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Groundbreaking Rachel Balkovec once disguised gender on resumes
Rachel Balkovec used to change her first name on resumes to disguise her gender and hope a baseball organization would hire her as a strength and conditioning coach.
Now she is a modern-day pioneer as the first woman to be hired as manager of a Major League Baseball-affiliated team.
The 34-year-old Balkovec was introduced Wednesday as manager of Tampa Tarpons, the low Class-A Florida State League affiliate of the New York Yankees.
The person who used "Rae" on resumes no longer has to manipulate her identity to get noticed.
"It feels a little interesting to me that there's so much attention now, but obviously, society's changed, the world has changed," Balkovec said. "We're celebrating women in sports in general a lot more than we ever were in 2012 when I first got in."
Balkovec's first job in baseball was as a minor league strength and conditioning for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2012.
Her big break came in 2019 when the Yankees hired as a minor league hitting coach.
Now comes a bigger step that will attract a lot of scrutiny — managing a club of players while being female and not having the traditional baseball playing background.
"The players that I've worked with, whether they like me or they don't like me, they like what I'm saying or they don't like what I'm saying — I do feel like they respect me," Balkovec said. "At the very least, they know that I'm passionate, hard working and then I know what I'm talking about. Whether they like it or not is a different story. But every coach goes through that."
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said he looks forward to the day when gender isn't part of the story with hires such as this.
"There is always a first," Cashman told reporters on Wednesday. "There's always someone who emerges who is not afraid, who wants it that goes after it, and is strong enough to take it. Unfortunately, in some categories, it takes longer than others. And unfortunately, society had failed to recognize the strength and power — and equal power, if not more power — that women possess."
Balkovec is a native of Omaha, Neb. She played college softball at Creighton and New Mexico before pursuing a career in baseball.
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The History of Safety Shoes
Safety Shoes Have Been Protecting Feet for Years!
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Because of the invention of safety shoes, you can protect your feet and toes from various workplace hazards.
From the beginning of the 19th century, foot protection became necessary because the industrial industry began booming. Back then, a worker was cheaper to replace than implementing safety measures.
What Are Work Boots?
They are footwear that protects the wearer from any hurt, which can be caused by their occupation. There are safety work boots for all trades that protect workers from chemicals, water, or even steel-toed boots if something heavy falls on their toes.
The First Safety Boot
The first safety boot introduced as foot protection was made of wood and called sabots¹. Sabots had a fundamental design of a block of wood that gets hollowed out. They became popular because people started to move to the cities for work.
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French and Breton's peasants mostly wore sabots, and it protected their feet from falling items. Farmers would commonly wear them in the event of a horse or cow stepping on their feet. Interestingly, the word sabotage comes from when workers would want to destroy machinery to halt production, and they would throw sabots into the gears.
Before sabots got invented, clogs or leather boots got worn by workers. Today, regular people and people in the military personnel still wear them.
Steel-Toed Boots
By the early 20th century, work boots shifted to steel-toed boots. Industrialization was widespread, and injuries at the workplace started to increase. There were no laws protecting workers, and they needed good work boots to protect their feet.
Red Wing Shoes started manufacturing these steel-toed boots in the early 1930s. Around the same time, Germany began reinforcing its soldiers marching boots with steel toe caps. These safety shoes became standard boots for soldiers during World War II.
Introduction to Safety Laws
Safety issues came into question when Compensation laws came into fruition. Companies finally realized that replacing an injured worker instead of paying compensation was not the right choice anymore.
During these beginning phases of Compensation law implementation, steel-toed boots got invented. These safety boots prevented many work-related injuries. Companies saw the liability costs and focused their efforts to ensure the safety of their workers.
But wait, let me tell you something.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act got passed in the United States. The administration must oversee and set the standards for workplace safety since 1970. They hold companies liable for injuries and ensure that safety equipment and procedures are in place to protect workers.
Industries where these safety boots are in use today, are mining and construction. It is a requirement for steel-toe boots to be worn to prevent foot-related injuries in the workplace.
Nevertheless
Companies such as the Dutch State Mines (DSM) came up with a creative way to keep their injured workers employed. The DSM started a shoe factory designing and manufacturing safety footwear for safer and sturdier boots for the miners.
Steel-Toe Shoes as a Fashion
Safety boots have become a trend over the years as a must-have fashion item. Subcultures such as punks in the 1960s started to wear steel-toed boots or other safety gear as everyday wear.
As this style grew, so did the variety of different types and colors of the shoe. They get made with other materials instead of steel reinforcement, such as plastic and composite material in some boots. With this continuous development and improvements, today, steel toes boots are sturdier than ever before.
Choosing the Right Shoe
Having the right shoe is essential, and some fashion steel-toe shoes won't offer the same protection in the workplace. There is a guideline on what considerations to keep in mind when shopping for the right comfortable safety shoes:
Make sure the shoes are flat, and the base of the heel space must be wide
From heel to the big toe, the safety shoe must be straight
The heel must have a firm grip on the shoe
The reinforced steel-toe area must be spacious enough to move the toes
The foot must not be able to slip out of the shoe, so the instep must be adequately fastened
Safety boots also protect your feet from heat and cold, stepping on sharp objects causing injuries and preventing your skin from exposure to harmful chemicals. Avoiding injuries is why choosing the right safety work shoe is essential.
There are different causes of work-related injuries:
Injuries causing crushing, sprains, and lacerations which account for up to 10% of work-related injuries
Injuries related to slipping, tripping, and falling account for 15% of injuries
What we learn from this is that training is an essential part of safety measures. Educate employees on being careful in their environment and using all safety equipment and using them.
As if that's not enough
Just one foot consists of 26 bones with muscles, ligaments, blood vessels, and nerves². An injury such as something piercing through your shoe or dropped on your foot can be very painful. These injuries can even affect your capability to work, and it is a risk to your quality of life. Steel-toed safety shoes can reduce the severity of such damages.
What is the meaning of safety shoes?
A steel toe boot (also known as safety shoes, steel toecaps, steel-capped boots, or safety boots) is a resilient shoe with strong protection in the toe area. Extra strength protects the foot from compression or falling objects.
Why are safety boots essential?
Safety footwear offer protection against cuts, burns, and different types of impact. They also help prevent significant slips and falls, potentially leading to more severe issues, including head injuries and broken bones.
Do safety shoes expire?
Safety shoes need to be replaced for them to remain effective, irrespective of who pays for them. Products don't last forever.
When it comes to job-specific shoes, you need to replace or maintain them as needed. If you ever have a doubt, replace your safety shoes.
Are safety boots a legal requirement?
According to health and safety laws, you only need to wear safety footwear when there's a risk of injury. It's common for employers to implement rules where wearing safety shoes is a requirement.
It's especially true when the danger lies with employees not changing into and out of PPE shoes throughout the day
Safety boots are essential in some industries, such as mining or construction. You can prevent serious injuries by wearing them and reduce the severity of any should they occur. Protect your feet in the workplace and prevent injuries wearing steel-toed work boots.
Be sure to follow the guideline and choose the right shoe for you. Educate your employees on the workplace's best safety practices and utilize all safety equipment provided to them.
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Il fiume Arkansas è un tributario del Mississippi che scorre verso est sud-est attraverso gli stati Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma e Arkansas.

Con una lunghezza di 2334 km è il quarto fiume più lungo degli Stati Uniti. Il fiume nasce nelle Montagne Rocciose del Colorado, nella contea di Lake, vicino Leadville e si congiunge con il Mississippi in Arkansas nella contea di Desha, presso il villaggio ora disabitato di Napoleon. È il più grande tributario del sistema Mississippi-Missouri, con un bacino di drenaggio di 505.000 km², con numerosi affluenti fra i quali il Canadian, il Cimarron, il Neosho e il Verdigris.

Caratteristiche
Il fiume ha tre caratteristiche differenti lungo il suo tragitto:
 All'inizio è un fiume torrentizio e ripido che scorre nelle Montagne Rocciose superando un dislivello di 1400 m in 193 km circa.
 A Cañon City in Colorado il fiume lascia le montagne ed entra nella Royal Gorge ("gola reale"). Per la maggior parte del suo percorso nel resto del Colorado e in Kansas è un tipico fiume di pianura poco profondo.
 Nel tratto in Oklahoma e Arkansas il fiume diventa più profondo e costituisce una via d'acqua navigabile in qualche punto tra Fort Smith e Pine Bluff a seconda della stagione.

Da questo punto alla foce il fiume permette il traffico commerciale su chiatta e anche trasporto passeggeri e uso ricreativo.Il Sistema di navigazione McClellan–Kerr inizia a Catoosa in Oklahoma per arrivare attraverso un vasto sistema di dighe e chiuse al Mississippi.

Importanti città attraversate da questo fiume sono Wichita in Kansas, Tulsa in Oklahoma e Little Rock in Arkansas.

Dalle sorgenti dell'Arkansas vicino Leadville, molte popolazioni di nativi americani sono vissute vicino e lungo le rive del fiume, i primi europei a vedere il fiume furono i membri della spedizione di Coronado il 29 giugno del 1541, e qualche anno dopo Hernando de Soto scoprì la congiunzione dell'Arkansas con il Mississippi. Per la prima volta fu usato questo nome dal sacerdote francese Jacques Marquette che nel suo diario nel 1673 parlò di fiume Akansa. Nel 1819 il trattato Adams-Onís stabilì che l'Arkansas era parte della frontiera tra gli Stati Uniti e il Messico e così rimase fino all'annessione del Texas nel 1846.

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Science Fair Project Ideas for Kids, Middle & High School Students ⋅
Science Projects on Seashells
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Seashell Characteristics
By Heather Vidmar-McEwen
Seashells are fascinating because of their diverse shapes, sizes and colors, and they can be an engaging subject for science projects on many topics. Think about the animals that make shells and what role they play in marine or freshwater environments. Use seashells to learn about ecology, evolution and morphology. Collect seashells on a trip to the shore or order them online.
Collect shells from many different environments, including ocean beaches and tide pools, lakes and river estuaries. Sort the shells by size and shape, then use a seashell guide to identify the shells and the animals that produced them. Label the collection using paper tags or permanent markers. Attach the shells to a poster board or trace them with markers, then include information about each type of shell.
Using shells from various areas, try to identify what type of environments are represented in the collection. For a basic project, sort shells into different environments (marine, freshwater and river) and draw pictures of each environment and some of the other plants and animals that live there. For a more advanced project, research how shells fit into the ecology of each environment, and report on how the types of shells in a collection might indicate how healthy an environment is.
Create a chart that shows how each shell fits into a food web. Research what the shell-producing animals eat as well as what animals eat them. Then draw a web of these other plants and animals with the shell at the center by gluing it to the picture or tracing it.
Shell Composition
Shells are made of calcium carbonate secreted by the animal. Calcium carbonate dissolves in acidic environments, giving off carbon dioxide gas. Put a seashell in a glass of vinegar and observe and record any changes in the shell over several days. Then take the shell out of the glass and try to crush it. What happens? Try this with different types of shells to see if they dissolve at different rates.
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Undergraduate musings
Dan, you asked about David Foster Wallace's undergraduate philosophical work. I don't have time to read the whole article, as I'm currently dealing with the end-of-semester crush of papers and excuses of my undergraduates. Who, I am sure, are less philosophically inclined than Wallace (whose father was a phil prof, and who started the PhD program at Harvard).
However, a bit of the article was posted on The Plank. Here it is:
Sometime in his later college years, Wallace became troubled by a paper called "Fatalism," first published in 1962 by a philosopher named Richard Taylor. The fatalist contends, quite radically, that human actions and decisions have no influence on the future. Your behavior today no more shapes events tomorrow than it shapes events yesterday. Instead, in a seemingly backward way, the fatalist says it is how things are in the future that uniquely constrains what happens right now. What might seem like an open possibility subject to human choice — say, whether you fire your handgun — is already either impossible or absolutely necessary. You are merely going with some cosmic flow.
Wallace proposed that there was a flaw in Taylor's argument, a hidden defect. In essence, Taylor was treating two types of propositions as if they were the same, when in fact they needed to be distinguished and treated differently. Consider the sentences "It was the case that I couldn't fire my handgun" and "It cannot be the case that I did fire my handgun." At first they may sound similar, but Wallace argued that they involve quite different notions of impossibility. "It was the case that I couldn't fire my handgun" refers to a past situation in which discharge is deemed impossible because (let's say) my gun was broken. "It cannot be the case that I did fire my handgun" refers to a present situation in which discharge is deemed impossible because (let's say) my gun is still cool to the touch. The first notion involves an earlier, physical constraint on firing (namely, the broken gun); the other involves the current absence of a necessary consequence of firing (namely, a hot barrel). An extremely sensitive observer of language, Wallace noted that there is a subtle indicator of this important distinction already at work in our language: the fine differentiation in meaning between "I couldn't have done such and so" and "I can't have done such and so."
As for the philosophical merits, I obviously can't evaluate. It's certainly not a stupid argument. It seems sophisticated for an undergraduate. However, the fact that words such as "can," "cannot," "possible," "impossible," or "necessary" have multiple meanings has been used as an argument against fatalism or determinism since Hume put it forth in his argument for compatibilism (with contributions by A.J. Ayer and David Lewis, among many others). So it's not like Wallace is the first person to notice something like that, as this bit seems to imply (although he may well have an original take on the matter or a specific response to Taylor that's not evident in the snippet above). It's a common, although controversial, move in philosophy to draw metaphysical conclusions from linguistic concepts, which is what Wallace seems to be doing. Such a move is one with which I'm not particularly sympathetic, for reasons far too boring to go into here.
But whatever. I haven't read it. What strikes me as hilarious, however, is just how overwritten this thing is. It takes something we (i.e., philosophers) do every day and makes it sound extremely dramatic. One does not write a philosophy paper without pointing out flaws in previous works, implicitly or explicitly. I suppose it's possible not to do so, but it is a part of every paper I've written and every presentation I've made, and I think almost every paper that I've read. Starts with Socrates, after all.
So it's just taking this quotidian action and making it seem brilliant. I think the equivalent for Dan's job would be reading something like, "Summers proposed that there was a flaw in the patient's ear, an infection that was the hidden defect... An extremely sensitive observer of ear canals, Summers noted that there is a subtle indicator of this important distinction already at work in our ears: the fine differentiation in fluid levels between infected ears and healthy ears."
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Dan December 18, 2008 at 1:13 PM
First of all, I am TOTALLY going to start documenting ear infections that way.
Secondly, I may be mistaken, but I think Wallace was arguing against using semantics as a basis for metaphysical conclusions. True, he did it using the same kind of (from my perspective) mumbo-jumbo as Taylor, but he did it for the purpose of exposing the weakness in the latter's thinking.
This snippet seems to imply that he was arguing in favor, but like I said, I didn't read the whole article. So take any comments with, like, 16 grains of salt.
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The Future of Fashion Retail: Jesse Finkelstein
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Are publishers becoming the new retailers? Will social curation start-ups replace fashion editors? Can f-commerce boost up sales?
In the newest part of our interview series regarding the future of fashion retail, we get to discuss with Jesse Finkelstein, co-founder of Byco.
What would you like to design today?
Ask any emerging designer about the biggest problems in their business, and they will most likely complain about securing investors or finding the right manufacturers for their products. And while a lot of fashion-tech startups were eager to tackle consumer problems such as personal recommendations and sizing, there hasn't been a lot of innovation when it comes to helping designers deal with mundane, everyday tasks (logistics anyone?). Granted, Kickstarter has been successful in offering cash (and publicity) to aspiring fashion entrepreneurs, but money is only one side of the problem.
New York-based startup Byco, founded by Jesse Finkelstein, a retailer and manufacturer behind the label JF & Son, and his sister Meredith, would like to offer another helping hand. Their idea? The creation of a micro-financing platform that not only relieves designers from the trouble of getting funding, but also deals with heavy duties like production and sales.
How does it work? Byco encourages you to submit a design, promote it to potential investors in order to have the prototype costs covered, and gives you the option to sell your design on their site for a month. The company handles production and fulfilment and everybody (including investors) gets a cut from the sales. With the company trying to "let designers be designers," as he said in the New York Times, Jesse shared details on Byco's intriguing business model as well as his views on the future of fashion retail.
How did you come up with the idea of Byco and what kind of problems does it address?
As someone who designs and manufactures clothing, I'm aware of two major obstacles facing designers: financing and production. There are plenty of great small designers out there who cannot afford the sampling process, and even if they can, they do not have the resources to affordably produce their pieces. Byco addresses these two problems quite clearly: crowdfunding provides the financing and we handle all the sales, distribution, and production. A lot of people just want time to design, they don't want to have to navigate the world of factors, distributors, reps, etc. — Byco allows designers to design. I think the other issue, which social media sites are being tested on, is how to reward people for all their curatorial energy. We spend so much time on Pinterest and Tumblr crafting mood boards and inspiration, and I think creative energy should be compensated. On Byco you'll have the option to open up your own store, and you'll receive a commission on any piece you sell off it. We want to collapse that distance between curating and e-commerce.
Could you talk us through the creative process surrounding each design submitted? Do you have the authority to approve or disapprove a design and/or make changes to it?
Anyone can submit a design for women's and men's clothing and home accessories. We have a fairly intuitive submission page that walks you through the process of choosing the style you want to design, downloading our technical croquis or using a flat from our library, picking fabrics or submitting a print, and then previewing how it will appear on the Fund page. If we have questions about your design, we'll reopen the project and ask you to fill in the details. We have the authority to reject any design, either because it is completely unintelligible or because we don't think it's appropriate for our site. If we see a way of making a design better we'll offer our thoughts to the designer, but it's up to them.
What kind of retail channels are you using, and how do you solve such problems as logistics, import duties, and so on?
Our primary retail channel is the website. Eventually we'll be partnering with other stores. I've been producing clothes for the last six years, so I'm fairly accustomed to the logistics side. Import duties aren't so much a problem as is cost, which you always have to account for when you're pricing out a design.
What were the challenges that you faced in order to get your business model right? How are you dealing with current legislation, given the US laws regarding accredited investors?
We were hoping that the Jobs Act would be fully legislated by now, thus allowing for non-accredited investors to receive a portion of sales from the designs they funded. We've since had to modify the terms; instead of receiving equity, funders are given a Byco Store, where they can sell their funded designs and receive an automatic 10% of sales as commission.
What are the ways in which crowd-funding sites currently interact with fashion? Do you see any new models of production and/or consumption because of them?
I can't think of any fashion crowd-funding sites that take on the role of manufacturer. With something like Kickstarter designers can raise money to produce a collection, but they are still responsible for producing it. The alternative is these "democratising fashion" sites that allow users to vote on a design, which then gets produced. I don't believe in design by committee. I think if you have a good design it should receive financing.
Currently, a lot of fashion brands are focusing on quality content. How important is content to you, and in your view, how is it affecting the world of fashion ecommerce?
Content is crucial. Major brands don't have a monopoly on the discourse anymore, which has forced them to create more powerful narratives. However, these major brands have it backwards. They want people to become part of their narrative — featuring users, customers, etc. — the most exciting thing I've seen with Byco is the way people incorporate the experience with the site into their own lives. They're posting about their design experience on Facebook, Tumblr, etc. Byco is becoming part of their story, rather than us leveraging them to create content around our story. That's not to say we won't feature designers, funders, and shoppers, but it's more important for us to figure out ways for people to create content with their experience on Byco.
As ecommerce continues to grow, how do you see physical retail spaces responding to this challenge? Do they need to focus more on creating concepts and offering a richer in-store experience?
Now is one of the most exciting times to have physical retail, because everything we know about it is changing. I hate the idea of lifestyle brands, but I do think that you can't just sell clothes anymore; you need to sell books, home accessories, music, etc. If people are going to make the effort to buy clothes from you, then they're going to want to know your opinion on everything else.
How does social media influence the way people interact when it comes to shopping? Do you believe that Facebook or Pinterest could offer a satisfactory integrated shopping experience?
Maybe. They certainly allow people to provide detailed information about their experiences — but no more so than Amazon. As they are companies that don't actually produce anything, I think it will be difficult for them to figure it out.
Collaborative consumption, personalised recommendations, social shopping: Are there any online trends that have the potential to disrupt fashion retail right now?
I think crowdfunding will. People don't shop the same way anymore. All of these shows and collections seem absurd. We purchase clothing like we do music — piece by piece. Once designers are given the power to start making things without all the distractions of running a business we're going to see people taking an even more personal approach to consumption.
What will fashion shopping be like in the near future?
I believe shoppers will be more and more hungry for information, and feel more and more empowered to dictate style and trends.
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Gillum's Anti-Law Enforcement Agenda for Florida
By Steve Hantler
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The past several years have witnessed the radical left using law enforcement as a political target, which has increased the risks for those in uniform and hurt public safety. Andrew Gillum, the so-called "democratic socialist" candidate for governor of Florida, represents the triumph of the progressive left's approach to law enforcement, and a victory by him in November would lead to a statewide increase in crime.
That Florida would see such a rise under Gillum is not fanciful speculation but an obvious inference from his tenure as mayor of Tallahassee. On his watch, the city/Leon County metro area has had the highest crime rate in the state for four years running. Last year, Tallahassee had the highest number of murders in the city's history.
Incredibly, Gillum's former chief of staff, Dustin Daniels, who is running to succeed him as mayor, is campaigning aggressively against Gillum's failed leadership. "Tallahassee had the highest number of murders in history last year," Daniels wrote in a campaign mailer, "and we top the state for the highest crime rate. WE MUST DO BETTER."
According to Neighborhood Scout, which has analyzed crime statistics for cities across the country, Tallahassee "has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities." This means that "[w]ithin Florida, more than 97 percent of the communities have a lower crime rate than Tallahassee." Indeed, in Tallahassee, the "violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes." Not to be outdone, the city also features high rates of property crimes, including "one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation."
It is simply inarguable that Gillum has failed to keep the city of Tallahassee safe.
Given his ideological radicalism, it is not surprising that he has failed so spectacularly. In fact, Gillum is the most anti-law-enforcement candidate to be nominated by a major party in modern Florida history.
Take, for example, his strong support for the radical group Dream Defenders. During a Democratic gubernatorial primary debate, Gillum endorsed the agenda of the Dream Defenders from the stage, gushing that he was "pleased and proud" to "stand up for" and "stand beside" the group, which has, among other stances, likened Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the apartheid system.
Gillum received the endorsement of the Dream Defenders and promised to support the group's manifesto, The Freedom Papers, which denounce law enforcement as "racist" and liken the police to "slave catchers." The manifesto calls for the abolishment of the police and prisons, asserting that "police and prisons have no place in 'justice.'" Accordingly, the Freedom Papers call for a radical reduction in law enforcement funding, demanding "reinvestment … into social services in our community."
This manifesto slanders all those in Florida who don the uniform to protect and serve their communities, which, of course, includes law enforcement personnel of all races, colors and creeds. By sliming law enforcement as racist and by likening police officers to slave catchers, the Gillum-endorsed Freedom Papers place a target on the backs of officers.
What's more, enacting the call for massive reductions in funding for law enforcement would virtually guarantee a crime wave in Florida. Outside of Tallahassee, crime has dropped dramatically in the state over that past 20 years, yet this decline was achieved through hard work and support for law enforcement by elected officials. Combining funding cuts with a governor who is antagonistic to law enforcement would spell disaster for the safety of Florida's communities.
So, too, would the call by the Freedom Papers for an "end to borders," which dovetails will Gillum's call to "abolish ICE." The manifesto chastises the United States for creating "highly militarized, totally arbitrary borders" and endorses the idea that it is foreigners, not we the American people, who get to determine who comes into the United States.
Of course, Gillum not only supports the "abolish ICE" movement but would make Florida, like California, a sanctuary state. He has pledged not to cooperate with the Trump administration regarding the removal of illegal aliens from the state, which will place the people of Florida at risk of criminal activity committed by illegal aliens who should have been removed from the United States. This will only lead to the creation of more "angel moms" – mothers who have lost children to illegal alien crime.
It has been said that the race for Florida governor between Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis is the starkest choice in the country, and this is most true when it comes to each candidate's approach to law enforcement.
DeSantis is a decorated Navy veteran who served in Iraq and has also served as a federal prosecutor. He has deep connections to the law enforcement community, which he has stood by throughout his time in Congress. DeSantis opposes sanctuary cities and will make Florida cooperate with ICE to remove criminal aliens from the state. Whereas Gillum is currently embroiled in a corruption scandal and is a target of law enforcement, DeSantis has served with integrity and is viewed with affection by law enforcement.
The Nov. 6 election presents Florida voters with a clear choice. It is highly unlikely that they will want to gamble with the safety of their communities by embracing a candidate like Gillum.
Steve Hantler is a retired auto industry executive.
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Andrew Gillum Graduated Training School That Spawned Soros Army of Revolutionaries
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Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum graduated from an Oakland, California-based training school for progressive revolutionaries that has spawned a list of activists who have gone on to become the who's who of the far-left leadership world, with many taking senior positions at organizations financed by billionaire George Soros.
In scores of cases, graduates of the Rockwood Leadership Institute founded or directed notorious Soros-financed activist groups, such as Black Lives Matter, Media Matters for America, MoveOn.org and the Tides Foundation, one of the nation's largest funders of progressive groups.
Soros's own Open Society Foundations sent top staff to Rockwood for training. Notorious radicals Van Jones and Linda Sarsour are among the many famous names listed as alums.
Gillum is listed as a 2012 Rockwood alum. The Florida politician's involvement with the radical school was not cursory or symbolic. Only five months ago, Gillum boasted in a speech to the Center for Environmental Health that he attended the institute "for about a year and a half."
In that speech, Gillum talked about getting to know the Center for Environmental Health's director Michael Green while they both attended Rockwood together. Green is also listed as a 2012 alum along with Gillum.
In 2013, Gillum, then a member of the Tallahassee City Commission, wrote that graduating the program in June of that year was a "major milestone."
"I will continue to use the tools and methodology in life and as I advance in my career and my role as a member of the City Commission," he stated.
Gillum's Rockwood graduating class included such top activists as:
Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, which was founded by Van Jones, President Obama's infamous former "green" jobs czar. Jones stepped down from his position after it was exposed that he was a founding organizer for the communist revolutionary group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). Soros has financed Color of Change.
Denise Collazo of the Soros-financed radical PICO Network, which in its own terminology says it is "pushing for citizenship, and more, for an estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States."
Mary Anne Hitt from the radical Sierra Club environmental activist organization.
Nan Aron, president and founder of the Soros-funded Alliance for Justice.
Other notable Rockwood alums are Van Jones; Jodie Evans, co-founder and executive director of Code Pink; several senior employees of Soros's own Open Society Foundations; and Drummond Pike, founder of the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.
Radical Linda Sarsour is listed as a Rockwood "alum in the news," as is Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
Eric Rodriguez, vice president of the Soros-financed radical open borders group the National Council Of La Raza is also a graduate. As are Ilya Sheyman, executive director of the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, and Matthew Butler, who served as CEO and president of the Soros-funded Media Matters for America.
Also on the alum list is Idelisse Malave, former executive director of the Soros-funded Tides Foundation; David Rosenn of the Soros-funded New Israel Fund, which finances pro-Palestinian organizations; Justin Ruben of the Soros-backed MoveOn.org; Bill Lipton, founder of the Working Families Party, whose own leadership institute says it is "made possible by the Open Society Foundation"; and Pamela Chiang of the Soros-funded Center For Community Change.
Also listed is Adrienne Maree Brown, former executive director of the Tides-funded Ruckus Society. Ruckus provided "direct-action" training and official manuals to Occupy protesters. The group is infamous for helping to spark the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle.
Besides senior personalities, Rockwood also provides a "short list of foundations who have sent their staff through" its training program, including Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Soros-financed Tides Foundation and the Soros-funded New Israel Fund.
Rockwood is in formal partnership with the Soros-funded Social Transformation Project (STP). STP was founded by Robert Gass who also founded the Rockwood Leadership Program "along with a dedicated group of environmental activists."
Soros, meanwhile, has directly donated to organizations seeking to get Gillum elected. Days before Gillum's Aug. 28 primary, Soros joined with billionaire Tom Steyer to lead a group of donors making a $650,000 infusion into Gillum's coffers.
Soros also contributed to The Collective, a little-known but increasingly influential political organization that says it is seeking to build a "black political power" movement. The Collective reportedly injected nearly $2 million into Gillum's campaign, funding television and radio ads, get-out-the-vote drives, and playing a key role in helping Gillum defeat his Democratic opponents, some of whom were better-funded and had more statewide name recognition. The group announced plans to continue backing Gillum during the current general election campaign.
Aaron Klein is Breitbart's Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program: Aaron Klein Investigative Radio. Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.
Written with research by Joshua Klein.
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Many familiar with the employment discrimination landscape already know that American citizens are protected from discrimination based on age, race, religion, national origin, color and disability under federal and state law. Employment discrimination laws about association discrimination, however, may be lesser known.
Association discrimination describes discrimination from an employer directed towards an employee associated with a member of an employment discrimination protected class. For instance, it might apply to the husband of a disabled individual discriminated against based on his spouse's disabled status.
Both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 contain provisions prohibiting association discrimination. California employment discrimination law, also known as the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), addresses association discrimination as well.
Each of these association discrimination provisions contain a requirement for a direct relationship with an individual who possesses a characteristic of the protected classes listed in the main sections of anti-discrimination law. The provisions also normally require that the employer be aware of the association before a cause of action can be viable.
The ADA defines "association" for purposes of association discrimination as follows: relationship or association with an individual who has a physical or mental impairment which limits one of more major life activities. According to this definition, the association need not be a familial or employment-related one. For example, an employee fired for volunteering at an HIV clinic may have a cause of action under the ADA for association discrimination.
A notable ADA association discrimination case is Dewitt v. Proctor, a 7th Circuit case decided in 2010. In the case, Dewitt was a nurse fired by her employer-hospital. The cause for her discharge, she asserted, was the increased health care costs incurred from her husband's prostate cancer treatments. The court ruled that Proctor had a legitimate reason for firing Dewitt and that she failed to prove that she was fired due to her association with her husband and his high medical bills.
4) Her case falls into one of the categories of association discrimination: expense, association by disability or distraction.
Defendants in association discrimination cases have at least one avenue for disproving a claim. If a defendant is able to establish a non-discriminatory reason for the adverse employment action in question, courts may rule in their favor.
Though there is no specific language for association discrimination, Title VII prohibits employment decisions based in whole or in part on discrimination. In 2008, the 7th Circuit ruled for the first time on association discrimination under Title VII in a case called Holcomb v. Iona College. In Holcomb, the plaintiff was a college basketball coach who claimed he was fired due to his marriage to an African-American.
Similarly, in a 2009 cased called Barret v. Whirlpool, the White plaintiff, an employee for Whirlpool was "snubbed" and threatened by supervisors and co-workers, also Caucasian, for her association at work with African-American co-workers. The district court previously dismissed the plaintiff's claims, partially on the grounds that her association with her African-American co-workers was not sufficiently collegial to establish an association discrimination claim.
However, retaliation claims involving association discrimination cases have recently been limited. The Sixth Circuit, in a cased called Thomas v. North American Stainless, LP decided that passive, yet associated, third parties to a retaliation claim do not have a cause of action under Title VII. That case involved a worker fired shortly after his then fiancé filed a charge with the EEOC for gender discrimination.
In January 2000, FEHA was expanded to cover cases of association discrimination. In a case heard just last year called Rope v. Auto-Chlor System of Washington, Inc., courts expanded FEHA even further. This case involved an employee who alleged he was fired because of his association with his disabled sister. Planning to donate a kidney to his sister, the employee requested 30 days of paid leave, but was terminated for poor job performance shortly after the request, despite his satisfactory job history.
The California Court of Appeals posited that it was reasonable to infer that Rope was fired due to the expense his employer would incur as a result of granting the paid leave and that this was enough to state a cause of action for association discrimination under FEHA so long as there is a valid discrimination claim to which it can attach.
Though association discrimination is commonly described as an infrequent cause of action under employment discrimination law, this is changing. As more courts address the topic, greater precedence will be established to shape and define the way that association discrimination cases are litigated, both at the state and federal level. Association discrimination cases remain a key example of the broad range of support the law is capable of granting to employees facing discrimination at work.


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2015 SAG Awards: Winners List
Poe Ellis
The 2015 Screen Actors Guild Award winners last night were a bit predictable. The show Birdman took home the award of the night for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Viola Davis has been on a role lately being nominated for five awards so far this year and bringing home two. Last night Viola won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder. See the full list of winners below.
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
WINNER: Birdman
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
WINNER: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
WINNER: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
WINNER: Downton Abbey
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Claire Danes, Homeland
WINNER: Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Robin Wright, House of Cards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
WINNER: Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman
WINNER: Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge
Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Adrien Brody, Houdini
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: His Last Vow
Richard Jenkins, Olive Kitteridge
WINNER: Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Naomi Watts, St. Vincent
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Orange Is the New Black
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Louis C.K., Louie
WINNER: William H. Macy, Shameless
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
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News Patients reunite to celebrate country's first living donor liver exchange
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Patients reunite to celebrate country's first living donor liver exchange
The University Transplant Center, located at University Hospital in San Antonio, has reached another significant and promising milestone. In April, for the first time in this country, we paired two living liver donors with two patients who needed liver transplants.
Organ exchanges involving more than two patients have occurred with kidney donors and recipients. But liver transplants are more complex.
This first known living donor liver exchange took place at University Hospital on April 23-24. On Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 2 p.m., the patients and their transplant team will be reunited at University Hospital to celebrate this lifesaving achievement.
Some liver patients wait years for a transplant from a deceased donor and become sicker as time passes. There are currently 1,380 Texans on the national liver transplant waiting list.
The liver has the amazing ability to regenerate after a portion is removed and donated. University Transplant Center has the largest program in Texas offering the option of a live donor liver transplant, and it's now the first in the country to successfully undertake the complicated process of identifying compatible donors and recipients in an exchange that involves four patients.
One donor-recipient couple was medically incompatible, but by "swapping" donors two recipients with failing livers received the life-sustaining transplants they needed.
Reunion of transplant team with patients involved in the first living donor liver exchange
Who: Four patients and their transplant teams available for media interviews
When: Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 2 p.m.
Where: The Cypress Room at University Hospital, 4502 Medical Drive, San Antonio


Seven children decided to take the shortcut home…along the railroad track! But, they soon realized that they should have taken the road instead! My kids enjoyed this book, especially b/c I read the book with ALOT of excitement! It was cute because they promised me that they would never be like the kids in the book and walk along train tracks!


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Q: Creating Temporary array to keep calculations in r I want the value 0.01 appended to a temporary array until the age reaches 30 for the each probability in the Dataframe called Data to be used in a formula calculation. For instance for the first line in the data frame Age =21, so I'd like to create a temporary array that looks like this for each entry based on their age and probability.
x = c(.21,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01)
Data2 = data.frame(x)

Then I use this in the formula below:
for (i in 1:length(Data$Prob))
{
    for (j in 1:length(Data2$x)) {
         Data$NPV[i] = sum(x[j]*CostofFailure[i]*0.025)/(1+0.07)^j)
}
}

  **Dataframe: Data**
  Age  Prob    Cost      NPV
  21     45       4000
  24     21       2000

A: Try using rep function if you need to create a vector by appending a particular value n number of times to another chosen value, say .21.
x = c(.21,rep(0.01,30-21))

Will yield the result,
[1] 0.21 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01

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I remember very well the day I found out that I was pregnant ( or as some say we were pregnant, even though I believe that couple is expecting a child but pregnant is only one of them ). It was 14th of february. Romantic connection is truly just a coincidence. We were taking shinkansen on our way to Beppu in Japan. I love traveling by trains and never really had a problem with one….well besides the night train with broken heating on the way from Vienna to Warszaw when the outside temperature dropped to minus 20. But if you ever were so lucky to travel by trains in Japan u know that its a synonym for comfort, hygiene and well organized EVERYTHING. So it really shocked me that I felt as if I was dying during that quiet, not shaky trip….I could actually feel every little movement of the train and each tiny "shake" made me wanna throw my stomach out. I knew something was wrong and it was not food poisoning. On the way from station to our ryokan we bought a test. Whatever the japanese letters meant, I could count those two lines and did not need a special translator. It was a shock. I know that may sound stupid as we both are old enough to know how to protect ourselves from pregnancy, but based on our almost 3 years experience we sort of understood that we can not have kids and took it as a fact. And here I am with a positive pregnancy test and confusion in my head….at that moment I could hear Mr.B's brain working hard, just as hard as mine. Anyway I don't believe that this is the most interesting story in the world so to make it shorter. I went through period of initial shock, to the period of not quite understanding or admitting the situation, to the moments when I even forgot about it for a short time until I physically started to feel miserable. I had one week in Vienna when I was in the bed without any possibility to move, as each movement was equal to such sort of dizziness which I never experienced before. I suppose I fought in a normal extent the most known symptoms of pregnancy except for puking. THNAK GOD, because I hate puking, I could never suffer from any eating disorder as my hater for puking is so strong that even when I really have to puke my body denies it and I can't. During the time when I felt really really really tired and my day shrunk to 5 fully valued hours I was thinking that maybe I should use those moments when I m not moving just lying in the bed and start writing about pregnancy. But that was a bad idea, which I realized within one hour. I am just not the type. Up to now we ignored all the pregnancy books, shops for babies, internet pregnancy forums…I was for very long – till the last possible moment ignoring pregnancy clothes which I find terribly unesthetical. ( I do have some pregnancy shirts already as I am really growing bigger and bigger every day ) Well what should I than write about in terms of pregnancy. I just took it as a fact and as soon as I felt my energy coming back I lived my days as before. Finished semester in Vienna, packed all my belongings to boxes and send them on a trip with Mr.B to exotic place called Warszaw. I did a major cleaning of the flat I lived in for almost 6 years, which included washing huge glass doors and wall panels. I survived and accident when one of those glass doors fell out of the door runner rail and 200kg fell straight on me, my belly and tree huge flowerpots that kept the door 40 cm above the ground so I could "easily" crawl from below them. Simply said I did everything as before apart from continuing my blog. I could not because I felt that I should probably write something about our changing life situation but I was not sure what should that be. Now I'm sitting in Warszaw. It took me two weeks, to unpack, organize, clean, organize, clean and organize all the crap one collects. Mr.B is out of town working, Mr.T is slowed down as he thinks it's to hot and I am pregnant just as I was one or three months ago. But I just felt that it's a point for me to start blogging again, to start doing whatever again as time goes by really fast and I don't have much left before giving birth to Mr.Little who as I heard might be sort of time consuming at the beginning. To begin with after the long break I'll just post a mix of photos from last months. Sorry to those of you who've seen them on instagram….but did I mention already that pregnancy sort of paralyzed me for some time and I was not taking consciously any photos…….
PS1: I want to thank to all of you who still follow me on FB page even though I was not active for past months. I want to thank veeeerrrry much to all those who wrote me private messages and who probably did not even realize how important that was for me….reading that people appreciate things I do in the time when I don't do any is really crazy helping !!!!!
PS3: I had to add this one as an explanation. I was asked why I'm ignoring literature about pregnancy…..OMG don't get me wrong..It's by far not because I am super hero woman who thinks its cool to not ready pregnancy books or read forums and has all the necessary wisdom and knowledge. ON THE CONTRARY, I am freaking out from how much I don't know….I don't know when kids start to talk or walk, if somebody told me that this miracles happens at the age of 3 I would completely take it as fact just as much as I would take it as a fact if somebody told me that one year old people discuss, walk and pee in the toilette. If I am to say the age of a child I use a hand gesture showing the kids approximate hight because I cant say if the kid is two or four….I'm not joking now…I have not been around small kids very often, actually I've met some person to person only couple of times in my life. So I'm not a hero here, but I DO HATE how pregnant woman becomes automatically a separate category. Its not female and male anymore. It's female, male and pregnant woman! And based on my seven months experience I do feel I know what I'm talking about. First it starts with the shock that people you hardly know, people you've seen once or twice in your life, people who know your mother or people who you don't know at all approach you and touch your belly first. WHY? It's like my belly was not part of me anymore…it is some sort of public belonging, it's something that has been mounted to my body and I am now to carry it but it belongs to everybody. Than it continues when you stand in the line in the shop checking out the veggies waiting for your happy turn, and there they go, all the women who are waiting in the same line start to talk about you. Is it a boy, is it a girl, how you should dress, what you should eat, what you should drink and how your belly looks. It is up, it is down, it is sticking out too much or it is spreading more to the sides. And u are standing there with this public property mounted to your body, you are sweating like crazy, you need to pee NOW and you know you still have couple of months of this "being a subject" situation ahead of you. And the last thing that gets you is the literature. Why is it that pregnant means automatically usage of different language….probably it is meant as a preparation for small baby talks…don't know…but suddenly the use of diminutives is massive and everything becomes pink or blue, its all about how you should feel, how the confused future daddy should feel, how you are not you anymore but you are a kangaroo – soon to be a mother – new category again, how you stop existing because you are about to bring a new person to the world which means that for some time you are vanishing and you are not important anymore….All sort of strange new words that I've never heard before are used to describe your little one – meaning the new person that grows inside of you, all sorts of things you NEED to – in better case – know….but most of the time fear. All the things you NEED to buy, such blanket, such chair, such electronic babysitter or maybe breathing baby monitor or, or, or…..Pregnancy stops being natural and becomes a commodity. That is why I ignore pregnancy literature….I sort of believe in my body's natural potential and ability to deal with pregnancy, and in mine that I will be able to deal with the newborn kid and I will not need to spend thousands on necessary items that will become unnecessary thrash in couple of months and I do hope that my ability to speak common language will remain more or less the same.


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Clinton Portis And Joe Horn Are Among 12 NFL Players Accused Of Defrauding The NFL's Health Care Plan
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Life in the NFL can be rough. The game is taxing on its players, with punishing hits and lingering injuries. It's only natural that players might seek treatment to try and ease their pain. That's why the NFL offers a health care benefits plan for retirees. But some players may find the plan more beneficial than others.
Clinton Portis and Joe Horn are among 12 retired players accused of defrauding the league's benefits plan. Ten of the players were charged in indictments for allegedly submitting false health care claims. The Department of Justice also plans to file charges against two other players.
The scheme reportedly lasted from June 2017 to December 2018. The players made more than $3.9 million, with over $3.4 million being paid out.
Four players were arrested with six others turning themselves in. The defendants include Portis, Frederick Bennett, Ceandris Brown, Correll Buckhalter, James Butler, John Eubanks, Robert McCune, Etric Pruitt, Carlos Rogers, and Tamarick Vanover. The government also plans to file criminal charges against Horn and Reche Caldwell.
According to prosecutors, the former players submitted false claims for expensive treatments, such as hyperbaric oxygen chambers, ultrasound machines, and electromagnetic therapy devices. The latter two are used for women and horses, respectively.
The claims were worth roughly $40,000 to $50,000 each. Some defendants also reportedly recruited other players to participate in the scheme.
All ten defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy. Additionally, McCune is charged with nine counts of wire fraud and nine counts of health care fraud; Rogers and Vanover are charged with two counts each of wire fraud and health care fraud; and Bennett, Brown, Butler, and Portis are charged with one count each of wire fraud and health care fraud.
Portis earned more than $43.1 million during his nine-year career in the NFL. However, he filed for bankruptcy during retirement.
Now, the players will wait to hear their verdict. If convicted, they'll face up to 20 years in prison and fines of more than $250,000.
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Happy Birthday to Rajinikanth
From a RTC BUS Conductor to close God status (not to overlook, an Internet image), Rajinikanth has advanced in manners that make his story relatively fanciful. It is safe to say that he is notwithstanding seriously?
"What number 1 and number 2? I am the just a single, the very one!" There's smirky self-assurance in the voice of the man who fires that quotable punchline at a group anxious to lap it up. That line is from S. Shankar's tragic 2.0, a follow-up to Enthiran and the man, truth be told, is no man yet a robot with a product refresh and a dash of red on his great haircut. No prizes for think about who that robot is. He's the all-new Chitti and he is played by the great ol', one-measure fits-all Rajinikanth, who turns 68 today.
Likewise featuring Akshay Kumar as Pakshirajan, an admitted spare the-winged creatures campaigner turned unhinged pessimist who releases an ornithological tidal wave in his war against cellphone-insane people, 2.0 is actually the sort of blockbuster that Superstar Rajini's fans were sitting tight for. What makes the accomplishment of 2.0 better is that it pursues the less than impressive film industry appearing of Kaala that opened in June. It's uncommon for the tricky Tamil star to have two consecutive discharges that year. Rarer still to have poor ticket deals as for the situation with widely praised Pa. Ranjith directorial Kaala.
Touted as India's most costly film costing over Rs 500 crore, 2.0's worldwide film industry taking of Rs 600 crore (starting today) fortifies Brand Rajini as one of India's most bankable motion picture symbols. "I will set your screen ablaze," Chitti says in 2.0, folding into a goliath ball to go up against birdman Pakshirajan. He has followed through on that guarantee, passing by the film's relentless rule in the cinema world.
For fans, a Rajini film isn't only a film. It's an occasion. It resembles a celebration, something worth celebrating. The maturing star, blessed to the elevated status generally held for divine beings and goddesses, is a faction, a section dream, part-reality god whose mythic and overwhelming picture makes no sense. You may discover a great deal of descriptive words packed in there, however hi, it's Rajinikanth we are discussing whose extremely name has turned into a shorthand for the social power. How did this previous transport conductor wind up one of the best marvel Indian film has ever observed? "While others utilized the staircase, he utilized the lift to fame," that is the manner by which the veteran K. Balachander, who broadly acquainted this dim steed with Tamil film with Apoorva Raagangal, in 1975, portrayed his protege's ascent.
Apoorva Raagangal included Kamal Haasan (taking after a youthful Sanjay Dutt) in the main job, while the newcomer Shivaji Rao Gaekward, also called Rajinikanth, needed to manage with optional charging. Yet, regardless of restricted screen time, this agonizing young fellow was seen by movie producers, if not general society. In the underlying years, he played a progression of wretched jobs including about six evil and wrathful characters, a checkered past that he hasn't overlooked however it appears, his armies of aficionado fans by one way or another have.
Playing the damaging, departed spouse to Srividya in Apoorva Raagangal who turns up more than part of the way through the film, the unshaved and rumpled Rajinikanth showed up appropriately vital. In any case, the jobs offered to him instantly after Apoorva Raagangal were predominantly savage and negative ones. It was dependably Kamal Haasan who got the great kid part. In 1976's Moondru Mudichu, K. Balachander cast him in an adoration triangle alongside Kamal Haasan and Sridevi. In one scene, Rajini's abandoned sweetheart declines to spare his closest companion (Haasan) from suffocating. The contort finishing sends Selvi (Sridevi), when the question of Rajini's affections, into the arms of his dad. She's currently his mom! By and by, he played a vicious spouse, this opportunity to on-screen character Sujatha in 1977's Avargal, coordinated by K. Balachander. Next, a hoodlum (or a boisterous, as he jumps at the chance to depict himself in the vast majority of his masala actioners) in 16 Vayathinile (1977). At that point came Aadu Puli Attam (1977), setting him against Kamal Haasan. Purportedly, "This is Rajini style," one of his mark discoursed, began in Aadu Puli Attam.
As per most records, Rajinikanth turned into an immense accomplishment towards the finish of the 1980s. A noteworthy defining moment was the point at which he found Amitabh Bachchan's Vijay, the irate young fellow of Zanjeer, Deewaar, and Don. Every one of these hits were refitted for Tamil film purposes, transforming the once terrible kid of Kollywood into a hopeless mass saint. Rajinikanth likewise pursued Bollywood and however huge numbers of these multi-starters were effective (Andha Kanoon, Chalbaaz and Hum), he never discovered acknowledgment among Hindi gatherings of people.
Note the connections in the chain. From his unobtrusive causes and his years in the wild as a coolie and transport conductor to baddie jobs to close God status to an Internet image and now discusses legislative issues and you every now and again get a feeling that his story is so inconceivably mythic that if this Tamil film's dark horse wasn't conceived, we wouldn't have possessed the capacity to design him. Likely S. Shankar, with his specialized wizardry, would. "This kid has a fire in his eyes. He will be a wonder sometime in the not so distant future," coach K. Balachander's had once anticipated. How prophetic those words have turned out.
Today, while K. Balachander has since quite a while ago passed away, new-age producers like S. Shankar and Pa. Ranjith are playing with the whiz's picture in manners that would make Balachander glad. While adhering to the megastar's allure as a savior like figure on whom the standard people incline toward for protect, Shankar and Ranjith are mixing their movies' story with science fiction, 3D, the fifth measurement, Tamil personality, and Dalit legislative issues. We as a whole know Rajinikanth-on-screen likes being in favor of the little person. Consider him a vigilante, a bandit or Robin Hood, a large portion of Rajini's hits mock desires that equity will be conveyed through the correct frameworks. He does it his way. Four decades and many movies later, so huge is Rajinikanth's persona that Shankar needed to remove him from the real world and place him into the domain of science. A scene in 2.0 shows minibots of Chitti let free in a go head to head with Pakshirajan. A large number of Rajinikanth's rise, just as one isn't sufficient to fulfill open interest. By chance, in Pa. Ranjith's ongoing Kaala, keeping in with the Dharavi strongman's guarantee, every one among the group puts on a Kaala cover in its exciting peak as they bolt horns with land-snatching legislator Hari (Nana Patekar) and his military.
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Music has great formative potential; therefore, music education makes a special contribute in the overall formation of the individual.
In the 20th century, music education emphasized musical performance. Recently, many scholars have rediscovered the value of listening - a complex activity that involves the individual at the cognitive, emotional, and physical level - and a didactics of listening has been developed. In 2008, the Free University of Bolzano has inaugurated in its Degree Course in Training of Nursery and Primary School Teachers a teaching program about this dimension of musical experience (Educazione all´ascolto musicale, i.e. Education to music listening). This program, in which I teach, is one of the few on this subject, possibly the only one in an Italian Degree Course in Education.
The paper, on the basis of theory and experiences, will discuss the formative potential of music listening. On the basis of several examples it will demonstrate how it is possible to realize a music listening education in the Primary School with the support of media and technologies, and the important contributions it makes in the education of the individual and of the citizen.
Particular attention will be given to the education to classical music (the general problem of the relationship between the young generations and the Classics has been discussed also in the recent Conference ICERI 2009). By the listening it is possible for young generations to discover the music by authors like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven etc., understand how this composers and their music are an essential part of their culture, understand in a better way the world in which they live. A specific example will regard the Fifth and the Ninth Symphonies by Beethoven and their importance for understanding the contemporary culture and society.
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P. Somigli (2010) IS "BEETHOVEN" ONLY THE NAME OF A DOG? MUSIC AND MUSIC LISTENING EDUCATION AS EDUCATION OF THE CITIZEN, INTED2010 Proceedings, pp. 3345-3355.


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