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Current Teach-Ins
1 PAST TEACH-INS
1.1 Free School University on Occupy Boston Radio
1.2 The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
1.2.1 Lectures at Dewey Square
1.2.2 Left Forum
1.2.2.1 Occupy Consciousness: Meszaros' Toolbox
1.2.2.2 Radical Theory in Social Change: The Work of Michael Lebowitz
1.2.3 OCCUPYfilm: Occupied Peoples | People's Occupations
1.2.3.1 Three Thousand Years and Life
1.2.3.2 Left on Pearl
1.3 Occupy Boston Economics Forum
1.4 Climate Action, Sustainability & Environmental Justice Forum
1.4.1 The Principle of Carbon Fee & Dividend and the Save Our Climate Act
1.5 Citizens United & Elections Forum
1.6 Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD) Forum
1.7 Peace & Justice Forum
1.7.1 Veterans For Peace on Occupy Boston Radio
1.7.2 Cost of War Series
1.8 Health Justice Forum
1.9 Immigration Forum
1.10 Anarchism Forum
1.11 Occupy Film
1.12 Other Teach-Ins
1.12.1 MARCH
1.12.2 After Dewey Sq: Where is The Occupy Movement Going in MA?
1.12.3 FEBRUARY
1.12.4 Understanding the MBTA Fee Hike (Occupy UMass Boston)
1.12.5 JANUARY
1.12.6 DECEMBER
1.12.7 NOVEMBER
1.12.8 OCTOBER
PAST TEACH-INS
Free School University on Occupy Boston Radio
Occupy Boston Radio is currently available by internet only. FSU-RADIO is an educational series by Occupy Boston's Free School University. Our Wednesday program consists of TALK radio featuring educational content such as lectures, panel discussions and interviews, with host David Knuttunen. Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments. Visit occupyboston.org/radio for more information about OB Radio and to join IRC chat during broadcasts. To propose a guest for the program or to be a guest host, please email fsu@occupyboston.org, or call David Knuttunen at 617-558-5853.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012: William C. Coughlan, Jr. will join David to talk about Cooperation. Coughlan has spent more than 40 years in the cooperative movement, written six books, and currently teaches at the Tri-C Community College, Metro Campus, in the Cleveland, Ohio area. He will talk about his experience in the Cooperative movement, ESOPS, consensus, and related topics.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012: Rebroadcast of "Anarchism, Democracy, and Occupy" on February 1 with Dennis Fox, an anarchist and social psychologist who has been involved with Occupy Boston since the beginning. In the Fall, he taught several courses at the FSU at Occupy Boston in Dewey Square on the intersections of anarchism, psychology, and law. Dennis began exploring these topics in the 1970s while participating in the Boston Clamshell Alliance and Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012: Emmett Schaefer is a senior lecturer in sociology at UMass Boston. His classes all center around race, gender and social class. He talked about the racial divide in this supposedly post-racial country of ours, and the need, in building unity among the 99%, to address issues that if not acknowledged could divide us, such as structural or institutionalized racism. We, the 99% really do have much in common, and our common purpose can only be strengthened by attention to structural inequalities among us.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012: Gordon Fellman (PhD), Professor of Sociology at Brandeis, will be talking with us about Marxism and its ongoing relevance to understanding how Occupy helps clarify the meaning of central Marxian concepts like alienation, ruling ideas, false consciousness, genuine consciousness, and social class. He will reason that one's understanding of Occupy is greatly enhanced by applying Marx to it.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012: On the day before International Women's Day, our guest will be feminist economist Randy Albelda (PhD), Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Boston, who will be discussing women and poverty (and what we need to do about it).
Wednesday, February 29, 2012: Nativism and Paranoia in American Politics--Past and Present--wiith historian Lester "Africanus" Lee. Lee has studied at Antioch College, The University of Ghana,The Bologna Center, Bologna, Italy (Johns Hopkins University), and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is a Senior Lecturer of History at Suffolk University.What better day than a Leap Day to think about the curiosities of time, and what bigger curiosity than the way history seems inevitably to repeat itself? Why don't people learn from the past?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012: Grace Ross, activist, author and former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross will be discussing her book, Main Street $marts: Who got us into this economic mess and how we get through it? The book is a comprehensive survey of the damage done to the 99% by an economy managed for the benefit of the few, and provides common sense prescriptions for solving the problems, ranging from banking, foreclosures and homelessness, to health care, to jobs - all the while empowering people and building a more democratic society.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012: Arjun Jayadev (PhD), assistant professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Boston, whose areas of expertise include international economics, economics of distribution, development, political economy, macroeconomic dynamics, and economics of power. We will be discussing money, debt and the Federal Reserve Bank.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012: Grace Ross is a lifetime activist in democratic people's movements and a two-time candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. She is presently the coordinator of the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending, the statewide coalition working to reverse the foreclosure-crisis in our Commonwealth. She has written a book on the current economic crisis entitled "Main Street $marts – Who got us into this economic mess and how we get through it?" We will be discussing some of these issues in a conversation that includes, "How did we get here?" "What do we do about it?" and "What is the role of the Occupy movement in solving these problems?"
Wednesday, February 1:Anarchism, Democracy, and Occupy with Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology University of Illnois-Springfield and co-founder of the Radical Psychology Network. Dennis Fox is an anarchist and social psychologist who has been involved with Occupy Boston since the beginning. Back in the fall, he taught a number of courses for FSU on the intersections of anarchism, psychology, and law, topics he began exploring in the 1970s while participating in the Boston Clamshell Alliance and Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook. The conversation was about anarchism and democracy, and the lessons that are being learned from the Occupy movement.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012: Cooperative Businesses and Low Cost Computing with Wayne Clark and Marlene Archer of Occupy Newton. Wayne Clark has been involved with cooperative businesses over many years, and will talk about what a cooperative is and is not, and how by organizing production in cooperatives we can build for a non-capitalist future. Marlene Archer works with a non-profit that acquires old computers, including relatively recent ones being replaced by corporations and rich institutions, and recycles them to make low cost computers available to individuals and smaller non-profits. She will talk about computer recycling, and other ways of accessing computing power on a limited budget.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012: Jerry Friedman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will be on OB Radio with David from FSU to talk about the economy as part of our new weekly broadcast.
Friday, December 16, 2011: Kevin Gallagher and Tim Wise discussed "Wall Street's Global Reach: How Wall Street Lobby Groups are affecting the Eurozone and Food Crises." Kevin Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute (Tufts University). Tim Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.
The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
For video archive of all recorded lectures from The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston, click here.
Friday, March 23: Carl Finamore, a first-hand witness to the Egyptian Revolution last year that toppled Hosni Mubarak, on the Egyptian Revolution
Thurs, Feb 9: Marx's Ghost: Midnight Conversations on Changing the World (Charlie Derber, Alexandra Pineros Shields, Brian Kwoba, Genevieve Butler
Friday, January 20: Panel: From Occupy to Workers Control, with Immanuel Ness and Elaine Bernard
Lectures at Dewey Square
Saturday, December 10: Rich Levy, professor of history at Salem State University, "The Legacy of the Sixties and Occupy"
Wednesday, December 7: Avi Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University
Wednesday, November 30: Norman Finkelstein
Tuesday, November 29: Bruno Bosteels
Tuesday, November 22: Mike Denning: The Culture of Debt
Wednesday, November 9: Elaine Bernard: From Heroes to Zeros, The War on Public Employees & Their Unions
Friday, November 4: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: The City on a Hill, Where it all Began
Thursday, November 3: Luis Jimenez: The Perils of American Democracy, The Institutional Basis Behind Our 'Broken Politics'
Sunday, October 30: Anthony Arnove: co-authored "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with Howard Zinn
Friday, November 18: Paul Le Blanc
Thursday, November 17: Richard Wolf
Saturday, November 12: Noel Ignatiev: Race and Occupy
Saturday, October 29: Fred Magdoff
Friday, October 28: Chad Montrie, author of "A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States"
Monday, October 24: Tom Ferguson: Money and Politics
Sunday, October 23: Vijay Prashad, author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World"
Saturday, October 22: Noam Chomsky
Thursday, October 20: Gary Leupp: Elite Control Over US Foreign Policy, Lessons from Vietnam, to Iraq, to Today
Saturday, October 15: Nicole Aschoff: Neoliberal Dispossession and the Demand for Demands
Thursday, October 13: Victor Wallis: Roots of the Current Crisis
These panels are sponsored by the Monthly Review and the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Location: Community Room at Harvest Co-Op in Central Square (581 Mass Ave, Cambridge).
Occupy Consciousness: Meszaros' Toolbox
Saturday, March 10, 2012 (10am): Doug Enaa Greene (Occupy Boston activist, member of the Kasama Project), Irv Kurki (coordinator for essential discussions on advanced theory), and Mario Rendon (American Institute of Psychoanalysis) will offer their reflections on Istvan Meszaros' latest work and relate it to the current situation. The presenters contend that the American mind is stocked with the categories, symbols, and rules of the 1 percent, and that it is absolutely necessary to start discarding and restocking with the relevant structures of the 99 percent.
Radical Theory in Social Change: The Work of Michael Lebowitz
Sunday, March 11, 2012 (1pm): Chair Irv Kurki (coordinator for essential discussions on advanced theory) and speakers Amy Hendrickson (activist with Brookline Peaceworks, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Boston Stop the War) and Jim Barton (independent scholar and co-author of Thinking on Paper and Thinking Together) will discuss the separation of radical theory from practical struggles as a weakness that can be overcome. Michael Lebowitz's recent work (Build It Now: Socialism for the 21st Century) elucidate the powerful potential of integrating radical theory and practice as in the trasformative struggles in revolutionary Venezuela. The speakers will illustrate universal lessons in Lebowitz's work and discuss possible applications.
OCCUPYfilm: Occupied Peoples | People's Occupations
This FREE series of films and discussions presented by the organizers of The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series will take place at the Community Church of Boston (tentatively) every Thursday nights at 7:30pm through Thursday, May 10, 2012. This series is being organized with the intent to shed historical and social light on our current situation, by bringing people together to reflect on past and present people's struggles, in particular those struggles which are most often buried in the mainstream historical narrative. Check back soon for more details about the Occupied Peoples | People's Occupations series. The following films have been shown:
Three Thousand Years and Life
Thursday, February 23, 2012 (POSTER): Three Thousand Years and Life is a breath-taking 1973 documentary, featuring original footage of the occupation of Walpole prison. Two years after the massacre at Attica, prison guards at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Walpole walked out in response to progressive reforms at the facility. Bobby Delello (a former prisoner who participated in the event) and Jamie Bisonette, author of When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story of the Prison Abolition Movement (a book about the event) will both be present for discussion after the film. Bisonette wrote of the event: "The prisoners stepped ably into the void—and all-out peace ensued. They shrank the murder rate from the highest in the country to zero. Even more significantly, they worked hard to bury racial antagonism and longstanding feuds so even 'lifers' with no hope of going home could find ways to live together, learn, and grow—to regain the humanity that the system intended to squash."
Left on Pearl
Thursday, February 16, 2012 (POSTER): Left on Pearl, a work in progress directed by Susie Rivo, is a film that honors the International Women's Day marchers who turned left on Pearl on March 6, 1971 to take over a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, declaring it the first Women's Center. The film employs multiple perspectives to tell the story of this little-known but highly significant chapter in the history of the Second Wave of the Women's Movement. The event marked a surprise ending of that year's International Woman's Day march and through the occupation, hundreds of women tranformed the hopes, glories, conflicts and tensions of Second Wave feminism into the establishment of the longest continually operating Women's Center in the United States and sparked the development of many other feminist and community organizations both locally and nationally.
Occupy Boston Economics Forum
For video archive of recorded lectures from the Occupy Boston Economics Forum, click here.
Saturday, December 3, 2011: Gar Alperovitz, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, book launch
Monday, November 28, 2011: How to Redistribute Wealth: Lessons from the 20th Century, a discussion with Molly Geidel and Patricia Stuelke
Saturday, November 26, 2011: Right on the Marx: New Insights From Some Old Ideas with Gordon Fellman (POSTPONED)
Sunday, November 20, 2011: Unemployment: Why Jobs Are Hard to Find and How We Can Create Many More with Juliet Schor
Saturday, November 19, 2011:
Occupy The Economy with Kerry Power (followed by Q&A)
How "Free" Trade Kills Jobs, Reduces Wages, Wrecks the Environment & Destroys Democracy with Steve D'Amico
Teach-In: Globalization and How it Affects Us, an interactive presentation with Madeleine Cousineau
Sunday, November 13, 2011:
The Effects of Class Background on Our Lives and Efforts for Change, United For Change Workshop Series
Gender, Economy, and Citizenship with Carole Biewener and Jyoti Puri, organized by the Women's Caucus
Friday, November 11, 2011: Capitalism at a Dead End, synopsis of lecture given by Fred Goldstein, with Gerry Scoppettuolo
Friday, November 4, 2011: Responsible Investing, with Shelley Alpern and Catherine Pargeter (Trillium Asset Management), and Libby Edgerly (MSCI)
Thursday, November 3, 2011: The Housing Crisis: Where Did It Come From, Where Are We Going?
Wednesday, November 2, 2011: Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street
Tuesday, November 1, 2011: Gerald Friedman, Money, Banking, and Democracy
Sunday, October 30, 2011: Dr. Ben Tafoya, The Decline of Middle Class Incomes and Political Inequality
Thursday, October 20, 2011:
Arthur MacEwan: The Economic Crisis: How Can We Fix Things?
Food, Corporations, and Justice: The Human Face of Free Trade in Nicaragua (CANCELLED)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Catherine Finnoff: 10 Phoney Facts About the US Economy, Keeping it Real for the 99 (CANCELLED)
Sunday, October 16, 2011:
Julie Nelson: What Economists Got Wrong and What We've Got to Do to Fix It
Big Pharma: Another Big Player on Wall Street
Saturday, October 15, 2011: Julie Matthaei: Occupy the Economy: An Introduction to the Solidarity Economy
Friday, October 14, 2011:
Alejandro Reuss: Class and the Shift in the Distribution of Income Against Workers and in favor of Capitalists
Juliet Schor: Why Unemployment Is So High and How We Can Reduce It
Tuesday, October 11, 2011:
Bryan Snyder: A Primer on Financialization
John Miller: Up Against the Wall Street Journal
Monday, October 10, 2011:
Arjun Jayadev: The False Doctrine of Austerity
Capitalism is Failing: The Socialist Alternative
Sunday, October 9, 2011:
Capitalism, Energy, and Climate Change
The Case for Socialism: Human Need, Not Corporate Greed!
Friday, October 7, 2011: Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street
Climate Action, Sustainability & Environmental Justice Forum
The Principle of Carbon Fee & Dividend and the Save Our Climate Act
Thursday, March 15, 2012 (7:00pm @ Emanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston, near the Arlington T Stop): At Occupy Boston's General Assembly, Gary Rucinski of Citizens Climate Lobby will present the principle of Carbon & Fee Dividend and describe Pete Stark's Save Our Climate Act. The presentation is sponsored by the Occupy Boston Climate Action, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice (CASEJ) Working Group. There will be a 15 minute presentation followed by a 15 minute discussion. A longer presentation is currently being organized that will include a broader comparative discussion of strategies for carbon emission reduction in response to resolutions passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly acknowledging the increasingly destructive impact of the accumulation of atmospheric carbon emissions, and the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible. Occupy Boston highlighted the contribution of corporate abuse to climate change and supports fossil fuel nuclear subsidies. For further information on fee and dividend, please see the following links, provided by Gary Rucinski:
The Case for Carbon Fee and Dividend: The economic rationale for taxing the carbon in fossil fuels (Carbon Fee and Dividend) to avoid the worst effects of climate change, which would gradually increase the cost of fossil fuels while shielding low income households from the resultant rise of energy costs. Implementation of this policy would stimulate economic growth to help undo the effects of the Great Recession.
CCL Boston Resource Library: A collection of useful links to articles that explain different dimensions of the climate change problem focusing primarily on economic and policy issues rather than the science.
Citizens United & Elections Forum
For video archive of recorded teach-ins from the Occupy Boston Citizens United Forum, click here.
Saturday, January 21, 2012: Citizens United Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, the wide coalition of groups standing together to get money out of politics include Boston Amendment Group, Coffee Party in Boston, Common Cause, Corporate Accountability International, Dollars and Sense, Free Speech for People, Greater Boston Move to Amend, Massachusetts Nurses Association, MassVote, Progressive Massachusetts, Public Citizen, and Root Strikers.
9:30am Community Gathering
10am Lawrence Lessig
11:20am Break-out Session: Where do We Go Next?
12:30pm The Supreme Court & Citizens United: How Did We Get Here? (Donna Palermo)
1pm Powermapping (with Patrick Frank and Grace Morris)
2:30pm Break-out Group Proposals
3:15pm Citizens Lobbying Training Workshop (Grace Ross, Avi Green, Pam Wilmot)
4pm Next Steps (Jules Levine)
4:20pm Working Groups Open House
Friday, January 20, 2012: Rally to Unite Citizens for Democracy
We the People (Representative Cory Atkins)
Cross-Partisan Organizing: Finding Areas of Agreement (Szelena Gray)
Break-out Groups: Corporate Influence: Financial Industry, Environment, Military Spending, Immigration, Agri-Business, and more...
5:45pmOccupy Legislation Handbook From Progressive Massachusetts (Senator Jamie Eldridge)
6:15pm Corporate Personhood 101: A Panel Discussion (John Bonifaz and Malia Lazu)
6:30pm Q & A Session
7pm Break-out Groups: Citizens United in Context, Money in Politics: Communication Strategies, Campaign Money, Lobbying Industry, Corporate Personhood-Supreme Court, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Personhood pros and Cons.
7:30pm Reception & entertainment
Sunday, December 18, 2011: Unrig the Elections - Let us Count! A discussion with Jonathan Simon, founding member of Election Defense Alliance
Sunday, December 11, 2011: Public Financing of Election Campaigns -- A Way Station; Fair, Just and Good Government--Our Destination, with Jules Levine
Saturday, December 10, 2011: Donna Palermino: History of Citizens United and its Implications, organized by Citizens United to End Political Bribery WG
Sunday, December 4, 2011: Publicly-Funded Elections & Repairing Representative Government (CANCELLED)
Sunday, November 27, 2011: Rigged Elections: Corporations--the 1 Percent--Own and Rig the Elections of the 99 Percent, Sheila Parks
Sunday, November 13, 2011: Public Financing of Elections--A Way Station: Fair, Just & Good Government--The Destination, Julius Levine
Non-Violence & Civil Disobedience (NVCD) Forum
Training with Linda Stout, organized by the Anti-Oppression and Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience Working Groups. For more information about Linda and the visioning idea, visit powerupnetworks.org.
Saturday January 14, 2012: Collective Visioning Workshop, breathe, reflect, and envision together where we want to be, how to get there
Saturday January 14, 2012: Train the Trainers Session, share ideas about strategy, movement-building, and etc
Training facilitated by members of the New England Nonviolence Trainers Network, Alliance of Community Trainers and the Health Justice Working Group
Sunday, December 18, 2011: Direct Action Strategy & Action: Planning - Digging a Little Deeper
Saturday, December 17, 2011: Non-Violent Direct Action Training
Saturday, December 10, 2011: Facilitation & Group Process Training: agendas, meetings, decision-making models, challenging people
Preparedness in Actions, Strengthening Our Spirit & Building Community - Training facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group
Friday, November 25: presented by John Bach
Monday, November 21: presented by Catherine Hoffman
Friday, November 18: presented by Minga Clagget-Borne
What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? - Roundtable Discussion co-facilitated by members of the NVCD Working Group
Monday, November 7
The Practice of Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience - Workshop presented by Rick Colbath-Hess
Peace & Justice Forum
Monday, February 13, 2012: Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners' Rebellion with Quentin Davis
Sunday, January 15, 2012: Getting Things Straight on Iraq: Peace Movement Briefing with Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi-Palestinian architect, blogger, political analyst
Sunday, November 27, 2011: Jim Scarborough, A Matter of Honor: Veterans & the First Amendment (also on Tuesday, November 22, 2011)
Tuesday, November 22, 2011: Joseph Gerson, The Case Against America's Militarized "Pacific Century," Real Economic Security & Preventing Another War
Thursday, November 10, 2011: Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners Rebellion, stories from the Massachusetts 54th and 55th in the Civil War
Monday, November 7, 2011: Gaza & Palestine: The Israeli Siege and the Passion of Human Rights Activists throughout the World with Ridgely Fuller
Saturday, November 6, 2011: The Wall Street Complex
Saturday, October 22, 2011: Cut Military Spending, Fund Our Communities
Thursday, October 20, 2011: Brian Wilson, author of "Blood on the Tracks," founding member of Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: Afghanistan: Why Obama Must Change Course
Sunday, October 16, 2011: Cindy Sheehan, activist, mother of soldier killed in Iraq (CANCELLED)
Saturday, October 8, 2011: US Wars in the Middle East: Much Ado About Oil
Veterans For Peace on Occupy Boston Radio
This weekly radio broadcast organized by members of the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace streams is live on OB Radio every Monday night at 6:00pm. Call 617-506-9726 with questions or comments during the show, or join the IRC chat at occupyboston.org/radio. Unless otherwise noted, the VFP radio show will be hosted by Bob Funke, member of the Action For Peace Working Group at Occupy Boston and Vietnam Veteran For Peace.
Monday, February 27, 2012: Hosted by Bob Funke. Bob will be joined by Rachel McNeill, member of the FSU Working Group at Occupy Boston and Iraq Veteran For Peace. The discussion will focus on women in the military.
Monday, February 20, 2012: On the military suicide epidemic and hunger in the United States.
Monday, February 6, 2012: Hosted by Bob Funke. Bob will introduce Veterans For Peace, talk about what the organization stands for and how they support various community peace organizations and community groups, including Occupy Boston. Veterans For Peace affirm a greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace, working with others to this end
Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war
To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace. Veterans For Peace is a non-profit educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war employing the motto "De Oppresso Liber" (Liberate the Oppressed).
Cost of War Series
Military family and veteran speakout organized by the Peace Action Working Group at Occupy Boston
Sarah Fuhro, mother of soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan: Opening Remarks
Wayne Jaquith: How the Wars Started, their Impact, and Lessons to Learn to Avoid Future Wars
Native American Drumming: Songs for Healing and New Beginnings
22-year-old Iraqi Refugee
Veteran Listening Sessions
Robert Funke, Vietnam Veteran
Vietnam Veteran, Corporal Jeffrey M. Lucey Chapter of Veterans for Peace
Rachel McNeill, Jason Mizula, and Ryan Cahill
Military Family Listening Sessions
Alice Copeland Brown, mother of Army officers from Canton, Massachusetts
Joyce and Kevin Lucey, parents of Corporal Jeff Lucey, who committed suicide in 2004
Carlos and Melida Arredondo, parents of Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in 2004 in Iraq
Health Justice Forum
For video archive of recorded teach-ins from the Occupy Boston Health Justice Forum, click here.
Sunday, November 20, 2011: Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice, with Marlene Fried, organized by the Women's Caucus
Saturday, November 12, 2011: Health Justice Speak Out, organized by the Health Justice Working Group
Saturday, November 5, 2011: Health Justice Forum, organized by the Health Justice Working Group
Jim Recht and Mardge Cohen: Reoccupy the Health System through Single Payer Health Reform
Jeremy Barofsky, Jacob Bor, and Ashley Winning: Economic Crisis, Austerity, and the Health of the 99%
Katrina Ciraldo: How a Financial Transaction Tax Can End AIDS
Teach-In on Secure Communities, presented by Centro Presente and the Immigration Working Group
Sunday, October 23, 2011: Immigration Forum
Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE): Opening Address and Welcome
Tania Bruguera, Immigrant International Movement
Peter Lowber: Opposing Secure Communities and Other Anti Immigrant Attacks; Vigils; Support for Human Rights and Immigrant Workers Rights
Heloisa Maria Galvao, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Brazilian Women's Group
Carlos Rosales, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative
Break Out Discussion Group
Anarchism Forum
For video archive of recorded teach-ins from the Occupy Boston Anarchist Forum, click here.
Sunday, October 9, 2011: An Intro to Modern Anarchism: Isn't Libertarian Socialism a Contradiction?
Series by Dennis Fox, retired professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, University of Illinois-Springfield:
Wednesday, February 1, 2011: Anarchism, Democracy, and Occupy (on FSU-Radio)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011: Anarchism & Psychology
Tuesday, October 11, 2011: Anarchist Occupation Issues
Saturday, October 8, 2011: Anarchism, Psychology, and Law
Occupy Film
Monday, December 19, 2011: The Take, a film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien about thirty unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.
Saturday, December 17, 2011: This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a film about the mass demonstrations and coordinated direct actions in Seattle in 1999 that shut down the World Trade Organization's ministerial meeting
Saturday, December 10, 2011: We Interrupt This Empire, a film documenting the mass coordinated direct action in San Francisco after the start of the Iraq War
Wednesday, November 9, 2011: How To Start A Revolution, followed with commentary by Ruaridh Arrow (director) and Jamila Raqib (Albert Einstein Institute)
Other Teach-Ins
After Dewey Sq: Where is The Occupy Movement Going in MA?
Sunday, March 4, 2012 (1:30-3:30pm) at The Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge (Central Square): This panel is sponsored by the Boston local of Democratic Socialists of America; cosponsored by Free School University working group (Occupy Boston). The event is free and open to the public. Non-members are welcome. There will be a brief business meeting before the panel discussion during which Boston DSA members will elect a new Executive Board. David Knuttunen of Occupy Newton.
Chris Faraone began his writing career by free-lancing Hip Hop reviews for such publications as Yellow Rat Bastard, The Source, the Weekly Dig and the Boston Herald before becoming a staff reporter for the Boston Phoenix, where his coverage of the Occupy movement on both coasts resulted in his debut book--99 Nights With The 99%.
Katie Gradowski is an organizer with Occupy Boston, where she focuses on outreach and anti-foreclosure work as well as the Occupy The T campaign. Her "real job" is in Somerville, where she helps run a kid's community science workshop and "spends time making things, tinkering, and taking stuff apart."
Betsy Boggia has helped establish Occupy Natick. She also has long experience with grassroots organizations, political campaigns, local non-profits (most recently with Girl's LEAP Self-Defense), has been a legislative aide for State Senator Cheryl Jacques, and a co-founder of the Greater Boston Chapter of the Million Mom March for sensible gun control.
Understanding the MBTA Fee Hike (Occupy UMass Boston)
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 (1pm, U Mass Boston Campus Center terrace): Occupy Boston's Free School University, in solidarity with Occupy UMass Boston presents "Understanding the MBTA Fee Hike," a teach-in by Stuart Spina (T-riders Union member and UMass Boston student). This teach-in will address the following questions: Why is the MBTA proposing these rounds of service cuts and fare increases? Who gets burdened by this? Why does the blame and responsibility for fixing the T's finances actually rest with the Governor and MA legislature? The deficits are a chronic problem and we'll be in the same position next year, why is any form of a fare increase and service cuts futile? What actions can people take and what long-term policy fixes are out there?
Friday, January 13, 2012 (Saint Paul's Cathedral, 138 Tremont St, Boston, MA): Starting a Non-Profit: The Nuts and Bolts, this teach-in considered the various types of non-profits, including public lobbies, foundations, and charities, as well as nuts-and-bolts non-profits that provide direct services to the public (such as affordable housing, alternative medicine, and ground-up job training). It also focused on how the formation of non-profits helps the public lobby and protest movements. The program included a discussion of what it's like to be developing and working for a non-profit that provides open-structured learning environments for adults. Lachlan Youngs is a volunteer peer worker who teaches ceramics, beaded jewelry, and modern music in an open-structured learning environment for adults. He directs a federal non-profit charity, "The Cape Workshop Collaborative."
Saturday, December 31, 2011: Roving Soap Box Street Corner Teach-Ins at First Night New Year's Eve Celebration in Boston
Monday, December 19, 2011: Antonio Gramsci and the Occupy Movement, Lecture / Discussion with anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry (POSTPONED)
Wednesday, December 14, 2011: OWS Forum on Jobs for All: Proposed Demand
Sunday, December 11, 2011: Adopt an Occupier, hosted by Occupy Newton
Saturday, December 3, 2011: Corporate Negligence & Bhopal, India: An Ongoing Disaster with The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (VIDEO)
Thursday, December 1, 2011: Reading Group Planning Meeting (meet in front of the Library)
Transgender Awareness Workshop with Queer and Trans Caucus
Harvey Wassermann: The History of Social Movements
Friday, November 18, 2011:
Political Policing in the United States: Historical Perspectives on the Challenges Confronting the Occupy Movement, with Brendan McQuade
Power & Visibility: "The Means of Correct Training," from Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish
Thursday, November 17, 2011: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement
Wednesday, November 16, 2011: Fight for Our Basic Property Rights: The Big Bank's Fraud at Registries of Deeds, John O'Brien
From Occupation to Revolution with John Spritzler
Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, games and exercises for social justice
Thursday, November 10, 2011:
The Neuroscience of Greed with Rick Heller
Public Class Meeting: Prisoner's Rights Legal Clinic, Northeastern University School of Law
Wednesday, November 9, 2011: Workshop: Your Rights at Work with Anneta Argyres and Tess Ewing
Monday, November 7, 2011:
Workshop: Increasing Awareness and Protecting Your Sacred Fire
Your Public School Under Attack, Organizing to Fight Back! A workshop with Citizens for Public Schools
Lecture: Historical Conversations for Democracy with Monica Poole
Sunday, November 6, 2011: Workshop: Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, games and exercises for social justice
Saturday, November 5, 2011:
Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here? with Todd Gitlin
Youth, Justice, and Democracy in El Salvador with Margarito Nolasco
Friday, November 4, 2011: Lessons from the Wisconsin Uprising (CANCELLED)
Thursday, November 3, 2011: Career Workshop: My Red Carpet Moment, How Do I Best Express What I Do?
Tuesday, November 1, 2011: C.T. Butler, Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard
Monday, October 31, 2011: C.T. Butler, Consensus: So That All Voices May Be Heard
Fair Trade Coffee Hour and Discussion (CANCELLED)
Occupy Boston Writing Workshop: The Other 99%
Saturday, October 29, 2011: Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some (CANCELLED)
Dennis Fox, Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal & Political
Askold Melnyczuk, Crafting Your Story: A Fiction Workshop
Thursday, October 27, 2011: Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy" (VIDEO)
Wednesday, October 26, 2011:
Nancy Murray, Director of Education, ACLU-Massachusetts, "The USA PATRIOT ACT and You"
Roar Sheppard, author, Group Discussion
Marshall Ganz, "Movement Building and Organizing Strategies" (VIDEO)
Saturday, October 22, 2011:
Prisoners Realities, workshop with the Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project
Anonymity & Security on the Web (VIDEO)
Thursday, October 20, 2011: Dennis Fox, Challenging Basic Assumptions
Sunday, October 16, '2011: Occupy Boston: Talking to People Passing By
On Conflict and Consensus: Consensus for Cities
Discussion: Whiteness and Ally-Ship
Matthew Lowe, Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement
On Labor Day: Importance and Tactics of Building a Worker's Party
Indigenous People's Day Teach-in on Palestine
Student Power: Building a New University in the Shell of the Old
Active Listening 101: How to Have a Friendly Disagreement (VIDEO)
Open Discussion: Tools Against Sexism within the Occupy Boston Movement
Alex Gourevitch, professor, post-doctoral student at Brown University, The Meaning of "We Are The 99 Percent" (BLOG)
Friday, October 7, 2011:
Kate Bonner-Jackson: "Translation Is Not A Crime: The Case for Tarek Mehanna"
Effective Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy Conversation
From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Technologies of Control in America (VIDEO)
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How to choose the right architect in Kerala if you are planning for a new home?
Planning a new home comes with a box full of responsibilities and some out of the box concepts. Your new home might be your biggest dream and hence it's always important to choose the right architect for your home. An architect clearly analyses your requirements, tastes and ideas and then put it up into a beautiful plan after analysing the practical viabilities of the same. At Monnaie, our architects take intense effort to design homes as per client budget and tastes. Also, we are the Leading architects in Kerala who strictly analyses the practical viabilities of the plan before finalizing it and handing over the same to the client. Another highlight is we do interior designing right from the moment we design the architecture plan itself to avoid complications arising after construction. So, now you might have got an idea about how integral it is to choose the right architect for your home. There are several architects in Kerala who offer architecture services but you need to consider several things before choosing one. Being the best architects and interior designers in Kerala who have done more than 770 projects in different places like Kochi(Cochin), Trivandrum, Palakkad, Calicut, Thrissur, Kottayam and all across Kerala, we can give you a couple of tips on the same. Here we go!
Internet dominates the world today and everything you need to know about anything is available in front of your eyes in a snap. The first step in your journey to find the right architect is to check out architecture websites and see if they satisfy your requirements. You can go through their services, on-going projects, completed projects, price package, client testimonials etc. to get an overall picture and analyse if they might be the one for you.
As architects in Kerala who have done both luxurious and low budget homes all across Kerala as well as in several places in South India, we know budget matters the most for most clients. So if you plan to go for a low-cost house plan you should make sure the architects you consult are ready to do it within your budget. We say this because there are architects and interior designers in Kerala who focus only on luxury projects. At the same time, there are many architects in Kerala who do both. So, your part is to plan your budget properly and then find out an architect who nod yes to finish the work within that budget.
One of the very best ways to know the reputation and potential of the architect you would like to work with is to talk with their previous clients. Though this is not possible always if you could reach out to at least one or two of their previous clients you will get a clear idea about the quality of their service.
Rather than jumping into finalization after talking with just one architect, go and discuss your requirements with 3 or 4 architects. Deliberately analyse who gets it better and choose them. Though this is not an easy task, if done with the clarity you can make it an easy one. Note all the positives and negative sides of all of them and note it down. Then choose one who has more weight on the positive side. Being architects in Kerala with experience in the industry, we would definitely recommend checking their dealings before you sign up.
Another important thing to take note of is the customer service of the architects you choose to work with. If that is not good and fine, then the future dealing wouldn't be pleasing as well. Also, this explains their professionalism and commitment to the clients who trust them. As architects and interior designers in Kerala, we believe customer support stands on the top of our services.
5 Reasons why you should hire an architect for your new home?


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EditorialEDITORIALS: REFLECTIONS ON THE PLANT CELL CLASSICS
DREB Duo Defines Distinct Drought and Cold Response Pathways
Nancy A. Eckardt
Senior Features Editor, The Plant Cell
ORCID record for Nancy A. Eckardt
For correspondence: neckardt@asbp.org
Published June 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00331
© 2019 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved.
Despite advances in agriculture over the millennia of human history, crop yields remain deeply dependent on climate and weather patterns. Abiotic stresses like drought, freezing, and flooding are dreaded for the devastation they can bring. Thus, understanding plant response to abiotic stress has long been a primary goal in plant biology research, and perhaps it is not surprising that some of the most highly cited articles in the history of the journal relate to transcriptional regulation during abiotic stress conditions. Two of the most highly cited articles in The Plant Cell (Yamaguchi-Shinozaki and Shinozaki, 1994 and Liu et al., 1998) come from the laboratories of Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (now at the University of Tokyo; then working at Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba) and Kazuo Shinozaki (RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama).
First, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki and Shinozaki (1994) described the cis-acting element DEHYDRATION RESPONSE ELEMENT (DRE), found in the promoter of RD29A and shown to be involved in the rapid response in the expression of this gene to dehydration or high-salt conditions. Liu et al. (1998) then extended this work by identifying two small families of transcription factors (TFs) in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana)—DREB1, which has three homologs, and DREB2, which has two homologs—that act in the regulation of two separate signal transduction pathways in response to low-temperature and dehydration conditions, respectively. One of the DREB1 proteins, DREB1B, and the DRE turned out to be the same as the CBF1 protein and a cold-regulated element (CRT), respectively, identified in independent studies performed by Michael Thomashow and colleagues at Michigan State University (Baker et al., 1994; Stockinger et al., 1997).
There are, of course, many publications that uncover aspects of transcriptional regulation under abiotic stress (far too many to cite here), and promoter deletion analysis had been in use in plants for some time prior to 1994. However, the Yamaguchi-Shinozaki and Shinozaki (1994) article certainly is one of the finest examples of early work in plants that directly connected a cis-element to induction of gene expression with a change in environmental conditions, in this case dehydration and high salt, and should be on the required reading list as a classic study for students and researchers in this field. The authors first show that two genes, RD29A and RD29B, exhibit differential responses in expression to dehydration, high salt, or low temperature, with RD29A expression responding rapidly to these treatments and RD29B responding more slowly (dehydration and high-salt treatments) or not at all (low temperature). Next, to pinpoint the region responsible for the rapid induction of RD29A, they conducted a classic example of promoter deletion assessment with a chimeric gene construct consisting of a series of deletion fragments from the RD29A and RD29B promoter regions fused to the GUS reporter gene and expressed in transgenic Arabidopsis and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants. This allowed the identification of a cis-acting, dehydration-responsive element, known as DRE, involved in the rapid response of RD29A to conditions of dehydration or high salt. They further showed that DRE is involved in the induction by low temperature but not in a slower abscisic acid-responsive induction of RD29A.
Liu et al. (1998) extended this study by using yeast one-hybrid screening to identify two cDNA clones that encode the DRE binding proteins DREB1A and DREB2A, both of which bound specifically to the DRE sequence in vitro and activated the transcription of the GUS reporter gene driven by the DRE sequence in Arabidopsis leaf protoplasts. Interestingly, the two proteins showed no significant sequence similarity, except in their conserved DNA binding domains, and the expression of DREB1A and two homologous genes was induced by low temperature, whereas expression of DREB2A and its single homologous gene was induced by dehydration in Arabidopsis. Thus, they identified two independent families of DREB proteins, DREB1 and DREB2, that function as transcription factors in two different signal transduction pathways, regulating responses to different stresses–low temperature and dehydration–integrated through the same element.
It has since been shown that the DREB proteins belong to a large family of over 100 plant-specific DNA binding proteins containing a highly conserved ERF/AP2 DNA binding domain. The DREB subfamily in Arabidopsis includes 56 members divided into six subgroups (A1 to A6); the DREB1/CBF and DREB2 proteins are classified in the A1 and A2 subgroups, respectively (Sakuma et al., 2002). The DREB1/CBF proteins are now recognized as "master switches" constituting a "major hub" for gene regulation during cold acclimation (Thomashow, 2010; Kidokoro et al., 2017), whereas DREB2 proteins may function more specifically during drought and high-salt conditions (Sakuma et al., 2002).
A seminal finding with major implications for crop improvement reported by Liu et al. (1998) was that overexpression of one TF alone, DREB1A, resulted in enhanced tolerance to both dehydration and freezing stress. It was also shown by the Thomashow group that overexpression of CBF1 enhanced freezing tolerance (Jaglo-Ottosen et al., 1998). Although the transgenic plants were stunted relative to the wild type, this generated a lot of excitement, and early work on DREB/CBFs was cited as a promising avenue for engineering crop plants more highly tolerant of drought and other abiotic stresses (for example, Smirnoff and Bryant, 1999).
Many subsequent studies have sought ways of altering DREB/CBF expression to enhance stress tolerance without negatively affecting growth (for example, Kasuga et al., 1999). In the last 10 years since publication of these two studies, citations have picked up, reflecting the importance of DREB/CBF pathways in plant stress tolerance and heightened efforts to achieve a breakthrough in overcoming the dichotomy between enhanced stress tolerance and growth retardation. The development of new methods and techniques, along with the characterization and deeper understanding of DREB/CBF pathways in different plant species (for example, Kudo et al., 2019; Li et al., 2019; Moon et al., 2019), gives renewed hope that such a breakthrough will not be far off.
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Baker, S.S.,
Wilhelm, K.S.,
Thomashow, M.F.
(1994). The 5′-region of Arabidopsis thaliana cor15a has cis-acting elements that confer cold-, drought- and ABA-regulated gene expression. Plant Mol. Biol. 24: 701–713.
Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R.,
Gilmour, S.J.,
Zarka, D.G.,
Schabenberger, O.,
(1998). Arabidopsis CBF1 overexpression induces COR genes and enhances freezing tolerance. Science 280: 104–106.
Kasuga, M.,
Liu, Q.,
Miura, S.,
Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K.,
Shinozaki, K.
(1999). Improving plant drought, salt, and freezing tolerance by gene transfer of a single stress-inducible transcription factor. Nat. Biotechnol. 17: 287–291.
Kidokoro, S.,
Yoneda, K.,
Takasaki, H.,
Takahashi, F.,
Shinozaki, K.,
Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K.
(2017). Different cold-signaling pathways function in the responses to rapid and gradual decreases in temperature. Plant Cell 29: 760–774.
Kudo, M.,
Yoshida, T.,
Mizoi, J.,
Kojima, M.,
Takebayashi, Y.,
Sakakibara, H.,
Fernie, A.R.,
(2019). A gene-stacking approach to overcome the trade-off between drought stress tolerance and growth in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 97: 240–256.
Li, X.,
Liang, Y.,
Gao, B.,
Mijiti, M.,
Bozorov, T.A.,
Yang, H.,
Zhang, D.,
Wood, A.J.
(2019). ScDREB10, an A-5c type of DREB gene of the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis, confers osmotic and salt tolerances to Arabidopsis. Genes (Basel) 10: 146.
*Liu, Q.,
Sakuma, Y.,
Abe, H.,
(1998). Two transcription factors, DREB1 and DREB2, with an EREBP/AP2 DNA binding domain separate two cellular signal transduction pathways in drought- and low-temperature-responsive gene expression, respectively, in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 10: 1391–1406.
Moon, S.J.,
Min, M.K.,
Kim, J.A.,
Kim, D.Y.,
Yoon, I.S.,
Kwon, T.R.,
Byun, M.O.,
Kim, B.G.
(2019). Ectopic expression of OsDREB1G, a member of the OsDREB1 subfamily, confers cold stress tolerance in rice. Front. Plant Sci. 10: 297.
Dubouzet, J.G.,
(2002). DNA-binding specificity of the ERF/AP2 domain of Arabidopsis DREBs, transcription factors involved in dehydration- and cold-inducible gene expression. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 290: 998–1009.
Smirnoff, N.,
Bryant, J.A.
(1999). DREB takes the stress out of growing up. Nat. Biotechnol. 17: 229–230.
Stockinger, E.J.,
(1997). Arabidopsis thaliana CBF1 encodes an AP2 domain-containing transcriptional activator that binds to the C-repeat/DRE, a cis-acting DNA regulatory element that stimulates transcription in response to low temperature and water deficit. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 1035–1040.
(2010). Molecular basis of plant cold acclimation: Insights gained from studying the CBF cold response pathway. Plant Physiol. 154: 571–577.
*Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K.,
(1994). A novel cis-acting element in an Arabidopsis gene is involved in responsiveness to drought, low-temperature, or high-salt stress. Plant Cell 6: 251–264.
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package io.cattle.platform.agent.server.ping.dao.imp;

import static io.cattle.platform.core.model.tables.AgentTable.*;
import io.cattle.platform.agent.server.group.AgentGroupManager;
import io.cattle.platform.agent.server.ping.dao.PingDao;
import io.cattle.platform.core.constants.CommonStatesConstants;
import io.cattle.platform.core.model.Agent;
import io.cattle.platform.db.jooq.dao.impl.AbstractJooqDao;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import org.jooq.Condition;
import org.jooq.impl.DSL;

public class PingDaoImpl extends AbstractJooqDao implements PingDao {

    AgentGroupManager groupManager;

    @Override
    public List<? extends Agent> findAgentsToPing() {
        return create()
                .selectFrom(AGENT)
                .where(
                        AGENT.STATE.eq(CommonStatesConstants.ACTIVE)
                        .and(groupCondition()))
                .fetch();
    }

    protected Condition groupCondition() {
        if ( groupManager.shouldHandleWildcard() ) {
            return DSL.trueCondition();
        }

        Condition condition = DSL.falseCondition();
        Set<Long> supported = groupManager.supportedGroups();

        if ( supported.size() > 0 ) {
            condition = AGENT.AGENT_GROUP_ID.in(supported);
        }

        if ( groupManager.shouldHandleUnassigned() ) {
            condition = condition.or(AGENT.AGENT_GROUP_ID.isNull());
        }

        return condition;
    }

    public AgentGroupManager getGroupManager() {
        return groupManager;
    }

    @Inject
    public void setGroupManager(AgentGroupManager groupManager) {
        this.groupManager = groupManager;
    }

}

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After months of speculations United Motors finally launched Bravo hatchback car, the launching was held at a local hotel in Lahore on 8th September.
The Price was revealed finally United Motors Bravo Price in Pakistan is Rs.850,000/- good thing is only single trim launched in Pakistan which means all the features will be available as United Autos has promised.
United Autos Bravo will be available in three colours (Black,White and Grey) for now and now Bravo is the officially second vehicle to be available in 800cc category in Pakistan competing with Pak Suzuki Mehran.
Bravo is a hatchback car with an 800cc 3-cylinder water-cooled engine capable of producing 40 BHP and 60 nm torque which is equivalent to Suzuki Mehran it is unconfirmed that Bravo has replica engine similar as Suzuki Mehran or different one.
We shared United Motors Bravo's specification couple of months back and now it's time to share the vehicle which will be available in the market. The Interior of United Bravo looks decent, practically lot better than it's rival Mehran.
Bravo is coming with lots of features as Pak Suzuki ignored any changes in Suzuki Mehran for 30 years. The company has issued the notification of discontinuing Suzuki Mehran from April next year.
United Bravo's booking and delivery time yet to be confirmed hoping that dealer mafia don't ends up like we have seen in Suzuki / Toyota and Honda vehicles delivery on time, people pay extra as Premium.
We wish all the best to United Motors on launching Bravo in Pakistan and hope they will keep up with Sales / Service / Spares 3S dealership in major cities across Pakistan.


Lucas Gil is a model of Kult Model Agency, Hamburg, Germany. Jump to Modeling - Off the back of his success in modelling he was able to move to New York in to focus on his career as a runway model. His first.


"I've learned that being vulnerable and empathetic can open doors and connect you to people."
Getting to know all the people in my Forum - hearing their life stories and getting to know who those people really are.
Time management. It's always something I can't get my arms around.
My boss, Deborah Jackson, has taught me a lot about caring and compassion. This is the first job I've worked at that my boss cared about me as an individual.
Vulnerability and empathy. I've learned that being vulnerable and empathetic can open doors and connect you to people.
I have a caring heart; I truly care about what someone is going through.
Own the Moment by Carl Lentz. It's spiritual, it's about taking advantage of the things that are available to you everyday where you may not see it.
I love storytelling: listening to stories, writing stories, telling stories.
After going through Junto I realized I have a lot more tools and know that I can be a leader. I had thought that leaders are powerful and bold, but it's not just that.
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Valentine's Day is celebrated around the world. Although the origins of the mystery saint are unclear, with some contending it's a pagan celebration, what is clear is that millions of people exchange cards and gifts on 14th February every year. Romantic meals for two are also common on Valentine's Day with restaurants getting booked up very quickly. Why not save your money and instead cosy up with your loved one on a cold winters night with a dinner for two? For dessert may I suggest a delicious chocolate pudding with chocolate sauce?
Beat the Margarine and 100g of Sugar together in a bowl until it becomes light and creamy.
Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well into the mixture.
Add the flour, 50g of cocoa powder, vanilla essence and milk and fold into the mixture.
Distribute the mixture equally into 4 plastic pudding moulds.
Steam the puddings for one hour.
After 45 minutes, put the milk, 30g of sugar and 30g of cocoa powder into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
Mix the cornflour in a cup with a tbsp of water. Gradually add the cornflour to the chocolate flavoured milk, stirring all the time until it thickens.
When the puddings are ready, serve with the chocolate sauce poured over the top.
No record of romantic celebrations on Valentine's Day exists prior to a poem Chaucer wrote in about 1375.
Approximately one billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged each year.
3% of pet owners prefer celebrating Valentine's Day with their pets and buy them gifts.
In the 1800s Richard Cadbury invented the first box of heart-shaped chocolates.
There is no reason to miss out if you're single!! As an alternative to chocolate pudding you may like to consider some other comfort foods such as Guards Pudding or Steamed Raspberry Pudding. Enjoy – and let me know what you think.


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Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen in "Supergirl."
Mehcad Brooks Is Joining 'Law & Order' Season 22 — Find Out Who He's Replacing
By Brittany Frederick
Jun. 13 2022, Published 10:20 p.m. ET
NBC's Law & Order will have a new cast member when it returns for Season 22 this fall. The network confirmed on June 13, 2022, that Mehcad Brooks has closed a deal to become the show's latest series regular. It's the first time that Mehcad has ever starred in a crime drama, which will be exciting for him and for the fans!
The Texas native replaces Anthony Anderson, who's leaving his role as Detective Kevin Bernard. Anthony, who played Kevin from Seasons 18–21, had only signed a one-year contract to return to Law & Order. So, who is Kevin's replacement and where have viewers seen Mehcad before? Read on to find out everything you need to know about the actor and his new role.
What has Mehcad Brooks been in before 'Law & Order'?
TV viewers will most likely recognize the 41-year-old from The CW's Supergirl, in which he played the title character's friend, co-worker, and potential love interest, James Olsen. Mehcad was a series regular for the first four seasons and part of Supergirl Season 5, though he returned as a guest star in Season 6.
His film credits include playing Jax in the 2021 reboot of Mortal Kombat and starring as basketball icon Harry Flournoy in Disney's Glory Road.
Mehcad's breakout role came in 2005 when he played Matthew Applewhite in ABC's primetime soap Desperate Housewives, first as a guest star in Season 1 and then as a regular in Season 2.
While he hasn't led a crime drama before, he has appeared in a few. The actor guest-starred in episodes of Cold Case and K-Ville, and like many Law & Order actors, has a past with the Wolf Entertainment brand.
Mehcad guest-starred in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 13 episode "Personal Fouls" as Prince Miller, a basketball player who comes forward on television with his story of abuse at the hands of a former coach. Thanks in large part to Prince's testimony, Olivia Benson and her SVU team are able to arrest his abuser.
Melissa Benoist and Mehcad Brooks in "Supergirl."
Who is Mehcad Brooks playing on 'Law & Order'?
While NBC confirmed that Mehcad is joining Law & Order, the network didn't release any information about his character. It's possible that details about his new role haven't been finalized yet and audiences will learn about the character closer to the season's fall 2022 premiere date.
What audiences do know is that Mehcad's hero will be the new partner for Frank Cosgrove, the prickly cop played by Jeffrey Donovan. Will he be able to balance out Frank's already legendary temper?
Law & Order likes to play different characters off one another, so it's likely that Mehcad's protagonist will be as different from Frank as one could possibly get. He might be more introspective, less confrontational or the new guy around the precinct, to go along with the new actor on the show.
Whoever Mehcad's character turns out to be, he's an excellent choice to follow in Anthony's footsteps and will give crime drama fans a big reason to tune into Season 22 this fall.
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Фолксваген голф I () је путничко возило марке Фолксваген у варијанти хечбек. Његова производња почела је давне 1974. године и завршена је 1983. године. Постојале су разне варијанте Фолксваген голфа I као што су : кабриолет (), GTI (), голф са троје врата и голф са петоро врата. Постојале су и многе друге варијанте, као што су Фолксваген сити голф () који је произвођен за јужноафричко тржисте све до 2009. године. У неким државама је имао другачија имена као на пример: Сједињене Америчке Државе - Фолксваген ребит (), Мексико - Фолксваген кариби ().

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Archivas Soups up Software With Search
Storage software maker Archivas upgraded its core application with new search and indexing perks and added more availability and performance.
The Waltham, Mass., company's Cluster (ArC), version 1.5 software is different from data movement applications manufactured by rivals Veritas, OuterBay or iLumin.
ArC is data repository software that receives content from other e-mail or database movers and associates policies to the files before tucking them away.
ArC, which stores files in XML and HTML so that applications are not chained to the archive, is so named because it runs as a cluster on any Linux-based server. The trick is open software API, which appears to applications or users as a file system.
Ashim Zaheer, a vice president at Archivas, said the indexing feature is crucial from systems where millions of files, such as e-mails, PDFs, or photos are stored. Archiving products from vendors like EMC, Network Appliance and HP have advanced search utilities, too. But Zaheer said ArC searches file contents, not just meta data or file names.
"So if you're a large company trying to dig out e-mail related to an employee in a customer interaction from five years ago, you can do a keyword search on a term that might be embedded in an e-mail or IM between those two parties," Zaheer said. "It makes search and retrieval much easier."
Archivas is looking to be a leader in the emerging content-addressed storage (CAS) market for storing data that must not be changed, which is something enterprise customers have been focusing on in the wake of more stringent record-retention policies.
Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other regulations have been a thorn in the sides of corporations, which is why they are adding new technology, such as CAS software, to meet the demands.
Zaheer said compliance rules are a major reason why ArC 1.5 can also now sustain up to three simultaneous failures at one time by making multiple copies of a file and its metadata in a cluster. Competing products absorb one failure.
Lastly, by tweaking the software-messaging layer, Archivas engineers have boosted the performance of ArC v1.5 over the previous version, meaning more files can be written into the archive. ArC 1.5 absorbs files at five times the performance of the competition, vital for organizations archiving millions of e-mails.
With the upgrades, the company hopes to grow its customer base beyond the dozen it won over since launching earlier this year, Zaheer said.
ArC 1.5 is available now, is generally $12 and $15 a gigabyte including hardware. Current customers include the The New York Botanical Garden and NASA's, Goddard Space Flight Center and Cancer Therapy & Research Center.
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The remains of John Saini, a U.S. Marine killed in World War II, were returned to the Bay Area on Friday, June 10, 2016. (Courtesy USO)
Marine returns to Bay Area seven decades after his death in WWII
Michael Barba
Jun. 10, 2016 12:00 a.m.
The body of a U.S. Marine was flown into San Francisco International Airport on Friday morning, almost 73 years after his death on a small island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
John Saini, of Healdsburg, was a private first class with the U.S. Marine Corps who died on the first day of the Battle of Tarawa on Nov. 20, 1943.
His nephew John Saini, 65, who farms the same plot in Healdsburg where his family has lived for generations, was about 50 feet away from where his grandmother was standing when she learned of her son's death in 1943, when he learned that his uncle's body was recovered in April.
"What little hair I have left stood straight up," said Saini, who is named after his uncle.
About a year ago, a cadaver dog discovered his body in a battlefield grave on Betio Island, where he rested with 34 other men for more than seven decades after the battle with the Japanese.
History Flight, a nonprofit which searches and reclaims the bodies of U.S. soldiers, uncovered the grave with a bulldozer and wrapped up the bodies. Relics of the war, including their corroded belt buckles and canteens, were found alongside them.
Saini and his cousin provided their DNA to the military and History Flight, which helped to identify their uncle's body. His dental records matched and his skeleton was intact except for a missing tooth and arm, which is presumed to have led to his death.
"There was no question who he was," Saini said.
On Friday, his uncle's body was flown into San Francisco and led north to Healdsburg by a procession of California Highway Patrol officers from Sonoma County on motorcycles. At one point along the highway, Saini recalled, an elderly man stood on an overpass, saluting the fallen soldier.
"I can't believe how incredible humanity can be when something like this happened," Saini said. "It's been a wonderful experience for our family and our little hometown has come together like you can't believe."
His body was taken to Eggen and Lance Chapel in Santa Rosa for the night. Saini will be buried during a 10:30 a.m. ceremony Saturday at Oak Mound Cemetery in Healdsburg.HealdsburgJohn SainiSan Francisco International AirportU.S. MarinesWWII
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'Irreversible, Sustainable Change': DiversityInc CEO Carolynn Johnson Delivers Keynote on Disruptive Leadership at INROADS Summit
Written by DiversityInc Staff
During INROADS's 50th Anniversary Diversity Summit, which took place Nov. 4-6, 2020, DiversityInc CEO Carolynn Johnson delivered a virtual keynote address on the power of disruption to create irreversible, sustainable change. Her speech conveyed why diversity, fairness and equal access are relevant to business leaders — and society as a whole — and she also outlined her vision for a future of gender equality and racial justice.
Johnson is a board member of INROADS, a professional development and networking organization that focuses on helping students from underrepresented groups find career opportunities. She opened the conversation by discussing examples of large companies tapping into the power of disruption. Johnson lauded Nike's campaigns to disavow gender stereotypes, Tesla's work to bring sustainable energy to the luxury car industry and even Netflix's ability to shift the primary medium of consuming films and television series to streaming.
"There will always be an appetite for profitable disruption in the consumer world. And the C-suite is no different," Johnson emphasized.
New York, Dubai, London and Singapore are the most innovative, disruptive and prosperous urban centers around the world — and they're all international melting pots, Johnson added.
"The business case for diversity is about more than just gender, race and ethnicity. It is also about employees with diverse religious and political beliefs, education, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientation, cultures and even disabilities."
When companies tap into their diversity, they're gaining benefits that go beyond optics, Johnson said.
She gave the example of Michael Dowling, the president and CEO of Northwell Health, who is one of the most influential — and disruptive — voices in the healthcare industry. Dowling has been candid and outspoken about issues including gun violence and racism, calling them public health crises. Northwell Health has 70,000 employees and is New York's largest private employer. The company also consistently implements diversity mentoring and development programs for women and community health workers. Northwell Health has also enhanced the accurate collection and use of race, ethnicity and preferred language data as part of the American Hospital Association's "Equity of Care" pledge. Northwell Health ranked no. 1 on DiversityInc's Specialty List for Top Hospitals and Health Systems in 2020.
"Leaders like Michael Dowling and companies like Northwell Health are affective, effective and transparent, harnessing the power of disruption to create universal and sustainable change," Johnson said.
She then moved on to discussing why racial equity is not just an issue that applies to Black, brown and Latinx communities. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are also the fastest growing ethnic population in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center.
But Johnson said that even as the country diversifies, white supremacy leaves each racial group scrambling for a "piece of the corporate pie." Many people fighting for few elite spots leads us to a zero-sum game, or a competitive situation in which there is no net gain. In a country and world where poverty is rampant, Johnson said the need for even minimum-wage work can spark jealousy and anger within groups rather than uniting them to protest against the system that is depriving all non-white demographics.
"If one gains, it means others must lose an equivalent amount. So, for example, if the only way you were to gain $1,000 is to deprive someone else of $1,000, you, my friends, are in a zero-sum game," Johnson said. "But here's the uncomfortable truth: People of color are in a zero-sum game fighting the model minority myth, distancing wherever possible from Blackness to get ahead [and] facing division that is inherent to capitalism. It's no surprise employment and job opportunity pits us against each other."
During her speech, Johnson also memorialized Bernard Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente (DiversityInc Hall of Fame) who died in 2019. She recalled one anecdote he gave when he spoke at the 2017 TIME 100 Gala when he mentioned a lesson he learned from a conversation he had with his father years ago that taught him about using his privilege, influence and power for good.
"Bernard was a perfect example of a positive, powerful, impactful walking disruptor because of the rooms, places and spaces he entered and changed along the way," Johnson said.
Johnson also congratulated Corie Pauling, TIAA's chief inclusion and diversity officer, who was named one of North America's most influential diversity leaders by Hive Learning. TIAA ranked No. 9 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list in 2020.
With these examples of fearless and accountable leaders fighting for equality and justice in the corporate sphere, Johnson said her hope was to leave a legacy for her children. She said in 2030, her son will be 14 and her daughter will be 17 and that she wants them to see the fruits of her efforts.
"I want them to see the tangible results of accelerated progress toward gender equality and race relations. I want each of them to know Mommy planted trees she would never sit under," Johnson said.
But the murders of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, George Floyd and countless others "rip the Band-Aid off of the festering sore of racism in this country," Johnson said.
"That sore of oozing, smelling and playing on repeat in a 24-hour news cycle is a direct result of unchecked racism," she added.
To facilitate real change, Johnson said the business community and policymakers have to work together. She brought up a June 2020 CNBC interview where Randall Stephenson, executive chairman of the board at AT&T (DiversityInc Hall of Fame) said large companies are adept at affective change in Washington if it's a priority. He went on to make a call to action for influential leaders like him to affect action and policy change. In regard to racial profiling and excessive policing, Stephenson said that if he were to use the same policies that led to the countless deaths of unarmed Black people by the police at AT&T, he would have promptly lost his job — and been sued.
"That people are treated one way in offices and on campuses and then are subjected to the exact opposite when they get in their cars and drive away — that is truth-telling, that is leadership accountability," Johnson said of Stephenson's comments.
She also said that aside from being a moral imperative, equality and justice are integral to a healthy free-market economy. She explained that in corporate America, most diversity efforts fail when they allow white male leadership teams to paternalistically decide to "do" diversity, equity and inclusion on their terms. There are no repercussions for failure, and therefore, their actions are pointless.
Johnson quoted DiversityInc Founder and Chairman, Luke Visconti: "It's like a car dealership deciding to have a sale on a fleet of 2005 Pontiac Aztecs, which were suddenly discovered in Newark Airport long-term parking lot Q. It makes no sense and no one cares."
She said leadership should take to heart that the absence of a negative is not a positive, and signs of progress is not the same as actual progress. Until professionals from underrepresented communities are given the same leg up as white men in their careers, there will still be work to do. For those who don't believe white men are granted privileges in the corporate world, Johnson recommended they educate themselves before claiming to understand diversity and inclusion.
"Do yourself and us a favor and stop talking about diversity until you are slightly competent to do so," she said, adding that DiversityInc's Book Recommendations for Leaders page is a valuable resource for those looking to learn more about civil rights and antiracist leadership.
She also pointed out that gender equality for people of all ethnicities is necessary for a society to flourish. In the U.S., women are earning more master's, bachelor's and doctoral degrees than men, yet they are underrepresented in leadership and decision-making conversations. Around the world, there has been progress for women and girls, but when the pandemic hit, women bore the heaviest burden.
"A shocking 865,000 women dropped out of the workforce in September [2020] alone." Johnson said. "Across every sphere from health to economy, the global crisis has made it starkly visible that the world's formal economies and the maintenance of our daily lives are built on the invisible and unpaid labor of women and girls."
Although there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the crisis the pandemic has caused, Johnson said data shows organizations who are putting women and girls at the center of economies will drive better outcomes.
She reiterated that in order to achieve social and economic progress after the pandemic, society needs to focus on true equality for all.
"Bottom line: let's all harness the power of disruption to create irreversible, sustainable change," Johnson concluded. "Keep on measuring, reporting, improving and activating the power of transparency. Be an ally to others in this fight for equality. Own your power and walk in it proudly."
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High-intensity phorophyte removal reduces epiphytic robustness in tropical forest
Author: Hu Haixia
Epiphytes are non-parasitic plants that germinate and grow on phorophytes (the host of epiphytes) at all stages of life. Phorophytes, which provide physical support, constitute the basis for the occurrence of epiphytes. Epiphytes and their host phorophytes thus form a typical commensal interaction network. However, the impacts of phorophyte removals on the diversity and stability of epiphyte communities are poorly understood.
In a study published in Forest Ecology & Management, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) attempted to explore the effects of phorophyte removal on robustness of epiphyte community. They investigated the structure of epiphyte-phorophyte networks in the tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna and conducted a first attempt to predict extinction cascades in epiphyte-phorophyte networks.
The researchers firstly calculated the network structural metrics before removing phorophytes and analyzed phorophyte traits that influenced the distribution of epiphytes. By setting up phorophyte removal scenarios to simulate the secondary extinctions of epiphytes, the researchers then estimated the robustness of epiphytic communities, and assessed the effect of co-extinction on three network metrics.
The species-based and individual-based network exhibited different topology structure. Based on simulation of second extinction, they found that high-intensity disturbance, including the removal of important species from the network and the removal of large proportion of phorophytes, reduced the robustness of the epiphytic community and drastically changed the network structure.
The results suggest that the keystone phorophytes (such as generalists, large individuals and abundant species) should receive special attention in conservation efforts. Selective logging can be acceptable in forest management, but keystone phorophytes should be protected and large-scale logging should be avoided to protect epiphyte diversity.
"Our findings provide direction for predicting the effects of different deforestation activities on epiphytic communities; but further research is needed to revise, improve and validate the accuracy of the model," said SONG Liang of XTBG.
SONG Liang Ph.D Principal Investigator
Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
E-mail: songliang@xtbg.ac.cn
Rich epiphytic diversity in tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna. (Image by SONG Liang)


Montenegro booked their spot in the men's Rio 2016 water polo tournament and set up a European Championship final date with their neighbours Serbia after winning their semi-final clash 8-5 against Hungary in Belgrade.
Hosts Serbia booked their place in the final of the men's European Water Polo Championship today to remain on course to defend their title.
Hungary booked their place in the semi-finals of the men's European Water Polo Championships in Belgrade with an 8-5 win over Croatia at the Kombank Arena in Belgrade today.
Italy stretched their winning streak to four matches at the European Water Polo Championships to reach the men's quarter-finals in Belgrade, Serbia.
Holders Serbia breezed into the Men's European Water Polo Championships quarter-finals after recording a 10-5 victory over Slovakia at the Kombank Arena in their capital Belgrade.
Italy and defending champions Spain have booked their places in the last eight of the women's European Water Polo Championships after recording their third straight wins in Belgrade's Kombank Arena.
The Netherlands and Russia both booked their places in the quarter-finals of the women's European Water Polo Championships in Belgrade by making it three wins out of three today.
Defending champions Spain enjoyed a crushing victory to make it two wins from two at the women's European Water Polo Championships in Belgrade today.
The Netherlands' women delivered a devastating attacking display to thrash Turkey in their second match at the European Water Polo Championships in Belgrade.
Spain's women's team produced a masterclass as they began their European Water Polo Championship title defence with a 29-3 demolition of Croatia in Belgrade.
The Netherlands' women withstood a late fightback to beat fellow medal contenders Hungary 14-10 on the opening day of the women's European Water Polo Championships in Belgrade as Serbia opened their men's account with a hard-fought victory over Croatia.


Every once in a while, a production is so theatrically exciting that it provides an understanding of what theater is all about. Such is the present Cleveland Play House presentation of An Iliad.
Performed in CPH's Outcalt Theatre, it is yet another reason that local theatergoers should be cheering that the institution moved from its outdated three-proscenium home to the Allen complex in Playhouse Square. This production simply could not have been performed in a proscenium stage.
The thrust stage, inserted in the black-box space with the audience closely snuggled around the acting area, makes the entire experience upfront and personal. That's a necessity for the interactive concept conceived for the "past-to-present" based on Homer's epic The Iliad, expanded into a tale of societies who still define themselves by their wars.
Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare have kept the basic form of Homer's work, added affronts to the audience, where the Poet, performing on a stage area with no set with a stepladder as her only prop, relates the tale of the divine-like destructive wrath of Achilles. It is a rage which the authors indicate is within all humans and "gods" alike. It is this rage that makes a person wage war, whether on the battlefield, as a response to road rage, or in personal disagreements.
The staging of the tale, wisely directed by Tarah Flanagan and Andrew Carlson, is done in the purest form of theatricality, placing all attention on the spoken word, not on the sets, costumes or special effects which often distract from the message itself.
Flanagan masterfully performs the 90-minute play with no intermission. It is a tour-de-force presentation. Speaking and moving with rapid, sure, powerful physical and vocal control, Flanagan climbs the ladder, moves up and down the theater aisles, creates and destroys walls while holding the audience's attention captive.
Flanagan is nicely supported by Eva Rose Scholz-Carlson, a 17-year old wunderkind who plucks and bows her cello with surety, using her self-composed music to highlight the spoken and emotional moods of the script.
Flanagan directly confronts the audience with her fine storytelling skills, speaking of modern day events that parallel the Trojan wars. She asks questions, sits among the audience and interacts with the viewers. She floats, flees and fixates on the events of the war and its modern parallels.
Does it matter if you aren't aware of The Iliad or the history of the Trojan Wars? Actually, no. Flanagan takes us on a journey that has such clarity of idea that literature and history teachers should take into account. Oh, if only our teaching sages could convey the message as well!
As the publicity for the play states, An Iliad weaves humanity's unshakable attraction to warfare with the music of the muses, capturing the contradictory conditions of glory and violence with spellbinding modernity." Oh, yes it does!
CAPSULE JUDGMENT: In a virtuoso performance, Tarah Flanagan, using language that ranges from contemporary realism to epic poetry, and inhabiting over 50 characters, challenges us to realize the role of rage and think, "How do you know you've won?" As the modern-day conflicts in Vietnam, Syria and Afghanistan illustrate, "How do you know?" This is an absolute "must see" production for anyone who desires to experience a theater production at its finest and is willing to probe what makes us human.
An Iliad runs through Sun 2/10 at The Outcalt Theatre in PlayhouseSquare. For tickets call 216-241-6000 or go to clevelandplayhouse.com.


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Super Mario Kart (スーパーマリオカート, Sūpā Mario Kāto?) is a 1992 go-kart racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD for the Super Famicom (SFC) and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The first game of the Mario Kart series, it was launched in Japan on August 27, 1992, in North America on September 1, 1992, and in Europe on January 21, 1993. Selling eight million copies worldwide, the game went on to become the third best selling SNES game of all time. Super Mario Kart was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on June 9, 2009, North America on November 23, 2009, and in Europe on April 2, 2010.
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Science fiction is filled with examples of robots advancing in intelligence enough to become unrelenting killing machines, from the Terminator to Black Mirror's metalhead. Now with advances in artificial intelligence that frightening imagined future is rapidly approaching, and we humans need to figure out right now how to prevent the worst from happening. Episode 30 features Professor Denise Garcia, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the International Affairs program here at Northeastern University in Boston, and a Nobel Peace Institute Fellow in Oslo. She is also the vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, as a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations.


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Lore (interpretat de Brent Spiner) este un android prototip fictiv și fratele androizilor Data și B-4. Cu toate acestea, în timp ce Data este virtuos și B-4 este primitiv, Lore este sofisticat, inteligent, gelos și egoist, fiind fratele geamăn cel rău din cadrul acestui grup.

Lore apare prima oară în episodul "Datalore", episod în care a fost activat. El reapare în "Brothers" și în ambele părți ale episodului  "Descent", la sfârșitul căruia este dezactivat și demontat permanent.

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What If Netanyahu Did Not Win?
Liana Hovhannisyan
Near East, "Insight" Analytical Center , World, Analytics
Netanyahu's promises to protect Israeli Jewish and non-Jewish population against foreign threats worked out with Likud party, as it is expressed in Benjamin Netanyahu's own words, demonstrating "great victory" on election. With 99 percent of votes counted, Likud party heads by 30 seats; second comes Zionist Union with 24 seats, while the Joint (Arab) List won 13 seats, Times of Israel reports.
Though Likud party received the majority of the votes, which pays way for Benyamin Netanyahu to form the new government and become the Prime Minister for the third time, it is interesting to compare the main arguments of the three leading parties during the campaign on dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This comparison will show what could be and what we have now and to make predictions on the further developments of the conflict.
Borders between Israel and Palestine and Status of Jerusalem
The views of the first two leading parties on possible borders between Israel and Palestine and the status of Jerusalem are contradicting ones. In his pre-election campaign Likud party sharply radicalized its stance rejecting long-time negotiated two-state solution which presupposes creation of Palestinian state. The explanation behind this uncompromising stance runs as follows: Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria or from Jerusalem will lead to disaster but not to the solution of the conflict if one takes into consideration present situation in Middle East and the threat of Islamic State in the region. In contrast the stance of opposing Zionist Union is based on the principles suggested by Bill Clinton in 2000 and restated by the US current president Barack Obama in 2011 which presupposes two-state solution with 1967 borders between Israel and Palestine along with territorial swap that would give Israel an opportunity to preserve its settlements built on later stages. The position taken by third major party, The Joint (Arab) List, is also for the two-state solution, but with pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital of the state.
Israeli settlement
In case of settlement, the position of winning Likud party is also the most radical one: it advocates the expansion of settlements on the "occupied lands" and is for maintaining a united Jerusalem and the Golan Heights under full Israeli sovereignty. In contradiction the position of Likud party the opposing Zionist Union is for immediate freezing the construction of settlements beyond the security barrier (separation barrier built by Israel in the West Bank along the so called Green Line; 1949 armistice line, the total length of which is to be approximately 700 kilometers after completion and will include the western side approximately 9.4% of the West Bank). The stance of the third major party can be considered most pro-Palestinian and is for dismantling of all Israeli settlements and the racist separation fence in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Palestinians' right of return
The long time held position on the Palestinian right of return of the ruling party is as follows: "the right of return" of the Palestinians to the territories of present state of Israel will pose a real security threat for the existence of Jewish state. However for the picture to be complete it should be noted on different stages of negotiation Israeli side gave the right of return to a number of refugees in cases of family reunion. The stance of the opposing Zionist Union on the issue of refugees is similar to the one suggested by Netanyahu before his recent rejection of two-state solution, which was as follows: the Palestinians can enjoy their right of return only to the newly established Palestinian state. The stance of third major party in this case also can be considered most pro-Palestinian as it advocated for the recognition of their rights to return in accordance with to UN General Assembly Resolution 194.
The analysis of the positions of the three leading political parties on the major aspects of the Israeli Palestine conflict reveals that we would have different scenarios, depending on which party would win the elections. Let's start from the last one:
As it became obvious from the analysis conducted above the stance of the third, the Joint (Arab) List is most pro-Palestinian and their possible victory in the election would result in maximum concessions from the Israeli side on negotiation table. The Stance of the second, Zionist Union, is something between the two other parties, which would fasten the final resolution of the conflicts based on two-state solution negotiated by the parties for rather long period of time.
What refers to what we have now, namely the victory of Likud party, it will be naive to assume that Benyamin Netanyahu is going to make radical changes in his long-term employed strategy in conflict. After he has got what he aimed at; to appease his right wing supporters by making his position in the conflict more nationalistic, in long term perspective (after he is again appointed Prime Minister of Israel) he will need to step back to already appease international community and particularly his long term ally, the US.
While on the negotiation table the Israeli side will remain loyal to the logic of his strategy "best method to defend is to attack:" whenever the Israeli side will feel his positions to be weakened on the negotiation table he will start violating all possible red lines, later to restrain from its actions to present it as a concession to the other sides in negotiation.


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