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Silent Spring on the Huangpu River
BY Jonathan Landreth
Li Xianting. Source: ChinaFile
In July, Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth in the action-packed series of Hollywood films about trucks turning into giant robots to save the world, became the first film to sell more than $300 million in tickets at China's box office.
Hollywood's drive to crack the Chinese market is stronger than ever, and it is no shock that Chinese-language films mimicking the American studios' fare are being made at a rapid clip. But it is good to know that the fight hasn't left China's scrappy independent film scene—which, in recent years, has faced nothing but trouble from official quarters—and that there are voices of conscience around the world willing to stand up for freedom of expression on the screen.
Last weekend, in the sleepy village of Songzhuang southeast of the capital, where artists making films outside China's approved channels have been congregating for over a decade at the Beijing Independent Film Festival—authorities finally shut them down completely.
In reaction, Shelly Kraicer, a Chinese film scholar and film festival programmer from Canada, circulated a statement in support of BIFF and its founder, Li Xianting.
The statement, which follows below, was co-signed by leading members of the independent film festival community around the world.
Statement in Support of the Beijing Independent Film Festival and the Li Xianting Film Fund:
As independent film festivals and supporters of independent cinema, we have learned with deep concern that the Chinese government and police authorities have prevented the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival based in Songzhuang, Beijing, from opening last weekend, August 23rd, and detained its organizers Wang Hongwei, Fan Rong, and Li Xianting for several hours. We are also deeply concerned that BIFF's sponsoring organization, the Li Xianting Film Fund, has been raided, and the entirety of its invaluable archives of independent Chinese cinema have reportedly been confiscated.
We call upon the relevant Chinese authorities to permit the Beijing Independent Film Festival to pursue its mission to nurture and exhibit a full range of alternative cinematic voices in China, to allow the festival to operate without interference, and to allow the Li Xianting Film Fund to continue its vital mission of archiving and supporting independent Chinese filmmakers.
About the author Jonathan Landreth was the founding editor of China Film Insider in July 2015, and helped build CFI in its first year. He currently is Content Strategist for the Asia Society Policy Institute. From 2013-2018 he was managing editor of ChinaFile, the online magazine of the Center on U.S. China Relations at Asia Society. From 2004-12, Landreth lived in Beijing, where he opened the first Asia bureau of The Hollywood Reporter and was its first Asia editor. His work also has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Forbes, The China Economic Quarterly, Wallpaper, Reuters, and Agence France Presse—often with a focus on how the media and entertainment industries shape perceptions of China.
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israelandstuffcom | September 24, 2016
Quartet harps on Israel's ongoing settlement activity
Israel's PM Netanyahu, forced to declare the reality of the conflict: "The real settlements Palestinians are after are Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv."
By DANIELLE ZIRI
NEW YORK – The Middle East Quartet called Israel out on Friday for its ongoing settlement activity, which they said is "an obstacle to peace."
Quartet Flags, US, UN, Russia & EU – Photoshopped: IsraelandStuff/PP
Representatives of the Quartet, which include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union Representative Federica Mogherini, met in New York on the last day of the UN General debate. They were also joined by the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and France during the second part of the meeting to brief on their work to support Middle East peace.
The Quarter expressed its "grave concern" that "the acceleration of settlement construction and expansion in Area C and East Jerusalem, including the retroactive "legalization" of existing units, and the continued high rate of demolitions of Palestinian structures, are steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution."
They also expressed "serious concern" for the "dire humanitarian situation" in Gaza, which they say is being exacerbated by Israel's decisions to close crossings but also for the "illicit arms build-up and activity by militant Palestinian groups, including rockets fired towards Israel."
Palestinian unity too, they said, is an issue that must be resolved in order to advance the peace process.
In light of the recent resurgence of violence in Jerusalem, the Quartet also called on all sides to "take all necessary steps to de-escalate tensions by exercising restraint, preventing incitement, refraining from provocative actions and rhetoric, and protecting the lives and property of all civilians."
Back in July, the Quartet members presented a report in which they outlined what the group believes are the main threats to the two-state solution and offered practical recommendations to enable an eventual return to peace negotiations. Among the threats were also the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process – Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Last month, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov slammed Israel during his briefing in front of the Security Council for continuing this activity.
Following that briefing, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN Ryad Mansour had announced that a Security Council meeting on the issue will be held on October 14th under the informal UN mechanism known as the Arria-Formula. The meeting, Mansour said, will focus on practical steps to be taken against Israel's settlement building.
Under this format, all of the Security Council's 15 member states are not required to attend, but they are still expected to.
During his speech in front of the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Netanyahu also addressed the settlements issue and said that it is one area that needs to be solved, they are not – and have never been – the core of the problem.
The source of the conflict, rather, is "the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize the Jewish state in any boundaries."
"The real settlements Palestinians are after are Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv," he declared. "Israel is ready, I am ready to negotiate. But one thing I will never negotiate is our right to the one and only Jewish state."
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Modi's charisma dipping, BJP's divisiveness creating backlash: Sikkim MP P.D. Rai
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New Delhi, Dec 25 The charisma of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dimmed and it would be highly problematic for the BJP to return to power in 2019 if the grand alliance of the opposition parties takes shape, says Sikkim's sole MP P.D. Rai, whose Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) is a constituent of the ruling National Development Alliance (NDA).
"We, as a regional party, will surely win the next election. But on the national scene, I think the charisma of Modiji has come down. The divisiveness with which the BJP has acted is something whose backlash is already coming," Rai told IANS in an interview in Parliament House.
Rai, a two-term MP seeking a third, also says that the non-functioning of Parliament was affecting smaller parties like his and their right to be heard was getting "trampled" by the larger parties.
Referring to Congress' performance in the recent elections, Rai said that, except in Chhattisgarh, the Congress won in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with a very small majority but the opposition party will be able to energise its own cadres in a much better way and it may translate into more seats.
"I think there would be a tough fight between the two sides and I think if the 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance of opposition parties) takes shape, it could be highly problematic for the BJP," he said, claiming that "there is going to be a lot of churning within all the parties, including the BJP and the Congress, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls".
The SDF MP, who is an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur and IIM-Ahmedabad, asserted that the public and the intelligentsia were not very happy with the way many of the institutions like the CBI, the RBI were allegedly being attacked by the Modi government.
"This perhaps may go against the BJP," he said. He made it clear as a party with only one MP in the Lok Sabha, it would, however, always go with the ruling party to safeguard the border state's interests.
Asked about Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Rai said after having taken over as the president of the party, he has in many ways had a tough time getting the younger people to have some space within the party.
"But he has managed to do that. He has also understood that he has not only to back young people but also to look at the senior people as they are very valuable within the party. This (appointment of Kamal Nath and Ashok Gehlot as chief ministers) has sent out a good message to the senior cadre of the Congress. This is something which, I believe, is a very positive development for the Congress," he said.
Rai, a member of the Parliament Standing Committee on Finance, said that farmers' plight in the country has emerged as a huge problem but asserted that waiving of loans was not an answer.
"If you waive farms loans there is a big problem on the fiscal side. It is populist to say that I would waive the loans. On the other hand, people say if the corporate loans can be waived, then why not the farmers' loans. But looking at holistic and structured reforms in the agriculture sector is long overdue.
"This is something we will have to look at. There are many, many pillars around which the farmers' eco-system thrives and we will have to look into the whole crisis holistically," he added. – IANS
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MGM moving forward with big screen Outer Limits
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on August 2, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Despite the studio's on-going money issues, MGM has quietly moved forward with development on a big screen adaptation of the hit 1960s TV show The Outer Limits .
MGM has hired writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan — whose credits include four of the seven "Saw" films — to pen a feature take on the sci-fi series that aired on ABC from 1963-65. Deal is pegged at mid-six figures.
MGM has been in limbo for most of the past year. It received a sixth extension in mid-July on debt payments from its 140 creditors, who have given the beleaguered studio a forebearance that will expire Sept. 15. Around the same time as the latest extension, the Lion paid Melton and Dunstan for a feature "Outer Limits" script based on their take, which is due in October.
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American Indian Religion: Parallels to Judaism
Parallels to Jewish beliefs
By Standford Rives
In the 1600s, missionaries detected similarities in some beliefs of American Indians and the Jewish people. In Chrysostom Verwyst's book Missionary labors of fathers Marquette, Menard and Allouez, he discusses that "they observe ... some Jewish customs." He then explains an example: they do not use a knife to cut meats at certain festivals. When women give birth they do not sleep in the same tent with their husband for 84 days.[1] The same custom applied among Jews for 80 days.[2] In Mallery in his Israelite and Indian: A Parallel in Planes of Culture (1889), he explains among Indians persons with running sores were kept confined at a distance from others. This was true for Jews under the Mosaic Code.[3] Mallery notes a missionary, Adair, recorded cleansing and bathing customs very similar to the Jews were practiced by the Indians. At the annual expiation of sin, there was the cleansing of homes too.[4] One tribe followed the procedure of the scapegoat, just as the Jewish people followed.[5]
In Frederick Webb Hodge, Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico (1911) at 775, we read: "Antonio de Montezinos, a Marano (secret Jew), while journeying in South America, claimed that he met savages whofollowed Jewish practices. This story he repeated in Holland, in 1644, to Manaaseh ben Israel, who printed it in his work, Hope of Israel."
Mallery claimed that despite these similarities, it is not true that American Indians believed in a single supreme being prior to contact with missionaries.[6] Despite this, as Hodge mentions: "Certain identities and resemblances in customs, ideas, institutions, etc., of the American Indians and the ancient Jews are pointed out by Mallery in his Israelite and Indian: A Parallel in Planes of Culture (Proc. A. A. A.S., xxxvm, 287-331,1889), though the address contains many misconceptions."[7] Mallery's words were:
" After careful examination, with the assistance of explorers and linguists, I reassert my statement that no tribe or body of Indians before missionary influence entertained any formulated or distinct belief in a single overruling 'Great Spirit,' or any being that corresponded to the Christian conception of God. But I freely admit, with even greater emphasis, that an astounding number of customs of the North American Indians are the same as those recorded of the ancient Israelites."[8]
One example is the dress of the high priest in the yearly atonement of sin in Indian practices and the dress of the high priest in the same annual ceremony in the Hebrew Bible.[9]
American Indians also held the view about a worldwide flood. In Marianne Edwardes, Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology, she records the Antis-Indians in Bolivia had a "deluge myth," as she calls it. (Page 43.) The Arawok Indians of Northern Brazil believe a tree flowed water that flooded the entire earth. (Id., page 44.) The Macusis indians taught "the only person who survived the flood" repeopled the earth by throwing stones over his shoulder, comparable to Greek mythology. The Arawokis regarded God as the "Great Spirit." Id., at page 45. Athapascan Indians of North West America believe when a flood of waters receded that a lone bird gave them life. Id., at page 45. The Ascochimi Indians of California had a "flood myth which recounted the flooding of the world so that no man escaped." Id., at 46. The Carib Indians of the Antilles believed "excessive rains brought about a great flood, from which humanity was saved by the Ibis..." Id., at 47. And so on it goes on and on.
While the Biblical story of the flood exists in many cultures, the fact the Indians held this view, and practiced legal rules found in the Mosaic law, and held some beliefs about God similar to the Mosaic Code, suggests some connection between the Hebrew religion and the Indians of North America -- as mysterious as that might sound. It would at least seem that Columbus was not the first to discover America. Perhaps a culture infused with Hebrew religion crossed the Bearing Straight and found their way to North America.
Study Notes by Doug
An 1836 work by Barbara Allan Simon entitled The ten tribes of Israel historically identified with the aborigines of the Americas -- by which she means the Indians - details parallels of circumcision, theocratic government, the law of slaves, calendars, festivals, religious observances, etc.
Also the article "Los Lunas Decalogue" Wikipedia describes a stone found in New Mexico that has a serious potential to be a copy of the Decalogue written between 500 and 2000 years ago. Unfortunately, there is controversy about whether it is a fake. Interestingly, one scholar dismisses its relevancy because there is no sign of Hebrew-peoples encampents anywhere nearby. But if Indian culture resonates with Hebrew-Bible practices, then perhaps that scholar would acknowledge there is a greater possibility of its genuiness.
On the positive side, this article mentions the following:
The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is a large boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain, near Los Lunas, New Mexico, about 35 miles south of Albuquerque, that bears a very regular inscription carved into a flat panel.[1] The stone is also known as the Los Lunas Mystery Stone or Commandment Rock. The inscription is interpreted to be an abridged version of the Decalogue or Ten Commandments in a form of Paleo-Hebrew.[2] A letter group resembling the tetragrammaton YHWH, or "Yahweh," makes three appearances. The stone is controversial in that some claim the inscription is Pre-Columbian, and therefore proof of early Semitic contact with the Americas.[3]
The first recorded mention of the stone is in 1933, when the late professor Frank Hibben (1910-2002), an archaeologist from theUniversity of New Mexico, saw it.[4] According to a 1996 interview, Hibben was "convinced the inscription is ancient and thus authentic. He report[ed] that he first saw the text in 1933. At the time it was covered with lichen and patination and was hardly visible. He was taken to the site by a guide who had seen it as a boy, back in the 1880s."[5] However, Hibben's testimony is tainted by charges that in at least two separate incidents, he fabricated some or all of his archaeological data to support his pre-Clovis migration theory.[6][7][8]
The reported 1880s date of discovery is important to those who believe that the stone is pre-Columbian. However, the Paleo-Hebrew script, which is closely related to the Phoenician script, was well known by at least 1870, thus not precluding the possibility of a modern hoax.[9]
Los Lunas Decalogue Stone after 2006 vandalization of first line
Because of the stone's weight of over 80 tons, it was never moved to a museum or laboratory for study and safekeeping. Many visitors have cleaned the stone inscriptions over the years, likely destroying any possibility for scientific analysis of the inscriptions' patina. Nevertheless, comparing it to a modern inscription nearby, geologist George E. Morehouse, a colleague of Barry Fell, estimated that the inscription could be between 500 and 2000 years old and explaining its freshness and lack of patina as being due to frequent scrubbing to make it more visible.[10]
Here is an article a friend sent me -- photographed -- that only in 1949 was recognized by a Harvard professor to be Paleo Hebrew. He did not me the name of the book ...sorry.
http://books.google.com/books?id=UJJ6AAAAMAAJ&dq=indians%20missionary%20followed%20jewish%20customs&pg=PA193#v=onepage&q=&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=EpV1AAAAMAAJ&dq=Mallery%20in%20his%20Israelite%20and%20Indian%3A%20A%20Parallel%20in%20Planes%20of%20Culture&lr=&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q=&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=I4FOAAAAMAAJ&dq=Mallery%20in%20his%20Israelite%20and%20Indian%3A%20A%20Parallel%20in%20Planes%20of%20Culture&lr=&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q=Mallery%20in%20his%20Israelite%20and%20Indian:%20A%20Parallel%20in%20Planes%20of%20Culture&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=ze4YAAAAYAAJ&dq=indians%20missionary%20followed%20jewish%20customs&pg=PA775#v=onepage&q=indians%20missionary%20followed%20jewish%20customs&f=false


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Don't you forget about me: How '80s films shaped the teen movie genre
The cover of "Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies" by Kevin Smokler.
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A Martínez and Lori Galarreta | Take Two | November 15, 2016
When most people of a certain age think of the '80s, music probably comes to mind first. Groups such as Duran Duran and The Cur shaped the soundtrack to a lot of memories.
However, just as important to the era were the movies. Films like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "The Breakfast Club" helped define the decade.
It's a time that Kevin Smokler wrote about in his new book "Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies."
Arguably the pied piper of the '80s teen movie is John Hughes. His credits include "Sixteen Candles," "Pretty in Pink" and "Weird Science," just to name few.
Smokler spoke with A Martinez and talked about how Hughes was always fascinated with the stories of teen life in America, so much so that he created his own little "Hughes-iverse".
Teens move to the forefront
"He was fascinated by the stories of young people as not particularly unique but as this sort of universal phase we all go through in life. And that is really what we have John Hughes to thank for, is moving adolescence to the same place of primacy in the human story as childhood or adulthood."
The "Hughes-iverse"
"To me the 'Hughes-iverse' as Kevin Smith called it, is an obviously white upper middle class, largely, Midwestern suburban universe mostly composed of good kids trying to do the right thing. It is a place of fable not a place of realism. John Hughes was in the business of making fables about teenagers, not documentaries about teenagers...
At its worst, the John Hughes-iverse was very small and myopic and you could not see your own story in there and you wondered, even if you felt like you were leading a typical teenage life when you first saw those movies, why you weren't included."
How did the 1984 Olympics shape teen movies in the era?
"The '84 Olympics has this weird checkered history of being a high point for Los Angeles, depending on who you ask, and being a real symptom of class and race unfairness and prejudice at the same time.
...A disproportionate number of the teen movies that were self-consciously set in Los Angeles at this time are about class divisions, are about kids caught on the wrong side of a slippery wall of money and class that they can't seem to climb over. The obvious examples are movies like "Valley Girl" and "Karate Kid" but also "Pretty in Pink" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "Stand and Deliver." It is fascinating to me that...without meaning to or even knowing it, this small sect of movies at the time had a greater insight into what was going on with the citizenry of Los Angeles than the public image Los Angeles projected of itself during the '84 Olympics..."
To hear the full interview, click the blue play button above.
More from this episode: Take Two FOR November 15, 2016
Sanctuary cities, pot and criminality, journalism and how we consume the news
Could Trump's immigration plan affect LA's 'sanctuary city' policy?
Californians are already having their marijuana charges downgraded
Porsche Experience Center races into Carson
The Brood: 5 things families can do to move forward post-election
Tuesday Reviewsday: Mike Watt, Leah Paul and Jefferson Street Parade Band


To say "the Lord is my shepherd" and to know the Lord as one's shepherd are two different things.
It is important to confess the Lord as our shepherd at any time, of course. But particularly so in the midst of trials–trials of life, trials of faith.
Where does the shepherd king David gain such insight and assurance?
I believe we have a clue in one of his most famous stories, the showdown between the boy David and the giant Goliath (found in 1 Samuel 17).
The Hebrew army of Saul is terrified to face the Philistine champion Goliath. He taunts them constantly. Young David delivers food and supplies to his older military brothers. He is appalled at the gall of Goliath and the hesitancy of his fellow Hebrews. He will challenge and deal with the enemy Goliath. To face this threat, he refuses to imagine himself tackling it solo.
David is confident that God will be with him. How? The clue is in his own history with the Lord.
David knows that the Lord will be his Shepherd as he faces the giant Goliath because the Lord had been his Shepherd when he faced the lion and the bear.
David proclaims, "the Lord is my shepherd," because he knows it to be true.
So, what past episodes in your walk with the Lord remind you to trust in his present help, to know "the Lord is my shepherd"?


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The CDE website for background information on the API is http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/, and the CDE website for AYP information is http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ay/.
API and AYP reports for specific schools and school districts are also located on the CDE website at http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/.


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8/14/20: Green party's Howie Hawkins eyes progress – The Guardian
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More than 6 million Americans voted for someone other than Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in 2016's presidential race, but from the media coverage of the election you would never know it.
In 2020, however, the candidates who are neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump are hoping to change that, and win more of the vote than ever before – and get some hard-earned recognition for it.
Howie Hawkins, a former UPS worker and longtime political activist, is the Green party nominee for president, and is toiling to break through the media's Republican and Democratic noise to persuade Americans there are other options than the dominant two parties.
He is not finding it easy.
An immediate difficulty has been coronavirus, which has prevented Hawkins, who lives in Syracuse, New York, from holding events and traveling the country. Instead he has relied on virtual events, although that hasn't worked out too badly: "I'm actually probably talking to more people than I was before," Hawkins told the Guardian.
A larger problem, and one that probably would have existed even without the pandemic, has been attracting media attention to his campaign.
"The difficulty is trying to get our message into the main narrative," Hawkins says. "We're sending out news releases, we're tweeting, we're on social media and we pitch stories."
When CNN held a "climate crisis town hall" in September 2019, Hawkins and the party spied their chance.
The Green party originally conceived the Green New Deal – a sprawling climate package which has been adopted by progressive Democrats such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez – in 2010, and Hawkins said he pitched himself to show producers as "the original Green New Dealer".
It didn't work, and the Green party, which has the most far-reaching climate change policies of any party, was absent from the stage.
The Green party might be best known for its climate policies, but its focus goes beyond the environment and into progressive politics as a whole. Hawkins would institute a $20 minimum wage – Democrats favor a $15 minimum – universal rent control, Medicare for All and free college tuition.
In the unlikely event they should win the election, the party has also outlined its sweeping proposals for police reform, which are laid out in an 8,000-word essay online.
It's a platform which has similarities to the view of leftwing Democrats like the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, but unlikely to ever be approved by the more centrist leadership of the party. Hawkins said he had attracted a number of Democrats disillusioned with the party.
"We keep getting replenished with really angry Democrats," Hawkins said. "Progressive Democrats get frustrated and come to the Green party."
For all Hawkins' detailed, and potentially Democrat-wooing platform, however, the party has little chance of winning in November, a fact that shouldn't just be frustrating for Hawkins and his team.
In 2018 a Gallup poll found 57% of Americans believe a third major political party is needed – a belief that has more or less held steady for the past 10 years.
Part of the Green party's mission is to change that. The party supports a ranked-choice national popular vote for president, where voters rank candidates by preference. The system would allow people to vote for more progressive candidates – like Hawkins – without fear that their vote would hand victory to, in this case, Trump.
That fear among the left that a vote for anyone other than the Democratic party could hand victory to Trump is another problem Hawkins faces.
In 2016, the Green party candidate Jill Stein face heavy criticism in the wake of Clinton's loss to Trump. Nationwide 1,449,370 people voted for Stein, but crucially she received significant votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania – each of which Trump narrowly won. If Hillary Clinton had won those three states, she would have been president.
It meant Stein became a scapegoat for some – although there is little evidence Stein not running would have tipped the election to Clinton.
In Pennsylvania Stein won 49,678 votes, meaning almost every one of her voters would have to have flipped to Clinton to close her 46,765 gap to Trump – which is highly unlikely. Polling specialists at the politics website FiveThirtyEight unanimously felt Stein's run was used as a scapegoat for Clinton's loss, rather than a legitimate reason.
Some third-party presidential candidates insist they have a chance of winning the presidency, despite all odds. Hawkins, however, is refreshingly honest when asked about his realistic aim.
"What would really be a big victory would be if we got 5% of the vote," Hawkins said.
"That qualifies us for a public campaign financing grant for the general election in 2024 for president. If we got to 5% there'd be about $20m at least waiting for our presidential ticket in 2024, which would be a jump up. So 5% is benchmark."
It might not sound like a lot, but given the Green party's previous best performance was the 2.7% won by Ralph Nader in 2000, it's an ambitious goal.
"That would be quite a leap for us," Hawkins said. "But with Trump collapsing, and Biden not being very progressive, maybe it is within our reach."
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/14/howie-hawkins-green-party-interview-us-elections
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While Making Other Plans: Ellen Waterston on "Walking the High Desert"
In 2012 the Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA) pieced together a 750-mile trail that starts at the Oregon Badlands Wilderness outside of Bend and continues to the southeastern Oregon canyonlands that flank the Owyhee River. I moved from New England to the high desert of central Oregon four decades ago. Though I now live in Bend, my love of this hardscrabble outback still informs me every day. So it's no surprise that this new trail spoke to me, lured me back into the desert. No longer actively ranching, I decided I'd walk sections of the trail to bring attention to the ONDA's Oregon Desert Trail especially as it underscored public and private land use issues. I would make a point of evenly and fairly presenting the conflicting points of view about repurposing open areas of public land. I prided myself that in so many ways I already knew the players: ranchers; Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife employees; schoolteachers in rural schoolhouses; merchants in remote outposts; American Indians on reservations in the high desert; law enforcement officials who, some years back, were kind enough to wave me on, despite my excessive speed, as I made my way along desolate Highway 20 back to the ranch with a station wagon full of fussy infants and sacks of groceries.
In 2015, I began researching and writing this A to Z examination of land use issues in the high desert. But the January 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters by an armed group of far-right extremists changed all that. Life and writing projects are what happen while you are busy making other plans. The occupation was an invitation I couldn't refuse to broaden the scope of the book, to examine how each section of the trail, in its own unique way, underscored issues that weren't only regional but also national, if not international, seen through the optic of the high desert—issues such as water resources, climate change, protection of environmental habitat, recreational demands on open spaces, the rural-urban divide, economic inequities, and racism in the rural West.
Writing this book has led me to love the desert even more and to deeply apprehend how fragile it is socially and environmentally. With so many new people moving into this high and dry region, just as I did before them—there needs to be a commensurate commitment to care for it. I hope this book inspires people to engage in important conversations not only about the high desert but also about how these broader and seemingly unresolvable issues manifest where each of us live. As I encountered those issues, I confess I didn't see any chance for resolution, but by the end of the book… well, I won't be a spoiler.
Ellen Waterston is author of Where the Crooked Desert Rises: A High Desert Home, a memoir, four poetry collections, and four poetry collections including a verse novel. She is the founder and president of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and the founder of the Writing Ranch in Bend, Oregon.
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Uncategorized, Western History and tagged Guest Post, History on June 24, 2020 by UWP Publicity.
Announcing the 2020-2021 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
The University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, the Ohio State University Press, University of Chicago Press, Northwestern University Press, and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) today announce the recipients of the 2020-2021 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowships.
These fellowships are generously funded by a four-year, $1,205,000 grant awarded to the University of Washington Press from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the continued development and expansion of the pipeline program designed to diversify academic publishing by offering apprenticeships in acquisitions departments. This second grant builds on the success of the initial 2016 grant from the Mellon Foundation, which funded the first cross-press initiative of its kind in the United States to address the marked lack of diversity in the academic publishing industry.
Please join us in welcoming the 2020-2021 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows:
Jason Alley joins the University of Washington Press after having served as a visiting assistant professor at Beloit College. Originally from greater Los Angeles, he received his BA in film from the University of California, Berkeley and his MA and PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He brings several years of nonprofit work experience to the table, including stints at Project Inform, a HIV treatment education and advocacy organization, and the Pacific Film Archive, a cinematheque and research center based at the University of California, Berkeley. A fervent believer in good writing across a range of nonfiction genres, Jason's scholarly interests include anthropology, American studies, visual culture, and feminist and queer studies.
Erika Barrios joins the MIT Press from Northwestern University, where she just completed her BA in English literature. At Northwestern, she worked as a research assistant to digitize the journal Mandorla: Nueva Escritura de las Américas for Open Door Archive. She graduates as an alumna of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, having written her honors thesis on the use of language technology in contemporary US Latinx poetry. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, digital humanities, hemispheric American literature, and literary responses to neoliberalism.
Rebecca Brutus joins the University of Chicago Press after graduating in May from Ithaca College, where she majored in writing and minored in theater studies and women's and gender studies. At Ithaca she served as senior nonfiction editor of the literary magazine Stillwater and as a tutor in the Writing Center. She worked for the Ithaca College Library and as a writing and social media intern at Buffalo Street Books. She was also involved with ZAP, a student-run volunteer program that organized panels to educate the campus community about diversity-related issues. Her enthusiasm for university press publishing was cemented during an internship in the marketing department at Cornell University Press.
Joe Fitzgibbon joins the Ohio State University Press with a professional background in academic copyediting and proofreading of both books and journals. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and MA from the College of William & Mary, where he wrote a thesis on the federalization of US immigration policy in the antebellum period. He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, and spends his free time reading and managing the Wisconsin Sting sled hockey team.
Allegra Martschenko joins Cornell University Press after working as a sales intern at Princeton University Press. She has also worked in the world of children's book publishing, managing social media for a small press. She is a recent graduate of Princeton University's School of Architecture, with minors in urban studies and creative writing. Her interests include speculative fiction (especially the work of Laini Taylor), video games, and painting.
Iván Pérez-Zayas joins Northwestern University Press after working as a college professor and journalist. He received his BA in public communications and MA in English literature from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He has published book and film reviews and co-edited a book of short stories and poems by young Puerto Rican writers, including some of his own work. In 2018, Editorial Disonante published his first poetry chapbook, Para restarse. He is currently writing a dissertation on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American comics, especially those that depict the everyday lives of their characters and explore issues of race, gender and sexuality, to complete his PhD in Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized, UW Press News and tagged Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship, MUPDF on June 15, 2020 by UWP Publicity.
Walking Nearby History: Judy Bentley on "Walking Washington's History"
Staying home and walking more in your neighborhood? There's more underfoot than you may realize. Cities are rich in layers of history, some visible, some not.
Heading out my side door, I find a clothesline pole still standing between my house and the condo building next door, trailing vines instead of drying sheets. A half-mile away is a monument marking the landing of the Denny-Low-Terry party at Alki in 1851. Those are the obvious finds.
Less obvious is the median sloping downhill in front of our house, separating two narrow one-way streets. When we moved here 16 years ago, the hillside was overgrown with weeds. One lone plum tree drooped with fruit each fall. In the early 1900s children walked to the neighborhood school along a one-lane dirt road paralleling a meadow. "We frequently preferred the trail along Chilberg Avenue," recalled one resident, "to enjoy some of the most beautiful wildflowers in the open fields and leading up into 'the woods,' the hillside forest." Pleasant memories for troubled times.
Troubled times are nothing new. As I researched Walking Washington's History: Ten Cities, I often found conflict. I had read about the Everett Massacre of 1914 when striking millworkers in the city were supported by Wobblies who arrived on boats from Seattle. The Wobblies were met with gunfire. The dock where the clash occurred is long gone, but as I walked the waterfront in 2017, I found wreaths made out of dried cedar hung on a wire fence, each commemorating one of the 12 men killed.
At the Chinese Reconciliation Park in Tacoma, the haunting figures of Chinese workers expelled from the city in 1885 are painted on stone, an attempt to remember and acknowledge.
There were moments of pleasure, too, when I found the cool bubbling spring behind the Bigelow House in Olympia, which supplied drinking water to the early residents. Vancouver has not just one but three statues of women: a pioneer mother, a Native American woman, and a World War II welder.
Where history is less visible, interpretive art recalls the work of ordinary people. A sculpted fruit-picker's bag sits on a square in Yakima.
To find history underfoot, look closely as you walk, and ask why. Then visit the local historical society when it opens again; you may find an oral history or memories that recall experiences like a walk to school.
Today, the meadow along that old dirt road has been reclaimed by community volunteers with plantings of more fruit trees, native shrubs, and wildflowers. Some of the forest above remains, on a hillside too steep for development. Walkers passing the wildflowers on this relatively quiet street are in good historic company.
Judy Bentley is the author of fourteen nonfiction books for young adults and three books published by the University of Washington Press, including Walking Washington's History: Ten Cities, Hiking Washington's History, and Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master. She taught composition, literature, and Pacific Northwest history for more than 20 years at South Seattle College.
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Uncategorized, Western History on June 10, 2020 by UWP Publicity.
Association of University Presses Releases Equity and Anti-Racism Statement
Below is a statement released on June 2, 2020 from the Association of University Presses.
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) holds among our core values diversity and inclusion. As an organization and as a community, we mourn the lost lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others, stolen by the systemic racism at work in the US. We condemn police brutality and other forms of socially sanctioned racist violence. And we stand in solidarity with all who continue to seek justice, to imagine equity, and to enact a different world.
Many of our member presses put the values of diversity and inclusion into the world in a tangible way, playing major roles over the last few decades in amplifying the voices of scholars who originated African American Studies, Native Studies, and LGBTQ studies, among other groundbreaking fields. These works are readily available to provide insights and are frequently cited as resources in response to police brutality or white supremacist violence.
But we have only to look to evidence such as that found in the Lee & Low Diversity Baseline Survey, indicating in 2019 that our ranks are 76% white, to know that holding a value is not sufficient. Every day our professional community—just as our personal communities—must work towards equity, towards inclusion, and towards justice.
Today we issue the AUPresses Statement on Equity and Anti-Racism, declaring that upholding these core values requires "introspection, honesty, and reform of our current practices, the interests they serve, and the people and perspectives they exclude." Drafted by our Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, taken through a rigorous review process by our Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (EJI) Committee, and approved by the AUPresses Board of Directors, this statement points a way forward:
"Only with systems of accountability in place to protect and lift up those who have been historically harmed and silenced by our collective inaction will we succeed in dismantling the white supremacist structure upon which so many of our presses and parent institutions were built. How to support these efforts sustainably across the industry must be considered a priority for the Association, its members, and its executive board as well as the main focus of the Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Committee."
We acknowledge with gratitude the volunteer efforts of our EJI Committee, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, and Gender, Equity, and Cultures of Respect Task Force in calling us to this work. Download a PDF of the Statement on Equity and Anti-Racism.
Our inaugural EJI Community Read is another piece of this witness and work, and many member presses are organizing their staffs to read these essential selections: White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo (Beacon, 2018) and Invisible People by Alex Tizon (Temple, 2019). Our community's full list of nominations for the Community Read project provides a wider lens through which to understand current events across the US as people protest and seek to right the wrongs of systematic racism and the long injustices of white supremacy.
As a community of publishers we are called to discuss and absorb what these authors have to say and to act on our colleagues' specific recommendations—such as explicitly anti-racist training for managers, amelioration of the no- and low-wage entry points to our industry, and new recruitment and promotion strategies—with a goal of making equity a lived experience.
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Michael Brown. The devastating list goes on and on. Yes, say their names. Yes, do the reading. But we must also live and work as though we have listened.
Here is a link to the statement, originally published on the Association of University Presses website. Here also is a link to the AUPresses Statement on Equity and Anti-Racism.
This entry was posted in News, Uncategorized and tagged AUPresses on June 2, 2020 by UWP Publicity.


The international comparative studies in 1959 were conducted by International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) researchers who recognized that differences in student achievement measures in mathematics across countries could be caused by differences in curricula. The measurements of opportunity to learn (OTL) grew from a small effort in 1959 to a much larger efforts by 1995 to explain whether countries with high achievement were more likely to teach advanced mathematics. In general, the relationship of coverage of a mathematics topic was weakly related to the level of mathematics performance, but did have some effect on growth. This paper finds that differences in measurement methods of OTL across the studies greatly affected the outcome of the relationship. Recent Program for International Student Achievement (PISA) analyses indicate that the relationship between OTL and student achievement might be described as a curvilinear relationship. Countries with lower achievement are more likely to be affected by curriculum coverage than are high-performing countries.


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The following is a list of Satellite Landing Grounds (SLG).
A Satellite Landing Ground is typically an airfield with one or two grass runways which is designed throughout to be "hidden" from the sky by using woods and other natural features to hide the presence of aircraft and associated buildings. The landing grounds were mainly used by Royal Air Force maintenance units which used the areas to disperse aircraft to reduce the likelihood of attacks from the air. Some improvements and upgrades to aircraft were performed at these sites but overall it was kept to a minimum. Some support buildings came about by using requisitioned buildings on the land.
A satellite station is NOT the same as a Satellite Landing Ground.


For the people that don't lurk /jp/: every week, there is a kind Anon who goes to the trouble of checking the status of dozens of translation projects and posts a new thread reporting which projects are still active and, of those, which ones had any kind of progress.
From now on, I'll use this topic to post the link to the most recent thread.
If you have any questions, feel free to join the discussion on /jp/.
There is also a VNTL Status Tracker for the people who find it too hard to lurk on 4chan.
Still, thanks for this since I don't visit 4chan.
I'll only copy it if it dies. People know how to click links.
I am in awe. Thanks for taking the time for this Mana. I really should save up/invest in a laptop or something with a huge harddrive just for playing V/Ns. Anyone know if VNs would work on a touchscreen? I want to get a Tablet/convertible laptop just for V/Ns.
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Woah. Speechless. Fills me with anticipation.
That's what I'm also looking forward to, on ToHeart 2.


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Geographic coordinates 41° 25′ 48″ N -98° 37′ 55″ W
The maximum air temperature in Columbus for this day for the last 73 years of observations is +16.2°C, recorded in 1951.
An absolute minimum of -25.2°C was recorded in 1967. The average temperature for this day is +6.8°C.
The heaviest rainfall (6.6 mm) in Columbus was recorded in 1996. The maximum wind gusts were up to 24.19 m/s in 1996.
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Women's Everyday Essentials XS-5X – Everything Your Mama Made & More!
This pattern is includes an ebook .pdf file with 18 pages of directions and 37 professional digitized pages that you assemble to make the full sizes pieces. (4-16 pages per view and includes a print chart so you only print what you need).


This year the 5th grade class had a very unique learning opportunity at STARBASE Indiana on the grounds of the Indiana Air National Guard base in Fort Wayne.
St. Paul's students were engaged through the inquiry-based curriculum with its "hands-on, mind-on" experiential activities. They studied Newton's Laws and Bernoulli's principle; explored nanotechnology, navigation and mapping. They were captivated by engineering as they used the computer to design space station components, then printed them out on the 3D printer. Math was embedded throughout the curriculum and students used metric measurement, estimation, calculation geometry and data analysis to solve questions. Teamwork was stressed as they worked together to explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate concepts.
St. Paul's students also learned to apply abstract principles to real world situations during tours led by teachers/guest speakers and lectures on the use of STEM in different settings and careers. Learn more about STARBASE 1.0 at: http://www.starbasein.org/starbase-1.0.html.
One St. Paul parent that attended STARBASE with the students was "thoroughly ... impressed and pleased" with the experience. " It far exceeded our expectations. The quality -- and quantity -- of thorough, very educational, inter-disciplinary, and inspiring activities the students experienced and participated in was outstanding. Physics, chemistry, math, geography, earth science, biology, engineering, and robotics were all part of this great week. To call this a field trip is an understatement - this was an auxiliary math and science center (along with fire trucks and fighter jets!) that our students got to enroll in for a week."
What a blessing for our 5th graders! Many THANKS to the fine professional instructors at STARBASE Indiana for their time and sharing their knowledge!


1. The aircraft fail to connect with transmitter. Before binding, make sure battery is full. Then turn on the drone and the transmitter, the time between these two operation should be finished in 2 seconds.
3. Battery problems (can't be charged, swelling, etc).
5. The aircraft is out of balance (can't fly, deviation, spinning on the ground). Check the propeller is installed in the right way.
WIFI FPV with 2.0MP HD camera,allows you to take photos and record video.
The quadcopter can fly both indoor and outdoor.Including 4CH digital proportional RC system. Rechargeable high performance battery.


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Vast Solar seeks funding for 50 MW CSP, PV hybrid
The Sydney-based developer is seeking $75 million to help finance a 50 MW hybrid project, following a successful 1 MW pilot. Vast Solar is looking to deploy its innovative CSP technology, which uses sodium as a heat transfer fluid to capture concentrated solar energy that can then be stored and used on demand, on the utility-scale.
February 27, 2019 Marija Maisch
Australian scientists use hydrogen atoms to boost solar cell efficiency
Researchers want to better understand how hydrogen atoms may improve the performance of phosphorus-doped multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) films for passivating contact solar cells.
February 22, 2019 Emiliano Bellini
Neometals commissions li-ion battery recycling pilot plant
Australian lithium developer Neometals has taken its lithium‐ion battery recycling technology to the floor at a pilot plant in Canada. SGS Canada has been contracted to construct and operate the pilot at its Lakefield facility, and handle both the front-end feed preparation and hydrometallurgical processing/refining stages.
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Disused zinc mine transforms into clean energy hub with compressed air storage
In an Australian first, Canada's Hydrostor is delivering a 5 MW / 10 MWh compressed air energy storage facility, which will store excess solar and wind power at a closed underground mine in South Australia.
February 8, 2019 Marija Maisch
Super-grids vs prosumer states: storage may decide the battle
Indra Overland, head of the Center for Energy Research at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, explains how the world's future energy landscape may include pan-regional super-grids. However, prosumer states seeking energy independence could also be in the mix. According to Overland, the two developments will go hand in hand and the balance between them will be determined by the competitiveness of storage technologies.
February 8, 2019 Emiliano Bellini
Deakin University breaks ground on 7.25 MW solar-powered microgrid
The first sod has been turned on a $30 million smart microgrid which is to power Deakin University's Waurn Ponds Campus. The project, featuring a 7 MW solar farm and a 1 MW battery, is delivered in partnership with AusNet Services and its subsidiary Mondo with the goal to provide an integrated research and education platform, and contribute to the university's sustainability goals.
ClearVue PV trials a solar portal to the future
Australian retail landlord, Vicinity Centres, has remodelled the northern entry of one of its shopping centres with an energy-generating glass atrium in a world-first commercial application of technology developed by Perth-based company ClearVue PV.
January 31, 2019 Natalie Filatoff
A solar-powered chemical industry? It's not what you think
Chemical manufacturing accounts for around 10% of global energy consumption and 7% of industrial greenhouse emissions. Researchers at RMIT University have developed a material that can capture 99% of light and directly apply it to power chemical reactions thereby slashing emissions and improving the efficiencies of current processes.
Long read: Bifacial testing sites multiply
Bifacial solar panel performance has become such a hot pursuit this year that there are now at least four competing field test sites ramping up in the United States, each matching a different set of trackers and panels. The four test projects include DNV GL, Soltec, NREL and Sandia, and initial data is expected by late 2019, once a year's data has been collected.
January 26, 2019 Paul Zubrinich
MagniX powers forward with electric light commercial aircraft plans
Solar PV is boosting regional economies by providing cheaper electricity to off-grid or edge-of-grid communities and industries; soon it could power cheaper electric aviation services. In three years, Gold Coast company magniX expects to be selling a commercially available certified electric aircraft engine that will reduce the cost of flying light commercial aircraft by between 50% and 80% per operating hour.


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Q: Why is my VS Code text all the same color? Alright so, I'm new to coding and I got VS Code and for some reason, all my text is mostly the same color. At first when I open VS Code it looks like this:

But, as soon as I type something it looks like this:

It's kind of hard to see different variables or methods when it's all the same color. Any idea why it looks like that? Also, I'm not sure if it helps but I'm using unity as well.

A: It looks like that VS Code has problems communicating with Unity. Because all the Unity stuff is blue, the rest is colored as normal.
I would check if VS Code is set as editor. You can see it here:
Edit -> Preferences -> External Tools -> External Script Editor
Make sure VS Code is set there.

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