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How do you protect a brand? I ask Bart Van Besien, lawyer at Sirius Legal.
Hi Bart. Welcome to our studio.
We're going to talk about brands and how to protect them. But maybe to start with: what is a brand?
A brand, or a trademark as we call it in legislation, so to speak.
No, no, no. It's more or less the same thing. But in legal terms we always call it a trademark.
Yes, here you are. What is a trademark or what is a brand? It's a sign, it can be a name or a logo, for instance, that you attach to your products or your services that you are selling. Which is important because if you start up your business, you might want protection for the services or the products that you are selling to avoid that a third party, somebody else would claim the same name, would use the same name, or would start a procedure against you.
But a trademark is not necessarily the same as your company name, then?
That is correct, actually. So you can have a company name, which is totally distinct from your trademark.
So it's the name that you use to go into the market.
Okay, and how do you protect that? How do you protect that?
Well, you can apply for a trademark. Like, for instance in Europe we have the European Union trademarks. Which are valid in 28 different European countries. In the Benelux for instance, we have a trademark registration process for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. In different countries you have different types of trademarks. Sometimes national trademarks. For instance in the United States or in Japan, you have national trademark registrations. But what you have to do there, the main principles are always more or less the same. You start an application and once you have gone through the whole procedure your trademark will be registered and you will be the official trademark owner.
Okay, then you have the protection so nobody else can use that name.
Well, yes, nobody else can use the name, but it can… It always depends a bit. Because when you apply for a trademark, you always have to choose the different classes of goods or services that you want your trademark to apply to. So it can be that different companies use the same trademark, but for different types of services.
Okay, so Apple, for example, sells computers, but if I want to use Apple to sell cars, I should be able to register that.
Well, I would have to check it, but that could be possible. For instance, the trademark Lotus is a registered trademark for cars, but also for cookies in Belgium. So it's possible that you use the same name for totally distinct types of services or goods that you are offering.
And what is the procedure to follow, if you wanted to apply for a trademark?
Because that's the first step that you have to do. And these registers, they are public. So you can just go to them and check it. Then you have to apply for your trademark. I think one main element there is when you choose a trademark, that you check that the trademark is distinctive enough. So that it does not just describe your goods or services that you are offering, but that it's really distinctive.
That is not allowed, yes, exactly. So that will… Yeah, the trademark office will not allow that. And also, third parties might file an opposition against it. The official registration, actually, it is quite simple once you have checked whether the name is available. You file the application with all your details and they will check whether the trademark is allowed or not. There will be a time period, typically two or three months, during which third parties have the opportunity to file an opposition. So that can happen. If that does not happen, in most of the cases, after three or four months after the application date, you should have your trademark.
It seems to me that it's not a really easy subject. So I can imagine that calling the help from an expert like you is advisable in such a situation.
Yeah, you can do it yourself.
You can do it yourself. But in many cases it's worth a small investment to go to a trademark authority.
Okay Bart, thank you very much for coming over.


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David Byrne's Graduation Speech Offers Troubling and Encouraging Advice for Students in the Arts
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How could David Byrne never have given a commencement address before? As an experienced public speaker, a well-known creator who has carved out his own cultural niche, an advocate of things (such as cycling) beloved among world-changing young people, the founder of a band with a surprising multi-generational appeal, and a man with no small command of Powerpoint, he'd seem to make an appealing choice indeed. His first commencement address ever came this year at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and, viewable from 1:17:00 in the video above, it has certainly made an impact in the internet. The message some grads and fans have taken away? "If you chose a career in the arts," as the New Yorker's Rachel Arons puts it, "you are, basically, screwed."
"A pie chart, based on 2011 data, showed that only three per cent of film and theatre grads, and five per cent of writing and visual-arts grads, end up working in their areas of concentration," she writes of the visual aids delivering Byrne's grim initial message. "A subsequent bar graph showed that, according to those stats, fourteen writing and fourteen Columbia visual-arts graduates will go on to careers in their fields, and eight theatre and eight film grads will go on to careers in theirs." But firsthand reports from the ceremony don't describe a too terribly shaken Columbia graduating class, and even Byrne took pains to emphasize, or at least emphatically imply, that truly worthwhile careers — such as, I would say, his own — lay outside, or in between, or at the intersection of, definable fields. And why would you want to work in the same field you studied, anyway? To paraphrase something Byrne's friend and collaborator Brian Eno said about technology, once a whole major has built up around a pursuit, it's probably not the most interesting thing to be doing anymore.
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Councillors have had a first look at plans to explain the move to wheelie bins to residents.
By 1st October, every household will have 2 wheelie bins (one for rubbish, one for paper) plus a box for other recycling, and a food waste caddy. And either a wheelie or bag for garden waste if you pay to be in the scheme. Batteries and textiles will also be collected.
At the Sustainable Communities Scrutiny Panel on 21 June, it was confirmed by contractor Veolia that the wheelie bins will be taken one week with recycling boxes the next. Food waste will be collected weekly as will batteries and textiles.
Around 75% of households will also see a change in collection day.
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The scheme has been controversial, with concerns about the look and storage of the new wheelie bins, as well as the move to fortnightly collections. In addition, contractor Veolia hasn't impressed since it took over street cleaning, litter bin emptying, and waste and recycling collections. During the recent election, Merton Liberal Democrats campaigned on a platform of allowing people to opt out from having wheelie bins if they would be difficult to use at their property.
Officials quizzed on communication plans
At the Sustainable Communities Scrutiny Panel, councillors - including Liberal Democrat councillor Anthony Fairclough - were able to ask questions about the roll out of the scheme later this year. Cllr Fairclough highlighted the lack of direct communications with those people who currently have help with taking out the bins, known as the "assisted collection" scheme. Given the size and weight of the bins, it's expected that more people will move onto this scheme, and yet the Council's plan is only to reach out to those eligible through "community groups" and a small section with a weblink on the more general leaflets. Cllr Fairclough's proposal that both the Council and the Scrutiny Panel keep a very close look at the take-up of this scheme was backed.
It was also highlighted that although the new bins will begin to be delivered from the end of July, no one will be able to use them until 1 October. Cllr Fairclough and other councillors called on officials to monitor this too, as problems were bound to occur.
Cllr Fairclough was also able to get clarification from the councillor in charge of "street cleanliness" that those households that don't have a "front garden with space" to store the bins, will not have to change to wheelies, but will be treated like flats and have a bag collection. From 9 July, the Council's call centre will apparently be able to discuss and make arrangements with residents about such things.
After the meeting, Cllr Fairclough said:
"We were told by one official that you could never 'over-communicate' about a project as big as this. And yet there seem to be a number of gaps in the information they're giving to groups of people who need special help taking out their bins. There's also currently no real information on what to do if your house has no space to store all the bins that the Council wants to give you. We'll keep asking the difficult questions, and holding the Council and Veolia to account".
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When I asked how they were when she was pregnant, she said that they were better during her pregnancy and while she was breastfeeding. When her milk production slowed down and she began to wean her son, she had a two-week long headache. During this time, of course, her hormone levels were changing. She also said that her friend had the same experience. This is anecdotal of course, but it's food for thought.
I don't have any firsthand knowledge of what hormonal headaches are about (I flirted with the idea that mine are menstrual, but am sure they aren't), but some resources include American Council for Headache Education, the National Headache Foundation and the National Women's Health Information Center. I found this last resource to be most helpful.
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by threenorns » 09 Jul 2012, 21:00
Pink and Purple with Sparkles and Jewels
Saari was 4 years old. She lived with her mom and her dad and the dog and the cat in a little apartment at the top of a very long set of stairs. It had four rooms: a kitchen, where they kept all the food and all the dishes and did all the cooking and all the eating; a living room where they kept all the books and all the DVDs and the couch and the TV and the telephone; a bathroom where they kept all the towels and all the soap; and a bedroom where they all slept in one bed, even the dog and the cat.
She always wondered why the big cooking pots were kept in the bath tub and why the chairs were hung on the walls and why there were boxes of food in the corner beside the refrigerator and in the hall closet and why the vacuum cleaner was kept under the bed.
"It's because this place is too small for a family," said Mom.
"One day, we will find a bigger place," promised Dad, but that day didn't seem to want to hurry up and arrive.
Every morning, Saari woke up smiling and happy but her mommy and her daddy looked very tired and had dark circles under their eyes and their hair was all sticky-up every which way. Saari ate her breakfast at the table while mommy and daddy snored into their coffeecups.
"Why are you still tired?" she asked.
"We're tired because we get no sleep," mumbled Mom.
"You are impossible to sleep with," declared Dad. "You push and you pinch, you twist and you turn, and you kick us to the bottom of the bed where we have to hang on with our fingernails and teeth or we'll fall onto the floor."
"Oh," said Saari, and she finished her scrambled eggs and ran off to get dressed to go to school.
"Something has to be done," Mom said, and Dad agreed.
Not long after that, Mom and Dad told Saari to sit down on the couch.
"We have some very special news," they said. Mom was smiling and Dad's eyes crinkled at the corners like it did when he was especially excited. Saari was interested. "Today, we bought a house! It has two bathrooms and a kitchen and a diningroom and a livingroom and four bedrooms! You can have your very own bedroom!"
Saari's mouth fell open. She couldn't believe her ears!
"I have to sleep in a house all alone!??" she cried.
"No, no," said Mom and Dad, "We are all going to live there. We will bring all our furniture and all our clothes and the dog and the cat and everything else and put it in the house. We will paint it and decorate it and you can have your bedroom exactly the way you want – any colour you want!"
Saari wasn't sure about this. Not sure at all. But she looked around the tiny little apartment with everything in the boxes and the big pots in the bath tub and the chairs hanging up on the walls and had to admit that it was getting a bit crowded. She rather thought it would be nice to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and not trip over the dog or fall into the pile of shoes beside the front door. They were kind of stinky.
The next day, they went to look at the house.
It wasn't a big house but to Saari, it was huge! For real, it had a kitchen and a diningroom and a livingroom and two bathrooms and four bedrooms – but it also had a HUGE BACK YARD with a pool and a deck! The apartment only had a teeny balcony and she wasn't allowed on it because Mom and Dad didn't want her to fall all the way down. The house even had a furnace room with a washing machine and a dryer! No more sitting at the laundromat for hours and hours watching Mom fold socks and underwear!
"This is my room," she declared, standing proudly in the middle of the bedroom right next to the bathroom.
They all looked around. The paint was old and faded, the carpet was old and dirty, and, in short, it needed to be completely re-done.
"We'll fix the holes in the walls and paint over this old faded paint and we'll pull out this ugly old carpet and put in a nice new floor," said her Mom, rubbing her hands with glee. She loved to take things apart and put them back together again.
"We'll have to go shopping for a new bed and new dressers and a desk and new curtains and a rug," said Dad happily. He loved shopping and showing off what he found.
"Now, what colour would you like your room?" Mom and Dad asked, and leaned forward as they waited for her answer.
"Pink and purple with sparkles and jewels!" Saari said immediately. Mom and Dad leaned back as far as they could.
"Pink and purple!?" said Mom faintly.
"With sparkles and jewels!?" said Dad with horror.
"That won't do at all!" they both said.
"What about natural colours like beige and green? They're relaxing," said Mom.
"What about red and black and white? That's a very fashionable look right now," said Dad.
Saari's eyebrows came down and her bottom lip stuck out and she folded her arms and scowled.
"I don't want natural colours! I don't want fashionable colours!" She stamped her foot and said very loudly "I want pink and purple and sparkles and jewels!"
"Oh well," said Mom with her fingers in her ears, "It is her room, after all."
"Oh well," said Dad, who couldn't hear Mom as he had his fingers in his ears, "It's her room, after all."
The next day, Saari took the bus to school and Mom and Dad took the car to the store down the street.
"May I help you?" asked the man behind the counter. He wore black leather pants, a red vest, and a white shirt. His hair was cut short in some places and long in others and stuck out in very expensive directions.
"Do you have any pink and purple with sparkles and jewels?" asked Mom.
"Um, no. We have red and black and white with glimmer and beads but we have no pink and purple with sparkles and jewels. I'm afraid it's not very fashionable right now," he sniffed. Mom and Dad thought he was a bit rude but he worked at the store and surely knew what he was talking about so they bought it all.
When Saari got home, she ran to her bedroom and looked at the white walls and the red curtains and the black carpet and her face fell.
"This is not pink and purple with sparkles and jewels," she cried. "I don't like it!"
"Just try it," said Mom and Dad. "You will see – you'll like it!"
That night, Saari refused to sleep in the white bed with the red blanket and sheets and climbed in with Mom and Dad.
The next morning, she woke up happy and ate her peanut butter on toast cheerfully while Mom and Dad leaned against each other and snored into their coffeecups.
"That didn't work," said Mom after Saari left.
"I got no sleep at all," Dad groaned.
"We need to get her to sleep in her own room," they agreed and they got in the car and drove to the next store in town.
At the next store, the elegant lady with the bun and the glasses hid a superior smile.
"I'm afraid we have no pink and purple with sparkles and jewels. We have some lovely beiges and browns and greens with shimmer and sheen – it's very relaxing. She will love it." Mom and Dad were impressed by how elegant and superior she was and thought surely she knew what she was talking about so they bought it all.
When Saari got home, she ran to her bedroom and looked at the beige walls and the green curtains and the brown carpet and her face fell.
"Just try it," said Mom and Dad. "You will see – you'll like it soon!"
That night, Saari refused to sleep in the white bed with the green blanket and beige sheets and climbed in with Mom and Dad.
The next morning, she woke up happy and ate her cereal cheerfully while Mom and Dad leaned against the wall and snored into their coffeecups.
"That didn't work," said Dad after Saari left.
"I got no sleep at all," Mom groaned.
"We need to get her to sleep in her own room," they agreed. There weren't any other stores in town so they drove to the next town.
"Oh, yes," said the young girl, who had a happy smile and wore blue jeans and a pony tail. "We have lots of pink and purple with sparkles and jewels – it's very popular with lots of little girls and even some little boys."
"We'll take it!!!!" shouted Mom and Dad and they loaded up the car with everything.
When Saari got home, she ran to her bedroom and looked at the pink walls and the sparkly apple green curtains with jewels and the light purple carpet and smiled THIS BIG.
"I love it!!!" she cried.
"Hooray!!!" said Mom and Dad.
That night, Saari slept in the white bed with the purple blanket and pink sheets.
The next morning, Mom and Dad woke up happy and ate their fried eggs cheerfully while Saari leaned against the wall and snored into her orange juice.
"What's the matter?" asked Mom.
"Why are you still tired?" asked Dad.
"The pink and purple and sparkles and jewels are too bright – I couldn't sleep at all," said Saari. "I want my room dark blue and dark purple and dark green and no sparkles and no jewels."
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threenorns
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[cross fingers: i think caiti is even going to do the artwork for the cover!]
she sent me a rough draft - it's fabulous!
by pilvikki » 10 Jul 2012, 01:14
ah, the modern family.... :lmao4:
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hmmm... i'm not sure, but i think i'd leave out one of the colours....
it's saari, mom. we're lucky she let me keep it down to two.
i meant in the story, leave out one of the colour groups...
it's wierd, but there's an actual "rule of three" in writing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)
by Kellemora » 10 Jul 2012, 10:12
Hi Threenorns!
The Rule of Threes: Yes there is!
And so few seem to know about it.
It's from the Latin "omne trium perfectum" all that's rendered in threes is perfect and/or complete.
Comedy is PHUNNIER! Romance is more Serious (don't take that the wrong way, hi hi, I was referring to a Tritagonist.) and History is more interesting.
This extends into several other areas as well. For example: The Rule of Thirds in Photography.
TTUL
Kellemora
Location: From St. Louis, current Knoxville, TN
by Ice.Maiden » 10 Jul 2012, 12:00
When writing, I just use the Rule of Three as a beginning, a middle and an ending - although, not always in that order.
Had to smile at your story threenorns.
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Location: Peak District
i was actually referring to the rule of 3, 3: you have 4 colour schemes going there. right?
story goes [somewhere] that the rules of 3 is from hiawatha, which was based on the Kalevala format, which was simply built on the 3 major dialects of the time in finland.
oh, you mean the last one at the end? that's the unexpected twist: going by rule of three, the story is complete at the pink and purple room and "happy ever after" and then ... not so much. if i take out one group, then i don't have saari's reaction, which was (exactly this): ".... WHAT just happened there?!?"
by Yogi » 12 Jul 2012, 07:51
I took some humanities courses in college and had the same problem there that I see in this review. All the class pundits were able to parse, analyze, and regurgitate every obnoxious detail in the literature we read. The proliferation of hidden meaning overwhelmed me. In this case half the semester would be spent debating how Saari carries a hidden message about the human condition. All I could say is WTF!?
This is a great story about a spoiled little girl. I raised two of them, and I can relate. Does it really matter if some classic style is violated or that the the characters are simple and single dimensioned? I'd read this story for its entertainment value, and albeit is written for the Dr Seuss Set, I think it was an enjoyable read. Mission accomplished. Then again, these comments are from an old guy who never read a book from cover to cover until he was 42. (no, I didn't do well in the humanities classes)
You entertained me 3n; what else could an author ask for?
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interesting... i reread it and find the colours are just right now. :think: i gots to think about this...
ok, i did. i think it's the speed... this paragraph here:
split it up: That night, Saari slept in the white bed with the purple blanket and pink sheets, [the cat on her pillow - while mom and dad were luxuriously stretched out all over their bed with the dog at bottom of it.] or some such.
you need a distraction/space before the hammer comes down.
see wot i mean? then we'll go onto the...
regardless, i love yer style. :dance:
Goodness knows why you haven't had books published, threenorns.
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People make intuitive judgments of other people's traits (e.g., intelligence, kindness) from their appearances with ease, irrespective of the accuracy of the judgments. Many of these judgments affect important social outcomes, like voting, and hiring (Todorov et al. 2015). My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying these intuitive judgments.
Data-Driven Modeling of Social Perception
Data-driven modeling of social impressions (Jack & Schyns 2017) can identify the visual information responsible for these impressions (e.g., an impression of competence) with little prior assumptions as to what facial features matter. Some of the features that matter reflect stereotypes prevalent in society. My recent work (Oh, Buck, & Todorov, 2019) showed that masculinity is one of the main ingredients of impressions of competence. This gender stereotype was not apparent because competence impressions are strongly correlated with facial attractiveness, which tends to be negatively correlated with masculinity. Taking advantage of the computational nature of the models of impressions, we built a model of competence that can manipulate perceived competence while controlling for attractiveness. This model removes the strong halo effect on competence impressions and shows that competent-looking faces are more masculine. This line of research not only identifies the visual information that affects social impressions but also uncovers hidden stereotype biases in these impressions.
Controlling for facial attractiveness, a natural confound of competence impressions, more competent faces look more masculine (x-axis = the manipulation level of the competence impression models; y-axis = to what extent people categorized faces as male; arrays of faces = two models used to manipulate faces on their perceived competence).
Variance in Social Perception
Both characteristics of target persons and perceivers shape the process of impression formation. Among these characteristics, target individuals' gender and perceivers' expectations about gender (e.g., gender stereotypes) play a key role. In recent work, using dimensionality reduction and data-driven face modeling, I found that when targets are women, people's impressions of the targets are more simplified (e.g., higher correlations among the impressions of warmth, dominance, attractiveness, happiness, emotional stability, and so on) and are more highly tied to overall positivity/negativity than when the targets are men (Oh, Dotsch, Porter, & Todorov, 2019). Further, when perceivers are more willing to endorse gender stereotypes, they show more simplified impressions of women. This line of research informs us about the importance of social categories and individual differences in social perception.
People tend to have less differentiated impressions of women than of men (y-axis represents the level of correlations among impressions; each dot denotes the level of correlations between a pair of impression ratings).
Neural Responses to Social Stimuli
Data-driven modeling (Jack & Schyns 2017) can be used to identify not only the visual information underlying specific impressions but also the visual information that drives both perceptual and neural responses to social stimuli. Shuo Wang and I analyzed electrocorticographic (ECoG) responses to faces and showed that different types of social information (e.g., race, age, social impressions) are represented in different brain areas in different stages of processing. This line of research informs us about the processing of socially salient information over time and the prioritization of visual information in the visual system.
Joseph J. Avery (Princeton University; Department of Psychology, Princeton Center for Computational Law & Social Justice)
Ron Dotsch (Anchorman)
Eldar Shafir (Princeton University; Department of Psychology, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)
Joel E. Martinez (Princeton University; Department of Psychology, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)
Daniel Osherson (Princeton University; Department of Psychology)
Shuo Wang (West Virginia University; Department of Neuroscience)
Alex Koch (University of Cologne; Social Cognition Center of Cologne)
Evan W. Carr (Exponent Human Factor)
Alexander Todorov (Princeton University; Department of Psychology)


Who should be our next honoree on the Soumas Court Wall of Witnesses?
Perry Historic Preservation and Hometown Heritage invite you to submit a nomination. Nomination forms are available at the Chamber of Commerce, McCreary Center, City Hall, the Perry Chief, and Carnegie Library Museum; deadline is May 8.
Help tell the story of Perry's diverse ancestry at the Carnegie Library. If you have a photo of an ancestor who is an immigrant, we'll scan the photo, and take a photo of you, holding the photo of your ancestor. Schedule a photoshoot and be part of the exhibit by calling 515-465-7713 or by emailing Karol at : karol@fcctrust.org.
The exhibit will reopen in March.
Becoming American: Family & Community (Oct. 2018). Screening of documentary about a Dominican American family living in Brooklyn and community discussion led by Iowa State University Extension & Outreach's Jon Wolseth.
Becoming American: Help Wanted? (Oct. 2018). Screening of documentary about the economic history of immigration and community discussion led by Iowa State University Extension & Outreach's Jon Wolseth.
Becoming American: Identity & Acculturation (Oct. 2018). Screening of documentary about Nigerian refugees living in Chicago, IL and community discussion led by Drake University Professor Inbal Mazar.
Becoming American: Promise & Prejudice (Sept. 2018). Screening of documentary about immigrants and refugees living in Shelbyville, TN and community discussion led by Iowa State University Extension & Outreach's Jon Wolseth.
Becoming American: A Century of Immigration (Sept. 2018). Screening of documentary on the history of immigration in America and community discussion led by Drake University Professor Inbal Mazar.
Little Salsa on the Prairie Screening & Community Discussion (Sept. 2018). Screening of documentary on immigration in Perry, with presentations by the filmmakers and community members.
WWI, Superheroes and Comics and Youth Activism during WWI (July 2018). Week-long programming series on the representation of WWI in comics and the contributions of young people at home to the war effort during WWI.
Camp Dodge during WWI with Mike Vogt (July 2018). Gold Star Museum Curator Mike Vogt gave a talk on the history of Camp Dodge.
Tracing WWI Stories with Leo Landis (June 2018). State Curator Leo Landis led a genealogy workshop on how to find out more about WWI ancestors.
WWI Veterans and Life at Home during the War (June - July 2018). Exhibit collecting Perry and Iowa's WWI stories, including photos and documents from community members.
Discussion with Sarah Weyer (June 2018). Former NASA contractor Sarah Weyer discussed editing instruction manuals for Mission Control before the days of modern computers.
Perry Fire History (April 2018). Assistant Fire Chief and Historian Brian Eiteman discussed Perry's fire history and his recent book.
Dallas County History Trivia Night (November 2017). Emceed by author Darcy Maulsby.
Amy Worthen Print-making Lecture (October 2017). Curator Lea Rossen DeLong lectured on print-making and Des Moines Artist Amy Worthen.
Night at the Carnegie Fundraiser Dinner (October 2017). Charity dinner and history presentations by author Darcy Maulsby and FCCT president Bill Clark.
Wall of Witnesses: Jim Walstrom (September 2017). Event unveiling artist's relief of Jim Walstrom for the Wall of Witnesses.
Dallas County History with Darcy Maulsby (September 2017). Author Darcy Mauslby spoke about book on Dallas County.


CRAZY COOL GROOVY!!!: HBO DOCUMENTARY TRAILER - ANDRE The GIANT!!!
HBO SPORTS, WWE, JMH FILMS, and, RINGER FILMS present a documentary film on the life and career of the truly larger0than-life Professional Wrestler ANDRE The GIANT!!!
25 years after his passing, ANDRE The GIANT remains one of the most beloved legends in WWE history.
ANDRE The GIANT explores Andre's upbringing in France, his celebrated WWE career and his forays into the entertainment world.
André René Roussimoff was born in 1946 in Grenoble, France. In his early teens, he exhibited signs of gigantism though he was not diagnosed with acromegaly until his twenties. He began his training in Paris at 17 and eventually became known in wrestling circuits around the world. In 1973, Andre joined the organization now known as World Wrestling Entertainment, where he became a superstar and rival of WWE legend Hulk Hogan.
ANDRE The GIANT premieres April 10, 2018, on HBO.


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Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective > Local News > Southwest > Officials honor Arizona soldier, Martin Apolinar, killed in Afghanistan
Officials honor Arizona soldier, Martin Apolinar, killed in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON — A decade ago Martin R. Apolinar was voted "Prettiest Eyes" by his senior class at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix. Smiling out of the pages of the high school yearbook, his eyes did not reveal the future that he would see a few years ahead of him.
Three years after graduation, Apolinar enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a rifleman, machine-gunner and team leader at Fort Riley, Kan. He was deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and in 2008 he completed his Special Forces Qualification Course at Fort Bragg, N.C., becoming a member of the Airborne Special Forces.
His second deployment was to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. It was there Sunday that now-Staff Sgt. Martin R. Apolinar, 28, was killed in Wardak Province, when an improvised explosive device struck the vehicle he was traveling in with his Special Forces team on a mounted patrol.
Staff Sgt. Martin R. Apolinar of Glendale, Ariz.
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Two other soldiers, Capt. Joseph W. Schultz, 36, of Port Angeles, Wash., and Sgt. Aaron J. Blasjo, 25, of Riverside, Calif., also died in that attack, according to information from Fort Bragg.
A family member Wednesday said the Apolinar family was not ready to comment on Martin's death, adding that the family likes to "keep things very simple and quiet."
Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday ordered flags flown a half-staff in Apolinar's honor. In a prepared statement, she asked all Arizonans to join her in genuine reflection for Apolinar's family.
"May they feel proud of the many sacrifices made by this great American," Brewer said in her statement. "Likewise, I encourage Arizonans to take a moment to reflect upon the sacrifices made by those who serve our citizens in military, law enforcement and public safety professions. They risk their lives to protect us from harm. We are forever grateful."
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Glendale, said in a statement Wednesday that Apolinar is "directly responsible for the very freedom that I, my 2-year-old twins, and millions of other Americans enjoy, as he woke up on a daily basis prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that those of us back home could continue to walk in the sunlight of freedom."
Apolinar leaves behind his wife, Elisa, a young son, Martin, and his parents, Gene and Susan, of Prescott, Ariz.
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American rose : a nation laid bare : the life and times of Gypsy Rose Lee, Karen Abbott, (electronic resource)
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The author of the acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "Sin in the Second City" returns with the gripping and expansive story of America's coming-of-age--told through the extraordinary life of Gypsy Rose Lee and the world she survived and conquered
A pair of sister child stars coming from a Vaudeville family in the Jazz Age and maturing in the Depression, driven by the most ferocious of stage mothers, Dainty June and Louise Hovick chose different paths to fame--June as a "legit" actress, while Louise became Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who understood how to sell sexy without actually showing sex. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, author Karen Abbott delves into Gypsy's world, including her intensely dramatic triangle relationship with her sister, June Havoc, and their formidable mother Rose. We also meet four scrappy and savvy showbiz brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee's brand of burlesque. The Minsky brothers relied on grit, determination, and a few tricks that fell just outside the law--and they would shape, and ultimately transform, the landscape of American entertainment.--Adapted from publisher description
New York, Random House, c2010
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Donald Trump should follow his own instincts and seal the deal with Vladimir Putin to settle the Syrian war so that the US and Russia can fight Jihadi terrorism together.
As Donald Trump inherits from Barack Obama a groaning in-tray of foreign policy problems, one area where he can achieve rapid results if he follows his instincts is the Middle East.
The combined legacy of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations is that US Middle East policy is a total mess.
Iraq and Libya have been destroyed. ISIS and Al-Qaeda are rampant. Syria is convulsed in war.
In the midst of this chaos US policy makes absolutely no sense. The reason this is so is because it has been driven by a single minded indeed almost maniacal obsession with achieving regime change in Syria.
Every diplomatic initiative to end the Syrian war has foundered on the rock of this obsession, as the US has insisted on Syrian President Assad's removal as a condition for any settlement.
The result has been to prolong and intensify the war as President Assad's regional enemies – first and foremost Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but also Turkey and Israel – have used this US insistence on his removal as cover to step up their own efforts to remove him.
Since within Syria President Assad has the loyal support of the army and bureaucracy and – as confirmed by every independent opinion poll and survey – of the majority of Syria's people, what this has meant is more and more war.
Not only has this been a total disaster for Syria and its people, but it is sowing the dragon's teeth, as violent extremist and fanatical Jihadi groups – first and foremost Al-Qaeda and ISIS – have been drawn to Syria like a magnet, becoming a hugely powerful force there, and threatening to make it a base for the export of Jihadi terrorism elsewhere.
What has however compounded the disaster to the point of total catastrophe is that instead of drawing back and revising its strategy in light of this, the US has instead doubled down, and joined with President Assad's regional enemies in their effort to bring him down.
This has created the disastrous situation where the US purports to be fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan, but is in de facto alliance with them in Syria.
All this this whilst the US continues to blame Al-Qaeda rightly for the 9/11 terrorist attacks – still the greatest single armed attack conducted by foreigners on the territory of the continental United States since the War of 1812.
Worse still, the obsession with regime change in Syria has brought the US into confrontation with Russia. Where the Russians have repeatedly sought to work with the US to combat Jihadi terrorism in Syria and elsewhere, the US has not only spurned their offers, but in October it even found itself in a potentially cataclysmic military stand-off with them, in which it eventually had to back down.
Far from learning lessons from this disaster Hillary Clinton sought to double down.
Whereas the situation urgently calls for a re-think and cooperation with Russia – as a senior retired British military officer has recently pointed out – all the talk coming from Hillary Clinton and her aides was instead of "safe zones" and "no fly zones" and more support for those she calls the "moderate rebels" (actually Jihadis affiliated to Al-Qaeda and ISIS) and of more confrontation with Syria and Russia.
Donald Trump by contrast has at least shown some understanding of the folly of this policy. He has floated the possibility of working with the Russians to fight Al-Qaeda and ISIS, and has expressed skepticism about the maniacal obsession with removing President Assad.
What President Trump now needs to do – and do urgently – is pick up where US Secretary of State Kerry left off in September, and seal the deal with the Russians that is on the table to end the Syrian war so that the US and Russia can come together and fight Al-Qaeda and ISIS together.
That means accepting that President Assad is here to stay, and that it is for the Syrian people – and no-one else – to decide whether or not he remains their leader or goes, in properly supervised elections conducted after the Syrians have themselves come to agreement about a new constitution through a genuine and open negotiation process.
Obviously that will mean facing down the neocon hardliners who currently infest the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, and in assorted think-tanks and NGOs, and whose voice has become so powerful in the Western media.
However President Trump has a compelling case to make. President Assad is not a 'clear and present danger' to the US. Al-Qaeda and ISIS by contrast are. The American people in the election have shown they understand this, and that they do not share the geopolitical fantasies that hold so much of the US elite in their grip. If President Trump follows this line, he will have the American people behind him.
Trump's instincts on this issue are sound and right, and they make complete political sense. If the US and Russia do genuinely combine and work together against Jihadi terrorism in Iraq and Syria, then given their enormous power they are bound to prevail, and moreover to do so quickly.
Provided President Trump follows his instincts and does not succumb to the the threats and blandishments of the neocon hardliners – which are bound to come – he will have got his Presidency off to a strong start. It is up to him now to seize the chance.


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Ex-CIS journalists of Korean descent (left) are talking with South Korean journalists (right) at the Korea Press Foundation building downtown Seoul on July 9, 2004.
"We are really proud of being a journalist of Korean descent," said a group of young journalists from the former CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries of Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
The six young Russian and Central Asian journalists of Korean origin were holding a press meeting with a dozen of local journalists on the 15th floor of the Korea Press Foundation (KPF) building downtown Seoul. The press meeting was arranged by KPF.
The third or fourth generation ethnic Koreans living and working as journalist in the Central Asian and Far Eastern Russian-speaking countries have been studying Korean language at Korea University in northern Seoul since July 5, 2004.
They are Lee Men Sik of Russia's Sakhalin TV, Nina Vyacheslavovna Li of Vladivostok Radio in Russia, Olesya Nam of Koryo Newspaper in Russia's Usrisk City, Vilen Kim of Koryo Newspaper in Uzbekistan's Tashkent, Tatiana Pak of Koryo Daily in Kazakhstan's Alma-Ata, and Larissa Kim of a Korean radio station in Alma-Ata.
The journalists, aged between early-20s and late-20s, are working in their own country either as a newspaper reporter or a TV or radio announcer. Their ancestors were moved to Central Asian countries at the hands of late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin during the Pacific War.
Posing with KPF's Assistant Manager Youn Hyun-Bae (center) are Lee Men Sik of Russia's Sakhalin TV, Nina Vyacheslavovna Li of Valadivostok Radio, Olesya Nam of Koryo Newspaper in Usrisk City, Vilen Kim of Koryo Newspaper in Uzbek's Tashkent, Tatiana Pak of Koryo Daily in Alma-Ata, Larissa Kim of Alma-Ata's Korean radio station.
They were farming in Russian territories just north of North Korean border after they fled harsh colonial rule of Japan which governed Korean Peninsular from 1910 to 1945.
Korea Press Foundation footed the bill for their 10-week Korean language education and stay in Seoul. KPF invited them as part of its journalist exchange program. The invitation of the Russian-speaking journalists were also aimed at promoting the use Korean language among the ethnic Koreans living in the Central Asian and Russian Far East areas.
They will be given chances to go on a cultural and industrial inspection tour during their three-month stay in South Korea.
For further details about the story or KPF journalists exchange program call 82-2-2001-7763 for KPF Assistant Manager Youn Hyun-Bae.


If you have spent any time in the Explore tab, you must have come across at least one Instagram filter accounts. These accounts with names like 'Gottolovethis', 'eclecticshotz', etc. do not post their own content but rather share photos taken by other photographers. I follow couple such accounts; mostly pertaining to Westies but I've always felt uneasy about it. These accounts do not always take permission from the original photographers and although they credit the photographers sometimes, it's intended as a favor to the original account.
Now I've previously operated a filter blog account but I've never linked to their entire post on my filter blog. I've always linked to an excerpt and urged readers to click through to read the post in full on the author's blog. But in terms of photos and especially on Instagram, once you've shared the photo, there's nothing else left to see on the original photographer's page. Some people may dig through the caption and muck around the thousand hashtags and locate the original and end up following that person. But I'm sure 99% don't. They 'like' or share the photo on the filter account and move on.
Following is the assumption of a typical filter account - if we give you credit instead of seeking permission first, we've done our due diligence and owe no apology. But copyright doesn't work that way. Unless it falls under fair use, you must always seek permission first. But that requires work and takes time. On top of that, the vast majority may not even realize their photo has been co-opted & shared and if they do, they do not bother to confront the filter account. Even if they do, the filter account can feign ignorance and even apologize, if they are halfway decent. If not, nearly 95% of their content goes undetected by the original.
The filter account gains all the followers and so-called influencer cred which I'm told leads to thousands of advertising dollars. Even if it's not about the money, it's harvesting influence and validating that's owed to someone else.
I try to avoid such filter accounts as much as possible and like to focus on individual accounts that do the traveling or the hard work of taking and sharing their own photos. I've found quite a few through the Explore tab without seeing them first at the filter accounts. But I can see the convenience that these accounts offer to the casual Instagram user. But it doesn't feel right to me. What do you think?


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The Pancaribbean Trio at Wednesdays in the Woods
Celebrate everything great about summer outdoors and in-person at Clifton Cultural Arts Center's spirited series of 11 free weekly concerts. Presented by the Louis & Melba Schott Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee, CCAC's 13th annual summer concert series celebrates art, music, community, diversity and connection – all at the historic 1911 Burnet Woods bandstand!
Tonight's food vendors are Kabobske Mediterranean and Granny's Goodies On-The-Go
We'll be making Palm Trees at the Kids Art Corner
HighGrain Brewing Co. will be onsite with beverage options for purchase
View full Wednesdays in the Woods lineup at cliftonculturalarts.org/wednesdaysinthewoods
About the Band: The Pancaribbean Trio
Pancaribbean features Stan Ginn on steel drums playing the music of the islands plus some jazz and pop and a few surprises. The group can be any size from solo steel drum to a quartet of steel drum, guitar, bass, and drumset.
Stan Ginn is a drummer/percussionist in Cincinnati. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in percussion performance form the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Since then he has studied privately with teachers in New York City, San Francisco, and Havana, Cuba. He has performed and/or recorded with a wide variety of artists including Louie Bellson, Mary Wilson and the Supremes, the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Pan Ramajay, Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalapeño Band, Songo, Janet Pressley, Bailando Desnudo, Donna Summer, Monk, Phil Hawkins, the 4Track All-Stars, and many more. He can currently be seen with Phil Degreg's Brasilia, Dave Hawkins and Celtic Core, Bossa do Retro, and his own groups Pancaribbean and Mambo Diablo.
In addition to his performance career, Stan has also been involved in music education for over 20 years teaching private and group lessons as well as providing educational programs in schools. His current educational show is entitled Chicka Chicka Boom Boom in which he teaches kids to drum on buckets, barrels, and car parts.
When not performing or teaching, Stan is usually hanging out with his lovely wife Kerry and their three amazing boys.
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Joe Sheehan Predicts The Rangers Will Lose The World Series In 2012
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A third time is supposedly a charm, but if Joe Sheehan's prediction for the 2012 baseball season comes true, then it certainly won't be a charm for the Rangers. While it's obviously way too early to make any predictions in the baseball world, with Prince Fielder and another notable free agents still yet to sign, Sheehan made ten predictions about the 2012 baseball season -- which includes the Rangers losing in the World Series...again.
The Reds will win the World Series. The AL has, arguably, the five best teams in baseball. The NL has that kind of parity at the top, though at a lower level of performance. In a short series, though, that doesn't really matter -- and we'll see that again in 2012, as the Reds, winners of a weak NL Central, ride the bats of Joey Votto and Jay Bruce into the World Series, where rookie catcher Devin Mesoraco and a deep bullpen dispatch Texas in six games. The Rangers, winners of 94 regular-season games and the AL West, become just the third team -- and the first since 1913 -- to lose three straight Fall Classics.
It would certainly be heartbreaking for Rangers fans if this happened. But hey, at least the Rangers have established themselves as favorites in the American League, ahead of two particular east coast teams.


As soon as Liz mentioned that serum last week, it was obvious that it was only a matter of time before it was used and probably improperly. I have to say, though, I was surprised that it happened so soon.
It's likely a testament to Isobel's desperation, though, that she mindfluences Kyle into using the serum on her without considering, for example, that it's a completely unknown property. It hasn't really been tested, I mean. So when it goes wrong–causing a rapid-fire deterioration of Isobel's cells–it's not a complete shocker. But it's still fraught with tension.
Liz immediately starts trying to figure out an antidote, but it's not an easy proposition, obviously–it's kind of a miracle that she even came up with the serum. When her customary brainstorming tools–wine and Alanis Morissette–don't lead her to any conclusions, Michael steps in.
There's been hints and outright comments about how smart Michael is, and we get the clearest glimpse yet this week. Underneath his Airstream is his hidden bunker–does everyone in town have one?–where he's been working on solving his own mystery. As Liz surveys the alien paraphernalia he's got strewn about the place, she figures out what no one else knows: Michael is trying to rebuild their ship.
Ship parts probably won't help Isobel, but Michael has something that might. He's been able to collect some of the material that was used in the pods to keep the alien children in stasis. However, once it hits our atmosphere, it disappears. However, the detail that Michael was able to extract it from the pods using silver needles gives Liz an idea, and she melts down her jewelry to make a solution.
I don't really understand all the science here (and I don't think it would stand up to scrutiny), but basically, this stuff will serve as a healing balm for Isobel while she recuperates in a pod. The only issue is, Liz isn't sure how long this will take. Like, it could take months or even years AND Isobel could lose all her memories. Meanwhile, I'm wondering what exactly they're going to tell Noah, the guy who thinks he just figured out that his wife is an alcoholic. Then that leads me to wonder uhhh, has Isobel ever influenced her husband?
I don't think so, because that would be super-unethical, but these characters have made questionable decisions in the past, so I'm undecided. And speaking of questionable, let's check in with Alex. I know there's been some discussion among viewers as to whether contact (or maybe even proximity) to alien artifacts can influence a human's behavior in some way. Perhaps that's what's behind Alex's own behavior this week, in which he brains his father with his crutch and then carries him down to the Project Shepherd bunker. Wait, how did he get him down there?
Okay, I'm not worried about it. Anyway, Alex uses the precious quiet time that his dad is gone night-night to crack the Shepherd database, because Alex was actually trained as a code-breaker by the Air Force. Hahaha. Guess the elder Manes might be reconsidering forcing his son into the military now, especially since it landed him in this precarious position.
That's the one where his son finds out that not only is his dad secretly investigating the alien threat, but he's also doing it without the aegis of the federal government. In fact, they explicitly shut down Project Shepherd, so all this stuff Manes has been doing has been off the books.
Oh and there's also the little matter of one Michael Guerin being specifically listed in the database as a terrorist who's THREAT LEVEL: RED. Alex, despite holding a piece of alien technology in his hand, is not inclined to believe his father, as it makes much more sense for him to just make it all up so he can get rid of Michael.
In the end, it's Alex who gets rid of his dad, forcing him to take a transfer, lest the government find out about his rebooting Shepherd. And it should feel good watching Manes ride off into the sunset. But I just know it won't last.
7/10 – While there were satisfying moments in this episode–Alex knocking out his dad, the ASMR vibes of Liz coating Isobel with the silver solution–a lot of it felt incompletely integrated. For example, the scenes with Max and Isobel's mom, Ann (Claudia Black), seemed kind of shoe-horned into the whole thing. Also, maybe it's just the way she was playing it, but Ann felt tonally off in her scenes. And don't even get me started on the way she talked about young Michael. But speaking of, what a standout episode for him. We find out what a smartypants he is and it seems like he's cracked yet another mystery–the symbol is a beacon. So it's calling?


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A: The problem is infinite recursion as @HotLicks stated in his comment. If you are new to programming I would recommend reading this article on recursion. In essence, recursion is when a method calls itself. In your code when you call [[Page alloc]init] it is calling init ad infinitum subsequently resulting in a stack overflow.

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Kamala Harris: For the people
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SENATOR MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST WOMAN OF COLOR TO RUN FOR VICE PRESIDENT Making history, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris stood before DNC delegates and accepted the nomination to be Joe Biden's running mate last evening almost 100 years from the day that the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in America.
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Vice President Cindy Estrada: This election is critical for us all
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As delegates gather online for this year's historic Democratic National Convention, UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada says this online-only convention is key to success in November, especially for women.
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Rising to the Moment: Jill Biden and the UAW know Joe Biden will lead
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Leadership matters, especially when working families are struggling with the worst public health crisis in a century, which has spurred the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
For UAW members and their families, the 2020 election comes at a time of great uncertainty about the economy, retirement, health care and a way forward to guide the nation out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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DNC Convention 2020 Roll Call
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Just after sunset on a resurgent Detroit, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry and U.S. Senator Gary Peters called the Michigan roll for Joe Biden at the 2020 Democratic National Convention live from Belle Isle's Sunset Point. Secretary-Treasurer Curry said it was a high honor for working families and the UAW because of Biden's long track record of support for labor.
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Vice President Gerald Kariem: We Need Leadership That Guides, Not Confuses
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UAW Vice President Gerald Kariem, who directs the union's National Ford Department, sees the Biden-Harris ticket as a change for the country to get back to steady, measured and effective leadership. "We need folks with a steady hand, empathy and intelligence to be able to do that job," Kariem said. "This current health care and economic crisis that has been caused by Covid-19 has shifted us into a new way of living. We need strong leadership that guides us, not confuses us." For Kariem, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the kind of upbringing that relates to the needs of working families. In fact, Kariem noted that both have a long history of being on the correct side of issues that are particularly important to UAW members. "The most important thing UAW members should know is that a Biden-Harris ticket will be sensitive to the needs of working families," he said. "Joe Biden has been in solidarity with the UAW for decades." However, Kariem stressed the importance of UAW members participating in the process and voting. "Nothing concerns me more than people who don't take advantage of their opportunity to vote," Kariem said, adding that he understands why people would have doubts about the importance of voting given the doubts and confusion sown by those who want to keep people from the polls. "We have to help our members, their families and our friends understand what the candidates stand for and how they will help UAW members, working Americans and their families. That has always been a strong part of the UAW's mission," Kariem said. It's a cliché to say that this is the most important election of our lifetimes, but Kariem says what makes this election important is the constant turmoil the nation has been experiencing in recent years. "I would like to double down on that statement and say this is the most important election in the history of this country," he said. "We are looking to find a less confusing and less chaotic society, as well as less chaotic political discourse." With Biden winning the nomination and his selection of Harris as his running mate, Kariem said he sees hope for UAW members and America on the horizon.
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Democratic National Convention Day One: Michele Obama, Whitmer, among those who stress importance of healing the nation
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The Democratic National Convention's first day focused on three major issues -- the pandemic, the resulting economic crisis and the racial justice crisis. A diverse lineup of speakers and guests including former First Lady Michele Obama, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, among others -- including many Republicans, front line workers and members of George Floyd's family -- urged voters of all political persuasions to elect the ticket that will stand up for UAW members and their families while rebuilding America.
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blackpressUSA - #NNPA BLACKPRESSOP-ED by Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry: No Bridge too Far — Remembering Congressman John Lewis and the Fight Still Ahead
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This month marks the 55th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most powerful pieces of civil rights legislation in our history. The passage of the VRA into law was the result of decades of struggle and sacrifice and was truly a shining moment in our history.
Unfortunately, the struggle to ensure that all Americans have the right and opportunity to vote not only continues today, we have actually suffered significant losses on this front over the past decade.
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Message from UAW President Rory L. Gamble on Democratic National Convention
Admin on Sunday, August 16 2020 - 10:20am
Aug. 16, 2020 Sisters and Brothers: For UAW members this year's election is about how we rise to the challenges of tremendous changes we can expect over the next four years. The notion of living through a pandemic was something that I doubt any of us ever thought we would experience. We took our national health and many of our freedoms for granted.
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Flourish & Strengthen All Your Relationships By Understanding These 4 Concepts About Communication
Image by: yakovlevmax0 By James Reubin I believe that living in another country, far away from your family and friends, changes you in many ways. However, there are some things that I think will always remain the same. Last Friday, when I got home from work, I welcomed the weekend by having some alone time…
This Guy Is Helping Homeless People Find Their Families Using the Power Of Social Media
By Jack Day Kevin Adler had a really good idea last Christmas when he filmed a homeless man looking to find his sister and uploaded the video to YouTube. Within an hour the sister was tagged on social media and a month later after some fundraising the two were reunited. So Adler thought why not…
You Have to See How This Purple Heart Made It's Way Home
By Richard K. Noots Ever found a military award in a dumpster? Yeah, me either. However, if I found one, you best believe I'd- … Probably do nothing more than turn it into a police station or something. Seriously, what do I know about retrieving lost items and getting them back to their owners? Luckily for…
Even Prisoners Deserve a Second Chance, and You Won't Believe This One
By Richard K. Noots Dion was once a simple drug dealer trying to make ends meet. He wasn't a bad person, he just wanted to pay bills and feed his family. It turns out, the majority of people in prison aren't bad people. just people who got caught up in something they didn't understand. Once Dion…
One Poem Managed to Bring This Family Back Together
By Richard K. Noots A simple poem, written when a son was born had been locked away in the child's storage for decades. One day, the son found it when he was living far away from the mountains his family raised him in. Once he read it again, something in him changed. He called his dad up, and returned…
Dads Might Just Help Save the World
By Richard K. Noots If you're a dad, or thinking about becoming a dad, you should watch this video. Dads are one of two of the most important people your child will ever interact with (the second being the mother, and they are of equal importance). However, there's an issue in our culture with an inability to actually…


Karen & Steve Alexander (www.temporarytemples.co.uk) invited Tim Carson, a farmer in the Pewsey Vale, to speak at their conference 'Summer Crop Circle Lectures' in Devizes on Sunday 28th July 2013.
He explains why many crop circles are being cut out by farmers immediately after they appear. This decision and action was taken by local farmers in the summer of 2012. A lot of visitors from all over the world are disappointed by these reactions from the farmers. In this video you will get a short insight about why the farmers decided to act like they do.
This video also includes an explanation by Monique Klinkenbergh of why she became involved in trying to save the crop circles from this fate and also setting the record straight about gossip and misconceptions surrounding the Access pass initiative run by the Crop Circle Information Co-ordination Centre at the Woodborough Garden Centre in Wiltshire.


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by Chaz Nuttycombe | Apr 17, 2021 | Articles
As of very early Friday morning, the campaign finance reports for every candidate running for the Virginia House of Delegates became available on the Virginia Department of Elections site. After combing through these reports, we only have 3 changes as a result of the...
Virginia Democrats Go Head-to-Head in Gubernatorial Debate
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Tonight, the Democratic Party of Virginia held their first debate for the 2021 statewide primaries. The five candidates running to become the next Governor of Virginia are former Governor Terry McAuliffe of Fairfax County, State Senator Jennifer McClellan of Richmond...
Can Laura Kelly Survive the Midterm?
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Kansas, who will you vote for this time? With the 2022 election season slowly ramping up it's time to take out first look at the competitive races that we'll see. In this article we're going over Kansas, where incumbent Democrat Laura Kelly is in for what will likely...
Preview: Special Election in Virginia's 38th State Senate District
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On Tuesday, there will be a special election in Virginia's 38th State Senate District in Southwest Virginia to replace the late Ben Chafin. I decided to take a look at what a good performance for the Democrats could look like, finding out the best performing...
Estimating the 2020 Election Results in the Virginia House
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The four months following the 2020 Elections have been a whirlwind, to say the least. The fervor, meticulosity, and ubiquity that for months accompanied any and all mention of November 3rd seems, on the surface, to have died down. However, there is still much to glean...
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Besides Virginia, New Jersey is the other state hosting statewide elections this year, with the Governorship, and all the seats in the State Senate and Assembly up for grabs. Democrats are in no danger of losing their majority in either chamber, with the question of a...


Don't blame politicians. Blame our voting system.
It's tempting to blame politicians. If only Obama were warmer, he might be able to win over Republicans. If only Doug Ericksen weren't captured by fossil fuel money, he would find a way for Washington state to take action on climate change.
But gridlock is now the norm in Washington, DC, and it may be spreading to state legislatures. The problem is not that we keep electing representatives who stink at compromising. Rather, our voting system fosters gridlock. The apples (politicians) are fine when they go in; the barrel itself (winner-take-all voting) makes them rot.
I have explained that winner-take-all voting creates unrepresentative government that gives short shrift to women, racial minorities, and third-parties, while also encouraging negative campaigns and voter apathy. Proportional representation voting elects women, racial minorities, and political minorities in numbers proportional to their strength in the populace, and it generates civil campaigns and engaged voters. In this article, I show that winner-take-all voting produces gridlocked legislatures, but multi-winner ranked-choice voting creates more effective legislatures.
In the United States, the Democratic and Republican parties are pulling away from each other ideologically. In 10 years, Democrats have moved seven points to the left, and Republicans have moved 22 points to the right. They are leaving a chasm in the middle. Only four percent of the members of the US House are moderate. Only six percent are crossover representatives: Republicans in a Democratic-leaning district or vice versa.
Not only have the parties moved apart, but party members increasingly see the opposing party as a "threat to the nation's well-being." Such venomous distrust is a recipe for gridlock.
Intensifying partisanship has several causes in the United States.
1. The two parties have sorted themselves along ideological lines.
In previous eras, the two parties were ideologically mixed: some southern conservatives were Democrats ("Dixiecrats") while some liberal Northerners were Republicans. Mixed parties could form bipartisan coalitions. But the parties have straightened themselves out. Modern, ideologically consistent parties have little opportunity to reach across the aisle.
2. Voters are sorting themselves geographically, creating safe districts for the two parties.
Democrats want to live in dense, walkable, cultural centers. Republicans want to live in big houses with stores and restaurants driving distance away. As fivethirtyeight.com statistician Nate Silver summed up: "if a place has sidewalks, it votes Democratic. Otherwise, it votes Republican." This self-sorting has inflated the number of safe districts in the United States—districts where one party has a nearly unbeatable advantage. In 2014, nearly two-thirds of US congressional districts were safe for one party.
Contrary to popular belief, Machiavellian partisan gerrymandering is not the main cause of safe districts. Washington's bipartisan redistricting commissions create nearly as many safe districts as does gerrymandering. In 2014, 100 percent of US Congressional districts in Washington were fairly safe, and 60 percent were very safe. Self-sorting creates increasingly monolithic forts of liberal urban legislators and rural conservative legislators with no one able to cross between.
3. Party primaries empower the most extreme and partisan voters.
Because most Congressional districts are safe for one party or the other, that party's primary becomes the real election. Primary voters are more partisan and more conservative than the general electorate. (GOP primary voters are also much older and whiter.) By the time the general public votes, the race has already been won, often by a candidate who is more extreme than the general electorate would have preferred. Because turnout is often half as high in primaries as in general elections, and because one party usually has a lock on the general election, a tiny percentage of highly partisan primary voters is effectively electing the candidate.
covering parts of Douglas, Jackson and Josephine Counties—is a safe Republican seat. In the 2014 primary election, Dallas Heard won 4,708 votes and went on to win the general election against a Democrat by a landslide. Because the Republican candidate is all but guaranteed to win that district in a general election against a Democrat, Heard's primary voters—less than 15 percent of registered voters and about 10 percent of the district's voting age population—effectively elected him.
Even Washington's top-two primary has not solved the problem of primaries as arbiter of partisanship: voter participation in primaries is low (albeit higher than the national average), and the "top-two" almost always are a Democrat and a Republican. In only 1 out of 56 elections has the top-two primary advanced two Republicans. So even with a top-two system, partisan primary voters are selecting two representatives from the two major parties, often handing the win to the candidate from the dominant party in a safe district.
4. Scorched earth, not compromise, builds party power.
In a parliamentary system, like that in British Columbia, one party (or coalition) can actually govern: it has the responsibility and the power to enact an agenda. At the next election, voters can decide whether they liked that agenda or not. Partisanship doesn't lead to gridlock; rather, it leads to starkly defined choices.
The United States' system of government is not parliamentary: it's a presidential democracy, with separately elected executive and legislative branches. This system worked well enough at fostering compromise when the two parties were fluid and included a diversity of views. At times, the United States has functioned effectively like a parliamentary system because the same party won control of the presidency, the Senate, and the House, empowering that party to enact its agenda. For example, the super-majority Democratic 89th Congress under President Johnson was very productive.
But two rigid parties splitting control of the presidency and Congress leads to gridlock. Most Americans believe the president is in charge of the country's direction and expect him to deliver results, just like in a parliamentary system. In the 1990s, Newt Gingrich successfully exploited this quirk of our system: Republicans embarked on a strategy of blocking the Democratic president at all costs. Voters blamed the inaction on the President and instead voted for Republicans. Deliberately bringing the federal government to a standstill works: the base turns out to vote, and plutocrats open their wallets to fund the partisan battle. Compromise is a fool's errand. Obstructionism wins.
5. Legislators must hew to the party line.
In a strong two-party system, candidates have little chance of getting elected if they run outside the established two parties. The major parties help select, groom, and fund most successful candidates. Once elected, the candidates are beholden to the party establishments, and individual legislators often toe the party line, as demonstrated in record numbers of party-line votes. This dynamic dampens honest legislative discussion in favor of straight partisanship.
Solution: Defuse partisanship by electing more crossover representatives, more independents, and third-party representatives, and by creating incentives for bridge-building.
1. Ideologically diverse representatives emphasize ideas, not partisanship.
Independents are the largest block of voters in Washington, and independent, unaffiliated, or third-party members together make up a bigger group than Republican voters in Oregon. Yet every single one of the 256 elected representatives in the two states' federal Congressional delegations (Oregon, Washington), state houses (Oregon, Washington) and state senates (Oregon, Washington), is either a Democrat or a Republican. Oregon and Washington voters would certainly elect more independent and third-party representatives, creating more effective and less partisan legislatures, if the voting system gave them a chance.
2. Crossover representatives elevate voters' interests above party interests.
Winner-take-all elections leave urban conservatives and rural liberals with no representation in the legislature. For example, Republicans in Oregon's Congressional District 3 (east Portland, Gresham, and Troutdale) haven't had a representative in Congress since 1955. Liberals in eastern Oregon have only elected two Democrats in the history of the state and none since 1981. No one in the Democratic caucus talks about suburban or rural issues, and no one in the Republican caucus represents urban issues, so the parties never have to talk about the diversity of voters they supposedly represent.
3. Multi-winner districts thwart the partisan power of gerrymandering.
Multi-winner districts provide a durable solution to gerrymandering and safe districts. Because voters have self-sorted, even bipartisan commissions will create safe party districts. It's not the districting commission's fault; it's the winner-take-all system—the dominant party in the district gets to elect a representative, and the minority gets no representative. But in a multi-winner district, most voters will cast at least one vote for someone who wins. No matter who draws the lines and how they draw them, most votes will count.
4. Constructive compromise—not extremist obstructionism—becomes a winning strategy.
Because proportional representation allows more variety within party representatives, and also would elect more independent and third-party representatives, the incentive for the minority party to obstruct the majority party would be lessened. If the majority party could craft solutions that attract enough independents, third-party voters, or moderate members of the smaller party, it could move forward with its agenda and leave the extremists in the dust. Extremists could no longer derail action by refusing to come to the table. They just wouldn't be at the table.
Indeed, other countries—such as Germany and New Zealand—that use proportional representation do not experience partisan gridlock.
Many Oregonians and Washingtonians yearn for a better political process, sometimes wishing candidates could just be kinder to each other, or that the parties could just compromise instead of gridlocking, or that independent commissions could re-draw district boundaries to avoid gerrymandering.
But as long as deep partisanship defines elections and party primaries elect extreme partisans, the parties will have to play to their bases. As long as self-sorted safe districts elect just one partisan representative and render other voices within the district mute, we couldn't overcome partisanship even if we got Mother Theresa to draw the district boundaries. As long as winner-take-all voting creates two strong, ideologically distinct parties, neither of which has the power or responsibility to enact an agenda, the party that is not in control of the executive branch will benefit more from unadulterated obstructionism than from constructive compromise.
Multi-winner ranked choice voting can defuse partisan gridlock by electing a more diverse and representative legislature that can find common ground and move forward.
Thanks to FairVote for its research on proportional representation and ranked-choice voting. This article relies heavily on it.
Again you are on fire. It is so, so deeply refreshing to see people move out of their single-focus silos and start to explore the root causes of the problems. Well done, keep it up!
I love your metaphor of the barrel turning the apples bad — everyone has seen great people run for office and win and become unrecognizable in no time flat. That makes some people cynical, but the wiser choice is to do as you are doing and examine what is going on to turn these people against what they believed as candidates. The way we stock our "barrel" guarantees that the worst traits in the apples are reinforced and that none of the apples can escape being saturated with the most toxic strains. Luckily, there are better ways, as you are sharing.
Thanks for these wonderful articles. I've been writing about proportional representation in Whatcom Watch (www.whatcomwatch.org) since last summer, and have been talking with the Whatcom Charter Review Commission since it began meeting in January. PR will actually be on the Commission's agenda this coming Monday. 🙂 What they decide to do with it is another question.
Great job, Kristin, on these recent articles delving into the many issues with winner-take-all elections and the benefits of ranked choice voting and multi-winner voting.
I continue to believe that this root issue is the most important one in (American) politics. It's nice to see someone else getting the message out–and in much more eligant ways that I could.
Still, I'm still looking for the next step. Now that we have identified the root issue that needs to be worked, just how do we go about fixing it. I have had no real luck finding people or groups actively working on these kinds of election reforms in the Cascadia area. If I could I would certainly want to give them my support, as I have offered Sightline.
In the meantime I am doing want (limited amount) that I can just as a single citizen: meeting with election and legislative officials at county, district, and state levels. (My next meeting is 6 July with state election officials in Olympia.) But there's only so much I can do as a single concern citizen against the road-block of our existing system.
Please let me know if you are aware of any groups actively working these issues.
Thanks, J. Data. I plan to turn next to how multi-winner and/or ranked choice voting have worked in North American cities, states and provinces, and then tackle what it would take to start moving in this direction in the Pacific Northwest. Hopefully this next round of research will turn up those who are working on it, and illuminate paths towards change.
We support RCV in Arizona because we are numerically small but those numbers are never effectively counted. The Arizona Libertarian Party expects our candidates would receive a significant share of the 1st Choice ballots if a 2nd Choice were more popular in the polls. To be a visible minority is better than being an invisible minority, since "strategic voting" and negative voting dominates the winner-takes-all system.
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O Antwerp Giants, chamado também de Telenet Giants Antwerp por motivos de patrocinadores, é um clube profissional de basquetebol sediado na cidade de Antuérpia, Bélgica que atualmente disputa a Liga Belga. Foi fundado em 2005 e manda seus jogos na Lotto Arena que possui capacidade de 5218 espectadores.

Histórico de temporadas

Títulos

 1x  Ligas belgas: 2000
 2x  Copas da Bélgica:  2000, 2007

Denominações
Em razão de patrocinadores o clube variou de denominação:
1996–1999: Racing Basket Antwerpen
1999–2004: Racing Basket Antwerpen Telindus
2005–2006: Racing Basket Antwerpen Daewoo
2006–2008: Antwerp Giants Sanex
2008–2011: Antwerp Diamond Giants
2011–presente: Port of Antwerp Giants

Camisas Aposentadas

Clubes de basquetebol da Bélgica
Clubes esportivos fundados em 2005

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