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Marc Jacobs Doesn't Pay His Models, Says Model [Updated]
Jenna Sauers
There was a big push this fashion season on the part of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the professional organization of the top American designers, to get New York designers to not use models under the age of 16. Several brands and at least one agency chose to flout this guideline, which was the centerpiece of the CFDA's seasonal letter to its members, and which was (like most of the modeling industry's attempts at self-regulation) entirely voluntary. Perhaps nobody flouted the restriction more unabashedly than Marc Jacobs — who sits on the CFDA's Board of Directors, and to whom the organization gave its 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award — who knowingly put two 14-year-old girls on his runway, and defended himself in the New York Times on the grounds that using only models over 16 impinged on his creative freedom. The Times ran two stories in as many days fairly excoriating the designer for hiring the 14-year-olds.
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But there is another, less-publicized, provision of the CFDA's model age guidelines: the organization also asks that designers who hire minor models under the age of 18 not keep those girls working past midnight. According to model Hailey Hasbrook, who worked over 30 (unpaid) hours for Jacobs during New York fashion week, the designer violated that, too.
Hasbrook, who turned 17 in January according to her Tumblr, is a high school junior from Oregon. During this NYFW, she walked for Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Theyskens' Theory, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Lacoste, Victoria by Victoria Beckham, and Houghton. That's a big debut for a model. On her blog, she also describes doing looks for Reem Acra, shooting a video for Lacoste, and working various photo shoots; again, typical for a successful new face during fashion week. These long hours are just one reason why the CFDA recommends that girls under 16 not work fashion week: the shows last a month, which often has the effect of forcing these girls to make an uncomfortable choice between staying in school and pursuing their careers, and while some underaged models are chaperoned (Hasbrook says her mother traveled with her to New York), many girls — especially the majority of models who come from poorer countries — are not so lucky, and work unsupervised. No organization currently conducts background checks on the adults who work with minors in the fashion industry.
Hasbrook, when asked by Women's Wear Daily about the kind of hours she worked during New York fashion week, replied:
One night I did looks for Marc Jacobs from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., and then the next day I was there until 4:30 in the morning. And I had Theyskens' Theory the next morning with an 8 a.m. call time.
On her own blog, Hasbrook explains a little bit more about her work for Jacobs, which began on Saturday of NYFW. She said that at Jacobs' casting, "I got to meet him and everything, which was pretty cool," and that her other appointments and fittings for the day were cancelled when the designer requested her to do looks for him.
Doing looks means that I am kind of like a live mannequin in a way. They try all the garments and looks on me to put together what they are going to use for the show...Despite the long hours it was actually a lot of fun.
From 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. is a solid nine hours of work — and it's a shift that ends two hours after midnight, when minors like Hasbrook are supposed to be permitted to go home. Then, on Sunday, Hasbrook writes:
Sunday was a VERY hectic and LOOOOONGG day…..
It started with a casting for Rodarte at 11:00 in the morning.
Then, I had MORE looks for Marc Jacobs. The SCHEDULED time was Noon-4:30. They ended up keeping me until 6:00, though, causing me to have to switch around my schedule and cancel some things.
Hasbrook eventually left to go to another job — looks for Reed Krakoff — but she ended up getting cancelled from the gig (after spending $20 on a cab) because Jacobs had kept her so long. Then, the same evening, she went straight to another casting.
I get a call from my agency saying Marc wants me BACK to do more looks. They told him that I would do it but I had to have an early night because I had shows early the next morning. They told me that I shouldn't be there any later than 10:30.
Well, 10:30 rolls around and I ask Shawn if he knows when I will be ready to leave. Only to find out that they have me booked open-ended. Meaning that they had no specific end time for me. After a couple phone calls, they decided on 2:00 am.
Well, 2:00 rolls around…. I hadn't been trying things on for a while so we all thought I would be good to go. I go and start to get dressed only to be called for in the other room by Marc.
I didn't end up leaving until around 4:30 in morning.
That's another 14 hours of working just for Jacobs. For her efforts, Hasbrook later booked both the Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs shows.
What was she paid for her 23 hours of doing looks, plus her 6-8 hours of working in Jacobs' two shows? Not one cent. A reader of her blog asked what Hasbrook — who writes that she is currently living on an "allowance" from her agency, Elite, debited from her account as an advance against her future earnings, which is typical in an industry governed by bizarre economics — is actually making as a model. And Hasbrook answered:
Not entirely sure. But for some things, like all of the Marc Jacobs stuff I did, I got trade, not cash.
"Trade" is clothing. Hasbrook told WWD that Jacobs gave her a bag, dress, jacket and shoes. Designer clothing is nice, but you know what's even better? Getting paid for your work. It's also kind of heart-breaking — but not surprising — that Hasbrook is working so hard even while she's ignorant of her earnings; many models don't feel comfortable talking about money with their agencies, where there is generally little separation between the accounting department and the bookers, and the fear (and the potential consequences) of alienating your agency by being "difficult" or asking too many questions are very real. Models are often in the dark about money matters for more prosaic reasons too: most of them are very young, and many haven't mastered English.
Jacobs is just one of many New York designers don't pay their runway models; this reality means that girls can become ubiquitous for a fashion week, working for some of the most high-profile names in the business, and still end the season heavily in debt to their agencies. All those weekly advanced "allowances," plus travel expenses between the four main cities (New York, London, Milan, and Paris), accommodation, Fed-Ex, card printing, miscellaneous agency promotional expenses, those $20 taxi fares — they add up.
Not paying runway models is bad enough. But designers not paying their looks models — the girls who spend hours in the studio, doing the unglamorous work of trying on all the garments produced for the collection in however many combinations the designer and stylist deem necessary, performing the emotional labor of working swiftly, professionally and smilingly while a stressed-out design and production team inch closer to killing each other, all absent any explicit promise that their behind-the-scenes efforts will translate into a booking for the much more prestigious runway gig — that's news to me. When I modeled, doing looks during fashion week was how you earned money to make up for all the magazine editorials, shows, presentations, and myriad other modeling jobs you had to do for free or for trade. Now the looks are for trade, too? That's bullshit. Working for free for Marc Jacobs — a company that's majority owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury conglomerate? That's complete and total bullshit.
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LVMH made a net profit of $4.13 billion last year. When the conglomerate reported its 2011 financial results last month, it revealed that its revenue grew by 16% over 2010's levels, to €23.66 billion, or $32.94 billion. Louis Vuitton, the other LVMH-owned brand Jacobs designs for, experienced another year of double-digit revenue growth; analysts put its total revenue at €6.5 billion, or $9.05 billion.
And Jacobs has been handsomely rewarded for his services to his parent company. Last year, WWD reported that he and his business partner, Robert Duffy, receive salaries and benefits that "place them among the highest-paid designers and fashion executives in the world." Jacobs' talks to take over the creative directorship of Christian Dior reportedly broke down after he and Duffy asked for $10-million-plus salaries each. And this is the guy who's having high school students from Oregon work for him for free?
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Hasbrook is careful to point out that the long hours weren't "that bad," and that Jacobs and his team were "super awesome and nice." She writes, "It was actually quite fun to be there with everybody despite the exhaust [sic] by the end of the night. Plus it was all totally worth it."
Models are generally considered independent contractors under U.S. law, which means that many basic provisions of employment law — including minimum wage, mandatory breaks, worker's compensation for injuries on the job site, and even protection from sexual harassment — do not apply. High-profile New York designers can offer models as little compensation as they please, because there is no law or regulation that forces them to do otherwise. That's not the case in France, where models are generally considered employees (and where girls under 16 are legally barred from runway work). When Marc Jacobs shows his Louis Vuitton collections in Paris, he pays his models, because the law says he has to.
UPDATE: Marc Jacobs has responded, stating via Twitter: "Models are paid in trade [clothes]. If they don't want to work w/ us, they don't have to."
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UPDATE 2: Hasbrook has responded on her Tumblr. She says working for Jacobs was "actually one of the favorite jobs I have had so far," and that the designer and his employees treated her well. "I actually preferred to be paid in trade," she says. "I love everything that I got, and it was well worth it."
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Brandon Washington (born August 13, 1988) is a former American football offensive tackle and current coach. He has played for the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL), the St. Louis Rams and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). Brandon was selected in the sixth round of the 2012 NFL Draft.  He played college football at the University of Miami.

College career
At the University of Miami, Washington was an All-ACC selection as a sophomore in 2010.

On December 16, 2011, Washington announced that he would forgo his senior season and enter the 2012 NFL Draft.

Professional career

Philadlephia Eagles
Washington was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round (200th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft. He signed a four-year contract with the team on May 11, 2012.

On August 31, 2012, the team released Washington as part of its final cuts.

Los Angeles Rams
After clearing waivers with the Eagles, Washington was signed to the Rams practice squad.

On December 31, 2012, Washington signed a two-year, $1,060,059 contract with the St. Louis Rams. He was waived on August 30, 2014.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats
On April 26, 2016, Washington signed as a free agent with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. He was released by the Tiger-Cats on June 14.

Toronto Argonauts
On September 19, 2016, Washington signed a practice roster agreement with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. On December 7, 2016, Washington re-signed with the Argonauts as a free agent. He played in 11 games with the team in 2017 and won a Grey Cup championship following the team's 105th Grey Cup victory. He played in seven games in 2018 before being released.

Massachusetts Pirates
On October 21, 2018, Washington signed with the Massachusetts Pirates of the National Arena League.

Coaching career
In January of 2020, Washington retired from playing, and joined the coaching staff at Florida Memorial as the offensive line coach.

In March of 2022, Washington was announced as a graduate assistant for the UCF Knights football program, working with the offensive line alongside offensive line coach Herb Hand.

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Miami Hurricanes bio

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HONOLULU (AP) - There will be 152 Native Hawaiians participating in a gathering to discuss self-governance.
Nai Aupuni, the organization formed to guide a now-canceled Native Hawaiian election, announced Wednesday that 44 people declined to participate.
An election was under way to select 40 delegates for a constitutional convention when the U.S. Supreme Court issued an injunction that blocked counting the votes. A lawsuit argues the racially exclusive process is unconstitutional.
Nai Aupuni canceled the election and offered delegate positions to all 196 candidates.
Organizers are now calling them "participants" and the convention a "gathering," as the opponents continue to fight their efforts in court.
State Rep. Kaniela Ing is on the list, but says he won't participate unless accommodations can be made for his legislative duties.


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Herstory lessons
Meet Marsha P. Johnson, an iconic LGBTQ rights leader who's sure to inspire you
Angelica Florio
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Because June is LGBTQ Pride Month, the upcoming weeks will include parades and celebrations all around the world. None of the month's excitement would be happening without the 1969 Stonewall Riots, though, and those events couldn't have happened without Marsha P. Johnson, the transgender woman who helped lead New York's gay liberation movement.
While most people now recognize Johnson for her role in the Stonewall police raid, which happened in the early morning hours of June 28th 1969, the activist had already made a name for herself in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood before the uprising took place. After the Stonewall Riots, too, Johnson continued her work as an activist, notably working as an advocate for AIDS patients' care before she died in 1992.
Johnson was born in 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. According to The New York Times, she was the fifth of seven children in her working-class family. After graduating from Thomas A. Edison High School in 1963, Johnson moved to New York City. From there, she began going by a new persona called Black Marsha. The term "transgender" wasn't used during Johnson's lifetime, but the activist usually used female pronouns and sometimes called herself either gay, a transvestite, or a queen.
Johnson's Life in New York
After she'd moved to New York City, Johnson worked as a prostitute and a drag performer. Due to the heavy, violent police presence in gay communities during the 1960s, Johnson faced systemic discrimination and was arrested often. The New York Times reports that "she stopped counting after the 100th [arrest]." According to The Daily Beast, Johnson maintained a cheerful disposition and was seen as a fixture of the West Village.
After Johnson became known as Marsha P., the drag queen would tell people that the P stood for "Pay it no mind!"
The Stonewall Uprising
Johnson and her friend and political partner, Sylvia Rivera, are credited with igniting the events at Stonewall on June 28th, 1969. The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street had served as a safe space and a hub for LGBTQ folks to gather. When the police raided the bar to arrest 13 people on dubious charges, many of the bar's attendees decided to fight back. Based on many eyewitness accounts, Johnson and Rivera were among the first people to fight back against the police officers' outright discrimination against gay people.
As her Penn State biography states, most of Stonewall's patrons were members of marginalized groups, even within the LGBQ community, including people of color, trans people, butch lesbians, drag queens, and other non-mainstream queer identities. The Stonewall uprising — which many people call a "riot" or "rebellion" — lasted six days and attracted hundreds of people to Christopher Street to demand LGBTQ rights.
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
Following the events at Stonewall, many activists started groups advocating for gay rights, including the Gay Liberation Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, and more. As an offshoot of the Gay Liberation Front, Johnson and Rivera co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, or STAR, in 1970. That group championed the rights of young transgender people, and according the The New York Times, STAR used a tenement to house, clothe, and feed trans youth.
Johnson also continued performing as a drag queen during the early 1970s. In 1972, her group the Hot Peaches began performing, and in 1975, Andy Warhol photographed Johnson for a collection called "Ladies and Gentlemen." Although Johnson was thriving while working as an activist and touring the world with the Hot Peaches during the '70s, she began struggling with mental breakdowns, and she frequently checked in and out of psychiatric institutions.
Like with so many members of the LGBTQ community, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s greatly affected Johnson. She cared for her activist friend Randy Wicker's boyfriend, David Combs, who died of AIDS in 1990. That year, Johnson contracted H.I.V., which she didn't reveal until 1992.
Johnson's Tragic Death
On July 6th, 1992, Johnson's body was found in the Hudson River. At the time, the authorities called the death a suicide, but The New York Times states that many of Johnson's friends questioned that designation. Later that year, Johnson's cause of death was reclassified as "drowning from undetermined causes," and then in 2012 the authorities re-opened the case to look again at Johnson's cause of death; it remains open.
In many ways, Johnson opened the door for so many people to identify themselves as proudly LGBTQ, and more specifically as transgender. Although her life came to a tragic and mysterious end when she was just 47 years old, Johnson's legacy as an activist and performer should always be remembered.
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Court Says Phone Spying Only OK for Serious National Threats
The European Union's highest court said data protection rules should prevent authorities from indiscriminately snooping.
Samuel Petrequin
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's highest court said Tuesday that the bloc's data protection rules should prevent authorities from indiscriminately snooping on the personal data of internet and phone users, even for national security purposes.
However, spying agencies may briefly hold on to bulk electronic data for a limited time when a EU member state faces "a serious threat," the European Court of Justice said.
The ECJ ruled on a series of linked cases from France, the U.K. and Belgium, three countries that have been hit by extremist attacks in recent years and have reinforced surveillance.
The court said that, despite diverging claims from several member states, national legislation "falls within the scope" of the European directive on privacy and electronic communications.
Highlighting the obligation for member states to ensure the confidentiality of data relating to electronic communications, the court said that in cases where terror activities are suspected, collection of data should be limited to individuals, and a quick review should be carried out by an independent administrative body assessing whether it's absolutely necessary.
"In urgent cases, the review must take place promptly," the ECJ said.
The initial case was brought by Privacy International, a privacy campaign group. Referring to the ECJ's case law, it said that the acquisition, use, retention, disclosure, storage and deletion of bulk personal data sets and bulk communications data by the U.K. security and intelligence agencies was unlawful under EU law.
The U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Tribunal referred the case to the ECJ, which held a joint hearing with two similar cases from France and another one from Belgium.
Although Britain left the EU in January, the court continues to have jurisdiction over matters affecting the U.K. during the Brexit transition period ending Dec. 31.
"Today's judgment reinforces the rule of law in the EU," said Privacy International legal director Caroline Wilson Palow. "In these turbulent times, it serves as a reminder that no government should be above the law. Democratic societies must place limits and controls on the surveillance powers of our police and intelligence agencies."
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<form method="post" class='form' role='form' action="?section=photo&view=addVote">
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    <input type="hidden" name="score" value="<?php  ?>"></input>

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Here i can save my score=$(this).attr("alt"); to database using javascript. But i need it to be passed as a hidden field data something like this <input type="hidden" name="score" value="<?php the score of raty! ?>"></input>
. Here addVote is a method where i have to do the operation.
can i do that? if another way exist so how?Thanks.

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Cincinnati Christian University (CCU) is a private institution established in 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Formerly the Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary, it aims to educate students through the use of Biblical principles and to develop their character and skills that will enable them to become leaders in their church and communities. Under the administration of President David Faust, the university also commits to serving as the light of the community and guiding men and women as they obtain a higher Christian education.
CCU is being supported by the Christian churches and the churches of Christ and incorporates spiritual development in its curriculum. The school's mission is to be "faith-active" in all campus activities in an effort to establish a close relationship with the Lord. Students are provided with a servant leadership experience in the campus to prepare them for their future calling whether as a pastor, parent or professional.
Cincinnati Christian University's main campus is located on Price Hill, west of Cincinnati's city center. It also has other sites such as in Indianapolis and Jeffersonville, Indiana and in Sharonville in Ohio.
The yearly cost of studying full-time at the Bible College is $21,964. This is for a student who lives inside the campus and already includes the books and supplies. Each semester normally covers 12-18 hours of credit.
Students living outside the campus pay a cheaper annual fee of $15,734 including books and supplies.
CCU's Bible College provides student financial services (SFS) to assist students in their college education and other financial requirements. It offers grants, scholarships and loans to qualified students and has a work study program that lets students earn an income while studying.
This private Christian university has an estimated student body of 758. Of this figure, 57 percent are males and 43 percent are females. Majority of the students live outside the campus and only around 36 percent live in housing facilities (dorms or apartments) within the university campus.
CCU offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. Majors covered in the bachelor's degree programs include biblical studies, ministry, leadership, education, business management, information technology and psychology among others. The graduate program offers majors in counseling, religion and divinity.
It has three main schools composed of the Cincinnati Bible College, the Bible Seminary and the College of Adult and Lifetime Learning (CALL).
Cincinnati Christian University is an accredited private institution. Its accreditation was granted by the Higher Learning Commission and it is also a member of the North Central Association as well as the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities. In addition, the university's Bible Seminary is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools of the United States.
CCU is represented as the Gold Eagles in the area of sports. As a member of the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, it competes in various sports such as men's basketball, men's golf, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and cross country.


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In the tradition of peace and love, Bake Shop gives all tips, portion of sales to charity
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David Thomas, The Jackson Sun Published 2:58 p.m. CT April 11, 2015 | Updated 9:42 p.m. CT April 11, 2015
Matt Childress, 22, is pictured with his father, Dale, at Woodstock Bake Shop.(Photo: DAVID THOMAS/The Jackson Sun)Buy Photo
For any aspiring entrepreneur, a visit to Woodstock Bake Shop is a must.
A scant four years out of high school, Matt Childress obtained a line of credit and opened his hometown bakery at 80 Innsdale, next to Cracker Barrel, Sept. 11, 2012.
Less than one year later — August 2013 — he opened his second location, 75 New Market St., at The Farmers Market.
"My goal was to drive race cars, but I ran out of money," Childress said. "I did not want a desk job, so I wanted to own my own business. I set goals for myself I have to achieve."
Childress, a 2008 graduate of Liberty High School, raced cars on the West Coast, which causes one to wonder the connection between fast automobiles and cupcakes.
"My mother (Jan) has a real good background in baking," Childress said. "She would bake wedding cakes, teach cake classes … how to decorate."
Childress not only sold his father Dale on the idea — he also hired him.
"I was at Golden Circle Ford for 16 years," Dale Childress said. "I loved what I did at Golden Circle, but the deciding factor was, this was growing, and it was a family decision, so I decided to take a leap of faith.
"I joined Matt in August of 2013, and he is the principle owner, and I'm a minority owner."
Customers stepping inside the store at Innsdale may feel they are stepping back in time when they see relics from a time before man walked on the moon.
"I'm a '60s and '70s genre buff," Dale said. "It became a perfect fit. Matt likes the peace movement, tie-dye T-shirts, album covers and old concert posters from that era."
Even the store's telephone number has a certain ring to it — 554-1969.
Dale said the store sells upwards of 200 to 250 box lunches and 1,000 cupcakes on a daily basis.
A box lunch consists of a sandwich, drink and cupcake for $5.
"We make our own chicken salad and pimento cheese," Dale said. "We also have ham and cheese, turkey and cheese, and peanut butter. We have the Woodstock Club and a New Orleans style Muffuletta, which consists of an olive medley dressing, two cheeses, three meats and a bread 12-inches in diameter that will feed four people."
The cupcakes — there's a variety of 15 to 16 — aren't just chocolate or vanilla.
Dale said customers named the cupcakes using titles of songs from the 1960s and 1970s (what else) as the theme.
A chocolate cupcake is 'Purple Haze,' strawberry is 'Proud Mary,' red velvet is 'Penny Lane,' and Cookies and Cream is 'Stairway to Heaven.'
"We put a lot more emphasis on who we are instead of what we sell," Dale said. "The product is secondary. With each lunch, we hand write an inspirational message."
Dale said an example is, "All works of love are works of peace."
"A lot of messages are mine, some come from the Internet, or people send them to us," Dale said. "Ask anybody who works for us, and they will say they want to be the reason someone smiles today. We truly want to make a difference in someone's life who walks through the door."
Matt went door-to-door when he first opened the business, literally giving product away just to get it into the hands of prospective customers.
"We would take cupcakes around to businesses," Matt said. "We used word of mouth, and we're big on social media — Facebook, Twitter, the best way to get our message out there."
The store also sends a message with the charity work it does.
"We do not accept tips," Dale said. "Any tip we receive goes to charity, and on Saturdays, 25 percent of our total sales goes to a charity, 52 weeks a year. That is strong coming from a 22-year-old entrepreneur.
"Everything we do is bringing hope to the community," Dale said. "We started giving to charities — RIFA, Area Relief Ministries, The Dream Center, Youth Town, Relay For Life, and individuals — because there is a lot more good than bad, and we promote what we love and not bash what we hate.
"Matt's mantra is, if there is a need in the community, and Woodstock can fill it, we try to do it."
The Innsdale location is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays.
Hours for the downtown location are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
Matt extended the hours when the Amphitheater at the Market opened in 2014.
"We have a captive audience," he said. "We're open for all the concerts."
His downtown location is just a short distance from a home Matt purchased.
"I bought a home on East Main, renovated it, and I love the neighborhood," Matt said. "Downtown is a growing market, and it's a great place to be."
The wheels are turning both literally and figuratively for Matt, who is ordering a food trailer.
"There are so many people in other communities contacting us to come to their events," Dale said. "He's also looking at opening a third location outside Jackson in the next 12 months."
Woodstock Bake Shop has also added catering.
"We cater five days a week to factories around town," Dale said. "I would say a majority of churches and schools, Jackson State (Community College), Union and the University of Memphis-Lambuth use us for their events. We touch every demographic in town."
Dale said Matt made the choice to pursue a business career immediately, instead of attending college.
"Our daughter, Erica, is a pharmacist in Atlanta," Dale said. "Matt did not go to college, but he has a saying, 'A man has a right not to have a degree, but he does not have a right not to have an education.'"
Since graduating from Liberty, Matt has been invited to speak at his alma mater.
"I told them to follow your dreams, don't let someone's opinion of you become your reality," Matt said. "You have to plan it out, and you have to study it. You can't get down, because it takes time to grow a business. You go into it that you are going to make a living, and it took me about a year before I could pay myself."
Reach David Thomas at (731) 425-9637. Follow him on Twitter @dgthomasbiz.
About Woodstock Bake Shop
•Matt Childress opened his first store at 80 Innsdale, September 2012.
•Childress opened his second location at 75 New Market St., at The Farmers Market, downtown Jackson, August 2013.
•For more information, call (731) 554-1969, visit them online at www.woodstockbakeshop.com, or like them on Facebook (groovy).
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Gary Neville has asked Cristiano Ronaldo to speak publicly about his future at Manchester United, believing the 'troublesome' situation has created an unwanted distraction for new manager Eric ten Hag heading into the new season There is
Ronaldo has wanted to leave United and has played just 45 minutes since pre-season, having missed the club's summer tour for family reasons.
Ten Hag confirmed that Anthony Martial will miss Sunday's game against Brighton with an injury, but declined to say whether Ronaldo will start in his place. Martial, 37, and Marcus Rashford are Martial's only direct striker replacements unless he opts for the False Nine, as Ten Hag experimented with in preseason.
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Ronaldo reportedly wants to leave United to play for a club that will be in the Champions League next season.
speaking on friday night footballNeville said: "The situation with Ronaldo is distracting. I saw Ten Hag having to answer questions about it at the press conference on Friday.
"Anthony Martial was injured, he was the only other centre-forward, and he actually intended to leave the club six months ago.
"The fact that they didn't get Frenkie De Jong, that they weren't supported like other managers, and that they didn't get an early signing was a big deal for Ten Hag. I think it means it's an even harder job." "
Asked if he would start Ronaldo, Neville said: "If Ronaldo is good, I will use him. I hope he stays.
Obviously Sky will ask him out on Sunday after the game. Shouldn't he come out, stand up, give an interview and everyone else answer his questions?
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"I'm a little disappointed in him because he's sending the manager out to press conferences. Cristiano Ronaldo is a good age now. He's been the best player in the world for the past decade alongside Lionel Messi. He has all the 'experience in the world'.
"Is it too much to ask him to come out and do an interview and tell me what he's really thinking, what's really going on?
"Is that too much to ask a senior player? Will he not interview for the next three weeks? Isn't he going to do an interview on Sunday after the game?
"Obviously Sky is going to ask him out on Sunday after the game.Is he going to come out and stand up and give an interview so that everyone else has to answer his questions?
"I think it will be the start of something.
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Manchester United manager Eric ten Hag says he is happy with the situation with Cristiano Ronaldo and has not identified him for his early exit from a pre-season friendly against Rayo Vallecano. was repeated.
"So I'm disappointed because the clarity we're not getting, and the reason Ten Hag is a little bit jumpy at the press conference, is that he's being asked tough questions. He probably isn't telling us the truth. He can't.
"The reality is that if a Champions League club signs Cristiano Ronaldo in the next two weeks, I think we know he wants that move. I got
"At the moment no one is coming for him, so the club are saying at the moment he could stay. I think he'll leave when he comes."
"Should Manchester United wait a couple of weeks before the end of the transfer window to see if their star centre-forward is leaving? I don't think they should be in that position.
"Do they just say no and tell him he will stay no matter what? There is a big risk that I will leave.
"It can happen, and that's why I don't like it.
"I want him to finish his Manchester United career well, so for me it's a bigger deal. Player, being a leader on the pitch, giving interviews when the team wins and when they lose. do.
Roy Keane, Myka Richards, Jamie Carragher, Gary Neville and Jamie Redknapp discuss whether Cristiano Ronaldo should stay at Manchester United or leave Old Trafford for a new club. there is
"Make sure he sets the standard he always sets in training when it comes to performance. Score goals, make sure everyone is fair and leave Manchester with only the best of intentions.
"It's troublesome for him, it's troublesome for the club, it's troublesome for everyone."
"We want him to stay. We desperately want him to stay. We don't like these side sagas that linger.
"They never look good. They always look a little uncomfortable. And I think I need to clarify that. If you're a Manchester United fan, then surely you're Eric ten Hag. .
"He needs to be able to focus on the whole team, his performance and how he plays tactically. He doesn't want to be constantly distracted by a star player and he stays or leaves."
Carragher: Manchester United better start fresh with a young team
Cristiano Ronaldo has only played one pre-season friendly
Ronaldo only returned to training last week after being absent from United's recent pre-season tours of Thailand and Australia, and he and his agent Jorge Mendes have further discussed his future.
But United have insisted they will not sanction the sale of the five-time Ballon d'Or winner who is sticking to Ten Hag's plan.com in terms of fitness.
The loss of Martial, who had performed well in pre-season, also brought in Ronaldo's early departure from Old Trafford in United's opening game, along with the rest of the players, before the new manager took over. The weekend's friendly against Rayo Vallecano is 'unacceptable'.
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Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford, alongside Martial, have shown signs of a return to playing as a more fluid front three during pre-season, and Jamie Carragher believes United need to draw a line under Ronaldo's narrative. I feel that there is
"I've been critical since Ronaldo joined and I said Ten Hag should move on from there," Carragher said. friday night football.
"I know it's easier said than done to send a player off, but we're talking about him and making headlines and we want him to stay. He's Cristiano. 'It's Ronaldo'
"We have some of the best players, big names and managers like Klopp and Guardiola and Ronaldo is one of the big names if not the big names. It's not a big name because of what it does and accomplishes.
"So if you really look at it from an analytical point of view for Man United, I think it would be better without him and starting fresh with a young team.
"But when it comes to our work and our coverage of celebrities and topics, he's an absolute superstar. He's a megastar.
"If he plays over the weekend, we'll all be focused on him, analyzing his performance, his body language and how he's doing with the pitchside manager.
"He's a huge story and that's why in some ways we want to keep him in the Premier League."
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At least one agricultural accident involving overhead lines is reported every day, according to the latest figures.
Every year, we respond to hundreds of incidents in which farm workers and/ or vehicles have come into contact with electricity, usually overhead lines.
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The dangers of over-reliance on technology were brought home to this tractor driver when he brought down a 132kV pylon near Grantham.
It's understood he'd used GPS to program the tractor to operate in straight lines. Distracted by the equipment he was towing, he'd failed to notice he was heading at speed towards the tower and hadn't applied the brakes.
Fortunately, the driver was not injured and the tractor only had minor damage; so after the overhead wires were secured and the pylon lifted by a telehandler, the tractor was reversed out and carried on working in the next field.
This is a timely reminder of the dangers of working near overhead lines and our equipment and the use of technology.
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Free trade for all: The potential that RCEP has
Sunil Chacko
PM Modi shakes hands with US Vice President Mike Pence during their bilateral meeting, in Singapore, on Wednesday. REUTERS
With services being about 55% of India's GDP, agreement on the free movement of skilled personnel and related aspects of the services sector are pivotal for India.
RCEP, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between a geographically Asian and Asia-Pacific grouping of 16 countries. Those countries are the 10 ASEAN nations of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the much larger six regional trading powers/economies of China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Although India is, in purchasing power parity terms, the third-largest economy in the world, it is considerably smaller in trade terms. In Asia, the dominant trade powers are China and Japan. Hence, the RCEP is widely seen as a regional free trade agreement, in preparation, that excludes the Americas, Europe and Africa. Still, RCEP would have 45% of the world's population and roughly 30% of the world's GDP, currently some $23 trillion.
The trade status of India in world terms is interesting, since even Roman and Greek galleons were docking in Kerala to trade spices, particularly pepper for silver coins over two millennia ago. A large number of silver coins of Roman Emperors Augustus (63 BC to AD 14), and Tiberius (14 AD to 37 AD) found in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are unambiguous proof of the historical trade links. Indeed, one Sanskrit name for pepper was yavanesta or the "passion of the Greeks". Muziris and the Malabar coast were central to Roman interests in India, especially for pepper, which has been found on archaeological sites all over the Roman world, including Britain and Germany. Emperor Augustus' conquest of Egypt's ports, especially Berenike that functioned as a hub in the long-distance trade between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, also facilitated the trade with India. During that era and for hundreds of years thereafter, Europeans were reportedly consuming (in that pre-refrigeration phase) truly revolting old and near-rotting meat that then required large quantities of pepper and other spices like cinnamon and ginger to camouflage the taste.
Thus, India started off in early history on a fortunate footing, but exports have sharply declined as a percentage of GDP. Indeed, the work of OECD economic historian Angus Maddison shows that India had the highest GDP in the world when many countries were little more than tribal encampments. While colonialism definitely had a deleterious effect on India's external trade, it is disingenuous to pin all the blame on colonialism for India's current relatively small trade role (less than 2% of global exports), 71 years after Independence. However, India's massive internal market consumes most goods that are produced internally (even samosas run out by the early afternoon), leaving little for export, a fact made worse by the hard-to-believe production controls and multiple permits required that have existed for decades, despite efforts at reform. Today, with China, India runs a serious trade deficit, since China exports $76 billion to India and imports only $13.3 billion. Further, India runs deficits with 10 of the 16 RCEP countries, thus making the Indian negotiating position particularly tenuous, but in fact India already as "FTAs" with ASEAN nations, Japan and Korea. With services being about 55% of India's GDP, agreement on the free movement of skilled personnel and related aspects of the services sector are pivotal for India to turn around that situation. Indeed, the failure of progress on the Trade in Services segment at WTO may well have been an impetus for the negotiations on regional free trade agreements (FTAs). India became a member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1948, a year after Independence, and GATT later morphed into WTO, with India becoming a founding member in 1995.
"Free Trade Agreements" and "Most Favoured Nation" status are in fact misnomers, and do not actually mean zero tariffs or absence of non-tariff barriers. China certainly was not a "free trade" economy as it became a global economic superpower, and even today maintains average tariff of about 9.5%, and for industrial products it is 8.5%, has export taxes on 217 items to discourage exports in primary, unprocessed form, in addition to rigid import control regulations through China Compulsory Certifications (CCC). Further, European countries themselves often imposed non-free trade terms, with military power. European scholars point out that when the Portuguese first came in force to Calicut, Kerala, they burnt alive other traders (in full view of their families) to emphasise the point that there were new traders in town.
While Economics orthodoxy proclaims that free-trade is highly correlated with prosperity, it is also a fact that India's steel, pharma, agriculture, textiles and manufacturing sectors, among others, likely will be hard hit should there be the dramatic reductions in tariffs that some RCEP nations expect of India. Meanwhile, making it easier for India to export services, especially IT services, has not been agreed to, as yet.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at the East Asia Summit, Singapore, when his visit also coincided with the ASEAN Summit, both where the RCEP was under consideration, and asked for speedy conclusion of the negotiations. China's Premier Li Keqiang said he hopes that RCEP will commence in 2019. However, the number of "chapters" of an RCEP Agreement yet to be concluded are in fact the most contentious.
There also appears to be absence of institutional memory in trade negotiations. All the assurances given during the WTO TRIPS Agreement negotiations on tackling epidemics, in which Indian pharma played a commendable and decisive role especially in worldwide AIDS control, appear to have been increasingly tossed into dustbins as new generations of negotiators, perhaps unfamiliar with the past or indeed the subject matter, negotiate in secrecy.
Further, given the historical presence of the US in Asia, and its increasing focus on Asia as the world's economic centre of gravity shifts to the Asia-Pacific, from a previously Europhilic world, it is hard to imagine a trade agreement that is living and vibrant and simultaneously excludes the US, as RCEP is in fact attempting. On his recent visit to Asia, US Vice President Mike Pence reiterated his strong belief in the US-Japan alliance, and stressed that Japan is an indispensable trading partner for the United States, with two-way trade being a stunning $285 billion. He said that the United States is Japan's top foreign direct investor, employing over 350,000 people in Japan. And last year, Japan invested almost $44 billion in the United States, for a total of nearly half a trillion dollars that support nearly a million American jobs.
Meanwhile, it is worth pointing out that while India currently has no free trade agreement with the US or China, India has a significant trade surplus with the US; India exports goods and services worth $76.7 billion and imports $49.4 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of $27.3 billion in 2017.
India's trade surplus with the US is a reflection of its success in export of IT services, indeed the vast majority of IT services exported by India are to the US. India has offered to import oil and natural gas from the US as a means of reducing its trade surplus. Progress is also awaited on steps that China might take to reduce its trade imbalance with India that is in fact growing.
India has already pushed RCEP deadlines past the coming Indian parliamentary election in May 2019. At this time, given multiple complexities, it is uncertain if RCEP will even commence in 2019. However, expectation of vastly increased trade and investment in goods and services in a world where ever so many competitive advantages can coexist, portends an exciting future for all.
Dr Sunil Chacko is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities and served in the Executive Office of the World Bank Group. He has been a faculty member in the US, Canada, Japan and India.
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Until 18 July 2020, Zaliznychne belonged to Koziatyn Municipality. The municipality as an administrative unit was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast to six. The area of Koziatyn Municipality was merged into Khmilnyk Raion.

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Zaliznychne railway station is located in the settlement, on the railway connecting Berdychiv and Koziatyn. There is infrequent passenger traffic.

The settlement has access to Highway M21 which connects Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr, as well as to Highway H02 connecting  Kremenets and Bila Tserkva.

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SMITH HEADS PANEL IN FANS FORUM
Saddlers' personalities here as part of Trophy Tour on Tuesday...
SADDLERS' boss, Dean Smith, captain Adam Chambers and two club legends will form an all-star panel at a special fans forum to look ahead to The Saddlers' appearance at Wembley in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final.
The event will take place on Tuesday evening at the Banks's Stadium and will form part of an exciting event to mark the conclusion of a two-day Trophy Tour organised by Johnstone's Paint.
Tuesday's event gets underway at 4pm with supporters invited to come and join in the pre-Wembley fun with giveaways, and enjoy the chance to have their picture taken with the coveted Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
Former boss, Chris Nicholl and ex-goalkeeper Mick Kearns, will be attending the event while, from 5pm, manager Smith and a cluster of his Wembley-bound players will be in attendance to meet-and-greet supporters.
The fans forum, run in conjunction with BBC WM, will begin at 6pm and will see Smith, Chambers, Nicholl and Kearns take questions from the fans ahead of the big game against Bristol City on Sunday, March 22nd.
The Johnstone's Paint Trophy Tour begins on Monday morning at the Walsall Johnstone's Decorating Centre from 7.30am-9.30am.
Before the Banks's Stadium event on Tuesday, the Johnstone's Paint Trophy team will be taking to the road to visit shops, community groups and businesses who are 'painting the town red' to show their support for Walsall.
Ben Wilde, brand and sponsorship manager for Johnstone's Paint, said: "It promises to be a great two days in Walsall and the event at the Banks's Stadium culminating in the fans forum should be a fantastic conclusion.
"There will be plenty of pre-Wembley excitement and a chance to meet the players and have a picture with the trophy before the fans forum which features a great line-up for Walsall supporters."
The Johnstone's Paint Trophy Team will be heading to Bristol on Wednesday and Thursday.


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Take the chance and get inspired by Alain Visser, the CEO of Lynk & Co International, the new mobility brand equivalent to Netflix. "The man with the plan" will tell you all about how this company that started off as an idea just three years ago and has just become the world's fastest growing brand. On top of that, you'll get the exclusive chance to hear how you can join Lynk & Co's journey to change mobility forever.
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Born in Belgium, Alain started his career in the automobile industry in 1986, where he worked his way up to various senior positions at Ford, including President and Managing Director, Ford Benelux. He is now the CEO of Lynk & Co International AB.
Before joining Lynk & CO, Alain served as Vice President of Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service at Volvo Cars, globally. For the last two years, Alain has been named in the top ten most influential Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) in the world, by Forbes Magazine – for his honest and forthright approach in making big changes within the automotive industry.
Alain also worked at General Motors' Rüsselsheim, Germany HQ for eight years. His roles there included Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Aftersales at Opel/Vauxhall. Alain was also a Member of the Board of Adam Opel AG. Alain holds a Master's of Science from the University of Antwerp, as well as an MBA from Duke University in North Carolina, and speaks six languages, including Italian, English, French and German.
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North America Sheet XIII Parts of Louisiana,...
North America Sheet XIII Parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida
Detailed map of the region, showing counties, towns, rivers, roads, mountains, bridges, lakes, post offices, court houses, and a host of other information.
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was active from the 1830's through the 1860's and published some of the best regional maps of the era.
Narrow right margin.
Antique Maps / United States / South / Louisiana
Antique Maps / United States / South / Alabama
Antique Maps / United States / South / Mississippi
Pt. of North America & the Coasts of Europe & Africa according to Mercator's Projection. By P. Lea. (Shows The Caralinia Colony)
The Second Surviving Example of Philip Lea's Separately Issued Map of North America, Including The Earliest Reference to Daniel Coxe's Carolana Colony and one of the First English Maps to Name the Mississippi River.
New Orleans From The Lower Cotton Press 1852
Stunning large view of New Orleans and the Mississippi River, based upon a drawing by Jonathan W. Hill.
Louisiana and part of Arkansas
Rare full original color example of this map of Louisiana and the southeastern part of Arkansas, from an early edition of Bradford's first atlas.
Map your trip South By Greyhound
Whimsical map of the American South, promoting Greyhound's routes to Florida and the Gulf Coast in 1938.
Geological Map of the Route explored by Capt. Jno. Pope Corps of Topl. Engrs. Near the 32nd Parallel of North Latitude 1854. From the Red River to the Rio Grande . . .
Finely executed Geological Map, centered on Texas and published in conjunction with search for the most practicable route for a railroad line to the Pacific Ocean.
The Coast of West Florida and Louisiana . . . 1792
Striking full color example of scarce 1792 edition of Thomas Jefferys' map of the Gulf Coast, from Jeffreys' West India Atlas.


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When Rick Perry thinks about AI, he thinks about nuclear weapons
By Matt Field | October 7, 2019
Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Credit: US Department of Energy via Wikimedia Commons.
It's pretty easy to conjure up dystopian visions for how the global pursuit of artificial intelligence will play out. After all, governments, militaries, and startups frequently push ideas seemingly ripped from the pages of a Philip K. Dick novel, or worse. It's easy to think of the pursuit of AI, for instance, in the oft-used frame of an arms race. It's so easy that US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, ostensibly at a press conference to tout the positive impact of his department's AI research portfolio, pretty quickly started talking about nuclear weapons.
At the Department of Energy AI event in Chicago, Perry took a question on the risks of the United States not leading the world in artificial intelligence. The Oct. 2 event was hosted by Argonne National Laboratory, which will soon take possession of the United States' first exascale supercomputer—a really powerful computer with all sorts of artificial intelligence applications. After touching on the competition between the United States and China in supercomputing, Perry, standing alongside Energy Department Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and others, reached for metaphors from the annals of US nuclear history to talk about just how important artificial intelligence is.
"Paul and I happened to be together at Hanford yesterday in front of the B Reactor that was the first reactor in the world that produced plutonium, the material that the Trinity project and then the bomb at Nagasaki that helped end World War II were produced there." said Perry, before ending on a more upbeat note. "Where I'm going with this is that it's the innovators, the innovators in America, and I don't want to get too far afield here, but it's one of the reasons it's so important for America to invest in STEM programs, to excite young people into science and technology."
But surely AI and the competition between the United States and China to develop it isn't the same as the Cold War-era race to develop nuclear weapons. Asked to clarify, Perry seemed to simultaneously double down on and walk back his previous words. "What I'm saying is that artificial intelligence is a lot more than just the weapons program—it's a part of it. I would say that, and Paul you would probably agree with me here, the ancestor to AI that we see today goes back to the old weapons program, the ability to compute all of the science that was required to build the B Reactor," Perry said. "It's so vast in how it's going to affect all of our lives."
Noteworthy views on artificial intelligence aside, Perry's been in the news for other reasons lately. Congressional Democrats are questioning the energy secretary's ties to Ukraine in the context of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. On Friday, Trump reportedly blamed Perry for pushing him to make the fateful call to the president of Ukraine that jump-started the impeachment inquiry. Numerous outlets have reported Perry will be resigning by year's end.
Perry's certainly not alone in viewing artificial intelligence in Cold War or martial terms. Earlier in the day, US Rep. Will Hurd talked about the need for US dominance in artificial intelligence. China, he said, wasn't using cutting-edge technology like facial recognition to "make it easier to buy groceries." But there's a danger to framing competition in developing artificial intelligence as an arms race; such framing, many experts (including the University of Cambridge's Heather Roff) say, creates the risk that governments will adopt military policies that make AI-based conflict more likely.
Besides, China probably has made AI that helps you buy groceries.
Keywords: AI arms race, Hanford B Reactor, Rick Perry
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies
Matt Field
Matt Field is editor, biosecurity at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Before joining the Bulletin, he covered the White House, Congress, and... Read More


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Q: gnuplot - operating on a two digit column I'm trying to operate on a column prior to its plotting. This is the line I'm having issues with:
plot campo1 u 1:($22*0.05)

where campo1 is the path to the file. The problem is that gnuplot recognizes $22 not as column 22 but as column 2 multiplied by 2*0.05.
How can I tell gnuplot to use column 22 in the operation?

A: Found the right syntax, the command is: \$22

A: Try plot campo1 u 1:(0.05*$22) instead


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"Jacket, Flying, Type A-2"
Type A-1 flying jacket
In World War I, most airplanes did not have an enclosed cockpit and pilots had to wear something that would keep them sufficiently warm. The U.S. Army officially established the Aviation Clothing Board in September 1917 and began distributing heavy-duty leather flight jackets with high wraparound collars, zipper closures with wind flaps, snug cuffs and waists, and sometimes fringed and lined with fur.
The Type A-2 flying jacket was standardized by the U.S. Army Air Corps as the successor to the Type A-1 flying jacket adopted in 1927. The Type Designation Sheet lists the dates for Service Test as September 20, 1930, and Standardized on May 9, 1931. The military specification number for Type A-2 is 94-3040.
The U.S. Army Air Forces Class 13 Catalog describes the jacket's construction as "seal brown horsehide leather, knitted wrists and waistband." Although the actual design would vary slightly depending on the manufacturer, and even among contracts within a single manufacturer, all A-2 jackets had several distinguishing characteristics: a snap-flap patch pocket on either side without hand warmer compartments (hands in pockets were considered unfit for a military bearing), a shirt-style snap-down collar, shoulder straps, knit cuffs and waistband, a back constructed from a single piece of leather to limit stress on the garment, and a lightweight silk or cotton inner lining with a leather hang strap (not a loop) and military spec tag attached just below the back collar.
Lt. Col James Doolittle & the "Raiders" in A-2 Flying Jackets, 1942
Original Type A-2 Jacket
Most pre-war and wartime A-2s were constructed of horsehide, which was either vegetable- or chrome-tanned. Some original A-2's were made from goatskin (as was the Navy G-1 jacket), and others possibly from cowhide. Wartime-issued A-2 jackets appeared in a wide range of color tones, although all are based on two distinct colors: Seal (dark brown to almost black) and Russet (pale red-brown to medium brown). Early A-2's had linings made from silk, although the lining changed to cotton later on. A letter from the Materiel Division of Wright Field, dated 7 January 1939, states that the use of silk in flying jackets had been discontinued "as its procurement was found not to be feasible."
The A-2 was one of the early articles of clothing designed expressly to use a zipper.
Flying Tigers "Blood Chit"
Army Air Forces officers were awarded the A-2 jacket upon completion of basic flight training, and always before graduating to advanced training. No standard system of distribution was used, though generally they lined up in front of boxes containing jackets of various sizes and which were distributed by the base quartermaster. A-2s were exclusive to commissioned officers until early in World War II, when they were also issued to enlisted aircrews. But as the A-2's popularity grew, so did the demand for it; a few celebrated nonflying officers like Gens. MacArthur and Patton and Maj. Glenn Miller managed to procured and wear them. A "cottage industry" soon appeared making A-2-style jackets for GI's who otherwise couldn't get one, and they experienced a boon when the Army stopped purchasing new leather jackets in mid-1943 and began distributing less desirable cloth jackets and airmen found themselves unable to replace A-2's they had lost or damaged.
The jacket was a treasured item to the airman, and was worn with as much pride as his wings. Fighter pilots, who often had heated cockpits, could wear the A-2 into combat more easily. Some jackets had a map of the mission area sewn into the lining, which theoretically could be used for navigation if shot down. Jackets from the China Burma India Theater, and more famously those of the Flying Tigers had a "Blood chit" sewn on the lining or outer back, which promised rewards to civilians who aided a downed airman. In certain ETO units a prerogative of the fighter ace was a red satin lining which was added on confirmation of his fifth aerial kill.
As airmen progressed through various duty stations they often added and removed squadron patches and rank marks, and most jackets ended up with numerous stitch marks as patches were removed and replaced when the owner changed units; unlike Navy aviators who often wore the patches of every squadron they had flown with, AAF personnel could only display the patch of their current assignment. Bomber crews often added small bombs to the right front of their jackets indicating the number of missions they had flown.
Although the concept of customization was (and is) generally frowned upon in the U.S. military, American soldiers have always held on to their individuality in some manner. World War II was a situation in which everybody enlisted, and many officers were only strict about the regulations that mattered. John Conway, co-author of American Flight Jackets and Art of the Flight Jacket explains: "… when you were up there in a plane, you'd get shot at, and you couldn't call field artillery to support you. You had no ambulance, no medic. The officers figured, 'Well, if this guy wants to paint a naked lady on the back of the jacket, what good is it to try to stop him? He could be dead tomorrow morning.' The main objective was winning the war, not enforcing minor regulations and rules."
The A-2 quickly became a canvas for teenage flyers to express their individuality, having the backs painted to included a plane's nickname and nose art. On the bawdiest of these scantily clad babes gleefully ride phallic bombs; on others, popular cartoon characters charge forward, and some jackets depict caricatures of Native Americans or Pacific Islanders. Others show swastikas or Japanese rising sun emblems representing enemy aircraft downed.
After the war, many airmen returned home wearing their flight jackets, which by then had become almost a second skin. But Conway again notes that: "…When you're a teenager and you're 3,000 miles from home, having a naked lady painted on the back of your jacket is not that big a deal. But you wouldn't want your mom to see it." Nonetheless, as thousands of young military veterans began to pick up surplus Harley Davidson and Indian motorcycles back home, the concept found a new life in the burgeoning biker culture of the 1950's. So-called "Outlaw Clubs" replaced the personalized crew emblems with motorcycle club patches (see An Incident at Hollister: Facts, Fiction and the Birth of the American Outlaw Biker Culture).
In 1943, the A-2 jacket was discontinued as an official Army Air Forces garment due to the expense of production. It was superseded by the B-10 and B-15 jackets, which became the new Air Force standard. Although the Type A-2 jacket was only in production from 1931 to 1943, it was soon considered an American classic.
Due to continuing demand, the Type A-2 Jacket was reintroduced by the US Air Force in 1988, though with some major modifications: they were made exclusively from goat skin, the cut was much wider, and they now utilizedsynthetic fibers instead of wool, cotton or silk. After another redesign a few years later side pockets were added, the patch pockets got bigger and were re-positioned towards the middle.
Original wartime issued A-2 jackets are rare but not unavailable, and often sell at auctions with wearable examples generally running $1,000 and up. The National Museum of the United States Air Force has a collection of original A-2 jackets, most donated by the families of Air Force pilots. No fewer than fifty are on display at any time throughout the Museum, including many historic jackets such as Brig. Gen. James Stewart's A-2 (a Rough Wear contract 42-1401), an A-2 from the AVG "Flying Tigers," and another worn by one of the few U.S. pilots to get airborne during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
WWII War Paint: How Bomber-Jacket Art Emboldened Our Boys; Lisa Hix, Collectors Weekly
History of Leather Bomber Jacket: AmericanMystique.com
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"Jacket, Flying, Type A-2" — 1 Comment
Graham Cooke on December 11, 2016 at 7:21 pm said:
Another good read would be 'TYPE A-2 Flight Jacket Identification Manual' By Gary Eastman. A must read if you are thinking of spending a fistful of bucks on what you think might be a rare jacket. Gary Eastman has spent many years on research and reproducing jackets for films, Chad McQueen had a couple off him, 80 went to the Film 'Pearl Harbour', 20 for 'Red Tails', and Tommy Lee Jones in 'Space Cowboys' If you can get the second copy(No2)of 'Built' Handcrafted Motorcycle you can see some of his work and his 1942 Harley WLC bobber.


Bunion is a painful deformity of bones which can occur at the base of the toe where the foot is attached. It is also known by the medical name hallux abductovalgus. Women are more prone to bunions than men. Wearing tight heels or narrow shoes can develop the bunions. A bony bump develops on your toe when your body weight constantly falls in an uneven way on your foot's tendon and joint. Apart from shoe bunions can develop for various reasons like arthritis, foot injury, or foot deformities during birth. Bunions can get worse with time. To ease out the pain and inflammation of bunions you can use some home remedies given below.
Turmeric has components like pain reducing elements and anti-inflammation properties which help in treating bunions. Take ½ Tsp of turmeric powder and little bit olive oil. Make a thick paste and apply directly over the bunions. Do this treatment for 2 to 3 times every day.
Epsom salt is high in magnesium that is effective in fighting the pain and inflammation caused due to bunions. Add an adequate amount of Epsom salt in a small bucket or tub filled with hot water. Mix well and soak your foot in the water until the water turns cold. Dry your foot and massage lukewarm coconut oil or olive oil. Repeat thrice every week.
Ice compress is a great way to relieve you from the pain and inflammation of bunions. Crush some ice and wrap it in a soft and thin cloth. Compress the affected area until the ice melts completely. Repeat the procedure for 2 to 3 times at an interval of 10 minutes.
Massage oils in the affected area daily will help you in treating bunions. Massaging regularly helps you in reducing the size of the bunions. It becomes less susceptible to corns. Warm some olive, castor or coconut oil and rub it over the bunions. Massage daily with your fingers for 15 minutes. Apply it daily for 2-3 times.
Marigold is one of the best natural treatment for bunions. It reduces the inflammation and pain with its anti-inflammatory elements. Extract some marigold juice and apply it on your bunions. Leave the juice over your bunions until it dries completely. Repeat the treatment for 2 to 3 times everyday.
Chamomile is an effective home remedy which provides relief from bunions by shrinking them. It contains anti-inflammatory elements which help in reducing the inflammation and pain. Make a cup of chamomile tea and drink it slowly. You can put water soaked chamomile tea bag directly on your bunions. Repeat this remedy for 2 to 3 times everyday.
Yes, you read it right. We all know aspirins are used for treating headaches, but it can reduce the bunion pains as well. Take 3-4 aspirin tablets and dissolve them in a small bucket or tub filled with hot water. Soak your foot in the water until the water becomes cold. Dry your foot and massage some warm olive oil. Repeat the treatment at least 2 times everyday.
Hopefully, the above-mentioned remedies will help you in reducing the pain and inflammation caused due to bunions. In severe cases, surgery may end up being the last option. So these are the few home remedies you can use. Try the above-mentioned remedies and feel free to share your experience with us in the comment box below.


Prem Chopra Biography: Prem Chopra is an Indian Film actor. He was born on 23 September 1935. He did his Hindi Film debut with Hum Hindustani in 1960. Prem Chopra has been part of some big commercial success like Kranti (1981), Kati Patang (1971), Bobby (1973). Some more Interesting fact of his personal and professional life.


The American Council on Science and Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to sound scientific information in public debate, has been tracking nutrition reporting in popular magazines for over 20 years. They've just released a report entitled "Nutrition Accuracy in Popular Magazines" in which they evaluated the nutrition articles in 20 different popular magazines.
If you have kids, chances are they watch Nickelodeon: the cable channel's programs account for 47 out of the 50 top children's shows on television today. Those programs reach into movies, books, magazines, and websites, while the characters in those programs are used to market food products and are made into collectible toys.
Studies of adolescent behavior indicate that about 10% of all high school students are trying to lose (or at least maintain) weight by using diet pills, powders or liquids. About 9% of boys and 14% of girls have fasted for 24 hours or more, and 12% of girls use risky weight-loss methods such as vomiting or taking diuretics or laxatives to lose weight. These behaviors have been linked in some studies with frequent reading of popular magazines, with their focus on an idealized level of thinness. Can the magazine articles that are specifically about weight loss or dieting be linked to these behaviors?
How often do you read magazine articles in which dieting or weight loss are discussed?
During the past 6 months, how important has your weight or shape been in how you feel about yourself?
Questions were also asked about binge eating, how satisfied the teen felt about specific body parts, any symptoms of depression, and their general level of self esteem.
Five years later the teens were recontacted by mail and answered a similar set of questions. After comparing the two sets of questionnaires, the researchers found, quite simply, that the more often a young woman read magazine articles about dieting and weight loss, the more likely it was that she would be dieting or engaging in deliberate weight-control behaviors five years later. She was a little over twice as likely to engage in extremely unhealthy weight-control behaviors such as vomiting or using laxatives or diuretics as those young women who reported "never" or "hardly ever" reading weight-loss articles in magazines.
Boys, on the other hand, showed no clear association between weight-loss behaviors and magazine reading over the five years of the study.
Clearly the media exerts a great deal of influence on a young woman's perception of herself. The researchers in this study recommend that parents limit a young woman's access to these magazines and discuss with her the realities of the images portrayed in them. While that's certainly worthwhile, I think your best long-term strategy is to make a healthy lifestyle a family affair. Arm your children, male or female, with healthy eating habits and regular exercise as a normal part of life and they'll be healthier and happier throughout their lives.


This cocktail has a base in a classic. The Pimm's Cup. This variation uses fresh citrus juice, Pimm's No. 1 a bit of Demerara sugar and a wheat beer that lends it's citrus qualities to this refreshing drink. I like Hitachino Nest White Ale, it has a touch of spice that goes nicely with Pimm's and plenty of citrus. The other go to is my local NOLA Brewing Co. 7th Street Wheat, which also has great lemon notes.
Genever (also know as junever, genievre, jenever or jeniever), or in the English-speaking world as Holland gin or Dutch gin, is the juniper-flavored and alcoholic traditional spirit of the Netherlands and Belgium, from which gin eventually evolved. Genever has been a protected spirit since 2008, which puts it in the same category as champagne, cognac, and Scottish single malts. Genever can only be made in Holland and a few surrounding areas. The triple distillate of Bols Genever – corn, rye, and wheat – give the mash-bill a whiskey like characteristic that the Dutch call maltwine. Bols (founded in 1575) is one of the oldest distilleries still making the same fantastic product today.
During San Francisco Beer Week, I partnered with the awesome people over at St. George Spirits on two beer cocktail events. On of the events was "The Unbirthday Beer Cocktail Party" — which featured three different cocktails using Bison Organic Beer and St. George Spirits.
February is the great month for cultivating desires and ironing out wishlists. In many parts of the world you're sequestered indoors by inhospitable climate, watching the weather assault your windows. In Southern California we may be enjoying milder conditions but there is a lot of thumb twiddling and staying home as we plan the events of the year to come.
February has me checking flight costs, plotting routes, compiling itineraries, and jotting down restaurants I can't wait to visit. Right now I'm yearning for moules frites and a dubbel in Antwerp, and prosciutto and cheese in Parma. Tell me you don't want to spend the rest of your day dreaming of drinking your way through the Trappist Brouwerijen, or dining your way through Emilia-Romagna? I don't want to dream it, I want to live it. For now, close your eyes, take a sip, and soak in the beer of Belgium and the bitters of Italy.


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