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Retired Officer Pete LaBoy (left), Detective Lani Pinkney (center) and Lieutenant Will Rogers (right), all of whom have been injured in the line of duty and have benefited from Code 3 support and advocacy efforts.
The United States takes good care of police officers families that are killed in the line of duty. There are federal and state programs to support those who suffer tragic loss. However there is very little support and in some parts of the United States no support for officers who survive a deadly encounter and are permanently disabled.
Nearly every month in this country 30 officers are shot in the line of duty. There are more that are attacked with knives, vehicles, and other weapons. Injured Officer Initiative (IOI ) wants to be there to help these families immediately and to prepare them for the future.
According to the most recent Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) report issued by the FBI, 118 police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2016. Additionally, 57,180 officers were assaulted in the line of duty, with nearly 30 percent of those assaults resulting in injuries.
Presently, benefits for police officers who have been injured in the line of duty are managed locally and vary widely from state to state. The Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) program, established by Congress in 1976, is the only federal resource available for injured law enforcement officers and the families of fallen officers. This program provides both death and disability benefits to eligible public safety officers who have sustained fatal or debilitating injuries in the line of duty that prevent their return to work. At the time, the receipt of a one-time payment was deemed sufficient to supplement resources provided to injured officers at the state level. However, after hearing the stories of many police officers who have outlived the benefits they've received or are unaware of the resources available to them, we believe there is a significant breakdown in our nation's benefits system for injured officers.
We believe the biggest challenge to public safety officer benefits in the U.S. is the absence of a federally mandated minimum standard of care. Currently, there is a wide degree of variability among state-level benefits available to injured police officers. As a result, police have no assurance they will receive a reasonable level of care if they are injured on the job.
"I was given virtually no assistance from my department or anyone connected to law enforcement. The unfortunate reality is that small police forces are not prepared to help take care of the healthcare and financial costs associated with a law enforcement officer who is severely injured in the line of duty."
— Retired Lieutentant Will Rogers of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, injured in the line of duty on May 14, 2015
1. We educate injured officers about the benefits available through federal, state and local resources. We provide one-on-one counseling to injured officers and their families about the benefits available to them from public and private sources. Our team of volunteers works directly with impacted families to navigate the complex and often cumbersome process of securing medical, disability and retirement benefits.
2. We equip injured officers with resources to address their immediate and urgent needs. We offer short-term financial support to help relieve injured officers of medical debt, the high cost of daily living aids not covered by medical insurance (e.g. wheelchairs and handicapped vehicles).
3. We empower injured officers to get back to work so they can regain economic independence. Through our academic, corporate and nonprofit partnerships, we identify vocational opportunities that help injured officers pursue new careers so they can become self-sufficient.
Advocating for Change
We know this problem is complex and cannot be solved with a quick fix. That's why we're calling on Congress to take immediate action to address the long-term care needs of first responders.
On January 17, 2018, Code 3 Founder & President Dale Sutherland testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism to advocate for greater support for police officers injured in the line of duty. As a direct outcome of that hearing, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham introduced new legislation to help close gaps in benefits for injured officers. Appropriately named the Helping Extend Responding Officers Support (HEROES) Act of 2018, the legislation would:
Mandate the collection of data on disabled public safety officers nationwide
Ensure that higher education assistance is made available to affected families of all injured officers
Provide greater flexibility in how federal resources are awarded to families of injured officer
Commission research to determine the amount of medical care needed by injured officers over their lifetime
We urge Congress to swiftly advance this legislation to address the urgent needs of injured officers. Our partners in this effort include the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.)
Code 3 Founder & President Dale Sutherland testifying before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism on January 17, 2018 about the long-term care needs of injured first responders.
Code 3 Association (Code 3) was founded in 2015 to foster mutual trust and collaboration among police departments and the communities they serve.
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The Changing World of Work – Learning from the Past
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The last 24 months have turned the world of work on its axis as advances in technology empower both top employees and savvy employers to harness the proliferation of social platforms to develop attractive and compelling "brands." Toss in the impact of COVID-19 on the employment market over the past five months and we have an inflection point that is fundamentally changing the way talented professionals and vibrant firms find each other.
"The best and the brightest are taking on the challenges of a rapidly changing world of work. Both employers and talented technical, professional, executive and managerial workers will thrive if they look to the past and fearlessly shine a light into the future," says Bert Miller, President and CEO of MRI, a professional services and product development company that is home to a network of over 325 talent access firms around the globe.
Miller advises that in times of cultural and business stress, a platform built on "prudent boldness" can serve as a guide to growing companies and enhancing careers.
He suggests a careful look-back to 2008-2009. "If you could go back into the depth of the great recession with the power of hindsight, what would you have done differently for your firm or your career?" asks Miller. "Successful firms and bright employees understood the fundamental strength of the U.S. economy and the power of innovative, forward-looking and calming leadership even during the worst of the economic downturn."
Miller notes that top performers have a sense of boldness and optimism and can see that the time to invest in a business or career is when most others are frozen by fear or indecision. He suggests that the boldness be tempered by a prudent approach to investment decisions. "Use a time of stress and crisis to double-down and invest in your fundamental strengths and have the strategic insight to trim or even eliminate non-core elements of your business," Miller advises. "As a talented performer, don't hesitate to look for new career opportunities at firms that your skills could help transform, even during the darkest part of the economic cycle." Miller says that MRI is already practicing what he's preaching. "We have made a bold decision to invest significantly in the digital tools that talent advisory and search firms need to change lives – and entire industries – while simultaneously and prudently transforming the core skills of our corporate support team to focus on improved delivery. I believe the future will prove that we were right to refuse to let uncertainty and fear inhibit our growth."
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This is my favorite chair.
It's not too small for me.
It fits well just like this outfit.
*Series name change because I can't stop captioning and I'm never wordless on Wednesday.
So cute! you better leave that chair alone!
SO funny! Nia loves her baby bouncy chair too. I've had it up on Craigslist for over a month now with no takers so it just might stick around.
@Baby Shopaholic thank you. she suddenly took an interest in it after months of ignoring it. i should buy her a rocking chair.
@Weather Anchor Mama thank you! Your little Princess is adorable.


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UC-Mexico initiative strengthens ties between border countries
Joseph Avila
Courtesy of UCR Today
Meetings held in Mexico City involving University of California President Janet Napolitano, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, UC Riverside Chancellor Kim Wilcox, UC officials and high-ranking officials from the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) were conducted last week to deepen cultural, academic and collaborative ties between the UC system and Mexican universities. Their plans, still in their developing stages, have been branded the UC-Mexico Initiative.
These educational ties have existed between the U.S. and Mexico since the establishment of the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) since 1980. The institute applies to all UC campuses and has been housed at UC Riverside since 1984.
The UC-Mexico Initiative looks to replicate and reinforce what UC MEXUS currently dedicates its resources toward, which involves securing and supporting binational research on Mexican art and history.
The first meeting between UC and Mexican officials resulted in a signing of a "memorandum of understanding" between the Napolitano and CONACYT Director General Enrique Cabrero Mendoza. The memorandum aims to create a committee composed of three representatives from CONACYT and three representatives from the UC system, including the director of UC MEXUS, Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra. The committee will create a report that will critique current collaborative practices between the two education systems and explore new possible practices that will benefit both the U.S. and Mexico.
Napolitano stressed the importance of cultural ties with Mexico during a meeting with Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, director of Mexico's National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA). The director plans to send a delegation of high-ranking CONACULTA representatives to UC campuses to identify goals for 2015 that will improve cultural relations between the two countries.
Not only is the initiative encouraging cultural and art exchanges, but it is also encouraging reciprocity of student exchanges between the two countries as well. The National Autonomous University of Mexico has agreed to promote undergraduate and graduate student exchanges in the coming years as part of a pact signed last year by President Barack Obama and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto known as the Bilateral Forum for Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
Currently 40 UC students study abroad at universities in Mexico and 1,900 Mexican students study in the U.S. The pact looks to send 100,000 U.S. undergraduate students to study in Latin America by 2018, with 50,000 studying in Mexico. As per a meeting between Napolitano, Wilcox and Mexican officials, the first 1,000 students are expected to be selected from UC campuses.
When asked about the low exchange rate of students, Napolitano told News America Media, "U.S. students are deterred by the perception that all of Mexico is violent. Mexican students are deterred because of the view that the United States is hostile. Perceptions are difficult to change, but one of the ways you change them is through actual experience."
Ezcurra recounts a comment by the president of the University of Veracruz, Dr. Sara Ladron de Guevara when she said, "Are you aware that … we almost never ever get together in these large numbers? We are here because you called us and this shows the moral authority that the University of California has on the Mexican university system. It also shows the responsibility that you have." Ezcurra sees this as recognition by the universities of Mexico to work together with the UC system to accomplish the tasks that have been set forth in the meetings, saying, "We need to meet this concrete reality of the existence of our border, of migration, of a shared past with concrete actions in and by the university."
"There are strong economic reasons why we shouldn't ignore Mexico … there are also very strong cultural reasons that for many of us are as important as the economic reasons," said Ezcurra. "It will take a while to consolidate but it's moving forward and I think that in itself is very hopeful."
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Thailand is reeling with another monk-in-sheep's-clothing scandal.
A monk is flying on a private jet to Europe for a shopping spree. That was after he made a TV ad for an air purifier. Not bad for a guy who's taken a vow of poverty and whose wardrobe consists of three saffron robes; why go all the way to Paris to buy those?
This is what happens when we worship men more than religion.
I'm very familiar with religious charlatans, growing up in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia, where travelling preachers would ride into town, or rather fly in on TAA or Ansett business class.
When I was little, my siblings and I used to love it when our parents would head off into the night for some swish Sunnybank dinner party where Devils-On-Horseback were the hors d'oevres and flummery the dessert.
It meant our beloved baby sitter would look after us for a few hours.
Her name was Mrs Spence, a really old lady of 35 or so (I was 13 at the time) with a bob of grey hair and warm and friendly manner.
Mrs Spence was a devout Christian. This was in direct contrast to my own family, whose idea of a "Holy Trinity" was a hat trick of English batsmen out during the Ashes.
One time she mentioned a travelling preacher was coming to Sunnybank for "charismatic renewal" and would I like to come along? I was on the tail end of my Suzi Quatro obsession and was looking for something new so I said yes.
Thus one Saturday afternoon, Mrs Spence and I went to a charismatic renewal service at the local Methodist Church.
The church was packed. I remember it being a carnival atmosphere, with the focus on a slick, handsome man in a heavy suit who told us, flashing a killer smile, how he'd once lived a life of crime stealing cars and indeed, ever since I have never been able to separate men who steal cars from those who sell them.
This preacher exuded charisma as he told us how he found God in jail.
He invited the congregation to move to the front where he would place one hand on people's foreheads, after which they fell to the ground and proceeded to "speak in tongues".
"What are they saying?" I asked Mrs Spence.
"The ancient language of the Lord," she replied, clutching a sensible handbag in her lap.
"I'm going up there," I told Mrs Spence.
One by one the Sunnybank folk fell back, caught by his henchmen staff, as he got closer and closer to me. There were two more ahead.
I held my arms up, copying the others. The preacher laid his right palm on my forehead.
A strange tingling feeling instantly emanated from his palm. It seemed to fan out throughout my skull and down my spine. I fell backwards.
As I was laid on the ground, I began to speak in tongues.
After a while I stopped. Walking back to the pew I was a changed boy. I had found God.
Mrs Spence was thrilled. She set up a meeting with Father John at St Barnabus, where he invited me to be an altar boy. This was the Anglican Church so being an altar boy wasn't the shadowy, regret-for-the-rest-of-your-life position found in other places.
For a good few weeks I floated around school holier than thou, thinking a lot about Jesus and being in heaven where I'd be able to say "mishimmina" for eternity far away from the fires of Hades. Why he had chosen to "Out Lucifer!" me, as opposed to the more positive "Praise Jesus!" he bestowed on others, remains a mystery.
Not long after, something went wrong with my Super 8 projector. I removed the back of the projector and discovered a piece of film was stuck. I reached in to pull it out … and got the electric shock of my life.
The same feeling I got from the preacher man.
It didn't take long for me to put two and two together.
No wonder he was wearing long sleeves on that hot Queensland day. No wonder he kept his palm closed as he placed it on our foreheads before pushing us back. I hadn't found God … but I was definitely a little closer to Benjamin Franklin.
And so began my healthy distrust of all people religious, especially those who demand payment. Poor Mrs Spence, a widow surviving on a pension, gave an extraordinary amount of money to that preacher's henchmen as we walked out.
This week Thailand is grappling with a monk by the name of Nane-Kham who has an amazing following out in Si Sa Ket.
He's the guy who flew to Europe in a private jet because there just isn't enough room in Thai Airways economy class. For that I don't disagree; the only difference between him and me is I didn't take a vow of poverty.
This is a monk who once built a giant Buddha image at his temple in this impoverished North-eastern province.
"I need some gold to make clothing for the Buddha," he announced to his faithful clan, made up predominantly of women above the age of 35.
How much gold do you think his ardent followers managed to toss his way? Ten kilograms? A hundred kilograms?
For the last few weeks he was back in the news, as this charismatic monk flew to France in a private jet.
If that wasn't enough, a couple of days ago he made an advertisement for an air purifier! Honestly, it was straight out of the shopping channel.
"We monks have hectic lives, getting up early and collecting alms, then seeing followers, which can make us sick," says Nane-Kham, as he sits in a gold embossed chair.
Beside him is a black plastic thing with FRESH AIR written next to it. In the bottom left hand corner of the screen the brand name VOLLARA comes up.
"When I'm feeling a bit run down, I turn to this machine, Fress Air." Fress … his pronunciation, not mine.
We cut to shots of monks in hospitals.
With cheesy music in the background we see that sea of mature ladies in white, doting on his every word. They are smiling, but not as much as the CEO of Vollara must be.
Nobody knows where the Buddha is buried, though fragments of his bones can be found in temples scattered across the region.
Authentic? I have no idea. But I do know all those little fragments must be turning in their graves. It's enough to make you want to speak in tongues.


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Please join us on Wednesday, October 17 at 7:30 pm, at the Natural History Museum (Times Mirror Room unless otherwise noted) for a presentation by Bill and Nannette Van Antwerp: "The Creatures of the Night".
Every night, billions of tons of strange and wonderful creatures come up from the deep. This vertical migration which is one of the largest migrations on earth originally was discovered by US Navy ships using a new-fangled device called Sonar during the later stages of World War II. Imagine being Captain of a ship and seeing a very large "something" coming up from the deep to check you out and for all practical purposes looking like a flock of submarines.
We will be talking a bit about the who's, how's and why's of this group of animals and show some pictures and some amazing video of some of the cooler critters we have seen.
If you have done enough reef dives you will have seen most every interesting creature of the reef but in the black water almost every dive you will find something that you not only have not seen before but often times that you didn't even know existed.
Bill Van Antwerp is the current president of LAUPS and works as the Chief Scientific Officer for a start-up company trying to help people with diabetes. He has been shooting photos underwater for over 15 years using a variety of systems from compact to DSLR and specializes in nudibranchs on a stage and other macro subjects. His wife, Nannette, a retired engineer and also an LAUPS board member, shoots underwater video and is an avid critter spotter. Together they travel the world hitting diving hot spots from Alaska to Indonesia shooting a variety of subjects, but both have a special love for the ocean's smaller inhabitants.


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This classic lidded blue and white Chinese porcelain ginger jar depicts a prowling dragon. Chinese dragons traditionally symbolise potent auspicious powers, particularly over water, rainfall, typhoons and floods! Antiqued finish. Serves as a classic decorative item or as a medium sized vase.


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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a Get Out the Early Vote Rally at Desert Pines High School February 15, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by AFP)
The Israeli lobby in the US has reportedly waged a huge campaign against Democratic Party's leading 2020 presidential contender Bernie Sanders in a bid to prevent him from winning the nomination of the party for the November's presidential election.
"The powerful lobby group known as American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is helping to fund a Super PAC launching attack ads against Sen. Bernie Sanders in Nevada on Saturday," independent US-based news outlet The Intercept reported, citing tow sources with knowledge of the arrangement.
According to the report, the negative ad campaign is being run by a group known as the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), led by its founder Mark Mellman, a longtime AIPAC strategist.
With a week to go until the Nevada primary election, DMFI has been airing ads criticizing Sanders' "electability" — a vague concept that nobody except political strategists seem to understand. The ads started airing on Saturday.
Although AIPAC claims to have no involvement with the anti-Sanders ad campaign, the report insists that the pro-Israel political pressure group is allowing donations to DMFI to count as donations to AIPAC, with big money contributions buying donors access to AIPAC's list of friendly congressmen, all without implicating AIPAC in the Sanders smear campaign.
Sanders's victory in New Hampshire is warning to DNC: Analyst
US Senator Bernie Sanders's victory in New Hampshire shows his base of support is solid and likely immovable, a warning to the DNC, according to Myles Hoenig.
The investigative news site also reported that DMFI is staffed by a host of AIPAC alumni, who switched over to focus their lobbying efforts exclusively on the Democratic Party, following the Republican Party's rightward drift on the Israeli regime in recent years.
According to the report, DMFI also spent $800,000 on anti-Sanders ads in Iowa, prompting Sanders himself to slate the "big-money interests" for attempting to derail his campaign with "negative ads."
AIPAC, the report said, spent more than $3.2 million on federal lobbying in 2016. It was forced to apologize to congressional Democrats this week for an ad campaign that accused Muslim congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota — outspoken opponents of Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories — of being "radical" threats "maybe more sinister" than the ISIL terrorist group.
AIPAC has persistently lobbied American politicians from both dominant political parties in the country.
Sanders came out victorious in last week's New Hampshire primary. With the Nevada primary just a week away, a Morning Consult poll published this week put the progressive senator ten points ahead of Joe Biden, the former vice president and until now, the supposed front-runner for the 2020 Democratic Party's nomination.
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The TC vision has proposed the idea of "constellations" - specific OpenStack deployment patterns that involve a set of OpenStack services for specific use-cases. Constellations could be tested via Tempest scenario tests, hosted in dedicated plugins.
During this hands-on workshop we will write an example Tempest plugin to demonstrate using service clients from both other plugins as well as Tempest.
Example of cross-service tests, for which the relevant service client is held in a plugin: Barbican & Octavia: TLS termination in a LB; Sahara & Heat: cross-check cluster resource creation via Heat API; Nova, Cinder, Barbican, Designate: boot a VM from an encrypted volume, assign a record.
Bring your laptop to follow the hands-on. A plus if you can stand-up devstack on it and test your plugin.
Attendees will learn how to write and use a Tempest plugin holding cross-service scenario tests.


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Vol. 17 No. 2 Apr 2018
Georg Kaiser, Expressionism and From Morn to Midnight
By Robert J. Cardullo
The Drama of Georg Kaiser
The most significant playwright of German expressionism, Georg Kaiser (1878–1945), pioneered the development of a radically subjective and stridently emotional dramatic style. A writer of incredible facility, he authored over 60 plays, as well as novels, poems, essays and other works. In the 1917–1918 season alone, 13 of his plays were produced on the German stage. No writer except Gerhart Hauptmann so completely dominated the attention of the German theatrical world in the years immediately following World War I. Moreover, despite the uneven quality of much of his work, his best plays continue to hold the stage. They have exerted a lasting influence on the technique of modern drama.
Kaiser's mastery of dramatic form and his command of his devices and techniques are at their best in his most thoroughgoing expressionist plays: From Morn to Midnight (1912) and the Gas trilogy, comprising The Coral, Gas I and Gas II. A denunciation of the anarchy and valuelessness of commonplace existence in a society dominated by the love of wealth and power runs through the Gas trilogy, composed from 1917 to 1919. The note of social protest here is even harsher than in the earlier works. And the images of violent destruction, inspired by the nightmare of World War I, are even more frenetic. The Billionaire in The Coral evades the grim realities of life through the substitution of a second self, and then experiences the demoralisation of his dream-world through the refusal of his son to accept his materialistic standard of values. The murder he ultimately commits is a form of suicide, impelled by his realisation that human progress will come not through class warfare and industrial violence, but only through the recovery of man's primal innocence, the regaining of a lost paradise. In Gas I, the Billionaire's Son is the head of a gas plant where the workers share in the profits; he has dedicated his life to social betterment – to converting the workers from the production of gas to a more humane, productive way of life – yet the plant and many of the workers are destroyed by the scientific monster they cannot control. Kaiser's apocalyptic view of cosmic destruction in this play has taken on new meaning in the wake of the creation of atom bomb and the grim possibility of thermonuclear war.
We see in Gas II, written against the backdrop of the end of World War I and political unrest in Germany, the real prospect of total human annihilation through scientific invention. The redemption of suffering humanity, as preached by the Billionaire Worker in this play, lies not simply in a change in the social and economic order, but in a spiritual conversion that will make possible the renewal of man. Our deliverance, Kaiser affirms, lies within. The final holocaust of universal, apocalyptic destruction, in which the rejected protagonist kills himself and the workers with the ultimate poison gas, is at the same time a proclamation of the need for human brotherhood and love, for the realisation of a new vision of mankind. Still, this ending is often seen as the darkest and most misanthropic vision in all of expressionist drama. Furthermore, it is worth noting that – with the exception of Hell, Road, Earth (1919) – the protagonists of Kaiser's expressionistic plays all are either killed or commit suicide, which may demonstrate this dramatist's pessimism about the possibility of mankind's regeneration. Despite the occasional appearance of a New Man in history (Jesus, Socrates), human nature could in fact be intrinsically corrupt.
The alternatives to chaos in Kaiser's major plays rest not so much on intellectual argument as on the playwright's shrill emotionalism, wherein dialogue gives way to monologue or to an almost breathless alternation of exhortation and exultation. There is little room in his expressionistic dramas for calm reflection or for psychological analyses of character or character relationships. Yet, not all of Kaiser's plays are as markedly expressionistic as From Morn to Midnight or the Gas trilogy; indeed, much of his writing is not expressionistic at all. His eclecticism led him to explore varied and often contradictory dramatic experiences and attitudes. Schopenhauerean resignation and Nietzschean affirmation thus sometimes exist side by side in his work.
Often, in successive plays, Kaiser would offer completely opposite solutions to the same problem. Occasionally the solutions were too simple: to end unemployment by suppressing procreation; or to end materialism or consumerism by destroying the machinery of production. Much of Kaiser's later work explores the conflicts of, and contradictions between, intelligence and passion. He drew the sharp opposition of ideas, or of conflicting elements in one dramatic idea, from the structure of Platonic dialogue, and also, perhaps, from his study of the plays of Shaw, whose work he admired immensely. Kaiser's preoccupation with abstract thought did lead critics to label him a Denkspieler (a manipulator of ideas or writer of "plays of ideas"). Yet, intellectual argumentation is but one aspect of this playwright's many-sided art, which is too rich and too varied to be reduced to an easy formula.
Kaiser was perhaps more convinced of his greatness as a playwright than are most of his present-day readers or spectators, yet there can be no question of the importance of his contribution to the modern theatre. Certainly he must be considered the representative playwright of German expressionism. The production of From Morn to Midnight by the Theatre Guild of New York, in May 1922, was itself a major event in the course of modern American drama. Quite apart from the question of its direct influence on Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice and Sophie Treadwell, all of whom responded to the challenge of expressionism (as did, much later, David Mamet, whose Edmond [1982], in its form, language and even action, has much in common with From Morn to Midnight), Kaiser's play was instrumental in establishing the new shrill, abrupt and depersonalised – yet, paradoxically, humanistic – style on the American stage. In his best work, the ameliorative passion, as well as the strident horror, of expressionism finds its most artistic embodiment.
From Morn to Midnight as Expressionist Exemplum
From Morn to Midnight, first produced in 1916, is probably Kaiser's most famous work. It is the tragedy of a little man whose staid and placid way of life is suddenly demoralised by the eruption in him of sexual desire. The Cashier, like the other characters of the play, has no name; he is a representative of his social class and economic status. Tormented by the monotony of his robot-like existence, he protests through his crime of embezzlement against a meaningless, dehumanised way of life. His drama subsequently unfolds not in the traditional sequence of acts, but in Stationen ("stations"), each of which presents a new phase in the hero's career. The shrill soliloquy of this disoriented fugitive even rises to an imaginative frenzy at one point when, moving from the pedestrian to the apocalyptic, he screams, "A catastrophe in the wash tubs! A world in chaos!"
By 1912, when Kaiser wrote From Morn to Midnight, he already had more than 20 plays to his credit, but none had been performed publicly. With From Morn to Midnight, Kaiser began his expressionist period, which catapulted him to fame and turned him into Germany's most successful and widely performed dramatist until 1933. This play, among the earliest German expressionist Stationendramen, is the best example of its kind. It consists of two parts and contains seven episodes or stations that depict a day in the life of a small-town bank cashier; in characteristic expressionist fashion, these scenes are only loosely linked and their action takes place in different locales in, around and outside Berlin.
The motivating agent of From Morn to Midnight is money, which determines the Cashier's fate after he robs his bank of 60,000 marks, then drives him from one station to another in a misguided attempt to buy something of value: a new, exciting and meaningful life. It is the Cashier's resulting pilgrimage or quest that unifies the play; he stands at its expressionistic centre, and through his eyes all characters and events are viewed or projected. In the opening scene, the Cashier is little more than an automaton, taking in and paying out money in a bank: his human spirit crushed or dehumanised beneath the social conventions, economic system and political structure of Wilhelminian Germany. Then he is jarred out of his daily, monotonous routine with the appearance of the exotic, sensual Lady from Italy. Desiring her, he knows of only one path to fulfilment – through money – so he stuffs his pockets and follows her. But when she turns out to be unattainable, the Cashier is faced with a crisis: unable to go back and undo what he has done, and unfitted by his past to be anything more than a cog in society's vast machine, he decides instead to seek some deeper meaning from life than he has previously known.
The remainder of From Morn to Midnight is devoted to the Cashier's search, which leads him to flee his narrow-minded, petit bourgeois family and seek salvation first in revolutionary passion, then in sensual ecstasy. Finally, after a series of disappointing experiences in Berlin, he comes to recognise – at a Salvation Army meeting – that the road to fulfilment lies through the soul. But when the Cashier flings away his stolen money, the supposedly repentant sinners fight like animals over it, and the Salvation Lass, in whom he had perceived his soulmate, betrays him to claim the reward offered for his arrest. Thus does the Cashier realise that even religion has succumbed to the materialistic urge and that, in the end, "you can buy nothing worth having, even with all the money of all the banks in the world; you get less than you pay, every time." In other words, it is futile to try to escape the material world through material means. Disabused of his illusions, the Cashier commits suicide when police officers come to arrest him.
From Morn to Midnight is a modern morality play, for, as the title suggests, it uses a day to symbolise the period of a man's life, during which time this Cashier-Everyman moves through the principal types of human experience. Because he is concerned with essences, Kaiser reduces the characters to generic types devoid of all individuality (or, to show the mechanisation of modern life, the playwright reduces them to numerical designations) and places them in archetypal situations. They stand for all people engaged in the same function or profession, and they function not so much as dramatic antagonists of the Cashier as existential instances of the life he comes to reject. These figures – among them the Stout Gentleman, the Cashier's Wife, the Jewish Gentlemen and the Salvation Army Penitents – employ a language that conforms to their own abstract state: theirs is not a natural, colloquial speech but instead an artificial, heightened diction cut down to its bare essentials.
Similarly, Kaiser reduces his plot to a series of coincidences that, on the surface, makes the action of From Morn to Midnight appear to be contrived. For example, the arrival at the German bank of the Italian Lady's letter of credit from her native country (proving that she is honest as well as virtuous) just after the Cashier absconds with the 60,000 marks; the bank manager's two telephone calls to the Lady's hotel room with the news that her letter of credit has arrived, one call (mysteriously unanswered) coming before the Cashier has been rejected by the Lady, and another coming just after the Cashier has departed the scene; the bank manager's visit to the Cashier's home in the hope of finding him there and talking him into returning the 60,000 marks to the bank, with impunity, just after the Cashier has left his family for good.
The effect of all these coincidences in so otherwise short a play is to make them seem intentional on Kaiser's part; from the Cashier's point of view, they could be said to be less accidental than inevitable. That is, the coincidences, by their sheer number, point out that the Cashier is determined, no matter what, to break out of his mechanised and soulless existence through the theft of a large sum of money. It is thereby implied that, had the Cashier run into the conciliatory bank manager at his, the Cashier's, house or at the Lady's hotel room, he still would have run off with the bank's funds. Or even had the Italian Lady's letter of credit arrived at the bank precisely while the Cashier was cramming his pockets with banknotes, he would nevertheless have persisted in stealing the money, using it if not to try to seduce an exotic woman other than the Italian Lady then to seek something else, and greater, from life than the meagre satisfactions of his petty middle-class existence.
Typical of all Kaiser's expressionist plays is this theme of searching for something more or better, even for the ethical renewal of man. It could be said that Kaiser, in fact, created the figure of the "New Man" who will always be associated with expressionistic drama; he was also the first to realise that this figure might be nothing more than an idealistic chimera. In From Morn to Midnight, the playwright tests the idea of regeneration through wealth: in other words, can one buy the essence or ultimate meaning of life? From the very beginning of his new venture, the Cashier discovers to his horror that money does not reveal the essence or truth but, on the contrary, hides or distorts it. What was originally meant to be a carefree outing with a woman of easy virtue – the Italian Lady – turns into a nightmarish journey where nothing is what it seems to be, including the people he meets.
The Italian Lady herself, who unwittingly causes the Cashier to commit a criminal act, turns out to be an honest character, while the Salvation Army Lass, who preaches unselfish love and forgiveness, reveals herself in the end to be nothing more than a greedy hypocrite. (She herself coincidentally if fatefully appears at the velodrome in Scene Five, trying to sell the Salvation Army newspaper, The War Cry, to the Cashier, before the latter's own visit to the Salvation Army Hall in station seven.) The sixth station of From Morn to Midnight depicts most graphically the distorted, delusionary world encountered by the Cashier. (The Salvation Lass also presciently shows up here, at the cabaret, and again attempts to sell the Cashier a copy of The War Cry.) In seeking erotic diversion with various, apparently beautiful, masked girls, he finds out that their masks cover their physical ugliness or spiritual deadness; they are thus symbolic of the grotesque discrepancy between reality and appearance.
Something similar could be said about the audience members at the velodrome in Scene Five: they appear to want the passionate freedom called for by the Cashier (and incited through his offers of substantial prize money to the top bicycle racers), to desire the eradication of the hierarchies of class and wealth; but the moment His Royal Highness enters his private box, the people fall back into their preordained places in Wilhelm II's virtually absolute, decidedly imperial monarchy. The patterned contrast of the individual and the crowd, characteristic of expressionist staging, is best exemplified by the bicycle race in this scene, where the puppet-like Jewish Gentlemen are all dressed alike. The reduction of the stadium crowd from the human to the animal, in a surge of mass, undifferentiated delirium, excites the frenzy of the Cashier's quest for meaning to its highest pitch.
Meaning at Midnight
Closely related to the question of what of value money can buy is the problem of how to determine life's quintessence, a subject integral to Kaiser's work. In From Morn to Midnight, for example, the Cashier discusses this problem and its relationship to death in the visionary snowfield scene (station three), which forms the climax of Part One and whose eerie atmosphere bears apocalyptic traits. Having effaced his tracks in the snow, the Cashier takes a comfortable seat in a tree, only to find himself suddenly in the midst of a wild, foreboding storm during which the bare branches take on the form of a skeleton. The skeleton, or Death, is depicted by the Cashier here as the policeman of man's existence, a proposition that he readily accepts with the following words: "I really believe I carry you about with me now." (Indeed, the snowfield itself can be said to represent the cemetery of modern existence, where the living are buried under the snow-cum-ice of conventional mores, habits and thinking.) But, like many another gambler among Kaiser's protagonists, the Cashier rejects Death for the time being when he says, "I still have things to do… Ring me up at midnight."
In another powerful scene at the close of From Morn to Midnight, death, in the form of a skeleton created by the tangle of wires in a large hanging lamp, is finally revealed to be the answer to the Cashier's quest or search, his frenzied and frustrating race from one station to another. He has arrived at Terminal Station (number seven) and, in a surprising move, as the Cashier shoots himself, Kaiser associates him with Christ: he "falls back, with arms outstretched… his husky gasp… like an 'Ecce,' his heavy sigh… like a 'Homo'." The Cashier's final words, of course, are the same ones uttered by Pontius Pilate in the Bible, in John 19:5, immediately before Jesus's crucifixion: "Behold the man"; ironically, Ecce homo was also the title of the 1888 book in which Nietzsche unfavourably contrasted Christian ideals with his own superior ideal of the Übermensch, or superman.
This ending has two aspects: On one hand, it underscores man's disillusionment as well as his consequent inability to become truly regenerated – after all, the Cashier has never wasted a thought on the feelings or troubles of the wife and family he has abandoned, the waiter he cheated, the whores he abused, or the stadium spectator whose death he engineered. On the other hand, the ending may reveal Kaiser's belief that, if the world is not yet ready for the Cashier's message – if humanity as pure as Christ is not yet realisable – then at least it has been shown the way. Which is the truth, and which of these propositions only appears to be the truth? Which proposition is contrived, and which is essential to the play's meaning? Is the Cashier even large enough to carry such abstract, symbolic weight? These are questions that run throughout Georg Kaiser's striking and violent expressionist drama From Morn to Midnight.
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SUMMARY: An often-suggested factor in the aetiology of craniomandibular disorders (CMD) is an anteroposition of the head. However, the results of clinical studies to the relationship between CMD and head posture are ontradictory. Therefore, the first aim of this study was to determine differences in head posture between well-defined CMD pain patients with or without a painful cervical spine disorder and healthy controls. The second aim was to determine differences in head posture between myogenous and arthrogenous CMD pain patients and controls. Two hundred and fifty persons entered the study. From each person, a standardized oral history was taken and blind physical examinations of the masticatory system and of the neck were performed. The participants were only included into one of the subgroups when the presence or absence of their symptoms was confirmed by the results of the physical examination. Head posture was quantified using lateral photographs and a lateral radiograph of the head and the cervical spine. After correction for age and gender effects, no difference in head posture was found between any of the patient and non-patient groups (P >0Æ27). Therefore, this study does not support the suggestion that painful craniomandibular disorders, with or without a painful cervical spine disorder, are related to head posture. KEYWORDS: craniomandibular disorders, cervical spine disorders, head posture, neck pain, temporomandibular disorders. Results No difference in head posture measured on the photographs with the participant in a sitting or a standing position was found (t ¼ 1Æ64, P ¼ 0Æ10). Therefore, the meanvalues of thetwophotographswereused in further analysis. A significant positive correlation was found between the head posture measured on the radiograph and on the photographs (R ¼ 0Æ43, P ¼ 0Æ00). In Table 2 the mean values and standard deviations of the two angles used to quantify head posture are shown for the non-patient group, the group with a painful CMD, the group with a painful CSD and the group with a painful CMD and CSD. For both methods, no difference was found in head posture between the groups (see Table 3). For the photographs, increasing age was associated with a more anteroposition of the head (t ¼ )2Æ39, P ¼ 0Æ02). No significant interactions between age and head posture were present. Table 4 shows the mean values and the standard deviations of the head posture for the non-CMD group, the group with a myogenous CMD, the group with an arthrogenous CMD and the group with a myogenous and an arthrogenous CMD. No ifference in head posture was found between the subgroups of CMD patients and the non-CMD patients and a positive age effect was present for the photographs (Table 5). No interactions were present. Visscher CM, De Boer W, Lobbezoo F, Habets L, Naeije M. Is there a relationship between head posture and craniomandibular pain? Journal of Oral Rehabilitation. 2002 Nov;29(11):1030-6. PubMed PMID: WOS:000179548100002.


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Home › Social Science › Religions, Ethics, Philosophy › Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City
Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City
Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for the Shi i world since medieval times. Thirteen original contributions by leading Iraqi and international scholars present several key perspectives on the history and development of the city, its global spiritual and educational prominence and its modern role as an economic and political centre. The essays in this book cover topics such as Najaf s architecture and urban design including the spectacular Imam Ali Shrine and the vast Wadi al-Salam Cemetery as well as the preservation of its built environment; the influence of political and social movements in the city (such as the 1920 revolt and the role of communism in the mid-twentieth century); the impact of pilgrimage to Najaf (which can rival that of the Hajj in Makkah) and the Ashura commemoration; religious authority in the city, both historical and embodied in the present day by its ayatollahs, imams, maraji and the scholars of the hawza, Najaf s famed seminary; and the city s intellectual development through the ages, which has resulted in an abundance of libraries. This remarkable book, the only edited academic volume available on the subject in English, fills a serious gap in the literature on this sacred site for the global Shi i community itself a subject of renewed interest amongst academics and the general public.
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The hull mold ready to build Sabots but not using a vacuum infusion process. I started with preparing the bow and stern transoms for take the vacuum platforms.
As there is so much curvature to the sides of the Sabot, the platform material had to have grooves cut into it to allow for the material to bend without deforming the shape of the mold.
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Chinese law threatens potential TikTok sale to Microsoft
China late last Friday revised its list of technologies banned or restricted for export for the first time in 12 years to include technologies such as data-analysis-based personal information payment services and AI interactive interface technology.
A Chinese trade expert told state media that the new Chinese rules on technology exports mean that the sale of TikTok, which owns ByteDance, of application operations in the United States may need Beijing's approval, a requirement that would complicate the sale.
United States President Donald Trump has ordered ByteDance to withdraw the short video app TikTok in the US, amid security concerns about the personal data it deals with.
Microsoft and Oracle have made offers to buy TikTok operations in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and all reports indicate that Microsoft is the closest to winning the deal, as the talks between the two sides have reached advanced stages.
Beijing professor of International Business and Economics University Sui Van said the changes covered by the law would be applied to TikTok.
In an interview with Xinhua News Agency published on Saturday, Sui added, "If ByteDance plans to export and sell its technology, it should be subject to licensing procedures."
In the new amendments, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce added 23 elements – including technologies such as personal information payment services based on data analysis and artificial intelligence interactive interface technology – to the export ban list, and it could take up to 30 days to obtain initial approval to export the technology.
The secret weapon of TikTok is believed to be the recommendation engine algorithm that keeps users glued to their screens. This algorithm runs a "for you" page in the app, which recommends watching the next video based on an analysis of your behavior.
Tsui pointed out that the development of ByteDance abroad depended on its domestic technology that provided the basic algorithm, and said that the company may need to transfer application software or usage rights to the new owner of TikTok from China to abroad.
"Therefore, it is recommended that ByteDance seriously study the revised list, and carefully consider whether it is necessary to suspend negotiations on the sale," he added.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it opposes Trump's executive orders on TikTok, and that Beijing will defend the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies.
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Area of Study: Music
Current City: Las Vegas, NV
Graduation Date: Spring, 1974
Current Occupation: Director of Jazz Studies, Professor of Music in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Music
Why did you choose WCU and/or the School of Music?
I selected WCU because it was recommended to me by music teachers in my home town of Norristown, PA. It would be more affordable than other institutions, since I was paying most of my own bills through musical employment in church accompanist positions and playing with bands for private events. WCU had a strong music education Program that my mentors suggested, as a backup employment possibility , if my career goal as a professional musician did not work out.
What training or education did the School of Music provide for you that relates to your current occupation?
I received a very fine musical education at WCU though my piano lessons with Dr. Pennington, organ lessons with Dr Wilkinson, theory classes with Dr. Jim Sullivan and with many other professors who helped to further develop my musical skill.
No day is typical for me, although I might teach from 9am- 4pm and then conduct a show at the Wynn Hotel, in Las Vegas, from 730-9p 6 nights per week. I also fly to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, where I reside, every couple of weeks to play on the soundtracks to television shows including Family Guy and American Dad at Fox Studios for my friend and composer, Walter Murphy, who I have worked with since the early 1980s. I also travel and conduct orchestras and play piano for my longtime friend, Ben Vereen,in concerts throughout the world. In addition, I compose music for PBS television documentaries and arrange and compose for many musical artists.
What advice would you give to someone who would like to enter your field?
I would advise them to obtain the highest level of proficiency on their respective instrument in a variety of musical styles, develop a superior musical ear and embrace a keen sensitivity to all genres and styles of music in order to have more marketable skill as both a performer and music educator. In addition, it is of upmost importance to become an excellent arranger, orchestrator and composer in all styles of music if one is to succeed in the music business. An aspiring musician should also develop exceptional musical sight reading ability and conducting proficiency. It is of upmost importance to develop strong interpersonal skills to cultivate relationships and networking opportunities in the music industry. In order to become an outstanding music educator, one must garner essential methods and techniques in musical instruction to assist students in their learning process.
What is your favorite memory of being a student at WCU and/or in the School of Music?
I have many wonderful memories of my years at WCU but particularly remember performing the first movement of Ravel's G Major Piano Concerto with The West Chester University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Jacque Voois. My piano instructor, Dr. Karl Pennington, recommended this piece probably because of the jazz influence that Ravel incorporated after the composer had become friends with George Gershwin. Dr Pennington thought that my interest in jazz would help me to perform this piece with authenticity and his idea came to fruition with my performance of this work in the honors concert. Dr Voois's son, a classical cellist who was in the elementary music class I instructed during my student teaching, influenced his father to listen and enjoy more American Jazz music after my interaction with him. I also cherished memories of playing many concerts with the student-run jazz band, The Criterions, which was one of my first experiences in playing in a large jazz ensemble. My best friend and roommate, David Kenney, saxophonist and music Ed major, would spend many hours with me in the Swope practice rooms playing duets utilizing jazz standards which prepared me for my eventual career as a top professional jazz pianist.
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Heuksodol (흑수돌) is a character in Dae Jo Yeong (TV series), another sworn brother of Dae Jo Yeong and also with Geol sabiu. His wife is Uh-hong. He was once Yeon Namseng's (Yeon Gaesomun's son) follower when Goguryeo was alive but when Yeon Namseng betrays him, he goes with Dae Jo Yeong and Geol sabiu and soon becomes friends, having a brother relationship. Heuksodul is very skilled in fighting but in some way stupid.

He follows along with Dae Joyoung and Geol Sabiwu in the struggle to help revive Goguryeo and faces many times of victory as well as failure. He dies just before the real clash at the battle of Chunmunryeong. He nearly killed General Li wen of Tang but a sword pierced him through the back. His soldiers all died and he was caught. General Li Haego orders him executed.

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 Portrayed by Kim Hak-cheol in 2006–2007 KBS TV series Dae Jo Yeong.

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Any JSF developer who discovers PrimeFaces will tell you that it was love at first sight. Inevitably, PrimeFaces is perceived through JSF eyes, and this perspective acts as a magnifying glass for PrimeFaces features, such as more components, an amazing look and feel, finely grained AJAX capabilities, support for themes, powerful integration with JSF, and ease of use. You may think that PrimeFaces just fills in some JSF gaps, but once you get familiar with it, you will understand that PrimeFaces is much more than that. PrimeFaces is a simple and handy tool used to create heavy and complex applications.
This video course teaches you how to develop a complete web application using the PrimeFaces framework. The application shapes a virtual photo gallery, which is designed to cover a wide range of PrimeFaces features.
This video course has a simple structure. We start with an overview of PrimeFaces and then continue with the development of a complete web application. The application development starts by setting up a PrimeFaces theme and adding a page layout. We continue by adding the necessary PrimeFaces components (DataTable, Upload, Galleria, and so on). Once the components are in place, we focus on the server-side where we "give life" to these components. At the end, we perform some application tests and pull some final conclusions.
Rapid PrimeFaces is ready to take you into the PrimeFaces world where, as a JSF developer, you will find the perfect development environment for JSF-based applications.
This video follows the "learning-through-example" paradigm. You will develop an exciting application using PrimeFaces and learn some of its great features at the same time.
Anghel Leonard is currently a Java chief architect. He is a member of the Java EE Guardians with 20+ years' experience. He has spent most of his career architecting distributed systems. He is also the author of several books, a speaker, and a big fan of working with data.


You've got your first round of funding. You have an amazing product or service, and you've been hustling to get it in front of people. Now it's time to take it to the next level. You've probably done some of the research to get this far. Let's make sure it helps carry you all the way into startup success.
Perhaps you don't have a CMO — or perhaps you are the CMO. If it feels like someone keeps dumping the puzzle on the floor while you're trying to put it together, it might be time to get help. If you have ever felt like your marketing resources lacked the focus to help you drive more business, let us come in and create order. We can review your existing programs, resource allocation, branding, and resources to ensure they're working together to give you a competitive edge.
It can be tempting to try to be all things to all people, but that type of scarcity mentality won't serve you when a customer starts costing you money. We'll help you identify the heart of who your product serves, and find who your most profitable and influential customer is. Then we'll help you craft a cohesive acquisition plan that helps build an audience, trust, and ultimately new customers.
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Hiding Two Deadly Illnesses, Franklin D. Roosevelt Dreams of a World Organization for Peace: The UN
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The most charismatic and popular President of the 20th century swept into office smoking two packs a day, drinking martinis, and carrying lightly, on his broad shoulders, a prodigious history of colds, fevers, throat and lung infections, sinusitis, influenza, pneumonia, hives, and lumbago. And oh yes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was paralyzed, too, from the waist down, by polio. This, remarkably, was kept secret, with the connivance of his doctors and the cooperation of the press; the American public believed he walked with a cane. But disguising his literally crippling disability was merely a warm-up exercise for the deceptions that were to come - for in the midst of World War II, between the end of his unprecedented third term and his now-unimaginable fourth, Roosevelt began, painfully and obviously, to die. That he managed to do so, without his family, his staff, his allies or certainly, the country, knowing, suggests a cover-up of staggering proportions - and success.
It has taken sixty-five years for all the causes of FDR's terrible decline, and ultimate death, to be known. According to his doctors, the massive cerebral hemorrhage that killed him on April 12, 1945, came as a bolt of lightening from the blue. Yet anyone who had seen the President in the last year and a half of his life knew they were looking at a very sick man. Certainly his grey pallor, blue lips, forty-pound weight loss, and occasional glassy-eyed lapses suggested that his end was near. Working only four hours a day; sleeping at least ten; subject, suddenly, to disconcerting memory and intellectual slips – FDR looked like a dying man. But dying of what? He and his doctors insisted he was tired, but otherwise fine. That he had hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and congestive heart failure, took a quarter century to come out. And that, on top of his cardiovascular disease, he had cancer which, in all likelihood, had metastasized to his abdomen and brain, made news just this year.
But even dying, FDR had something for which he desperately wanted to live, and it is the thing last desired that is the subject of this letter, written and signed, so weakly, only a few weeks before his death. What Roosevelt wanted was to start an international organization for peace. "The only alternative to another war," he wrote here, "is whole-hearted membership in a plan to maintain the peace agreed to be our friends and allies."
Of course, he wouldn't live to see the establishment of the United Nations, some seven months later. But then, it was remarkable that FDR even lived to be President – for, among all of his ailments and diseases, he was the object of an assassination attempt as President-Elect. Two weeks before he was sworn in, five shots, all of which missed, were fired at him.
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Dear Harry:
Thank you for your letter of March nineteenth.
The tragic sequence of events through the last twenty-five years should be enough to convince all peace-loving Americans that the only alternative to another war is wholehearted membership in a plan to maintain the peace agreed to by our friends and allies. I shall take up with the State Department the question of the speech.
With all good wishes to you and the family.
Very sincerely yours,
Honorable Harry H. Woodring,
Topeka,
Kansas.
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Retail gift cards have become an increasingly popular way for consumers to buy things. However, in light of the economic downturn, many consumers have been asking what they should do to protect themselves if they have purchased gift cards from a retailer, and that retailer later files for bankruptcy or goes out of businesses.
New federal rules went into effect in 2010 that are designed to protect consumers by restricting gift card fees and gift card expiration dates. These rules apply to two types of cards: Retail gift cards, which can only be redeemed at the retailers and restaurants that sell them; and bank gift cards, which carry the logo of a payment card network like American Express or Visa and can be used wherever the brand is accepted.
The FTC has brought enforcement actions against several companies for deceptive marketing of gift cards. It also has information available for consumers about shopping for and using gift cards.
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Bentley Bentayga SUV Unveiled With Launch Film (Video)
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When a luxury car company like Bentley breaks into SUVs for the first time, it's a big deal. And so it is with the Bentley Bentayga, Bentley's inaugural SUV which has now been officially unveiled by the company with a "Launch Film" specifically for the occasion.
The Bentley Bentayga will be the fastest and most powerful sport utility vehicle around when it hits the streets later this year, with a top speed of 187 miles per hour. It will also be customizable for buyers, with options for extra perks like a refrigerator in the trunk – an apt feature that makes the SUV even more appealing for picnics and barbecues.
But you can get all the information you need by watching the Bentley Bentayga launch film for yourself below and checking out the SUV's official site right here, where you can also find links to join the thousands of people who have already pre-ordered one for themselves.
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Reporting on Africa: Opening
1997-05-29T20:51:00-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgMr. Soyinka opened a conference on the future of Africa and its journalistic coverage as part of a meeting on the subject. Mr. Soyinka discussed several threats to adequate news coverage and speculated on the affect that totalitarian regimes in central Africa could have on journalism and also broached the subject of suppression of information. He said this would have a devastating affect on the citizens of Africa and the perception of democratization in this region.
Mr. Soyinka opened a conference on the future of Africa and its journalistic coverage as part of a meeting on the subject. Mr. Soyinka… read more
Mr. Soyinka opened a conference on the future of Africa and its journalistic coverage as part of a meeting on the subject. Mr. Soyinka discussed several threats to adequate news coverage and speculated on the affect that totalitarian regimes in central Africa could have on journalism and also broached the subject of suppression of information. He said this would have a devastating affect on the citizens of Africa and the perception of democratization in this region. close
Filter by Speaker All Speakers Charlayne Hunter-Gault Evelyn S. Lieberman Steve Lucas Wole Soyinka
Charlayne Hunter-Gault Chief Correspondent National Public Radio->Africa
Evelyn S. Lieberman Director Voice of America
Steve Lucas Chief Voice of America->African Division
Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate
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Participants in the conference of the Parliament of the World's Religions discuss communication rights and interfaith dialogue.
A workshop organized by WACC in partnership with the Toronto-based International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF) formed part of an extensive programme of interactive events taking place in Salt Lake City, 15-19 October 2015.
The workshop was introduced and moderated by WACC's General Secretary, Rev. Dr Karin Achtelstetter, who situated it in the context of recent debates about freedom of expression, hate speech, and the urgent need for interfaith dialogue.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for WACC to be involved in the vital work of the Parliament and to explore common ground between religious freedom and communication freedom," she said.
Describing some of the tensions created when freedom of expression collides with freedom of religion, he illustrated how the Qu'ran supports pluralism and non-discrimination.
Philip Lee, WACC Deputy-Director of Programs, spoke about communication rights and outlined the potential for peace journalism to offer alternative, more balanced opinions in the face of biased or sensationalist news coverage.
Participants in the workshop were invited to express their views and took part in a lively discussion.
Action points raised included rights vs. responsibilities, the need for safe spaces in which to practice faith, and the need to discourage incitement to violence and to encourage opportunities for public dialogue.


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How the Toronto van attack may spur cases of PTSD
The Toronto van attack, which left 10 people dead, "is likely to bring on a variety of feelings among those affected — people who witnessed the event, the first responders who provided care for victims and even those of us who simply saw news coverage of the horrible incident," writes Dr. Margaret McKinnon, the Homewood Chair in Mental Health and Trauma at McMaster University.
More than a thousand women condemn sexual misconduct in international aid sector
More than 1,100 women living and working within the international aid sector in 81 countries have signed an open letter demanding that women be "taken seriously by men and decision makers in humanitarian and development organizations".
It's time to take our charities to the cleaners
The Oxfam sexual exploitation scandal signals the arrival of the moment for an honest public conversation about charities' role in society, the white saviour mentality, gender relations, charity accountability, and the impact of western aid and power in developing countries.


Jazz up your green St. Patrick's Day party gear with this cute and fun Kiss Me I'm Irish Bow Tie.
The Kiss Me I'm Irish Bow Tie is perfect for St. Patricks's Day or just Irish theme parties. Each package includes one bow tie with elastic attached.


The holiday winds are blowing early this year, but we are prepared with many, many Thanksgiving and Christmas designs good for gift giving or gift stitching. We also have any number of exciting projects to stitch for yourself. Designers have been extremely busy this season. We have a selection of new design photos at the end of this newsletter.
We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, but on Friday, November 28, we are planning an After Thanksgiving Sale with 10% off your entire purchase. This covers everything in the shop. Happy Thanksgiving and we will see you on November 28 – 10 until 5:30.
You are cordially invited to our Annual Christmas Open House on Saturday, December 6, from 10-4. Come enjoy hot punch and cookies and peruse holiday offerings. Remember – we have gift certificates in any amount.
Lizzie Kate has a last minute Christmas kit that's always popular. This year it is Jingle All The Way; a small pillow kit stitched on Lugana fabric with beautiful finishing fabric, 2 snowflake buttons and 5 golden jingle bells. Very cute!
Little House Needleworks is beginning a 12-part ornament collection in December 2014. Called "The Sampler Tree," these once a month ornaments will be sampler-styled. We have a sign up list, if you are interested in this darling series.
Following are new goodies from Kelmscott Designs: beautiful Snowflake Needle Minder is white on dark navy background, Pere Noel Minder placed on hunter green background, and Angel mother of pearl thread winders which come 2 to a package. Any or all of these accessories would make special gifts for stitching friends.
Pine Mountain Designs has two new Stamp Series pillows: 11 cent stamp is a Thanksgiving design and the final stamp in the series is the 12 cent Santa. Just stitch the design and slip it into the pre-sewn pillow. Both of these stamps are too cute!
Two larger pillows also celebrate the holidays: Gratitude is Enough for Thanksgiving and Believe in Christmas. In each case, stitch the design and slip over a polka dot pillow form.


President Reagan will be turning over in his grave on November 15 when the second annual "Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award" is given to President Obama's former CIA director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
As we noted when Panetta was nominated by Obama for the Pentagon post, his Congressional career "was dedicated to fighting Reagan's defense build-up and anti-communist policies."
The "Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award" recognizes "the exemplary dedication and service of individuals in the defense of the United States and its people."
In our column "Panetta's War on Reagan's Defense Policies," we noted that at a time in the 1980s when Reagan had said, "In virtually every measure of military power the Soviet Union enjoys a decided advantage," Panetta was a liberal California congressman who "sought to undermine Reagan's pro-defense policies at every turn."
In addition to his anti-defense record, Panetta had a relationship with Communist Party figure Hugh DeLacy, who had ties to Soviet and Chinese intelligence operatives. It was never clear if Senate investigators or the FBI, or both, investigated Panetta's background.
We reported that Panetta was so far to the left that he praised a pro-Soviet "peace activist," Lucy Haessler, and had asked President Jimmy Carter for clemency for Leonard Peltier, the radical American Indian activist serving life in prison for killing two FBI agents.
Why the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library is giving Panetta an award is beyond comprehension. The foundation serves as the final resting place of America's 40th President.
Panetta was Obama's Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2009 to 2011, and Secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013.
As Obama's CIA Director, he was responsible for an egregious leak of classified information, identifying the unit that conducted the raid on Osama bin Laden and the ground commander by name at a ceremony with Hollywood filmmakers working on the film "Zero Dark Thirty" known to be present. This information was classified as top secret.
The film, "Zero Dark Thirty," was widely perceived as an attempt to make the Obama administration look tough on terror.
John Hayward's Human Events article referred to Panetta's "good leak," as perceived by the Obama administration, versus disclosures about administration wrongdoing that were being punished.
A draft copy of a Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General report on the Pentagon's cooperation with the makers of the film also confirmed that Panetta had disclosed top secret information about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. But the final copy of the report from the Inspector General contained nothing about Panetta's disclosure.
It said Panetta's disclosures included "highly classified signals intelligence," or, as the draft report put it: "Director Panetta also provided DoD information, identified by relevant Original Classification Authorities as TOP SECRET//SI//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL, as well as, SECRET/ACCM."
The "Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award" is also being given to Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who has a pro-defense record marred by his support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its propaganda arm, Al Jazeera.
The awards to Panetta and McCain will follow a "Reagan National Defense Forum" featuring General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou wrote a column titled "I got 30 months in prison. Why does Leon Panetta get a pass?," about how he was sentenced to prison for disclosing the name of a colleague. He contrasted his case with that of Panetta, who was never prosecuted for his disclosures.
One month before he gets the Reagan award, Panetta is scheduled to receive "one of the nation's highest honors," the William J. Donovan Award, which will be presented in October at the annual dinner of The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society in Washington, D.C.
A new book, A Very Principled Boy, by former CIA officer Mark A. Bradley, tells the story of communist Duncan Lee, who infiltrated the OSS for the Soviets and was never prosecuted or convicted. Communist defector Elizabeth Bentley exposed Lee, but he continued to deny serving the communists until his death. He was eventually exposed definitively as a Soviet agent by the Venona intercepts of Soviet messages by the NSA. One of the Venona messages named Lee, who worked directly for OSS director Donovan, by the cover name "Koch."
Donovan called him a "very principled boy" who would not betray his country.
"The sad truth," notes Mark LaRochelle, "is that Lee was just one of many identified Soviet agents in the OSS. Others, as we now know from numerous impeccable sources, included Maurice Halperin, Carl Marzani, Franz Neumann, Helen Tenney, Julius and Bella Joseph, and Lee's Oxford classmate, Donald Niven Wheeler."
The Office of Strategic Services Society says it exists to educate the American public "regarding the continuing importance of strategic intelligence and special operations to the preservation of freedom in this country and around the world."


Breast asymmetry is a common occurrence following surgery for breast cancer. Discrepancies can be rectified by reduction of the larger breast, augmentation of the smaller breast, or a combination of both. However, assessment of breast volume prior to reconstructive surgery is an inexact science, prone to human error.
We describe a simple method that provides measurable, objective data that has enabled us to ensure symmetry in a large number of patients.
The patient is given a range of silicone prostheses, to fit inside a full-cup non-wired bra [Figure - 1]. Prostheses are exchanged until satisfactory symmetry is achieved from all angles. The prosthesis is immersed in a graduated two litre measuring jug, filled with water to one litre [Figure - 2]. The displaced volume, representing the volume deficit between the two breasts, is recorded.
This value can be used to size implants, or as an intraoperative guide for reduction mammoplasty: tissue excised is placed in the jug as before, until the displaced volume equals the previously recorded volume deficit.
Several methods of breast volume assessment have been described, from simple anatomical measurements to computer-aided biostereometrical analysis and thermoplastic modelling. However, most reported methods tend to be either inaccurate, expensive or time consuming. Previous applications of Archimedes principle have tended to be cumbersome or inaccurate [Figure - 3]. We have found our method to be an accurate, acceptable, affordable and reproducible method of assessing breast volume deficit during surgery for breast cancer. The technique has been used with great success and satisfaction for more than 95% of our patients.
1. Smith DJ, Palin WE, Katch VL, Bennett JE. Breast volume measurements: Normal values. Plast Reconstr Surg 1986;78:331-5.
2. Loughry CW, Sheffer DB, Price TE, Lackney MJ, Bartfai RG, Morek WM. Breast volume measurement of 248 women using biostereometric analysis. Plast Reconstr Surg 1987;80:553-8.
3. Bulstrode N, Bellamy E, Shrotria S. Breast volume assessment: comparing five different techniques. Breast 2001;10:117-23.
4. Schultz RC, Dolezal RF, Nolan J. Further applications of Archimedes' pricinple in the correction of asymmetrical breasts. Ann Plast Surg 1986;17:98-101.
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Maia Matches is the official cartoonist for Amsterdam in 2019 and the eviction of ADM was the subject of her 1st. publication on Saturday, January 26th. 2019.
On Monday evening (January 7th 2019, the day of ADM's eviction), there was a noise-demo held for the peoples that got arrested that day.