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By Carol Thiessen and Virginie Levasseur
Carla Duran credits her successful career as a farmer, and her family's food security, to a Bolivian cooperative supported by the Canadian government.
As a child, Carla's parents grew maize and potatoes on their small farm in Bolivia. They could barely make ends meet.
Carla's situation changed when her parents joined UNEC—Unidad de Negocios Especias y Condimentos—a subsidiary of an agricultural co-operative–that processes and packages high quality organic spice for export across Latin America.
Carla's family now grows oregano for the cooperative, which has received support from the Government of Canada and SOCODEVI, a Quebec-based network of cooperatives that share technical expertise and knowledge with partners in developing countries.
SOCODEVI has supported UNEC since 2006 to increase its capacity to clean and grade herbs and spices, especially oregano, increasing its processing and packaging of herbs and spices from zero to 650 tons last year.
Carla's family is one of 2,000 families in the Chuquisaca region of Bolivia who have reaped numerous benefits from their co-operative. In addition to increased income from this crop, their farming practices are now more sustainable.
Carla has transformed her life, too. She completed a degree in agronomy and found work at the UNEC factory. With her strong determination and dedication, she is now managing the whole factory.
Co-operatives like UNEC, and other farmer-led organizations, give voice to farmers' concerns—especially those of women—and play a crucial role in sustainable agricultural development. They provide training and education opportunities, support efforts to engage government on agricultural policies, and improve farmers' collective ability to innovate, negotiate and market effectively.
More support like this from the Canadian government is a key plank in a new proposal urging Canada to make a signature investment of $2.5 billion in aid for agricultural development over the next five years (see www.aid4ag.ca). This should be part of a growing aid budget.
More than 35 leading developing organizations and 10 prominent academics have joined together on this initiative, arguing that boosting aid for agriculture will allow Canada to show global leadership in enabling the poorest and most vulnerable—many who are women small-scale farmers—to flourish.
Canada demonstrated strong leadership in food security after the global food crisis in 2008, and increased its aid support for agricultural development to an average of $435 million/year from 2009-2011. Since then, aid for agriculture has fallen to an average of $328 million/year, a decline of 25 percent.
An investment of $500 million/year would vault Canada back to the forefront among donor countries working in sustainable agriculture for small-scale farmers, and help it achieve more successes like UNEC and for people like Carla. It would contribute to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. And it would help Canada meet its key development priorities, such as empowering women, enabling poverty reduction, and responding to climate change.
The strategies needed to meet these goals include enabling agricultural innovation, creating opportunities for rural youth, improving nutrition through agriculture, and reducing inequalities for women so they can better access productive resources, participate fully in household decision-making, and be treated as full and equal members of society.
Farmer-led organizations, including co-operatives, have a proven track record in achieving these goals. A woman-led farmer organization in India has empowered more than 5,000 women from the lowest caste to use their traditional knowledge to reclaim degraded lands and turn them into productive, drought-tolerant and nutritious farms.
In Jarkhand State, India, self-help groups have enabled villagers to better stand up for their rights, protect their natural resources, and improve their community food security. Women in those villages report that they now speak up more in their homes and in village meetings and are treated with more equality.
That these kind of farmer-led organizations and co-operatives are so successful would come as no surprise to many Canadians. Agricultural co-operatives have a long and productive history in this country, with more than 1,300 co-ops continuing to support Canadian farmers in meeting their collective goals.
Let's make agricultural development central to Canada's development strategy. And let's support agricultural co-operatives and other farmer-led organizations as part of an agricultural strategy. This will help build a more inclusive world—the kind of world where we work together to end hunger and poverty everywhere.
Virginie Levasseur is Director of Innovation and Advisory services at SOCODEVI (Société de coopération pour le développement international). Carol Thiessen is a senior policy advisor at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Their organizations support the Aid for Agriculture proposal. For more on SOCODEVI's work with UNEC, visit http://socodevi.org/en/our-publications/videos/.

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The Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Must Not Look Away
Journalist Marina Bolotnikova argues that factory farming is a fascist industry in which violence and domination of animals is justified without argument.
filed 11 August 2022 in Interviews
Current Affairs is proud to be a publication that takes animal rights seriously. From our lighthearted looks at manatees, ants, and cats, to our more serious pieces on the Orwellian language of the factory farming industry, the reason animal communication shouldn't be the justification for animal rights, and the need for "Veticare For All," we have always believed that left politics and animal welfare go together.
Marina Bolotnikova is a journalist who specializes in animal welfare and animal agriculture. In addition to Current Affairs, she has written for the Intercept, the Guardian, and Vox. She came on the Current Affairs podcast to talk to editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson about two articles she wrote for us. One was about the importance of direct action to the animal liberation movement. Most recently, she wrote about how the factory farming industry has gone from openly admitting that they view animals as profit-maximizing machines to pretending to care about being "humane." This interview has been edited and condensed for grammar and clarity.
You have written about animal rights, animal welfare, and animal agriculture. What is it about this topic that is so compelling that you have made it your beat?
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The subject of factory farming and animal rights is something I've been obsessed with for most of my life. I was in maybe fifth or sixth grade when I decided I was going to be vegetarian. I don't think I had ever even heard of factory farming. I just figured that if we don't have to eat animals to live, then it's wrong to do that. I started to read a book about how to be a vegetarian and that was the first time I saw a mention of factory farming. It said that animals raised for food are treated really badly. And I was horrified. I got more and more into it. I watched Earthlings, a documentary narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. I watched that probably when I was too young for it, some time when I was in high school. Like a lot of people who are really devoted to this issue, I found it compelling. It's an obvious atrocity.
I've worked in journalism for a while. For the vast majority of that time, I really didn't focus on animal agriculture at all. Even though it's so important to me, out of self-protection, I chose not to have it be the subject of my work. I found it traumatizing to have to engage with it. It's upsetting as a subject matter. And one has to confront the fact that most people don't care about it as much as you do. So as a freelancer, I wrote about a lot of different things. And then pretty soon, my beat found me. I was listening to a podcast by Wayne Hsiung. He's a prominent animal rights activist and has a podcast called The Green Pill. He had a guest on his show, Matt Johnson, who is a direct action activist in the group Direct Action Everywhere. And he was talking about facing trial in Iowa, facing up to eight years in prison for an undercover investigation he did into a horrific thing that happened at pork factory farms early in the pandemic in 2020.
There was a supply chain crisis in the meat industry because COVID was affecting slaughterhouse workers. There were shutdowns and there was reduced slaughterhouse capacity. As a result, there were all of these surplus animals that couldn't be processed into food on time, and in the pork industry, a method that they use to quote unquote depopulate these animals—which is a euphemism for exterminating them—involves essentially cooking them to death using temperatures of around 140 or 150 degrees. They pump in heat and steam.
Matt Johnson took undercover recordings. He got this incredible two-hour recording of the pigs shrieking throughout this process. It was a huge media story and was really embarrassing for the pork industry. Instead of prosecuting the pork industry bosses who carried all of this out, the state of Iowa put Johnson on trial.
I thought, "Oh my God, obviously I have to cover this." I live in Wisconsin; I'm within driving distance. I can cover this. What could I possibly be doing or writing about that's more important than this? So that's how it started. Before then, I had written a little bit about veganism and animal rights. But I got really into it after writing about Johnson's case. I had a lot of momentum to keep going. I think it's what I'm meant to be writing about.
It's very hard to think about and confront the reality of what is done on a mass scale to sentient creatures every day in this country and around the world. And it's easy to try to avoid it. People don't like thinking about it, and they don't want to talk about it even though they kind of know at some level that there's something bad that goes on or something horrible with animal agriculture. But something happens where, when you do confront it, instead of drawing further away, you decide you're going to go closer, and you're going to try to find the truth. Once you do that, it makes it difficult to go back to looking away. When you start to peel back the layers of what is done, you realize that there is a deep horror that is going on all the time. I think it becomes hard to justify to yourself not working on exposing this.
I think that's very true. It's really under-covered. This is kind of perverse, but it means it's not that difficult to distinguish yourself in the field. I certainly wish I had more competition and that there were more people interested in factory farming from the perspective of the animals. There is more interest in it from a climate perspective.
When you meet someone who hasn't thought about animal welfare or who has spent their entire life looking away or trying not to confront this, what do you wish that such people knew about what actually goes on?
A lot of people have this idea that raising animals for food is natural, that it's what we have always done. How could we go on without it? I have a friend who is really smart, but he said this strange thing about how undoing animal agriculture would somehow be a backwards development for human civilization. People have this idea that it's the circle of life, right? And farming and slaughtering animals is just what life and death is all about. The deeper you get into understanding how the industry works, the more clear it becomes that that's a preposterous idea. You know, it's almost surreal. Factory farming gets its name because these places are factories. Animals never see the outdoors. They don't touch grass.
In the pork industry, I think one of the most vivid and shocking things is the treatment of female pigs. They're locked in tiny crates that are barely bigger than their bodies. The crates are designed to prevent them from being able to turn around. It really limits their mobility. They're unable to turn around their whole life. They're artificially inseminated to produce litter after litter of piglets who are soon taken away from them and slaughtered at six months of age. You can see images of giant warehouses full of these gestation crates side by side. Aerial views. It's really haunting. These are animals who never reproduce naturally in their lives. This practice couldn't be farther from "natural."
People may not know this, but the number of land animals slaughtered for food is almost unfathomable. It's almost 10 billion, just in the United States, in one year. That's a crazy number. I hate the word natural because it's meaningless. But if people were sustaining themselves on what they think of as any kind of "natural" animal population, it wouldn't approach anything near 10 billion animals available to eat. Pigs are known to be really smart and social animals. They're often compared to dogs. I think there are reasons to doubt this kind of hierarchy of intelligence. But there's no doubt that pigs are similar to us in many ways. They're social and active. To immobilize and lock them up and snatch away their newborns—they bond with newborns just like humans do—is just really the most diabolical thing imaginable.
When you start to try and empathize, to think what it's like to be these creatures, and when you start to accept that they have emotions—they feel pain and fear—and then when you start to look at what they are put through, taken together with the huge numbers that you cited, you start to feel a sense of deep disquiet and disturbance. No wonder you want to pull away from it. If this is so "natural," then why do none of us want to go anywhere near it or even contemplate it? Why have we built a system that we cannot even bear to look at or think about?
I think that's a great way of putting it. The industry definitely benefits from and promulgates these narratives about what's natural. There are these scam labels on animal products: "humanely raised." Companies are profiting from exploiting this image that people have of a pre-industrial kind of agriculture that I would argue never really existed. But these mythologies are really powerful.
They've got pictures of the green pastures on the label.
I just continue to be surprised by how dishonest people are willing to be. You know what I mean? I just don't expect people to lie or to do things like that for profit. And one of the things that's been different for me about reporting on animal agriculture is that I have to get in contact with and correspond with people who represent and defend the industry. It can drive you crazy sometimes to think, How are human beings doing this? It's evil at its most banal.
Your latest article for Current Affairs discusses euphemisms and propaganda and the way in which the true atrocities that are conducted are covered with nice and pleasant words. Depopulation is a euphemism for extermination. In the article, there's this incredible ad about sows as mothers.
It's from United Animal Health. People should read that article. Farm animal research is devoted to breeding farm animals and manipulating their bodies in a way that maximizes productivity. That's the goal. And that's another thing that makes this idea of animal agriculture being natural, just bizarre and perverse. Every part of the system is human engineered.
Talk a little bit more about the way in which the truth is obscured through elaborate euphemisms.
Euphemisms. This is what you were referring to with the extermination method. Matt Johnson got audio of the extermination method where pigs were being roasted to death. That's a method that's called ventilation shutdown. It's farm animal extermination. It's also being used widely in the poultry industry this year to exterminate animals due to bird flu. There's really no question that it's a horrible way to die. It's death by heatstroke, which is understood as probably one of the worst animal cull methods. And yet, there's this whole infrastructure of animal science research departments and poultry science departments that exists to create research for the meat industry to validate whatever they want to do and slap the label "humane" onto anything. That's something I've been kind of surprised by. The label 'humane' is slapped onto ventilation shutdown with no justification whatsoever. By "humane" they just mean that it's something the industry wants to do. So we're going to say it's humane enough. There's no need to even think very deeply about it. It's just a way of rubber stamping things.
This kind of research becomes the basis for guidelines by respected institutions like the American Veterinary Medical Association, which then becomes the basis for USDA policy on whether it's okay to cull farm animals. It's garbage all the way down. No one cares. There's no meaningful political pressure put on federal regulators.
For example, in this article that you did for the Intercept in April about the ventilation shutdown for killing chickens, there is this "research" that took place at North Carolina State University, a really innocuous-sounding place. There's a video embedded in the article. I'll just quote your description of it here: "A hen, hooked up to electrodes, stands alone in a glass cage. She starts panting, thrashing, slumping over, and lunging at the enclosure's walls, appearing to look for an escape. Outside the cage, researchers point, take notes, and watch her die." Everyone should watch this video. Unless you're perhaps one of these researchers, someone who has desensitized themselves to the suffering of animals—if you're a normal, empathetic person and you really put yourself in the place of this chicken, you see the extreme levels of pain that this method of killing causes. But you also notice that without the video, this kind of bland, bureaucratic language of "VSD +" (ventilation shutdown) would not give you any sense of the reality of the pain that is being inflicted here.
Absolutely. North Carolina is a big agriculture state. North Carolina State University has a lot of agricultural research. The Poultry Science Department was where these experiments took place in order to validate this torture method for killing egg-laying hens. The Poultry Science Department advertises its ties to industry. It reminds me of when people make fun of the Soviet economists whose work validated the Soviet economy. That's what this is. It's interesting to see this kind of doublespeak in this North Carolina State University research paper. They use the term "humane" and don't define it. It's just thrown in there. It's kind of what consumers expect, but it's just thrown in there. It's fake.
In your most recent article, you document the way in which things used to be a little more honest. You found these incredible notes from industry publications from a couple decades back where they would say quite directly that the pig is a machine and that you are trying to maximize the outputs and minimize the inputs. And that is the way you ought to think about this creature. And that is the only thing you need to think about this creature. It is a piece of a mechanical process. Now there has been this kind of shift—not in methods, which are clearly still horrendous and based on widespread torture—but a shift in the way in which these things are presented in order to add a veneer of the humane and the compassionate.
Yes. You're referring to pork industry journals from the '70s that I quoted. They were fascinating because they just directly instruct the reader to treat the animal just like a machine in a factory. I was just amazed when I first saw that earlier this year. I thought it was fake. Well, I didn't really think it was fake, but part of me doubted it and I was like, Could this really be real? The factory farm model has really taken over the pork industry since the '70s. The idea presented to farmers was almost as though it was genuinely novel. Throw out all the ideas you have about animals and animal farming and think of it as like a car factory or something. Since there was no internet, I doubt anyone other than a pork farmer would have been seeing these things. They didn't need to worry about the public seeing these things. It's a great resource for seeing how the industry operates.
You have this fascinating point in the article where you draw parallels with fascism and Donald Trump. You describe how the system of factory farming is kind of like a fascist industry. I've written about Holocaust comparisons, which I think everyone needs to be careful of; it's easy for them to be offensive. But we see the same tendency to ignore the suffering of those who have been deemed not to matter. And we also see the methods of industrial killing. The system operates so that the weakest are just trampled upon and killed and treated as having no value except to the degree that their lives are useful for those who exploit them. Factory farming is like that kind of system perfected.
Yes. I think it absolutely is a fascist industry. And I think I took this idea from a philosopher named John Sanbonmatsu. He's a friend of mine and a very smart critical animal studies scholar. I think I sent you one of his books. It's a collection called Critical Theory and Animal Liberation. It's a great collection. It was really influential to me. In the introduction, he talks about this idea that our relationship with non-human animals is a kind of fascism. It's violent. It has its own justification. And it really resonated with me much more than this kind of bloodless animal welfare/animal rights philosophy that you read. I don't want to say anything negative about anyone working in that space, but it's like, Let's talk about animals as though they're just inputs for pleasure and pain, utility or whatever. Fascism is a great model for understanding animal agriculture and animal exploitation more broadly. You know, if someone's talking about animal suffering, or factory farming on Twitter or in real life, someone will just laugh or be like, "bacon." That's an example, right? You don't need reasons or real arguments or any kind of reasonable discourse. It's just violence and domination that justifies itself.
Recently I read David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth. One of the things he says early in the book is, I'm never going to be vegan. If you're at the top of the food chain, you should flaunt it. That's almost verbatim what he said. And that's another example of what I mean. It's domination justifying itself. Might makes right.
He's an intelligent person. But you hear people who have normally somewhat rigorous standards for the arguments that they put forth just abandoning all of that and saying things that obviously don't hold up to scrutiny. Being at the top of the food chain? How does that in any way respond to this serious moral question of whether tearing away a pig's little piglets from her is justifiable? You can only make these arguments if you don't talk about what we're really talking about, or if you talk about the eating of animals on your plate and not the way they're treated somewhere far away. And that gets me to the article that you wrote for us about direct action. One of the only ways in which we can start talking about what we're really talking about, is to see things like that video that you have in the article of the chicken being killed. You write about the critical importance of animal welfare activists who are willing to violate laws in order to expose the truth.
Earlier, I was talking about the trial of the activist Matt Johnson in Iowa. The germ for this piece kind of came out of that. Matt Johnson was in Iowa facing trial, and many of his fellow activists from Direct Action Everywhere were there to support and protest. They used their time there to do more investigations and more work on the ground. Iowa is ground zero for pork factory farming.
There was a group of activists driving around rural Iowa. There are pork factory farms everywhere, and they passed by one. It's pretty normal outside of pork farms to see piles of dead bodies. They go through so many animal bodies—it's the cost of doing business. So you often see animals outside that have been discarded because they're runts. And they found a piglet still alive and breathing. The temperature was in the single digits, and there was this piglet there covered in blood and among these other bodies. Horrible. These conversations were happening over Signal and there were a lot of messages going back and forth in real time. I was deeply affected by it. And they rushed this piglet to the vet. He survived for a few days but ended up dying. It was a sad story. Maybe the piglet could have survived and lived out his life at a farm sanctuary if they'd gotten to it sooner.
The story of Charlie the piglet impacted me very deeply. It was the opening to the piece I wrote. It's the most tragic story you could imagine about this system, right? This little baby animal was unsuccessfully killed and thrown in the trash alive. No doubt this happens routinely. If it weren't for activists who risk criminalization to trespass and document this stuff, we would have no idea that it happens. Most people will never get close to a factory farm or get close to the animals in them and see what it's like. Having activists who do it is a critical antidote to the industry lies and euphemisms and abstractions.
It's a way of staying close to the powerless and vulnerable—beings that are utterly and totally crushed in this system—and seeing what really happens to them. I think it's incredibly powerful.
The industry is willing to wage war on activists to prevent their practices from being exposed, and is willing to wage war on any effort that, in any way, requires them to adopt meaningful, humane standards that might be costly. These are corporations that are ruthless in trying to maintain the very worst and most disturbing aspects of the system they've created.
And the absurd severity of the criminal charges brought against activists-–it definitely says a lot about how much of a threat the industry thinks that they are, and also how much influence they have over prosecutors. There's another trial coming up in September in Utah that I will be writing about. It's a similar story. Activists are facing years in prison for going to a massive Smithfield pig factory farm in Utah. I'm not positive, but it might be the single biggest factory farm in the U.S. It has massive rows of mother pigs and gestation crates. They went in either 2017 or 2018 and took out two small, sick piglets, arguing they were on the verge of dying and wouldn't have survived. They're arguing that the animals wouldn't have had value to the industry anyway considering the condition they were in. If this were a normal situation, it wouldn't even be worth the criminal justice system's time. Utah has a law. I think if you steal $500 or less of property, it's a misdemeanor unless it's a farm animal.
One thing I haven't mentioned is that the charges against Matt Johnson were dropped at the very last minute. It was surprising. We'll probably never know for sure why, but I think it had to do with the media attention that it was attracting.
Having a big public trial is a way to draw attention to the practice and I'm sure they're constantly trying to figure out what's in their interest. If they go too far, it might actually help the activists' cause. Let's finish by talking briefly about the way in which animal welfare is often not treated as an issue of sufficient seriousness by leftists or environmentalists, people who have values where you would think this would naturally be an issue that was at the core of their politics.
I think it's also feminized, so it can make me a little self-conscious if people perceive it as this kind of unserious womanly thing and not a real political issue. It's been really hard for animal advocates to build political power; it's still such an isolated movement. A few years ago, California passed a ballot measure, one of the strongest farm animal protection laws in the country. It bans the gestation crates that we've been talking about and other kinds of extreme confinement on factory farms. That's called Prop 12. It took a massive amount of effort and organizing to get that on the ballot and passed. It looks likely that the Supreme Court will strike it down. I haven't seen much of anyone outside of the animal movement stand up for it. And I think it's really sad. But I don't want to be all doom and gloom. I think giving up is not an option.
I think animal advocates have gotten much better at not being so single issue. Prop 12 passed by an overwhelming margin. Well, it depends on how you define overwhelming. I think it passed by 63 percent of voters by ballot measure. That suggests that people want farm animals to be treated well. But when it's time to actually defend these laws from the Supreme Court or to hold politicians accountable to enforce them, you don't see a lot of people show up beyond those in the animal movement.
What's hopeful is that when these practices are brought to light, most moral human beings are revolted by them. It requires a hell of a lot of effort and money on behalf of the meat industry to keep the public in the dark. It would be a much more pessimistic and sad situation if it were the case that everyone did know and didn't care. The fact that people don't know opens the possibility that we can, in fact, through a more widespread discussion and through activism build some more serious public opposition.
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Adscita krymensis is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is only known from the Crimea

The length of the forewings is about 11.5 mm for males.

References

C. M. Naumann, W. G. Tremewan: The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1999,

Procridinae
Moths described in 1994
Moths of Europe

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December 23, 2022 December 23, 2022 ~ Sam Gazdziak
RIP to Tom Flanigan, a pitcher with two trips to the major leagues, four years apart. He died on December 8 at Hospice of St. Elizabeth in Edgewood, Ky. He was 88 years old. Flanigan played for the Chicago White Sox (1954) and St. Louis Cardinals (1958).
Source: The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), April 26, 1955.
Thomas Anthony Flanigan was born in Cincinnati on September 6, 1934. He attended Elder High School in Cincinnati and played on the school baseball team, as well as a Glenway Merchants amateur team. The left-handed pitcher threw a no-hitter in his senior season of 1952 and also struck out 20 of 21 batters in a 7-inning game. Elder High won the Ohio state high school championship that same year. Flanigan was signed by the Chicago White Sox by scout Eddie Ries after graduation, and he reported to the Madisonville Miners of the Class-D Kitty League. Ries boasted that the tall (6'3″) lefty already had a major-league curveball.
Flanigan won 9 games with the Miners in 1952, with a 2.58 ERA. He missed more than a month of playing time in 1953 with the Class-B Waterloo White Hawks after being hit on the left arm by a pitched ball. When his sore arm wouldn't allow him to pitch, he was sent to Chicago to be examined by the White Sox medical staff. Flanigan recovered in time and finished 1953 with a 7-4 record. He struck out 87 batters in 113 innings.
The White Sox invited the youngster to their training camp in 1954, and Flanigan made quite a positive impression, despite his youth and inexperience. Dizzy Dean broadcast a game between the White Sox and Milwaukee Braves, and he liked Flanigan's poise and his fastball. "That kid's got something out there," Dean said. White Sox manager Paul Richards was particularly enthusiastic about the pitcher. "Nobody showed him or taught him anything. He is just a natural pitcher," Richards said. "I suspect he might not know what he is doing, and I don't know what will happen when he asks himself how he does it. But as long as he keeps pitching like he has been, he's going to have a chance to do it in the American League."
Source: The Cincinnati Post, February 20, 1957.
The White Sox did keep Flanigan on the Opening Day roster, and the 19-year-old made his pitching debut on April 14, 1954. He relieved Mike Fornieles in the eighth inning with one out and a runner on first base. The first batter, pitcher Bob Lemon, bunted Hegan over to second base, and Flanigan retired Bobby Avila on a grounder to third base to end the inning.
The 1954 White Sox got off to a hot start and found themselves narrowly in first place by the end of April. Richards used Flanigan sparingly and didn't put him into another ballgame until the Sox were getting blown out by Detroit on May 8. With the score already 12-1, Flanigan entered in the top of the ninth inning and retired Bill Tuttle on a fly ball to right field. Frank House walked, opposing pitcher Ned Garver flew out to center and Frank Bolling singled to put runners on first and second base. Flanigan worked out of the jam by getting Jim Delsing to hit a comebacker to him for the third out. He was the only one of the five White Sox pitchers who didn't allow a run to score.
Though Flanigan had turned in two scoreless outings, he was still one of the players sent to the minor leagues when the roster was cut down to 25 players in May. He reported to the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association, and he spent three seasons there. He finished the '54 season as a swingman but spent most of 1955 as a starter. He made a career-high 22 starts in 28 appearances and threw 143 innings, even after starting the season on the suspended list for "not being in condition to pitch," reported the Memphis Press-Scimitar. Once he got into playing shape, he won 12 games against 8 losses and a 3.97 ERA He threw a shutout on the last day of the season to clinch a Southern Association pennant for Memphis. The Chicks used Flanagan as a reliever in 1956, and he performed well in the role. In 49 appearances, only 2 of which were starts, he won 9 games and lost 5, with a 3.75 ERA. He racked up 97 strikeouts in 108 innings for an 8.1 K/9 inning ratio that was far any away the best of his career to that point. The move to the bullpen may have been to save his arm, which apparently was prone to soreness.
Source: St. Louis Globe Democrat, December 3, 1957.
The White Sox moved Flanigan to Indianapolis of the Triple-A American Association in 1957. Again, working mainly as a reliever, he finished with a 9-7 record and 4.25 ERA. He made 7 starts among his 50 appearances, and he managed 2 complete games and a shutout. But Flanigan improved on his strikeout rate with 100 K's in 110 innings of work, so it seemed as if the conversion to a reliever was working out well for him. The St. Louis Cardinals decided to take a chance on him and drafted him in December of 1957. The team had a shortage of lefties on the staff, and Cardinals management were impressed by Flanigan.
Flanigan made the Cardinals team out of spring training, and manager Johnny Keane wasted no time in getting him some action. He was part of a 4-0 Opening Day loss to the Cubs in St. Louis on April 15, 1958. Cardinals starter Vinegar Bend Mizell allowed 3 runs in 3 innings of work, while the Cubs kept the home team scoreless. Flanigan worked the top of the ninth and walked leadoff hitter Dale Long. He got Johnny Goryl to hit into a 4-6-3 double play, but the next batter, catcher Cal Neeman, homered to left field to make the score 4-0. Flanigan then gave up a single to pitcher Don Elston, but Tony Taylor grounded out to third base to end the inning. The Cardinals were retired in order in the bottom of the inning to end the game. That inning of work would be the only one that Flanigan threw for the Cardinals. He was returned to Indianapolis on April 19 and struggled to a 5-11 record as a swingman. He started 12 of his 52 games and sported a 3.93 ERA.
Flanigan was supposed to rejoin Indianapolis in 1959 but threated to quit once he got his contract. He said the team had "missed by just $50 of cutting my salary in half from last year." When the Cardinals had returned Flanigan to Indianapolis in 1958, there had been the assumption that his new team would pay his old contract. Indianapolis management didn't feel that way, and it took an intervention by Commissioner Ford Frick to work out a deal where St. Louis and Indianapolis split the payment. Apparently Indianapolis decided to lowball Flanigan, who refused to sign. "I couldn't play for that money and support my wife and two kids," he said. So, he retired at the age of 24.
Source: The Montana Standard, April 6, 1958.
Flanigan worked a total of 2-2/3 innings in 3 games in parts of 2 seasons in the majors. He allowed 3 hits, including a home run, for a 3.38 ERA. He walked a batter and didn't strike anyone out. In the minor leagues, he had a 55-45 record and a 3.76 ERA, with 512 strikeouts in 824 innings pitched.
Flanigan had held down a variety of offseason jobs, when he wasn't playing winter ball in places like Venezuela. One of his most interesting jobs was working for a tree service. "Swinging an axe all day helped me make my wrists stronger so that I could swing a bat batter. But I'm still a terrible hitter," he wrote in a National League questionnaire. At the time of his retirement, he was working as a cattle hide inspector back home in Covington, Ky. According to his obituary, Flanigan worked for an insurance company for many years and later retired from Pilot Home Center. He is survived by children Rob, Steve and Beth.
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Josh Rushing 2012
Over the past decade, the United States military has shifted the way it fights its wars, deploying more technological systems in the battlefield than human forces. Today there are more than 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground robots in use by all branches of the military. These systems mean less deaths for US troops, but increased killings and precision elsewhere for the United States war machine. With lethal drone strikes being carried out in secret by the CIA and occurring outside of officially declared war zones such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the secret use of robots and drones in this way evokes serious questions about the operations of the United States and what this means for the rest of the world as more and more autonomy is developed for these technologies.
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Fracking In America takes a look at the continuing instances of water contamination and environmental damage occurring throughout the United States as a result of hydraulic fracturing—an industrial process used to fracture rock in the search to exploit natural gas deposits. As the frantic effort to extract gas accelerates, the impact of fracking expands also, with increasing pressures on fresh water supplies, continuing threats to health and wider ecosystems…
The Battle For The Arctic
With the United Nations laying out a deadline for 2013 on claims to the Arctic seabed to be exploited for oil, minerals and gas; countries such as Canada, the United States, Russia, Norway and Greenland are all attempting to stake a claim. As the beginning battle for territory intensifies, the rapid disappearance of the Polar ice caps opens up potential shipping routes, which further fuels the blood lust by those in power to exploit the region. The Battle For The Arctic heads to the Far North to see first-hand who and what is threatened, and exactly what is at stake with these final grabs for energy, territory, and power.


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The end of the 14th century in the English literature was highlighted by creation of one of the most famous works, which not only brought popularity to the writer but also became a turning point in the development of the English language. With the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer the period of Middle English commenced, on the one hand, and on the other hand, various vices of the society especially the church were exposed. Chaucer tells twenty-four stories through the eyes of a group of pilgrims who take part in a storytelling contest.
Six centuries later in 1972 an Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini directed his 'own' Canterbury tales (I Racconti di Canterbury) inspired by the original narrative poem. Totally different cultural and intellectual situation developed a base for creation of a unique reflection 'distorted as in a dream' of the medieval text (Blandeau). A very controversial adaptation was the second film in 'Trilogy of life', which comprised two other medieval works: 'Decameron' and 'Arabian nights'. The core of the film consisted of eight stories taken from the original book. However, it is Pasolini's alternations of some of the stories what makes the film so different from Chaucer's creation. The Canterbury Tales by Pier Pasolini won a Golden Bear at the 22nd film festival in Berlin and at the moment remains the single full-length version of the medieval story.
So the aim of this research is to answer a question what differs the modern story from the original one except for the difference in the amount of the written and covered stories.
First of all, being not a medievalist Pier Pasolini managed to offer a visual reading of Chaucer's creation, having depicted the characters from his own point of view. So the core difference lies in using the opposite technique for creating the new interpretation. In other words we visualize the scenes not with the help of our own imagination but through the eyes of the filmmaker.
An important point to consider is that Pasolini does not include a pilgrimage frame and does not follow the structure of the narrative. He screens only those stories which are based on sex, greed and deception, thus turning the film into a sexual and political manifesto. In other words, all scenes in which sex is only alluded to or slightly described in Chaucer's 'Tales', are vividly pictured in Pasolini's version. Originally Chaucer's aim was to expose a double-faced nature of the clergy, who condemned human vices but at the same time were ready to sell a purificatory document which would make their conscious and soul clear and untouched again. The hypocrites who were as twice sinful than those who were reproached by them were the main target of Chaucer's satirical poem.
Pasolini supports anticlerical views of the medieval writer and what's more, enhances the effect rewriting some scenes and introducing a pornographic element in his story. Kathleen Forni indicates that 'Pasolini was the first to explore and exploit the "queer" subtext of Chaucer's poetics' (Forni). The meaning conveyed by these words is simple and adapted to the modernity. While watching the film the first thing that strikes imagination is numerous depictions of the naked human body. The director keeps within bounds and does not turn the whole film into a pornographic act, but clearly insinuates that primitive desires of flesh seen as pornographic by the prudish ruling elite in the film are at the same time exploited shamelessly in the consumerist advertising. So both Chaucer and Pasolini expose vices of the society taking into account the epoch they are living in.
As it has been already mentioned Pasolini omits Chaucer's framing narrative, where the pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the city. Instead the narrator in the film is Geoffrey Chaucer himself represented by Pier Pasolini, who pictures other travellers from memory. Opening and closing lines refer to this character.
One of the brightest elaborations of the original writings is considered to be 'The Friar's Tale' which is presented one of the first in the film and appears to be the most revealing story. The basic theme of official corruption is maintained, however Pasolini expands the plot by introducing a scene with two men caught in a homosexual act by a summoner. Here rises another theme of social stratification: while the wealthy man can buy his way out of the sinful did, the poor one is bound to be 'roasted on a griddle', in other words to be burnt alive mostly in front of the dressed out aristocracy and clergy (film).
Another curious alternation appears in 'Cook's Tale'. Originally this story was not finished by Chaucer and was cut abruptly on the 58th line. Linguists and medievalists still argue whether it was deliberately done or not. The Italian director completes the story and makes it one of the lightest and cheerful of all eight. Perkin is clearly presented here as orgiastic Charlie Chaplin. The overall grim tone of the film is lightened by incorporated slapstick comedy. Ninetto Davoli's facial expressions and manners are grotesquely humorous and his odd clothes – small coat and bowler hat dilute this exposure of true human's nature. However, the character's vivacious self did not follow the mainstream of the society and thus was considered as a vice which must be eradicated in a pillory.
'The Summoner's Tale' is the last one to be told in the film. It depicts a greedy friar who makes money on everything he can lay his hands on. He earns his punishment having ended up in hell taken there by an angel. Satan, Sodom orgy and obsession with buttocks are the main distinctive features of the final story. A horrifying vision of the Summoner's hell probably inspired by Dante's 'Divine Comedy' parodying Chaucer's Retraction becomes a closing scene.
Pasolini playing Chaucer's part states in the end that 'here end the Canterbury Tales told for the sheer pleasure of telling them' (film) whereas the original story is concluded with the words 'all that is written is written for our doctrine' (Chaucer). Such diversity in the closing lines can be explained by different times. The medieval writers were not so free to air their views in opposition to the church and government while freedom of speech in the XX century let the authors tell the stories for the mere pleasure.
Thus, Pasolini's 'Canterbury Tales' may not be an accurate reflection of the original version, both of them are aimed to uncover human's darkest corners of his soul and reveal double-faced nature of moral principles what remains urgent throughout all the times.
Agnès Blandeau. 'Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Two Medieval Texts and Their
Translation to Film'. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. 2006
Canterbury Tales. 21 October 2013
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Geoffrey Chaucer. 'Canterbury Tales'.
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Kathleen Forni. 'A Cinema of Poetry: What Pasolini Did to Chancer's Canterbury Tales'.
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The 10 Worst States for Women
By Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander E.M. Hess	October 3, 2013 6:43 am EDT
5. Mississippi
> Wage gap: 76 cents per dollar (tied for 11th lowest)
> Poverty rate, women and girls: 26.70% (the highest)
> Pct. in state legislature: 16.1% (5th lowest)
> Infant mortality rate: 9.7 per 1,000 births (the highest)
As of 2012, Mississippi had the worst female poverty rate in the nation, with more than one in four women and girls living under the poverty line. In addition to its high poverty, Mississippi also received an "F" for women's health. The state had one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country as of 2010, although the Mississippi State Department of Health reported recently that this figure has improved. The state also has one of the country's highest rates of uninsured females and will not participate in the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Mississippi residents also must go without any kind of paid family, sick or temporary disability leave, for which there are no state policies.
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4. Alabama
> Wage gap: 71 cents per dollar (5th lowest)
> Poverty rate, women and girls: 20.90% (5th highest)
> Infant mortality rate: 8.7 per 1,000 births (2nd highest)
More than one in every five women or girls in Alabama lived below the poverty line as of 2012. According to the CAP study, if the minimum wage were increased to $10.10 by 2015, nearly 300,000 women in Alabama would benefit directly or indirectly. Infant mortality in Alabama was the second highest rate in the nation last year, after Mississippi. This could be due in part to the relatively low availability of medical doctors specializing in pregnancy, labor or birth — in 2012, there was roughly one obstetrician or gynecologist in the state for every 15,000 women.
3. Oklahoma
> Poverty rate, women and girls: 18.70% (14th highest)
> Pct. in state legislature: 13.4% (3rd lowest)
> Infant mortality rate: 7.6 per 1,000 births (8th highest)
The wage gap in Oklahoma was better than most states in the nation last year, and women in the state fared moderately well, based on factors associated with economic security. Relative to the country as a whole, the second-highest percentage of four-year-olds were enrolled in state funded pre-kindergarten programs. With respect to health issues, however, Oklahoma rates as the worst state for women. Women in the state were among the most likely to die from pregnancy-related complications. As of 2010, the infant mortality rate in the state was among the worst in country. Nearly 21% of women in the state were also uninsured, the fifth highest percentage in the nation, and the state will not be expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
> Wage gap: 70 cents per dollar (tied for 3rd lowest)
> Poverty rate, women and girls: 13.60% (tied for 12th lowest)
> Infant mortality rate: 4.9 per 1,000 births (10th lowest)
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1. Louisiana
> Wage gap: 67 cents per dollar (2nd lowest)
> Poverty rate, women and girls: 22.20% (2nd highest)
> Pct. in state legislature: 11.8% (the lowest)
Louisiana ranks as the worst state for women in the country. Reflecting its poor record of filling leadership roles with women, just 11.8% of seats in the state legislature were held by women last year, the lowest of any state. Many women also struggled to be economically secure. According to the CAP study, more than 300,000 women in Louisiana stand to benefit from a potential minimum wage increase to $10.10 by 2015. On average, a woman in Louisiana made $0.67 for every $1.00 a man made in 2012, the second worst gap in the country. The mortality rate for both infants and mothers was among the worst in the country in 2010. As of last year, female residents in Louisiana, and especially minority women, were among the most likely Americans to be uninsured.
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During the Frosh Day of Service, the freshman class will be introduced to the Carondelet tradition of "serving our dear neighbor". Students will have an opportunity to see what it's like to volunteer their time in the many organizations in our community that strive to build peace, justice and sustainability in our world. Students go out and do service throughout the East Bay in the morning and spend the afternoon reflecting on their experiences, the people they met and how they can continue be of service to the community moving forward.


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Trump offers money to farmers hurt by trade war
By Don Lee, Tracy Wilkinson and Geoffrey Mohan • Updated Jul 25, 2018 at 11:02 AM
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration navigated its widening trade war Tuesday, preparing to meet the top European Union executive to defuse a fight over auto tariffs and offering $12 billion in aid to American farmers hurt by retaliatory measures from China.
Even as Trump tweeted Tuesday that "Tariffs are the greatest!" and boasted that his tough approach to trade was pushing partners like the EU to come to the table, the cost of his tariffs and threats are causing increasing economic pain at home and creating a domestic political problem for the president.
China, Canada and European countries have countered with levies on U.S. goods, focusing on agricultural products from the Farm Belt — the sector that is a pillar of Trump's support. And so to alleviate the pain to some farmers, Trump's administration on Tuesday announced a $12 billion plan for aid to those hurt by retaliatory tariffs.
The relief is intended mainly for Midwest soybean producers, as well as producers of sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, hogs and dairy exports.
Annie AcMoody, director of economic analysis for Western United Dairymen, an advocacy group, said producer prices already have fallen by 9 percent after Trump opened the trade war earlier this year — bad news for an already beleaguered industry. Dairy processors, she said, could benefit from the USDA's buy-back provisions, as they have in the past. California is the top dairy producer in the country, and accounts for about a third of U.S. dairy exports.
Welcome as the supports may be for some, Casey Guernsey, a spokesman for Americans for Farmers and Families, blasted the aid package and urged the Trump administration to back away from trade wars.
"Rather than accepting retaliatory tariffs and seeking to offset them with federal assistance, America's producers believe the administration should look toward solutions that will enable them to export their homegrown goods to critical markets around the globe," he said.
"My family got into farming to sell beef, not to accept government assistance," he added. "While we need to hold our trading partners to account and ensure fair deals are reached, our government must also pursue long-term and sustainable solutions."
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., representing a big agricultural producing state, said in a statement: "His trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and White House's 'plan' is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches. America's farmers don't want to be paid to lose, they want to win by feeding the world."
The political problems that the trade disputes have already started to cause in the Farm Belt could be multiplied as higher tariffs increasingly hit U.S. manufacturers. On Tuesday, American users of foreign steel and aluminum brought lawmakers their complaints about the administration's 25 percent tariffs on the metals. The Commerce Department is trying to work through more than 20,000 applications for exclusions from the tariffs, but have been repeatedly criticized for their slow response and the difficult process they have put in place.
The arrival to Washington of Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, offered some hope of easing the increasingly acrimonious trans-Atlantic relations.
Trump is threatening to impose 20 percent tariffs on imported autos and auto parts.
While hefty tariffs on imported cars could prompt more companies to manufacture in the United States in the long haul, domestic employment in the auto sector is likely to take a hit if trading partners retaliate. Consumers, meanwhile, will almost certainly pay more as car firms pass on the cost of tariffs and higher expenses from disruptions in supply chains to buyers.
Analysts at the Peterson Institute for International Economics have estimated that Trump's auto tariffs will cause an average price hike of as much as $2,057 on compact cars and up to $6,971 on high-end SUVs, as the latter products have higher foreign content.
In a highly anticipated meeting with Trump set for Wednesday, Juncker is preparing to offer a possible deal that would slash or remove existing automobile tariffs imposed by some members of the World Trade Organization.
Juncker also could propose negotiating a limited free-trade agreement with the EU that would cover autos and other industrial goods, said a senior European official, who spoke about Juncker's two possible offers at a briefing Tuesday in Washington.
Trump has repeatedly complained about the EU's trade surplus with the United States, specifically railing against the existing 10 percent tariffs that the 28-nation union places on imported cars. The comparable U.S. levy is 2.5 percent.
The president is threatening to impose the new tariffs on the basis of national security. That is the same controversial rationale that he used to slap 25 percent levies on steel and aluminum from Europe and elsewhere, prompting retaliatory tariffs from America's closest allies, the EU and Canada.
"We have to find some way to get out of this downward spiral," said the official, who emphasized that both offers were contingent on Trump removing the threat of auto tariffs.
Whether Trump would accept any such proposal from the EU, however, looked doubtful, some analysts said, given the president's increasingly aggressive and zero-sum perspective on trade.
"If that's the approach, how do you come up with a deal that is a win-win," asked Peter Sparding, a trans-Atlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.
"For the Europeans, they can't be seen as giving in and forced into concessions," he said. "At the same time, I don't know if the president is willing to accept anything less."
In recent days Trump has called the EU "a foe" as far as trade is concerned. And the president seemed to taunt Juncker before his upcoming visit by saying at a VFW Convention on Tuesday in Kansas City that trading countries were eager to negotiate now because of the threat of tariffs. "They send millions of cars — Mercedes, all of them, BMW. So many cars. I said, 'We're going to have to tariff your cars.' They said, 'When can we show up?'"
Trump's tariffs on autos would raise the stakes, economically and politically. In proposing steep duties on auto imports, Trump is apparently aiming to reduce the U.S. trade deficit and boost domestic production and employment at home. But most economists say such actions will have little effect on the deficit, which reflects broader national investment and savings trends.
Europe's leading car brands such as BMW and Mercedes manufacture hundreds of thousands of cars at U.S. plants in the South annually, but it would take time to ramp up production in the U.S. to match the demand of vehicles sold here. Many of their U.S.-assembled cars are exported to other countries, such as China, and European and Asian automakers export tens of billions of dollars of cars to the U.S.
The U.S. imported nearly $58 billion of motor vehicles and parts last year from the EU, with Germany leading the way.
EU leaders have publicly stated their refusal to make a deal with the threat of tariffs hanging over their heads, but they are eager to resolve a brewing trade fight that would be costly to all sides. At the same time, the EU is drawing up a list of U.S. goods that would be subject to retaliatory tariffs if Trump goes through with the new duties on cars.
"People are struggling to understand what this administration wants and how it is negotiating and whether it is in good faith," said the senior European official, who spoke anonymously to talk candidly about internal discussions. "Constantly threatening more tariffs or unilateral actions may seem a clever negotiating tactic, but it's counterproductive. … We want to stop putting tariffs on the United States, and we want the United States to stop putting tariffs on us."
While not assured, the official said that Juncker, in his meeting with Trump, could float the proposal that essentially everyone drop tariffs on autos to the same level, in accordance with equal treatment under the World Trade Organization's rules. France and Italy will not be happy with zero or 2.5 percent tariffs across the board, as they could come under greater pressure from from Japanese and Korean automakers.
Still, all the EU member states may go along with it for the greater goal of drawing the Trump administration into what would amount to trade liberalization under the framework of the WTO — the international arbiter of trade disputes that Trump has suggested the U.S. could do without, said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute.
"It's ultimately about whether Juncker can get Trump to bite or not," he said.
(Lee and Wilkinson reported from Washington and Mohan from Los Angeles.)
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Six Democratic lobbyists with deep ties to the Blue Dog Coalition, including former Reps. Bud Cramer (Ala.) and Charlie Stenholm (Texas), unveiled Tuesday a new nonprofit called the Blue Dog Research Forum.
The group's goal is to be an incubator for policy ideas affecting the economy, such as energy, health care, tax policy, national defense and entitlements.
The research forum takes its name from the 54 fiscally conservative Democratic Members who have emerged as a powerful voting bloc on major legislation, but no current lawmaker has been involved in setting it up, according to Cramer, an original Blue Dog and president of the new research forum.
However, as the lobbyists quietly set up the organization over the past several months, they have kept Blue Dog leadership generally informed. And Cramer, who now lobbies at Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, said the Members have been supportive so far.
In addition to Stenholm — who works at Olsson, Frank & Weeda — and Cramer, the board of directors for the new venture includes Jeff Murray of the C2 Group, Vickie Walling of Prime Policy Group, Stacey Alexander of Elmendorf Strategies and Libby Greer of Cauthen, Forbes & Williams.
Murray, who serves as the forum's treasurer, said he expects to send out solicitations in the near future asking potential corporate, union and other donors for pledges worth about $10,000 each to participate.
The founders say they are sensitive to keeping the research forum in line with the Blue Dogs' principles of fiscal conservatism. Other Member-affiliated organizations such as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation have drawn scrutiny over their fundraising techniques and ties to donors.
While political action committees associated with Congressional caucuses are subject to federal election contribution limits, nonprofit groups and charities are allowed to collect unlimited amounts of money from corporations, labor unions and trade associations.
"This is not going to turn into a golf boondoggle," he added.
The research forum's main purpose will be to produce a series of roundtable discussions and programs, according to the board members. The group plans to bring together journalists, association, union and think tank members along with Members of Congress to determine what issues are relevant in the near term. A larger forum will follow in the next couple of months. Transcripts of the forums will be available online to non-members of the group.
Walling, the former chief of staff to leading Blue Dog Rep. John Tanner (Tenn.), has worked closely with the Blue Dogs during her 36 years as a Congressional aide. She said the nonprofit comes as bipartisan cooperation hits an all-time low.
"We are really going to work hard to put together the kind of forums and information to be helpful to start finding the sweet spot or centrist approach," Walling said.
There are several Member-affiliated nonprofits, including the CBC Foundation and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
Ethics lawyers said setting up such a group brings a certain amount of public relations risk, giving fuel to critics — including political opponents — who charge that Members of Congress are too closely tied to lobbyists and corporate interests.
"It's not the most popular thing," said Covington & Burling lawyer Rob Kelner, a campaign finance and lobbying expert.
But the forum's founders say the current political environment — where Blue Dogs are facing tough re-elections and partisan politics are dominating the political discussion — makes it the right time to start an organization that is focused on policy solutions for fiscal and national debt issues as well as energy and health care.
The research forum is not the first organization to attempt to be the incubator for centrist political ideas. In the mid-1980s, Al From started the Democratic Leadership Council as a place to come up with a set of ideas that would move the Democratic party to the middle.
The foundation is set up as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. While its tax status means that contributions are not tax deductible for donors, Blue Dogs tend to be money magnets.
The Blue Dog political action committee has raised $1.8 million so far this election cycle. The PAC raised $2.6 million in the 2008 cycle.
The research forum will not lobby, but the tax status gives it more flexibility if the group decides to broaden its mission in the future, according to Murray.
And for now, the research forum will not have any staff.
"We want to slow grow this so that we are careful about where we go," said Cramer, who was elected to a two-year term as president of the nonprofit.


Clariant introduced BeautyForward®—an inspirational trend guide to the personal care industry. Launched during in-cosmetics 2016 in Paris, BeautyForward unveils new trends to help drive innovation in the personal care segment.
CARE – "Human and technology become one." The modern technologist feels calm and serene, always on the lookout for naturally mild and nourishing products that help counter the stress of an accelerating world.
PURE – "Let's learn to unlearn." While hunting for perfection, the new purist appreciates the finer things in life: elegance, sophistication, as well as a refined skin care texture.
DARE – "I am not your average girl." Where there's attraction, there's also protection: The new woman favors products for stronger, livelier hair as well as healthy, vital skin.
LOOK – "Watch me now." Looking for luxurious products and premium textures, it's the result that counts: Glam fans prefer features that repair and add shine to hair, and features that make skin radiant.
"Clariant has a track record in trend analysis and forecasts," said Ralf Zerrer, head of strategic marketing of BU ICS. "For more than 10 years, we have been translating insights and social cultural changes to create an annual trend report for the color industry which is called ColorForward®. Now we transformed and translated it into the personal care industry."
The relevant market for care chemicals is growing 4 to 5 percent each year. Clariant's regional growth focus is on the emerging markets in Latin America, India and China as well as on the steadily growing North American market. To further support the growth ambitions, the anticipation of future trends like the growing demand for environmentally compatible applications and innovations from renewable substances and naturally derived ingredients is mandatory.


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On Body and Soul nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category
On Body and Soul, made in association with the Hungarian Film Fund, tells the story of two people working at a slaughterhouse in Budapest who discover that they have the same dreams and attempt to make them come true
Hungarian Film On Body and Soul Oscar Awards
Hungarian film On Body and Soul has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Ildikó Enyedi's epic will hopefully follow in the footsteps of last year's winner Son of Saul to bag the prize at the 90th Academy Awards on March 4th, 2018.
On Body and Soul made in association with the Hungarian Film Fund, tells the story of two people working at a slaughterhouse in Budapest who discover that they have the same dreams and attempt to make them come true.
The film was awarded the Golden Bear, the main prize of the Berlin Film Festival, and also picked up a prize at the European Film Awards for Best Actress.
The Press Has More Freedom in Eastern Europe than in the Continent's Western Half
Reacting to a statement by Sweden's foreign minister on Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in a statement that recently it has become obvious that the press has more freedom in Eastern Europe than in the continent's western half.
News in Brief Prime Minister
On Facebook Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Congratulates the Creators of Son of Saul
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the creators and actors of Son of Saul for winning the Golden Globe Award in Los Angeles for best foreign language film.
Reinstating Military Conscription is not Necessary
In response to a statement by Sweden's foreign minister, on Sunday Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi told public television channel M1 that the Government of Hungary does not see the necessity for reintroduction of military conscription. Keeping the manpower of the reserve force at appropriate levels is important however, he stressed.
János Lázár to Have Talks in Brussels
János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister's Office will pay a visit to Brussels on Tuesday where he will have talks with EU Commissioners and Hungarian diplomats.


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The Elite Invitational was conceived as a get-together of a handful of selected teams, with only a few being from the Cincinnati area, that exhibited regional and national level soccer talent. From that first tournament, the Elite Invitational has evolved into the "go-to" spring competition for highly competitive teams.
The Elite Invitational's central communications vehicle is this web site. Teams will find all information about the tournament here.
All teams accepted into the tournament will be notified by e-mail and directed to this site to obtain the forms necessary for registration. NO ACCEPTANCE PACKETS WILL BE SENT.
The Elite Invitational Scoring Services Group will provide real-time scoring of all play during tournament weekend. By applying, your team agrees to permit the taking and posting of event photographs, including game action, as well as off-the-field human interest shots. If your team has concerns about the posting of game photos, please do not apply to this event.
We will be utilizing online registration process only. Please check the registration page for all necessary forms needed.
The Elite Soccer Invitational Tournament is open to teams that are registered to and affiliated with their state or national organizations which, in turn, are affiliated with FIFA. Applications are invited from teams that are duly registered with their State, Provincial, or National Associations. All teams and players accepted will have their rosters and players verified by their State, Provincial, or National Associations. Only approved players with player passes shall be allowed to play. The number of players on any one team shall be consistent with the maximum number allowed for that team's age group. Falsification of player registration forms, team rosters, player passes or other records used in the tournament shall be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including disbarment for the individual(s) involved and disqualification of the teams involved. All teams will determine the age of their players as of the most recently completed August 1st . Teams from outside of the United States must also conform to these guidelines.
A minimum of 3 games are guaranteed. All games will be played in accordance with FIFA Laws, except as modified by Tournament Rules. Tournament Rules are posted on this website and can be downloaded for print..
Girls and Boys U8 through U19.
Information will be coming in regards to apparel for the tournament.
In compliance with the USYSA Youth Soccer Tournament/Games Hosting Agreement, it is mandatory that medical authorizations for each player be presented at Registration and retained at the field by the team. No player may play without a valid medical release under penalty of forfeiture of the game played in. These medical release forms do not need to be notarized.
The Cincinnati United Soccer Club utilizes online registrations for all of its tournaments including the 2019 Elite Invitational.
All Entry Fees must be postmarked by March 3rd, 2019 to guarantee consideration. All late applications will be put on a wait list for review. Upon acceptance, the fee is non-refundable. If your team is accepted and later withdraws, the entry fee is non-refundable and sanctions will be placed against your team/club for future participation in Cincinnati United Events.
All Check or Money Order entries must be postmarked by March 3rd, 2019 and should be made payable to the Cincinnati United Soccer Club. All entry fees received through check or money order are deposited immediately and refunded within 2 weeks of non-acceptance. Teams must include with your entry fee your teams "certificate of entry" or copy of e-mail entry confirmation. Payments should be mailed to Elite Soccer Invitational, C/O Joe Wuest, 8266 Beckett Station Dr, West Chester, OH 45069.
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