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Arizona's 'Fab Five': Where are the women now?
In the late '90s, five female political figures simultaneously held the highest public offices in Arizona — all at the same time.
Arizona's 'Fab Five': Where are the women now? In the late '90s, five female political figures simultaneously held the highest public offices in Arizona — all at the same time. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2ydJbZ0
Lisa Graham Keegan addresses the media during a press conference at the Department of Education on Nov. 15, 1999. Sherie Buzby/The Republic
Arizona's 'Fab Five'
Carol Springer (right) plays with her son, Trevor, 1, on June 6, 2000. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jeff Flake, Betsey Bayless and Janet Napolitano share a laugh during the 45th legislation session on Jan. 8, 2001. Cheryl Evans/The Republic
Betsey Bayless in the Secretary of State office at the capitol on Dec. 31, 2002, just before her last day in office. Bayless is the new Director of the Arizona Department of Administration under Janet Napolitano. Nick de la Torre/The Republic
Arizona Gov.-Elect Janet Napolitano, left, Arizona Gov. Jane Hull and Sonora Gov. Armando Lopez Nogales answer reporters' questions during the closing press conference at the Arizona Mexico Commission Plenary at the Sonoran Spa Resort near Puerto Penasco, Friday, Nov. 21, 2002. Jack Kurtz/The Republic
Arizona Gov. Jane Hull, left, Gov.-Elect Janet Napolitano and Senora Gov. Armando Lopez Nogales at a private meeting at the Sonora Spa in Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico on Nov. 21, 2002. Jack Kurtz/The Republic
Attorney General Janet Napolitano (LtoR), Arizona Gov. Jane Dee Hull, Secretary of State Betsey Bayless and Chief Justice Charles E. Jones sign the election canvases at the state capital in Phoenix on Monday, Nov. 25, 2002. Rob Schumacher/The Republic
Gov.-Elect Janet Napolitano, left, with Arizona Gov. Jane Hull and Sonora Gov. Armando Lopez Nogales on Nov. 21, 2002. The Republic
Gov. Jane Dee Hull at a lectern and, from left, Secretary of State Betsey Bayless, Attorney General Janet Napolitano, State Treasurer Carole Springer and Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan. The Republic
Lisa Graham Keegan addresses the media during a press conference at the Department of Education on Nov. 15, 1999.
Mark Nothaft, Special for The Republic | azcentral.com Published 10:00 a.m. MT Oct. 11, 2017 | Updated 10:23 a.m. MT Oct. 11, 2017
Only in Arizona: After string of political scandals 20-plus years ago, a group of accomplished women held state's highest public offices
Gov. Jane Dee Hull at a lectern and, from left, Secretary of State Betsey Bayless, Attorney General Janet Napolitano, State Treasurer Carole Springer and Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan.(Photo: The Republic)
Nearly 90 years after women were allowed to vote in Arizona, another barrier blew to bits.
Starting in September 1997 and continuing with the 1998 November elections, five female political figures would secure their respective state seats and simultaneously hold the highest public offices in Arizona – all at the same time. It was a feat never before accomplished, or since.
The quintet of leaders, Gov. Jane Dee Hull, Secretary of State Betsey Bayless, state Attorney General Janet Napolitano, Treasurer Carol Springer and Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan, became an overnight national sensation and made public appearances as Arizona's "Fab Five."
"It was really a fascinating time certainly for me and the other four women involved," Betsey Bayless, a third-generation Arizonan and long-time public figure, recalls. "We were on the 'Today' show, in People magazine, Time magazine. Little girls, in particular, paid a lot of attention, and I think it was a good lesson."
Scandals boot men from office
State voters and state law ushered in the Fab Five on the heels of several political scandals that led to the 1988 impeachment of then-Gov. Evan Mecham and the 1997 fraud conviction of Fife Symington, Arizona's sitting governor.
Hull, the secretary of state under Symington, was sworn into the governorship in September 1997 by the most famous among Arizona women — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor — after Symington was forced to resign. She appointed Bayless to Secretary of State. Hull and Bayless would reclaim their offices outright a year later during the November 1998 election, along with wins from the rest of the Fab Five.
"You had five women that were very qualified (with) past experience in elected office and they were ready for the job. (We) didn't just come out of nowhere," says Bayless, who is now president emeritus for the Maricopa Integrated Health System. "I didn't anticipate that it was going to happen or anyone else."
"Did it drive change outside of Arizona? I think it made a great impact on people all over the country," she says.
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What they're doing now
Gov.-Elect Janet Napolitano, left, with Arizona Gov. Jane Hull and Sonora Gov. Armando Lopez Nogales on Nov. 21, 2002. (Photo: The Republic)
Napolitano later would become Arizona's 21st governor, succeeding Hull, who was limited to two terms by state law. Napolitano served as the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama, and now leads the renowned University of California System of universities, national labs and medical centers.
Graham-Keegan remains active in the Republican Party and an advocate for education reform, while Springer completed two terms in 2004 and 2008 as Yavapai County supervisor before deciding not to run again.
"It was a time of good government," Bayless says. "There were not a lot of ruffles; everyone did a good job."
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HomeU.N. Rights Chief Takes Her Case to Congress
U.N. Rights Chief Takes Her Case to Congress
Marc PerelmanJuly 11, 2007
United Nations - It took three years for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, to make her first official visit to Washington. When she finally made her way to the capital last month, the cause she found herself advocating was none other than her own.
The House and Senate have introduced bills that call for cutting off American funds to the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council, to which Arbour's office serves as a secretariat. And in the wake of comments that Arbour made about a British union's proposed boycott of Israeli academics, New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner has demanded Arbour's dismissal, saying that her "antisemitic statements" made her unfit to serve as high commissioner.
With Congress casting an increasingly critical eye on the U.N.'s human rights operations, Arbour traveled from Geneva to distance her office from the Human Rights Council; the council's first anniversary last month unleashed a torrent of criticism for its failure to shed the politicization that characterized the Commission on Human Rights, which it replaced.
"The Office of the Human Rights Commissioner is not the Human Rights Council," Arbour told the Forward at U.N. headquarters in New York, summarizing what she had told her interlocutors in Washington, including Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Lantos. "For those who have lost faith in the council, it is very important that they don't write off the office of the high commissioner."
Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a bill introduced by Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman that would bar American funding of the Human Rights Council for at least two years. A similar amendment sponsored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, was adopted by the House last month.
The bills do not include provisions for cutting American contributions to Arbour's office, which currently make up 22% of the office's $245 million budget, and the Senate bill was amended to include a presidential waiver. But according to Felice Gaer, director of the American Jewish Committee's Jacob Blaunstein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, the legislation is nonetheless cause for concern, and not just for Arbour.
"Enactment of those measures, even with a waiver, begins a descent on a slippery slope that poses more danger to the entire human rights enterprise at the U.N. than most people realize," Gaer said.
Arbour, a Canadian judge who was the first prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration's human rights record. During last summer's war in Lebanon, she suggested that Israeli leaders could be charged with war crimes.
In addition to Arbour having earned the ire of Washington and Jerusalem for such public statements, last month a letter from Weiner to the U.N. secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, accused her of antisemitism. The New York Democrat expressed outrage that Arbour had said it was a "good thing" for Britain's largest labor union to consider a boycott of Israeli goods and academics. He argued that she was "unfit to hold such an important office and should be dismissed immediately."
Arbour is pulling no punches in her defense, arguing that the quote, which was given at a May 31 press briefing, was taken out of context.
"I said I thought it was a good thing for academics to have a debate on this issue but that, as human rights commissioner, I did not have an opinion on the outcome," she told the Forward. "To base such attacks on those remarks cheapens the debate tremendously."
Her boss, it appears, concurs. A Ban spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, told the Forward that after reviewing the issue, the secretary general concluded that Arbour "made no antisemitic remarks, nor was anything antisemitic implied in her remarks."
Major Jewish groups have also refrained from leveling charges of antisemitism against Arbour. But they are not so quick to acquit the high commissioner when it comes to judging the first year of the Human Rights Council, during which it adopted nine country-specific condemnatory resolutions, every single one of them focusing on Israel.
While she acknowledges that the singling out of Israel is a problem, she points out that the agenda item allows scrutiny of the actions of all parties — an improvement over a similar item adopted by its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, which only examined Israeli abuses. Moreover, she predicts that the council's record will improve in the coming years, first and foremost because the council will examine all U.N. member states.
Asked about her role vis-à-vis the council, she explained that her office was merely serving as its secretariat and that she had little influence over its decisions, including the recent selection of Libya to chair a conference on racism in 2009. "It is a self-propelled inter-government body and a quintessentially political body," she said.
While her critics in the Jewish communal world agree, they regret that she did not use her moral voice to shape a better outcome. They also note that she had supported the agreement reached last month and even lobbied her own government to back it.
"No one is saying she's the reason for the council debacle, but she has a major role as a moral voice in the U.N. human rights apparatus," said Hillel Neuer, who heads the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch. "The question is whether she has done all she could to speak out against the singling out of Israel. I don't think she has done even the minimum."
Arbour countered that while exercising her moral authority would satisfy many, "the chances of it accomplishing anything are relatively small."
Marc Perelman


Two of the team arrive in Tromso on Thursday and two arrive on Friday. This gives them time to familiarise themselves with the peculiarities of high latitude winter tourism. The snowpack in the streets of Tromso (altitude 0m asl) is well over 100cm and would put many alpine resorts to shame. With temperatures of -8° not forecast to rise for at least a month there is little chance of the winter freeze ending soon. The rest of the team fly in from the UK in the evening, but SAS decides to leave their skis in Oslo until the following day.
Sunday 10th. Overcast and snowing.
The keen team (Richard & Hamish) pay a morning visit to the ski slopes outside town and manage some runs before the lift opens (at 10.00 am). They enjoy light powder snow and fine views over the sea. Could this be the start of a great week? David drives to the airport and is pleasantly surprised to find the missing skis have arrived. The s/v Goxheim motors north for eight hours to tie up at the jetty in Uloybukta on the East side of Uloya Island. The snow falls gently on the deck all night, but the boat is nice and warm inside.
Monday 11th. 15cm of snow.
The weather forecast predicts 3 days of snowfall, but it looks OK at 09.00 so we set off to skin up Saetraksla 960m. It takes a little over 3 hours to reach the top and we ski on through waves of snow showers that roll in from the sea below. We are lucky to reach the top in a short clear spell and peer cautiously over the huge cornice that hangs over the mountain's south face. As we start to ski down we can see another squall blowing towards us, so we hurry to get down the steep slopes before it hits and ends all visibility. Despite the time pressure the skiing is enjoyable. Deep, light powder extends from 960m to sea level without any change in weight or consistency. This is why we are inside the Arctic Circle in early March. We climb aboard the boat and sail south to Lyngseidet, enjoying great views of the eastern side of the Lyngen Alps on the way.
Tuesday 12th. Snow in the morning, snow in the afternoon, snow in the evening, Total 20cm. "Yesterdays forecast was bad and the weather turned out to be OK so lets hope that it does the same today…" We skin up through the forest aiming for Kavringtinden 1289m. There is a brief 40 minute period when we can see the summit and we hope that our optimism will be rewarded. But soon the clouds close in and the wind picks up. Finally after 3 hours of climbing we admit defeat and turn around at around 900m. The descent in poor visibility is a challenge to both ski technique and navigational abilities and we are thankful to emerge from the forest in one piece and at the correct place.
Wednesday 13th. Just a little snow in the morning.
The forecast suggests a poor morning followed by a better afternoon. We disembark at Furuflaten by 10.30 and start skiing by 11.00. It is cold and cloudy as we skin westwards for 6km up the Lyngsdalen valley, and we are protected from the wind. We turn south and start the steep climb to the 1533m summit of Daltinden which we reach at 16.00. On the way up the clouds clear from time to time giving great views west to the Jiekkevarri massif and eastwards to Lyngenfjord. The snow on the descent is pretty good and we carve fine turns on the 1200m slope. We complete the descent in the dark and get back to the boat by 19.00.
Starting at the southern tip of Uloya Island we leave the village of Havnnes at 09.30 and skin steadily to the 1064m summit of Kjelvagtinden. It is then just a short distance to Uloytinden 1114m where we stop for a leisurely lunch enjoying fine views of snow covered mountains and fjords in all directions. The west facing descent is the best of the week: steep, deep power all the way down to the sea, with just a few trees to fight with above the beach. Goxhiem has sailed around to collect us and soon we are on board enjoying hot food and cold drinks.
After spending the night at anchor by the tiny island of Nipoya we make the half hour trip to Ringvassoya after breakfast. By 09.30 we are all skinning through the birch forest heading towards the 1000m summit of Nordfjellet. Conditions are clear for most of the climb, but intermittent cloud cover develops as we near the summit. We catch glimpses of distant summits and fjords through gaps in the clouds before starting the descent to the boat. Good snow conditions make a fine end to the day, and the week.
5 days, 4 summits, 5,507m ascent/descent.
All eight members of the team arrive in Tromso at the correct time and with all their luggage. The weather is fairly overcast throughout the day and a few flakes of snow fall in the afternoon. We set sail from Tromso harbour at 17.00 and motor north for two hours to reach a sheltered anchorage by the small island of Nipoya.
Sunday 17th. Weather overcast, gusty breeze, cloudbase above 1000m.
We motor for 30mins to reach the island of Ringvassoya and disembark by dingy. We follow a gentle angled trail through the birch forest for a few hundred meters before emerging onto a broad backed ridge that rises towards the summit of Rema Tusen. The wind gets stronger as we gain height and the sky becomes more overcast. 200m below the summit we turn around and ski 800m down to the boat finding a mix of good and average snow conditions on the way. Once back the boat we motor north for three hours to tie up by the pier in Vannvag on Vannoya Island.
Monday 18th. Mid level & high level clouds and moderately strong gusty winds.
We follow a pleasant trail up a sheltered valley to emerge onto the exposed south facing slope of Vankista. We endure a short spell of poor visibility but as we approach the 947m summit the clouds clear and we are rewarded with great views of the surrounding islands and the open seas beyond. The snow on the descent is mostly good and we enjoy some fine skiing on the way back to the boat. In the late afternoon the boat sails three hours eastwards to the Island of Arnoya where we spend the night on the pier in Akkervik.
Tuesday 19th. Clear skies and strong winds.
Today there are no problems with visibility or route finding. The sky is clear and there are great views in all directions. The route up Trolltinden starts gently through some sparse trees and then climbs onto an open and exposed South facing slope. The wind gains in strength from the South and blows us up the hill. The temperature falls and there is an arctic ambience to the climb. At the 850m summit we shelter behind the huge radio tower to remove skins from skis and prepare for the descent. Despite the cold wind the snow conditions are fairly good and we stop to take some photographs on our way down to the boat. The small harbour is sheltered from the strong winds, and we decide to spend another night rather than sailing out into the choppy waters.
Wednesday 20th. Perfect weather. Clear skies and very little wind.
We leave Arnoya at 07.00 and sail to Uloya while the team enjoy breakfast below deck. Arriving at 09.00 we are all on shore and skinning through the woods by 09.30. The weather is perfect and there is only a light breeze as we traverse the island from East to West via the summit of Blatinden 1142m. The exposed ridge leading to the top gives great views over the Lyngen Peninsula to the West. The snow on the descent is firm for the first 500m and then becomes softer and nicer for the lower 600m down to the sea. 30mins after arriving on the 'beach' the good ship Goxheim arrives and we sail north to our next destination as the evening light falls over the landscape. To round off a perfect day we buy 5kg of fresh prawns from a local fishing boat and they makes a great pre dinner snack. Then before turning in for the night we are treated to a marvellous display of Northern Lights over the village of Nord Lenangen.
Thursday 21st. Clear skies, windy morning, calmer afternoon.
A 09.00 start sees the group climbing the open slopes of Storgalten 1219m, close to the northern tip of the Lyngen Peninsula. The slope is at an average angle of 30° and we make good progress despite the cold wind. The ascent route is a bit icy as we crest the summit ridge and the team resort to using ski crampons for the last few hundred meters. We reach the top just after 12.00 and after a short lunch break we are ready to start the ski descent. From the top there are great views over all the peaks that we have climbed in the past few days. The snow is variable on the way down but quite acceptable and we carve wide turns all the way down to the sea. After cold beer and hot soup we move the boat for two hours to get into position for tomorrow's ski.
Friday 22nd. Overcast day with changeable weather.
We land at Dalheim by 09.30 and travel for a few km up the level Oldervikdalen valley before turning east onto the slopes of Ullstinden 1078m. We climb through thick trees for a few hundred meters before emerging onto the open hillside above the tree line. The wind picks up and the cloud level drops. By the time we reach the 700m contour visibility is less than 50m and we decide to retreat before the weather gets worse. On the way down the weather clears a little and we stop to eat our sandwiches before continuing down the beach where we are picked up. By 13.30 we are sailing south to Tromso where we spend our last night on board the Goxheim.
Many thanks to the crew of the Goxheim, Charles and Philip, for looking after both groups very well, and for their excellent cooking.


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"Grazing Horses" Canter Into Grand Central Terminal This March
Jen Chung
Modified Jan 17, 2013
Over a year ago, the art world was lit up by a mesmerizing gallery show from the artist Nick Cave. For Now at the Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea featured Cave's "daring and iconic Soundsuits - hybrid sculptural forms based on the scale of the Artist's body," which he called a "psychedelic, functified freak show that is an accumulation of the decades from the perspective of voodoo woo-loo." Now, in just two months, he'll have his first public art installation at Grand Central Terminal.
Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit are presenting Cave's HEARD•NY, which, according to a press release, "will involve thirty colorful horses (sixty dancers in horse costumes) peacefully 'grazing' in Grand Central Terminal, periodically breaking into choreographed movement accompanied by live music by two harpists."
The performances, scheduled from March 25 through March 31, are part of Grand Central's centennial festivities. When the horses aren't "grazing," the Soundsuits will be on display at Vanderbilt Hall.
Here's a video of the Soundsuits from the Here Now show:
Your move, other Nick Cave:
Jen Chung co-created Gothamist in 2002 with Jake Dobkin, establishing it as a website about New York City and everything that happens in it and an essential must-read for New Yorkers. She also launched sites across the country and world, including DCist, LAist, and Londonist. She loves learning about NYC arcana and meeting bodega cats. She is currently Senior Editor of NYC Accountability in the Gothamist + WNYC newsroom.


Chloroplast DNA variation of Betula humilis Schrk. in Poland and Belarus - Download this document for free, or read online. Document in PDF available to download.
Betula humilis is an endangered plant species in Central Europe. In order to protect this species, it is necessary to document its genetic diversity in this region and to identify areas for conservation prioritisation. As molecular investigations conducted throughout the ranges of many plant species have shown that the highest genetic diversities are found within former glacial refugia and-or within the contact zones of different phylogenetic lineages, we investigated the reasons underlying the considerable genetic variation of B. humilis in northeastern Poland revealed previously using nuclear microsatellites. We analysed 365 individuals of B. humilis from 19 populations and 67 specimens of Betula pendula and Betula pubescens sampled in four geographical regions in Poland and Belarus for polymorphism in chloroplast PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism markers. Genetic data strongly suggested that B. humilis could have survived the Last Glacial Maximum at higher latitudes, but the hypothesis of a refugium in southeastern Poland was rejected. Chloroplast DNA analysis confirmed high genetic diversity in some populations in northeastern Poland. This phenomenon can likely be explained in terms of a suture zone, as the high haplotypic richness was followed by hT ≤ vT. Similar patterns of haplotype distributions in the birches under study and high introgression ratio IG = 0.71 among B. humilis and congeneric trees suggested that postglacial recolonisation of the shrub birch was complicated by haplotype sharing with other birches.


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New Audio: Introducing the Shimmering Hook Driven Slacker Pop of Portland's CHAD
CHAD is an up-and-coming Portland, OR-based indie rock act comprised of founding members Sarah Lane and her partner Trevor Greely, with 1776′s Zach Whiton and Sioux City, IA-born, Portland, OR-based Alex Widner, that can trace its origins to its founding members starting the band after their previous band split up. Their debut single, the remarkably self-assured yet dreamy, Cameron Spies-produced "I Got Time" is also the first song the band ever wrote together. And interestingly, the single finds the band quickly establishing a signature sound as Lane's gorgeous slacker vocals effortlessly weave through layers of shimmering guitars, a sinuous bass line and thumping, hip-hop inspired drumming. But the song is centered by a playful and delicious irony — the song's narrator may be saying that she has time, but there's a tacit recognition that really she doesn't, and that time is flying by.
"The dreamy dance number is about having time (or maybe not?) to figure out you lover and yourself," the band explains. "The song also ponders how much time humans have left in the world."
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The establishment of Brisbane is an important part of Australia's post-settlement history. Brisbane is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, a noted astronomer and from 1821 to 1825 the Governor of New South Wales, which at the time included the lands of what is now known as Queensland. During Brisbane's time as Governor, an expedition led by John Oxley sailed north from modern-day Sydney to identify a suitable site for a penal colony. Oxley first landed at Redcliffe, north east of the current Brisbane CBD, and then sailed up the river now known as the Brisbane River in search of a suitable water supply. A permanent colony was eventually established at North Quay, and the foundations for the city of Brisbane were laid. This is the sight of the current Brisbane CBD, and many people looking to purchase an investment property in Brisbane start by looking in the Brisbane CBD.
Free settlers were allowed in Brisbane sometime around the late 1830s to early 1840s. Brisbane became the economic driver for the newly established colony of Queensland when it separated from New South Wales in 1859. Until the federation of the colonies in 1901, forming the country of Australia, many considered Brisbane to be a frontier settlement; a place where enterprising butchers, tradespeople and, with the discovery of the fertile Darling Downs, cattlemen and drovers, could carve out their own success away from the established southern settlements. During the latter part of the twentieth century, Brisbane was also abuzz with gold prospectors, buoyed by discovery of gold in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.
As settlers moved north in Queensland, Brisbane became an increasingly important service hub. Queensland's railways were integral to the state's economy, transporting goods from cattle to gold, and eventually other natural resources, to port, and Brisbane required skilled engineers and workers to support this infrastructure.
Brisbane has a rich military history, playing a central role during World War II as a headquarters for the US Army in the Pacific. Following the war, Brisbane began a process of urban transformation, as many of the established, 'country' localities of Brisbane were transformed into modern suburbs.
This process of suburbanisation was aided by significant road infrastructure projects during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, including the construction of freeways linking the CBD to the rapidly expanding suburbs.
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Two events during the 1980s changed the face of Brisbane forever, further aiding the transformation of Brisbane from a country town to an energetic, vibrant metropolis. In 1982 Brisbane hosted the Commonwealth Games, accompanied by the construction of impressive new sporting infrastructure, primarily in Brisbane's southern suburbs. The second event, the 1988 World Expo hosted by Brisbane, saw the construction of major community and cultural infrastructure in South Brisbane. The legacy of these two events continues to influence Brisbane's modern cultural and sporting life, and helped forge its current identity.
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With its proximity to Queensland's vast natural resources, Brisbane is currently experiencing renewed strength in its economy. Brisbane is Queensland's major administrative centre, with strong professional, legal, financial, information technology and government sectors, as well being home to emerging industries like biotechnology and the creative industries. The Port of Brisbane exports freight, sugar, grain and liquids throughout Australia and the world. Queensland is a major tourism destination, and Brisbane is both a destination for tourists and a gateway to other parts of the state. Manufacturing and transport are also important parts of Brisbane's economy.
Brisbane is a safe and desirable place to do business, and with a rapidly expanding international airport, world-class educational facilities and stable governance structures, Brisbane is cementing its place as one of Asia's most vibrant, dynamic and important hubs. Brisbane continues to embrace its population growth, and as it strives to be a high-skilled, well-connected world city, Brisbane's cultural life continues to flourish.
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Fly into Kansai International Airport (KIX). Most flights from the UK with one change of planes in Europe arrive the following morning, meaning you can start sightseeing from the word go if you're fresh enough.
From the airport, head straight into central Osaka using the direct JR Kansaikuko (Kansai Airport) Line, which takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Alight at Osaka Station and head to your nearby hotel to check your bags and freshen up.
By now you'll probably be hungry for some lunch, so try an Osakan food staple in the form of udon (thick white flour noodles) before hopping on the JR Osaka Loop Line for just under 30 minutes to Osakajokoen (Osaka Castle Park) Station for Osaka Castle. Take a stroll around the castle grounds, which are particularly pleasant in spring cherry blossom season, before heading inside the castle to explore the exhibits there. The interior of the castle is a fully modern museum - it even has working lifts.
From the castle, catch the Loop Line back to Osaka Station and use the remaining afternoon hours before dark to explore the area around the station, which is home to some major Japanese department stores such as Daimaru and Isetan Mitsukoshi, electronics giant Yodobashi Camera Umeda (a specialist in all things camera, as the name suggests), and HEP (Hankyu Entertainment Park)'s 300 restaurants and shops and ferris wheel.
After dark, walk 10 minutes to the futuristic-looking 173 metre tall Umeda Sky Building and take the lift up to the 39th floor for stunning night-time views from its open-air observation deck, the Floating Garden Observatory (open until 22:30) - just make sure to hang onto your hat!
Start the day with a morning trip to Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, one of the biggest and best aquariums in the world, with tanks even large enough to house manta rays and whale sharks.
Take the JR Osaka Loop Line 10 minutes to Bentencho Station and change to the Chuo Subway Line (not covered by the JR Pass) for the 5-minute ride out to Osakako (Osaka Port) Station on the bay.
After making friends with the local sea-life, head back into town to Minami, Osaka's southern district, for some retail therapy, making your way directly south through Shinsaibashi and Amerika-mura (the Harajuku of Osaka - catering to young women with row upon row of clothes, shoes and handbags). Time your arrival in Dotonbori canalside entertainment district for after dark to see the rainbow-coloured neons in action and grab okonomiyaki (savoury pancakes) - another Osakan classic - for dinner.
Theme park fanatics could swap the aquarium and the shopping for an enjoyable day spent at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) theme park, the only theme park under the Universal Studios brand in Asia. Or, if you are a fan of the traditional you could watch puppet theatre at the National Bunraku Theatre.
Take a daytrip to bright and breezy, modern port city Kobe. Ride the bullet train for 10 minutes from Shin-Osaka Station to Shin-Kobe Station.
After arriving, catch the Shin-Kobe ropeway (5 minutes walk from the station) up to admire the views from the southern slopes of the Rokko mountain range.
Catch the ropeway back down and head downhill on foot to reach charming historical Kitano district. Spend a few hours exploring its Ijinkan, former residences of foreign merchants and diplomats who settled in Kobe after its opening to foreign trade in the 1860s. Around a dozen of them remain as interesting little museums.
Once you reach Hankyu Kobe-Sannomiya Station, take the train 5 minutes to Kobe Station from where it's an easy walk to shopping and entertainment district Kobe Harborland and Meriken Park, home to the striking edifice of Kobe Tower. Have dinner in Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown, before catching the train back to Osaka from Motomachi Station.
Today you will swap the present for the past, as you exchange the bright and bustling metropolis of Osaka for the altogether calmer locales of former capital and city of culture Kyoto. From Osaka Station, it's just 30 minutes by bullet train to Kyoto Station.
Spend at least two days exploring the sights that Kyoto, the city of a 1000 temples, has to offer. Kyoto has so much to see and do that's it often hard to know where to begin. It might help to split the city up into a few districts mentally to help you get the most efficient use out of your time spent here.
Allow at least one full day for exploring the sights of central eastern Higashiyama district, which is home to the bulk of Kyoto's most famous temples and shrines. Starting in the south, visit Sanjusangendo Temple's 1001 statues of Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy, before working your way up south to north through Chawan-zaka (teabowl lane - a pottery district), to Kiyomizudera Temple, with its stunning views from its mind-bogglingly nail-free wooden balcony.
Then wend your way through the old-fashioned shops and cafes of the hilly streets of Sannen-zaka and Ninen-zaka to Nanzenji Temple, from where you can follow the Philosopher's Path north uphill along the river to Ginkaku-ji Temple, with its low-key, even austere, Silver Pavilion.
Make your way back down the hill to visit Heian Jingu Shrine and the two nearby art museums - National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art - before heading to Gion around dusk for some geisha-spotting.
Allow another day for exploring northern Kyoto, ticking off more central sites such as Nijo Castle and the old Imperial Palace before catching a bus north to the outskirts to visit Ryoanji Temple with its beautiful but austere Zen rock garden, and Kinkakuji Temple, best known for its eye-poppingly splendid Golden Pavilion.
Finally, use your last day in Kyoto to explore its southern and western sights using Kyoto Station as your base. Take the JR Sanin Line 15 minutes to Saga-Arashiyama station, from where it is a 10 minute walk to the main sights of Arashiyama.
Start from Togetsukyo Bridge, spanning the area's wide, pleasant river, and stroll through the town, sampling traditional sweets from the vendors en route and pausing to admire the view at tranquil Zen temple Tenryuji Temple before making the short climb uphill to explore the atmospheric Sagano bamboo groves.
Take the JR Nara Line a few stops south to Inari Station to visit Fushimi Inari Taisha, with its photogenic tunnels of red torii shrine gates stretching up into the hills. As with Kyoto's other popular sights such as the bamboo groves, you should to go either very early or late to get it at its most atmospheric and least crowded for that perfect holiday snap.
While you're in Kyoto, a day-trip to Uji, the home of matcha green tea in Japan, is not to be missed. It's just short train ride 20 minutes from Kyoto to Nara Station by JR Nara Line, leaving you with ample time to explore Uji's sights at a leisurely pace.
Uji's must-see sight is Byodoin Temple, whose Phoenix Hall, with its elegant, winged shaped and rooftop phoenix statues, is featured on the back of the 10 Yen coin - perfect for a selfie! Visitors can only enter the hall itself on a short guided tour which runs every 20 minutes, so make a beeline for the tour reception when you arrive to get your names down for the next one.
Green tea has been cultivated in Uji since the 12th-14th century, and today its matcha tea is still regarded as having superior quality. There are many ways to sample green tea in Uji, from slurping on matcha-flavour soba noodles and ice cream, to joining in a short but authentic tea ceremony at public Taihoan tea house.
Go even further back in time, as you spend a couple of quiet days in ancient former capital Nara. Take the JR Nara Line 45 minutes direct from Kyoto Station to Nara Station.
Japan's first capital city before it ceded the crown to neighbouring Kyoto, Nara's most famous attractions are its impressive lineup of UNESCO World Heritage sites, including one of the largest Big Buddha statues in Japan, as well as the hordes of free-ranging deer roaming Nara Park.
The bulk of the UNESCO sites are in the east, in or around Nara Park, so try and remember to pick your accommodation with this in mind. Key sights inside the park are relatively close to one another, but prepare yourself for a full day of strolling around the sights, as there is little public transport once you're inside. Must-sees include the bronze Big Buddha statue inside Todaiji Temple, lantern-lined Nigatsudo and Sangatsudo (Nara's oldest building), Kasuga Taisha shrine (Nara's original guardian shrine), and the bowing deer inhabiting Nara Park.
If you've got the energy for anything more after all that, head back towards your hotel via Kofukuji Temple, with its five-storied pagoda, terrapin-infested Sarusawa Pond, and Naramachi, Nara's old downtown area, which gradually absorbed the grounds of Gangoji Temple as it grew.
On your second day in Nara, take the Kintetsu Nara Line (not covered by the JR Pass) to Yamato-Saidaiji Station for UNESCO sites Heijo Palace Remains, Toshodaiji Temple, and Yakushiji Temple.
Finish your journey back in time by seeing something incredibly old. After lunch, take the JR Yamatoji Line 12 minutes south to Horyuji Station, from where it is a 20 minutes walk to Horyuji Temple, containing the oldest wooden structure in the world.
Set out for Mt. Koya, a Buddhist temple-filled mountaintop retreat, for an overnight stay in a shukubo (temple lodging).
To get there, take the JR Sakurai Line/Wakayama Line for around 1 hour and 40 minutes to Hashimoto Station. Change to the Nankai-Koya Line and take the train for 40 minutes to Gokurakubashi Station, from where it is a 5 minutes cablecar ride up to the top of Mt. Koya. (Note that the JR Pass does not cover the journey after Hashimoto Station).
Check into your shukubo before heading out on foot or by bicycle to explore the temples and conifer forests of the mountain top. There are over 100 temples atop of Mt. Koya, but the most important are Kongobuji Temple and Okunoin, so make sure you don't miss these. The former is the head temple of the Shingon Buddhism sect, while the latter is the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi, the Shingon sect's founder. Okunoin cemetery houses over 200,000 tombstones scattered among atmospheric moss-covered cedar trees and rocky paths, while Torodo Hall's 10,000 lanterns are kept alight 24-hours a day.
Make the most of your overnight stay in a shukubo to get a taste of life as a Buddhist monk, supping on shojin ryori (vegetarian Buddhist cuisine) for breakfast and dinner, bathing in communal baths, sleeping on a futon in a tatami room, and joining in morning prayers with the monks at dawn.
Once you've checked out of your shukubo and had your fill of Mt. Koya's sights, take the cable car and the train back down the mountain to Osaka (around 2.5 hours). Stay overnight near Tennoji Station to be best placed for an early getaway the next morning.
For your final adventure, venture even deeper into Japan's spiritual heartland, visiting a network of pilgrimage trails and three sacred shrines collectively known as the Kumano Sanzan in the Kumano area on the southern top of the Kii peninsula.
The trio of shrines in question are Hongu Taisha, Nachi Taisha (home of the tallest waterfall in Japan), and Hayatama Taisha. If you have limited time, aim for Nachi Taisha, the most scenic and also easily accessible by public transport. Take the JR Kuroshio express from Tennoji Station direct to Kii-Katsuura Station on the southeast tip of the Kii Peninsula (3.5 hours) from where it is a 20-30 minute bus ride to the shrine.
Pilgrims have been travelling to the three shrines via walking trails, called the Kumano Kodo, for over 1000 years, and so if you're a keen hiker or have more time to spare then now is an ideal opportunity to take a break and explore some of the hiking trails winding deep into the mountains, adding on additional nights to your itinerary as necessary. The Kumano Kodo are the only pilgrimage routes beside the Camino de Santiago in Spain to be designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites, which occurred in 2004.
Break up the journey back round the peninsula to catch your flight home with a stop-off at Shirahama hot spring and beach resort (1.5 hours from Kii-Katsuura Station). Meaning "white sand" in Japanese, it has a 500-metre long white-sand beach to prove that it's no misnomer. If you've been hiking the Kumano trails then the combination of hot and cold waters will surely come as a welcome break.
Once you've explored Japan's spiritual heartland to your heart's content, return to Kansai Airport to catch your flights home. You can also easily add on extra days to explore Osaka or Kyoto in more depth as you wish.


One major factor in planning a destination wedding is determining who will be able to attend. Based on cost alone, the trip may be difficult for many family members and friends. Older (or younger) guests may not be able to travel-keep their safety and comfort in mind. However, those that can attend will have the opportunity for a fabulous vacation!
What can you plan in advance? Resorts that offer wedding packages offer choices on flowers, locations, etc. You'll also be able to include basic details on your invitations. But there may be some choices that you'll have to make when you arrive. Plan on a few last minute decisions that may have to be made.
Where in the world should you go? Think of a location that speaks to you – are you a beach person or would you rather get married on the top of a mountain? Also, consider the marriage laws in various countries. Some require that you are in the country for a specific length of time before being allowed to tie the knot.
Keep weather in mind when making your travel plans – some locations may have a rainy season that you may want to avoid. Travel costs for you and your guests will also fluctuate throughout the year. More people may be available to travel over a long holiday weekend, but flights will most likely be more expensive.
Why do you want to get away? If you're thinking that you'll escape the pressures of planning a big wedding, you may be right. However, don't put yourself in a position of potential separation from your family and friends (due to their budget and time restraints) just to make a quick getaway. Consider these factors, and if getting married far from home is for you, make the most of it!
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The mother of a 15-year-old Special Olympics athlete who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a coach is now suing the South Carolina chapter of the group.
The amended suit, which also targets Lexington School District Two, claims Cornelius Davis was allowed to be alone with the girl in a hotel room for nearly four hours.
"She told me that she was sexually assaulted by her coach," the girl's mother told WIS.
She said Davis was trusted. He was her daughter's basketball coach at Brookland-Cayce High School.
Davis was with the 15-year old in Mount Pleasant when an incident report said Davis took the girl from her room, telling the chaperone that they were going to see her mother. The report said they were gone for four hours.
"She said 'Mom, I was with my teacher. We slept together,'" said her mother.
The girl's mother said what was equally troubling is that she wasn't told of her daughter's 4-hour absence until the next day, almost 24 hours after the alleged abuse took place.
"Even the greatest organizations can sometimes make a horrible mistake," said Columbia attorney David Massey, who is representing the mother in a lawsuit against the school district that now includes the Special Olympics of South Carolina.
He said it's a clear case of negligence.
"The South Carolina Special Olympics Chaperones duty requires 24-hour supervision of these special needs children," he said. "Obviously that ball was dropped."
"Not only did they dropped the ball they dropped me," said the mother. "I didn't find out to a full 24 hours after."
Davis is out on bond for the incident in Mount Pleasant. He faces similar charges in two other counties.
The teen is now home-schooled and receiving therapy.
"All I can do as a mom is just sit there, look at my baby and basically cry, because there's basically nothing that we can do other than what we're already doing," said her mother.
Davis was charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the case.
The suit also alleges the school district and Special Olympics did not do enough to protect the child from Davis.
Davis was placed on administrative leave from Brookland-Cayce, and is not allowed on school property.
A MIDLANDS MOTHER IS SUING SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA....AFTER SHE SAYS A COACH SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER DAUGHTER.
THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS SPECIAL OLYMPICS COACH, CORNELIUS DAVIS WAS ALLOWED TO BE ALONE WITH THE GIRL IN A HOTEL ROOM FOR NEARLY FOUR HOURS.
THE DOCUMENT ALSO ACCUSES THE ORGANIZATION AND DAVIS OF FAILING TO PROPERLY SUPERVISE AND PROTECT A MINOR WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.


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Kieran on Nguyen, 'Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War'
David Kieran review Viet Thanh Nguyen's Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Originally published by H-Amstdy.
US Cover of Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A New Politics of Memory
The Second Indochina War–what most Americans consider the Vietnam War, a view not shared by the residents of Southeast Asia–ended more than forty years ago. In the ensuing decades, a plethora of cultural production that includes memoirs and fiction, documentary and feature film, museum exhibits and memorials, and almost every other form of expression has sought to define what that excruciating war meant for the United States, for Vietnam, and for the world. And since at least the 1980s, the analysis of how the war has been remembered and why that remembrance matters has become a significant subfield in American studies scholarship. That historiography is familiar to anyone who has spent even minimal time studying the war's legacies. It might begin with the work of literary scholars like John Hellman and Milton Bates. It would surely include Susan Jeffords's trenchant analyses of post-Vietnam film and Marita Sturken's, Kristin Ann Hass's, and Patrick Hagopian's considerations of memorialization. It would consider the work of scholars like Edwin A. Martini and Michael Allen who have examined postwar US policy toward Vietnam. And some of the most exciting work on the legacy of the US war in Vietnam has been the explicitly transnational analyses of the sort that Scott Laderman and Christina Schwenkel have written.
Given this immense body of scholarship, it is tempting to think that there isn't much left to say about the legacies of the United States' long war in Indochina. However, as Viet Thanh Nguyen aptly illustrates in Nothing Ever Dies, that would be a dangerous assumption. In this masterful book, Nguyen charts a new path through well-trodden territory, offering an analysis of the war's legacies in Vietnam, the United States, and beyond that is truly transnational, deeply theoretical, and philosophically illuminating–all while remaining thoroughly accessible. Part historical analysis, part philosophical treatise, and part personal reflection and richly illustrated, with many photographs taken by the author, it is a work full of new insights that frequently engenders deep reflection. It is an indispensable contribution to the scholarship on the war's legacy.
Throughout Nothing Ever Dies, Nguyen is deeply concerned with what he terms the "war machine," the discursive cultural phenomena that make war an inherent component of US culture, "a dull hum of white noise that blends in with the air conditioning, the computers, the hum of traffic" (p. 104). As Nguyen explains, "in war machines, the bristling armaments are on display, but more important are the ideas, ideologies, fantasies, and words that justify war, the sacrifices of our side, and the death of others" (p. 106). The war machine's endurance in US culture, then, relies upon the remembrance of the war in Vietnam as one in which American suffering was paramount and Vietnamese suffering is largely elided.
If this argument is familiar from earlier scholarship on the war's legacy, Nguyen usefully expands it in two ways. First, he points out that the disproportionate cultural capital of US memories of the war has allowed them to become global, often obscuring and marginalizing other remembrances in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. And yet, at the same time, he locates the sites of both complicity and resistance to that narrative in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American cultural production. Moreover, he notes that the Vietnamese government is equally invested in constructing and propagating remembrances of the war that vilify Americans and justify the Vietnamese states' postwar policies. In writing about American tourists' tendency to reject the narratives that they encounter in spaces like the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, however, he explains that "these Americans are wrong in denying the truths found in propaganda, specifically that American soldiers committed atrocities in Vietnam and that the rest of America never fully grappled with complicity in them" (p. 114).
Observations like this one reveal the real genius of Nothing Ever Dies. These visitors' attitudes examplify what Nguyen terms "unjust memory," which "limit[s] empathy and compassion to those just like us" and "terminate[s] empathy and compassion for others" (p. 267). Much of Nothing Ever Dies is a critique of such memories and a meditation on the difficulty of producing a "just memory" of the US war in Vietnam that "celebrates the humanity of all sides and acknowledges the inhumanity of all sides, including our own" (p. 267). If war machines run on memory, that is, Nguyen usefully illustrates that different kinds of remembrance do different kinds of cultural work. Throughout, he illustrates how the various transnational dimensions of the war's remembrance serve diverse political imperatives, none of which fully account for the war's violence and all of which perpetuate the war machine.
Particularly valuable is Nguyen's excavation of the wide-ranging human costs of the war not only in Vietnam but also in Cambodia and Laos, and of how those experiences have been memorialized. Most important is his call to recognize the war in all of its complexity. If he condemns US remembrances that ignore the wartime contributions of the United States' Southeast Asian allies, he also insists that a just remembrance is one that acknowledges that others who are too easily imagined as victims in antiwar critiques also have agency and are not always wholly innocent of violence and atrocity. Also illuminating is his trenchant critique of how the Republic of Korea's transformation into a global power finds its roots in that country's involvement in the Second Indochina War and its remembrance of that involvement. As well, Nguyen meditates on the role of Vietnamese American writers and artists, arguing that they are compelled to meet two imperatives: first, "to serve as proof that regardless of what brought these others to America, they or their children have become accepted, even if grudgingly, by Americans" (pp. 198-199), a narrative that itself contributes to the maintenance of unjust memory, and second, to produce art that testifies about the war, a demand that limits the range of acceptable cultural production by these artists.
Nguyen's discussion of these issues is marked by thorough research and deep compassion, and he writes in the service of a larger philosophical project and cultural goal. For all of its strengths, however, this ambitious book is not perfect. Nguyen's discussion of the complicated cultural location of the minority writer, for example, would benefit from a bit more comparative context. That is, I had hoped for more discussion of the extent to which the issues that he discusses are unique to Vietnamese American writers specifically or whether they are also the concerns of writers from other communities impacted by US violence, for example in Central America or in Native American communities. A more significant issue has to do with Nguyen's theorizing of memory and forgetting. These are useful, important categories of analysis, and as I have indicated I appreciate deeply how he has broadened them through the rubric of justice. However, I find some of his claims about forgetting problematic. When he writes, for example, that Vietnamese refugees "tend to forget, particularly in public commemoration, the venality of the southern Vietnamese regime, the violence committed by their own soldiers–who happen to be their fathers, brothers, and sons–and how their sentiments may be viewed from elsewhere," I remain unconvinced that "forgetting" is a the proper term (p. 280). It seems, rather, an example of the calculated silence about which Jay Winter has written, one that is "chosen in order to suspend or truncate open conflict over the meaning and/or justification of violence."[1] Nguyen should not be expected to have read everything, but his use of Winter elsewhere and his thorough research throughout render this a puzzling absence, and following Winter's injunction to consider how the social dimensions of silence also function in discourses of remembrance would, I think, have added an additional layer of complexity to his analysis.
These are not, in the end, substantial criticisms. Viet Thanh Nguyen has written a thoughtful, comprehensive, and important book. If its theoretical dimensions and vast sweep might make it less than ideal in all but the most advanced undergraduate classes, it should be required reading for graduate-level courses on the Vietnam War and its legacy and courses on public memory more generally. Beyond the classroom, Nguyen's call for an empathic, inclusive politics of memory makes Nothing Ever Dies essential for all of us who seek a world in which the War Machine will be disabled. Ultimately, Nothing Ever Dies is an argument for a new politics of memory, one rooted in "cosmopolitanism's call for an unbounded empathy that extends to all, including others" (p. 272). To do otherwise, he suggests, means that the wounds of old conflicts will persist and that the violence of earlier wars will be repeated in new ones.
[1]. Jay Winter, "Thinking About Silence," in Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in Twentieth-Century America, ed. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Ruth Genio, and Jay Winter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 5.
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Citation: David Kieran. Review of Nguyen, Viet Thanh, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. H-Amstdy, H-Net Reviews. April, 2017.
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(a) Independent Selection Committee. The process for selecting commissioners shall be undertaken by an independent selection committee (the "Selection Committee"). Conrad Worrill Community Reparations Commission (CWCRC) has appointed, received applications for, and/or gotten suggestion for local Chicagoans or suburban residents to constitute the Selection Committee. The Selection Committee goal is to form an African Descendant commission that is geographically, religiously and economically diverse.
(b) Application. Applications for people interested in serving as commissioners shall be made available for a period of at least one month before they are due. The application shall be prepared in such a form as to give people an opportunity to demonstrate the following traits: civic-minded, compromise-oriented, impartial, and respectful of the City's diversity.
(c) Approaches to Selection. From among the applications received, the Selection Committee shall select a total of thirteen commissioners from the nine regions identified in Section 2 of this charter. The Selection Committee shall review all applications to identify applicants who are civic-minded, compromise-oriented, impartial, and respectful of the City's diversity. The Selection Committee shall identify and interview semi-finalists.
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'Marriage Story' deals with divorce but affirms commitment
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Michael Fassbender stars in a scene from the movie "Steve Jobs." (CNS photo/Universal)
By John Mulderig • Catholic News Service • Posted October 22, 2015
NEW YORK (CNS) — As the lively profile of a wildly successful uber-geek, "Steve Jobs" (Universal) is likely to appeal to many a youthful tech fan.
Parents should be aware, however, that this is a morally complex life story — the computer pioneer and Apple, Inc. co-founder died in 2011 at 56 — recounted with a vocabulary that's anything but user-friendly for younger moviegoers.
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, creator of TV's "The West Wing," brings his patented cut-and-thrust patter to Jobs' biography. He structures his story around three landmark product launches: 1984's unveiling of the original Macintosh, the presentation of the NeXT computer in 1988 and the 1998 introduction of the iMac.
What these public events, and the behind-the-scenes moments surrounding them, reveal — via Michael Fassbender's nimbly mood-shifting performance — is a volatile and enigmatic genius whose blustering arrogance masked a deep-seated vulnerability.
Adopted as an infant under circumstances that troubled him in adulthood, Jobs has a tense relationship with his born-out-of-wedlock daughter, Lisa (Makenzie Moss). In fact, so great is his antipathy toward Lisa's mother, his despised ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston), that Jobs publicly denies his paternity while implying that any one of host of men could be Lisa's actual father.
Although he eventually relents, Lisa — played, at older ages, first by Ripley Sobo then by Perla Haney-Jardine — is left emotionally scarred by her absent father's attitude.
Jobs' closest professional relationships are equally fraught. His long-suffering gal Friday, Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet), has her loyalty, and patience, tested at every turn.
Jobs' longtime collaborator, Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) — a friend since before their legendary days tinkering together in a California garage on what would become the first Apple computer — finds his old partner admirable yet maddening. As for the man Jobs recruited early on to be Apple's CEO, Wall Street veteran John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), his role varies, over time, from patron and father figure to outright adversary.
In short, director Danny Boyle's engaging character study provides viewers with a balanced portrait of a man who was, at once, a radically deficient parent, an unpredictable business ally and a profoundly gifted designer and retailer. Taken as such, Jobs iconically embodies the extremes of his baby-boomer generation: creative but supremely self-absorbed, relentlessly driven at the office but messy and unsettled in his private life.
Though his underlying qualities eventually win at least partial audience sympathy, experienced discernment is required to work through the morass of contradictions produced by Jobs' mercurial personality. Particularly with regard to ethical matters, his is a record of behavior better pondered by the well-grounded than absorbed by the impressionable.
The film contains mature themes, including illegitimacy, a bit of irreverent and sexual humor, about a half-dozen uses of profanity and considerable rough and crude language. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
Mulderig is on the staff of Catholic News Service.
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It is important to discuss the decisions that you make in this plan with others in your business that are potentially affected in a natural disaster or other emergency. Not only will people have great ideas and suggestions regarding how to manage certain situations, it is important to ensure everyone has the same knowledge and awareness before it impacts upon your business.
You may also be unaware of other people's circumstances, skills and knowledge of the local area and its history when it comes to extreme weather. Disasters or other emergencies is a great way to discover one another's strengths and get ownership of the actions in your Emergency Business Continuity Plan.
You could try a rehearsal or dry run as a team building activity.
Review your plan regularly to ensure it remains up to date and takes into account people's and the business' changing circumstances.


When we heard Rylan Clark was being touted to front Big Brother's Bit On The Side, we didn't bat an eyelid. In fact, we were expecting it, what with the production line of reality stars pouring into post prime time telly these days. But when we discovered Peter Andre was branching out into painting and decorating, we found ourselves a little lost for words.
Pete's lead a pretty public life since his 2004 appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Yes, it was THAT long ago. Between re-releasing 'Mysterious Girl', marrying and divorcing Katie Price, and tragically losing his brother to cancer, it's been all go for the 40-year-old former Aussie heartthrob, but he's never let anything stand in the way of his kids and his career.
Not content with having his own reality TV series to worry about, Pete's been snapped up by ITV to front 60 Minute Makeover, a venture that will see him leading a team of designers and workmen around the UK, transforming homes and solving interior design dilemmas. They've even changed the name of the show to Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover. Fact.
Now, I don't know about you, but the idea of Peter Andre giving someone's house a makeover is a wee bit odd in my book. Yes, fair play to him for taking whatever opportunities come his way and all that, but do we really need MORE of him on the telly? Can't we just go back to the days when he was the fella frolicking in the waterfall?
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen he is not, but Peter's still looking forward to solving the world's design dilemmas. "I am delighted to be the new presenter of Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover. I love these sorts of shows and although this is a completely different experience for me, it is a much loved show and I am hoping to bring a new twist to it", he said.
Y'know, he seems like a lovely bloke, and we genuinely do wish him well. It's just that this whole thing is, well, to quote the man himself, insania.


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N.O.R.E. Reminisces on His Wild Days Throwing Salmon at the W Hotel
Georgette Cline Published: August 15, 2018
For much of his career, N.O.R.E.'s been known for delivering grimy rhymes across his catalog of music. But the Queens native isn't always living up to the famed "Superthug" title of the 1990s. N.O.R.E.'s got jokes and one conversation with him is guaranteed to leave you laughing your ass off. The rap vet keeps the laughs going in this edition of XXL's ABCs.
From A to Z, N.O.R.E. offers some insightful and hilarious commentary on every letter of the alphabet. First off, A stands for Alchemist, the lauded producer who's crafted beats for Noreaga during his C-N-N days ("Bang, Bang," "Queens") and for albums like 2007's Noreality ("Drink Champ"). "A, Alchemist, the producer," he shares. "Because I hung out with Alchemist for three days and I didn't see him eat not one time. He made beats and drank coffee and smoked weed and that was it. It's amazing."
When it comes to the letter H, the 40-year-old rhymer, who recently released his seventh solo album, 5E, gives a nod to a libation that was once his go-to-drink of choice. Now, not so much. "H, let's go with Hennessy," N.O.R.E. says. "I personally stopped drinking Hennessy a long time ago. If you can't handle Hennessy, I don't recommend you drink 'cause it turns everybody violent." Take note.
Podcast Papi also gives himself a shout-out for letter P. N.O.R.E. kicked off his "most professional, unprofessional podcast" Drink Champs in 2016, and since then, he's had resounding success with all-star interviews—his very first podcast interview began with Fat Joe—and never-before-heard stories only he would share as a rapper who's lived through many of hip-hop's different eras. "I used to hate podcasts, man," he admits. "I can't believe the damage I've done in this podcast world." Tune in to hear what he's got planned for his next episode.
If you ask N.O.R.E. what Q represents, any rap fan should know he'd pick his hometown borough of Queens. "I realize I could've never grew up racist," the "Uno Mas" rapper explains. "I my whole life had White friends. I my whole life had Latino friends, Dominican friends, Haitian friends, Russian friends. I literally know how to eat every type of food... I just realized that the other day. I was driving through Queens and I looked and I seen every single race on this planet in one block."
And since it's always important to reminisce on the good old days, N.O.R.E. recalls what it was like to live the lavish life up in the W Hotels around the world. "The W Hotel was one of the most unique hotels from when I first came in the industry 'cause the W stood for whatever, whenever, whatever," N.O.R.E. says matter-of-factly. "And we literally, rappers, took that shit too far. Like literally. I kid you not. I remember taking salmon and just putting mad salmon on top of [the ceiling] because we didn't know what smoked salmon was. We ordered salmon and they brung us smoked salmon and we're like 'What the fuck is this?'"
Watch N.O.R.E. break it down even further with his thoughts on Dick Cheney, energy, the youth and more in his version of the ABCs above.
See Photos of N.O.R.E.'s Different Looks Over the Years
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Technology developed by Patrick McCann, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Oklahoma, uses lasers to measure the amount of a molecule -- carbon disulphide in the case of schizophrenia -- that is known to be present in the breath of people with that particular disease. "Every molecule has a unique fingerprint and by using the laser, we can probe that fingerprint, identify which molecules are there and how many of them are in that sample," Mr. McCann said.
While a breathalyser diagnostic test already exists for asthma, Mr. McCann, president and CEO of the machine's commercial developer, Ekips Technologies, says his invention is superior: It's inexpensive, fast, easy and non-invasive. The company is first focusing on Asthma and lung cancer, but then is planning to focus on developing a version of the product on schizophrenia.


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By Joao Peixe - Mar 26, 2013, 5:51 PM CDT
Roads soak up a lot of heat energy from the sun. During the summer it can often be unbearable to walk along the road in sunny areas as the heat radiating upwards can lend a stifling quality to the atmosphere.
Scientists at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts have decided to develop a system that can put this heat energy to good use. By using special piping technology they can turn effectively turn the streets into giant solar energy collectors.
The idea is quite similar really. Water is pumped through pipes that are buried a few centimetres below the surface of the road. The heat absorbed by the asphalt then warms the water, which can then be used further up along the pipe to generate electricity. The transfer of the heat energy from the road to the water also helps to cool the road surface and prolong the lifespan of the asphalt.
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Rajib Mallick, the associate professor leading the team of researchers, said that their "preliminary results provide a promising proof of concept for what could be a very important future source of renewable energy."
Unfortunately some problems stand in the way of the success of the idea. The returns possible from the technology are unknown meaning that investors are hard to attract, and a large up-front investment is vital as installing and maintaining the pipes in the roads would be very costly.
Tim Anderson, a solar energy expert, remarked that the temperature of the water would unlikely be high enough to make any good return on investment in most cases.
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DreamWorks Animation and Netflix are working on a new Voltron animated series called Voltron: Legendary Defender. Today they have revealed the showrunners along with a panel for WonderCon 2016. Joaquim Dos Santos, who directed episodes of The Legend of Korra and Avatar, and Lauren Montgomery, who directed the DC Universe animated movies like Wonder Woman, Batman: Year One and Justice League: Doom, will be the showrunners and executive producers.
If you're attending WonderCon, be sure to check out the Voltron: Legendary Defender panel on Friday, March 25th, in room 151 at 6 p.m. Join Dos Santos, Montgomery, writer Tim Hedrick (The Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender) and special guests as they discuss the upcoming series. The panel will be hosted by Nerdist's Jessica Chobot and feature a sneak peek like never-before-seen artwork and footage. Panel attendees will receive a WonderCon exclusive limited edition lithograph.
Voltron: Legendary Defender premieres on Netflix in 2016.


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Q: How to ReWrite a MATLAB code to Python code about Iteration? I met a problem.
I drew this figure below

with a MATLAB/Octave code
t=[0,0.01,0.98]
y2=cos(8*pi*t);
plot(t,y2);

I tried to write it to Python code, but failed.
I have something clue of python code as below
def drange(begin, end, step):
    n = begin
    while n+step < end:
     yield n
     n += step

A: Your MATLAB code does not create the plot you showed. This is because t is not a range, but a vector of the 3 values 0, 0.01 and 0.098, so instead, it plots only those 3 points:

Fixing your MATLAB code
To create the plot you showed in MATLAB, you can do this:
t=[0:0.01:0.98];
y2=cos(8*pi*t);
plot(t,y2);

Notice the use of the : instead of the ,, to specify that you want a range of values from 0 to 0.98 with a step of 0.01, rather than the vector of the three values 0, 0.01 and 0.98.
Recreating the plot in python:
use np.arange, as well as the cos and pi functions provided by numpy
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

t = np.arange(0,0.99,0.01)
y = np.cos(8*np.pi*t)
plt.plot(t, y)
plt.show()

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Marlon Mullen bases his paintings on found photographic images – mostly from lifestyle, news and contemporary art periodicals — which the artist uses as a departure point for his subsequent work.
In the process of developing a painting Mullen's original magazine pages usually become obscured, or literally abstracted, where an image is subsequently reduced to a graphic schema of interlocking colors and forms. Very similar to the beats created for hip hop, operating at the threshold between legibility and illegibility Mullen's works lives within the multiple histories of 20th century modernism, while remaining highly personal.
Mullen is autistic or, put another way, he has autism spectrum disorder, and is for the most part non-verbal. It isn't entirely clear how much he can read in the same sense that you are reading this press release right now, but he certainly has his own understanding of meaning when it comes to words. Specifically regarding the content of his paintings, he has not verbally communicated at length his intent or fascination with the images that he copies. However, his paintings are sufficient in informing us of the nuances of what he sees.
Mullen's work is included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial in New York. In November 2019, he will be included in SFMOMA's SECA Awards exhibition.
Marlon Mullen is represented exclusively by JTT in New York and Adams and Ollman in Oregon.


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Q: Puma not working with actionmailer preview in development mode I am running rails 4.2.5.1 and puma 2.16.0.  The relevant configurations in my development.rb file are
  config.action_mailer.default_url_options = {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 3000, protocol: 'http' }
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { address: 'localhost', port: 1025 }
  config.action_mailer.preview_path = "#{Rails.root}/mailers_previews/"

When I go to /rails/mailers then Chrome displays a page 'This webpage is not available'.  If I run webrick instead i.e.
rails server webrick

then my mailer previews page is displayed.
I have been using puma in development and production on heroku for several months and everything else works.  How do I get puma to display the previews?

A: With help from the puma project, it turned out that I was using an old url
http://0.0.0:3000/rails/mailers

when I should have been using
http://localhost:3000/rails/mailers

The later url works with puma.


This is a chopped Ford gone wild with the windshield leaned back, fenders widened and moved up, custom hood, front and rear fender styling with a hand-fabricated grille and cowl. The bed has been completely restyled, wrapped and smoothed. Suicide doors, flush-mount glass, single-piece side glass and innovative custom hand-fabricated steel dash and console accents really take it to the next level. The interior is luxurious Italian distressed leather, all trimmed and filled with the latest Kicker audio components. Django is enhanced with meticulous metal fabrication, ingenuity, gritty stance and paint laid out like glass, which makes this all-steel truck truly one of a kind.
A western theme that starts on the exterior with leather belts and buckles and continues to the interior, where distressed Bordeaux leather seats by JS Interiors are matched with leather-belt door pulls complete with silver buckles and tips. A custom dash was hand-fabricated in steel, just like the rest of the truck, and houses Dakota digital VHX analog gauges and switches for Vintage Air climate control. The final touch is a highly embellished Colt revolver as a centerpiece in the console, and just ahead of the shooting iron is a B&M Bandit shifter.
Power is provided by a twin turbo Cummins 5.9 Liter 24 Valve Diesel. A custom designed stainless intake manifold supports a 13mm Bosch P7100 injection pump getting the goods from Borg Warner S400 and S500 turbos. For added kick, a Nitrous Express custom plumbed 500hp system, while spent gases dump through Steed Speed headers to custom 4″ exhaust and Flowmaster mufflers then onto nasty 5″ cutouts in the lower bedside panels. The engine bay is a work of art showcasing more fabrication with custom sheet metal panel work everywhere you look. Generating 1,000hp and 1,950 ft/lbs of torque at 3,400 rpm moving like a freight train through a fully manual 47RH automatic transmission. To lay down the power a narrowed 9″ Ford rear was packed with 3.55 gears and hung in place by a custom Chrome Moly 4-link accented by RideTech double-adjustable coilovers. IFS was added along with a custom anti-sway bar. Massive 14″ drilled and slotted Wilwoods rotors bring it all to a halt. The rubber meeting the road is a low-profile Pirelli P-Zero wrapping a set of 20″ front and 24″ rear Boze Force wheels.
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Home » Pro-employee PRO Act Reintroduced in Congress
Pro-employee PRO Act Reintroduced in Congress
By Douglas A. Darch, William F. Dugan & Autumn Sharp on February 9, 2021
Posted in Labor & Unions, US
On February 4, 2021, House Democrats reintroduced the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (PRO Act). The sweeping labor legislation, which would return many provisions of current labor laws to their pre-1947 status, would create new claims and impose punitive penalties and strengthen a number of union and employee rights. The legislation has a checkered past: it passed in the House in early 2020, but stalled in the then Republican-controlled Senate. Now, under President Biden, who promised during his campaign to work toward the passage of certain provisions in the PRO Act, the PRO Act is taking another turn at becoming law.
The PRO Act is unabashedly pro-employee, and if passed, will radically transform the labor landscape. Among other provisions:
Certain pro-employee NLRB decisions handed down from the Obama-appointed Board will be codified, including Browning-Ferris Industries (which expanded the joint employer rule, meaning employers would be more likely to be deemed "joint employers" with increased liability) and Purple Communications (allowing workplace email access for organizing purposes).
The "ABC" test–which requires employers to meet strict requirements before they can classify workers as contractors instead of employees–will become the federal standard, leading to a higher likelihood that workers will be classified as employees and having tremendous implications on gig economy workers.
All Right-to-Work laws, which prohibit employers and unions from requiring employees to join or pay fees to the union as a condition of employment, will be banned.
"Ambush" election rules will be codified, which would drastically reduce the time period between the filing of a petition for election and the election-effectively providing employers with less time to communicate with employees about unionization.
Employers and unions negotiating a first contract will have to engage in lengthy (and costly) binding interest arbitration for a contract with a term lasting a minimum of two years, if a first contract is not reached in 90 days.
In addition, the PRO Act would create a private cause of action for unfair labor practices outside of the NLRB's jurisdiction; give the NLRB the right to award liquidated damages in amounts up to two times the amount of damages (on top of traditional back pay, front pay, and consequential damages) for labor law violations; make terminating an employee for engaging in strike activity an unfair labor practice; ban employers from permanently replacing strikers; legalize partial and intermittent strikes; and ban offensive lockouts (see our prior blogs here and here).
Though it has the support of unions, President Biden, Democrats and some House Republicans, it is expected to face opposition from Senate Republicans and the business lobby, who argue it would harm business. To pass during this session of Congress, the PRO Act would need the backing of 10 Republicans in the Senate–or Senate Democrats would need to end the filibuster–neither of which is reportedly likely to happen.
However, union leaders have reportedly called the unions' approach to passage of the PRO Act a "long haul." Though the fate of the PRO Act remains to be seen, we do not expect unions to walk away from efforts to have union-friendly reform inked into law, especially with a union-friendly president in the White House.
Follow us as we continue to follow the PRO Act. For help navigating labor and employment law developments, contact your Baker McKenzie employment attorney.
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