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DU Philosopher: We're In The Century Of The Migrant
By Kareem Maddox
(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)Forget the presidential candidates. There's another important political figure that few seem to talk about: the migrant. That's what Thomas Nail sets out to discuss in his new book, "The Figure of the Migrant." He's an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Denver and says that the world is full of migrants. With so many ways to become one, more attention should be paid to migration. He spoke with Colorado Matters host Nathan Heffel.
The twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant. At the turn of the century, there were more regional and international migrants than ever before in recorded history.1 Today, there are over 1 billion migrants.2 Each decade, the percentage of migrants as a share of the total population continues to rise, and in the next twenty-five years, the rate of migration is predicted to be higher than during the last twenty-five years.3 It has become more necessary for people to migrate because of environmental, economic, and political instability. Climate change, in particular, may cause international migration to double over the next forty years.4 The percentage of total migrants who are non-status or undocumented is increasing, which poses a serious challenge to democracy and political representation.5
In other ways, we are all becoming migrants.6 People today relocate to greater distances more frequently than ever before in human history. While many people may not move across a regional or international border, they tend to change jobs more often, commute longer and farther to work,7 change their residence repeatedly, and tour internationally more often.8 Some of these phenomena are directly related to recent events, such as the impoverishment of middle classes in certain rich countries after the financial crisis of 2008, subsequent austerity cuts to social welfare programs, and rising unemployment. The subprime mortgage crisis led to the expulsion of millions of people from their homes worldwide (9 million in the United States alone). Foreign investors and governments have acquired 540 million acres since 2006, resulting in the eviction of millions of small farmers in poor countries, and mining practices have become increasingly destructive around the world—including hydraulic fracturing and tar sands. This general increase in human mobility and expulsion is now widely recognized as a defining feature of the twenty-first century.9 "A specter haunts the world and it is the specter of migration."10
However, not all migrants are alike in their movement.11 For some, movement offers opportunity, recreation, and profit with only a temporary expulsion. For others, movement is dangerous and constrained, and their social expulsions are much more severe and permanent. Today, most people fall somewhere on this migratory spectrum between the two poles of "inconvenience" and "incapacitation." But what all migrants on this spectrum share, at some point, is the experience that their movement results in a certain degree of expulsion from their territorial, political, juridical, or economic status. Even if the end result of migration is a relative increase in money, power, or enjoyment, the process of migration itself almost always involves an insecurity of some kind and duration: the removal of territorial ownership or access, the loss of the political right to vote or to receive social welfare, the loss of legal status to work or drive, or the financial loss associated with transportation or change in residence.
The gains of migration are always a risk, while the process itself is always some kind of loss. This is precisely the sense in which Zygmunt Bauman writes that "tourism and vagrancy are two faces of the same coin" of global migration. Both the "tourist" (the traveling academic, business professional, or vacationer) and the "vagabond" (migrant worker or refugee), as Bauman calls them, are "bound to move" by the same social conditions but result in different kinds and degrees of expulsion from the social order. Businesspeople are compelled to travel around the world in the "global chase of profit," "consumers must never be allowed to rest" in the chase of new commodities and desires, and the global poor must move from job to job wherever capital calls. For the tourist this social "compulsion, [this] 'must,' [this] internalized pressure, [this] impossibility of living one's life in any other way," according to Bauman, "reveals itself . . . in the disguise of a free exercise of will."12 The vagabond sees it more clearly. The social compulsion to move produces certain expulsions for all migrants. Some migrants may decide to move, but they do not get to decide the social conditions of their movement or the degree to which they may be expelled from certain social orders as a consequence. Migration in this sense is neither entirely free nor forced—the two are part of the same regime of social motion. The concept of expulsion simply means the degree to which a migrant is deprived or dispossessed of a certain status in this regime.
The tourist and vagabond are always crossing over into one another, as Bauman writes. "None of the insurance policies of the tourists' life-style protects against slipping into vagabondage. . . . [M]ost jobs are temporary, shares may go down as well as up, skills, the assets one is proud of and cherishes now become obsolete in no time."13 Migration is the spectrum between these two poles, and the figure of the migrant is the one who moves on this spectrum. In this way, migratory figures function as mobile social positions and not fixed identities. One is not born a migrant but becomes one. This book is a philosophical history of the political subject we have become today: the migrant. However, there are two central problems to overcome in order to develop such a theory.
Two Problems
The first problem is that the migrant has been predominantly understood from the perspective of stasis and perceived as a secondary or derivative figure with respect to place-bound social membership. Place-bound membership in a society is assumed as primary; secondary is the movement back and forth between social points. The "emigrant" is the name given to the migrant as the former member or citizen, and the "immigrant" as the would-be member or citizen. In both cases, a static place and membership are theorized first, and the migrant is the one who lacks both. Thus, more than any other political figure (citizen, foreigner, sovereign, etc.), the migrant is the one least defined by its being and place and more by its becoming and displacement: by its movement.
If we want to develop a political theory of the migrant itself and not the migrant as a failed citizen, we need to reinterpret the migrant first and foremost according to its own defining feature: its movement. Thus, this book develops a theoretical framework that begins with movement instead of stasis.14 However, beginning from the theoretical primacy of movement does not mean that one should uncritically celebrate it. Movement is not always good, nor is movement always the same. Movement is always distributed in different concrete social formations or types of circulation.15 It is not a metaphor. Thus, this book is neither a valorization of movement, or an ontology of movement in general. It is a kinetic and philosophical history of the subject of our time: the migrant. It seeks to understand the material, social, and historical conditions under which something like the migrant has come to exist for us today. It is a philosophical history of the present.
In this way, it is not only a theory of the migrant but also a theory of the social motions by which migration takes place. Society is always in motion. From border security and city traffic controls to personal technologies and work schedules, human movement is socially directed. Societies are not static places with fixed characteristics and persons.16 Societies are dynamic processes engaged in continuously directing and circulating social life. In a movement-oriented philosophy there is no social stasis, only regimes of social circulation. Thus, if we want to understand the figure of the migrant, whose defining social feature is its movement, we must also understandsociety itself according to movement. This, therefore, is the guiding interpretive framework of this book.17
The second problem is that the migrant has been predominantly understood from the perspective of states.18 Since the state has all too often written history, the migrant has been understood as a figure without its own history and social force. "In world history," as Hegel says, "we are concerned only with those peoples that have formed states [because] all the value that human beings possess, all of their spiritual reality, they have through the State alone."19 This is not to say that migrants are always stateless but that the history of migrant social organizations has tended to be subsumed or eradicated by state histories. Often, the most dispossessed migrants have created some of the most interesting non-state social organizations.
In response to this problem, this book offers a counter-history of several important migrant social organizations that have been marginalized by states. The migrant is not only a figure whose movement results in a certain degree of social expulsion. The migrant also has its own type of movement that is quite different from the types that define its expulsion. Accordingly, migrants have created very different forms of social organization that can clearly be seen in the "minor history" of the raids, revolts, rebellions, and resistances of some of the most socially marginalized migrants. This is a challenging history to write because many of these social organizations produced no written documents, or if they did, they were systematically destroyed by those in power. It is not a natural fact that the history of migrants has become ahistorical, as Hegel argues—it is the violence of states that has rendered the migrant ahistorical. This book does not try to render a complete account of this (a)history but rather to provide a social kinetic interpretation of several important migrant social formations in Western history that have been buried by the history of states and citizens.
The Consequences
There are three important consequences of developing a political theory of the migrant in this way. First, it allows us to conceptualize the emergence of the historical conditions that gave rise to the types of social expulsion that define the migrant. The major forms of kinetic social expulsion that define the twenty-first century did not emerge out of nowhere. They emerged historically. At different points in history, migratory movement was the result of different types and degrees of social expulsion: territorial, political, juridical, and economic. New forms of social organization rose to dominance through history. As states triumphed over villages, and markets triumphed over feudalism, we begin to see an explosion in new techniques for expelling migrants from their previous status. Once these new techniques emerge historically, they tend to persist. Today, we find the contemporary migrant at the intersection of all four major forms of historical social expulsion. However, this book is not a universal history of the migrant that shows the vast intertwining of all the previous forms of social expulsion at every historical point and to every degree for every social figure.20 This is too large a task. It is also not able to be sensitive to all of the changes that certain key terms like "territory" have undergone over thousands of years of history.21
The aim of this book is more modest: to provide an analysis of four major techniques for expelling migrants during their period of historical dominance and to provide a conceptual, movement-based definition of the migratory figures associated with these expulsions.22 The present study does not provide a history of the relative deprivations of tourists, diplomats, business travelers, explorers, and state functionaries, although such a history would also be interesting. Instead, it focuses on the more marginalized figures of historical migration (nomads, barbarians, vagabonds, and the proletariat) for three reasons. First, because it is primarily their history that has been decimated and is in the most need of recovery and reinterpretation. Second, because it is in their history that the emergence of each new form of social expulsion (of which the tourist experiences only the smallest degree) is most sharply visible. Third, and most important, because it is their history that more closely resembles the situation of most of the people we call migrants today.
The second consequence is that developing a theory of the migrant will allow us toanalyze contemporary migration because the history of migration is not a linear or progressive history of distinct "ages." Rather, it is a history of coexisting and overlapping social forces of expulsion. The same techniques of territorial, political, juridical, and economic expulsion of the migrants that have emerged and repeated themselves in history are still at work today. For example, territorial expulsion, the dispossession of land,23 does not occur only once against the nomadic peoples in the Neolithic period but gets taken up again and mobilized in various ways throughout history—up to the present. The invention of territorial social expulsion createdhistorical nomadic peoples, but it also invented a social type of migrant subjectivity characterized by territorial expulsion that also continues to define other territorially displaced peoples. This is the sense in which migrants may be "nomadic" without being exactly the same as historical nomads.
As an example, in the ancient world, migrants were expelled from their territories by war and kidnapping; in the medieval world, they were expelled by enclosure and the removal of customary laws that bound them to the land; and in the modern world, they have been expelled by the capitalist accumulation of private property. Although each dispossession of land is historically unique, each shares a common social kinetic function. Contemporary migration is part of this legacy.24 Today, migrant farmworkers are expelled by industrial agriculture; indigenous peoples are expelled from their native lands by war and forced into the mountains, forests, or "waste lands"; and island peoples are expelled from their territory by the rising tides of climate change. There is a certain truth in the fact that the popular press often refers to all these people as "nomads," even though they are not literally the same as early historical nomads. However, what all these migrants share is a specific social kinetic form of territorial expulsion that first rose to prominence in early historical nomadism.25
The analysis of contemporary migration presented here is not one of total causal explanation: of push-pull factors, psychological volunteerism, neoclassical or structural economism, and so on. Instead, it offers an original kinetic analysis. The aim of this book is not to explain the causes of all migration but to offer better descriptions of the conditions, forces, and trajectories of its historical emergence and contemporary hybridity.
The third consequence of developing a theory of the migrant is that it allows us todiagnose the capacity of the migrant to create an alternative to social expulsion. The figure of the migrant is not merely an effect of different regimes of social expulsion. It also has its own forms of social motion in riots, revolts, rebellions, and resistances. Just as the analysis of the historical techniques for the expulsion of the migrant can be used to understand contemporary migration, so too can the historical techniques of migrant social organizations be used to diagnose the capacity of contemporary migrants to pose an alternative to the present social logic of expulsion that continues to dominate our world.
Today, the figure of the migrant exposes an important truth: social expansion has always been predicated on the social expulsion of migrants. The twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant not only because of the record number of migrants today but also because this is the century in which all the previous forms of social expulsion and migratory resistance have reemerged and become more active than ever before. This contemporary situation allows us to render apparent what had previously been obscured: that the figure of the migrant has always been the true motive force of social history. Only now are we in a position to recognize this.
The argument of this book is developed in four parts. Part 1 defines and lays out the logical structure of social motion. Part 2 argues that the migrant is defined not only by movement in general but by several specific historical conditions and techniques of social expulsion. Part 3 shows how several major migrant figures propose an alternative to this logic, and Part 4 shows how the concepts developed in Parts 2 and 3 help us to better understand the complex dynamics of contemporary migration in US-Mexico politics.
1. In total number (1 billion: one in seven) and as percentage of total population (about 14 percent) according to the International Organization on Migration, "The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change," World Migration Report 2010, presentation at Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC,http://www.iom.int/files/live/sites/iom/files/Newsrelease/docs/WM2010_FINAL_23_11_2010.pdf.; and The World Health Organization, "Migrant Health," 2015,http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/health_of_migrants/en/.
2. As of 2010, there were 215 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants according to the United Nations Human Development Report, Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development, 2009,http://oppenheimer.mcgill.ca/IMG/pdf/HDR_2009_EN_Complete.pdf, 21.
3. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2008 Revision (United Nations database, POP/DB/MIG/Stock/Rev.2008), http://esa.un.org/migration; and The US National Intelligence Council, "Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds," December 2012, http://globaltrends2030.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/global-trends-2030-november2012.pdf, 24. On the theoretical implications of this phenomenon for liberalism, see Phillip Cole, Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).
4. Future forecasts vary from 25 million to 1 billion environmental migrants by 2050, moving either within their countries or across borders on a permanent or temporary basis, with 200 million the most widely cited estimate. This figure equals the current estimate of international migrants worldwide. See International Organization for Migration, "Migration, Climate Change and the Environment," accessed April 9, 2015,http://www.iom.int/cms/en/sites/iom/home/what-we-do/migration-and-climate-change/a-complex-nexus.html.
5. International Council on Human Rights Policy, "Irregular Migration, Migrant Smuggling and Human Rights: Towards Coherence," 2010,http://www.ichrp.org/files/summaries/41/122_pb_en.pdf, estimates that the approximate number of global irregular migrants has grown to 30–40 million persons.
6. With the rise of home foreclosure and unemployment people today are beginning to have much more in common with migrants than with certain notions of citizenship (grounded in certain social, legal, and political rights). "All people may now be wanderers": Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 87. "Migration must be understood in a broad sense": Nikos Papastergiadis, The Turbulence of Migration: Globalization, Deterritorialization, and Hybridity (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2000), 2.
7. World Bank's World Development Indicators 2005: Section 3 Environment, Table 3.11, http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=141.
8. International annual tourist arrivals exceeded 1 billion globally for the first time in history in 2012. World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), "World Tourism Barometer," vol. 11, 2013,http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/files/pdf/unwto_barom13_01_jan_excerpt_0.pdf.
9. I use the word "expulsion" here in the same sense in which Saskia Sassen uses it to indicate a general dispossession or deprivation of social status. See Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014), 1–2. Many scholars have noted a similar trend. For an excellent review of the "mobilities" literature on migration, see Alison Blunt, "Cultural Geographies of Migration: Mobility, Transnationality and Diaspora,"Progress in Human Geography 31 (2007): 684–94.
10. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 213.
11. Bauman, Globalization.
12. Ibid., 96, 85, 78, 83, 84.
13. Ibid., 97.
14. For an excellent introduction to the tradition of thinkers who have granted theoretical primacy to movement and flow, see Peter Merriman, Mobility, Space, and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2012). See also Lucretius, De Rerum Natura(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975); Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, trans. Nancy Paul and William S. Palmer (New York: Zone Books, 1988); Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics (Manchester, UK: Clinamen Press, 2000); Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (London: Continuum, 2008); Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002); Erin Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009); Tim Cresswell, On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World(Hoboken, NJ: Taylor & Francis, 2012).
15. See Merriman, Mobility, Space, and Culture, 1–20, for a review of the criticisms against the philosophy of movement.
16. John Urry, Sociology beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century(London: Routledge, 2000).
17. In this sense, this book can also be placed in the context of what is now being called the "new mobilities paradigm" or "mobility turn" in the social sciences. See Kevin Hannam, Mimi Sheller, and John Urry, "Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings," Mobilities 1, no. 1 (2006): 1–22; Cresswell, On the Move; Vincent Kaufmann, Re-thinking Mobility: Contemporary Sociology (Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2002); John Urry, Mobilities (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2007); Tanu Uteng and Tim Cresswell, Gendered Mobilities (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008); Jørgen Bærenholdt and Kirsten Simonsen, Space Odysseys: Spatiality and Social Relations in the 21st Century (Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2004); Nigel Thrift, Spatial Formations (London: Sage, 1996).
18. This argument, and the idea of a "sedentarist metaphysics," is well supported by Liisa Malkki, "National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees," Cultural Anthropology 7, no. 1 (February 1992): 24–44; and Cresswell, On the Move.
19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, trans. Leo Rauch (New York: Hackett, 1988), 41–42.
20. This is not a strictly empirical study. For an empirical world history of migration, see Patrick Manning and Tiffany Trimmer, Migration in World History (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2013).
21. For an example of this sort of historical work on the concept of territory, see Stuart Elden, The Birth of Territory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
22. Stephen Castles has also argued that the figure of the migrant needs to be defined in relation to its other overlapping historical figures, such as indentured laborer, refugee, and exile. See Mistaken Identity: Multiculturalism and the Demise of Nationalism in Australia (Sydney: Pluto Press, 1992).
23. Here I am using the word "territory" simply to mean "delimited land" (following the OED) and not in a strictly historical way since, as Stuart Elden argues in The Birth of Territory, 322–30, the usage of the word "territory" varies significantly throughout history and cannot be used in a univocal way.
24. According to Tim Cresswell, "We cannot understand new mobilities, without understanding old mobilities." "Towards a Politics of Mobility," Environment and Planning D, Society & Space, 28, no. 1 (2010): 17–31.
25. To be clear, I am not arguing that contemporary migrants are exactly the same as the first historical nomads. For a good example of a philosophical concept of "nomadism" derived from history, see Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 351–423.


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module Azure::RecoveryServicesSiteRecovery::Mgmt::V2016_08_10
  module Models
    #
    # Collection of recovery point details.
    #
    class RecoveryPointCollection

      include MsRestAzure

      include MsRest::JSONable
      # @return [Array<RecoveryPoint>] The recovery point details.
      attr_accessor :value

      # @return [String] The value of next link.
      attr_accessor :next_link

      # return [Proc] with next page method call.
      attr_accessor :next_method

      #
      # Gets the rest of the items for the request, enabling auto-pagination.
      #
      # @return [Array<RecoveryPoint>] operation results.
      #
      def get_all_items
        items = @value
        page = self
        while page.next_link != nil && !page.next_link.strip.empty? do
          page = page.get_next_page
          items.concat(page.value)
        end
        items
      end

      #
      # Gets the next page of results.
      #
      # @return [RecoveryPointCollection] with next page content.
      #
      def get_next_page
        response = @next_method.call(@next_link).value! unless @next_method.nil?
        unless response.nil?
          @next_link = response.body.next_link
          @value = response.body.value
          self
        end
      end

      #
      # Mapper for RecoveryPointCollection class as Ruby Hash.
      # This will be used for serialization/deserialization.
      #
      def self.mapper()
        {
          client_side_validation: true,
          required: false,
          serialized_name: 'RecoveryPointCollection',
          type: {
            name: 'Composite',
            class_name: 'RecoveryPointCollection',
            model_properties: {
              value: {
                client_side_validation: true,
                required: false,
                serialized_name: 'value',
                type: {
                  name: 'Sequence',
                  element: {
                      client_side_validation: true,
                      required: false,
                      serialized_name: 'RecoveryPointElementType',
                      type: {
                        name: 'Composite',
                        class_name: 'RecoveryPoint'
                      }
                  }
                }
              },
              next_link: {
                client_side_validation: true,
                required: false,
                serialized_name: 'nextLink',
                type: {
                  name: 'String'
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      end
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end

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Young Democrat Booed for Opposing Slavery Reparations at House Hearing
Joshua Q. Nelson / @joshuaqnelson / June 19, 2019
Writer and philosophy student Coleman Hughes testifies Wednesday against slavery reparations before a House Judiciary subcommittee, drawing some boos. At left is actor and activist Danny Glover, who supported reparations. (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
A day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he is against making reparations to the descendants of slaves, an award-winning author called out the top Republican during a House hearing on such compensation.
Some in the hearing Wednesday booed when another writer, also black, opposed reparations.
"For a century after the Civil War, black people were subject [to] a relentless campaign of terror, a campaign that extended well into the lifetime of Majority Leader McConnell," journalist and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates testified in favor of reparations.
"It is tempting to divorce this modern campaign of terror, of plunder, from enslavement, but the logic of enslavement, of white supremacy, respects no borders," Coates said.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., another witness, called the discussion of reparations "a very important hearing."
"It is historic, it is urgent," Booker, one of three black U.S. senators, said.
The topic of the hearing by the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and civil rights was HR 40, a bill that would mandate a study on how to make reparations designed to compensate African Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors.
Some in the hearing room booed when Coleman Hughes, a columnist for Quillette and philosophy student at Columbia University who says he is a Democrat, spoke against reparations.
Hughes, 23, testified that reparations would further divide the country and make him and other descendants of slaves "victims without their consent."
The negative reaction in the hearing room prompted subcommittee Chairman Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., to tell the audience several times to "chill."
Five years ago, Coates argued for reparations in a column in The Atlantic magazine. Three months ago, Hughes countered him in a Quillette column.
"Racism is a bloody stain on this country's history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetuated by the U.S. government," Hughes testified.
But, he added:
Black people don't need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable health care. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery.
Hughes said reparations would insult African Americans by putting a price on their ancestors' suffering.
Ta-Nehisi Coates testifies during the House subcommittee hearing Wednesday on slavery reparations. (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
Coates, 43, previously an editor and national correspondent for The Atlantic and a former writer of the "Black Panther" comic book, opened his testimony by stating:
Yesterday, when I asked about reparations, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered a familiar reply: America should not be held liable for something that happened 150 years ago, since none of us currently alive are responsible.
Many of us would love to be taxed for the things we are solely and individually responsible for. Well, we are American citizens, and thus bound to a collective enterprise that extends beyond our individual and personal reach.
Coates then cited the horrors of slavery and assets accumulated from it, and said: "It is impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery."
In a press conference Tuesday, McConnell said: "I don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea."
The hearing occurred on Juneteenth, the day the nation commemorates the end of slavery because a Union general announced it on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas.
Coates said HR 40 would stand as an apology for slavery.
The bill, introduced in the House by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, would commission a study of reparations. Jackson Lee has 64 co-sponsors.
After noting that enslavement existed in America for over 200 years, Coates said the country "could have extended its hollow principles—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—to all regardless of color, but America had other principles in mind."
He specified convict leasing, redlining, poll taxes, and "state-sponsored terrorism" as examples of white supremacy.
Coates noted that McConnell, 77, was alive during violence committed against blacks during the civil rights movement.
"And that is the thing about Sen. McConnell's 'something.' It was 150 years ago, and it was right now."
Coates went on to cite racial disparities in accounts of wealth, deaths, and prison populations in which he said "the descendants of the slaves were the largest share." He said:
Majority Leader McConnell cited civil rights legislation yesterday, as well he should, because he was alive to witness the harassment, jailing, and betrayal of those responsible for that legislation by a government sworn to protect them. He was alive for the redlining of Chicago and the looting of black homeowners of some $4 billion; victims of that plunder are very much alive today. I am sure they'd love a word with the majority leader.
The matter of reparations is one of making amends and direct redress, and it is also a question of citizenship.
Booker, 50, made a case for reparations by citing racial disparities in prison, education, and health outcomes.
The New Jersey Democrat opened his testimony by recalling personal experiences growing up near impoverished urban environments such as Newark and witnessing violence and general harm done to African Americans. He attributed the current economic conditions of many blacks to slavery.
"I look at communities like mine and you could literally see how communities were designed to be segregated, designed based upon enforcing institutional racism and inequities," Booker said, adding:
We know that racialized violence and terrorism has persisted from Reconstruction well into the 1950s …
I believe this is an urgent moment and this bill, which I am now leading on the Senate side, is the beginning of an important process—not just to examine and study this history that has not been addressed, the silence that persists, but also to find practical ideas to address the enduring injustices in our nation.
Also testifying were actor and activist Danny Glover; Katrina Browne, descendant of one of America's largest slave-trading families; retired NFL player Burgess Owens; and the Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, among others.
Ken McIntyre contributed to this report.
@joshuaqnelson
Joshua Q. Nelson
Joshua Nelson, a journalist and filmmaker, is a graduate of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation.

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package ubic.gemma.persistence.service.expression.experiment;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
import ubic.gemma.model.common.auditAndSecurity.AuditEvent;
import ubic.gemma.model.common.description.AnnotationValueObject;
import ubic.gemma.model.common.description.DatabaseEntry;
import ubic.gemma.model.common.quantitationtype.QuantitationType;
import ubic.gemma.model.expression.arrayDesign.ArrayDesign;
import ubic.gemma.model.expression.bioAssay.BioAssay;
import ubic.gemma.model.expression.bioAssayData.BioAssayDimension;
import ubic.gemma.model.expression.biomaterial.BioMaterial;
import ubic.gemma.model.expression.experiment.*;
import ubic.gemma.model.genome.Gene;
import ubic.gemma.model.genome.Taxon;
import ubic.gemma.persistence.service.common.auditAndSecurity.curation.CuratableDao;
import ubic.gemma.persistence.util.ObjectFilter;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Created by tesarst on 13/03/17.
 *
 * @author tesarst
 */
@SuppressWarnings("unused") // Possible external use
public interface ExpressionExperimentDao
        extends InitializingBean, CuratableDao<ExpressionExperiment, ExpressionExperimentValueObject> {

    List<ExpressionExperiment> browse( Integer start, Integer limit );

    Integer countNotTroubled();

    Collection<Long> filterByTaxon( Collection<Long> ids, Taxon taxon );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> findByAccession( DatabaseEntry accession );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> findByAccession( String accession );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> findByBibliographicReference( Long bibRefID );

    ExpressionExperiment findByBioAssay( BioAssay ba );

    ExpressionExperiment findByBioMaterial( BioMaterial bm );

    Map<ExpressionExperiment, BioMaterial> findByBioMaterials( Collection<BioMaterial> bms );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> findByExpressedGene( Gene gene, Double rank );

    ExpressionExperiment findByFactor( ExperimentalFactor ef );

    ExpressionExperiment findByFactorValue( FactorValue fv );

    ExpressionExperiment findByFactorValue( Long factorValueId );

    Map<ExpressionExperiment, FactorValue> findByFactorValues( Collection<FactorValue> fvs );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> findByGene( Gene gene );

    ExpressionExperiment findByQuantitationType( QuantitationType quantitationType );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> findByTaxon( Taxon taxon );

    List<ExpressionExperiment> findByTaxon( Taxon taxon, Integer limit );

    List<ExpressionExperiment> findByUpdatedLimit( Collection<Long> ids, Integer limit );

    List<ExpressionExperiment> findByUpdatedLimit( Integer limit );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> findUpdatedAfter( Date date );

    Map<Long, Integer> getAnnotationCounts( Collection<Long> ids );

    Collection<ArrayDesign> getArrayDesignsUsed( BioAssaySet bas );

    Map<ArrayDesign, Collection<Long>> getArrayDesignsUsed( Collection<Long> eeids );

    Map<Long, Collection<AuditEvent>> getAuditEvents( Collection<Long> ids );

    Integer getBioAssayCountById( long Id );

    Collection<BioAssayDimension> getBioAssayDimensions( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    Integer getBioMaterialCount( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    Integer getDesignElementDataVectorCountById( long Id );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> getExperimentsWithOutliers();

    Map<Long, Date> getLastArrayDesignUpdate( Collection<ExpressionExperiment> expressionExperiments );

    Date getLastArrayDesignUpdate( ExpressionExperiment ee );

    QuantitationType getMaskedPreferredQuantitationType( ExpressionExperiment ee );

    Map<Taxon, Long> getPerTaxonCount();

    Map<Long, Integer> getPopulatedFactorCounts( Collection<Long> ids );

    Map<Long, Integer> getPopulatedFactorCountsExcludeBatch( Collection<Long> ids );

    Map<QuantitationType, Integer> getQuantitationTypeCountById( Long id );

    Collection<QuantitationType> getQuantitationTypes( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    Collection<QuantitationType> getQuantitationTypes( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment,
            ArrayDesign arrayDesign );

    Map<ExpressionExperiment, Collection<AuditEvent>> getSampleRemovalEvents(
            Collection<ExpressionExperiment> expressionExperiments );

    Collection<ExpressionExperimentSubSet> getSubSets( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    <T extends BioAssaySet> Map<T, Taxon> getTaxa( Collection<T> bioAssaySets );

    Taxon getTaxon( BioAssaySet ee );

    Collection<ExpressionExperimentValueObject> loadAllValueObjectsOrdered( String orderField, boolean descending );

    Collection<ExpressionExperimentValueObject> loadAllValueObjectsTaxon( Taxon taxon );

    Collection<ExpressionExperimentValueObject> loadAllValueObjectsTaxonOrdered( String orderField, boolean descending,
            Taxon taxon );

    /**
     * Special method for front-end access. This is partly redundant with loadValueObjectsPreFilter; however, it fills
     * in more information, returns ExpressionExperimentDetailsValueObject
     *
     * @param  orderField the field to order the results by.
     * @param  descending whether the ordering by the orderField should be descending.
     * @param  ids        only list specific ids.
     * @param  taxon      only list experiments within specific taxon.
     * @param  limit      max to return
     * @param  start      offset
     * @return            a list of EE details VOs representing experiments matching the given arguments.
     */
    List<ExpressionExperimentDetailsValueObject> loadDetailsValueObjects( String orderField, boolean descending,
            Collection<Long> ids, Taxon taxon, int limit, int start );

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> loadLackingFactors();

    Collection<ExpressionExperiment> loadLackingTags();

    ExpressionExperimentValueObject loadValueObject( Long eeId );

    Collection<ExpressionExperimentValueObject> loadValueObjects( Collection<Long> ids, boolean maintainOrder );

    Collection<ExpressionExperimentValueObject> loadValueObjectsOrdered( String orderField, boolean descending,
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     * @param  offset  offset
     * @param  limit   limit
     * @param  asc     order ascending
     * @param  filter  filters
     * @param  orderBy order by property
     * @return         collection of value objects
     * @see            ExpressionExperimentDaoImpl#loadValueObjectsPreFilter(int, int, String, boolean, List) for
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     */
    @Override
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            boolean asc, List<ObjectFilter[]> filter );

    ExpressionExperiment thaw( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    ExpressionExperiment thawBioAssays( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    ExpressionExperiment thawForFrontEnd( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    ExpressionExperiment thawWithoutVectors( ExpressionExperiment expressionExperiment );

    Collection<? extends AnnotationValueObject> getAnnotationsByBioMaterials( Long eeId );

    Collection<? extends AnnotationValueObject> getAnnotationsByFactorvalues( Long eeId );
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Rediscovered Cimabue Painting Sells for $26.8 M., Dealer Ronald Feldman Retires, and More: Morning Links from October 28, 2019
October 28, 2019 9:07am
Cimabue's The Mocking of Christ, which sold for $26.8 million on Sunday.
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Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago closed this past weekend. The gallery, which was run by Shane and Julie Campbell, hosted shows by artists like Mary Weatherford, Jonas Wood, Amy Sillman, and Mark Grotjahn. [ARTnews]
Dealer Ronald Feldman will retire as director of his New York gallery, which he founded in 1971. [The New York Times]
Robert Gore Rifkind, who collected German Expressionist art and donated thousands of works on paper and books to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has died at age 91. [Los Angeles Times]
"Collectors from Beijing and Shanghai, in particular, were scarce," Ching-Hsin Chung, director of Art Taipei, said of the turnout to the fair's 26th edition. [The Art Newspaper]
A recently discovered painting that has been attributed to the 13th-century Italian master Cimabue was sold at auction in France for $26.8 million. The London-based dealer Fabrizio Moretti was the buyer. [The New York Times]
Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson, New York Magazine's art and architecture critics, respectively, sat down to debate the strengths and shortcomings of the new Museum of Modern Art. "I love that for the first time ever, you can get lost at MoMA," Saltz remarks at one point in the conversation. [Vulture]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles is organizing a program of performances and installations for its Geffen Contemporary branch in the city's Little Tokyo neighborhood. Supported by a $5 million gift from MOCA trustee Wonmi Kwon, the series is called "Wonmi's Warehouse Programs." [The Art Newspaper]
The University of Maine at Presque Isle's Reed Art Gallery will present an exhibition of works, including paintings, drawings, and fiber pieces, created by local Mi'kmaq artists. Titled "People of the Dawn: A Celebration of Mi'kmaq Art," the show will open November 1. [The County]
Here's the story of George Nkrumah Meizah, a student studying art therapy at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, New York. "His long-term goal, he said, is to help children and older patients who have trauma to express themselves through painting, sketching or drawing," Sara Aridi writes. [The New York Times]
"It is quite telling of portraiture that love shines through. It is one of the reasons I know I can't paint people I don't love," artist Celia Paul told The Guardian on the occasion of the publication of her memoir and upcoming exhibition at Victoria Miro in London. [The Guardian]
And finally, behold a selection of photographer Sage Sohier's intimate images of people with their animal companions. "In several of her photographs, the owners are dwarfed by their more or less monstrous charges," Brian Dillon writes of photos in which llamas, pythons, and Weimaraners abound. [The New Yorker]


FRIDAY: PGCrossChecker.com tells us that Jackson signed for $972k.
TUESDAY: According to an MLB.com press release, the Cubs have agreed to terms with frist round pick Brett Jackson. The 20-year-old outfielder bats left-handed and received praise from Baseball America on his athleticism. The Cubs selected him with their first pick in the draft, 31st overall.


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Q: Function returning table in WHERE clause, how to use result of query as parameter? I've got a PL/pgSQL function that return a table whose definition is as follows:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_movement_aggregation(movement_table varchar,place_table varchar,geom varchar,point_gid varchar, radius numeric DEFAULT 20000, inArea geometry DEFAULT NULL)
RETURNS TABLE(place_i integer) AS
-- actual code here

Now I would like to use this function by using a geometry (the inArea parameter) that I get from another table. When I try the following query:
WITH x AS (
  SELECT wkb_geometry from tha_adm1
  WHERE name_1 = 'Ubon Ratchathani' LIMIT 1
)
SELECT g.*
FROM x,
get_movement_aggregation('movements','places','geom','place_id',14000,x.wkb_geometry)

I get the following error:
ERROR: function expression in FROM cannot refer to other relations of same query level
It does make sense as I indeed refer to x in both parts of the FROMclause.
The subquery returns the following:
+----------------------------------+
|   |  wkb_geometry                |
|   |  geometry(MultiPolygon,4326) |
+---+------------------------------+
| 1 | some very long number here   |
+---+------------------------------+

And I just use this parameter to filter the list of records I am working with in the function. One solution would be to create a temporary table with the filtered records and feed to the function but if there is a way to do that with a subquery, that would be great.
Thank you in advance for your answers.

A: Why not this:

WITH x AS (
  SELECT wkb_geometry from tha_adm1
  WHERE name_1 = 'Ubon Ratchathani' LIMIT 1
)
SELECT
get_movement_aggregation('movements','places',
                         'geom','place_id',14000,x2.wkb_geometry)
FROM (SELECT * FROM x) as x2

Or a simpler form, without the WITH clause:
SELECT
get_movement_aggregation('movements','places',
                         'geom','place_id',14000,x2.wkb_geometry)
FROM (SELECT wkb_geometry from tha_adm1
  WHERE name_1 = 'Ubon Ratchathani' LIMIT 1) as x2

Or if you prefer to have explicit fields rather than a function call in the final select list:
SELECT g.* FROM
 (SELECT get_movement_aggregation('movements','places',
                                  'geom','place_id',14000,x2.wkb_geometry)
    FROM (SELECT wkb_geometry from tha_adm1
           WHERE name_1 = 'Ubon Ratchathani' LIMIT 1) as x2
 ) as g;

A: This form of the query is called LATERAL in the SQL standard.
Support for such queries will be available in PostgreSQL 9.3, you can find an excellent review here by @depesz.
Before that you will have to use subqueries, @Daniel outlined a bunch of possibilities.

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NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - It could be the next financial time bomb to ripple through the economy. More than 7 million U.S. residents are behind in their auto loan or lease payments by 90 days or more, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Auto debt is over $1 trillion in the United States.
Part of the problem is that Americans are now borrowing $5,000 more per car on average than they were a decade ago, LendingTree.com says. Consider it a cost of driving increase.
"The cars now have so much technology embedded in them that it's increasing the cost of cars a little bit, but it makes the car a much better experience," Tendayi Kapfidze, the chief economist at LendingTree says.
But could that better driving experience be setting us up for our next financial crisis?
"The percentage of people who are late is well below where it was during the financial crisis," Kapfidze says. "What has happened is there's a lot more people who are getting loans so then the number of people late is up."
Kapfidze says it is a good thing that more people are getting loans because that means more people have access to credit.
While auto loan delinquencies don't look like a major risk to the economy, they're definitely a sign of the biggest weak spot in our recent economic boom: disappointing wage growth.
"Certainly because we haven't had the types of wage growth increases that people would like to see, it means that some people can fall into some stress if they overextend themselves in terms of the obligations that they commit to," Kapfidze says.
He says the important thing is that when someone is getting a loan, whether for a house or a car, to make sure it fits well into their personal budget so they don't stretch themselves too thin financially.
Tariffs on the steel industry could continue to drive car prices up, leading to bigger car loans and more defaults.


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St. Petersburg Catholic High School is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic high school in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg. The campus was originally opened in February 1957 as Bishop Barry High School for boys. In 1973, Bishop Barry High School and the nearby Notre Dame Academy for girls merged to become St. Petersburg Catholic High School. (A decade earlier, St. Paul's High School for girls was merged into Notre Dame Academy.)

In July 1998, the Salesians of Don Bosco took over administration of the school. In March 2017, the Diocese of St. Petersburg announced that it would resume direct control through its Office of Catholic Schools and Centers.

Allegations of Racism
In January 2022, racist graffiti was found in a school restroom calling for the killing of all Black people, using a racial slur. The St. Petersburg Police Department investigated the matter, but the person or persons responsible were not identified. In addition to the racist graffiti, the word "monkey" was carved into a classroom door, and it was also asserted that racial bullying occurred at the school with the dean of students allegedly calling Black students "hoodlums"; some students addressing Black students as "slave" or the N-word; and some students exhibiting confederate flags on their cars.

The President of the St. Petersburg Branch of the NAACP requested to meet with the school's principal about the matter. The NAACP and St. Petersburg Catholic High School alumnus and State Senator Darryl Rouson denounced the acts of racism, and the President of the Pinellas County Chapter of the Democratic Black Caucus of Florida and a Pinellas County Commissioner called for the removal of the school's dean. However, no such action was taken by the school or the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg.

In April 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice contacted the St. Petersburg Chapter of the NAACP to host listening sessions to hear concerns about the safety of minority students at St. Petersburg Catholic High School and to present any accounts of racism to the office of the United States Attorney.

Notable alumni
 Chris Davis (wide receiver, born 1984), former professional football player
 Bill Freehan, Class of 1959, former professional baseball player for the Detroit Tigers
 John Kirby (admiral), Class of 1981, retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations
 Marty Lyons, Class of 1975, former professional football player for New York Jets and collegiate football player at University of Alabama
Darryl Rouson, Florida State Representative and State Senator
 Jock Sanders, Class of 2007, former professional football player – American football wide receiver; played for the West Virginia Mountaineers in college, was undrafted in the National Football League (NFL), and has played for several Canadian Football League (CFL) teams.

See also
Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg
Salesians of Don Bosco
Clearwater Central Catholic High School
Tampa Catholic High School
Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School

References

External links
 School Website
 School Facebook Page
 Alumni Facebook Page
 School Twitter Page
 School Instagram Page

Catholic secondary schools in Florida
Salesian secondary schools
High schools in Pinellas County, Florida
Education in St. Petersburg, Florida
Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg
1957 establishments in Florida
Educational institutions established in 1957

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Peter Lorre; Keye Luke; Dick Baldwin; Lynn Bari; Douglas Fowley
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
The Return of Mr. Moto (1965)
Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.
Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
Danger has a special sparkle when Mr. Moto heads to Puerto Rico to put a stop to the glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market! But his smuggling investigation quickly turns into a murder mystery when both an undercover government agent and a top political figure wind up dead—and Moto begins to suspect that he is going to need a gem of a plan... to put these crooks on ice!
A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.
Strange Confession (1945)
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's young son.
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941)
The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped (?) along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), who by default is the brightest character in the picture.
Erotic Liaisons (1992)
Rie and Kishi runs a detective agency in Paris. Fallen flooding not directly and they supplement their budget with guiding Japanese tourists. This takes over when the crime boss Okuyama gives them the assignment to shadow his French mistress. Kishi falls head over heels for her while Okuyama has something weird in sight.
Just Before Dawn (1946)
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
The Caribbean Mystery (1945)
The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. James Dunn stars as Mr. Smith, a Columbo-like Brooklyn detective who pops up on a tropical island to track down some missing geologists.
Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them shoots them; their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, California where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang. This is the first English film by Takeshi Kitano.
The Black Test Car (1962)
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Donnie Brasco (1997)
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster"s brutal murder.
Japan Sinks (2006)
Japan sinks! Proving once again that Japan will never cease to find inventive ways to destroy itself on screen, this summer's blockbuster Sinking of Japan brings apocalypse through tectonics. Based on Sakyo Komatsu's best-selling novel, Sinking of Japan was first put on the big screen in Moritani Shiro's 1973 classic. In 2006, director Higuchi Shinji remakes the disaster movie, taking the story to
The Informant! (2009)
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
Cold Fish (2010)
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
Eiga: Kurosagi (2008)
Inner Sanctum (1948)
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
I Love a Mystery (1945)
This first film in the Columbia series was based on the radio serial, "The Decapitation of Jefferson Monk." A detective tries to protect a man who has predicted his murder will take place in three days.
The Whistler (1944)
The first in a series of movies based on the popular radio drama.
The Devil's Mask (1946)
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
Dead of Night (1945)
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Awake (2007)
In "Awake," a psychological thriller that tells the story of a man undergoing heart surgery while experiencing a phenomenon called "anesthetic awareness," which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
The Return of the Whistler (1948)
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (2012)
Part 2, following on from The Beginning Story. Madoka is still trying to decide whether or not to become a magical girl, after realising it is not as fun and light-hearted a job as it first appeared to be...
International Crime (1938)
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
The Thirteenth Hour (1947)
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
Street of Chance (1942)
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
The Millerson Case (1947)
While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress (1949)
An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's wheel-chair-ridden uncle to discover the secret behind the disappearance.
Phantom Raiders (1940)
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
The Shadow (1994)
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
The Man in Black (1950)
Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy.
Stopover Tokyo (1957)
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
Rusty Knife (1958)
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?
Chandu the Magician (1932)
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
In the Line of Duty 3 (1988)
In a bloody beginning, a pair of stylish Japanese thieves steal some valuable gems. In a harrowing scene, during their escape, they kill the partner of a ruffled detective (think Columbo with a Chuck Barris hairdo). The detective swears revenge, and the thieves played by the athletic and lovely Michiko Nishiwaki and her terminally ill partner/lover played by Stuart Ong plan on going to Hong Kong, sell the loot, and buy weapons for the Red Army. All the while Cynthia, a rookie cop in Hong Kong, tries to get in on the action of the task force she has been assigned to, but unfortunately her superior is her uncle who wants to keep her out of harms way. The Japanese thieves and the detective trailing them, all make their way to Hong Kong, and Cynthia ends up entangled in the same mess with the detective, trying to bring the cold blooded and desperate thieves to justice. People on both sides are killed, leading to crossed paths of personal revenge, everyone out for each others blood.
g@me. (2003)
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
Captive Factory Girls: The Violation (2007)
Natsumi (Ai Takeuchi) is forced to work in a steel factory in order to pay off a debt, a factory notorious for employing women with "dark pasts" as slave labor. Tsukada, Chief of Security places Natsumi in a team of four women led by Atsuko(Nagisa Umeno). When one worker fails to follow instructions, Tsukada rapes her, and Natsumi is next on his list. Natsumi tries to fight the insanity, but is hindered by managing director Hideko and factory president Kamiyama. It is up to Natsumi to take on the evildoings of the factory.
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
George Clooney's fact-based drama about the famous radio journalist Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Gung Ho (1986)
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Paradise Road (1997)
Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, Frances McDormand as the brash Dr. Verstak, Pauline Collins as missionary Margaret Drummond (based on missionary Margaret Dryburgh), Julianna Margulies as American socialite Topsy Merritt, Jennifer Ehle as British doyenne and model Rosemary Leighton Jones, Cate Blanchett as Australian nurse Susan McCarthy and Elizabeth Spriggs as dowager Imogene Roberts. Basing his picture on real events, Bruce Beresford tells the story of a vocal orchestra created by the women in a Japanese P.O.W. camp, a classic survivors' tale extolling women's ability to survive hardship and atrocity through perseverance, solidarity and creativity.
Messengers (1999)
Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy. Accustomed to living in luxury she tries to make a run for it with the last remaining company asset, a red Alpha Romeo sports car. Unfortunately she recklessly collides with an bicycle messenger. Lacking any funds to pay for a settlement, she end up having to work as a bicycle messenger.
Uzumasa Limelight (2014)
A moving, nostalgic portrait of the men behind the golden age of chanbara (sword-fighting dramas and films) that goes behind the scenes of the distinctive film genre for which Japan is most famous, with dominant performance by real-life kirare-yaku Seizo Fukumoto.
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950's, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.


First half of the day, as far as LuoCheng, was on an inverted curate's egg of a road - bad in parts. Second half was a perfect smooth downhill all the way, through more karst scenery.
For the second day in a row, I find myself staying in a room on the 6th floor of a hotel. This is a severe test for my leg muscles, which are now quite happy on the bike but object strenuously when called upon to walk more than 150 metres.


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There's always more to every story than is often told, which is why it's fascinating to come across accounts like this one by former Turbine Systems QA employee, who contributed to a multi-page thread about the "warts and all" of working on Lord of the Rings Online for 2.5 years.
The ex-employee, Aylwen, posted pictures from the company as well. Among his posts include tales of rivalry with the DDO staff, PvMP development, industry politics, obfuscation over internal failings, Blizzard's "ferociously competitive nature" toward other studios, how Infinite Crisis was "hemorrhaging money," and how Turbine took a stab at both a Harry Potter MMO and a console version of LOTRO.
And the community predicted exactly that at the time.
melissamcdon Melissa, the launch was a long time ago but I seem to remember it going okay that day and the days after. But 'most stable'? LOTRO has been in decline from a quality standpoint for years. The bugs, lag, crashes and performance issues have made it anything but stable. When you get into the Best Ever discussions, criteria are important. LOTRO's first few years were great and it has provided some occasional bright spots since, but the 7+ years overall have had lot of decline. I think it's important to acknowledge the shortcomings we saw over time in spite of the joy it brought us to explore Middle Earth. I tolerated them all myself up until the summer before Helm's Deep. The Hobbit movies, even if they had been as good as the LOTR trilogy, couldn't make people come enjoy a game suffering from major performance issues and declining content.
It´s an interesting post and for me a rather sad one. To be honest reading all this tears me apart. LOTRO used to be my first MMO and playing it together with my kin on a RP server (Belegaer) turned out to be one of the best times i ever had in a video game. I met so many nice people there (can you imagine playing a mmo nowadays and having a clean chat without all this lol rofl wtf noob l2p speech ?) , a few of them became RL friends. Shadows of Angmar was an intense experience for me and i always loved the way the devs catched the spirit of Middle Earth. If WB sometimes will decide to shut down the servers (and i believe after reading all this that it will be inevitable) , i will miss this game, a lot.
It probably cost in excess of twice that to just keep the lights on.
The thing that gets lost in this (to me) is that LOTRO has been one of the cleanest launches, most stable games, most detailed presentations, and honestly, it belongs on a very short list of Best MMOs Ever.
And that's fairly remarkable given this view of it as a slowly sinking ship. I still believe, and I say this with a straight face, that the crappy Hobbit movies damaged this video game. There should have been a big influx of players, but I think in the long run it didn't help much.
Gaming is an insular industry, and the MMO niche even moreso, so no one who wants to keep working in it is going to be honest about how there are a bunch of incompetent people calling the shots, lol. I forget where it is in that monster thread, but the guy said he had no real attachment to games or the games industry, he was only working there because it was an opportunity to do something Tolkien-related. Those are the kind of (rare) people who give a journo something to write about or a forum something to talk about, as opposed to most of the game industry rank-and-file who grew up worshiping video games and are so happy to be in the club that they'd never rock the boat.
ThompsonClaytonRadcliff breetoplay Golden_Girl Rozyn I read the claims in the forum thread; that's why our article exists. I wasn't responding to them. I was responding to yet another one of Golden Girl's blanket anti-corporatism statements that wilt under examination. Sure, employers value honesty. They also value (and should value) a lot of other noble things that contradict with honesty. Unfortunately, transparency is not black and white.
So they were down to a paltry $1,274,150 per month? and just had to go F2P? Then took the rest of the industry with them, because we can't just have profits, we must MAXIMIZE the profits!


Lew who? Before he was six-time NBA champion sky-hooking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time scoring leader was a super tall skinny kid out of the projects of Upper Manhattan born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. After winning 71 straight high school games, Alcindor was recruited by Coach Wooden and went on to lead UCLA to an 88-2 record and three titles.
The only reason he did not win four was that back in the day, freshmen couldn't play on the varsity team And while it's true Kareem won a total of nine titles for his collegiate and pro career combined, yet there's a name soon to appear that will leave Kareem's totals in the dust. For more, keep reading.
Culture changing???? Michigan State was in the Final Four in 1956 after beating Kentucky.
Get your information straight before making absurd statements.
No list is complete without Austin Carr of ND!
David Thompson, one of the greatest college players ever at North Carolina State University.
David Thompson hands down, and Oscar should be on the list!
Michael Jordan is hands down, the GOAT of basketball, period.
No Oscar Robertson, no way!


earlyReading is an evidence-based assessment used to screen and monitor student progress. Typically administered in grades PreK-1, they may be used for screening up through grade 3 and for frequent progress monitoring at any grade. Each assessment is designed to be highly efficient and inform instruction.
FAST browser-based scoring virtually eliminates the need for pencil-paper scoring. Use with tablets, laptops or desktop computers.
The earlyReading assessments are comprised of 12 sub-tests. Of those sub-tests, FastBridge recommends a composite of four specific sub-tests to be given per benchmark period. The composite varies from fall, winter, or spring, per grade level to best match reading skill development and reliably assess risk. The composite is typically completed in 5-10 minutes per student.
The upward extension of earlyReading is CBMreading.
The upward extension of earlyReading (Spanish) is CBMreading (Spanish).
earlyReading is used to universally screen all students up to five times per year, with additional assessments available for progress monitoring. Benchmark standards (i.e., "cut scores" or "targets") are built into the system to assist in determining which students are at risk for academic failure, on target for success, or may need enrichment instruction.
Reports provide profiles of students' strengths and areas of difficulty relating to literacy and can provide useful information to plan instruction. Each individual and group report within FAST is available instantly, expediting the process for teachers.
earlyReading is uniquely designed to accommodate quick, easy, and flexible monitoring on a frequent basis. Progress monitoring data help teachers evaluate instructional effects and determine if differentiated instruction or interventions are effective.
earlyReading assessments are individually administered. The teacher (or other staff) mark student responses electronically as the student completes the brief assessment. Paper-and-pencil versions are also available. Performance data are reported instantly and stored in the database for longitudinal analysis.