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A Star-Spangled 4th of July Broadway Playlist
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|by Mark Robinson |July 3, 2019
Celebrate Independence Day with these patriotic show tunes
Independence Day is almost here, and it is impossible to let the celebration of our country's birth pass by without putting together a Broadway playlist that celebrates the event. From musicals that are actually about America's declaration of independence from Great Britain and musicals that thematically support what our country stands for, to shows that simply evoke the spirit of Americana, we hope you'll enjoy collection of patriotic show tunes curated for your 4th of July listening pleasure.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson perform a number from 'Hamilton' (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
"You're a Grand Old Flag" from George Washington, Jr. (1906)
Composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director and producer George M. Cohan is best remembered for penning many a showtune that celebrates the spirit of America. One of hist most enduring is the patriotic "You're a Grand Old Flag," written for the 1906 Broadway musical George Washington, Jr. This song has become such an important part of the American Songbook, it is easy to forget that it started out in a theatrical piece.
"Take Care of this House" from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
For America's Bicentennial, Coca-Cola sponsored the Leonard Bernstein/Alan Jay Lerner musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to commemorate two-hundred years as a country. The piece used the White House and its inhabitants from 1792 to 1902 to tell America's story, giving us a glimpse into the lives of presidents such as Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. Though the show was a flop, the score continues to be regarded as rich and lovely, with "Take Care of this House" a moving standout.
"76 Trombones" from The Music Man
The 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man, written by Meredith Wilson, is just dripping with Americana. The musical is set in and around the 4th of July in the year 1912 as a flim-flam salesman tries to sell musical instruments and marching band uniforms to the denizens of a small Iowa town. Willson wrote some glorious pastiche numbers that evoked the time period beautifully, including the John Phillip Sousa-inspired march "76 Trombones," a mainstay of the marching band set.
"The Egg" from 1776
If any Broadway musical ever captured the moments leading up to American Independence, composer Sherman Edwards and bookwriter Peter Stone's 1776 takes us to that daunting time and place. As congress first hears aloud the reading of the Declaration of Independence, the uncertainty of it being ratified weighs on the minds of its author Thomas Jefferson and his committee cohorts John Adams and Ben Franklin. "The Egg" captures their hopes and fears as they wait inside the "congressional incubator" waiting for the future of American to unfold.
"Love Is Sweeping the Country" from Of Thee I Sing
The first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama was the 1931 satire of American politics, Of Thee I Sing. With a score by George Gershwin (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics), and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, the musical follows the altruistic presidential campaign of John P. Wintergreen and his Vice Presidential candidate, the completely forgettable Alexander Throttlebottom. Wintergreen is running on the platform of "love," and the ditty "Love is Sweeping the Country" sums up his breezy outlook.
"The Parade" from Take Me Along!
Another musical set during the 4th of July is 1959's Take Me Along!, based on the comedy Ah, Wilderness by Eugene O'Neill. Theatrical producer David Merrick was in search of a property that he hoped would mimic the success of The Music Man, and so he insisted that composer-lyricist Bob Merrill create a score that evoked that same nostalgia. Merrill came up with the agreeable "The Parade" that opened the show with patriotic gusto.
"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" from Miss Liberty
Irving Berlin, like George M. Cohan, had a real knack for conjuring songs that spoke to the average American and made their hearts beat with an undaunted patriotism. One of his lesser-known scores was for the 1949 Broadway musical Miss Liberty, which told the story of the creation of what would come to be known as "The Statue of Liberty." Berlin drew from Emma Lazarus's sonnet "The New Colossus" (found at the base of the statue) to write "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor."
"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" from Hamilton
We cannot leave the smash hit Hamilton off this list. Indeed, the musical is as patriotic as 1776, while digging even deeper and pointing out the flaws in the system that left many minorities out of the collective story that is America. Lin-Manuel Miranda devised a score that included hip hop, pop, soul, rap, R&B and traditional showtunes. "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" is an arresting conclusion for the musical, a study in how history is shaped and shared.
"America" from West Side Story
"Puerto Rico is in America" is a lyric that stands out in the song "America" from West Side Story, reminding us that who we are as a country extends far past any borders we want to accept or understand. "America" with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is an electrified and passionate debate over what makes our country great.
"Ragtime" from Ragtime
One of the things that makes America great is that melting pot of the myriad cultures, races, religions and individuals that came together over the years to construct it. It hasn't been an easy road, with uncertainty, fear and differences to overcome. No other showtune quite captures all of this better than the title song from the musical Ragtime. Lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty expertly intertwined dozens of characters and a variety of musical sounds in one song, demonstrating the diversity of America in the process.
Mark Robinson is the author of the two-volume encyclopedia The World of Musicals, The Disney Song Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Television Theme Songs. He maintains a theater and entertainment blog at markrobinsonwrites.com.
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American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL): Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?
Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?
This post on Land Acknowledgements is long over-due. I promised to do it last year, but one thing after another meant I put it off. This morning (Saturday, March 9, 2019) I did a twitter thread about land acknowledgements, and am pasting that thread here. There's more to say, but I hope this is helpful.
1) More and more I am seeing people in the US talk about doing a Land Acknowledgement at their meeting, conference, or event.
2) If you're wondering what a Land Acknowledgement is, it is opening remarks that say the land that the event is on is (or was) the homeland of a specific Native Nation. It is meant to create awareness.
3) At first glance, cool, right? Progressive-minded, right? They have a lot of appeal, for sure. But... that is where they can go wrong.
4) I've seen scripts that people write that a presenter/speaker can use. The use of it is well-meaning, but we all know about good intentions, right?
5) If you do one because you think you should, but that's as far as you go with it in your own thinking or what you impart to others, you're just doing it as a box-checked sort of thing that is no good.
6) If you're not mindful of what you are doing, then, you are turning a land acknowledgement into a token. It becomes an empty gesture to "honor" Native people. It becomes this century's mascot.
7) Listen to Hayden King's 'I regret it' about his reflections on a land acknowledgement he helped draft at his university. He makes many excellent points. Listen and share it! He's Anishinaabe.
8) If you're going to do one, you gotta do some research! If, for example, you are in Oklahoma, you might want to acknowledge one of the 39 tribal nations there today, but you know (right?) that many of them are there because of the Indian Removal Act.
9) How might you incorporate that history into your acknowledgement?
10) Find out what the nation(s) you are naming in your acknowledgement are doing, today. Tell your audience about it. Tell them how they can support that nation's work. See? That means you have to do some research so your Land Acknowledgement is meaningful.
11) Annoying fact: lot of people think children's literature is not worthy of the same kind of study that English departments give to bks for the adult market. But you know that people want their kids to read! In your Land Acknowledgement, recommend a book by a Native writer!
12) I've got links to lists of books by Native writers, here: Best Books I'd love to see ppl who do Land Acknowledgements in California say "hey everybody, ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS is not a good book." Because it isn't.
13) And, I'd love to see people in California who are doing Land Acknowledgements say "hey everybody, let's look critically at the mission projects teachers are doing..." Start by reading Teaching the Truth about California Missions.
14) And, wouldn't it be terrific if Land Acknowledgements in California and Alaska and Georgia included "let's think about the impact the gold rush had on Indigenous people..."
15) In other words: do some work before doing a Land Acknowledgement. Make it meaningful. Give your audience a task.
16) And when you speak those words... don't do it in a somber tone. You're not in church! When you're teaching, you don't speak in a reverent, prayer like way. Don't do it for a Land Acknowledgement, either.
17) By this point in this thread, some of you are wondering what to do. How, you might wonder, can you 'get it right' (or close to right)?
18) Most of you have a lifetime of unlearning to do. Some of you have a family story about a Native ancestor and you think that puts you in a place to say this or that about an issue, but if you don't know more than just "Native ancestor", you're probably relying on stereotypes.
19) Some of you might have taken a DNA test and in your head and heart, think that validates your family story, but it doesn't. To understand why it doesn't, read Kim Tallbear's work. Start with her article, 'There is no DNA test to prove you're Native American' (link: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is-no-dna-test-to-prove-youre-native-american/) Get her book, too. And follow her on Twitter.
20) Most of the mainstream media does a terrible job reporting on Native issues. They can flail about as they've done for hundreds of years, or they can take a look at the resources developed by the Native American Journalists Association.
22) Do you listen to podcasts as you drive, walk, or exercise? Subscribe to All My Relations: (link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-my-relations-podcast/id1454424563?mt=2) And Media Indigena.
23) And give a listen to Henceforward.
24) One issue you could address in your land acknowledgement is mascots. There are far more than you may know. Zoom in on this interactive map.
25) And if you want to incorporate something about why mascots are unacceptable, start by reading Stephanie Fryberg's research.
26) Get a copy of Daniel Heath Justice's WHY INDIGENOUS LITERATURES MATTER. It doesn't matter what YOU teach... we all read, buy, and share books... Daniel's book will help you a lot.
28) This is a great resource for doing land acknowledgements. Make sure you read the articles there, and take a look at the teacher's guide, too! Here's the link that will take you right to the map. Read the disclaimer that pops up when you go to the map.
In Aotearoa New Zealand land acknowledgements are universal, and are in Māori. In Australia land acknowledgements are in English and are partisan: progressives give them, while reactionaries don't.
This is so incredibly helpful! Thank you! We inherited a Land Acknowledgment in our organization and while we've felt it was important, it has absolutely been a token. I really appreciate both having it pointed out how the good intentions are lacking and the concrete suggestions you've made for how to help breathe life into it and make it more meaningful. Now seeing how much richer it can be, I want to make it better.


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Intermediate GIS concepts will be studied related to geoprocessing and analyzing geographic phenomena. Students will learn to use various extensions and tools for a variety of GIS routines. Data structures in GIS, date sources for GIS, and data and software compatibility issues in GIS will be covered.


After celebrating African musicians for the past three years, the MAMAs didn't come through in 2017. Here's why.
The award ceremony which has been in running for 6 years, appears to be a no-show this year, and if this happens, it will mark the first time, that the awards will not be holding in the past 3 years.
The MTV Africa Music Awards (also known as the MAMAs) were established in 2008 by MTV Networks Africa (now Viacom International Media Networks Africa) to celebrate the most popular contemporary music in Africa.
It was conceived and created by the SVP and MD of the MTV Networks in Africa, Alex Okosi. Earlier, African artists had been included in the MTV Europe Music Award where MTV Base Africa viewers voted for Best African artist in the 2006 and 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The first awards show was held at the Velodrome, Abuja in Nigeria on November 22, 2008 and was broadcast around the world on November 29 in conjunction with Airtel and local television channels in Africa. The show was hosted by Trevor Nelson.
The awards were preceded by four concerts in different cities celebrating the musicians nominated for the awards. The Award categories included Artist of the Year, Best Alternative, Best Female, Best Group, Best Hip-Hop, Best Live Performance, Best Male, Best New Act, Best R&B, Video of the Year and the MY Video Award which allows viewers to make their own version of a music video.
The 2009 event took place in Nairobi, Kenya at the Moi International Sports Centre in October 2009. In 2010, the awards were again held in Nigeria, at Eko Expo Hall in Lagos. This year, some award categories were to better reflect the music of the entire continent, hence creating awards for Best Anglophone, Best Lusophone and Best Francophone artists.
After a 3-year hiatus, Viacom International Media Networks Africa announced that the MTV Africa Music Awards would return in June 2014. The event took place at the ICC, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on July 18 2015, and the sixth edition took place in Johannesburg, South Africa on October 22, 2016 at the Ticketpro Dome. It featured a headline performance by US rapper Future.
The MAMAs isn't the only popular awards that didn't hold in 2017. Nigeria's greatest music awards, The Headies, also failed to have an edition in 2017.


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Camillo Golgi (* 7. Juli 1843 in Corteno Golgi, Brescia, Italien; † 21. Januar 1926 in Pavia, Italien) war ein italienischer Mediziner und Histologe. Er erhielt im Jahr 1906 für seine Untersuchungen zur feingeweblichen Anatomie des Nervensystems den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin gemeinsam mit Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

Golgi entwickelte die nach ihm benannte Golgi-Färbung, eine Methode zum Anfärben einzelner Nerven und Zellstrukturen, die als "Schwarze Reaktion" bekannt wurde. Es handelte sich um eine histologische Färbung mit Silbernitrat, worüber Golgi 1873 publizierte. Die meiste Zeit seines Lebens versuchte Golgi, diese, vor allem durch Albert von Koelliker international bekanntgemachte Methode zu verbessern und zu verfeinern. Durch sie entdeckte er u. a. den nach ihm benannten Golgi-Apparat und die von ihm 1875 beschriebenen Golgi-Zellen im Gehirn (in der Kleinhirnrinde).

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Golgi wurde als Sohn eines Arztes geboren. Er studierte Medizin und wurde 1865 an der Universität Pavia promoviert. Seine akademischen Lehrer waren vor allem Paolo Mantegazza, Giulio Bizzozero und Eusebio Oehl. Nach seinem Studium führte er seine Arbeiten im Krankenhaus von St. Matteo fort. 1872 übernahm er die Position des Chefarztes am Krankenhaus für chronische Erkrankungen in Abbiategrasso. Hier begann er in einer umgebauten Küche seine bahnbrechenden Arbeiten über das Nervensystem. 1876 kehrte Golgi als Außerordentlicher Professor für Histologie an die Universität in Pavia zurück und erhielt 1881 nach einem kurzen Aufenthalt in Siena den Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Pathologie. 1890 identifizierte er die drei verschiedenen Erreger der Malaria und entwickelte eine Methode, die Stadien des Parasiten zu fotografieren.
Während des Ersten Weltkriegs setzte sich Golgi für ein Militärhospital in Pavia ein. Hier baute er ein Neuropathologisches und Mechanopathologisches Institut zum Studium und zur Behandlung von Verletzungen des peripheren Nervensystems auf.

Camillo Golgi heiratete 1881 die Nichte seines Lehrers Bizzozero, Donna Lina. Sie hatten keine eigenen Kinder, adoptierten jedoch seine Nichte Carolina.

Ehrungen und Mitgliedschaften
 1890: Mitglied der Leopoldina
 1892: Korrespondierendes Mitglied (ab 1906 auswärtiges Mitglied) der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften
 1905: Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
 1906: Zusammen mit Santiago Ramón y Cajal Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin in Anerkennung ihrer Arbeit über die Struktur des Nervensystems
 1911: Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
 1914: Aufnahme in den Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste (24. Januar 1914)
 1916: Ehrenmitglied (Honorary Fellow) der Royal Society of Edinburgh
 1976: Benennung des Mondkraters Golgi nach ihm.
 2017: Benennung des Asteroiden (6875) Golgi nach ihm.

Werke
 Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso. Hoepli, Mailand 1886. (Digitalisat)
 Il Fagocitismo Nell'infezione Malarica. Pavia 1888. (Digitalisat)
 Ueber die Wirkung des Chinins auf die Malariaparasiten und die diesen entsprechenden Fieberanfälle. In: Deutsche Medizinishce Wochenschrift 1892, S. 663ff. (Digitalisat)
 Action de la quinine sur les parasites malariques et sur les accès fébriles qu'ils déterminent. In: Archives italiennes de biologie. 17, 1892. (Digitalisat)
 Sulle Febbri Malariche Estivo Autunnali Di Roma. Bizzoni, Pavia 1893. (Digitalisat)
 Untersuchungen über den feineren Bau des centralen und peripherischen Nervensystems: mit einem Atlas von 30 Tafeln und 2 Figuren im Text. Fischer, Jena 1894. (Digitalisat)
 Opera omnia. Hoepli, Mailand 1903. (Digitalisat Band 1), (Band 2), (Band 3)

Literatur
 Werner E. Gerabek: Golgi, Camillo. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (Hrsg.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin/ New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4, S. 501 f.
 Reinhard Hildebrand: Rudolf Albert Koelliker und seine wissenschaftlichen Kontakte zum Ausland. In: Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen. Band 2, 1984, S. 101–115; hier: S. 111.

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Mitglied der Königlich Niederländischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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Tulane senior 8-man, Dylan Delisle, is ending her time with Tulane rugby on an extremely strong note as she was just named MVP of the Spring Hill 7's Tournament.
Delisle has had nothing but positive experiences while playing for Tulane rugby and sees her team as a close knit family. " I have loved playing rugby for Tulane. The Tulane team starting back up brought back the close knit community that I had in high school. It has been amazing to watch and be a part of the growth of this team and family," said Delisle.
Delisle looks to nail a drop kick. Photo Courtesy of Tulane Rugby.
Delisle will lace up with the Tulane women's squad one last time this Saturday to cap off her impressive career with Tulane.


AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, March 13, 2013 – Inside Secure (NYSE Euronext: INSD) today announced the commercial availability of its downloadable DRM Fusion Agent for the BlackBerry® 10 platform. With this release, Inside Secure makes it possible to deliver high-definition movies, television shows and other premium content on the BlackBerry 10 platform using the same proven DRM technology that industry leaders such as HBO, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, and many others, already use to provide anytime, anywhere viewing on millions of mobile devices around the globe.
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Brian Lamar Allen (born April 1, 1978) is a former American football linebacker who played four seasons in the National Football League. Allen played college football at Florida State University.

High school career
A native of Lake City, Florida, Allen attended Columbia High School, where he played linebacker and was an honor student as a senior. In his senior season, he recorded 159 tackles and 5.5 sacks, and also picked off four passes and returned three for scores. Allen was named third-team all-state Class 6A, and was looking forward to a scholarship offer by University of Florida in Gainesville, just down the Interstate 75 from Lake City. However, he was not recruited by the Gators, and eventually chose Florida State over Virginia Tech, South Carolina, and Clemson.

College career
After redshirting his first year in Tallahassee, Allen played all 12 games of the 1997 season as a back-up to Lamont Green and Deon Humphrey at strongside linebacker and on special teams. He finished fifth among FSU linebackers with 26 total tackles (10 solo). His season-best performance came in the 50–7 victory over Maryland, with five tackles, including one for loss.

In his sophomore year, Allen played in 11 games and finished sixth on the team with 57 tackles (31 solo), including six for a loss of yardage and three quarterback sacks. Two of those came in the 26–14 win over in-state rival Miami (FL). His best game of the season, however, came in the 23–12 win over the Seminoles' other in-state rival, the Florida Gators. Allen was responsible for the only sack of Gators quarterback Doug Johnson, and added four tackles and two pass deflections, a performance for which he was named the Tomahawk Player of the Game by the coaching staff.

As a junior, emerged as one of the top linebackers in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Starting all eleven games, he finished second on the team with 101 total tackles, behind only Tommy Polley and ahead of Bradley Jennings, which made them the first linebacker trio to lead the Seminoles in tackles since Daryl Bush, Derrick Brooks, and Sam Cowart in 1994. In six games, Allen had at least ten tackles, with a season-high 14 tackles in Florida State's regular season ending 30–23 win over Florida. Allen also made eight tackles for loss and broke up two passes, and ranked second on the team with five quarterback sacks, behind only Jamal Reynolds (7.0). He was named was named second-team All-ACC.

In his senior year, Allen tied Jennings for most tackles on the team with 102 on the season. He also accounted for six quarterback hurries, ten pass-breakups (second-best on the team behind Tay Cody's twelve), two fumble recoveries and also had an interception in the 37–3 win over Virginia.

Professional career
Allen was drafted in the third round (83rd overall) in the 2001 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams. He played three games during his rookie season, and was later allocated to the Houston Texans in the 2002 NFL Expansion Draft.  However, he was released by the Texans before playing a game for the team.  He was signed off waivers to the Carolina Panthers in 2002.  He played mostly on special teams for the Panthers, and was part of the unit that ranked fifth in the NFL in 2003.  He was released by the Panthers, and was signed to the Redskins on April 6, 2005.  He was released by the Redskins in late 2005 due to a knee injury.l, after the other play put him down.

Post-playing career
Then Allen worked at Lyman High School.  He worked as a Coach and American History Teacher at Lake Howell High School.  He was recently selected as head coach for the Columbia High School Tigers in Lake City where he graduated from and played high school football.

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Prepared Like A Bride depart with "Soul of the World"
Dave May 12, 2015 News
Aussie metalcore giants, Prepared Like A Bride, have sprung both a new song and a surprise on their fans. PLAB posted the lyric video for "Soul of the World" to their Facebook site this week, but the big surprise was their announcement on May 10th of the break up of PLAB.
It's been an incredible ride that's taken us all over the world and now after nearly 6 years we, Prepared Like A Bride have decided to call it a day.
The opportunities that have come our way over the course of this journey have truly blessed us and we want to thank you for the love and support you've shown us. Thank you to our families, friends, previous members, our team and of course you guys, our fans.
We've seen the world, made lifelong friends and released honest music and for all of this we're so grateful. It's time to move on however and we're excited about what the future holds for each of us.
We wanted to leave the game on a high and present you with one final tale.. so thank you for listening and to everyone who's spoken so highly of our single we released a week ago, 'Soul of the World'. (Which is now available on iTunes http://bitly.com/1Jx2xqs)
Finally, we hope you continue dreaming and achieving on your journey, wherever you are in the world and wherever you are in life right now. You're a treasure, you're an overcomer and you are the soul of the world!
Ryan, Jonny, Anthony and Dryden.
The Antidote wishes all of the band members the best on their new journeys.
Discover the story of Prepared Like A Bride on The Antidote's feature on PLAB during episode 152. http://www.theantidoteradio.com/episode/episode-152-prepared-like-a-bride
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Belt and Road, a signature policy unveiled by President Xi Jinping in 2013, embraces 65 countries to expand commerce and international relations. The initiative connects China with Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa via the Old Silk Road and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. This series explores how the initiative is faring by land and by sea.
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Cyber security requires cross-industry and global cooperation
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A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge - first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.
Andrew Marr was born in Glasgow. He has enjoyed a long career in political journalism, including five years as the BBC's Political Editor (2000-05). Andrew's broadcasting includes BBC2's History of Modern Britain series, political documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC Panorama, and Radio 4's 'Start The Week'.


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La C4 è un'vettura di fascia medio-bassa prodotta dal 1922 al 1929 dalla casa francese Amilcar.

Storia

La C4 fu uno dei tre modelli Amilcar che debuttarono nel 1922, all'esordio della Casa di Saint-Denis sul mercato: gli altri due modelli erano la CC e la CS, che erano tecnicamente imparentate proprio con la C4. Il telaio era infatti lo stesso, ma sulla C4 ne fu allungato il passo di 14 cm.

Con la C4, la Casa volle, a fianco delle altre due vetture di stampo sportiveggiante, un'altra vettura dalla vocazione più tranquilla e familiare, nonché molto economica.

La C4, presentata al Salone di Parigi, fu proposta principalmente in tre tipi di carrozzeria: la più diffusa era la torpedo, che poteva essere a quattro posti oppure a due o tre posti, e poteva essere normale oppure in stile torpedo skiff, uno stile utilizzato su alcune vetture nella prima metà degli anni venti, il quale proponeva forme di stampo nautico. Vi erano però anche una classica configurazione berlina ed una versione commerciale, indicata per le piccole consegne.

Le varie configurazioni di carrozzeria fecero sì che la C4 facesse registrare alle bilance dei valori di massa anche molto diversi tra loro da una configurazione all'altra.

L'economia del modello, sia nei costi di esercizio, sia come prezzo di listino, e la semplicità e relativa affidabilità della sua meccanica fecero sì che la C4 riscuotesse un buon successo.

Anche l'equipaggiamento interno era piuttosto completo per l'epoca e per la fascia di mercato in cui la C4 andava ad inserirsi: la strumentazione prevedeva infatti tachimetro, contachilometri, amperometro e luce di illuminazione cruscotto. Il clacson era inizialmente costituito dalla classica trombetta con impugnatura in gomma. Solo dal 1925 fu sostituita da un clacson elettrico.

La C4 fu prodotta fino al 1929.

Meccanica

La C4 montava lo stesso motore della contemporanea CS, vale a dire un 4 cilindri da 1003 cm³ in grado di erogare una potenza massima di 22 cc a 2800 giri/min.
La distribuzione era due valvole per cilindro, con asse a camme laterale. L'alimentazione era ovviamente affidata ad un carburatore, in questo caso un Solex.

La trasmissione era di tipo molto semplice, addirittura non si faceva uso di un differenziale al retrotreno. Questo fino al 1925: a partire da tale anno, la C4 montò anche il differenziale. Da ciò si intuisce che la trazione era posteriore. Il cambio era invece manuale a tre marce, ed era lo stesso cambio montato sulle CC e CS. Unica differenza era l'albero di trasmissione, il quale era necessariamente più lungo a causa dell'aumento del passo della vettura.

Le sospensioni prevedevano molle a balestra e ammortizzatori su entrambi gli assi.

L'impianto frenante agiva solo sul retrotreno, ed era anch'esso derivante dalle CC e CS, ma migliorato, poiché i due tamburi erano comandabili sia tramite pedale che tramite leva. Inoltre erano più spessi. Il diametro era 220 mm, come sulle CC e CS. Solo nell'ultimo anno di produzione furono montati dei tamburi da 225 mm, derivanti da quelli della CGS.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

C4


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Writing and Society Home Research Past Research Projects
Australia India Literatures International Forum
Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty led this Writing and Society initiative that developed links between Indian and Australian authors and publishers. »Read More
Spanish America – a Literary Laboratory
Dr Christopher Andrews was the recipient of an ARC discovery grant to study recent fiction by Spanish American writers and how their compositional procedures are related to their political, ethical and aesthetic values. »Read More
Creative Nation: Writers and Writing in the New Media Culture
Associate Professor Anna Gibbs and Dr Maria Angel together with partner investigator Professor Joseph Tabbi from the University of Illinois, Chicago studied the impact of the culture of new media on literary writing with the assistance of an ARC discovery grant. »Read More
Australian Literary Publishing and its Economies, 1965-1995
Researchers: Ivor Indyk, John Arnold, Mark Davis, David Carter and Louise Poland
Partner/Funding Body: Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant
The effectiveness of Literature Board subsidies 1995-2005
Researchers: Ivor Indyk, Louise Poland, and Kath McLean
Partner/Funding Body: the Australia Council
Download the final report 'A Case for Literature: The effectiveness of subsidies to Australian publishers 1995 -2005'
The research project aims to assess the efficacy and significance of Literature Board subsidies to publishers of Australian literary works in the period 1995-2005. Over the ten-year period under examination, some 1200 titles were subsidised by the Literature Board. The project examines the range of titles and publishers supported by the subsidies, and considers the extent to which those titles made a significant contribution to Australian literature, either directly, in recognition of their value, or indirectly through the contribution they made to the authors' careers and reputations, and to the reputations and lists of the publishers concerned.
Literature, Music, Voice
Researcher: Hazel Smith
This project focuses on a range of sonic/verbal intersections, and relationships between literature and music, in the growing field of musico-literary discourse. It is particularly concerned with the formal/cultural hybridities, mixes and impurities created by such intersections, and the way they are changing concepts of the literary. Focusing on the contemporary scene, it includes work on new media poetry, sound and affect; cultural eclecticism in the work of American jazz singer Kurt Elling; the blues-inflected African American performance poetry of Harryette Mullen, Wanda Coleman and Tracie Morris; the politics of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (a youth orchestra initiated by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said), and its implications for Palestinian-Israeli cooperation; the voice in computer music and its relationship to identity, place and community; and the representation of musical meaning, musical performance and musical communities in literary fiction, particularly Vikram Seth's An Equal Music and Richard Powers' A Time of Our Singing.
Western Sydney Writing Projects
Researchers: Ivor Indyk, Mireille Astore, Anna Poletti and associate researchers
Partner/Funding Body: Arts NSW - 2006 Western Sydney Strategic Initiatives Grant
Writing in the Image Culture
Researchers: Anna Gibbs, Maria Angel, Rachel Morley
Partner/Funding Body: Western Sydney University Research Grant
Period: 2008
The Power of the Image: Affect, Audience and Disturbing Imagery
Researchers: Anna Gibbs and Virginia Nightingale
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The Image of Thought: Literature as a Way of Thinking
Researcher: Anthony Uhlmann


Tyler Cowen explores The Nordic Triangle over at Marginal Revolution, which posits a triangular relationship between the Family, the State and the Individual. The model comes from a Swedish study, reported in a fascinating report on The Nordic Way. The suggestion is that different axes dominate in different countries. In Germany the Family-State axis dominates, in Sweden it is the Individual-State axis. The United States is dominated by the Family-Individual axis.
Which got me thinking: what about Ireland? I think we are moving from Family-Individual axis dominance to a more dominant Individual-State axis. But such are the volatile times that we live in that I expect we'll keep moving: probably towards a more German Family-State axis arrangement. Why? Because of Peak Government: the Nordic Individual-State model is very expensive (as the State must fund more of the activities otherwise the responsibility of the Family) and, well, very Nordic (especially in relation to their highly secular/high trust culture).
Of course, the Family-Individual axis is the least expensive welfare arrangement, and is probably where we'll all end up anyway as sovereign defaults becomes more widespread throughout the developed world in the decades ahead. Or even next month.
Correction: that should have been 3% of GDP (which I correctly used to calculate the nearly €5bn figure for Ireland).
Even at that, it's still a lot!


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The Department of Veterans Services has been providing services and benefits to veterans since 1861.
From the date of that commitment, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts insured that no individual who served his or her state and nation with honor would ever be forced to turn to public welfare for assistance. The Massachusetts Executive Office and the Massachusetts House and Senate have shown their concern for the welfare of the veteran and his or her dependents. This support has proven to be one of the most comprehensive programs in the country. These services are provided through the Massachusetts Department of Veterans Services and the local Veterans Services Office.
Veterans' Services Timeline
1888 - The Soldiers Relief Law was enacted, which gave cities and towns the right to support honorably discharged veterans, their spouses, widows and minor children.
1945 - The Office of Commissioner of Veterans' Services was created.
1946 - Chapter 115 (Veterans' Services) of the Massachusetts General Laws was reorganized to form the basis of today's benefits and services program.
1946 - Chapter 599 Acts of 1946 mandated "municipal and district Departments of Veterans' Services." Veterans' Agents and Directors of Veterans' Services have become the first individuals that the veteran will turn to for assistance.
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Stoller pushing to pass S.A.L.T. bill 'on behalf of Illinois small businesses'
NW Illinois News May 10, 2021
Stoller pushing to pass S.A.L.T. bill 'on behalf of Illinois small businesses' – Sen. Win Stoller (R-Germantown Hills) is working to pass Senate Bill 2531 through the Illinois General Assembly to help small businesses with a State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction.
According to a press release from Stoller, Senate Bill 2531 allows small businesses to use an IRS-approved method to bypass a $10,000 cap through entities such as partnerships or S-corporations. With state, local and property tax being high in Illinois, this will allow small businesses to be taxed at an entity level on businesses income, which currently is not allowed in Illinois.
"My S.A.L.T Bill has started to pick up support as it moves through the legislative process. I look forward to advocating on behalf of Illinois small businesses as we work to pass it out of the General Assembly," Stoller said in an April 16 Facebook post.
Stoller said the legislation could end up helping nearly 400,000 small businesses currently struggling because of the pandemic and continuing restrictions caused by it.
"In a state where taxes are among the highest in the nation, my S.A.L.T bill will help alleviate some of that burden for our small businesses," Stoller said. "With just a simple change to our state's tax code, we can help struggling small businesses save thousands of dollars."
Stoller this bill is a "no brainer" since it will cost Illinois nothing to implement.
"In a time where businesses have been struggling to survive, we must take advantage of every opportunity we can to support them," Stoller said in the release. "This bill is a no-brainer, it cost the state nothing and several other states have already implemented similar provisions."
In November, the IRS issued guidance on how these small businesses are allowed to bypass the $10,000 cap on SALT deductions introduced in the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.
So far, the bill is seeing bipartisan support, another press release stated. If passed, small businesses will be allowed to elect to be taxed at the entity level so its income may pass through at the personal return level, and an owner can claim the offsetting credit on their state return.
The bill has already passed the Senate Revenue Committee with a 9-0 vote, and will continue to the Senate floor for further readings.
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Tags: illinois, pandemic, salt bill, senator stoller, southland, taxation, the southland journal
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The Government Donald Trump Left Behind
The Government Donald Trump Left Behind – Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 following a campaign of pledges to build a wall along the border with Mexico, repeal and replace his predecessor's signature health care legislation, "drain the swamp" of special interests in Washington, D.C., and cut through the federal government's bureaucracy, all to "Make America Great Again."
by Chris Morran January 27, 2021
How the Police Bank Millions Through Their Union Contracts
The public funds six-figure "sick day" payouts, $2,500 "perfect attendance" bonuses and lucrative "extra duty" assignments identified in a ProPublica, Asbury Park Press analysis of New Jersey police union contracts.
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Stoller pushing to pass S.A.L.T. bill 'on behalf of Illinois small businesses'


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101 Best Australian Beaches book
August 27, 2013 by Ola Niña
Ola Nina recently chatted with co-author and pioneer surf conservationalist Brad Farmer about his and professor Andy Short's latest book, 101 Best Australian Beaches.
The two men travelled to every one of Australia's 11,761 beaches over a 14 year period to decipher what beaches would make the cut.
To develop a final list, the authors had to step away from their surfing souls and incorporate a list of beaches that everyone could relate to.
After years of research, Brad and Andy accumulated a collection of intellectual and social engagement with Australian communities which allowed them to look at and judge each beach in an entirely different way.
Brad describes the research as a long process but one that has been a worthwhile exercise.
"At the end of the day you can't please everyone," Mr Farmer said.
"We had to separate ourselves from our surfing souls and look at them through everyone's point of view. "For example, we even looked at beaches and swimming holes in the Northern Territory and how Aboriginal communities engaged with beaches up there and in other parts of the country.
"We looked at beaches as not just a surf zone but a place where people like to walk the dog, have a swim, meditate, find solace, bird watch or engage with marine activities."
Brad describes the book as a "smorgasbord of beaches" for Australians and visitors, which encompasses 101 alphabetically listed beaches, with detailed information and beautiful photos.
One interesting aspect of the book is that Crescent Head's beach was the only beach named as a personal favourite by both authors in their top 10 lists.
"Does it make it Australia's best beach? Well based on the fact that two authors who went into separate rooms and came out agreeing on only one, I'll leave it up to you," Brad said.
"To me, Crescent is like an artist has painted a canvas of the perfect visual.
"It just embodies everything an Australian beach should be and it retains its magic because the locals continue to look after it."
Professor Short has dedicated his life to the study of coastal geomorphology and is considered a beach expert, while Mr Farmer's life has been shaped by the surfing industry, as the co-writer of the first Surfing Guide to Australia (1985) and the founder of the Australian Surfrider Foundation as well as National Ocean Care Day.
Mr Farmer said the idea for the book came about after both authors realised they had come up with a gimmick.
"There was nothing like it out there and we thought it was time in the development of this nation that we have a national conversation of what beaches mean to us," he said."We felt that we were the two most authoritative people to come up with a list, we've travelled the Australian coastline since the 1960s." For more information and to purchase the book visit: www.101bestbeaches.com
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L'ischigualastia (Ischigualastia jenseni) è un terapside estinto, appartenente ai dicinodonti. Visse nel Triassico superiore (Carnico, circa 235 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Sudamerica.

Descrizione
Questo animale era un dicinodonte di grandi dimensioni, che poteva superare i 3,5 metri di lunghezza e arrivare a 2 tonnellate di peso. Il solo cranio era lungo 55 centimetri e largo 46. Al contrario di altre forme simili come Placerias o Kannemeyeria, in Ischigualastia non erano presenti i tipici grandi canini superiori. Il corpo era eccezionalmente massiccio, sorretto da quattro arti robusti direzionati quasi al di sotto del corpo.

Il cranio era di forma triangolare in vista dorsale, con la parte posteriore più ampia. La regione interorbitale era molto larga, il muso era appuntito e non vi era traccia di protuberanza pineale, anche se di fronte al foro pineale vi era un leggero innalzamento. Le arcate zigomatiche erano molto robuste e rigonfie verso l'esterno; le staffe erano prive del forame stapediale.

Erano presenti cinque costole sacrali, la scapola era priva di acromion ed era presente un forame coracoideo tra il precoracoide e la scapola. L'ulna era dotata di un grosso processo (olecrano), mentre il femore presentava una testa ben sviluppata e distinta dal resto dell'osso.

Classificazione

Ischigualastia jenseni è stato descritto per la prima volta nel 1962, sulla base di resti fossili ritrovati nella formazione Ischigualasto in Argentina. Questo animale era uno dei più grandi rappresentanti dei dicinodonti, un gruppo di terapsidi sviluppatisi nel corso del Permiano e che nel Triassico diedero origine a forme specializzate e di grandi dimensioni. In particolare, Ischigualastia è stato attribuito alla famiglia Stahleckeriidae, tipica del Triassico superiore, comprendente anche altri dicinodonti di grande taglia, come Stahleckeria e Placerias.

Paleoecologia
Ischigualastia era una grande erbivoro quadrupede, i cui resti fossili sono particolarmente comuni alla base della formazione Ischigualasto. Era un membro abbastanza comune della fauna locale, anche se non abbondante come gli erbivori di dimensioni medie Scaphonyx e Exaeretodon. L'unico pericolo per un animale tanto grande era dato dalla presenza del quasi altrettanto grande Saurosuchus, un rauisuco carnivoro. È possibile che la pressione di questo predatore sia stata una delle cause dell'estinzione di Ischigualastia, i cui resti fossili effettivamente divengono meno comuni e infine scompaiono nei livelli più alti della formazione Ischigualasto. Uno stretto parente di taglia di poco inferiore, Placerias, sopravvisse per alcuni milioni di anni in Laurasia.

Bibliografia
C. B. Cox. 1962. Preliminary diagnosis of Ischigualastia, a new genus of dicynodont from Argentina. Breviora 156:8-9
C. B. Cox. 1965. New Triassic dicynodonts from South America, their origins and relationships. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 248(753):457-516

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Planning your trip to Rome? It's a wonderful prospect. Whether your interests are cultural, artistic, gastronomic, religious, historic – or if you are simply looking to relax in beautiful surroundings – Italy, and Rome in particular, always leaves a mark on its visitors, and also leaves them with some unforgettable memories.
As well as visiting the most interesting monuments and enjoying the country in general, one thing which you should not miss out on during your stay in Italy is the magic of a musical performance. An opera, perhaps? It was in Italy that this art form was born in 1600 and where many of the great operas have been written by such masters as Verdi, Puccini, Rossini and Donizetti, among others.
In Rome you will have the chance to attend opera performances which take place in historic venues, whether it is the famous opera house – the Teatro Costanzi or Teatro dell'Opera di Roma – or one of the many churches in the Italian capital.
Rigoletto by Verdi, The Elixir of Love by G. Donizetti, Manon Lescaut by G. Puccini, Maometto II by G. Rossini and Carmen by G. Bizet are just some of the acclaimed operas included in the programme. Savouring a performance at this opera house is sure to be a fabulous experience that will make your stay in Rome all the more special.
Verdi's famous opera La Traviata is also performed at a number of Rome's concert halls and churches (among which some highlights are All Saints Church and the Chiesa di San Paolo dentro le Mura) by illustrious artists such as I Solisti dell'Opera di Roma and I Virtuosi dell'Opera di Roma. Furthermore, at the Teatro Salone Margherita, you have the chance to see a performance of such highly acclaimed operas as, for instance, The Barber of Seville.
If you find it hard to decide on one specific opera, or prefer to enjoy something of them all, there are other kinds of events which offer performances of some of the most well-known opera arias, both by both Italian composers (such as Donizetti, Puccini and Verdi) and by other famous composers (such as Bizet or Mozart). I Solisti dell'Opera present a fantastic selection of such works at All Saints Church.
The Chiesa Evangelica Valdese, situated in Rome's Via IV Novembre, hosts two artistic genres with the event Opera e Balletto. The breath-taking and beautiful performance by the singers and dancers of I Solisti dell'Accademia di Lirica e Danza di Roma will transport you to the golden age of opera and ballet.
Other ballet performances, such as The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, also take place at Rome's opera house.
Similarly, interesting concerts and dinner-concerts, sometimes combined with exhibitions of visual arts, are on offer in Rome at various churches and palaces.
The highly varied musical panorama in the Italian capital is matched by the high demand for tickets. Don't forget to reserve these in advance and so guarantee being able to enjoy your chosen events.


To paraphrase Ferris Bueller, modern marketing moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and learn what's new, you could miss out.
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Has the lion made it over the hill?
One last thought before next week.
Remember back in 1993 when NAR President Bill Chee issued his famous rally cry that "there were hungry lions coming over the hill"? His speech foretold the impact of technonlogy and "non-industry competitors". At the time everyone was afraid of Microsoft. A lot came out of that speech, you could argue that was the beginning of Realtor.com.
So flash forward to 2011 and Zillow just completed their IPO. Their market cap is 3 times of Move, Inc. (Realtor.com parent company) and combined with their Yahoo partnership they now trade spots for the most real estate traffic online.
The lion is here baby. He just came from down from Seattle, not Redmond.
UPDATE: [Matt Carter's recent article on Inman News "Third-party site rule the real estate roost" make my point even stronger.
I don't think Zillow (or any other such site) is a lion. These portals individually have 6% online market share max, and if you look for percent of total effective marketing market-share (multiply by the 36% that actually found their home online) – that's just over 2%. That's not so impressive. So, something has come over the hill but it's not much of a lion. Of course, *now* people are now providing capital to these portals in amounts that could change things in a hurry.
Greg – one more thing: Do you not think the Zillow stock price will correct to reflect earnings and other fundamentals at some point?


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That model works just fine when you're trying to get people to donate or volunteer for a cause. It's easy enough to see whether all those impressions translate into more donations and sign-ups. These types of ads are known as direct-response ads because they urge the target to take some action.
The calculus changes when it comes to persuasion ads, which aim to build support for a certain candidate or issue among people who haven't made up their minds yet. The key to persuasion is not simply engaging the biggest audience but successfully moving the right one. Still, lots of political advertisers, including campaigns and advocacy groups, use engagement as a proxy for persuasion. That's particularly true when they don't have the means for more in-depth poll testing. Sometimes we in the press also conflate the two, believing that virality and persuasiveness are somehow synonymous.
That's the question a group of progressive digital strategists working out of Harmony Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to studying media influence, set out to answer in a series of recent tests. The study wasn't peer-reviewed, and it was conducted largely for Harmony Labs' internal purposes. But its findings may still raise alarm bells for political groups that have gone all in on Facebook after witnessing Donald Trump's success there during the 2016 presidential election. Not only did the group find zero correlation between engagement and persuasion; in some cases, the most engaging videos persuaded people in the wrong direction.
"The thing the platforms are driving you to is increasing their revenue, but it doesn't necessarily persuade the people that need to be persuaded," says Nathaniel Lubin, former White House digital director under President Barack Obama. Lubin designed the experiments along with Peter Koechley, co-founder of UpWorthy, whose founding mission was to make viral content promoting political and social issues.
In lots of campaigns, the work might stop there, and the bulk of the advertising budget might be thrown at whichever video people watched most. But the Meme Factory team took it a step further, contracting a startup called Swayable, which measures media content's persuasiveness through randomized controlled trials. Its CEO, James Slezak, is both a trained physicist and the former executive director of digital strategy at The New York Times.
For the Meme Factory project, Swayable sourced study participants from MTurk, dividing them into groups that mirrored the audiences Lubin and Koechley targeted on Facebook. For each video, there was a control group and a test group. The control groups were shown what Slezak calls "placebo content," like a public service announcement about texting and driving. The test group watched one of the Meme Factory videos. Then both groups were given a survey asking whether they agreed with the video and whether they'd take action on the issue. If the test group agreed more than the control group, then Swayable deemed them, well, swayed. Altogether, the experiment surveyed 10,000 people, amassing 100,000 data points about them in total, including basic information about demographics and partisan affiliation.
In the end, the videos' success on Facebook, or lack thereof, turned out to have little impact on their ability to persuade. Swayable found that after watching "Heartache," the people who identified as most conservative were less supportive of DACA than the control group. The "What Would You Do?" video, meanwhile, elicited more support for DACA among even the most conservative participants, compared to the control group.
But those are just two examples. Swayable plotted the persuasion and engagement scores of dozens of combinations of videos and audiences and found no correlation whatsoever. "There's nothing but just random static," Slezak says.
"There's nothing but just random static," says James Slezak, Swayable's CEO.
Facebook says it hasn't studied the link, or lack thereof, between persuasion and engagement. For advertisers that are already spending a lot of money on Facebook, the company conducts what it calls brand-lift studies at no additional cost. But small campaigns aren't usually eligible. For those that aren't, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone says, "We encourage advertisers to test and analyze based on their prescribed goals." But Facebook's self-service advertising tools—the ones that allow anyone to place an ad in minutes—don't give users a way to analyze persuasion the way they can analyze engagement. Stone says Facebook is considering making brand-lift surveys available to more of these users in the future. For now, though, smaller advertisers need to rely on costly focus groups, which don't offer the real-time insights that make digital advertising appealing.
So, relying on engagement becomes an easy trap. Lubin worries that is driving advocacy groups to allocate their limited resources inefficiently as they work to recruit new supporters. What's more, Slezak argues that investing in content that's only meant to engage people runs the risk of making our already hyper-polarized politics even worse. While researchers continue to debate the impact of social media filter bubbles, it's undeniable that platforms like Facebook play an increasingly prominent role in our elections.


There's something about London. It might be the giant barges that are customized houseboats floating on the Thames, the beautiful stone bridges, or the pubs packed with character on every corner.
We had all of the above building our kayaks under the arch of the famous Kew Bridge, and had builders coming from locations as far away as Finland!
Robin Falck in this photo is a designer of micro-houses and other analog items. We also had a veteran sea kayak coach, an industrial designer, an animator, a motion picture compositor and a beekeeper! Unsurprisingly they turned out some really gorgeous works of art and paddles.
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SMAD1 and SMAD5 Expression Is ...
Mol Cell Biol35:2165 (2015)
SMAD1 and SMAD5 Expression Is Coordinately Regulated by FLI1 and GATA2 during Endothelial Development
Marella F. T. R. de Bruijn
The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)/SMAD signaling pathway is a critical regulator of angiogenic sprouting and is involved in vascular development in the embryo. SMAD1 and SMAD5, the core mediators of BMP signaling, are vital for this activity, yet little is known about their transcriptional regulation in endothelial cells. Here, we have integrated multispecies sequence conservation, tissue-specific chromatin, in vitro reporter assay, and in vivo transgenic data to identify and validate Smad1+63 and the Smad5 promoter as tissue-specific cis-regulatory elements that are active in the developing endothelium. The activity of these elements in the endothelium was dependent on highly conserved ETS, GATA, and E-box motifs, and chromatin immunoprecipitation showed high levels of enrichment of FLI1, GATA2, and SCL at these sites in endothelial cell lines and E11 dorsal aortas in vivo. Knockdown of FLI1 and GATA2 but not SCL reduced the expression of SMAD1 and SMAD5 in endothelial cells in vitro. In contrast, CD31+ cKit− endothelial cells harvested from embryonic day 9 (E9) aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) regions of GATA2 null embryos showed reduced Smad1 but not Smad5 transcript levels. This is suggestive of a degree of in vivo selection where, in the case of reduced SMAD1 levels, endothelial cells with more robust SMAD5 expression have a selective advantage.Ethics approval for animal work was granted by the Animal Care and Ethics Committee of the University of New South Wales.To determine where canonical BMP/SMAD signaling was active in the developing embryo, we used the BMP response element (BRE)-lacZ reporter mouse line that expresses the lacZ reporter in response to Smad binding (21). The expression pattern observed showed reporter activity in the endothelium, including the dorsal aorta (Fig. 1A). To complement these data, qPCR was performed on sorted endothelial cell, hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC), and mesenchymal cell fractions from the E11 aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region (Fig. 1B) (22). Confocal microscopy confirmed the presence of SMAD1 and SMAD5 protein expression in endothelial cells in E11 dorsal aortas (Fig. 1C). Together, these data demonstrate that canonical BMP/SMAD signaling is active in the developing endothelium of mouse embryos (13, 27).Potential regulatory regions in the Smad1 and Smad5 loci were screened by aligning sequence conservation plots with chromatin accessibility data for human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) from the ENCODE project (Fig. 2A). Four putative enhancer sites were identified in the Smad1 locus and termed the +1, +19, +25, and +63 sites according to kilobase distance from the Smad1 transcriptional start site (Fig. 2A). One putative site was also identified in the Smad5 promoter. No sites were observed in the intergenic regions between Smad1 and Smad5 and their respective flanking genes (data not shown). ChIP-qPCR performed with MS1 and SEND endothelial mouse cell lines showed strong enrichment of H3K9ac at the corresponding mouse regions, indicating that they are likely to be conserved (Fig. 2B).Human DNA sequences for the four potential Smad1 cis-regulatory regions and the Smad5 promoter were cloned into luciferase vectors and tested in stable-transfection assays in endothelial cell lines (Fig. 2C). All regulatory regions showed some level of activity over the empty vector control, with the Smad5 promoter and Smad1+63 regions consistently showing the highest level of activity across both cell lines. The three most active Smad1 elements, Smad1+19, Smad1+25, and Smad1+63, as measured by stable-transfection data for endothelial cells, and the Smad5 promoter were cloned into lacZ vectors and tested in F0 transgenic embryo assays. The Smad1+63 (5/5) and Smad5 promoter (6/6) transgenics showed staining in endothelial and mesenchymal cells consistent with Smad1 and Smad5 expression in the E11 AGM region (Fig. 2D). The Smad1+19 (3/3) and Smad1+25 (3/4) transgenics showed variable staining only in subendothelial mesenchymal cells in the dorsal aorta (data not shown).This study was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the Translational Cancer Research Network, the Cancer Institute of New South Wales, and the Tom Bee Research Fund (J.E.P.); the Medical Research Council, United Kingdom (M.F.T.R.D.B.); the Kay Kendall Leukemia Fund and Leukemia and Lymphoma Research (K.O.); and a National Institutes of Health grant (R37DK054077) and a ZonMw TOP award (40-00812-98-11068) (E.D.).J.M.-B., A.K., V.C., T.B., C.E., K.K., S.F., Q.Q., J.T., and Y.C.K. performed research and analyzed data. L.O. and K.O. provided essential reagents and supervision. M.F.T.R.D.B. and E.D. provided essential supervision and resources and helped in project design and data interpretation. J.E.P. designed the study, interpreted data, and wrote the paper with J.M.-B.We have no conflicts of interest to declare.Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MCB.00239-15.


Sanford - 3 year old American Staffordshire terrier. He is deaf but don't let that fool you he isn't hard to manage at all as he only wants to please you. He is GREAT with other dogs and house trained. He does great with people too but because of his deafness, he is easily surprised so he would do best in a home with no small children.