I have been brought onto both active titles at the studio to improve UX and player engagement by focusing on implementing social features, advocating a user-centered and data-driven development processes, and raising awareness of long-term player goals. Lead UX design on key initiatives such as incentivized ads, social motivations, and improving monetization through live events. Would advocate engagement ecosystems, habit forming loops, user personas, and deliver UX deliverables and prototypes for in-game features.
Joined as part of the Web Programming team to contribute towards improving the customer experience and provide UX improvements for the upcoming release of Guild Wars 2's first expansion, Heart of Thorns. Would work on several web campaigns, e-commerce, and site redesign. Consulted with Developers, Marketing, UI, Analytics, Commerce, Customer Service, and Executives to advocate UX best practices and help establish usability and engagement as a priority.
Extensive experience in developing and maintaining free-to-play social and mobile games. Primary responsibilities ranged from forming partnerships with producers and key stakeholders to ensure usability and quality experience on products and features, validating game design specs, UI implementation, UX design, mobile interaction design, and prototyping. Designed UI systems, not just screens.
Early hire (#20 of 450+) starting as a front-end developer on Backyard Monsters. Advanced into Interim Lead on BYM and UI Engineer on KIXEYE's first Unity title, TOME. Transitioned into UX Designer and Prototyper across multiple titles. Led UX Design on KIXEYE's mobile titles BYM:U and WC:RA. Would design NUX, implement wireframes, mobile interactions, work with key stakeholders to improve game designs, and iterate on game's UX.
Collaborated with a small team of artists and developers as lead game developer. Created flash games and experiences to promote major game brands (Prince of Persia, LOTR, etc.) for deployment on social networks and flash game portals. Contributed in project pitches, planning, and proposals to clients.
Part of a visual effects team developing in Unreal 3. Experienced in Kismet, Unreal Cascade, built complex materials, and specialized in water and weapon effects.
Worked as a part of a design team to implement interactive simulations of various resorts for architectural visualization. Integrated designs into game engines to allow clients and designers to explore sites virtually.
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Remodel and rebranding of Compound Gallery. Designed new furniture, virtual layout, and created remodeling reference.
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Maybe there will be a point where I update again. But there's too much to talk about.
When this space ended, this began.
Then life kinda went crazy.
Greetings from Portland, my dear old friends.
I'm still alive. Feel free to shoot me an email.
It is only within certain specific parameters that the following recipe can exist.
First, my life is not like yours.
I submit the entirety of this blog as evidence hereto.
Secondly, my kitchen is not like yours.
I live alone. I cook constantly. My counter space is limited, and I have, without making too much of the point, a fractured relationship with many demands of adulthood. Specifically, I mean domestic responsibilities up to and including dishwashing.
Biscuits seem like the first apt metaphor right now.
But let me digress with the second: I'm starting to recognize that I see life as the molten interior of a well-composed pot pie.
Well, aren't you just… precious.
Your pages are glossy and guided, your cover is padded with embossed lettering, you come in your own box, swaddled in a piece of aubergine tissue paper. And you have this… way about you. This… tone. A tone that somehow manages to be simultaneously breezy and yet demanding and utterly, utterly pompous. It's the tone the Lord of the Manor uses to remind an impertinent guest where he can park his helicopter. French bakers employ this tone, as do exiled members of the aristocracy and those claim to have seen REM perform live prior to 1983.
Like most classical comedies, this begins with a hapless struggle, and ends with a party.
But, for the record, I am not… completely hapless.
I do, admittedly, hide behind schtick. I joke about barely being able to dress myself, and fess up to cutting my hands with condiments (this has happened) and having remnants of floor dust that date to the Clinton Administration. It's funny. But sometimes my self-deprecation takes on a cynical edge, and I find myself in a Stockholm Syndromey relationship with the universe: hiding within a bubble of sarcasm and corseted into mirthless routine.
The arc of this past year has been my effort to change this. And, truth is, I do okay. The other truth? 2012 has been the best year I've had in at least two decades. I've lost enough weight to no longer cringe when I see a mirror or a camera. I saved money and made plans to go to Asia next year. I've been surrounded by friends. I kissed a girl. I'm driving a little car to a job that lets me buy Valrhona Cocoa. Plus I have dental. And a really good boss.
The key? I learned something. Life's challenge does not lie in getting what you want. That part is easy. The real trick is figuring out what you want.
Which brings me to pizza.
Still here. Still struggling to match my socks and still haven't bought light bulbs and still ranting about truffle oil and still prone to dribbling all over myself. But life is peachy.
Okay. This post, even by my standards, is going to be a little bit… strange. Don't say you weren't warned.
Suppose, just suppose, that you and your date have snagged a prime two-top at the city's buzzy-est new eatery. The lights are dim, the servers tony, and Chef Jeff's challenging postmodernist cuisine has delighted the local press. The Michelin committee has already dispatched secret emissaries to grapple with the menu.
Your server arrives and makes… a highly unusual request.
The method by which a gentleman handles eggs reveals much about him.
Can he grapple with nuance – recognizing that pans should be neither too hot nor too cold? That there should be some butter but not too much butter?
Does he demonstrate care? Does he slowly drizzle sugar into egg yolks, and does he fold whites gently without deflating the foam?
Is he observant? Does he continue whisking his ice cream base until the sugary mixture falls in fully emulsified ribbon-like form, or does he settle for a grainy final product? Will he notice when the poaching water is too hot?
And, maybe most importantly, does he show a command of basic, commonsense skills? Seriously, holding an adult conversation, balancing your checking account and matching your pants to your shoes are no more difficult than boiling water, separating eggs or operating a (*#$ ing kitchen timer.
Failure is often very useful.
I have never been one to allow the unique demands of the Jeff Lifestyle to crimp my culinary range. I don't begrudge the extra time I spend waiting for the bus, the smaller kitchen or the sink full of dishes. I can, nearly without exception, cook whatever I want.
That exception has been barbeque. Until this past Sunday.
If you were to take, say, ten shallots. The bigguns.
And chop them. Couple of garlic cloves, too. Don't have to get all Robuchonny and follow the grain…. just chop.
By the way, you notice that I've stopped whining about not being able to roast a chicken? – I found that video. Just make sure the birdie is at room temp before going into the oven and use a good instant-read thermometer. The skin will be crispy, and both light and dark meat will be juicy without posing an epidemiological risk.
Sop up some remaining pan juice with the fresh loaf of ciabatta you've baked.
Do you, at this point, technically, have shallot confit?
You've got… something. It's almost g-force savory, with a sweet richness that seizes your entire mouth almost before you taste it. And it has these little charred bits that add crunch and hint at darker bitter notes, carried along by just this luscious base of, well, schmaltz. What's more, you know it's shallot- it has that deeper, "redder" flavor, almost like wine, that you would never notice if the stuff was raw.
I don't know what. to. do. here. Not only do I not know how to fully describe the "put your mouth into an electrical outlet except that it's completely awesome" kind of taste but I don't know what to do WITH the stuff and, more to the point, I don't know what I am going to do when I've eventually run out and I somehow rupture my septum myself licking the last little suggestion of greasy goodness inside of my little tupperware container.
Until then, I'm really just not sure about anything anymore.


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Ridley Scott Directs Adaptation Of Andy Weir's The Martian, And We Got The Trailer & Stills
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Starting with a debut novel that made a loud noise during its time, The Martian by Andy Weir now becomes a cinematic event any space aficionado will surely love. Playing on a story of survival and applied knowledge of science, this book has been hailed as the modern Robinson Crusoe.
The movie adaptation is directed by Ridley Scott. The movie will place Matt Damon into the shoes of the main character, Mark Watney. He will be joined by Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Donald Glover, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Watch the trailer of The Martian.
We also got our hands into a few stills...
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring "the Martian" home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney's safe return.
The Martian will hit cinemas in November 2015.
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This plugin parses defined fields containing the specified data format and
creates new metrics based on the contents of the field.

## Configuration
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[[processors.parser]]
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  parse_fields = ["message"]

  ## If true, incoming metrics are not emitted.
  drop_original = false

  ## If set to override, emitted metrics will be merged by overriding the
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  ## The dataformat to be read from files
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[[processors.parser]]
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Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli
Fines de la Fundación
Governing and Management Bodies
The Ducal House
Hospital de San Juan Bautista
Casa de Pilatos
Palacio de Oca
Holy Chapel of the Saviour
Other monuments
Palaces, gardens, churches, hospitals and castles with historic ties to the Ducal House of Medinaceli make up an extensive and diverse heritage, the conservation of which is one of the Foundation's chief aims.
Of these monuments, which are scattered across Spain, the four most artistically and historically significant are open to the visitors under conditions that guarantee their integrity. The aim is to make them known to the public and to allocate the income from visits to the upkeep of all the buildings and their collections and settings, as these funds are used entirely for this purpose.
An impressive monument of Renaissance classicism, this hospital and cardinal's pantheon houses a museum of 16th- to 18th-century works and preserves intact its original hospital pharmacy.
This sumptuous palace is a model noble family's residence of Golden Age Seville. It houses a unique example of a Spanish Renaissance sculpture collection.
Known as the "Galician Versailles " on account of its beauty, it is the greatest baroque garden and the best conserved and most representative country estate in Galicia.
Place of worship and pantheon of the Secretary to the Emperor Charles V, this chapel is one of the most salient works of the Spanish Renaissance.
Discover other monuments that are not open to the public either because their condition does not allow this or because they are used for different cultural purposes.
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WITH his recent executive order to eliminate racial or gender preferences from state hiring and contracting procedures, California Gov. Pete Wilson (R) moved affirmative action even higher on the national agenda.
He evidently hopes this potent issue will boost his presidential chances, just as toughness on illegal immigrants helped him retain the governorship.
The two issues are somewhat related. Immigrants, legal and illegal, expand that part of the United States population perceived to profit from affirmative action. In this sense, Mr. Wilson is mining the same vein of discontent. This tactic has dangers. It could deepen that discontent - feeding the anger of Americans buffeted by economic and social change. Since he has helped push affirmative action forward, Wilson has a large responsibility for constructively framing the issue.
The governor, who once backed affirmative-action measures as mayor of San Diego, has now concluded they are the products of "misdirected societal guilt." But was it "misdirected," in the wake of the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, to take steps to give the promise of equality some tangibility?
Over the past 30 years, affirmative action has evolved. Today's programs go beyond the original legislative purpose of helping black Americans surmount the legacy of slavery and legalized discrimination. Women and other ethnic groups are included. And preferences sometimes extend to people who are solidly middle-class in income and educational background. Should the reach of affirmative action be rethought?
Are there ways to retain much of the current structure of affirmative action while removing more objectionable parts, like numerical quotas and rigid set-asides? The central goal, always, should be to help individuals realize their potential. Efforts to zero in on the educational needs of particularly disadvantaged parts of the population, like inner-city youth, may be the most effective kind of affirmative action.
Fairness, a core American value, is broad enough to embrace both an emphasis on merit and positive efforts to help those still held down by past unfairness.
Wilson and other politicians should look at these dimensions of the issue and not just play it for immediate political gain.


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Pirate Spider
Australomimetus maculosus
Family: Mimetidae (Pirate Spiders)
Size: 4-8 mm body length
References: Whyte and Anderson
These are known as Pirate Spiders because they shake other spiders webs to imitate struggling prey, and then attack the spider when it comes to investigate.
Note that dead spiders usually fade in colour, so nearly all the spiders will look blacker or darker in colour in real life than they do in the photos of dead spiders from the museum.
Photo taken at Australian Museum, Sydney. High Resolution 3652 x 2564.
A Guide to the Spiders of Australia, by Volker W. Framenau, Barbara C. Baehr, and Paul Zborowski.
This is a great field guide to Australian spiders. It's a toss up between this one and Spiderwatch for my second favourite spider field guide. This one is a lot different to Spiderwatch. It's got more than twice the number of pages. It's got much better photos. It comes with a soft clear plastic cover protecting the usual soft cover. On the other side of the argument, it's got no index other than an index of family names (i.e. no index of actual spider names, not their common names and not their scientific names). Which makes it hard to find things in it, if you don't know what family they are in. Also it's based on families and not individual spider species. It's still a wonderful book though.
From the publisher, "This definitive guide to the subject, written by three experts in the field, offers a window into a fascinating world. Notorious species such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnel-web sit alongside less wellknown but equally intriguing spiders such as the ant-mimics and net-casting spiders. The introduction covers spider structure, evolution, reproduction, silk and venom, together with peculiarities of the family within an Australian context. The two main sections of the book deal with Trapdoor Spiders and Modern Spiders, and within each section there is a chapter on each of the 80 or so spider families that occur in Australia. Each is illustrated with beautiful photographs of the subjects, with more than 30 images per family for some of the larger groups such as the jumping spiders, and many rare images never before published. "
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On March 25, 1821 the Bishop of Patra, Germanos, began the uprising that started the War for Independence. Today it is celebrated with parades by school children in many villages on the island. Independence Day also coincides with the religious Feast of the Annunciation, so it is also a religious festival.
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Liz interviews cool, creative, interesting people on her podcast, People I Think Are Cool. Past guests include superstars like Susie Ghahremani, Dave Perillo, Scott C., Disasterpeace, and Allison Black (she designed our killer logo).
Check out the website for more or listen on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher!


Semi-Rigid, curved screens can be manufactured in both front and rear projection screen configurations. One advantage of this type of screen is that it can be rolled up on a 4-5 foot diameter spool for shipping. This allows ingress access thru hallways, doors and rooms that may be difficult with standard rigid screens. Available in seamless sizes up to 100" H x 80'-0" W o.d.


SAN MARCOS, Texas—The Wittliff Collections and the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University-San Marcos are pleased to celebrate the life and career of award-winning singer/songwriter Freddy Powers with a public reception for his fans and friends.
The event will be Wednesday evening, April 27, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Wittliff Collections, located on the seventh floor of Texas State's Alkek Library. Admission is free and all are welcome.
In addition to five solo albums, Powers has written and co-written hits for Merle Haggard, George Jones, Ray Price, Big & Rich, and numerous other prominent artists. An accomplished vocalist and jazz guitarist, Powers also played guitar in country legend Merle Haggard's band for many years. Many of Powers' songs have been recorded by Haggard, and his career includes BMI #1 Song awards for "I Always Get Lucky With You," "Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room Tonight," "Friend in California," and "A Place To Fall Apart." He also holds CMA's Triple Play Award for writing three #1 songs in one year.
Powers produced Haggard's pop album Cry Me A River, along with songwriter partner Bill McDavid, and he co-produced, sang and played guitar on Willie Nelson's platinum album Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Powers has appeared on many Austin City Limits programs, the Tonight Show, Today Show and numerous times on TNN. He also created and co-produced the Rogers and Hammerhead Show, a cable ace award nominee.
In 2009, working in collaboration with the Center for Texas Music History, Powers donated a substantial archive to the Wittliff Collections as part of the Texas Heritage Songwriters Association Collection.


For some of us the time spent sitting in church between 10:30 and 11:30 on Sunday morning is the only time when our soul feels truly nurtured and fed. Others may take time to go for a walk on the beach or go fishing on a lake or walking in the woods to achieve a similar effect. There's something about nature that is nourishing to our soul. Perhaps that's why we head to state forests and lakes and beaches in such great numbers every summer. We instinctively know that we feel better out in natural places – more at peace, more relaxed and in some mysterious way able to connect again with the spiritual side of ourselves. In today's hectic high-tech world we often feel disconnected from our soul. Out in nature we can feel in some mysterious way both larger and smaller than we are. Larger, when we have one of those moments of truly feeling our interconnectedness with the planet and all the life on it, and smaller when we realize what a tiny part of this vast and intricate web of life we are.
When we take it upon ourselves to do something utterly unselfish it feeds our soul. The little acts of sacrifice we make for our fellow humans and for the planet have the effect of connecting us with our spirit and our values. When we sacrifice our long luxurious bath or shower in a conscious effort to conserve one of our planet's most precious resources, we nourish our soul. Each small act, consciously made, expresses our concern for something other than ourselves. There is no immediate material reward for taking a five-minute shower or buying organic food or recycling. You probably won't even get a pat on the back from anyone for doing it. But perhaps like the Grinch who stole Christmas – our hearts may grow a little larger. Our souls are nourished by each unselfish act. The reward is to be able to feel good about ourselves.
An ecologically sustainable culture is achievable only by acknowledging the interconnectedness and inter-relatedness of all things, and then acting in ways to sustain and even enhance these relations. … It is our contention that the collective energy and creativity of the people of this world will sustain a monumental global transformation of our global economic systems, from one of exploitation based on the principles of scarcity, to one of mutual collaboration based on the principles of ecological abundance… The earth is capable of providing more than enough for everyone when the ecological systems that sustain us are honored, supported and enhanced, rather than neglected, abused, and destroyed.
Helping to bring our planet back into balance is food for the soul. Each small unselfish act, consciously made, to do our part toward leaving a strong healthy planet for the generations that follow us, feeds our soul. Perhaps no one but you will know what you do, but we think that may be enough. We applaud all the unsung heroes among us.


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The last month has flown by! I've truly enjoyed our interaction with our friends at Summit Springs Community Church. Corey McDonald is a wonderful leader and pastor, and I'm deeply enjoying the friendship we're building. The worship teams from each church have worked hard together, and the combined teams, with a rotation of leaders each week, have helped design and lead some deeply meaningful worship services. Other teams have been exploring partnerships as well. The congregations have shared different opportunities to meet one another, and we have all sensed God's Spirit throughout the month.
So, the obvious question is, "What's next?"
The Session of New Summit met this week, and made the following decision: We voted to continue the experiment with Summit Springs for the month of May, 2015, and to take additional steps in the exploration of a merger or some other formal partnership. We know that the leadership of Summit Springs needs to make its own decision, but here are the things we would like to see happen in May of 2015, plus one that will happen this Sunday, April 26.
1. On Sunday, April 26, 2015, Pastor Corey and Pastor Dave will lead an informational time following the worship service.
3. During May, 2015, the leadership of New Summit will meet together to fully review the last month. We'll share that meeting with an Administrative Commission from Heartland Presbytery. That commission has been created to help New Summit with the exploration of potential next steps.
4. During May, 2015, there will be a gathering of leadership from both congregations, to continue the conversation.
5. At the end of May, 2015, the Session of New Summit will meet again, and will determine whether or not to continue with steps toward a formal partnership with Summit Springs. Should our decision be favorable, we envision that the summer of 2015 would be a time for the establishment of working groups, each of which will have the responsibility of developing different parts of the formal partnership.
In addition to all of these things, New Summit will continue to explore other possibilities for the fulfillment of the mission of the congregation. One of these will be a meeting with leaders from Cornerstone Church, our next-door neighbor. We'll also continue to work on the development of a potential free health clinic, and for possible alternate uses of the property.
The bottom line: we have enjoyed our friendship with Summit Springs, and we want to keep our momentum moving forward. We're going to take further steps in the direction of a formal partnership, but we are not yet ready to commit to a formal partnership. May, 2015, will help us to clarify the way forward.
As you'll hear this Sunday, the potential for a partnership, while very exciting, is also very challenging. It will take time. It will guarantee changes for every single person. It will require that everyone participate. It will have some financial costs associated with it as well. The task of leadership is to build trust, encourage pure and unfiltered debate, make a clear decision, practice healthy accountability for each objective, and pay attention to the results. Over the next weeks we'll be attempting to enjoy the momentum while practicing good leadership skills at the same time.
Please remember that you'll have an important part in all of this. Be thoughtful, keep asking questions, participate fully, and lift up each congregation and its leaders in prayer. I'm grateful to be part of the journey with you!


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Brunei–Spain relations refers to foreign relations between Brunei and Spain. They established diplomatic relations in 1984. Brunei has no embassy in Spain, but his embassy in Paris, France, is accredited to Spain. Spain has no embassy in Brunei but its embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is accredited for Brunei.

History
In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan encountered Brunei and its surrounding territories while traversing the world on behalf of Spain. In 1578, as Spain began its expansion in South East Asia from its base in the Philippines, Spanish ambitions ultimately clashed with the Bruneian Empire. For four months, Spanish forces (which included Filipino and Mexican soldiers from its territory of New Spain) clashed with Bruneian forces which also included Ottoman soldiers. Spanish forces managed to invade the Bruneian capital of Mukim Kota Batu. Ultimately, Spain managed to gain control of all present-day islands of the Philippines which were previously under Bruneian control. This conflict became known as the Castilian War.

Diplomatic relations
Spain and Brunei established diplomatic relations in June 1984. Spain does not have a resident Embassy in Brunei, managing issues related to the Sultanate the Embassy of Spain in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Brunei also does not have an Embassy resident in Spain, managing issues related to Spain from the Embassy of the Sultanate of Brunei in Paris. Bilateral relations are cordial thanks to the absence of disputes and the relations that the Sultan and his family have with the Spanish Royal Family, if
Well still, below its potential.

Cooperation
UNDP places Brunei in the category of developed countries according to the Human Development Index published annually. Brunei is not considered by the Spanish authorities as a priority country for development cooperation. There is no Technical Cooperation Office of Spain in Brunei.

See also
 Foreign relations of Brunei
 Foreign relations of Spain

References

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Brunei

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Clean appliances, countertops, cabinets, table/chairs, sinks. Clean microwave oven inside and out. Sweep and wash floor.
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Please feel free to share in this thread any MSX items you see in Yahoo auctions Japan that might be of intetest to others to buy.
Sadly, the HC-95 comes without keyboard (as usual) and is absolutely useless.
Rare but not complete and is malfunctioning, if the translation is right.
That´s an really piece of. Japanese MSX 1 and 2 games. my head gets passion for collecting this seller.
How to buy, directly to the seller, or using BUYEE, or another options ???
99.9% of the sellers don't sell to foreign buyers/don't speak English anyway, so you can't buy directly unless you are in Japan.
So you need to use a middle man service. There are several of them available, but you should check their fees.
I've never used them myself as I can get my relatives to buy.
Also, there are several people on this forum who buy and sell stuff from there, may be you can order through them.


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Resident and associate ensembles
Orchestre national d'Île-de-France
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Under the direction of Enrique Mazzola, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France brings all its energy to the Philharmonie de Paris, pursuing its mission to bring symphonic music to the entire Paris region.
Established in 1974, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France (ONDIF) is supported the Regional Council of the Île-de-France and the Ministry of Culture and Communication. Its main mission is to bring symphonic music to audiences across the Île-de-France region, with a special concern to reach new audiences.
Made up of ninety-five permanent musicians, the orchestra performs around a hundred concerts each season, offering residents of the Île-de-France a great variety of programmes covering three centuries of music, from the great symphonies to contemporary music, from baroque to today's diverse musical idioms.
The orchestra is one of the most dynamic national ensembles and was rated in the top 10 most socially engaged orchestras worldwide by the monthly magazine Gramophone. It is a real creative lab, developing a host of ambitious educational schemes such as workshops, opportunities to meet the performers, educational concerts and musical shows.
The orchestra is also actively developing new directions, and has created around a hundred contemporary works over the last fifteen years, as well as a festival, 'Île de découvertes' and a composition competition, 'Île de créations', which will be running its second edition in 2014.
Yoel Levi, who served as chief conductor of the ensemble during seven prolific seasons, considerably strengthened the orchestra's standards of quality and its musical cohesion. In 2012, the dynamic and innovative conductor Enrique Mazzola was, in turn, appointed music director, bringing fresh artistic ambitions to the ensemble.
The Orchestre national d'Île-de-France — one of the Philharmonie de Paris's associate ensembles — is funded by the Regional Council of the d'Île-de-France and the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
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Q: How do I remove all map annotations in swift 2 I had working code to remove all map annotations with a button, but after my update to xcode 7 I am running into the error:
Type 'MKAnnotation' does not conform to protocol 'SequenceType'
if let annotations = (self.mapView.annotations as? MKAnnotation){
    for _annotation in annotations {
        if let annotation = _annotation as? MKAnnotation {
            self.mapView.removeAnnotation(annotation)
        }
    }
}

A: In Swift 2 annotations is declared as non optional array [MKAnnotation] so you can easily write
let allAnnotations = self.mapView.annotations
self.mapView.removeAnnotations(allAnnotations)

without any type casting.

A: SWIFT 5
If you don't want to remove user location mark:
let annotations = mapView.annotations.filter({ !($0 is MKUserLocation) })
mapView.removeAnnotations(annotations)

A: self.mapView.removeAnnotations(self.mapView.annotations)

If you don't want remove user location.
self.mapView.annotations.forEach {
  if !($0 is MKUserLocation) {
    self.mapView.removeAnnotation($0)
  }
}

Note: Objective-C now have generics, it is no longer necessary cast the elements of 'annotations' array.

A: The issue is that there are two methods. One is removeAnnotation which takes an MKAnnotation object, and the other is removeAnnotations which takes an array of MKAnnotations, note the "s" at the end of one and not the other.  Attempting to cast from [MKAnnotation], an array to MKAnnotation a single object or visa versa will crash the program. The line of code self.mapView.annotations creates an array. Thus, if you are using the method removeAnnotation, you need to index the array for a single object within the array, as seen below:
let previousAnnotations = self.mapView.annotations
if !previousAnnotations.isEmpty{
  self.mapView.removeAnnotation(previousAnnotations[0])
}

Thus, you can remove various annotations while keeping the users location. You should always test your array before attempting to remove objects from it, else there is the possibly getting an out of bounds or nil error.
Note: using the method removeAnnotations (with an s)removes all annotations.
If you are getting a nil, that implies that you have an empty array. You can verify that by adding an else statement after the if, like so;
    else{print("empty array")}

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Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979
Sean Brawley, Chris Dixon, Jeffrey Green
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Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979 thoroughly examines the origins, nature and legacies of the conflicts raging across Indochina during the post-World War II period. Key features include: new interpretations of key events and issues, informed by original inquiry and archival research. Comprehensive activities and questions at the end of each chapter. Source-based exercises for readers to practice the skills of historical argument and source analysis. Invaluable tools such as chapter summaries, further reading suggestions and an introduction to key terms. Integrated personal testimonies to enhance understanding. Personality features, including extensive coverage of Ho Chi Minh, detailing his experiences prior to 1954 and his contribution to Vietnamese Nationalism. Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979 engages readers using an accessible narrative style with a wealth of illustrations, photographs, maps and timelines and is specifically tailored to cover the new HSC History syllabus.
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Flights resume at Brussels Airport after attacks
A Brussels Airlines plane takes off at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, Belgium, Sunday, April 3, 2016. (AP)
AFP, Brussels Sunday 03 April 2016
A Brussels Airlines flight to the Portuguese city of Faro became the first plane Sunday to take off from Brussels Airport since its departure hall was wrecked in Islamic State suicide attacks 12 days ago.
In an emotional ceremony at the airport, tearful employees and government officials marked the departure with a minute's silence and a round of applause, AFP reporters saw.
On the tarmac, fire engines and police vehicles lined up on either side of the aircraft to form a guard of honour for the plane.
"We're back," said Brussels Airport chief executive Arnaud Fei
The passengers on board were the first to undergo the airport's strict new security regime after the coordinated March 22 attacks, which also struck a Brussels metro station and killed 32 people.
Passengers for the first three flights that were part of the airport's symbolic reopening on Sunday, were asked to come three hours early and by car only.
They were ushered into large white tents outside the terminal serving as a makeshift check-in facility, where they passed through metal detectors and had their bags screened.
Heavily armed police and soldiers were manning the access roads to the airport and were widely deployed throughout the temporary zone as well, AFP reporters saw.
The number of flights will be stepped up gradually in coming days, although the airport will only be able to work at 20 percent capacity at best using the temporary facilities, handling 800 to 1,000 passengers an hour.
It will take months for the blast-damaged departure hall to be repaired, the airport operator has said.
Brussels airport to partially reopen on Friday evening
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Champion announces terms of previously announced offering of subscription receipts
Montréal (Québec), Canada, September 7, 2017: Champion Iron Limited (ASX: CIA) (TSX: CIA) (the "Corporation" or "Champion") is pleased to announce, further to its announcements on August 1, 2017 and August 28, 2017 that it intended to proceed with a public offering of subscription receipts (the "Subscription Receipts") for gross proceeds of up to $20 million, that it has entered into an underwriting and agency agreement (the "Underwriting and Agency Agreement") with a syndicate of dealers led by RBC Capital Markets, as sole bookrunner, and Sprott Capital Partners, as co-lead dealer, that includes BMO Capital Markets, National Bank Financial Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., Desjardins Capital Markets and Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. (collectively, the "Dealers") to offer 22,222,223 Subscription Receipts (the "Offering") at a price of $0.90 per Subscription Receipt (the "Offering Price"), for gross proceeds to the Corporation of approximately $20,000,000.
As previously announced, the Corporation recently secured a conditional financing commitment of US$25 million (approximately $31 million) from Glencore International AG for the non-brokered sale of a subordinated unsecured mandatory convertible debenture (the "Debenture") on a private placement basis. As a result, Champion had announced its intention to reduce the expected size of the offering to approximately $20,000,000.
Each Subscription Receipt will entitle the holder thereof to receive, without any further action on the part of the holder thereof or payment of any additional consideration, one ordinary share of the Corporation (each, an "Underlying Share"), subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions and provided that a termination event has not occurred.
As previously announced on July 12, 2017, August 1, 2017 and August 28, 2017, Québec Iron Ore Inc. ("QIO"), a subsidiary of the Corporation, has received conditional commitments of US$180 million (the "QIO Debt Financing") to partially fund the costs of resuming the operations of the Bloom Lake Iron Ore Mine ("Bloom Lake"). One of the conditions of the QIO Debt Financing requires the Corporation and QIO to secure all financing requirements for the Bloom Lake restart. In connection therewith, QIO's equity shareholders, namely Champion and Ressources Québec Inc. are required to contribute financially to support the resumption of operations at Bloom Lake by making capital contributions to QIO of approximately $44.8 million and $26.2 million, respectively. The Corporation intends to use the proceeds from the sale of the Debenture, as well as the net proceeds of the Offering to make such capital contribution to QIO, further to which any remaining amount received from the Offering and the sale of the Debenture would be used for general corporate purposes.
The net proceeds of the Offering will be held in escrow and, upon the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions (the "Escrow Release Conditions"), being (a) the execution of definitive documentation in connection with the QIO Debt Financing and the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions precedent to the availability of the funds thereunder (other than such conditions precedent which, by their nature, are to be satisfied upon closing of the QIO Debt Financing or upon satisfaction or waiver of the Escrow Release Conditions); and (b) the funding of the capital contribution of Ressources Québec Inc., the net proceeds will be released to the Corporation and holders of the Subscription Receipts will be entitled to receive, without payment of additional consideration or taking of further action, one ordinary share of Champion for each Subscription Receipt held. If these conditions have not been satisfied or waived by October 16, 2017, or if any of the parties to the QIO Debt Financing decides not to proceed with the QIO Debt Financing, then the Subscription Receipts shall be automatically cancelled and the escrow agent shall remit to holders of the Subscription Receipts an amount equal to the original purchase price plus accrued interest.
The Toronto Stock Exchange has conditionally approved the listing of the Subscription Receipts and of the Underlying Shares. The Corporation will also apply for quotation of the Underlying Shares on the Australian Securities Exchange.
The Corporation intends to file a final short form prospectus on September 7, 2017. The Offering is being made in all the provinces of Canada. Subject to applicable law and the provisions of the Underwriting and Agency Agreement, the Dealers may offer the Subscription Receipts outside of Canada, including in the United States in reliance on applicable private placement exemptions under United States federal and state securities laws. If an Offering is made in Australia it will only be made to professional investors or sophisticated investors (as those terms are defined by section 708(8) and (11) of the Corporations Act) or other investors in Australia to whom securities can be issued without a disclosure document being required by the Corporations Act. Closing of the Offering is expected to take place on or around September 18, 2017.
The Corporation anticipates that certain "related parties" of the Corporation will participate in the Offering. Participation of such "related parties" in the Offering will constitute a "related party transaction" as defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). The Corporation expects that the Offering will be exempt from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 as neither the fair market value of securities being issued to insiders nor the consideration being paid by insiders will exceed 25% of the Corporation's market capitalization. None of the Corporation's directors has expressed any contrary views or disagreements with respect to the foregoing.
No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved the contents of this press release. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States. Champion's securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
This news release includes certain information that may constitute "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this news release that address the sale of the Debenture, the satisfaction of the escrow release conditions, the use of proceeds, the listing of the Subscription Receipts and the Underlying Shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the quotation of the Underlying Shares on the Australian Securities Exchange, and the timing for closing of the Offering as well as future activities, events, developments or financial performance constitute forward-looking information. The use of any of the words "will", "expect", "anticipate", "intend", "believe", "plan", "potential", "outlook", "forecast", "estimate" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including the risks identified in Champion's preliminary short form prospectus relating to the Offering, annual information form, management's discussion and analysis and other securities regulatory filings made by Champion on SEDAR (including under the heading "Risk Factors" therein). There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. All of Champion's forward-looking information contained in this press release is given as of the date hereof and is based upon the opinions and estimates of Champion's management and information available to management as at the date hereof. Champion disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any of its forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.


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10 Solutions to Intergenerational Poverty
Neither long-term government dependency nor wrecking the economy for a short-term payout is the answer.
Sean W. Malone
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From time to time, I see lists on the internet that propose to solve the problems of intergenerational poverty in America.
Unfortunately, most of the time, these lists recommend massive transfers of wealth from rich people to poorer people, or suggest the creation of new "poverty-fighting" government bureaucracies, in spite of the fact that neither of these approaches is likely to solve the underlying problems.
The Decline and Flatline of Poverty
The fact is that in the 25 years before Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" began, the poverty rate in America was on the decline.
But now, decades after we've created numerous Federal bureaucracies formally dedicated to eradicating the problem for good and over $22 trillion spent, our poverty rates have flat-lined instead. Worse, many of the programs designed to benefit the poorest members of our society have actually created dependency traps that make it nearly impossible for people who grow up in impoverished conditions to escape. (For more on poverty under capitalism, see "Extreme Poverty Rates Plummet Under Capitalism.")
And as for the idea that the problem of poverty could be solved if only rich people were forced to give their wealth to poorer people? That sounds plausible enough until you realize that it wouldn't make a significant difference to poverty anyway.
For example, if you combine the entire net worth of Forbes' list of the world's 400 richest people, you'd come out with about $2.4 trillion. Yes, it's an enormous number, but it's not exactly what you might think.
This is not money all piled up in a grain silo somewhere, waiting for some rich guy to dive in and roll around. Instead, it's the estimated monetary value of all the assets they own. That means all the office buildings, furniture, computers, telephone lines and other capital infrastructure of their various businesses; the value of their employee salaries, payroll, and pensions; and the on-paper economic value of the businesses themselves.
For example, Amazon reportedly holds $83.4 billion in assets. That includes all their warehouses, trucks, servers, and the actual stuff they keep in stock for people to purchase. And that money is what's rolled into Jeff Bezos' supposed $89 billion net worth. Bezos can't just cash out to the tune of tens of billions of dollars without liquidating the inventory his company holds, selling all of his buildings, and divesting himself from Amazon entirely – and he could only do that in a world where there are other rich guys ready to buy.
So, that $2.4 trillion isn't a real number in any sense that can be converted into a transfer of income.
Poverty is the natural state of the world and the big mystery of human history is not how people become poor, but how people get rich.
But let's imagine that it was, even if we could just magically grab $2.4 trillion in cash from the world's billionaires, when divided amongst the rest of us 99%ers in the United States (about 319,000,000 people), we'd all walk away with a one-time-payment of just $7,500.
Even if we just limited the transfer from the richest 1% to the bottom 20%; each person would get $37,151.70 – or basically a one-time payment of considerably less than the median salary in the US.
Not that we wouldn't all like the extra cash, but let's be honest… After that money is gone and we've sent a clear signal to the most successful businessmen & women in the world that the reward for building a company like Google or Apple is to have all your assets taken from you and your business destroyed, then what?
Neither long-term government dependency or wrecking the economy for a short-term payout is the answer.
So what should we do instead?
First, we should understand that poverty is the natural state of the world and the big mystery of human history is not how people become poor (that's easy, do nothing), but how people get rich. Once we recognize that fact, we have to shift our way of thinking about poverty and start seeing growing wealth as a consequence of people's ability to create and exchange goods and services with each other.
In the end, wealth is not just dollars in a bank account. It's our very standard of living and quality of life. The money is just a measurement tool.
So what we need is to create a world where it's incredibly easy for people from every conceivable starting point to enter the market and create their own success. To that end, I'd like to offer 10 actually effective ways to reduce poverty and inequality in America and around the world.
Eliminate most occupational licensing restrictions and lower barriers to entry to getting jobs and starting businesses.
It's an issue that people often know little about, but roughly 1 in 3 occupations in the United States require a government-granted license before people can even begin to earn a living. And while it's common to believe that these licenses are protecting the public from bad doctors, dentists, and lawyers, the truth is that most of these licenses are for barbers & hairdressers, florists, landscapers, and gym class instructors. The Institute for Justice maintains an annual report on the state of occupational licensing in America.
According to IJ:
"The report documents the license requirements for 102 low- and moderate-income occupations—such as barber, massage therapist and preschool teacher—across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It finds that occupational licensing is not only widespread, but also overly burdensome and frequently irrational.
On average, these licenses force aspiring workers to spend nine months in education or training, pass one exam and pay more than $200 in fees. One-third of the licenses take more than a year to earn. At least one exam is required for 79 of the occupations."
These licenses are often insurmountable barriers to entry for low-income people not only to finding employment but also to starting their own businesses. In 2014, I made a documentary chronicling the story of one such entrepreneur, Melony Armstrong, and her battle against occupational licensing in Mississippi:
Eliminate current zoning rules in most cities, and allow for mixed use residential/commercial occupation (ie. let people run businesses from their homes and neighborhoods legally).
Zoning regulations have a long and sometimes shady history of pushing low-income people out of areas where opportunities are widely available, and into areas that concentrate poverty into specific sections of a city. Especially in urban areas like New York City, these regulations can make it impossible for poorer individuals to find employment or start their own businesses where they actually live, and as a result, they're often forced to commute sometimes over two hours per day just to get to and from their place of employment.
The Brookings Institution calls zoning and land-use regulation a form of "Opportunity Hoarding".
With these kinds of restrictions, children who grow up in impoverished conditions are surrounded exclusively by other poor people and often go their whole lives without ever interacting with middle class or even wealthier people. This can mean fewer opportunities to learn about financial literacy, entrepreneurship, the value of education, or to get employment tips from middle class or wealthy role models. That can certainly contribute to a sense of hopelessness and prolong intergenerational poverty.
End welfare dependency by eliminating most social welfare programs and replace them with more charity and means-tested vouchers for specific services that phase out as people's income increases.
This suggestion is much more politically challenging, but welfare dependency is an enormous problem in America, largely created by the War on Poverty itself. The way most social welfare programs have been constructed actually punishes people for working and increasing their income, creating a much stronger incentive to continue to collect welfare and avoid working (or at least, avoid legal employment) as long as possible.
For an in-depth look at what creates the Welfare Trap, check out Charles Hughes' article: The Welfare Trap: Maze of Programs Punishes Work
Of course, we don't want to leave people in desperate need without any help, so it may be the case that we still need some form of assistance to people who are in genuine need.
However, instead of creating a new government program with the same problems as the older ones, we should look at market-oriented solutions such as vouchers for food, transportation, child services, or health care (ie. WIC, Food Stamps, etc.) that the poorest members of our society can use to buy goods and services from providers of their own choosing. Access to these vouchers would need to be means-tested, and instead of dropping off the minute someone gets a job, the assistance should decrease gradually.
Eventually, along with the other reforms I propose here, we should be able to get to a point where private charity alone would be enough to care for those who were truly unable to earn an income, but in the meantime anything that reduces the Welfare Trap and dependency on the government is a step in the right direction.
End minimum wage restrictions that take out the bottom rungs of the economic ladder and prevent younger poor and frequently minority people from getting their first jobs and gaining necessary experience.
It may seem counter-intuitive to a lot of people, but the minimum wage isn't actually a magic bullet that helps poor people get paid more.
To the contrary, most evidence actually suggests that significant increases in the minimum wage result in fewer hours worked and often higher unemployment rates – particularly among the lowest skilled or experienced parts of our society, which unfortunately tends to mean poor people and minorities. The Foundation for Economic Education has a fairly large archive of supporting articles and evidence for this problem which you can find HERE.
Nobel-prize-winning Economist, Milton Friedman called minimum wage laws the most "anti-black law in the land":
55% of minimum wage workers are under 25. They are predominantly teenagers and college-aged students working in their first jobs, gaining experience that they will use throughout their lives. Minimum wage laws are effectively a barrier to those experiences, because they create incentives for employers to only ever hire people they are fairly certain in advance will be worth more than their wages.
And unfortunately, the labor of people with limited skills, limited education, and limited job experience isn't likely to be valuable enough.
Allowing people to offer and accept jobs at whatever rates they voluntarily agree to would blow open the doors of opportunity to millions of people looking for employment. Once employed, those workers will gain more experience and skills. And as they become more specialized, more productive, and more valuable to employers, their incomes will go up.
My own story fits this pattern, as I suspect is true for most people.
When I was in college, I charmed my way into my first job in video production by offering to work for a day for free, and to work after that for just $6.00 an hour, which was below the local minimum wage at the time. It was probably illegal, but I worked for that company for almost a year and in that time developed a ton of skills and experience that I used to get my next job – which was also in video production.
That experience has led me to the position I'm in today, and without those first opportunities, I don't think I could do what I do now.
End the drug war, which disproportionately affects impoverished and minority areas and often results in unnecessarily fatherless children and the multi-generational problems that flows from single-parent families.
This one would be huge. The American Civil Liberties Union calls the Drug War "The New Jim Crow", and it's easy to understand why.
It's led to a boom in incarceration that has ended with around 2.2 million Americans in prison. It's also eroded protections of property rights and civil liberties throughout the country. It's given enormous powers to prosecutors and police, and that power has been used mainly against the poorest segments of our society.
One of the most soul-crushing stories I've encountered after many years of working with people pushing for reform is that of Barbra Scrivner.
In 1992, Barbra's ex-husband was embroiled in a criminal drug investigation, and prosecutors used Barbra to get to him by accusing her of conspiracy. Barbra had no knowledge of the crime because she'd spent the previous 2 years separated from her ex-husband, getting sober and taking care of her infant daughter. In spite of little evidence, Barbra was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
After 20 years, two suicide attempts, and numerous appeals, she was eventually granted clemency by President Obama. Unfortunately, it was too late, and Barbra's daughter Alannah – who Barbra originally left her husband to protect – grew up without a mother, ultimately continuing the cycle of substance abuse and poverty.
Yahoo featured Barbra in a video about the struggles she experienced after being released from prison, and I also produced a short video for Families Against Mandatory Minimums with her that gets to the heart of how these incarcerations can affect families.
Radically overhaul our prison system towards restorative justice as opposed to punishment, and end mandatory minimum sentencing.
Not only are we sending too many people to prison for offenses that shouldn't be crimes, we're also failing to create opportunities and incentives for people to turn their lives around once they're in prison.
As a result, poor people go into prison with few opportunities and leave prison with even fewer, often leaving them with the options of either becoming homeless or turning back towards a life of crime. It's no surprise that the recidivism rate for inmates within 5 years of release from state prisons are an average of 76.6%. This doesn't help anyone.
Sending people to jail and building our prison system around punishing them for their crimes may be cathartic for some segments of the population, but it does little to improve the lives of the victims of those crimes. And evidence suggests that it may often make the perpetrators more likely to commit crimes in the future. Most of our criminal justice system should be focused on making sure that victims of crime are compensated for their losses, and prisons should mainly be reserved for people we're actually afraid of – violent and dangerous criminals. Their focus should be on helping those people turn their lives around and become flourishing and productive members of society.
A couple years ago, I spent some time in a prison in Texas shooting a documentary on a program that does just that:
Radically overhaul our criminal code and eliminate any laws that create crimes where there are no actual victims.
Admittedly, this one is also going to be a little tricky, but we currently have a criminal code that is so complex and overly broad that even the people who write and enforce the laws have no clue what it says. The most disturbing consequence of overcriminalization is that it enables police and prosecutors to use the law as a weapon – to extract cash from citizens, make headlines, and support their election bids for Sheriff or DA.
No one is actually immune from this problem, but poor people – who lack the resources in money and time to defend themselves or hire competent attorneys – are particularly vulnerable.
According to noted criminal defense attorney Harvey Silverglate, because of the massive size and complexity of our criminal code, the average American is likely to commit as many as three felonies a day – often without knowing they're doing anything wrong.
And as Radley Balko explains:
"…these sorts of laws give police more excuses to make pretext stops when profiling for drug couriers. Once they have you, they can take your cash, car, jewelry or other possessions based only on the flimsiest evidence that it might be connected to drugs. They're opportunities for harassment. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that even a crime as petty as a seat belt violation is justification for an arrest — and all of the life disruptions that come with a trip to jail. (Don't forget that no matter what the offense, a trip to jail can also include a strip search.) Heavy enforcement of these sorts of crimes can breed distrust between police and the communities they serve, and creates more interactions that carry the risk of escalation.
But even assuming that all of these stops, fines, and citations are always legitimate, they're always going to have a disproportionate effect on the poor, because the poor are the people who can least afford to pay them."
Solving our overcriminalization problem would go a very long way to reducing burdens on the poor and ending cycles of intergenerational poverty.
Stop subsidizing and encouraging university degrees at the expense of any other kind of education. It makes higher education considerably more expensive (thus taking it farther out of reach for many poor people) and is not a good fit for everyone; whereas many great careers and ways out of poverty do not come from a university program.
We know that Federal student loan programs have caused an enormous increase in the cost of higher education.
Even though most of these subsidies have been created with the idea that they would help low-income people gain access to college degrees, the reality is that they're doing this at the expense of burdening people with extraordinary debts that can't even be escaped through bankruptcy.
Fortunately, there are better alternatives available all over the country right now that offer a range of options for people with diverse interests and needs. Trade-schools, apprenticeships, affordable (or free!) online or distance learning courses, and programs like Praxis or Vocatio can be a positive way to skip college and succeed in life.
Everybody needs an education, but not everyone needs to get a four-year degree.
Making more options available and reducing the subsidies, incentives to take on unsustainable debts, and constant pressure to push everyone into a single educational box would benefit poor and low-income individuals most of all.
End corporate welfare across the board, allowing businesses to compete on a level playing field, based on the value they add to their customers not on their ability to benefit from political favoritism.
If it's important to end the bad incentives created by costly welfare programs for poor people, it is equally, or perhaps even more important to end welfare for the rich.
Corporate welfare is a huge problem, and it pervades every city and state. Taxpayers are on the hook for professional football, basketball, or baseball stadiums; new opera houses; theme parks; shopping malls; pharmaceutical companies; and on and on. Poorer people are frequently forced to pay for direct subsidies to giant businesses that promise jobs and long-term tax revenue that never seem to materialize. And all of this happens at the expense of smaller businesses and local entrepreneurs.
I recently made a new documentary for the Beacon Center of Tennessee on this topic
Allow school choice as the norm. People should never be stuck in a terrible school district just because of their income bracket or because they were born in a certain part of town.
Finally, we must allow school choice.
Currently, low-income people in America – zoned into poorer and more dangerous areas, restricted from economic opportunities, and burdened by a criminal justice system that often treats them as cash machines with little recourse – are also unable to even move their children to better schools where they might have a chance at a decent education and high-quality educational role models.
There's a reason why charter school lotteries are flooded with applicants from poor communities every year.
Parents are desperate for options, and an awful lot of the time, those options are much better than the existing alternatives.
Antony Davies & James R. Harrigan, hosts of FEE's "Words & Numbers" Podcast recently tackled this issue and note that school choice is always an option to wealthy people who can afford to move to better school districts or even send their kids to private schools, so it shouldn't be such a shocking or politicized struggle to expand those opportunities to the poor through tax-reductions and voucher programs:
Sean W. Malone has spent over a decade building creative teams and producing content with the goal of effectively communicating the value and importance of human freedom to as many people as possible.