, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Franklin and Irene had nine children. Inspired at a young age by Franklin's work, his son Mark McMahon, went on to continue creating work in the artist-reporter's style.

Artistic output and areas of activity
McMahon's overwhelming main artistic output was his 8,000-9,000 drawings. He also produced films and books. His films incorporate drawings (see Technique section), at a rate of 200–300 drawings per ½ hour of film. The books, although sometimes labelled as "illustrated" by Franklin McMahon, had the same kind of ["on site"] drawings as those from the courtroom, the political arena, and all his other spheres of activity. Even his commercial work had drawings mainly done on site, not after-the-fact illustrations for existing text.

Civil Rights and the Space Race

McMahon's work in both of these aspects of mid-20th Century American history helps illustrate his role as an artist-reporter. He began reporting from the courtroom in 1955, after some of his very early work came to the attention of Life magazine's editors. Because cameras were not allowed at the Mississippi trial of the suspected killers of Chicago teenager Emmett Till, Life commissioned him to go there to sketch courtroom events. His drawings, and in particular, one of Till's great-uncle, Moses Wright, standing to point at the accused men, were seen nationwide. From then on, on-site reporting with his drawings was a major part of his life work.

The Emmett Till trial in September 1955 was the early catalyst for the civil rights movement. McMahon's on-site and on-deadline images from Mississippi, published nationwide in Life magazine, provided the visualization that helped spur Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus in December 1955, which then led to the Montgomery bus boycott and to bringing Martin Luther King Jr. to national attention, along with fellow boycott leader Ralph Abernathy. McMahon was in attendance for King's "I Have a Dream" speech during the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He also covered the two 1964 mistrials of the murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. In March 1965, King's march for black enfranchisement was going from Selma to the Alabama Capital Montgomery. About that time, Franklin was returning from Cape Kennedy, Florida, after covering one of the U. S.'s manned space launches. He heard of the march on his car radio, and took a detour, arriving in time to document King's arrival in Montgomery. He also covered King in Chicago in 1966, the United Farm Workers protest in 1968, and the 1968 Chicago riots following King's death.

 In 1969-70, Franklin was courtroom artist at the infamous "conspiracy" trial of the eight (later just seven) defendants, resulting from protests during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. The 8th defendant, Bobby Seale, was eventually bound, shackled, and gagged, then separated from the group and sentenced for contempt of court by the judge. The trial lasted 5 months, with McMahon producing almost 500 courtroom drawings. They were published across the nation, including an entire issue of the Chicago Tribune's Sunday magazine section. The Chicago History Museum currently owns both the collection of 483 drawings from that trial as well as that from the 1955 Emmett Till trial. In 1971, Marv Gold produced and directed the film 69 CR 180, an artist's report by McMahon featuring his courtroom drawings of the 1969 trial. The documentary animation was made, animated and narrated by McMahon, and edited by Ron Clasky.

Civil rights was a continuing interest and vocation: he covered the presidential campaigns of black candidates Shirley Chisholm, U.S. House ('72) and the Reverend Jesse Jackson ('84, '88), and was at the 1995 Million Man March.

During the Space Race of the '60s and '70s, Franklin was to return frequently to NASA's mission control, including his coverage of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. All would earn him a mention in NASA's book Eyewitness to Space.

U.S. Politics

 He drew Democratic presidential candidate Governor Adlai Stevenson II ('52, '56) at his Libertyville, IL home. One of McMahon's drawings of Stevenson hangs in that home, which is now a state historical site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He covered every Democratic and Republican campaign from 1960 through 2008, including attending a vast majority of the conventions, He made first-person drawings of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debates (the first broadcast on live television) and later of Kennedy's funeral. During Richard Nixon's successful 1968 presidential run, Franklin also drew the "unelected White House guys" (H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John N. Mitchell), that he correctly predicted would surround Nixon. His take on Nixon's 1974 resignation showed the disgraced ex-president escaping in a helicopter. There are McMahon drawings from the 1973 Watergate hearings, of Senator John McCain's "straight talk express" in New Hampshire in 2000, the stirring Barack Obama speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, and on the 2004 presidential campaign trail with George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry.

World religion

He was in Rome on October 11, 1962 for Opening Day of the Second Vatican Council, and went on to chronicle that major event through 1965. His film The World of Vatican II covers the opening and closing of Vatican II; and is a literal "travelogue in drawings" of many countries where Catholicism was facing new challenges at that time; and how and by whom they were being met. He followed Papal journeys, Council activations, and ministries in the Church world through the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, he was in Chicago and South Africa with the Parliament of the World's Religions. Drawings he made in South Africa were published by Notre Dame Magazine and accompanied an article by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in U.S. Catholic Magazine.

Culture and sports

McMahon accompanied conductor Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their first European tour in 1971. The whimsical title (Real Violins) of his film describing that trip refers to Chicago's reputation as a city where gangsters once carried machine guns in violin cases. He worked for Sports Illustrated Magazine on assignments ranging from the 1959 American League champion baseball team Chicago White Sox and Goose Hunting in Cairo, IL to the Acapulco Yacht Race in Mexico.

Corporate and industrial

McMahon also created artwork for corporations and businesses. A series of decorative plates which he designed with Chicago themes for Continental Illinois National Bank (1972–1982) were given out as premiums at that time. They have since become collectors items, and are still traded on eBay. He did other work for Continental, and also had commercial commissions for McDonald's Corporation, International Harvester, Marshall Field & Company and Borg-Warner, among others. He had been heard to say that his work for Continental put several of his children through college.

Film productions
Franklin and wife, Irene, formed a film distribution company called Rocinante Sight & Sound. They produced several award-winning documentary films, some of which were shown on television (CBS and PBS) for a number of years.

The Chicago Film Archives, a non-profit regional film archive, houses and manages the Franklin McMahon Collection. The collection contains audio reels and films made by Franklin McMahon between the years 1965-1998.

Filmography

 An American City at Christmas Time: An Artist's View (Chicago, 1978)
 The Artist as Reporter (1977)
 Primary Colors, An Artist on the Campaign Trail., Peabody Award, 1976 (List of Peabody Award winners (1970–1979))
 Real Violins (1975)
 Portrait of an Election WTTW-TV (1972) 2 Chicago Emmys
 World City (1968)
 McMahon's Politicians  WTTW-TV (1968) Chicago Emmy
 The World of Vatican II: An Artist's Report (1967)
 69 CR 180: An Artist's Report (1971)

Publications
His book This Church, These Times contains more than 100 drawings, along with text by Father Francis X. Murphy and introduction by Father Theodore Hesburgh, then the head of the University of Notre Dame. He illustrated an essay on Richard Nixon's White House for World Book Encyclopedia and early in his career, illustrated a number of books for textbook publisher Scott Foresman and Company, including one on the Illinois Constitution, for which he traveled around the state. Other books with his drawings include Vittles and Vice (1952), You are Promise (1974) with Martin Marty, and From the land and back (1972) with Curtis Stadfeld . Also On The Spot Drawing (1969), American national government, Policy and politics, and Eyewitness to Space. In 1994, American Artist Magazine featured his article, "Reporting from Around The World" in their publication, Watercolor.

Recognition

Museum and Collection holdings

McMahon's work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the National Air and Space Museum (of the Smithsonian Institution), The University of Chicago, The Borg-Warner Corporation, Time Inc., Binghamton University, The New Britain Museum of American Art, George Washington University, the Lake County IL Discovery Museum as well as the already mentioned 500 + works in the Chicago History Museum. Many of McMahon's works are represented in the Corbis Collection.

Exhibitions (a brief list)

Works by Franklin McMahon have been exhibited at
 Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
 Chicago History Museum in Chicago, IL
 New-York Historical Society Museum & Library in New York City
 Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY
 The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art of Art in Sarasota, FL
 The Art Institute of Chicago
 Loyola University Museum of Art
 Lake County IL Discovery Museum
 The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC
 Snite Museum of Art in Notre Dame, IN
 Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, IL
 CNN Center in Atlanta. GA
 Park Avenue Atrium Gallery in New York City
 Kraushaar Galleries in New York City
 The Peace Museum in Chicago, IL (museum closed in 2007)
 Selma Performing Arts Center in Selma, AL
 Benedicta Arts Center in St. Joseph, MN

Honors and awards

McMahon won the Renaissance Prize of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Society of Illustrators elected him to its Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Artists Guild of New York chose him as "Artist of the Year" in 1963. His documentary films of several presidential campaigns earned him three Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. He also received the Minority Economic Resources Corporation's Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Civil Rights Achievement (2000), and honorary degrees from Loyola University Chicago (1985) and Lake Forest College(1979). He was a part of the guiding faculty of the Famous Artists School and served as a guest instructor at Syracuse University, Rhode Island School of Design and The Smithsonian Institution.  McMahon was a long-standing member of The Society of Typographic Arts (STA), Chicago of which he is an Honorary Member, and a thirty-six year member of the Twenty—Seven Chicago Designers (1950–1986).

Technique
Franklin McMahon's on-the-spot drawings were generally done with a charcoal pencil, then colored in his home studio afterwards, using acrylic watercolors.

In the films for which he won the Emmy and Peabody awards, the process is similar to what is often done when scanning old daguerreotypes: using a moving camera to make more than a dry slideshow from a series of still images. However, in his films, the path of the camera is computerized, liberal use is made of zooming, and a carefully selected soundtrack accompanies all. The "digital age" equivalent is known as the Ken Burns Effect, but McMahon's films were made decades before Burns' work, and the effect is somewhat different. The following is typical of the reaction when such films of his works are seen by viewers:

This ... motion picture is a film of drawings, but not of static drawings ... it seems to have been made by cameras moving seamlessly over hundreds of drawings. The overall effect is almost that it has been filmed live ... yet it is ... drawings.

References

External links

 New York Times Obituary
 Franklin McMahon paintings in the Corbis Collection
 Web site created for the 1996 election cycle.
 A family Related Web site.
 Another family Related Web site

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2012 deaths
Artists from Chicago
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
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Shining a light on the shadowy soldiers of social cleansing
February 12, 2015 eviction resistance, public action#EvictTheBailiffs, British Credit Awards, CICM, ICM, mock evictionFocus E15 Campaign
Mock eviction photo by @orpen_m on Twitter, used by permission.
Focus E15 would like to thank those who took part in the #EvictTheBailiffs mock eviction at the British Credit Awards last night. The obscenity of the credit industry coming together at £4,000-per-table to celebrate the bailiffs and debt collectors that prey on and profit off of people who are struggling through the housing crisis should not pass unnoticed. At a time of unprecedented eviction rates, we felt an urgent need to shine a light on this predatory industry, which is profiting immensely from the suffering of others.
We feel the array of responses amongst participants was a very real reflection of the rage that exists over the hardship and misery of poor and working class families, which was being gratuitously celebrated inside the venue. Add to this the juxtaposition between £4,000 for a table at this dinner and people who are having to use food banks to feed their family.
We were encouraged by many of the comments from passers-by who clearly understood the story that was playing out:
"In my opinion it's like something off the Hunger Games; London will be cleansed of poor people."
"It's great that you're doing something so they don't feel comfortable celebrating their industry."
The Sheriff's Office – the company that evicted Focus E15 member and school teacher Nazrah Ismail, her 3 young children and disabled husband just before Christmas – once again won the award for 'Enforcement Team of the Year.' We will continue to shine a light on their vicious and inhumane practices at every opportunity in our ongoing fight for social housing and against social cleansing.
#EvictTheBailiffs at the British Credit Awards! 11.02.15, 18:00 SHARP!
February 9, 2015 public actionbailiffs, British Credit Awards, evictionsFocus E15 Campaign
Focus E15 invite you to the Brewery (52 Chiswell Street, EC1Y 4SD) for 6pm sharp on Weds. Feb. 11, to welcome those arriving at the 2015 British Credit Awards' £4,000-per-table black-tie affair, in which bailiffs and debt collectors will be receiving awards for making families homeless.
Since companies like 'The Sherriff's Office' receive nominations by throwing people and their belongings out onto the cold streets of London, we intend to turn the front entrance of the Brewery into a mock eviction site for attendees to experience before an evening of champagne, three-course dinners, and the kudos of their peers.
We encourage anyone concerned with social cleansing and the criminalisation of poverty to bring rubbish bags, boxes, and broken pieces of furniture to scatter across the front entrance of the Brewery as guests arrive to receive awards like 'Enforcement Team of the Year,' 'Third Party Debt Collection Team of the Year' and 'Consumer Collections Team of the Year.'
We encourage a peaceful but outraged action, and particularly hope those with first-hand experience of bailiff evictions will come out and share their stories with attendees as they enter the venue.
Twitter: #EvictTheBailiffs
SPREAD THE WORD! EVICT THE BAILIFFS!
Robin Wales, mayor of Newham, guilty of breaching Members Code of Conduct
February 2, 2015 Newham councilcode of conduct, newham council, Robin WalesFocus E15 Campaign
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Newham Labour mayor Robin Wales has been found guilty of breaching the council's Members Code of Conduct after investigation by the Newham Standards Committee into treatment of Focus E15 campaigners last summer.
The investigation was sparked by an official complaint, submitted by local resident and activist Kevin Blowe [1], after he watched footage (below) of Robin Wales which showed his aggressive verbal and physical response to the Focus E15 mothers and supporters of the campaign. This took place last July at the Newham Mayor's Show [2].
This is a victory for the many people who have been the target of Robin Wales' arrogant and rude behaviour and who have witnessed the contempt that he has for working class people in his borough over the last 13 years as mayor. However, Wales runs a tight ship and has managed to keep most of the criticism of him out of the public spotlight, including through attempts to muzzle critical Labour backbenchers [3]. So while this isn't the first time that Robin Wales has behaved badly, it is one of the first times that he has had been held to account for the way in which he treats people.
Robin Wales, and his cronies at the council, continue their policy of social cleansing, sending people out of London to homes miles from friends, family and support networks, while leaving the Carpenters Estate in Stratford E15 mostly empty with perfectly adequate flats boarded up.
Focus E15 campaign continues to highlight the outcome of this policy that tears communities and families apart and demands the repopulation of the Carpenters Estate.
In the year when Newham is celebrating 50 years as a borough, we say that Robin Wales is not fit to be mayor and it is now time for him to go.
You can find the campaign on the Broadway, outside Wilko, Stratford E15, every Saturday from 12-2pm on the weekly stall. www.focuse15.org
For interviews please email focusE15london@gmail.com or phone 07469 889 069.
[1] http://www.blowe.org.uk/2015/01/newham-mayor-guilty-of-breaching.html?m=1
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsPxancNiqk&x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428
[3] http://forestgate.net/2014/11/12/gagging-order/

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Prizes and Accolades
Reed never received a great deal of professional recognition during his lifetime, apart from a few encouraging reviews of his poems and plays, and the inclusion of "Naming of Parts" in whatever edition of a literature anthology was getting published for some university English course. He does proudly list two awards in his autobiographical Who's Who entry (which rather delinquently fails to notice for several years his death in 1986).
On Sunday evening, March 16, 1952, at 6:00 PM, Reed's radio play, The Streets of Pompeii, premièred on the BBC's Third Programme, featuring the music of Anthony Smith-Masters, and the voice talents of Flora Robson, Marius Goring, and Carleton Hobbes (as the Lizard). Richard Trewin, in his review for the Listener the following Thursday (after a repeat broadcast), had this to say:
Henry Reed, summoning atmosphere eagerly, was excited about Pompeii, but he took a long time to fire us. During the first hour of a mixture of this-way-to-the-tomb intensity and cheerful chatter, I felt as if I were walking on a battered and dangerous mosiac pavement. All well for a moment or so; then a trip over a loose tile, and a headlong sprawl. Still, at length, the author (and the producer, Douglas Cleverdon) startled genuinely in a reconstruction of the last hours of Pompeii under that engulfing flood of hot, wet ash. This was a real and terrifying return journey. (Listener 47, no. 1203 (20 March 1952): 487.)
Despite this tepid-to-fiery reception, in 1953 The Streets of Pompeii was awarded the Premio della Radio Italiana (the Italia Prize for literary or dramatic programs), by the RAI (Italian radio and television). The awards ceremony was held in Palermo that year, but I have no evidence Reed was in attendance.
More than a quarter of century later, in 1979, the Society of Authors selected Reed for its Pye Radio Gold Award, not for a radio broadcast in the preceding year, but for his "outstanding achievement in radio." (Wade, David. Times London, "Out of the Smoke, Into the Sound," 17 November 1979, 13.) The award was in recognition not only for Reed's 1946 radio adaptation of Moby Dick and many dramas set in Italy, but also for his seven-part comic/literary/musical sequence of Hilda Tablet plays.
There is a third award which Reed neglects to list. In 1945, a committee was appointed by the Society of Authors to award to eight deserving young authors the Hodder and Stoughton Bursary Scheme—a stipend of £200 a year for three years—in order to "facilitate their pursuit of literary interests in the immediate post-war years." Sitting on the committee were C. Day Lewis and Rebecca West, and it was chaired by Sir Osbert Sitwell. The first two recipients were announced in November, 1945 as Henry Reed and William Robson. The remaining authors were advertised the following year as Lawrence Alloway, George Barker, John Bayliss, George Fraser, Wolf Mankowitz, Walter Marsden, Geoffrey Parsons, and William Sansom (there was a three-way tie for the eighth bursary):
Times (London), 20 December 1946, 6.
In a 1946 questionnaire in the journal Horizon, a panel of eminent British authors including Elizabeth Bowen, Robert Graves, and George Orwell were asked, "How much do you think a writer needs to live on?" The consensus seems to be about £1000 a year, which was Reed's answer (although Bowen was more comfortable with £3,500). It's possible Reed didn't feel the generous bursary was worth mentioning by the time he penned his entry for Who's Who, but it would have certainly been welcome in 1945, and undoubtably went great lengths toward encouraging Reed's career as a poet, critic, and playwright.
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Home Arts and Entertainment New Family Concerts Expand To Full-Size Florida Orchestra
New Family Concerts Expand To Full-Size Florida Orchestra
Photo courtesy of Chris Zuppa. Instrument Petting Zoo.
The Florida Orchestra will launch new full-orchestra Family Concerts on both sides of the bay in the fall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. Historic NASA video and images of the lunar surface will beam onto the big screen, as kids and their parents sing and dance along to music about space travel and the skies during the interactive concerts, called One Giant Leap. Tickets go on sale Monday, August 12.
The Sunday afternoon concerts are geared for the whole family and revolve around a milestone moment: July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the Moon. The concerts will be part live music, part family activities like the Instrument Petting Zoo and part fun education, including an introduction to the instrument families of the orchestra.
TFO will perform One Giant Leap on Sunday, October 27 at the Straz Center in Tampa at 2 p.m. and Sunday, November 3, at the Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg at 2 p.m. Lobby activities, including the Instrument Petting Zoo, start at 1 p.m. Tickets are $8 per person in advance/$10 at the door; ages 3 and under are free. Tickets go on sale August 12 at FloridaOrchestra.org and 727-892-3337 or 1-800-662-7286. Facility service charges apply.
The 45-minute concerts feature 'Jupiter' from Holst's The Planets, selections from E.T. by John Williams, Star Trek: Into the Darkness by Michael Giacchino and Apollo 13 by James Horner, along with works by Strauss, Mozart, Debussy and more. TFO Associate Conductor Daniel Black will conduct the full Florida Orchestra, which includes 67 full-time professional musicians.
The afternoon starts with TFO's Instrument Petting Zoo, where kids can try out violins, trombones, flutes and more, along with other lobby activities. The petting zoo is sponsored by TFO's North Suncoast Associates, a volunteer patron group.
Music Director Michael Francis opens his fifth season with The Florida Orchestra in September. It celebrates 250 years of Beethoven and beyond, including Beethoven's Fifth, the music of The Beatles, Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Holiday Pops and much more.
Season tickets are on sale now at FloridaOrchestra.org; single tickets to all concerts are available August 12.
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Watch Jimmy Kimmel Pull His Halloween Candy Prank on His 2-Year-Old Daughter
By Rachel McRady 12:40 AM PDT, November 2, 2016
Jimmy Kimmel proved he's not only into tormenting other people's children with his annual post-Halloween prank on Tuesday night! The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host noted that for the first time in the six years of having parents submit videos of themselves telling their kids they ate their candy, he now has an of-age trick-or-treater in his own home.
"She was very excited about the candy, even though she doesn't know the difference between lollipops and popsicles," Kimmel said of his 2-year-old daughter, Jane, who dressed like a monkey for Halloween.
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Noting that his daughter "says 'no' to everything," Kimmel went on to share the video he took that morning in his home.
"Remember all the candy we got? Well, Daddy ate all of it," Kimmel said in the clip.
"No! You didn't," Jane replied in a huff.
He then handed her the pumpkin-printed basket that she'd collected her candy in, showing her that it was empty. Jane seemed more interested in the small speck of dirt at the bottom of the basket. She then went on a "no" rampage, rejecting everything her famous dad said.
"Are you going to contradict everything I say?" Kimmel asked.
"No!" she hilariously shouted.
MORE: Jimmy Kimmel Finalizes His Emmys Jokes With His Daughter: See the Sweet Pic!
Though little Jane wasn't fooled by Kimmel, there were still plenty of distraught kids who fell for his prank. Watch the clips above to see their hysterical reactions!
For more from celebs this Halloween, watch the clip below!
Here's What All Your Favorite Celebs Were For Halloween 2016
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Domestic Violence – Myths and Misinformation
In recent years, with a rash of tragic incidents and certain hi-profile cases, the consequences and penalties for domestic violence have steadily increased. Police and prosecutors have vigorously pursued and prosecuted such cases. As a result, there has also been misinformation about the nature and circumstance surrounding such a charge.
In California , domestic violence is not only defined as an incident between a husband and wife. California Penal Code Section 273.5, states that:
Any person who willfully inflicts upon a person who is his or her spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or he mother or father of his or her child, corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, or in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of up to six thousand dollars ($6,000) or by both that fine and imprisonment.
Depending on the nature and extent of the victim's injuries, Domestic Violence may be charged as a felony or misdemeanor offense. In the case of a misdemeanor, one may face up to a year in county jail or prison, a fine of $2,000, or both, as well as fines and anger management programs.
Commonly, I see two misconceptions about a Domestic Violence charge:
First, is the belief that if the victim recants or changes his/her original story, the charges will be dropped against the aggressor. Say a husband and wife get into a physical altercation and the police are called. The wife tells the police that the husband punched and kicked her during an argument. The police subsequently conduct an investigation and arrest the husband. The husband is charged with a domestic related battery and has a pending criminal case. The husband and wife often reconcile but still have to deal with the criminal case. The belief that the case will "go away" if the wife recants or changes her original complaint is common, but generally wrong. Domestic Violence is aggressively prosecuted in California, even when the victim recants his or her story. There can be various reasons for this, including that: the prosecutor believes the first story is the accurate one; the prosecutor believes the victim was intimidated or is afraid of proceeding against the aggressor; the case can be established with independent witnesses or other evidence. While having a recalcitrant victim may help a defendant in certain situations, the case will not usually be dismissed simply as a result thereof.
Second, many believe that only men will be arrested and charged with Domestic Violence. It is true that the vast majority of domestic violence arrests are against men. It is also true that there is a bias by police and prosecutors that the woman must be the victim and the man the aggressor. Having said that, women can and do get arrested for Domestic Violence. If the circumstances of the altercation (i.e. her demeanor at the scene; the nature of the injuries to the man) points to the woman, or if there are independent witnesses establishing her culpability, then she likely will be arrested and charged.
The bottom line remains that dealing with such a criminal charge can be complicated enough without the myths and misconceptions that seem to surround this area of law.
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Scars On 45
Making music was the furthest thing from Scars on 45 co-founder Danny's mind until the professional soccer player for England's Hatsfield Town F.C. broke his foot at 21 and his world came crashing down. "I was in limbo, without knowing what to do with myself," he says. It wasn't the first time that fate would intervene in the band's formation. Danny put down the soccer ball and picked up for his father's guitar. "I'm quite an obsessive person. I became kind of addicted," he says. "I used to lock myself away and try to write songs and try to record on four-track recorder." Those early years led to the formation of Scars on 45, a quintet from Leeds, England, that combines the gentle melodic intensity of Snow Patrol or Keane but features the added allure of co-ed vocals. Highlights on the group's self-titled, 11-song debut include the gracefully propulsive "Heart on Fire," on which Danny and Aimee play out a couple's anguished conversation, and the lilting, yet melancholic, "Give Me Something," as Danny longs for some sign--any sign--that there's a reason for him to believe in a lasting love. But that's getting ahead of the story. After teaching himself guitar, Danny and one of his football buddies, Stu, began playing together in various bands. "We were awful," Danny laughs, but "we were always passionate about it and had this belief that we'd probably make it some day." Soon keyboardist Nova joined the pair and the trio began recording demos and playing live around Leeds. This is where Oasis' Noel Gallagher and country legend Emmylou Harris come in. "A friend of ours who was drumming for Noel asked us if we wanted to meet him," Danny recalls. "He said, 'This is Danny and Stu they're in a band.' Noel said, 'What's your band's name?' and we said, 'We don't really have one.' Noel said, 'A band without a name? What kind of fucking band is that?' and walked off." Indeed. On search for a name, the nascent group ultimately picked Scars on 45, taken from a radio interview that Danny heard with Harris, in which she recalled her father telling her as a young girl that she better not get any "scars on his 45s" as she played them. The trio became the axis of the band, with other members coming and going. "We must have been through at least 500 members," Danny says. And then, amid the revolving door, the second serendipitous event occurred that firmly set Scars On 45 on its path. Danny wrote a song that required a female voice. Out of the blue, Nova heard his friend Aimee singing along with the radio to The Cure's "Friday I'm in Love." Although she wasn't a performer and had never sung in public, he was struck by her innocent, sweet voice. She ultimately, joined the band, ditching plans to travel around the world with a friend for two years. "I just started singing along when Nova rushed in seeming really shocked," Aimee recalls. "I thought his dad had a heart attack or something! He made me stand there in his living room and sing another song to him which was the scariest thing ever at the time. At first I wouldn't do it but he wouldn't shut up so I just put my tea down, shut my eyes and sang 'Rhiannon' by Fleetwood Mac just to stop him pestering me. Danny recorded me on one of the songs and it just seemed to work. The next thing I knew I was in the band. When I told my family and friends they were saying, 'but you can't sing, can you?'" Then began a series of joys, heartbreaks and near misses. The band, now expanded to a quintet with the addition of drummer, Chris, placed songs on A&E's since-cancelled series, "The Cleaner," and came close to signing with a major label only to see the deal fall apart at the last moment. Then came the moment they had been waiting for: "CSI: New York" selected the group's song, "Dutiful and Wild," for an extended closing scene. The music caught the attention of noted music supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas, who signed the band to her Atlantic Records-distributed label, Chop Shop Records. The band members… recorded the self-produced "Scars on 45" on their own, first starting in "Fawlty Towers," as Danny and Stu called their crumbling apartment, and then moving to the basement of a church that a friend has purchased to convert into apartments. "He let the congregation live there for awhile, so there was this little rock and roll band recording in the basement and we had a lot of praying going on next door," Danny recalls. "They were lovely people." Although enjoyable, the studio is "the work part," Danny says. As the band continues its tour of the U.S., following its first American shows at South X Southwest last March, the fun comes in playing live. "When people listen and react to one of your songs, there's no better feeling," Danny concludes. "When you see someone else enjoy it, there's not really anything bad about that at all."
Making music was the furthest thing from Scars on 45 co-founder Danny's mind until the professional soccer player for England's Hatsfield Town F.C. broke his foot at 21 and his world came crashing down. "I was in limbo, without knowing what to do with myself," he says. It... Read More →
Friday March 18, 2011 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Maggie Mae's Rooftop 323 E 6th St


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The Sutler blazes new path with nod to past
Peter Cooper
pcooper@tennessean.com
Restauranteur Austin Ray and developer Joe Parkes Jr. had this concept.
They wanted to open a new place in the burgeoning Melrose area of Eighth Avenue South and serve regionally sourced food in surprising, elevated presentations. They wanted inventive, hand-crafted cocktails and a great beer selection. They wanted two main rooms, one for dining and then a clubbier, sexier place downstairs. Oh, and they wanted a stage and state-of-the-art sound.
Slam dunk, right? Melrose is booming. Nashville is America's "It" city. All the people filling all these high-rise condos need to eat and drink, and a good stage with good sound in Nashville can draw a healthy selection of world-class musicians.
The question was what to call such a place.
They decided to call it The Sutler.
Which, to a bunch of us, seemed super-weird.
Because The Sutler was a long-shuttered, divey little joint. It was in the same business strip that once held the Loews Melrose Theater and the Melrose Lanes bowling alley. The Sutler served beans, cornbread fritters, pickled eggs and roast beef sandwiches. The Sutler was smoky and funky, not trendy and sexy.
So why call the new place The Sutler?
Because in addition to being smoky and funky, The Sutler was fun. It was a place people liked to hang out, in comfort and friendship. Ray and Parkes both liked that old place.
And then there's the music thing. The same bunch of us that thought calling a shiny new thing The Sutler was super-weird also know that the old Sutler place had a little stage where Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Levon Helm, Guy Clark, Don Everly, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Bela Fleck and a bunch of others played. When Karen Leipziger started booking the room in April 1993, The Sutler became a center of Nashville's roots music scene and an incubator for the artists who would in the new century be called "Americana."
The Sutler was where the remarkable Walter Hyatt — whose music inspired Lyle Lovett, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and many more — played every Monday night. Hyatt hired a drummer named Billy Block, and in February 1996 Leipziger green-lighted Block's wish to start an every-Tuesday, multi-artist show that came to be called Billy Block's Western Beat, and that show featured Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller, Tim O'Brien, Kevin Gordon, Darrell Scott, Tim Carroll, Joy Lynn White and so many more who became core "Americana" artists.
Musician and disc jockey Johnny Potts founded the old Sutler on Jan. 16, 1975. The place had beer, so soon the place had songwriters. Lots of songwriters, it seems, like beer. Potts got a portable stage with room for two people, and then he expanded that stage.
But The Sutler remained more of a daytime hang than a true music venue until Leipziger came in 1993 and began booking the room, handling publicity and upgrading the sound system. Leipziger and Potts agreed that the club would offer guaranteed pay to musicians, and wouldn't charge the "production fees" that other clubs required from musicians.
"We provided sound and had someone to take money at the door," she says. "The musicians were treated with respect, and the audience was treated with respect."
Leipziger still has old Sutler calendars, contracts and contact lists. From her folders full of information, it's clear that for a five-year period in the 1990s, The Sutler was an incredible place. She had a Wednesday night acoustic concert series where you could hear acclaimed folks such as David Olney, Jeff Black and Buddy Mondlock for a $2 or $3 cover charge. Buddy Miller played an album-release show on Aug. 10, 1995, with guest Dale Watson ... for a $5 cover.
Guitarist Jonny Lang played there for a few dozen listeners in October 1996, months before he launched a multi-platinum recording career. Tony Arata, who wrote Garth Brooks' "The Dance," was a regular, as were Chris Smither, The Wootens, Tom Russell, Malcolm Holcombe and Danny Flowers.
Medeski, Martin & Wood were playing non-sold-out shows at The Sutler before they began playing sold-out shows in performance halls all over the world. Gillian Welch played The Sutler, as did blues greats Luther Allison and Marion James, as well as former Dr. Hook lead singer Dennis Locorriere (the latter with Motown bass hero Bob Babbitt).
All this in a section of town that was considered dangerous and downtrodden. It was considered that way because it was dangerous and downtrodden.
"That part of Melrose was, like Lower Broadway at the same time, kind of seedy," says Billy Block. "But the vibe at The Sutler was great, and it became the epicenter of a scene."
That scene has dissipated. Some of its lynchpins — such as Shelby Lynne, Lonesome Bob Chaney and Victor Mecyssne — have moved from Nashville. Others — such as Van Zandt, Hyatt and saxophone titan Dennis Taylor — died too young. Leipziger quit booking the room in the late '90s, Kim Webber booked some great shows there for a while, but she wound up moving to Knoxville and Potts closed the place in 2005. The Sutler's closing was memorialized by legendary music journalist (yes, there is such a thing) Chet Flippo in a column titled "How to Crush the Musical Soul of a City."
Well, consider us uncrushed. Parkes and Ray got the Sutler name back from Potts, and The Sutler Saloon lives and serves and features and illuminates.
Now, understand, it's not the same place, by a long shot. Anyone who wanders in looking for drunken, unshaven troubadours at 4 p.m. will likely be disappointed. The menu nods to the old Sutler food offerings, in the way that LeBron James might nod to lunch-hour hacks playing pickup ball at the YMCA. Cocktails cost more than twice what it used to cost to get in to see Walter Hyatt. And I don't recall Nicholas Feuillatte Brut Blue Label sparkling wine being available at the old Sutler bar.
Sometimes change is good. The sound and sight-lines are far superior in the new room (it's a few doors down from where the old place was), and some of the folks who played the old place are gracing the new stage. This month, Billy Block returned, and wound up loving the place.
"It's a little bit of looking back and a little bit of looking forward," Parkes says. "There are a lot of people who played The Sutler before they were 'somebody,' and I want to be that next generation-builder of people that play here and later become known for what they do."
Ray expects to host both up-and-comers and already-there folks, and the room's staging and sound capabilities are good enough to play ball in the majors. He knows that to some of us old-timers, the notion of a gleaming new Sutler sounds super-weird. But super-weird has its merits.
"As much as your heart can hurt for the amazing old bars that disappear because they can't pay rent or least their lease, it was important to do something that represents Nashville as it is now," he says, as Todd Snider's voice comes from speakers, singing "There ain't nothin' wrong with Nashville, Tennessee." "Right now, it's thriving. And we want to be all the best things that represent Nashville right now: Food, drink and music."
Reach Peter Cooper at 615-259-8220 or on Twitter@TnMusicNews.
What: Johnny Appleseed at The Sutler
Where: The Sutler Saloon, 2600 Franklin Pike #109
Tickets: No charge
What: Sheriiff Scott & the Duputies at The Sutler, with special guest Rachel Baiman
Where: The Sutler Saloon, 2600 Franklin Pike, #109
When: 5 p.m. Sunday
For more details, visit www.thesutler.com.


SKOPJE: The Belgian/Romanian coproduction Alone at My Wedding / Seule à mon marriage directed by Marta Bergman scooped the best film award in the official selection of the 17th Festival of European Film Cinedays, which ended on 18 November 2018.
The jury composed of film and theatre actress Verica Nedeska, film professor and theoretician Alexandra Nakelski and Brigitta Manthey, advisor for film funding at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, selected Bergman`s debut out of eight films in the Official Selection.
Marysia Nikitiuk won the best director award for When the Trees Fall (Ukraine, Poland, Macedonia) and Stefan Lukacs aka Istvan received the best screenplay award for Cops (Austria). Ana By Day (Spain) directed by Andrea Jaurrieta received a special mention.
The Kosovan drama The Marriage by Blerta Zeqiri was named best out of the six films in the CineBalkan competition. A special mention in this selection was given to Montenegro`s director Aleksa Stefan Radunovic for his film Lazy Guy / Lijenština. The jury consisted of director and writer Izer Aliu, Slovene/French actress and performer Inti Šraj and Turkish producer and writer Servan Güney.
The student film award went to Drive, A Poem for My Father by Irena Gatej from the University of Nova Gorica. In collaboration with Giffoni Macedonia Youth Film Festival, the Young film award went to the Turkish film Arada by Mu Tunc.


The Cybertronic Spree, a Transformers-themed band with sweet costumes and I presume at least an awareness of the band The Polyphonic Spree, specializes in covers of cartoon and video game theme songs. Except for this one time where they decided to cover Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," because why not? It's a fun song, everyone knows it and they're clearly capable of playing it.


However, in evidence given recently to the Commons Science and Technology Committee, you admitted that you do not believe homeopathy to be efficacious. Despite this, homeopathic products are offered for sale in Boots pharmacies � many of them bearing the trusted Boots brand.
Not only is this two-hundred-year-old pseudo-therapy implausible, it is scientifically absurd. The purported mechanisms of action fly in the face of our understanding of chemistry, physics, pharmacology and physiology. As you are aware, the best and most rigorous scientific research concludes that homeopathy offers no therapeutic effect beyond placebo, but you continue to sell these products regardless because "customers believe they work". Is this the standard you set for yourselves?
We don't expect to find products on the shelf at our local pharmacy which do not work.
Not only are these products ineffective, they can also be dangerous. Patients may delay seeking proper medical assistance because they believe homeopathy can treat their condition. Until recently, the Boots website even went so far as to tell patients that "after taking a homeopathic medicine your symptoms may become slightly worse," and that this is "a sign that the body's natural energies have started to counteract the illness". Advice such as this directly encourages patients to wait before seeking real medical attention, even when their condition deteriorates.
To add your signature to the letter, please use the form below.
If you'd like to help give the petition greater prominence, you might want to email the letter to Boots, or even print it and post to Boots directly. You can find their contact details on the Boots website.
It is fraudulent to knowingly market products that do not work. There is overwhelming evidence that homeopathy does not work. It is dangerous to allow proven medicine to be supplanted by water.
Not cool Boots. Not cool at all.
Customer choice is useless without proper customer information. Customers rely on respected companies such as Boots to help them in finding suitable *genuine* remedies; you are selling them WATER.
Boots gives credence to the unproven claims of homeopathists. It calls into question your professionalism.
Stop selling hopus pocus stuff!
If you do not believe in empiricism (i.e. using evidence to make decision), I challenge you leave your house without using it.
Boots is regarded as a respected chemist, by selling a product that you know does not work you confuse the issue and this is dishonest. Please take a stand against hogwash and guide any misguided customers in the direction of effective remedies.
Exploitation of science and lives! Throw them all to jail... or rather a mental asylum!
This is unconscionable considering the time, energy and money that could go into real cures instead.
Comments do not necessarily represent the views of the 10:23 Campaign or Merseyside Skeptics Society.


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Il Premio l'angelo azzurro (Der Blaue Engel Filmpreis) è stato un premio assegnato fino al 2005 dalla giuria internazionale del Festival di Berlino, sponsorizzato dalla AGICOA (Association de Gestion Internationale Collective des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles).

Inaugurato nel 1993 e riferito al celebre film del 1930 L'angelo azzurro di Josef von Sternberg, il premio era conferito al miglior film europeo tra quelli in concorso.

Albo d'oro

Anni 1990
 1993: Le jeune Werther, regia di Jacques Doillon
 1994: Il giudice ragazzino, regia di Alessandro Di Robilant
 1995: La lunga estate di Otto (Ti kniver i hjertet), regia di Marius Holst
 1996: Passioni proibite (Lust och fägring stor), regia di Bo Widerberg  /
 1997: Segreti del cuore (Secretos del corazón), regia di Montxo Armendáriz  //
 1998: Left Luggage, regia di Jeroen Krabbé  ///
 1999: Viaggio verso il sole (Günese Yolculuk), regia di Yeşim Ustaoğlu  //

Anni 2000
 2000: Il silenzio dopo lo sparo (Die Stille nach dem Schuß), regia di Volker Schlöndorff
 2001: Intimacy - Nell'intimità (Intimacy ), regia di Patrice Chéreau  ///
 2002: Minor Mishaps (Små ulykker), regia di Annette K. Olesen  /
 2003: Good Bye, Lenin!, regia di Wolfgang Becker
 2004: Alle prime luci dell'alba (Om jag vänder mig om), regia di Björn Runge
 2005: Paradise Now, regia di Hany Abu-Assad  ////

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Premi del Festival di Berlino
Premi cinematografici speciali


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St Mary's Primary School children in Dunmow get quiet area thanks to hotel volunteers
Angela Singer
Published: 11:10 AM June 20, 2016 Updated: 8:21 AM November 1, 2020
Dunmow St Mary's Quiet Area - Credit: Archant
Children at Dunmow St Mary's Primary School now have a quiet area in their playground after volunteers from the Hilton at Stansted Airport gave up two days to help transform part of the school grounds.
A spokesman for the hotel said: "We chose this project out of a number that applied because we felt that it would have a real and immediate impact for the children."
School business manager Jess Horrocks said: "With over 420 children, the playground can sometimes feel very busy and this space gives all our children a chance to spend time in a calmer environment.
"We want to further develop the space into a sensory area where children with lower attention spans or youngsters dealing with emotional upheaval are able to take a 'brain break'. We strongly believe that the emotional wellbeing of our children directly links to their ability to learn and are so grateful to the volunteers for helping us to create this colourful and important space."
Archaeologists find remains of Iron Age village


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Fallen Rights Icon at UN Court for Rohingya Genocide Case
Risks, Rewards, and Robots: The Future of Work in California
Shark Reportedly Bites Surfer off Southern California Coast
Santa Has Gifts for Nunes, Newsom, and More
AP Fact Check: Distortion in Trump's Impeachment Defense
Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event. Provisions of the 1994 Crime Bill are coming back to haunt him . (AP/John Locher)
Biden Criminal Justice Plan Reverses Part of 1994 Crime Bill
Joe Biden is proposing to reverse several key provisions of the 1994 crime bill he helped write in an acknowledgment that his tough-on-crime positions of the past are at odds with the views of the modern Democratic Party.
Biden's moves could be an attempt to blunt fellow White House contenders Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, who have escalated their critiques of the former vice president's handling of race in recent weeks.
In a speech later Tuesday in New Orleans, the former vice president will call for an end to the disparity that placed stricter sentencing terms on offenses involving crack versus powder cocaine as well as an end to the federal death penalty, which the legislation authorized as a potential punishment for an increasing number of crimes.
Biden is the early Democratic front-runner in no small part because of support from black voters who are crucial to winning the party's presidential nomination. But his role in crafting the 1994 crime bill could become a vulnerability. Several of his rivals have blamed the crime bill for the mass incarceration of racial minorities over the past two decades.
Biden's moves could be an attempt to blunt fellow White House contenders Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, who have escalated their critiques of the former vice president's handling of race in recent weeks. All three candidates will share a stage at next week's presidential debate.
Cedric Richmond, Biden's campaign chairman, called the plan "the most forward-leaning criminal justice policy proposed." Richmond, a Louisiana representative and former public defender, praised it for building on Virginia Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott's SAFE Justice Act, which would reserve prison space for violent offenders and offer a wider range of non-prison sentencing alternatives. Scott's bipartisan bill is co-sponsored by other members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Plan Would Seek to Create $20 Billion Grant Program
By building on Scott's bill, Biden, who represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate for decades, is moving significantly to the left but not quite as far as endorsing the type of sweeping overhaul championed by Booker. Booker unveiled a proposal this year that would go beyond the criminal justice measure that President Donald Trump signed into law last year by slashing mandatory minimum sentences.
And Biden's shift on the death penalty also puts him in line with every other Democratic presidential candidate except for Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. It's a stark change of Biden's previous approach to the issue: Touting the toughness of the crime bill in 1992, the then-Senate Judiciary Committee chairman joked that it would do "everything but hang people for jaywalking."
Biden's plan would seek to create a $20 billion grant program to encourage states to reduce incarceration by increasing spending on child abuse prevention, education and literacy, as long as states eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent crimes.
Related Story: Buttigieg, Biden Represent Democrats' Generational Divide
He also would expand the Justice Department's role in rooting out institutional misconduct by police departments and prosecutors and would establish an independent task force to study prosecutorial discretion in an attempt to head off racial and ethnic discrimination.
The plan also includes spending $1 billion annually on changes in the juvenile justice system and identifies as a goal that all former inmates have access to housing when they leave prison.
Biden also plans to seek a renewed ban on assault weapons, an element of the 1994 crime bill he continues to promote, and a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Harris Has Criticized Biden's Role in 1994 Bill
Trump, a Republican, tweeted in May while championing his own criminal justice measure that "anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not have a chance of being elected. In particular, African Americans will not be able to vote for you."
Anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not have a chance of being elected. In particular, African Americans will not be able to vote for you. I, on the other hand, was responsible for Criminal Justice Reform, which had tremendous support, & helped fix the bad 1994 Bill!
Since the last debate, Biden has focused his campaign speeches on his stint as vice president and has aggressively proposed policies in recent weeks that build on gains in President Barack Obama's administration, including criminal justice.
Booker has hinted that he would renew his criticisms of Biden's lead role on the 1994 crime bill when the two candidates share the stage during the second set of Democratic presidential debates in Detroit next week. He offered a preview of that criticism on Tuesday, pushing back at Biden's criminal justice plan in a tweet that didn't name the former vice president: "It's not enough to tell us what you're going to do for our communities, show us what you've done for the last 40 years," Booker wrote.
Harris, too, has criticized Biden's role in the 1994 bill. However, Biden plans to note during his speech Tuesday his time as a public defender before entering politics in the early 1970s.
Although Biden advisers say it's not a subtle shot at Harris, who has been criticized by criminal justice reform advocates as being too tough on the accused during her tenures as the San Francisco district attorney and as California's attorney general before she was elected senator.
Harris has answered those criticisms by saying she supports major changes to federal criminal justice. She partnered with a senior House Democrat on Tuesday to propose legislation that would decriminalize marijuana and expunge records of federal marijuana offenses, steps that Biden aligns with in his new plan — although Harris and Booker have both gone further than Biden in their support of full marijuana legalization.
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Tony, think they heard you hence the great performance thus far.
Aside, having been up and personal with the LPGA players, I must say that the Koreans seem distracted this season; few of then are tweaking their swings and some are trying new equipment. Whereas the Americans mostly have been quiet on these 2 fronts. I may be wrong.
But come nearer to end season, the Koreans should be strongly in contention for many a games once their tweaking is done.
Jessica Korda has a very solid textbook swing ... I like her swing more than Paula Creamer's ... Congrats to Jessica!


A structured 6-week class that teaches good manners to dogs and responsible dog ownership to their owners while they prepare for the 10-steps of AKC's Canine Good Citizen Test. An evaluator will be present the final week to administer the CGC Test. Cost is $100.
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Q: Sphinx variables I have a lot of filenames in my Sphinx config with name like /home/ubuntu/sites/sitename.dev/data/sphinx/searchd.pid with same path prefix.
Can I separate path /home/ubuntu/sites/sitename.dev/data/sphinx/ from that filename into variable to use it like $path/searchd.pid?

A: Its a little known feature, but the config file can actully be a script - such as PHP, perl or even plain old bash. Just uses a classic shebang line - if the first line begins with #! that intpreter is used to execute the script, and the output used as the conf file.
Example for PHP..
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
  $path = "/home/ubuntu/sites/sitename.dev/";
?>

searchd {
     pid_file = <?php echo $path; ?>/searchd.pid
}

As a side note why are you having multiple pid files? Surely its best to have one single pid file - ie one single instance of searchd. A single instance can serve many indexes.
You can use this scripting capablity, to keep seperate 'files' for each index (for easy of use) - which the script consolidates into one file for use.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


All organizations have incidents and most do some level of reporting around them. Unfortunately, such reports often have little analytical value and are soon forgotten. The investigative response (IR) program's contribution to risk management is largely underutilized. IR should not only "put out the fires" and "clean up the mess" but inform and improve security management as well. This talk provides tips and examples on how to make that happen.


In Brief: Elemental hero who is still discovering how his powers work. Can control all four elements, but progresses slower with them.
Residence: He never left Downtown Freedom City.
Base of Operations: He owns a three-room apartment at Parkside, and has converted one room into a sort of base. That's about it.
Occupation: He has a part-time job cooking at a diner. He's currently going to college so he can study to become a scientist, and perhaps discover what caused his powers to sort of "stall" for two years.
Affiliations: He is currently doing things alone.
Family: His sister, Cassie, lives across from him. He'd do anything to protect her.
Apparent Age: See real age.
Eyes: Bright blue, turn white when channeling his abilities, or if he's attempting to appear threatening.
Hair: Brown, kinda messy. Covers his left eye when he's not suited up.
He appears fairly physically fit, even in his civilian guise. His head is kind of egg-shaped, with a ski-slope nose, and he normally wears glasses in his civilian guise.
His casual attire generally includes various T-shirts with pop culture references, jeans, and a pair of black shoes. He also owns a blue hoodie.
As the Channeler, he generally wears a blue domino mask. He has a blue, sleeveless "shirt" with dark blue shoulder pads, and small red, white, light blue and green circles in the center - he claims they represent the four elements he uses. He has blue gloves, as well as pretty basic blue spandex for the tights, and dark blue boots.
Samuel "Sammy" Glase's story tends to remain ambiguous - what he believes to be the 'priming' event for his powers took place 2 years ago, and as such he doesn't remember the full details. To make a long story short, he took a tour of a laboratory owned by a company named Terracorp, and sort of...Well, he got distracted by a very odd-looking device and, always the curious type, wandered off. He stumbled into the machine, and got zapped with some sort of energy, going into a coma for 6 months. When he woke up, he thought everything was normal...2 years after the incident, he discovered his powers, creating a "misfire" which resulted in the burning of a painting he bought at a yard sale.
Afterwards, he began to study his powers. He's been practicing for a week, and has learned how to control the very basics of his abilities. Having been inspired by the other heroes of Freedom City, he decides to do the right thing - protect his city. Ordering what he called "a Halloween costume" custom-made, he suits up and prepares to fight crime as the Channeler.
Motivation - He's surrounded by heroes, and is in fact inspired by them. It's hard not to take the good path with heroes all around you. Is further explanation needed?
Personality - Since he's developed his powers, he's attempted to keep from getting too close to anyone, for fear of villains using them to their advantage. He's a bit of a deadpan one, and tends to make remarks in the middle of combat. He sometimes acts mysterious, dropping hints to what happened to him or who he really is. As with most siblings, he tends to tease his sister. He seems to have a zero-tolerance policy for criminals, in both his civilian and superhero guises.
His interrogation techniques are often similar to that of vigilantes, threatening pain or death upon someone, but he usually just knocks them out if needed, sets them down and moves on. In truth, he'll only kill if he absolutely has to.
He has been shown to create and manipulate all four elements - Fire, Air, Earth, and Ice. There are very few tactics used in his efforts, mostly just trying to hit the opponent a lot and not get hit back.
Energy blasts can be orange(for fire,) green(for earth,) white(for air,) or light blue(for ice), though the element/color used is purely aesthetic. There is no visible "short-hand" for using his elemental manipulation abilities.
Can't Go Back: On the contrary to the example flaw, he's too cautious - anyone who's done evil in the past, he won't trust. And he will confront people for just about any slip-up.
Family Matters: As stated, he'd do anything to keep his sister safe - grab her, and he'll do anything to save her. You can use this to your advantage, and even make a deal to get loose without charges - or worse.
Curiosity Killed the Cat: He is incredibly curious in his pursuits, and will likely investigate anything out of the ordinary, whether civilian or superhero. You can use this to catch him off guard.
All a result of genetic alterations.
If it isn't done this time I'mma shoot somebody.
I know you're still working on this, so just some preliminary comments.
I'd like to see the backstory expanded a bit.
Remember ability modifiers work with +1 for every 2, so it works ike 10 (+0), 12 (+1), 14 (+2), etc.
Here's a good sample build for an elemental-type character.
Also, it's hard to flesh out the backstory more when even I have no idea what some of it is. I don't know about any major science groups...In fact, I'm still new to the Freedom City setting in general...So, I can't elaborate on what company the machine came from.
I'd like what the elemental metahuman machine was for to remain a mystery until Sam, himself, learns. Y'know, keep some things surprises. I've always liked keeping some details a surprise until people actually know in-universe.
The "Halloween costume" part was so that it didn't seem suspicious that someone ordered a superhero costume custom-made.
Ok so there is a sheet template Here, if you didn't find it already that has the preferred layout for building powers. This isn't just for us to more easily read them but it helps to guide people into building powers in the M&M style. I'll go into that a bit more further down. I know you just picked up the book so I'm not sure how much of this you've picked up on already but here's a few of the basics.
So this is based loosely off D&D, every roll is a D20(Twenty sided die) roll with a bonus based on relevant skills, saves, or what not. The total result needs to be higher than the result (ties go to the defender). Usually whoever is running a thread can tell you the DC but some are easy to derive oneself. Attacks for instance to do regular damage ar a DC of 15+Rank where rank is the rank of power used (like blast) or strength for unarmed attacks.
Every character and NPC has a Power Level (PL) that is an approximation of their potency, mostly in a fight though also some other contests. PL 7 is your daredevil or punish type level, brutal against low level gang mambers but against a superhuman foe will be in for a tough fight, PL 10-12 is the average full fledged hero (Your x-men, avengers, etc) getting up to Pl 15+ you're looking at the top end heroes/villains the supermen/darkseid's. This is primarily represented by what caps you can achieve. So for fighting the average of any given attack bonus and save DC bonus should be your PL. Tradeoffs allow you to have a higher attack and lower Save DC(damage) for like an accurate eyebeam, or higher damage at the cost of accuracy (Iron Mans chest beam) Caps also affect defenses in the same way Defense and save bonus average to PL but cna be traded off for a nimble but fragile hero or a sturdy but easy to hit hero. the max a trade off can go is +/-5 and the average still has to be your PL. So at PL 7 you could get an accurate attack at up to +12 but need to drop the save DC to +2 or the reverse or something inbetween. Skills and Stats also have caps (PL+5) but not tradeoffs.
So Powers are effect based. You ask yourself first, "What do I want this power to do, hurt someone, put them to sleep, let me fly, make me tougher, etc." then you find the power that does that thing (damage, stun, flight, protection) and build it out to do that effect how you want it too. You do that through introducing extras, flaws, feats, and drawbacks to the base power. For example if you want to shoot an icebeam you need a damage effect, then you need it to be ranged (sometimes called blast which is damage with a ranged extra) and maybe you want the ice beam to be able to write your name on the side of a building so you buy the precise feat then since it's ice you add descriptors to it. Descriptors are free but you generally get only one from a catagory like origin or type or whatever. So a mutant with ice powers would have descriptors of (Mutation, Ice) an Ice mage woudl have (Magic, Ice) and alien would have (Alien Physiology, Ice), and a high tech ice gun might have (Tech, Ice) there is a variable power Feat that lets a given power use different or broader descriptors so like an magic elementalist might have a blast with variable descriptor for (Magic, Any elemental) and you pick usually once a round what kind of effect your doing but its all the same mechanical power. You don't need to buy an Ice blast, fireball, lightning bolt each individually.
I'm not sure how to do DC rolls still. Despite how much help I have gotten thus far. Yes I am a noob.
I'm also unsure of what stat array I want to give. He's mostly average physically, but he's definitely smart. He's currently on the way to becoming a scientist, last year in college.
That's about it, apart from deciding how to spend whatever remains, if any.
25 in a stat is peak human potential. Beyond that is superhuman. 14-18 is the smart guy range in general 19-25 is basically into the genius range. Of course with super-scientists etc the cap on genius a little wibbly. Basically though 20-24 is like stephen hawking, or Einstein, nobel laureates of our world kinda intellect. Super human is like comic super scientists and minds like your reed richards types.
DC's (Difficulty Class) are the number one has to roll over (with modifiers) for a given roll or 'Check' to succeed. When you try to shoot or punch a person you roll against their defense DC (normally 10+ defense) if you're total roll plus attack bonus for a given attack is higher you'll hit them. Then they roll a save against the DC dictated by the attack. What that DC is will be specific to the attack used. A punch or gun or fire blast generally will provoke a toughness save to prevent the damage. Damage save DC's are calculated as the rank of the damage effect (the rank of the power or Strength for an unarmed attack) + 15 so a rank 10 power provokes a DC 25 save, A strength 18 character has a +4 strength bonus so provokes a DC 19 save. This is almost always opposed by a Toughness save (Roll of 1d20 + Toughness save vs. the DC), No damage for succeeding if one fails there is a damage effect based on by how much. Some attacks might provoke a non damage based save, like a mental stun Vs. a will save or a power drain or nausea effect Vs. fortitude. We call those 'Exotic' Saves and the specific power dictates how failing affects the target. Those save DC's are normally 10 + the power rank so a rank 10 stun would be DC 20, a rank 7 snare would provoke a DC 17 reflex save.
On the sheet we ask for the DC's of your powers as those will be the common effects you toss out. So a Blast would be 15+(Blast ranks) for instance. It's a quick way for everyone to look and see what they need to Save against for a given power when it gets used.
Hopefully complete! Can anyone check to see if I did the maths right? If I did, I can forward it to official approval.
Base of Operations: He owns a three-room apartment at Parkside. He has moved the stuff from his bedroom into the main room, and turned what was the bedroom into his base of operations as the Channeler.


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A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific
By T. J. Pempel
Cornell University Press, 2021, 252 pp.
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Pempel comprehensively analyzes the growth strategies of ten economies during the Asian economic miracle that started in the 1960s. Four patterns emerge. "Developmental regimes" that had competent bureaucracies, homogeneous societies, and U.S. support, such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, were able to build advanced modern economies, although their growth rates declined in the 1990s due to U.S. trade restrictions and growing domestic political contention. "Ersatz developmental regimes," such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, also enjoyed substantial growth, based mostly on their exploitation of labor, land, and natural resources. But they suffered from weaker bureaucracies and more divided societies and did not develop advanced economies. Even the "rapacious regimes"—Myanmar, North Korea, and the Philippines—had occasional growth spurts, but they never developed competent state institutions or skilled workforces. China combined elements of all three types: deep industrialization, cheap labor, and authoritarian institutions. Relations among these places—and between each of them and the United States—played an important role in fostering growth for all but Myanmar and North Korea. The regional stability on which they have relied, however, is now threatened by the U.S.-Chinese rivalry.
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Why Used Car Dealers Fear a Hertz Bankruptcy
Rental company could flood the market with hundreds of thousands of used cars.
UPDATE: Hertz officially filed for bankruptcy on Friday, May 22. The 102-year old rental giant made the filing after being unable to secure some $400 million to pay holders of its asset-backed securities. The company suffered a dramatic drop in business following the halt experienced by the airline industry. Hertz faced a slim chance of a financial rescue in the days leading up to the May 22 filing, and is expected to keep operating while it comes up with a plan to pay its creditors.
Car rental giant Hertz is currently in talks with creditors in hopes of avoiding a bankruptcy that could be just weeks away, Bloomberg reports. The company has been given until May 22 to come up with $400 million for holders of its asset-backed securities, but the greater problem the company faces is a little more complex. The company's most obvious avenue for raising cash would be to sell down parts of its rental car fleet, which numbers above 560,000 cars in the U.S., not counting its international operations. But the resale values of the rental vehicles it currently owns have been pummeled by the tremendous drop in sales caused by the pandemic, dropping by 70% in April alone.
Bloomberg reports that Hertz's two main banks, Deutsche Bank AG and Barclays Plc, have to decide in the next two weeks whether to allow Hertz to try to raise money by selling off large parts of its fleet or let it go into bankruptcy. Neither option would be particularly pleasant, and there are still plenty of unknowns even in these scenarios.
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Bloomberg describes Hertz's situation as a three-way standoff: Holders of Hertz's asset-backed securities could delay pressuring Hertz to sell down its fleet for a short period of time, but they will need Hertz's banks to promise to make them whole. The banks, in turn, may not want to take on such a risk, which requires them to bet that either the rental car business or used car prices return to some normal operating level. Meanwhile, controlling shareholder Carl Icahn holds a 39% equity stake in the rental company. Bloomberg says that he could put in more money to keep Hertz afloat, but this once again is dependent on a belief that the rental car business will recover to some extent in the very near future. In a bankruptcy, Bloomberg notes, equity holders' claims would be behind those of creditors, which is not an incentive for Icahn to put in more money at the moment.
One possible way out of this is banks letting Hertz issue more debt, but this once again relies largely on a bet on a domestic and international recovery in the car rental business in the near future. Otherwise, it only buys the company a short period of time before an eventual bankruptcy.
That bankruptcy could flood the used car market with several hundred thousand cars, whose value is likely to take a substantial hit at a time when used car lots are already quite full and demand is low. Bloomberg notes that used car prices dropped 11.4% from March to April, while sales were merely a quarter of preoutbreak levels. Dealer auctions that would liquidate the cars have also cut back operations on dropping demand by used car lots.
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Hertz itself sells used cars as a part of its business, but how long it would take to sell over 500,000 used cars in the U.S. alone, at prices reasonably close to their market value, is perhaps a question of years, not months.
Like airlines and hotels, the car rental companies are facing a massive drop in business as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the end of which may not be in sight for quite some time. The car rental business largely depends on airline travelers, who at the moment are not doing any domestic traveling that would keep rental companies afloat. Among other things, this means that Hertz is not the sole rental company in trouble, but at the same time there is little prospect of any federal bailout for rental car companies, unlike airlines.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar is the latest celebrity to open up about her experience with postpartum depression. In a powerful Instagram post on Tuesday, the Buffy star revealed that she, too, struggled with PPD after her first child, now 7-year-old Charlotte Grace Prinze, was born.
Gellar went on to have son Rocky James Prinze in September 2012 with husband Freddy Prinze Jr. The actress has already received an outpouring of praise on her emotional Instagram post, with fans thanking her for sharing her story.


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TRAPPIST-1: A Solar System of Earth-Sized Planets
February 23, 2017 Jay Dee	10 Comments
The announcement that NASA hinted about being a major discovery related to planets orbiting another star turned out to actually be pretty major. In many cases, we've seen announcements of huge planets, single Earth-sized planets, or a super-Earth in the habitable zone around a star. This time, it's even more significant.
TRAPPIST-1 is a very cool and small red dwarf star 39 light years away. Not only does it have one Earth-sized planet, but it has seven. And it's not just one of them in the habitable zone, it's three. How's that for amazing?
Two were originally discovered by The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, then confirmed by NASA's Spitzer Telescope. But Spitzer discovered a further five planets. When the James Webb Space Telescope is in operation, it will be used to study these planets even further. We may be able to discover the atmospheric composition, determining if they're potentially habitable.
As these are planets orbiting a red dwarf, they are close to the star, with the outer planet having an orbital period of only 20 days. This means that they're likely to be tidally locked, with one side of each planet facing the star. They don't have enough information about the outer planet to determine its exact size, but scientists guess that it may be icy.
NASA released this video on the planets:
What do you think of this news? Let's talk about it in the comments section below.
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Plumes Spotted on Europa
Take a look at this image.
Credits: NASA/ESA/W. Sparks (STScI)/USGS Astrogeology Science Center
Just what is this? Well, it's Europa superimposed on an image of Europa taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. See that white stuff coming from the bottom left? That seems so similar to what we've seen from Enceladus. That's a possible water plume!
So, what does this mean? It means that water is making it to the surface of Europa. This also means that we may have a much easier time accessing the water than we thought. We already have an extremely good idea about the internal structure of Europa, which likely includes a very deep liquid water ocean. Europa is one of the best candidates for life in the solar system, and with upcoming missions to Europa and the other icy moons of Jupiter coming soon, we'll have an excellent opportunity to know what the composition of this water is. It's suspected to be salty, but how salty is it? And does it support life?
This is very exciting. What do you think?
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Juno Is Arriving at Jupiter
Just a quick note that NASA's spacecraft Juno is arriving at Jupiter at the moment. I'm watching NASA JPL's live video stream, which you can also watch here.
Or if you like, watch it below:
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NASA's Big Kepler Announcement: It's Not Aliens
NASA announced recently that they would be making a big announcement today about a discovery by the Kepler Telescope. Well, the announcement is that 1,284 planets have been discovered. And what's really big is that there's a 99% chance that they are planets. Here's a graph of the planets that have been discovered so far.
The known planets discovered so far with Kepler. Credit: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel
Of course, before the announcement was made, many people were speculating on what the announcement would be. This includes science groups on Facebook. Groups that I would think would know better. You see, this is what people were saying: NASA is going to announce aliens!!!!
First of all, science groups were saying this. Really? Too many science groups are promoting both junk science and hype.
Secondly, NASA is not going to announce aliens when they said they were talking about a Kepler discovery. Kepler is not designed to detect life. It cannot detect life. Kepler deals with detecting planets that cross in front of their stars. That does not include detecting alien civilisations or even life. Further observation is required to study the atmosphere, and even then, we can't be certain if there's life.
However, several of the new planets are fairly close to Earth-sized and in the habitable zone of their stars. That is exciting. Those planets will be studied to pinpoint their sizes and atmospheres.
So, relax. No aliens will be discovered by Kepler. I don't know why people even thought that.
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Science Sunday – A Year in Space
March 7, 2016 Jay Dee	19 Comments
Continuing this ongoing weekly series, I share a major science news story from the past week, but I let the video tell the story.
This week, American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth after spending 340 days on the International Space Station. This mission is especially interesting because Kelly's twin brother, Mark Kelly, was down here on Earth, and they're comparing the changes in Scott's body with his twin. This mission was a year-long experiment to help prepare for the upcoming manned Mars mission. You can read NASA's story on this mission here.
The video is a bit long, but it shows you the return of Kelly and Kornienko to Earth.
Scott Kelly says that he has mixed feelings about the end of the mission. I can understand that, having mixed feelings about our move to Canada. He's lived on the station for nearly a year, and it had become his home.
Comments are greatly appreciated! Would you consider spending a year, or even just a month, in space? Let me know in the comments below.
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Science Sunday – James Webb Telescope Primary Mirror Installed
The replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope is getting closer to completion, as a very important component has been installed. The massive 6.5 metre diameter mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope has been finished, and this will make it the largest space telescope ever. Take a look at NASA's video.
The thing that excites me about this telescope is that it'll see things in unprecedented detail, including the ability to directly image exoplanets. It's going to be so much better than Hubble.
It is expected to launch in October 2018.
Are you looking forward to what this telescope will discover and see? Let me know in the comments below.
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