Started the year off under cover, giving some protection from the very cold weather we had. In January the loco had it's battery levels checked and all were in good heath with only a small amount of topping up required. The exhauster and traction motor blower motors were inspected. Checks for earth faults and brush gear condition were made and all were found to be in good order. The compressor had it's oil changed on Sunday 26th Jan, and a nice white oil mess it was. The compressor will need some maintenance done on it in the near future. The problem with the anti-slip button (it blows the main control fuse) was looked into on Sunday 16th March, and it may be a wire going to earth as the EP valve would seem to be in working order. More testing will be done in the coming months. And finally, the defective vacuum gauge was changed on the last Sunday of the month.
The feed valve which allows air to the drivers brake valves in the cab, was removed on Sunday 19th Jan and checked out. This valve would blow when the engine was shut down. A fine mesh air filter was cleaned out and the inside of the valve blown through and the refitted to the loco. This valve is found tucked away outside under the cab floor. The loco was brought out of winter hibernation on Sunday 16th March and was multiplied up with 110 (nose to nose). One of the jumper cables is not working as it should. The question is, is it the jumper cable (118) or the socket (110)? This will have to wait until the 25 is back in service for more testing. On Sunday 23rd March the loco had it's first trip of the year down the line on a training run for train crew, and signalmen at Bishops Bridge. It was a late end to the day as a broken fishplate delayed things quite a bit.
The full time workshop staff started back after the Xmas/New year break and made a start on finishing off the settling tanks for the loco. By the end of January the tanks were finished, painted and the insides cleaned out of dirt. By the end of day on Sunday 9th Feb. both tanks were reunited with the radiators and on the following Sunday (16th) they were craned back in the loco. This took most of the day.
Shunting the loco out started about 10.00 and by dinner time the radiators and tanks were back in place. The fan unit and the two roof panels followed after dinner.
Once these were secured the shunting started again to put the 25 back in the running shed, finishing about 17.00. Painting has still been going on when the weather permits, but now the roof sections are back on a heater can be placed inside to help out with this. The next weekend saw the power unit cleaned down and the walkway panels around the power unit lifted and cleaned off. Whilst the panels were up the underneath was cleaned out. One slight hiccup with the new tanks has been the six studs that hold on the tank filler/drain valves are not studs but bolts. By dinner time on Sunday 9th March the cooling system was holding water with no leaks. This was after two or three small teaks were sorted out. On the following Sunday 16th, and after some charging of the batteries the start button was pressed. With one puff of smoke the exhaust cleared and the engine was ticking over, on five cylinders not six. The injector was removed and tested during the week with no fault found. It was refitted at the end of the week and the engine started, but it was still the same. So it looks as if the pump may have to be remove for testing. An air leak in No.1 cab has been fixed. The pipe was removed and brazed up. A test of the braking system found that the loco brake in No.1 cab was not working. It would seem that the double check valve was stuck. It was removed and cleaned then refitted. This valve works between the two cabs and it allows air from the loco brake valve in the cabs to the relay valve. The brake valve that has the greater pressure, is the one that operates the relay valve. On Sunday 23rd the last parts were refitted to the loco, namely the radiator grills, so the loco is now back in one piece. Also the loco brakes are once again working from both cabs. On the last Sunday of the month the fuel pump was removed and taken into a firm on Marsh Barton Industrial Estate (Exeter) on the Monday for them to give the pump the once over. A set of new batteries have been ordered and should be with us soon.
Awaiting repairs to a coolant leak around the water pump.
The last saloon window was refitted by the end of January. This only leaves the Totnes end cab windows to sort out. Now that the big saloon has had all it's windows sorted out attention has now turning to the floor and by mid February the old lino was removed. This big saloon was used as a work area, but this has moved to the CCT (the old blue one). The wood for the ceiling has arrived and this will be the next job to done once the new work area is fully operational.
In service, but only just! Some drivers are not disposing the loco as they should, with the battery and pilot switch being found left in. This will drain the batteries over time and then it will not start. This loco is now owned by the South Devon Railway Trust.
No change from last time, apart from seeing the light of day at the start of February for a shunt to take place.
Sunday 12th January saw the loco placed in the workshop ready for it's connecting rod bush overhaul and new cab windows. By the end of January the loco had part of the cab roof removed (sun roof! ), along with the front radiator grill and was being rubbed down for painting, also the connecting rod were removed. Later in the month the rotten metal at the base of the cab was cut away along with a piece at the edge of the roof. By mid February the roof section had been replaced (no sun roof! ) along with the radiator grill after cleaning and painting. By the last weekend of February all the welding was completed and filling & painting was the order of the day. By mid March one set of connecting rods had had their crank pins & bushes checked (found to be ok) painted and replaced on the wheels. The set on the opposite side has a crank pin that is slightly oval, so this is having work done on it. The first coat of B.R. green (and yellow ends) was applied in mid March. The cab windows were replaced with new frames 8z seals by an outside manufacturer during the last week of March and they do look 'SUPERB'.
MINK W 104700 - Had two new rain strips made to replace the old rotten ones above the doors. The wagon was placed under cover in mid March for this work to be done, along with a repaint.
SST W94556 - On the same day as the 04 entered the workshop, this van left all newly painted and lined out. The whole job start to finish took just 24 days, of which 23 were in the workshop. On the inside some new window frame bottoms were fabricated c/o the DDS carpentry department. It stayed under cover until the lettering was applied in mid February.
By mid March and it was back up the head shunt at the north end.
CCT M94852 - About a quarter of the van has now become the workshop with lights and power points installed. A coat of white paint over this part of the van was applied to help with lighting.
MINK `B' W 125814 - This van was locked for the first time on Monday 3rd February as the door fittings were all refitted. This is not before time as a person (unknown) has been inside the van for a candle light meal of chicken and a smoke! With the doors now complete the van now waits it's first trip down the line.
The main working Sunday will be the first one on the month, but most Sundays will see someone around if you turn up between 09.00 and 09.30. All help most welcome. FIRST SUNDAYS OF THE MONTH:- 6th April, 4th May, 1st June & 6th July.


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Overwintering and Early Season Amplification of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in the Southeastern United States
Andrea Bingham, University of South FloridaFollow
Thomas Unnasch, Ph.D.
Robert Novak, Ph.D.
Azliyati Azizan, Ph.D.
Henry Mushinsky, Ph.D.
Arbovirus, Ecology, Reservoir hosts, Winter transmission
Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) is a highly pathogenic arbovirus that causes severe disease, with a mortality rate of approximately 30-35% in humans and 80-90% in horses. Studies dating back to the 1930's have identified many of the epidemiological and ecological aspects of the virus. However, there are several aspects of EEEV's transmission cycle that remain unclear. In the northeastern states, transmission is seasonal, peaking in the late summer months, while in Florida there is year-round transmission of EEEV. Recent phylogenetic studies have also suggested that Florida may serve as a reservoir for EEEV; the virus may periodically be introduced from Florida to the northeastern US where it locally amplifies, overwinters, and can remain stable for several years. How EEEV is able to migrate from Florida and how it persists during the winter in North America is not yet known, however several theories exist and are examined further by this research. The first part of this study investigates the hypothesis that snakes may serve as overwintering reservoir hosts for EEEV. Rates of exposure and infection of wild snakes were examined by testing serum samples from wild snakes at a focus of EEEV in Alabama. Two species of vipers, the cottonmouth and the copperhead, were found to be positive for EEEV RNA. The second part of the study attempts to identify the hosts and vectors of enzootic winter transmission of EEEV in Florida, with a focus on avian host preference. EEEV was detected in two mosquito species, Culiseta melanura and Anopheles quadrimaculatus, and were both from the month of February. In addition, the results also suggest that EEEV vectors preferentially feed upon wading birds during the winter months.
Bingham, Andrea, "Overwintering and Early Season Amplification of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in the Southeastern United States" (2014). Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
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"So You Think You Can Quest?" is a live streaming Dungeons and Dragons based Gameshow that uses Twitch, Roll20, & Discord to bring together would be adventurers from all over the world and test them against a game world designed for their destruction. If you would like to get started immediately, then please see Getting Started, this article is dedicated to giving a short impression of exactly how this concept came to be, where it is at, and where it is going. For answers to more practical questions, please see the FAQ or the Summary of Game Mechanics
Dungeons & Dragons Game Show
-First, it is important to note that while "So You Think You Can Quest?" is a game show that features the use of the table top roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons, it is in no way officially associated with the brand or any of its parent companies. "So You Think You Can Quest?" claims no rights over ownership over Dungeons and Dragons, and uses heavily modified versions of its rules for the purposes of its format. It in no way profits from the sale of, or credit for, anything affiliated with Dungeons and Dragons. "So You Think You Can Quest" demonstrates the use of it as a potential use for a product after it has been heavily modified from its original source material and does not charge money for access to any intellectual property owned by or associated with Dungeons and Dragons or its parent companies. For more information, please see the Disclaimer Page for more details on this.
"So You Think You Can Quest?" is format where up to five people at a time can play Dungeons and Dragons over the internet using various streaming and mapping applications to test their wit, skills, and luck in a game where they are given randomly generated characters and tasked with exploring and defeating all the obstacles that await them in towns, the wilderness, and fortified subterranean lairs. Each session features a daily prize of different rotating precious stones hand selected from the private stock of a local lapidary, all the while the game itself has over arching community goals that span between sessions that reward the contestants with cash prizes should they be able to persevere and triumph. As player characters are slain, new contestants are brought into the game as previous contestants return to the available Player Roster.
If a given contestant and their character survives until the end of a given session, they are extended an invitation to return to the next game, in the event they cannot return a new contestant is chosen from the available Player Roster for that evening. The game continues like this over the course of its run until players inevitably defeat the Final Boss and claim the Ultimate Prize which will slowly increase over time with the course of the game.
"So You Think You Can Quest?" is sole creation of Colin Ohnemus, and the concept itself is about three years in development. The first two spent actually coming up with the concept itself and how one would go about creating a format where a single Dungeon Master could effectively play Dungeons and Dragons with the internet at large. Year three was spent in Alpha and Early Beta testing while maintaining constant expansion of unique game content and world lore. "So You Think You Can Quest?" is the effort of a chef turned professional dungeon master to create a fun and inspiring competition for all of the world to compete in to see exactly what the expanded roleplaying community has to offer for cleverness and creativity.
From a mixture of thousands of creative influences: old campaign modules, 20 years of homebrew, video games, popular culture, fantasy literature, movies, and a lifetime steeped in everything from the original Dragon Warrior through to the rise of the modern gaming age. The "So You Think You Can Quest" game world and the additional mechanics of its format were developed exclusively for this show and have never been used before by any other Dungeon Master or program, and will be left behind when it one day moves on to Season 2 in a whole new game world. The story of its creation is recent and on-going, the first draft of its map and pantheon were made in October 2019, the actual format itself was finalized as a gameshow with rotating contestants around the same time.
"So You Think You Can Quest?" is born out of the work of someone constantly asking the question of "What's Next?" Everything else is just a matter of creative expression.
"So You Think You Can Quest?" seeks to be an ever-growing community dedicated to advancing art, strategy, and altruism. Constantly pushing the boundaries of what players are capable of in never before seen environments featuring uniquely immersive complexity. "So You Think You Can Quest?" seeks to fill the void necessary in order answer the question burning in the back of every adventurer's mind: "Am I the greatest?"
There must be a competition, a contest that is free to enter and renowned for its difficulty that pits players against an unforgiving world, with no plot armor keeping them safe from each other or the horrors of lurking evil. "So You Think You Can Quest?" is that contest. As we have in every sport ever created, let us gather together our greatest and see who emerges victorious if by nothing but the roll of the dice.
"So You Think You Can Quest?" believes to prove that regardless of individual achievement that it takes an entire community to overcome complex problems of sufficient nature. No one can do anything, no one can be everywhere, no one can escape the tides of chaos alone. We are are stronger together than apart. The gaming community has proven this time and time again as it has chosen growth and inclusion even within the bounds of something inherently competitive. The community would be nothing without competitors of all skill levels who are dedicated to advancing it as a way in which to learn, teach, grow, and apply yourself. "So You Think You Can Quest" is dedicated to harnessing the potential of the gaming world to create positively oriented community while becoming an engine to generate funds for charitable works in a transparent manner.
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International diversification: The evidence – Part 1
We owe a lot to the ancient Greeks. They laid the groundwork for a huge swathe of today's society, including democratic government, philosophy, theatre, architecture, mathematics, jury-based trials, medicine, and the Olympics.
But there's one aspect of Greek culture which hasn't managed to endure the test of time – its stock market.
The Greek stock market was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis, just as many others were. But since the 1st January 2008, the Greek market has fallen an incredible 96%. And that's on a total return basis.
96%!
Source: Bloomberg
The global stock market (MSCI ACWI), by contrast, is up 152% over the same time period.
So that we can try and avoid the same fate as those who invested too heavily in the Greek stock market, this is the first in a series of posts that examines the evidence behind international diversification.
We saw in the previous post, titled 'Against international investing', that cross-country correlations are rising, and that markets all tend to crash at the same time. These are evidence-based arguments against global diversification, and we'll look at the counter-arguments for them in Part 3 of the series.
But let's not skip ahead. For now, we'll start at the beginning.
Why should you own an internationally diversified portfolio?
Nobody knows what's going to happen
We saw in this post that one of the main reasons we diversify is because we don't know what's going to happen. Admitting you can't see the future is an incredibly powerful way to construct your portfolio – it helps reduce volatility, reduce drawdowns, increase returns, reduce emotional decision-making, reduce stress, and gives you more time to focus on other more important things.
And this is equally true with international investing. We don't know which countries are going to do well, and which aren't.
The Greek stock market is an extreme example, but if we look at data going back to 1900, the US has gone from 15% of the world market to 51%, and the UK has gone from 25% to 6%:
Source: Credit Suisse
While the US might be the largest market in the world now, that hasn't always been the case. Its route to get there hasn't been easy either. The US was among the worst-performing stock markets worldwide in the 1970s and the 2000s, and it also earned lower returns than the average international market in the 1980s.
Countries' returns can wax and wane significantly in the long run, and trying to predict which markets will do well at which point is an almost impossible exercise.
To make country returns more difficult to predict, there's been significant sector rotation within countries themselves. The pie charts below show the sector composition of both the US and UK markets in 1900 compared to 2019:
The only certain thing in investing is that things change. Rail went from being well over 50% of the US market in 1900 to being dwarfed by the tech giants in 2019. It saw a similar fate in the UK, being eclipsed by energy companies and financials.
Not only is it almost impossible to predict which economy will be the best performer in the future, but by placing your bets on one country, you run the risk that your country's economy falls behind the global market. In some cases, economies have not only failed to keep up, but have suffered from multi-decade collapses.
In the fifty years to the end of 2011, the Italian stock market delivered an annual real return of -0.8% per year. That's a negative real return over 50 years – a truly abysmal return. By contrast, bonds returned 2.64% per year in real terms. In Germany, equities rose 3.46% per year in real terms over the same time frame, again losing to bonds which returned 4.28% a year.
And in Japan, the market still hasn't recovered to reach its previous high in 1989:
A negative return over 30 years is a terrible result, and that's even before considering inflation.
By splittin out country returns by decade, you can see that countries performing poorly for extended periods of time happens more often than you'd expect – even among developed markets:
Source: Bridgewater Associates
If you start by casting your eye towards the big red boxes for each decade, you can see that a 10-year period of heavily negative performance is a common occurrence for individual countries. What's interesting is that in 11 of the 12 decades, it was a different country at the bottom of the pack each time (the dubious honour of being the worst performing country of the decade twice is Spain – the 1930s and the 1950s). There are plenty of countries which have experienced decade-long periods of torrid performance, and this should make you cautious if you're considering making significant bets on any individual countries.
International diversification reduces volatility
One of the advantages of holding an internationally diversified portfolio is that it reduces the chances of holding too much of one of these poorly performing countries. We saw in this post how sector diversification can help reduce risk without sacrificing returns, and exactly the same thing applies with international diversification.
The chart below, courtesy of Vanguard, shows the volatility of individual countries versus the global market. While the United States had the lowest volatility of any individual country examined, its volatility was slightly higher than that of the global market index. Other countries examined had volatilities that were 15% to 100% greater than the global market index.
Source: Vanguard
Looking at risk reduction from another angle, international diversification also helps with mitigating drawdowns. The chart below from Bridgewater Associates shows at a glance how powerful international diversification can be in terms of reducing maximum drawdowns in both equity and bonds:
Examining the countries' individual drawdownst in more detail, the table below lists 17 of the largest markets in the world and their worst drawdowns:
We can see from the table that:
The equal weight portfolio's maximum drawdown is less than almost every country examined.
It also recovered quicker than most individual countries, with a number of countries still not reaching their previous highs from over 20 years ago.
When the local index suffered its worst drawdown, the equal weight portfolio performed better than the local index (a slightly unfair win for the equal-weight portfolio, given we're filtering results by each country's worst drawdown, and not the equal-weight's worst drawdowns).
A more diversified portfolio helps reduce volatility, reduce drawdowns, and reduce drawdown-recovery time.
While investing only in your home country increases your risk versus an internationally diversified portfolio, for those investors who live and invest in smaller local markets, the risks may be even higher.
As smaller countries are less interconnected with the global economy, they're likely to suffer more if a 'Black Swan' event befalls them. This is according to research from the CFA Institute, who show that the global financial network has developed from a limited number of large centres in the 1990s to numerous smaller centres in the 2010s. In 1989, the United States was the only "super centre," with 24 connected lines; 2015 saw more centres, including the Netherlands, France, Japan, Germany, and China.
The research finds that a multi-centred structure, rather than a single pivotal centre, may reduce global systemic risk. Although interconnectedness is positively related to systemic risk, a higher GDP, larger population, and stronger currency may help a country to evolve into a systemically important region that is immune to systemic risk. By contrast, smaller local markets have relatively lower GDP, smaller populations, and weaker currencies, which make them more susceptible to systemic risk.
Being a global investor is especially important for those who live in smaller less well-developed economies, as these are the economies most at risk if something goes wrong.
International diversification increases returns
Something noticeable from the brilliant Bridgewater table above (the one showing country returns by decade) is that the equal-weighted portfolio always looks like it's doing well.
Although it's never at the top of the table, it's never the worst performer.
By contrast, you can see the fluctuations for individual countries through time – no one country is consistently outperforming.
In the 2010s, the US was the best performer, but it was one of the weaker performers in the 2000s following the dot-com bust. It was one of the best performers in the 1990s, but before that you have to look back to the 1920s to find a decade in which US equity performance was better than middling. The UK got off to a rocky start, being the worst performer in the 1900s, before becoming the top performer in the 1930s, but has been a consistently average performer since then. Interestingly, it's underperformed the equally-weighted portfolio in 8 of the last 12 decades.
This consistency of performance for the diversified portfolio leads to incredibly strong returns compared to the individual countries:
For those that are interested, the 100% loss suffered by the Russian stock market in 1917 was due to Lenin's Bolshevik revolution, which abolished private property, land, wealth, industry, and closed the country's stock market.
But the strong and consistent performance of the diversified portfolio isn't a fluke. There are a couple of reasons why a globally diversified portfolio helps maximise returns:
1) Being diversified reduces the frequency/magnitude/length of large drawdowns. This helps the portfolio minimise the volatility tax, and so helps the portfolio to benefit from compounding over time. The risk-reduction benefit helps the portfolio avoid large losses and gives compounding time to work.
2) Global diversification allows the portfolio to participate in whichever country is driving growth. It's been shown that since 1990, only 1.3% of stocks created 99% of global wealth – stock returns are highly positively skewed, and the same applies to countries. We saw by looking at the country returns by decade, each country had a period of time where it was the one generating the highest returns. As it's almost impossible to select which country will be the best performer ahead of time, the diversified portfolio ensures that you'll always be holding country that's driving the returns of the global market.
An internationally diversified portfolio provides the following benefits:
It spreads your bets. We can't predict which countries will be the strongest performers in the future, just as we can't predict which countries will collapse. Diversifying reduces the risk of your home country suffering the same fate of Greece, Japan, Russia, New Zealand, Brazil, Taiwan, or Italy.
It reduces volatility. By diversifying, you reduce a portfolio's volatility, drawdown, time to recover, and vulnerability to Black Swans – especially for those investors in less-developed economies.
It increases returns. Diversified portfolios increase returns by minimising the volatility tax, and by owning the few countries which drive the majority of long-term growth.
The next post, imaginatively titled 'International diversification: The evidence – Part 2', looks at further benefits of diversifying away from your home country, including: not being exposed to one country's sectors, one country's valuations, the irrelevance of a company's country of listing, and the benefits of including Emerging Markets.
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Emily, Her Fiance, and No Other Guys
Tonight's Bachelorette finale was, as Chris Harrison has been promising all season, a doozy. I was not expecting that. For one thing, when Chris Harrison says something is "the most dramatic ever", it's hardly ever true because he says it so damn often. But, really, the reason I didn't believe this week would at all be The Most Dramatic Finale Ever (or at least since Jason Mesnick's Crazy one) was that I was sure she picked Arie in, like, week 2 and was done. From there it would all play out like Ali's season– a little drama here, a charming runner-up there, she chooses the guy who's always been her favourite and we move on. But nothing about Emily Maynard has been predictable so far, so I'm not sure why I let myself be so sure.
Over a month ago, when I posted my Bachelor Scale, I was sure Arie was her number one guy. I knew I liked Sean best so I put him in second place and I felt like Jef would stick around so he went in third. From there I got it pretty much dead on- the order in which she dismissed all the guys who never had a shot (you know, the easy part). But I've rarely gotten the top 3 so mixed up- my bad. I have two guesses as to why I was so offbase with Emily: the first is that I, myself, was never particularly attracted to Jef… no, really, it does make a difference. While Ashley's choices were sometimes all over the place last year, I liked JP from the second he got out of the limo so he topped my Bachelor Scale even if I wasn't convinced she would pick him until after she gave Ben the boot. But Jef- meh. I think it's the stupid hipster hair, or maybe the mono-poetic way of speaking, either way, I never really was all that into Jef, whereas I've been smitten with Sean for half the season and Arie is damn TV-sexy (he might be the best onscreen kisser since Pacey Witter). I wouldn't have picked Jef, so it took me a long time to see that Emily really might. My second hypothesis has to do with my romantic ideals (all movie-based, few at all practical). I really liked, especially in a high-drama situation like this, the idea of Emily and Arie riding out the storm together. They fit together so well so fast and he was the first person she looked to all season. In contrast, her relationship with Jef started out incredibly awkward- he didn't take her cues, she got nervous when he was around- it looked like a lot of work. I always want to believe that there's a certain amount of "you just know" in the world and Emily and Jef didn't fit together at all until they were lying on the floor of that library in Prague. But I guess from there on, if I'd been paying more attention, I would have seen the way Jef wasn't entirely full of it the 400 times he said "she just gets me… we're perfect together". I wouldn't have picked him, and they didn't make sense right away in a soulmate/puzzlepiece kind of way, but now that it's all over I finally get it.
Who knows if they'll actually make it to the wedding they want to have next spring, but there's a lot that's promising about Emily and Jef coming out of tonight's finale. It's good that they already have a plan (he's moving to Charlotte), that they're still beamingly happy, and that they managed to see each other almost every weekend during the run of the show (that's when most of the couples hit the rocks). But mostly I think what's promising is Jef's confidence. He's not going to get jealous when someone hits on his hot fiancee or when she spends time with guys down the road. Jef's so confident that when Arie was struggling with letting Emily go, Jef was the one to talk him through it. Usually, watching the show air drives the chosen bachelor mad and the very idea of her other relationships is a sticking point, but Jef seems to get it more than most and the fact that he and Arie are still friends is nothing short of impressive (for both of them). Jef and Emily don't really make sense to me. But they make sense to each other, and that's far more than can be said of most Bachelor couples.
On to Bachelor Pad tomorrow night- where Kalon will find redemption, Chris will take a nosedive, (one of my all-time favourites) Reid will finally take on Ed, and Michael Stagliano will find himself, once again, on bended knee. I can't wait.
PS: I was thrilled, as I always am, to see the former contestants back. None more than Ashley and JP- my favourite Bachelorette couple. After a season where I only marginally liked a few of the boys (really only Arie and Sean, out of all of them), it's nice to remember my great love of JP and how hard I was and still am rooting for him and Ashley. The lowest key couple in franchise history, I really think there must be a Bachelorette wedding officiated by Chris Harrison coming soon. At least I hope so, because they're my gives-me-hope couple.
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"The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower frame, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships and mourning the death of friends. They speak of zucchini and "The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower frame, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships and mourning the death of friends. They speak of zucchini and oaks and cats, of jogging and writing, of nuclear power plants and suicide, of fat and of street hassling.
"The Lunar Cycle forms the second part. I first heard of the lunar calendar in my childhood, when I asked why Passover falls on a different date every year and was answered that it falls on Nisan 14, the fourteenth day of the lunar month of Nisan. The next time I came across the moon-month was in reading Robert Graves in search of the old goddess religions. But the lunar calendar has really only been an intimate part of my life since I moved near the ocean and the bay and had to become conscious of the tides; for one thing, to get the sweet Wellfleet oysters.
For more precise understanding I owe a lot to Nancy F. W.Passmore of the Luna Press, who every year produces The Lunar Calendar with thirteen months, their old Celtic names, associations from around the world, time of moon rise and set and all the phases. It tells me at a glance when my period will come and when I can expect to ovulate, and it is the most beautiful calendar I have ever seen, with the months in the form of spirals rather than grids.
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A beautiful collection, if a little short, I really felt connected to her inner beliefs, and feelings. Not just as a poet, but as a person. I think she would make a great friend. The poems are a perfect blend of the gutsy and raw, the lyrical and the meditative. Some I felt the need to speak out aloud, I wanted to hear the words not just read them. She also conjures up such imagery and wonder, with a deep and concise mind, a touching human soul. A vast array of emotions was opened up. Very impre A beautiful collection, if a little short, I really felt connected to her inner beliefs, and feelings. Not just as a poet, but as a person. I think she would make a great friend. The poems are a perfect blend of the gutsy and raw, the lyrical and the meditative. Some I felt the need to speak out aloud, I wanted to hear the words not just read them. She also conjures up such imagery and wonder, with a deep and concise mind, a touching human soul. A vast array of emotions was opened up. Very impressive.
"A woman is screaming and I hear her.
that we open and lie under and weep.
rock by slippery rock into the mists.
or been willing to be or become a man.
Written at the start of the middle of Piercy's career, The Moon Is Always Female includes some of her strongest poems and many of her most meditative. The two-part collection refines the rawness of much of the poet's early work, dialing down its fury a bit and more carefully moving from image to image, poem to poem. It also develops the interest in Jewish identity, rituals, and faith that would come to define Piercy's verse as she aged.
Nearly every time I've gone to the bookstore, I've ended up with this book.
Our first meeting was a bit of an accident: I'd actually been looking for something by Sylvia Plath but got distracted by Piercy's title. That statement--the absoluteness--was wholly seductive, wholly haunting.
So, instead of buying it, I siphoned bits of its beauty, year after year. For five or so years this went on. No matter what or who I'd intended to buy, I'd come back to this, read enough to satiate myself and bid a Nearly every time I've gone to the bookstore, I've ended up with this book.
So, instead of buying it, I siphoned bits of its beauty, year after year. For five or so years this went on. No matter what or who I'd intended to buy, I'd come back to this, read enough to satiate myself and bid a fated adieu.
I guess I never bought the book because I enjoyed our clandestine affair. When I'd open it after not having seen it for weeks or months at a time, every word was more final. With just a few words, I'd get full and leave full, like the moon. But it almost felt wrong, buying it--stealing the moon away like that. I wanted to leave it there for someone else to happen upon, just in case.
That's the stuff. So much wisdom and beauty here, and so much... recognition of the way life really is, if you're a woman, anyway. Favorites: "The Inside Chance" and (for more than 20 years now, and probably forever) "Right to Life."
The rating would actually be a 2.5 as the imagery is good. I really expected to love this collection but it was just too focused on the negative and it brought me down. My favourite poetry brings me to a quiet place of thinking and pondering but this brought me to a place of despair and that is not a collection that I am going to keep in my possession and visit again.
I am not usually a poetry reader but many of the poems in this book stopped me in my tracks. Marge Piercy knows how to get to the core of the matter and fully describes feelings and experiences I have had.
blacken the sunlight I am not usually a poetry reader but many of the poems in this book stopped me in my tracks. Marge Piercy knows how to get to the core of the matter and fully describes feelings and experiences I have had.
in the morning early and busy together."
I came across this book at random at a local used book store. From the title, I expected, fluffly, trite, possibly pagan, probably feminist poetry. A confession - I looked at it to make fun of it. Instead, I found myself moved by the first poem I read. I flipped to another random page, sure that was a fluke. The next poem gripped my heart as well. I repeated that twice more before realizing that if I didn't buy the volume, I was going to sit myself down right there and read it in the store.
I to I came across this book at random at a local used book store. From the title, I expected, fluffly, trite, possibly pagan, probably feminist poetry. A confession - I looked at it to make fun of it. Instead, I found myself moved by the first poem I read. I flipped to another random page, sure that was a fluke. The next poem gripped my heart as well. I repeated that twice more before realizing that if I didn't buy the volume, I was going to sit myself down right there and read it in the store.
Took me a while to warm up to this collection, but it did finally pick up speed. I love the abortion poems, especially those about the clinic workers. It makes the issue real by linking it to real people who don't have any medical stake in what's going on---they're just doing their jobs. Piercy's feminist tone is back again but softened in the decades after To Be of Use. Still love her, though!
A rich book of often feminist poetry. There's a reason this is a classic - there are some excellent poems here and very few weak ones. It's hard to pick a favourite, but here is the first stanza of 'For the young who want to', a poem to which I think I'll be returning: "Talent is what they say/ you have after the novel/ is published and favorably/ reviewed. Beforehand what/ you have is a tedious/ delusion, a hobby like knitting."
The title poem is one I've long loved and will continue to do so. I'd return to ten or so of the other poems in the collection. While many contain fine, surprising lines, there is a tendency to err on the overtly rhetorical side, which lessens the overall grace.
The poems are fantastic. I felt like we were soulmates.
If someone gives you a Marge Piercy book, it might be because they love you. If you find yourself welling up with tears with each passing page, it might be because you love them back. Thank you, Nammy.
I wept, I smiled. This book is such a treasure.
women's intimacy shines in these poems.
This is a truly remarkable collection. Several were astoundingly well-crafted poems.
One of the most important pieces of women's literature ever. Also essential for anyone who is squirming in this WTF nightmare political climate.
This baby should be flying off the shelves again.
My absolute favorite book of poetry!
I have a mis-printed edition. The poems end on page 135 with a note on the type--and then restart on page 103. So I have 31 duplicate pages at the end of the book.
Probably my favorite book of poem, esp. the first portion of poems around everyday life.
Some good lines but it reads like sentences than poetry.
Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Winning a Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.
to roll on my back and wriggle.
but I want to start digging and planting.


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Posted: Jul 26, 2021 / 06:12 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 27, 2021 / 07:09 AM EDT
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – When it comes to a non-discrimination ordinance, some Augusta leaders say it's time to stop discussing it and approve it.
"I think it's the right thing to do. I think as commissioners we need to lead to show the community, we're business friendly," said Commissioner Sean Frantom.
Under the proposal complaints of discrimination based on numerous different factors would go to the city compliance office for investigation.
The complaint could be turned over to a mediator, if that doesn't satisfy those involved it goes to Magistrate Court.
Augusta blight ordinance moves forward
Federal laws prohibit discrimination however those laws do not apply to businesses with less than 15 employees.
"It will provide protections for everybody, so what that signals to the rest of the state and the rest of the country is move to Augusta bring your talent and you're not going to be at risk of losing your job for something this country decided was wrong in the 1960's," said Matt Duncan President of Equality Augusta.
The ordinance goes to before the Administrative Services Committee on Tuesday with the request to approve.
"Makes everyone inclusive, and I think that's what Augusta needs more inclusiveness for everyone so I'm supporting the ordinance," said Commissioner John Clarke.
Governor committee to investigate suspending Sias
"With the growth we are having in this community whether that's cyber whether its our sister county that got amazon we need to be business friendly I think it's the right thing to do," said Commissioner Frantom.
If approved by the full commission punishments for violations could include a $1000 fine.
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FASCINATING VIDEO: A HISTORY OF OUR NATION'S VOTING RIGHTS
October 24, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 5 Comments
Voting is the cornerstone of democracy!
eLocal worked very hard to create a motion infographic video that covers a great deal of historical information. The infographic is an animated map of the United States illustrating the evolution of our country's voting rights, presented as a video. As the video progresses, viewers can see highlights of the most interesting and dramatic shifts in voting rights. This video includes major milestones for Hispanics as well as women and African-Americans. Additionally, there is information about the court cases and events that led to these and other major changes in the voting culture of our country. This video is definitely what our Latinos need as an inspiration to vote this November, therefore please distribute it to your networks. Contributors to this video: Eric Opal – Brennan Center of Justice; Professor Alex Keyssar – Harvard University; Al Fuller – History of Half; James Jolly – US History Files and Jessica Marie Gutierrez – thehispanicblog.com.
For a direct link to this video http://www.elocallawyers.com/infographics/democracy-distilled.html.
DID YOU DO YOUR PART? HAS YOUR VOICE BEEN HEARD? HAVE YOU VOTED? ELECTION 2012 BECAUSE YOUR VOICE MATTERS!
The new, stricter voting laws have become an issue in light of this year's presidential election. (Vox Efx, Creative Commons)
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WHAT IS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AND WHEN EXACTLY IS IT?
October 2, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez Leave a Comment
Caesar Chavez, Migrant Workers Union Leader, 07/1972 Photo by: flickr
About National Hispanic Heritage Month
Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Entertainment: Vocalist Joan Baez. A sign hanging near the microphones reads "We Shall Overcome." ], 08/28/1963 photo by flickr
The observation started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover a 30-day period starting on September 15 and ending on October 15. It was enacted into law on August 17, 1988, on the approval of Public Law 100-402.
Photograph of the portrait of Jose de San Martin hanging on the wall in the Oval Office of the White House, directly over a small equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson., 11/05/1946 photo by flickr
The day of September 15 is significant because it is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September18, respectively. Also, Columbus Day or Día de la Raza, which is October 12, falls within this 30 day period.
To find out more about Hispanic Heritage Month visit the government website at http://hispanicheritagemonth.gov/
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LATINOS DO VOTE: WELCOME TO THE SHIFT AND THE NEW CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN STORY
May 11, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 11 Comments
Today America finds itself at a new crossroads – our culture, our country and our companies are changing again. It's a shift from exclusion to inclusion from borders to bridges; it's the new chapter of the American story where our country becomes richer. Hispanic babies are being born this very minute and are like knights in shining armor riding in to save the age of the American boomer. We are replenishing a nation with an endless source of passion, hard work and rhythm. So take a breath, take it all in because we are a part of that shift! Latinos are shifting the message and the thinking because we are not just brown but we are white, black, blonde and so much more! We get to see the shift come to life! Welcome to the next big thing; it's the end of a niche and the birth of what's next! -2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour across America
HISPANICS 2012 "WE DO VOTE!"
"THE 2012 HISPANIC VOICE TOWN HALL TOUR WILL DEFINE AN AGENDA FOR HISPANICS IN AMERICA TO HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND WHY WE MUST PLAY A MORE ACTIVE AND INFLUENTIAL ROLE IN THE REINVENTION OF AMERICA" -FOUNDER GREG LLOPIS
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The League of United Latin American Citizens explains how the Latino vote has become a pivotal factor for many political candidates, including the presidency. Estimates from the U.S. Census and the rapid expansion of the population have created a tidal wave of activities aimed at attracting the Hispanic vote across the nation. Even Hollywood gets involved from Rosario Dawson, to Wilmer Valderrama to Eva Longoria are only a few of the actors/actresses getting involved.
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Since 1990, 1.5 million Latinos have naturalized. There are 6.6 million registered Latino voters across the nation. In California, Texas, Florida, Illinois and New York, five key electoral states, Latinos have emerged as powerful allies for candidates seeking office. Consider that at 50.5 million, the U.S. Latino population is already larger than the entire population of England and Spain. Latinos are not just large in population size, they have the double distinction of being the youngest and fastest-growing group in the nation.
SALVADOR GUERRERO / SHFWire Brent A. Wilkes, right, of LULAC, and Jose Calderon, left, of the Hispanic Federation are working with Hector Sanchez, of LACLAA, to launch Movimiento Hispano, a website dedicated to increase Latino Voter turnout.
The Hispanic Federation, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the League of United Latin American Citizens announced their joint effort in February called Latinos for Democracy, which focuses on voting in the Latino community. The group has coordinated its efforts in 24 states and use the Movimiento Hispano project's website to help Latinos stay informed on the latest political news.
Over the past 10 years, the members of LFD have worked with over 2.1 million Latino Trade unionists, 135,000 volunteer members, and over 100 community-based organizations to advance Latino voter mobilization. The Hispanic vote is growing by leaps and bounds. Nearly 10 million Latinos voted in the 2008 Presidential elections – an increase of almost 30% from 2004. And just think about the fact that every year for the next twenty years, 500,000 Hispanics will turn 18 in the United States.
Groups such as the the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour, is a group of Young Latinos ready to to change the story about Hispanics in this country. They're ready to play a more prominent role in how our community influences policy makers, corporate leaders, and the rest of America. They're starting to express themselves with a new attitude and a new sense of purpose. They're excited to use the 2012 Hispanic Voice platform to showcase a new, energized Hispanic voice, a voice that hasn't yet been fully unleashed. And most importantly, they want results: Less talking, more doing!
Cuauhtemoc "Temo" Figueroa, Obama's top Latino outreach official, said [Texas] could be taken seriously as a presidential battleground if Democrats could win statewide races there in 2010. "I don't know if it's four years or eight years off, but down the road, Texas will be a presidential battleground," Figueroa said. The reason is demographics. Across the Southwest, Latino voters are increasingly powerful. In Colorado, their share of the vote went from 8% in 2004 to 13% in 2008. Nevada, 10% to 15%. New Mexico, 32% to 41%. Every 30 seconds, a Latino is added to the American population, the fastest rate of any minority group. By 2050, Hispanics will represent 29 percent of the American population. In 2008, Latinos voted 67-31 for Barack Obama. Texas is already 35 percent Hispanic. You can see where this is going. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/11/when-will-we-see-blue-texas-hispanics-will-decide
Driven by some Republicans' sharp attacks on illegal immigration and — as many Hispanics perceived it, immigrants in general — Latino voters fled the GOP en masse in the midterm elections, then turned on John McCain, as well. He got 31 percent of the Latino vote to the 44 percent that George W. Bush took in 2004, according to exit polls. And it was enough to put much of the West and Southwest out of reach for the Republican Party, to give Florida to the Democrats and to hand Barack Obama the presidency. Now, as Obama moves to solidify his advantage, Republican leaders are sounding the alarm on what could be the party's most pressing national challenge.
"Viva Bush" signs were prevalent when then-Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush made a campaign stop in Mesilla, New Mexico in 2000. Tracy Greer/Fronteras
JUST BECAUSE THEY SAY WE CAN'T DOESN'T MEAN WE WON'T! IN NOVEMBER OUR VOICE WILL ROAR!
There are hundreds of Latino organizations and/or local chapters taking charge by registering voters and creating an unprecedented Get Out The Vote movement across our nation. Groups such as Voto Latino, National Coucil of la Raza, the Tequila Party, Southwest Voter Registration, etc. and even local groups like Mi Famila Vota in Las Vegas and Arizona, AACT NOW in South Texas, Teamsters in Chicago, etc. are doing their part to spearhead revolutions this November. The media is leading the public to believe that the Latino vote does not count or that the registrations numbers are down, but the truth is that the Latino vote and voice is powerful and in a few months it will be heard!
The GOP nominee will need a minimum of 35-40% of the Hispanic vote to be competitive in November, and that Marco Rubio offers the best opportunity to get there due to the rapid growth of the Hispanic population in a number of crucial swing states.
Alicia Menendez on MSNBC w/ Ben Monterroso of Mi familia Vota & Frank Donatelli
Hispanic rights activists holding a rally in 2010 at the Teamsters Local 705 hall in Chicago.
Groups such as the non-partisan Mi Familia Vota (My Family Votes) consists of Hispanic families all across Nevada not only working to register voters, but to also turn out the vote in November. Five days a week, about 20 staff members and several volunteers of Mi Familia Vota meet and brainstorm on ways to get the Latino community engaged in the voting process. For now, they are visiting popular places within the Hispanic community. But in a few months, they will be going to door to door throughout neighborhoods. "We go to their grocery stores. While they are buying tortillas, we are telling them it's time to vote. They are at the grocery stores. They are at the 99 cents stores, at the carneceria's, at the DMV," said Leo Murrieta with Mi Familia Vota.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH WHAT MI FAMILIA VOTA IS DOING
BELOW IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE NON-PARTISAN "AACT NOW" IS DOING TO REGISTER VOTERS AND GET OUT THE VOTE IN SOUTH TEXAS. THIS GROUP WAS FOUNDED BY THE REAL ESTATE TYCOON AND BILLIONAIRE FROM MCALLEN, TX.
HISPANICS HAVE REACHED A TURNING POINT, SO JUST BECAUSE THE MEDIA CHOOSES NOT TO FEATURE OUR LATINO MOVEMENT THE REALITY IS THAT IT IS HAPPENING AND WE ARE MOBILIZING! HISPANICS WILL SHOW AMERICA IN 2012 THAT THE SLEEPING GIANT IS AWAKE AND THAT OUR VOICES ARE ROARING. LATINOS WILL NO LONGER BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED…WELCOME TO THE SHIFT…WE ARE THE FUTURE!!!!
2012: THE "MINORITY" VOTE IS ON FIRE
Jealous said the NAACP is the only group outside of the two major political parties with a voter database for all 50 states. Photo credit: Ishton W. Morton
The NAACP has also launched its nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters before the November 6th, 2012 elections. The organization has chosen the State of Georgia to launch its voter registration push. According to NAACP President Ben Jealous, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization will work harder and smarter to meet the new voting requirements. He framed them as a negative reaction to historic voter turnout in 2008 that led to Barack Obama's election as the first black U.S. president.
Referencing the 2008 election he continued to say "Were we students of history, we would've expected that night, when everybody was celebrating, that we needed to be preparing for what we're dealing with right now. We saw the largest most diverse presidential electorate this country has ever seen.
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NEW MEXICO CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL AND GETS A RARE LOOK AT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND ITS 1910 CONSTITUTION
May 4, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 2 Comments
In honor of the State's Centennial year, the State Records Center and Archives will host an Open House on May 2, 2012, to commemorate the drafting and adoption of the 1910 New Mexico Constitution. The public will be able to view the Constitution and other important documents of statehood. Concurrent with the Open House, the Office of the State Historian will host an exhibit, New Mexico's Cultural Landscapes, by photographer Sharon Stewart.
You could find automobiles on the streets in many a New Mexico town back in 1912, and yet it was just as likely you'd see a cowboy ride his horse up to a restaurant to get a bite to eat. The railroad, the telegraph and the telephone brought progress, news and visitors. "We were rural and poor, but New Mexico wasn't disconnected from the nation," Rick Hendricks, state historian, said Wednesday. New Mexico cemented its connection in 1912 by attaining statehood and effectively creating a state government based on its own constitution, a goal that was a good 60 years in the making.
"Morley's Map of New Mexico" Compiled from the Latest Government surveys and other reliable surveys. Ent. Acc. of Congress in the Year 1873 by Harry Whigham and G.A. Bushnell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C."
"A fair public school education is due every child and is of the utmost importance not only to the individual but to the welfare of the state." photo source: NM History
Delayed and foiled over the years by, among other measures, bad timing, racism, anti-Catholic bias, Manifest Destiny, the untimely death of a statehood-supporting president (Zachary Taylor) and opposition by a neighboring territory, the 24-article constitution was finally adopted by a Constitutional Convention in November 1910, ratified by the people a year later and made law in January 1912.
Dedication: To the men of New Mexico who have fought the hard fight for statehood and to those who formed the constitution of the Great New State of New Mexico this book is dedicated. photo source: NM History
The original state constitution, normally locked up in a climate-controlled vault, went on display alongside a number of other historical documents on Wednesday — for one afternoon only — at the State Records Center and Archives on Camino Carlos Rey near Cerrillos Road.
"People should have the opportunity to see historical documents we have in the archives," Hendricks said Wednesday at the records center, noting that usually only historians can request access to the original constitutional document.
Hendricks and New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Charles Daniels both gave short presentations regarding the creation and importance of the state constitution during a noon opening ceremony. Among the visitors were David and Mary Darling of Albuquerque. Her grandfather, Sen. William Dennis Murray, was one of 69 state lawmakers who signed the constitution. Her husband's grandfather, who ran a newspaper in Deming, was good friends with Murray.
New Mexico State Constitutional Convention, Santa Fe, NM 1910 photo source: NM History
"He ran a general store in Central New Mexico and opened the Murray Hotel in Silver City," Mary Darling said of her grandfather. "I was such a child when he died; he didn't speak about the constitution. Later, I read about him and realized he did a lot more important things for this state than I was aware of."
General Stephen Kearny photo source: Son of the South
The history of the constitution, as far as this exhibit is concerned, dates back to 1846, after Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny declared New Mexico an American Territory at the outset of the Mexican-American War. The exhibit includes Kearny's proclamation, which asks the Spanish-speaking residents of the city of Santa Fe not to take up arms against the American military, as well as Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid's Spanish translation of that proclamation. Vigil y Alarid was the last Mexican governor of the territory of New Mexico.
photo source: NM HIstory
Jerry Vigil of Albuquerque, who said he is a descendent of Vigil y Alarid, was reading over that document at the state records building Wednesday. "These documents are wonderful," he said. "This [proclamation] makes me very honored." He said he was aware of his ancestor's role in state history, but said he was not aware of this specific document. The state constitution — which in some ways mirrors the Constitution of the United States while also including provisions preserving the ethnic and cultural diversity within the state — "still speaks to who we are today," Vigil said, though he acknowledged there always has been an undercurrent of racial divide within the territory.
The Reunion of the Constitutional Convention of 1910 photo source: NM HIstory
The exhibit showcases the many abortive attempts by state leaders to draw up and ratify a state constitution in 1850, 1866, 1872 and 1889. In 1906, the state came closing to having both a constitution and statehood when its residents were given the chance to vote to become part of the United States as the state of Arizona (which would have enveloped New Mexico in that case).
"That was then, this is now!"
"New Mexicans voted 2-to-1 for it, and Arizona voted 5-to-1 against it … primarily because of our ethnic diversity," Daniels said in his remarks to the crowd. "Our Hispanic population concerned the people of Arizona. … There was a fear we wouldn't quite be Americans."
He praised the original constitution as a document that tried to preserve the culture, language and civil rights of New Mexicans, noting that one of the early provisions included ensuring the teaching of both Spanish and English in the public-school system.He noted that amendments to the constitution must be approved by three-quarters of both of the state's legislative bodies — as well as state voters. Still, in the past 100 years, there have been more than 160 amendments.
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"It's a surprising number considering how difficult it is to do," Hendricks noted. "Yes, it's been changed. But it hasn't been thrown out."
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HOW HAS CONGRESS DEALT WITH IMMIGRATION IN THE PAST 25 YEARS?
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1986: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 both tightens controls on illegal immigration and extends amnesty for many illegal immigrants. It requires that employers attest to employees' immigration status and make it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants. It also grants amnesty to some seasonal agricultural workers and to illegal immigrants who entered the United States prior to 1982 and have lived in the country continuously.
President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which provided amnesty to illegal immigrants who qualified.
1990: The Immigration Act of 1990 created a lottery program that randomly assigned a number of visas, and increased the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year. The law also included exceptions for the English-language portion of the naturalization test.
The green card lottery is held annually to randomly select 50,000 applicants to be awarded with green cards.
1996: Under President Bill Clinton, several pieces of legislation are enacted that crack down on various facets of immigration. Specifically, there is a sharp increase in the categories of criminal activity for which immigrants, including permanent residents, can be deported. The laws also impose mandatory detention for certain types of deportation cases, and as a result deportation rates skyrocket.
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Sept. 11, 2001: Terrorists attack New York and Washington, D.C., killing nearly 3,000 people. The events put immigration under a microscope because the attackers were foreigners, and change the way many politicians and Americans view immigration. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox goes so far as to say that if it were not for the attacks, Congress would have passed reform legislation that benefited Mexican emigration to America.
President George W. Bush walks with Mexico President Vicente Fox, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin upon their arrival Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at the Bill Daniels Activity Center at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. White House photo by Eric Draper
2003: The Supreme Court upholds mandatory detention regardless of flight risk for any immigrant offender, even permanent residents.
2005: In 2005 and 2006, Congress holds field hearings on immigration and border security across the country. The Senate introduces a significant bipartisan effort to create a path for legalization for many illegal immigrants.
Pullman Daily News photo: Dean Hare
December 2005: The House passes a bill criminalizing illegal immigrants, sparking massive pro-immigrant protests nationwide. The Senate refuses to take it up.
May 2006: Instead of the House bill, the Senate passes a tougher version of a bill crafted by Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., which includes a path to legal residency for many illegal immigrants.
October 2006: The fiscal year 2007 budget boosts funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by more than 20 percent, about $1 billion more than President George Bush requested, mostly for detention and transport of immigrants.
Thousands of immigrant rights advocates pack the National Mall during an immigration reform rally in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo)
November 2008: President Barack Obama is elected, and Democrats sweep both chambers of Congress, giving hope that a major immigration reform bill will be enacted. Obama had signaled interest in reform that included enhanced border enforcement, crackdowns on people who overstay their visa and employers who hire illegal immigrants and a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants.
Body language experts interpret that a hand placed over the mouth, as Obama is pictured doing, indicates negative impulses and disapproval. photo source: AP
2009: A comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced in the House fails despite efforts by the Obama administration to get it traction.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs SB 1070 in April 2010. (Photo courtesy of the Arizona Office of the Governor)
April 2010: Saying the Congress had failed to enforce U.S. immigration laws, Arizona passes a law to crack down on various facets of illegal immigration. Most controversial is that the law directs police to ask for immigration papers from anyone they stop or arrest who they suspect may be in the country illegally.
Sep 20, 2010 – Los Angeles, California, USA – Los Angeles Mayor ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA during a rally that supports the Dream Act which allows temporary legal status for immigrant students.
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December 2010: The so-called Dream Act, which would allow illegal immigrant students a path to citizenship, passes the House in the lame duck session. The Senate GOP filibusters, effectively killing the bill.
Hundreds of immigrant rights activists rallied outside the Supreme Court building Wednesday as did several dozen supporters of Arizona's law. Photo: Creative Commons/Talk Radio News Service
April 2012: The Supreme Court takes up the Arizona law. While a decision isn't expected until June, during initial arguments the justices appear to have little issue with provisions requiring police to check the legal status of people they stop for other reasons.
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Der Girabola 1995 war die 17. Saison des Girabola, der höchsten Spielklasse im Fußball in Angola. Es nahmen 14 Mannschaften teil, die je zweimal gegeneinander antraten.

Petro Luanda wurde zum dritten Mal in Folge Meister, was den zehnten Titel bedeutete. Angolanischer Pokalsieger wurde Atlético Sport Aviação, ebenfalls aus der Hauptstadt Luanda, der auch den folgenden angolanischen Supercup gegen Meister Petro Luanda gewann.

Mit 19 Treffern wurde Desportivo EKAs Stürmer Serginho Torschützenkönig, wie schon in der Saison 1993.

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Vermutlich durch die Wirren und Zerstörungen des angolanischen Bürgerkriegs (1975–2002) sind nur sehr wenige Daten zu der Saison vermerkt, und es ist keine detaillierte Abschlusstabelle erhalten. Gesichert ist nur der erste Platz. Die hier als Auf- und Absteiger angegebenen Klubs ergeben sich dagegen aus den Veränderungen zu der folgenden und der vorherigen Spielzeit.

Nachdem 1994 noch 12 Teams vertreten waren, nahmen 1995 erstmals wieder 14 Mannschaften teil. Dazu sind vier statt zuvor zwei Klubs aufgestiegen.

(Stand: Endstand, keine detailliertere Daten über den Erstplatzierten hinaus vermerkt)

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Fußballsaison 1995

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An art nouveau villa in northern Italy with a history of varied uses and architectural amendments has been redesigned by Oasi Architects into a house for a young family with three children.
Once surrounded by green parkland, the decorative 'Liberty' period villa in Busto Arsizio, built in the early 1900s, gradually shifted from suburb to centre as the city expanded. While its grounds were given up to urban infill with a warehouse and a neighbouring building added in the 60s, it retained its poise in the face of change.
Multiple interior modifications over the years as the building changed hands and functions meant that to return the house to its former glory, Oasi Architects had to take a tough approach to bring it back to residential use. For a period of time, it had been used as a rehabilitation centre for teenagers so much of the interior had been remodelled.
'The biggest challenge of the project was the attempt to bring to life the hidden spatiality of the house through a subtracting process,' say the architects, who also had to convince the client that a partial interior demolition was the best way to approach a restoration.
Architects Pietro Ferrario and Francesco Enea Castellanza worked to 'open, remove, cut, peel, remove, and unveil' parts of the building to create the modern and functional design now found inside – that also celebrates the gracious character and elegant architectural details of the original villa.
The space across the three-storey house was stripped back to reveal the original wooden roof structure, then remodeled vertically to create a wide central corridor. The floors were re-cut to define new light-filled interior spaces, unique in shape at each level and connected with a renovated central staircase with new steel handrail – just one of Oasi's trademark artistic twists.


A modern hotel that opened in 2014. This hotel is set in beautiful surroundings just off the A5, heading towards Basle, between Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, and Sinsheim. It is close to Stuttgart airport and to the Stuttgart and Mannheim exhibition centres. Nearby Bruchsal boasts the only chateau belonging to the prince and bishops in the Upper Rhine region. Karlsruhe is only 30 Km away and also offers plenty of interesting sites and further south, in Calw, guests can enjoy a visit to the Herman Hesse Museum. Check in is in the service station next door that is open 24 hours a day, there guests can also buy press and gifts among other items, they also offer a reasonably priced breakfast or guests can enjoy food at other famous chains in the area. The comfortable rooms are all air conditioned and feature high-quality beds as well as special noise insulation, free Wi-Fi and satellite TV.


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BROCKTON — Two women were injured Thursday evening in a crash between an SUV and sedan.
Police and firefighters responded to the area of Summer Street and Snell Avenue for a report of a two-vehicle crash about 5 p.m.
Firefighters on scene had to use the Jaws of Life hydraulic extrication tool to gain access to the driver's door of the SUV, a Honda Pilot, which suffered heavy damage as a result of the collision. A second engine carrying the extrication tools also had to respond to assist.
Police say the crash happened when the driver of the Pilot, a 45-year-old Brockton woman, crashed into a Volvo S40 that was turning right onto Summer Street from Snell Avenue. The driver of the Volvo was a 54-year-old city woman.
Both women were taken by ambulance to Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital with minor injuries.
No citations or charges had been filed as of Friday afternoon.
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The Australian government has set aside $230 million in a new cybercrime strategy with a five-pronged plan of action.
The strategy proposes a range of new measures designed to tackle costly cybercrime incidents including ransomware, "hacktivism", DDoS attacks and data theft through cyberespionage.
According to the report, cybercrime is estimated to cost Australians over $1 billion each year, although it's suggested that the real impact could be as high as $17 billion.
This higher figure is based on estimates that cybercrime costs economies around 1% of GDP per year.
In an attempt to reduce this figure, the government has identified five themes of action to be taken over the next four years.
These actions include the strengthening of cyber defences, investment in cybersecurity innovation, and the creation of global partnerships to shut down safe havens for cybercriminals.
According to the Guardian's report, the government is expected to hire over 100 cybersecurity experts across its agencies.
A further $20.4 million will be allocated to the federal police, and $16 million to the crime commission going towards threat detection, technical analysis and forensic assessment.
"This new structure will ensure cybersecurity is given the attention it demands in an age where cyber opportunities and threats must be considered together and must be addressed proactively, not simply as a reaction to the inevitability of future cyber events," Australia's prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said in the strategy's foreword.
Not everyone, however, is behind the new plans, which are said to have been drawn from a classified Cyber Security Review led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Speaking to The Australian, independent senator Nick Xenophon called for more transparency over the findings of the review.
"What the government is effectively saying is that there's a serious problem but we are not going to tell you how bad it's been to date, and that is not good enough," Mr Xenophon said.
To read Australia's Cyber Security Strategy in full, visit the government's dedicated website.


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"Major brand" interest in new digital video intelligence venture
By Pippa Chambers | 25 June 2015
A new media science research centre for digital video intelligence has been set up to explore the fast-spinning world of online digital advertising.
The University of South Australia is set to launch a media science research centre "like no other" in order to translate ad tech data into real business insights.
The university's Business School's Centre for Digital Video Intelligence, set to launch later this year, is headed up by its director, Dr Karen Nelson-Field, who says there is already strong interest and investment from "major brands" that want to learn more about how to best use digital video online to reach consumers.
"Even though online advertising has been around for quite some time, for many companies, investment in video is still seen as somewhat of a risk," said Nelson-Field.
"In response to industry demand we have established a large-scale, independent, media science research centre to facilitate growth in the online video sector. We deliver science-based principles that inform best practice decision making."
Speaking to AdNews, managing director ANZ at Videology, Sarah Wyse, said as brands, content producers and advertisers try to figure out the world of convergence, on its own, incremental reach is simply not enough anymore.
"We need to focus on the impact of video and delve deeper into the psyche of consumers," she said.
"News that the University of South Australia is taking steps to highlight digital video as a legitimate and effective media for advertisers should be met with positivity, especially when its focus is on helping brands extract value from their own data.
"The digital industry has a wealth of data available to us, however the difference in how we use data in online video vs. other media is that the industry focuses on upfront data, utilising it in the targeting phase. Other screen media hasn't had this luxury, but does have a history in understanding the effect of video post-event – i.e. how many bottles of shampoo did I sell after my TV ad campaign."
Nelson-Field, who spent nine years as a senior researcher at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, and was also previously manager, marketing communications/destination development at the SA Tourism Commission , said its goal is to provide industry with "much needed direction about video investment".
The research agenda focuses on principles for effective content distribution, content creation and platform impact.
Winner of the 2014 SA Telstra Business Women's Innovation Award and the Newscorp Women in Innovation Award, and author of Viral Marketing: The Science of Sharing, Nelson-Field, who was also an advertising team manager at News Corp back in the 90s, has been a champion of rigorous research into the impact of online and digital technologies and social media platforms in the marketing and advertising space.
The centre, based at UniSA's City West campus, with the Centre for Business Growth and the new HP Innovation and Collaboration Centre, will bring together a team of experts in marketing and media science, mathematical modelling, machine learning and advertising effect measurement.
The centre will also be forging partnerships with the Australian big data research group, the Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre and UniSA's own Institute for Choice based in Sydney, as well as a broad range of leading international companies and brands.
Wyse added: "Having a credible institution like the University of South Australia launch a media science research centre within the Australian market that will deliver tangible insights for brands and highlight the effectiveness of online video, should be met with open arms."
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In terms of overall gaming performance, the AMD Athlon X4 860K is massively better than the AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core Black Edition when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.
The Athlon X4 860K was released less than a year after the Phenom 9600 Quad-Core, and so they are likely to have similar levels of support, and similarly optimized performance when running the latest games.
The Phenom 9600 Quad-Core and the Athlon X4 860K both have 4 cores, which is not likely to be a limiting factor for gaming.
Both the AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core Black Edition and the AMD Athlon X4 860K have the same number of threads. Both CPUs have one thread per physical core.
Multiple threads are useful for improving the performance of multi-threaded applications. Additional cores and their accompanying thread will always be beneficial for multi-threaded applications. Hyperthreading will be beneficial for applications optimized for it, but it may slow others down. For games, the number of threads is largely irrelevant, as long as you have at least 2 cores (preferably 4), and hyperthreading can sometimes even hit performance.
The Phenom 9600 Quad-Core and Athlon X4 860K are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Athlon X4 860K has a 1.4 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the is superior.
The Athlon X4 860K has a 2048 KB bigger L2 cache than the Phenom 9600 Quad-Core, and although the Athlon X4 860K does not appear to have an L3 cache, its larger L2 cache means that it wins out in this area.
The Athlon X4 860K has a 30 Watt lower Maximum TDP than the Phenom 9600 Quad-Core, and was created with a 37 nm smaller manufacturing technology. What this means is the Athlon X4 860K will consume significantly less power and consequently produce less heat, enabling more prolonged computational tasks with fewer adverse effects. This will lower your yearly electricity bill significantly, as well as prevent you from having to invest in extra cooling mechanisms (unless you overclock).
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Phenom 9600 Quad-Core Black Edition is a performance processor based on the 65nm, K10 architecture.
It offers 4 Physical Cores (4 Logical), clocked at 2.3GHz and 2MB of L3 Cache.
Among its many features, Virtualization is activated and the processor has unlocked multiplier, meaning it can be overclocked easily.
The processor DOES NOT integrate any graphics. and has a rated board TDP of 125W.
It offers average performance. This means it will become a bottleneck in some demanding applications. Athlon X4 860K is a Quad Core based on the 28nm, Streamroller microarchitecture.
We will add more information, once it becomes available.