Joanna lives in a Sydney suburb with her two sons. It's 1992 and Australia is in recession.
"I'm thinking of renting the house out and travelling," she tells her grown up sons after reading "The Pitter Patter of Thirty-Year-Old Feet" in the Sydney Morning Herald.
"You're ready to leave home are you mum?" said one son.
"Why don't you just go on a long holiday instead," said the other.
"You could always get yourself a dog," suggests a friend.
Her son moves out when she puts his rent up.
"Are you going to wait till he buys a new house for cash before you ask for a decent rent?" her mother had said.
"I've decided to go and live with Dad for a change," says the other son.
"I'll be away for six to twelve months," Joanna says as she throws her client files on the rubbish tip.
She spends the spring in Italy. The summer in England, Scotland and Ireland. The autumn walking the gorge country of the Ardeche in France.
In the winter she rents a studio apartment in Villefranche on the French Riviera. The studio belongs to a friend of a friend so she's able to get it at a good price. She works as a casual deck hand on one of the luxury cruisers in dry dock for maintenance. "The first thing I want you to do," says her boss when she arrives at work on the first day, "is blitz the tender." After a backbreaking morning of hard physical work cleaning the small run-about she goes to lunch. She orders a salad nicoise and a coffee and realises her lunch will cost her a morning's pay.
A young and handsome French man who lives in Paris but comes to Villefranche to visit his grandmother most weekends, pursues her. Joanna comes to realise that French men love and cherish women as much as they appreciate good food.
She shops at the markets, paints and reads and falls in love with the light and the colours of the south of France.
"I'm able to live contentedly alone without a regular job, without a car, without speaking the language," she writes to her friends back home.
In the summer she moves on again before the tourist masses arrive and the rent goes up.
She gives away to her new friends in Villefranche all the things that won't now fit in her backpack but keeps her paint brushes and pallet knife.
On the Greek island of Skyros she joins a group of landscape artists led by a famous English painter.
"My purpose in leading this group is to help everyone find their own unique style," says the woman.
Joanna spends the autumn in London meeting with other artists from the island and the woman becomes her mentor and they meet for a cup of tea every week and talk about the isolation of being an artist as well as many other things.
"It's important to stop and regenerate before the creative battery runs flat," she says.
Joanna paints every day and goes out with an English man named Clive.
Clive has a strong face with chiselled square cheekbones. Dark brown eyes and dark hair that falls in a square fringe on his forehead. His fingers are long and sensitive for playing the piano.
"What are you doing there?" her mother asks on the phone from across the ocean.
"My mother is like a poisonous gas that can cross from one side of the world to the other," Joanna says.
Joanna dreams about her sons every night and Clive tells her she cries in her sleep.
She yearns for the bright Australian light and for the sound of the ocean.
She returns to Australia for her eldest son's wedding.
In Sydney, Joanna supplements her income from the house rental by getting a job as a casual for a clothing company. She unpacks boxes and steampresses the garments. Her back, neck and shoulders ache and she suspects she's getting RSI from the steampresser.
Clive rings to say he's coming to visit her.
In preparation for his arrival she moves all her furniture out of storage and rents a small place near the beach hoping that he'll love it in Australia and decide to stay.
Two weeks before his arrival Clive rings to say he's not coming and Joanna finds out through a friend that he's met someone else and is moving in with her.
She tears up his photos and throws his Christmas present at the wall.
She reflects on the past and all that she's lost.
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. Rupert Brooke.
Joanna stays in bed most days but still feels so tired that she can only remain vertical for four hours in any twenty-four hour period.
She rehearses her own death by going to the edge of the cliff.
From the edge she sketches the waves breaking on rocks, the lone seagull on the shore at the water's edge.
At home she fills in the drawing, blending black charcoal and white pastel reminding herself the darkest hour is before the dawn.
And, after winter spring always comes.
Joanna sells the house where she lived with her children and spends half the money on a home unit overlooking the ocean and the rest of the money on Australian shares.
Her new home faces the east and she can smell the salt from the ocean.
"It takes twenty years to be a successful artist," echoes in her mind.
On a new canvas she drags the colours of the sunrise across the blank white space.


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If longtime Cardinals nemesis Roy Oswalt is in fact headed to St. Louis on a modest one-year deal, it not only gives the Cards three of the best players from the 2004 Astros team it beat in the NLCS, but also provides the team with a low-risk, high-reward bet. If Oswalt gets hurt or flames out, it wouldn't cost much. If he stays relatively healthy and pitches like he has the past few years, he's a clear upgrade.
This is the type of move a team in the Cardinals' financial situation should be making. It's shrewd bargain shopping for John Mozeliak, who must realize any small improvement could make the difference in a division that figures to be a tight race between the Cardinals, Reds and Brewers.
But just for fun, let's step out of the realistic world for a moment. What if the Cardinals weren't limited to the Roy Oswalts of the world? What if they could grab any player on any MLB team without giving up anything in return? In this scenario, whom should they choose?
Before we get into it, a few important stipulations: 1) The player comes attached to his current contract; 2) To make things more interesting, let's say Bill DeWitt has agreed to let you take on any contract, regardless of length or financial commitment; but 3) That's a one-shot deal and doesn't mean your entire budget is unlimited. In other words, the more you spend on this player, the less you have to address other needs.
Fit: Perhaps you're of the mind to simply grab the best player, but you also might consider what the organization's biggest needs are. If you need a refresher on the Cardinals' current depth chart and minor league system, check out this handy roster matrix.
Age: If the idea is a long-term asset, a player already in his 30s obviously makes little sense.
Ability: In the case of a very young player, how do you think he will develop? In the case of an older one, how gracefully will he age?
Contract: Ideally, you don't want one that eventually will become an albatross or prevent you from signing other players. But it also wouldn't be wise to select someone who is close to free agency.
For your convenience, I came up with a list of players who could fit. It's a mix of big stars and young, cheap players with big potential. Some of them are definitely big stretches for a variety of reasons, but I tried to be comprehensive. Check it out.
Now that you know what we're working with here, it's time for some tough choices. Considering all factors, my personal preference is for a young player who either has several years of team control left or is signed to a team-friendly long-term contract. In this scenario, I would prefer a position player (less risk) and one who plays a premium defensive position.
But what do you prefer? Let's put it to a vote. Remember, the player comes with his contract!
In this poll, I've included several of my top choices, plus some other high-profile names I think will make for good debate. Please explain your reasoning in the comments, particularly if you choose, "Other." I'll be back next week to look at and discuss the results.
Really wanted to pick Tulo, but that contract coming along with him is just tough.
Great post and even better list of players. This really might be tougher for me to pick expect I have been yelling for a Tulo trade for a long time and will continue to do so!
Interesting list. No Votto? No worries. I went with Babe Ruth anyway!
Votto's situation is complicated by the fact that he only has two years left on his contract. Otherwise, I think he'd be one of the best options.
Probably should have said Tulo, but voted Posey with the eventual opening at first base where he'll be Biggio'd to sooner rather than later. Of course, I could have voted for McCutchen with a Craig move to first…dang, regrets.


At the UEFA congress held on 22 March in Paris, UEFA continued its fight against corruption in sport by approving the recommendations by the UEFA working group on match-fixing and corruption to initiate a formal cooperation with all 53 member countries and their state authorities, writes Sportbusiness.com.
In his opening speech, UEFA President Michel Platini urged governments in Europe to step up the fight aginst what he described as 'the two great scourges 'of football; violence and illegal betting.
"I have started meeting the heads of state and government of countries particularly affected by this problem," Platini said according to UK paper The Guardian. "It is important that their countries realise the seriousness of the situation and that they find a way to help us, you and their national associations."
At the congress, Platini was re-elected as UEFA President and he will head the body for another four-year term.


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Social guidance film
Social guidance films constitute a genre of educational films attempting to guide children and adults to behave in certain ways. Originally produced by the U.S. government as "attitude-building films" during World War II,[1] the genre grew to be a common source of instruction in elementary and high school classrooms in the United States from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. The films covered topics including courtesy, grammar, social etiquette and dating, personal hygiene and grooming, health and fitness, civic and moral responsibility, sexuality, child safety, national loyalty, racial and social prejudice, juvenile delinquency, drug use, and driver safety; the genre also includes films for adults, covering topics such as marriage, business etiquette, general safety, home economics, career counseling and how to balance budgets.[2] A subset is known as hygiene films addressing mental hygiene and sexual hygiene.[3]
Social guidance films were generally produced by corporations such as Coronet Instructional Films, Centron Corporation for Young America Films, Encyclopædia Britannica Films, and occasionally by better-known companies such as Ford Motor Company and Crawley Films for McGraw-Hill Book Company. Many were also made by independent producers, most notably the prolific maverick independent filmmaker Sid Davis. Few of these films featured notable actors or celebrities, and only a few were ever produced by a major Hollywood studio, such as the films made by Walt Disney Productions and Warner Bros. In rare instances, the films were sponsored by a major company such as Kotex or General Motors. Ken Smith, in his seminal 1999 book on the genre, Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945 - 1970, estimates that there were "around three thousand" films made that fall into the "social guidance" film genre.[2]
While many of the films were merely instructional (like 1941's Posture and Exercise, 1949's Posture and Personality and 1952's Duck and Cover), others ended with an invitation for a classroom discussion of the topic (1956's What About Alcoholism?; 1959's What About Prejudice?), whereas others were presented as striking cautionary tales (1959's Signal 30; 1961's Seduction of the Innocent; 1967's Narcotics: Pit of Despair).
Although sometimes viewed as conservative or reactionary by today's standards, Smith points out that these films were not made by conservatives or reactionaries but instead "by some of the most liberal and progressive-minded people of their time."[2]
Appearances in other media[edit]
As films in this genre are largely in public domain, they have been used in modern productions outside of their intended purpose, usually as a means of unintentional comedy. A number of short social guidance films, such as Posture Pals (1952) and Are You Ready for Marriage? (1950), were featured and lampooned on the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 to provide padding for episodes in which the featured movie segments did not fill out the program's roughly 90-minute running time. On The Weird Al Show, clips from still other films were taken and edited together with new voiceovers to make parodies.
The 1999 feature film, The Iron Giant, set in 1957, features a social guidance film-within-a-film titled, Atomic Holocaust, the style and tone of which parody 1952's Duck and Cover.
A fifth season episode of the AMC series, Mad Men, which takes place between July 1966 and August 1966, uses the title of 1959's Signal 30 as the episode title.
Social problem film
Trigger film
^ Cripps, Thomas (1993). Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era. USA: Oxford University Press. p. 161. ISBN 0195076699.
^ a b c Smith, Ken (1999). Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945 - 1970. New York City: Blast Books. p. 238. ISBN 0-922233-21-7.
^ http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hygiene-films.html
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The leadership in the Kansas Legislature would have us believe that the problems of education funding have been solved by their block grant scheme. In fact, they are trying very hard to convince not just us, but the courts, the media, and the citizens of Kansas. But they are not doing a very good job.
On the face of it, they claim the block grants, enacted this year, provide ample funding, a stable path forward, and enough flexibility to satisfy even the most changeable of situations.
To the question of ample funding, they grants were capped at the amount each district received last year, and will not change next year. We and others have made the argument repeatedly that public education has been underfunded by the state for years, so starting at last year's total already misses the "ample funding" mark. With no planned change, not even inflation will be taken into account, automatically giving schools less effective money next year than this. And to cap it all off, each district's total had 0.4% skimmed off the top into an "extraordinary needs" fund. More on that in a moment.
Is this funding system more stable than the previous formula? For the state it certainly is, they know exactly how much they will be expected to spend next year. But for the districts, this fixed amount is the picture of instability. The population of students a district serves is fluid, and changes year to year. Numbers go up or down, needs change as students come and go. Just this year, some districts saw upwards of 500 new students, with no change to the funds from the state. The previous formula, while uncertain for the state, was designed to provide opportunities for every child in every school district. The block grants provide an unstable platform for Kansas schoolchildren, who do not know year to year whether they will get the education promised them by the Kansas Constitution.
But what of the flexibility? The block grants allow districts to spend their funds as they like. The previous formula determined how much would go to language tutoring, or to transportation, or other services as the district's needs dictated. But this amounts to districts having the choice of where to skimp and what to underfund.
And then there's the "extraordinary" needs fund. On Friday last week, districts received a letter telling them that at Monday's State Finance Council meeting, they should be prepared to explain how they had found "efficiencies" and saved money. It was implied this would give them a leg up in the competition for a meager $12 million the state would allocate based on "extraordinary need." With $15 million in requests, several districts were sure to receive less than they needed.
During the actual meeting, mention of these efficiencies was not made, and the Finance Council agreed to simply fund most needs at a discount. You asked for so much, we'll give you a percentage of that. Some districts, like Olathe, received nothing. Others, like KCK, received a quarter of what they needed. Wichita had their request deferred.
In the end, the extraordinary need fund only doled out half of its allotment. Perhaps the rest can be swept up to prop up the budget this Falll?
Be sure to read some of the comments made by members of the Finance Council in the reports below. Sen Masterson's dismissal of refugee children is eye-opening. For the record, the Finance Council at Monday's hearing was made up of Gov. Brownback and these legislators: Wagle, Merrick, Masterson, Ryckman Jr., Vickrey, Bruce, Burroughs, and Hensley.
Funding Process - Districts forced to play game without knowing the rules - Lawrence JW
An extraordinary meeting - Wichita Eagle
Gov. Sam Brownback's battle with educators damages Kansas schools again - KC Star
State leaders slash emergency aid requests from school districts - Topeka CJ


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Pottery In Motion
We Talked To The Montreal Rock Outlet About 'Welcome to Bobby's Motel' And The Imaginary Space It Creates
By Tobias Carroll
Some albums play out like intimate confessions, as though one musician was seated before you spilling their heart out. Others exist in a self-aware space that evokes the kind of room that can only exist in the recording studio — the "Fourth World" sound popularized by jazz musician Jon Hassell comes to mind. And still others use a recording to create a new space in the mind of the listener — somewhere that feels inherently built, like the Cowboy Junkies did with their 1987 album The Trinity Sessions, famously recorded in a church. For their new album Welcome to Bobby's Motel, the Montreal band Pottery opted for something not far removed from that — though in this case, it's a space far more secular than sacred, and it doesn't actually exist in the concrete sense of the word.
The allure of the open road has served as a muse for many a rock band, and Pottery have taken that to one logical extension. "If we're at home, we're thinking, 'We gotta be on the road soon,'" explains Pottery drummer Paul Jacobs. "When you're always thinking about that and you go to sleep and you dream of being somewhere else, you wake up inspired about being in a different place." And thus, the touring band made an album that draws inspiration from the strangest of motels.
The cover art of Welcome to Bobby's Motel neatly summarizes these two impulses. The imagery is all delirious Americana, while the color palette ventures into the surreal and somnambulistic. Musically, it's less the soundtrack to a party than a party itself: the bass and drums sound massive, maintaining an unlikely post-punk swing with something sinister creeping in at the edges. Think James Chance & The Contortions; think the B-52s with Fred Schneider at his most manic. There's a party here, to be sure, but there's also a transgressive energy lurking just below the surface — a convergence of Davids Lynch and Byrne, perhaps.
Welcome to Bobby's Motel is the group's first full-length album, and it follows last year's acclaimed EP No. 1. The group is a five-piece, with each member — Jacobs, Jacob Shepansky, Tom Gould, Austin Boylan, and Peter Baylis — bringing a slightly different sensibility to the table. Their areas of expertise as they relate to the band go beyond music: Jacobs, for instance, also handled illustration and direction for the video for "Take Your Time."
As befits a member of a band whose album takes its cue from an archetypal motel, Jacobs has strong feelings on the subject. "Every motel is super weird, man," he says. "Every time you go to a motel, you know you're just trying to make the most out of the shittiest place."
That sense of contrast comes to the forefront in the expansive "Texas Drums Pt I & II," which opens in a booming, anthemic vein — the lost soundtrack for an exploration of a small town's seamy underbelly. From there, it shifts into a more frenetic, pulsing register, which suggests that Pottery is well acquainted with the motorik side of their record collections. Abstract vocals echo atop the now-propulsive melody, taking this particular song to a very different place than where it began.
As Jacobs describes it, "Texas Drums" represents a break from the band's generally collaborative songwriting process. "I demoed that one at home, just before we went to the studio, because I thought we might need something else," he says. The lyrics were less of a focus — that was something he thought would be changed when they recorded the song. As it turns out, Jacobs had another musical touchstone to riff on here, albeit an unexpected one.
According to Jacobs, "Texas Drums Pt I" began its life as a bizarre take on "All My Ex's Live In Texas." (Yes, the George Strait song and Drake lyrical touchstone.) "It was a mock lyric at first, and then I kind of switched it up," Jacobs says, "and wrote it about a drum kit that I played in Texas."
"I just put these lyrics on it because I figured we would probably end up changing it when we go to the studio, but they just stayed," he adds. "It happens a lot, actually. It's like after you sing something for a bit, it's stuck in your head."
That blend of studio preparedness with offhand spontaneity is but one of many paradoxes that come up when talking to Jacobs about the band. Here's another: Jacobs mentions in passing that the production on Gene Clark's No Other was, for him, an influence on Welcome to Bobby's Motel.
Perhaps the biggest paradox here, though, is one the band had nothing to do with — and it's one that stings a little, reading this in the middle of 2020. "I think that the whole thing with our band, the reason why we got recognition and the hype in the first place is because our live shows were really tight," Jacobs says. "And we're all good friends, and that comes across on stage."
Listening to Welcome to Bobby's Motel makes one thing very clear: this is absolutely the sort of album that captures the energy of a top-notch live band. Listening to it, it's not hard to imagine the band on stage, feeding on one another's energy, and playing before a crowd that, in turn, absorbs and rejuvenates that selfsame energy. At the time that Pottery recorded this album, it served as a distillation of their live show; at the time that people will listen to it, it will exist as an alternative to it.
The sense of places that are both familiar and just out of reach permeates the conversation with Jacobs. At one point, he brings up a recurring dream he's had for much of his life. "I always visit this farm, where it's like I know my whole way around this farm, but I've never lived there in real life," he says. "It's like my other home, or something. Like a dream that I've had ever since I was a kid."
So there you have it: a real band singing about an imagined motel; a great live act biding their time for the moment when they can take to the stage again. And if this album helps keep some of the stresses of the current at bay, Jacobs is fine with that.
"We still need music all the time," Jacobs says. "And it makes you forget about that kind of stuff. So I guess it's a good thing, you know?"
Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll's writing has been published by Pitchfork, Hazlitt, Dusted, and Literary Hub. He is the author of three books, including the forthcoming Political Sign. Find him on Twitter at @TobiasCarroll.


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Northern Rail picked the wrong man to block on Twitter
Frustrated commuter Nicholas Mitchell used his skills as a software engineer to take his revenge on the train company
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Alistair Hardaker	 8:17am 14th Jun 2018
Mitchell, right, with boss Carlos Oliveira
Other than a passing resemblance to the singer Ed Sheeran, software engineer Nicholas Mitchell doesn't really stand out from the crowd.
The 31-year-old software engineer spends £23 on a weekly train pass from his home in Urmston to Manchester Piccadilly for his job at Shaping Cloud and, like thousands of other commuters, became increasingly frustrated at the growing number of delayed and cancelled trains.
"I was going home from work and the trains were cancelled three days in a row," he recalled in an interview with BusinessCloud. "There were back-to-back cancellations each day. There were two to three-hour gaps with no trains."
Mitchell took to Twitter to complain to Northern Rail and as the delays continued so did his tweets – until the company blocked him. That triggered a course of events that saw the train operator pilloried all the way to Parliament.
Whilst information about a cancelled service is publicly available prior to a train's planned arrival, once that time has passed there is no permanent record.
This makes it almost impossible to know how frequent the cancellations are – which is where Mitchell's 'Northern Fail' app came in.
With the help of his colleagues at Shaping Cloud, the angry commuter spent around 12 hours creating the app that collected data to show the problem of cancelled trains all in one place.
The app combined three publicly available datasets to record the total number of cancellations on any given day, and the total number of cancellations since the app was first launched four weeks ago.
"It highlights their incompetence by simply showing the data," he told BusinessCloud. "It was fun making it. I like making things. It's what I do in and out of work. I can't describe how easy it was to make without sounding big-headed!"
The app was launched before the infamous timetable change, which resulted in scores of additional cancellations and delays and created a media storm.
As a result Mitchell's 'Northern Fail' app was downloaded 12,500 times, mentioned in parliament and cited by countless MPs and politicians.
Manchester mayor Andy Burnham even tweeted Mitchell to say: "You have done everyone a service and exposed the scale of this failure. Well done."
Sorry Nicholas. You have done everyone a service & exposed the scale of this failure. Well done.
— Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) May 23, 2018
Off the back of the app's success, Mitchell became the reluctant face of the movement to improve rail services, appearing on BBC's The One Show and turning down several other media requests.
Mitchell has also received widespread support from frustrated commuters, even receiving a message from one of Northern Rail's own drivers.
"He contacted me on Facebook to give me a pat on the back and said I should keep up the good work," explained Mitchell.
"He said even he and his drivers rely on the app for up-to-date information because it's more accurate than their own control signalling system."
"If the data's out there but it's not understandable or easy to use, then it doesn't get people going."
Mitchell's employer and fellow big data advocate Carlos Oliveira agreed.
"That accountability and transparency, it became a rallying effort," explained Oliveira, who is Shaping Cloud's founder and CEO. The company has created a piece of software called Spinr, which connects public sector data with applications.
"The whole thing really gathered momentum, we were surprised by how much it took off, but it emphases that organisations and the public sector should appreciate that the data they hold can be turned into something much more powerful," said Oliveira.
BusinessCloud contacted Northern Rail for comment, and the company denied that the app had had any impact on the improvement in services.
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Men's Wearhouse converted their Tuxedo Rental Oracle Forms application to the latest release: Oracle Forms11g. Men's Wearhouse has about 700 Forms modules and 300 Reports that have been converted from Version 6i to 11g. In this conversion Men's Wearhouse were aided by Oracle partner PITSS, who used their tool PITSS.CON, to automate the upgrade in a fraction of the time it would have taken to convert manually.
Founded in 1973, Men's Wearhouse is one of North America's largest specialty retailers of men's apparel with 1,239 stores. The Men's Wearhouse, Moores and K&G stores carry a full selection of designer, brand name and private label suits, sport coats, furnishings and accessories and Men's Wearhouse and Tux stores carry a limited selection.
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Q: Adding maven support for project messed up loading of images/working with paths I had a project which i moved to maven, since it makes it easy for me to work with dependencies , after i did that build works alright bud my execution stops at loading a resource (image) from one of my packages.Im lost since everything works well on old build without maven.
I load image
   primStage.getIcons().add(new Image(OpenChannel_Dynamic_Downloader.class
                                    .getResourceAsStream(Info.Resource.OCPI)));

Resource location is specified here
public static final String OCPI = "/openchannel_dynamic_downloader/resources/images/openChannelPlaceholderIcon.png";

My whole package structure is same , all the names everything.
Exception that i get is :
Exception in thread "JavaFX Application Thread" java.lang.NullPointerException: Input stream must not be null
    at javafx.scene.image.Image.validateInputStream(Image.java:1110)
    at javafx.scene.image.Image.<init>(Image.java:694)
    at openchannel_dynamic_downloader.application.OpenChannel_Dynamic_Downloader.lambda$showLoginWindow$10(OpenChannel_Dynamic_Downloader.java:233)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$null$174(PlatformImpl.java:295)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$175(PlatformImpl.java:294)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$null$149(WinApplication.java:191)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Problematic line is the first code snipped. Has anyone seen this issue before? Do i ahve to change hwo i work with paths when i put in maven? Im pretty much a newbie to whole maven so woud be nice if you can help me with this since i expected this to work without an issue.
Here is my pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.bisciak</groupId>
    <artifactId>OpenChannel_Dynamic_Downloader_MavenEnabled</artifactId>
    <version>0.1</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>OpenChannel_Dynamic_Downloader_MavenEnabled</name>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <mainClass>openchannel_dynamic_downloader.application.OpenChannel_Dynamic_Downloader</mainClass>
    </properties>

    <organization>
        <!-- Used as the 'Vendor' for JNLP generation -->
        <name>Tomas Bisciak's software</name>
    </organization>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>unpack-dependencies</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <excludeScope>system</excludeScope>
                            <excludeGroupIds>junit,org.mockito,org.hamcrest</excludeGroupIds>
                            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes</outputDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.2.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>unpack-dependencies</id>

                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>exec</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <executable>${java.home}/../bin/javafxpackager</executable>
                            <arguments>
                                <argument>-createjar</argument>
                                <argument>-nocss2bin</argument>
                                <argument>-appclass</argument>
                                <argument>${mainClass}</argument>
                                <argument>-srcdir</argument>
                                <argument>${project.build.directory}/classes</argument>
                                <argument>-outdir</argument>
                                <argument>${project.build.directory}</argument>
                                <argument>-outfile</argument>
                                <argument>${project.build.finalName}.jar</argument>
                            </arguments>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>default-cli</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>exec</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <executable>${java.home}/bin/java</executable>
                            <commandlineArgs>${runfx.args}</commandlineArgs>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <compilerArguments>
                        <bootclasspath>${sun.boot.class.path}${path.separator}${java.home}/lib/jfxrt.jar</bootclasspath>
                    </compilerArguments>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.16</version>
                <configuration>
                    <additionalClasspathElements>
                        <additionalClasspathElement>${java.home}/lib/jfxrt.jar</additionalClasspathElement>
                    </additionalClasspathElements>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.controlsfx</groupId>
            <artifactId>controlsfx</artifactId>
            <version>8.40.10</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.190</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.java.openjfx.backport</groupId>
            <artifactId>openjfx-78-backport</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.0-ea-b96.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.1stleg</groupId>
            <artifactId>jnativehook</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.2</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</project>

Image is correctly located at the specified package/location and code was not modified since my migration,is this maven related?
Package structure:

A: When working with Maven, all resources should be placed under src/main/resources. By resources, I mean every file that should be packaged into the final JAR, i.e. every file that should be present in the classpath.
Since you are using Class.getResourceAsStream() to access your images, they must reside under that folder.
As such, you should move your resources under src/main/resources. The final location for the image would be: src/main/resources/openchannel_dynamic_downloader/resources/images/openChannelPlaceholderIcon.png

A: I prefer to load images when working with Maven and JavaFx in this way:
1) Put image into src/main/resources/images/image.png.
2) Create javafx.scene.image.Image object:
ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
String imageUrl = classLoader.getResource("images/image.png").toExternalForm();
Image image = new Image(imageUrl);

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Q: can I make firefox remember what spellcheck dictionary to use for particular web sites? I read and write on the web in two different languages and it would be really handy to teach firefox to use this spellcheck dictionary for that and that website while the default one would be english.
Is anything like that possible?
( win XP + ff 3.6 )

A: Yes, with the add-on Dictionary Switcher:

Toggles between the installed
  dictionaries automatically or manually
  and displays the currently selected
  dictionary in the status bar.


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Coco Vandeweghe caps perfect Fed Cup season as US win titlehttps://indianexpress.com/article/sports/tennis/coco-vandeweghe-caps-perfect-fed-cup-season-as-u-s-win-title-4935067/
Coco Vandeweghe caps perfect Fed Cup season as US win title
Coco Vandewegh, teamed up with Shelby Rogers to defeat Belarus' Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Aryna Sabalenka 6-3 7-6(3) to give the US a 3-2 overall win.
Updated: November 13, 2017 11:02:24 am
Coco Vandeweghe and Shelby Rogers of the US celebrate after winning against Aryna Sabalenka and Aliaksandra Sasnovich and defeating Belarus. (Source: Reuters)
Coco Vandeweghe was not about to let a perfect Fed Cup season slip away as she led the United States to their first title in 17 years in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday.
The American, unbeaten in Fed Cup singles rubbers this year, teamed up with Shelby Rogers to defeat Belarus' Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Aryna Sabalenka 6-3 7-6(3) to give the U.S. a 3-2 overall win.
It was the United States' record 18th Fed Cup crown.
"Well, it's not just me out here," Vandeweghe said. "I really want to thank my team mates for pushing me along… It was really a team effort."
With the U.S. victory, Vandeweghe became the first player since Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in 2011 to win the maximum six singles matches in one year, and just the ninth player to achieve the feat since the introduction of the World Group in 1995, the U.S. Tennis Association said.
"I might have had wins along the way, but Ali (Riske) won a lot of matches in Hawaii the first round," Vandeweghe said.
The championship had come down to the winner-takes-all doubles match after the United States and Belarus split the four singles matches – two on Saturday and another two on Sunday.
On match point, Vandeweghe returned Sasnovich's serve toward Sabalenka, who volleyed low at Rogers' feet. Rogers redirected the ball crosscourt, and Sasnovich's return found the middle of the net, giving the Americans the victory.
"I was so happy to be able to get a chance to compete for my country with these girls and do my part," Rogers said.
"I wouldn't want to share that moment with anybody else. Coco is amazing. The team is amazing. I love these girls. I will never, ever, ever forget this moment."
The win gave U.S. captain Kathy Rinaldi a title in her debut year and makes her the first female captain since Billie Jean King in 2000 to win the title.
"This is something that we're going to treasure for the rest of our lives," Rinaldi said. "These players were incredible.
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15 March Deadline for MLA Bibliography Fellowship Applications
Posted 22 February 2022 by Benjamin Schacht
The deadline to apply for a three-year field-bibliography fellowship from the MLA International Bibliography is approaching! MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information for citations in the bibliography. Open to all MLA members, including graduate students, the 2022 fellowships will run from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025.
Field bibliographers perform a valuable service for the profession and receive institutional recognition while deepening their knowledge of the field as well as their research skills. The MLA provides materials and training and waives registration fees for fellows attending training sessions at the MLA convention. On completion of the fellowship, fellows receive a $500 stipend and a certificate at the convention awards ceremony.
For more information and to submit an application, visit the MLA Bibliography Fellowships page.
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The MLA is pleased to announce that Jason Rhody, program director at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), will join the MLA staff as director of the office of academic program services and professional development. Formerly the office of programs, the office was renamed to reflect its wide-reaching work to support department chairs and academic programs and to provide professional development for members at all stages of their careers.
Rhody joins the MLA following the retirement of Dennis Looney, who led the department from 2014 to September 2021. At SSRC Rhody directs the Digital Culture program, the Social Data Initiative, and the Media and Democracy program. Before joining the SSRC, he served as senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, helping to create the endowment's Office of Digital Humanities and directing grant programs. Rhody received his PhD in English from the University of Maryland. We look forward to welcoming Jason Rhody and to the experienced leadership he will bring to the MLA's evolving professional development programming.
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Matthew Brown, University of Iowa
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Johannes Burgers, Southeast Missouri State University
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Geremy Carnes, Lindenwood College
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Manu Chander, Rutgers University, Newark
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Ellen Cushman, Northeastern University
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Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book reassessing female solidarity in the Victorian novel.
Kenya Dworkin, Carnegie Mellon University
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Project Description: Research and writing of a book about theater and the Cuban community in Tampa, Florida, from 1886 to the 1960s.
Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University
Project Title: The World of Frederick Douglass's Newspapers
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Janine Fitzgerald, Fort Lewis College
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Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College
Project Title: For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of the Cold War
Project Description: Research and writing leading to publication of an intellectual biography of Haitian poet René Depestre (1926–) and his uniquely Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic perspectives on the Cold War.
Tao Goffe, Cornell University
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Project Description: The creation of an interactive website that brings together collections in the United States and United Kingdom to facilitate scholarship on colonialism and indentureship. The UK partner is Birkbeck College.
Melissa Gregory, University of Toledo
Project Title: Health Humanities Minor
Project Description: A three-year project to create a health humanities minor.
Letitia Guran, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Project Description: Research and writing leading to a digital monograph on the writing, publishing history, and reception of Langston Hughes's A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia (1934).
Diane Jakacki, Bucknell University
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Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book that will reconsider Christian-Muslim relationships and the concept of translatio studii et imperii in medieval epic by analyzing examples of object exchange in selected texts.
Caroline Kita, Washington University in St. Louis
Project Title: Border Territories: The Emancipatory Soundscapes of Postwar German Radio Drama
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the importance of radio dramas to the German public in the aftermath of World War II.
Christina Lee, Princeton University
Project Title: The Library of The Convent of San Pablo (Manila, 1762)
Project Description: A project to digitize a collection of more than 1,500 rare manuscripts, maps, and early printed materials that were taken in the eighteenth century from the Convent of San Pablo in Manila, Philippines, and dispersed throughout the Philippines, United States, and United Kingdom. The UK partner is SOAS University of London.
Gema Ortega, Dominican University
Project Title: Culturally Relevant Voices: First-Year Writing and Speaking across the Curriculum
Project Description: Faculty development to optimize the implementation of a required first-year critical reading, writing, and speaking (CRWS) course sequence with a stronger grounding in culturally relevant pedagogy.
Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
Project Title: Decadence, Literary Form, and Uneven Development, 1852–1905
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the influence on global literature of English and French authors associated with the late nineteenth-century Decadence movement.
Maria Rey-Lopez, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Project Title: Geographies of Belonging: Spanish Place-Names in Colorado
Project Description: Research leading to the revision of an intensive Spanish grammar review course for heritage speakers.
Katey Roden, Gonzaga University
Project Title: Finding Our Way: Fostering a Sense of Place for Underrepresented Communities
Project Description: Development of a digital platform exploring histories of people who have lived along the Children of the Sun Trail in Spokane, Washington.
Na'ama Rokem, University of Chicago
Project Title: Studying Oak Woods: A Curriculum Development and Collaborative Teaching Proposal
Project Description: The development of a curricular project focused on the Oak Woods Cemetery, located on Chicago's South Side.
Benjamin Saltzman, University of Chicago
Project Title: Gestures of Aversion
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on representations of aversion in European literature and art from antiquity to the early modern period.
Whitney Sperrazza, Rochester Institute of Technology
Project Title: Poetry, Anatomy, and Women's Scientific Work in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on women's poetry and scientific work in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
John Walsh, Indiana University, Bloomington
Project Title: Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction (TORCHLITE)
Project Description: The development of web-based tools and documentation to allow both novice and expert users to interact with data from the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University
Project Title: Secret Printing: Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press
Project Description: The scaling-up of tools and methods to allow scholars to identify and decipher illicit printing in documents predating and associated with the First Amendment.
Dana Williams, Howard University
Project Title: Developing an Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities
Project Description: A two-year project to create a digital humanities graduate certificate.
Amy Wright, Saint Louis University
Project Title: Serial Storytelling in Mexico from Nationhood to Now, 1821–2021
Project Description: Completion of a book on serialized literature and storytelling in Mexico from the nineteenth century to the present.
Filed under: Feature, Member Resources and Links
Posted 13 January 2022 by Benjamin Schacht
The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information for citations in the bibliography. Open to all MLA members, including graduate students, the 2022 fellowships will run from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025.
For more information and to submit an application, visit the MLA Bibliography Fellowships page. Applications are due 15 March 2022.
2023 Presidential Theme: Working Conditions
Posted 11 January 2022 by Anna Chang
Christopher Newfield, the 2022–23 president of the MLA, has chosen Working Conditions as the presidential theme for the 2023 MLA Annual Convention in San Francisco.
The diverse teaching and research of MLA members are better than ever. Our working conditions are not. The presidential theme of the 2023 convention asks us to reflect on what our teaching and research tell us about transforming our working conditions so that they do not hold us back as they do now and instead help us do what we need and want to do.
This theme—Working Conditions—asks us to consider questions like these:
What are the intolerable conditions under which we work?
What are the new conditions we need?
What new conditions are emerging from literary thought and research?
What new conditions are emerging from our teaching, mentoring, grading, advising, and administering?
How can we use our established and evolving expertise to reconstruct our profession for the sake of our everyday labor—and for the transformative things we each envision?
Our work already strives to understand the world in new terms. Literary study uncovers interior visions for another life, for liberation and justice, and for enabling forces not subject to the limits of existing reality. Literary and cultural theory identify transformative methods of counteranalysis. The study of languages, rhetoric, and composition theory builds powers of interpretation and radical rewriting that are relevant to texts and institutions alike. All our activities engender the production of culture and cultural knowledge. The presidential theme encourages members to consider their existing work in the context of conditions that enable or interfere with it and to explore the transformations of those conditions that our work implies.
Our profession needs new working conditions. We already know many of these. Teaching positions should be stable, tenurable, and properly paid: the trend toward precarity must be reversed. Our research needs much better and broader funding; research opportunities must be made available to instructors at all types of colleges, particularly access-oriented and minority-serving institutions. The role of racism in structuring the life of our profession must be stamped out. Humanities departments need real influence over university decision-making; they need resources to affect public understanding of the many areas on which we have distinctive expertise. We need international networks that engage with scholars around the world, particularly in the global South. In short, we have done superb analyses of literature and languages in crisis. This theme invites us to extend and intensify that work and also to use our knowledge to think through the reconstruction of the profession, its institutions, and its wider environment.
In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston wrote, "There are years that ask questions, and years that answer." Perhaps we can make 2022 a year that answers.
Visit the MLA website to post a call for papers for the 2023 convention.
Filed under: Convention, Feature
Results of the 2021 MLA Elections
Posted 15 December 2021 by Emily Tobey
In balloting that closed on 10 December, MLA members elected Dana A. Williams (Howard University) as second vice president. Williams will become MLA president in January 2024. Susan Stanford Friedman, Leah S. Marcus, and Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo were elected to the Executive Council. Full election results are available on the MLA website. Congratulations to all those elected to MLA offices!
Posted 14 December 2021 by Benjamin Schacht
The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2021 Fellowship Award recipients:
David E. García, professor of English, Carthage College
Liorah Golomb, humanities librarian, University of Oklahoma
S. C. Kaplan, lecturer of French, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jessica Ryan, librarian, scholarly communications assistant, Smith College
The fellows, who have contributed to the bibliography from 2018 to 2021, will be awarded a certificate of accomplishment and a check for $500 during the 2022 MLA Awards Ceremony, which takes place at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, 8 January, at the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, (Marquis 5). We offer our sincere thanks and appreciation for their service to the MLA International Bibliography!
Posted 22 September 2021 by Benjamin Schacht
You are invited to submit essay proposals for two new volumes in development: Teaching Economics and American Literature, edited by Katharine A. Burnett and Amy K. King, in the Options for Teaching series, and the nonseries volume Interventions: Asian American Rhetorical Activity across Time and Space, edited by Amy J. Wan and Morris Young. Proposals for both volumes must be submitted to their respective editors by 1 November 2021.
Instructors are encouraged to share their teaching experience by completing surveys for the following volumes currently in development in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Deirdre d'Albertis and Deborah Denenholz Morse; Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama, edited by Emma Lipton and John Sebastian; and Approaches to Teaching Strange Tales from Liaozhai, edited by Rania Huntington. Information about proposing an essay is available at the end of each survey. Survey responses and essay proposals are due 1 November 2021.
Congratulations to the twelve MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in August 2021. Their projects include a free online resource for teaching Spanish to heritage learners; a digital publication of the notes of Viola Muse, a writer who took part in the Florida Federal Writers Project; a two-week institute on transcendentalism and social reform; and much more.
Wendy Belcher, Princeton University
Project Title: African Humanities Folkloric Project: Written Medieval Stories on Healing and Justice from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia Project
Description: Preparation for digital publication of 180 African Marian stories preserved in parchment manuscripts, which will be cataloged, transcribed, and translated from Ge'ez (classical Ethiopic) into English.
Project Title: Increasing Access to and Developing Digital Tools for Early African Literature
Project Description: The creation of a web-based platform and tools to enable scholars to search and engage with a unique online collection of African literature.
Robin Bernstein, Harvard University
Project Title: The Trials of William Freeman (1824–1847): A Story of Murder, Race, and America's First Industrial Prison Project
Description: A history of incarceration in Auburn, New York, through the story of William Freeman, who was convicted of a quadruple murder in 1846.
Margaret Boyle, Bates College
Project Title: Identity and Multilingualism through Picture Books
Project Description: A two-week, hybrid institute for twenty-nine elementary school teachers to develop equitable teaching strategies using picture books.
Project Title: Yo Soy Porque Tú Eres: recursos para el aprendizaje de Español en contexto (Resources for Teaching Spanish in Context)
Project Description: Development of a free online OER (open educational resource) for teaching Spanish language using humanities collections to heritage learners.
Lauren Goodlad, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Project Title: Unboxing Artificial Intelligence: An International Collaboration Bringing Humanities Perspectives to AI
Project Description: Planning of an international collaboration on the topic of bringing humanities perspectives to the creation of artificial intelligence.
Laura Heffernan, University of North Florida
Project Title: Documenting Black Jacksonville: The Viola Muse Digital Edition
Project Description: Preparation for digital publication of the interview notes of Viola Muse (1891–1981), a writer who took part in the Florida Federal Writers Project from 1936 to 1940.
Casey Kayser University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Project Title: Pandemics in History, Literature, and Today
Project Description: A two-week, residential institute for thirty-six middle and high school educators that would provide comparative perspectives on the 1918 and 2020 global pandemics.
Lauren Klein, Emory University
Project Title: Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization
Project Description: The creation of a born-digital publication documenting and analyzing the history of data visualization from the eighteenth century to the present.
Sandra Petrulionis, Thoreau Society, Inc.
Project Title: Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau
Project Description: A two-week, residential institute for twenty-five college and university faculty members on transcendentalism and social reform.
Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University
Project Title: Immersive Global Middle Ages Institute for Advanced Topics
Project Description: A 28-month initiative for fourteen participants to learn about the use of immersive digital technologies for teaching and learning about the global Middle Ages through in-person and virtual workshops hosted by the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and Vanderbilt University.
Sandra Spanier, Pennsylvania State University
Project Title: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Project Description: Preparation for print publication of volumes 6, 7, and 8 of a scholarly edition of the letters of American author Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961).
Charles Stivale, Purdue University
Project Title: Translation of the Seminars of French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze
Project Description: Preparation for online publication of English translations of seminar lectures delivered by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925–95).
Miriam Udel, Emory University
Project Title: Children's Literature and Modern Jewish Culture
Project Description: Writing a book examining Jewish identity as constructed in Yiddish-language children's literature.
Filed under: Feature, MLA in the News
MLA Members Awarded ACLS Fellowships
Posted 9 September 2021 by Emily Tobey
Congratulations to the ten MLA members who have been awarded 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowships, which support early-career scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to come. Fellows take up year-long placements with members of ACLS's Research University Consortium, where they can advance their research and professional development while contributing to the teaching, programming, and administrative work of their host university.
Maira Elizabeth Alvarez, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Tarrell Campbell, College of Liberal Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Maria A. Dikcis, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago
Isabel A. Duarte-Gray, Division of Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles
Francesca Gacho, Communication of Science and Technology Program, Vanderbilt University
Michele U. Kenfack, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University
Gaelle Le Calvez House, Division of Humanities, Yale University
Jordan Lovejoy, College of Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, University of Minnesota
Laura Muñoz, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California
Ena Selimovic, Division of Humanities, Yale University


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Northern California Public Media presents Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice Podcast.
Northern California Public Media presents Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice Podcast, produced in association with the NPR One mobile app. Living Downstream explores environmental justice in communities from California to Indonesia and is hosted by NCPM News Director Steve Mencher. The podcast features some of the most experienced environmental reporters in the public radio system, as well as a handful of talented newcomers.
Warren County, N.C. is the birthplace of environmental justice, where hundreds were arrested in 1982 protesting a PCB dump. We share that history, and meet activists fighting for social and environmental justice today.
The peat swamp forests of Borneo are the site of a failed agricultural experiment. As indigenous people lost their livelihood, carbon poured into the atmosphere. From the jungles of Indonesia, our first international edition.
Dams on the Klamath River in Northern Calif. and southern Oregon will be removed in the next few years, due to compromises among warring groups that put aside self-interest. Learn how competing priorities were addressed.
Farmworkers have long lived in awful conditions in California's Coachella Valley. Reporter Ruxandra Guidi has been visiting one community for a decade. She says community health workers are now making a difference there.


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Report: Nassau, Suffolk IDAs get high marks for transparency
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By James T. Madore, Newsday
Two industrial development agencies on Long Island are among the nation's most transparent government agencies that award tax breaks to businesses, thanks to reporting requirements from New York State, according to a report to be released Wednesday.
The Nassau County IDA and the Suffolk IDA tied for No. 3 in terms of information available on the internet about companies receiving property tax breaks, the amount of the breaks and the jobs tied to those breaks, said Good Jobs First, a watchdog group based in Washington.
One economic development program in New York City and another in Austin, Texas, held the top two spots.
The local IDAs each placed fifth in available data about sales-tax exemptions on the purchase of construction materials, equipment, fixtures and other supplies for expansion projects.
In each case, the data is available on the websites of the office of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Suffolk IDA.
Good Jobs First, which has been critical of tax breaks for businesses, looked at development programs in the nation's 50 largest cities and counties. The examination was limited to tax incentives awarded by local governments and whether and how they were disclosed on the internet.
The group found that more than half of the development programs studied do not disclose the names of companies receiving property tax abatements and other incentives, including initiatives in Boston, Charlotte, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
"Counties in New York State rank high due to the state's strong level of disclosure of local data," said the report's author, Kasia Tarczynska.
The state comptroller and state Authorities Budget Office each require IDAs to file annual reports of their activities.
The data then can be downloaded from the comptroller's website, at nwsdy.li/ida, revealing the names and addresses of businesses receiving tax breaks, the jobs tied to the aid and other information.
Tarczynska noted the comptroller's website provides the yearly property-tax subsidy amounts, but not the total approved subsidy over multiple years.The amount of sales tax exemptions is not disclosed, she said.
Tarczynska also said the Suffolk IDA website has annual reports filed with the Authorities Budget Office, which list all businesses receiving aid but not the type of aid awarded. Nassau IDA officials said they also post ABO reports on the agency's website.
The Nassau and Suffolk IDAs weren't included in a 2013 study by Good Jobs First because only larger population centers were examined, said Philip Mattera, the group's research director.
Nassau IDA executive director Joseph J. Kearney said the ranking was a result of the agency board's commitment over eight years "to provide full transparency in all of our transactions. We are grateful that [the board's] efforts have been recognized."


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FEATURE: How brotherly love reunited Justin Nixon with harness racing
By Mark McKelvie for woodbine.com
TORONTO, February 20 – Justin Nixon is sitting on a stool in the Woodbine paddock trying to figure out an issue with a friend's iPhone.
An error message pops up.
"I'm a Blackberry guy," smirked Nixon.
Taking a moment to sit down hasn't happened too often lately for Nixon. He finds himself constantly on the go in an attempt to fill some big shoes. To see his face inside a paddock at Woodbine is certainly not unfamiliar, but to see his face in the Standardbred paddock in mid-February is a different story.
Nixon is a long-time Thoroughbred trainer, who has trained horses at Woodbine and Fort Erie for two-decades and tasted success at some of the highest levels.
Coltimus Prime, a striking dark bay, brought Nixon Canadian Thoroughbred racing fame in 2014 with a strong 3 ½ length win in the $500,000 Prince of Wales at Fort Erie.
"It's a dream come true," Nixon said following the biggest victory of his career at the track where he built his foundation. "Learning the game here…it's something special to win the biggest race here."
Coltimus Prime winning the Prince of Wales… (Michael Burns Photo)
Jump ahead a few years later and Nixon is getting reeducated in a sport he loves.
Justin Nixon has temporarily taken over the training duties of a Standardbred stable for his brother Dean Nixon.
Dean, a well-known trainer in Ontario harness racing, was forced to step away from his stable to battle cancer. As anyone in horse racing knows, the show must go on and Dean didn't have to look far for a helping hand.
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Back in October, the Nixon brothers started discussing a plan to keep the operation running during Dean's cancer treatment.
"We knew that he was dealing with cancer and (we) weren't sure when he was going to have surgery, but we knew that when he did have surgery he was going to be out quite some time," Justin revealed while standing next to a pacing mare he had just successfully qualified at Woodbine.
"So I started giving him a hand right after the end of the Woodbine meet (early-December). He went in for surgery January 25th and I've kind of been there full-on since then."
Dean has been battling cancer for close to 10-months. He was originally diagnosed with a form of colon-cancer, which ultimately spread to his liver.
"He was first diagnosed in April and May," Justin explained. "They did chemo and radiation on him. He went back in September and we were hoping for a clean bill of health because they thought six-weeks of radiation and chemo should knock it out, but it didn't and that threw us for a loop.
"It took until about January to figure out everything and where he wanted to be."
The uncertainty around Dean's health has been difficult for the Nixon family. Justin would typically head to Florida following the Thoroughbred meet, but didn't think twice about staying back to help his brother.
In order to make things work, Justin brought a couple equine friends along to the Nixon stable at Stephenson's Training Centre in Flamborough.
"I've got two (Thoroughbreds) there right now. I'll probably get a couple more started on the nice Equicizer there, get some ground work into them and then come up and breeze (at Woodbine) in mid-March."
Thoroughbred racing has been Justin's career since finishing his education in 1994, but it was the Standardbreds at his home-track of Windsor Raceway that got him hooked as a youngster.
"That was the spot," the Amherstburg native recalls. "We couldn't wait to get there on Saturday mornings. Mom would never let us go on a school night, that wasn't happening, but on the weekends both of us were there."
Dean Nixon iat Mohawk with O Narutac Perfetto… (Clive Cohen Photo)
Justin and Dean's father trained horses on the backstretch at Windsor and the young Nixon's found themselves jogging horses around the now defunct-track at the age of 10.
"My dad would take Dean and I and we would terrorize the tack shop and take the free gum. We would run around back there just doing whatever we could do to learn and be around the horses."
Justin's love for horses developed on the Windsor backstretch and eventually his interest led him to study Animal Science at the University of Guelph.
When going down memory lane about his childhood at Windsor Raceway, the enthusiasm in Justin's voice swelled when asked about his favourite horse.
"Oh Niatross," he blurted without hesitation. "He came to Windsor Raceway and he was going to go a training mile on the Sunday and I believe he was going to race on Wednesday night, but I had no chance of seeing him race on Wednesday night because it was a school night. But of course Sunday was church and my Mom was very adamant that we went to church.
"My Dad took me unbeknownst to her on Sunday morning to see him train and it was just an awesome thing to see. Mom was not too happy with him or me and I don't think she talked to my Dad for three days. But it was worth it."
Justin chose a profession that sees him work with equine athletes day in and day out. To this day he recalls the presence Niatross had on that Sunday morning in Windsor.
"He was just an incredible animal and really something special. When he came out onto the track you were watching a true athlete, like a pro, just such a difference from the ordinary Windsor Raceway horses."
Niatross…(USTA Photo)
Justin faded away from Standardbreds in university and found himself entrenched in the Thoroughbred game. He has worked for top stables and won races at several tracks across the continent.
Now stepping back into the Standardbred game after many years away, Justin admits it took a moment to get back in the groove.
"Just learning all the gear again really," he pointed out as one of the challenges.
"The straps, buckles and the order of things and where it all fits. There was a lot of rust there to get off, but now that I've been at it a little bit, I'm a lot more comfortable at hanging them up and getting everything together."
Justin hasn't tried to reinvent the wheel since taking over the Nixon stable and is the first to admit that there are many differences between training the two breeds.
"(Standardbreds) are a quieter animal to be around and they are a tougher animal. They withstand a lot more work and they need more work from what we've experienced. They actually need to get more done every day than your average Thoroughbred."
The Nixon brothers have kept constant communication during this unusual time in their lives, with Justin regularly seeking Dean's advice. The long-distance co-training isn't ideal, but it's getting the job done.
"I'm just trying to hold the fort," Justin grinned. "I don't want to get too creative and get too many ideas, I just lateral everything off to Dean and he makes all the suggestions and I just try to give him as much feedback as I can to make the right decisions with my horsemanship, for what it's worth."
On a chilly mid-February evening, the Nixon stable's statistics are the hottest thing around. Winning just over a third of their races this season, Dean Nixon's stable is a quarter of the way to matching their 2016 win total of 47 with over 10-months to go in the year.
Justin is modest when talking about their early-success, but quickly deflects any praise to the owners and crew his brother has assembled.
"His clients have been really supportive of everything and his staff has been great, so I think that's a reflection on how the barn is doing."
Dean recently returned to his family's farm to recover after receiving treatment in Maryland. With Justin pinch-hitting as a Standardbred trainer, it comes as no surprise that the support system runs deep in the Nixon family.
"(Dean's) in Windsor right now at home on the farm just recuperating," Justin explained. "Mom is looking in on him everyday and we've got a lot of Aunts and Uncles there, so we've got a lot of family support to take care of him."
Dean is hoping to be back in the winner's circle soon… (Clive Cohen Photo)
While no timetable is set for Dean's return, Justin has been overwhelmed by the support and well-wishes his brother has received from around the industry.
"We really appreciate the great support from Dean's friends at Stephenson's and really everyone in the racing community. They've all been very supportive asking me how Dean's doing from the race office to trainers and drivers."
Justin has no expiry date on how long he will play the role of harness racing trainer and plans to help out for as long as it takes. But he is hopeful his brother has taken the steps to defeat cancer.
"He got the surgeries done and right now we are hopefully optimistic that it's gone and hopefully we don't see it again."
The current number of horses in the Nixon barn fluctuates in the ballpark of 12 to 14. The same day Justin tried to help a friend with an iPhone, he brought three horses to Woodbine, two for qualifiers and one to race. The horse competing that evening was claimed and the stable's number went down by one.
The game never stops.
Justin has embraced his new temporary role and done his best to relieve his brother of any horse racing related pressure.
The Nixon's have been winning regularly on the racetrack as of late and Justin is optimistic that victories of all sorts will continue to come Dean's way.
"He'll be back at it shortly."