There are more than three dozen calls for submissions with deadlines in September. All of these markets pay writers.
As always, there are calls for a wide variety of genres and styles. Short stories, essays, interviews, poems, and flash fiction are all welcome.
Genre: Personal essays. Theme: Stories about your big life, big moments, big thoughts and big dreams.
"For the 2016 Sense of Place issue writers are invited to focus on images from Digital Horizons (digitalhorizonsonline.org). Digital Horizons is an online library that includes thousands of images, documents, videos, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Articles may focus on a specific image of the author's choosing from the Digital Horizons library. Submissions can include historical analysis, critical reflections, or other approaches to understanding or interpreting images of the Northern Plains over time. However, we will also accept submissions not focused on Digital Horizons." Writers must have some connection to North Dakota.
Genre: Poetry, short stories and flash fiction of absolutely any genre. The only real requirement we have is that your piece is related to mental illness in some way; through a character, the general theme, something about the setting – you decide.
We're more interested in the ordinary day-to-day challenges facing these extraordinary individuals: growing up, growing old, relationships, career struggles, parenting. How they cope with that age-old desire to fit in when, let's face it, they don't.
"I am looking for more than thumps in the attic and pretty dead girls on a moonlit road. I want the unexpected, the unmeasured—I want poems that belie the limits of life and afterlife and what we think a ghost story should be. Give me phantoms and poltergeists, yes, bean-sidhe and È Guǐ, pathos or parody, space ship specters or transmigrating alien souls—I want any and all of it, as long the poem has meat on its bones. No restrictions on genre or form, though graphic violence or gore will be a hard sell. More than anything, I want to be moved."
Payment: US 3¢/word rounded to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25. Payment is on publication.
Payment: All works 250 or less words will receive $5.00. Works of 251 words or more will receive $0.02 per word.
"Six years have passed since the publication of Lambda Literary Award finalist Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women, a groundbreaking exploration of sexual fluidity through intimate, firsthand stories. It's time to update, extend, broaden, and strengthen the conversation."
"CICADA YA lit/comics magazine is looking for fairy tales and folklore with a twist—we want you to take familiar stories and dress them up; dress them down; give them some bite; shine a different light on them. Tell us a dark and weird tale from your culture, or show us something new. Let the wolf win. Stick all of those tired old folktale tropes in a blender, add genre-savviness and a dash of hot sauce, and serve over ice."
"We're looking for stories about moms of all ages, from young mothers to great-grandmothers, and everything in between. Let your mom or grandmother or stepmother or the mother of your children know that her hard work has been recognized and that without her, the kids wouldn't be where they are today."
"The editors look for articles that demonstrate an excellent working knowledge of literary issues and a generosity of spirit that esteems the arguments of other writers on similar topics."
"We are looking to create a book of diverse protagonists - stories from and about people all over the world from all kinds of cultures and sub-cultures. Don't get too hung up on "message", though - we want strong tales that will be gripping to kids, we just also want multiple kinds of voices in the book."
Genre: Bedtime stories for children between roughly 3-9 years old. Stories should be between 500 and 1500 words.
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Q: Is there an infinite-dimensional Jordan decomposition? I just noticed this embarrassing gap in my understanding of linear algebra. This question seems to be asking something similar, although the questioner doesn't quite say it explicitly. And this question asks a version of the question which I think is a little more naive than what I'd like to say.
In finite dimensions, the Jordan decomposition of a linear endomorphism $T$ is the unique way to express $T = T_{ss} + T_n$ where $T_{ss}$ is semisimple, $T_n$ is nilpotent, and $T_{ss}$ commutes with $T_n$.
I'm wondering whether something similar holds in infinite dimensions. For a complex Banach space $X$,

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*I think a semisimple operator $T_{ss}$ should be one which commutes with a set of projection operators $P_i$ with $P_i P_j = \delta_{ij} P_i$ with $\oplus_i P_i(X)$ dense in $X$, such that the restriction of $T_{ss}$ to each $P_i(X)$ is a scalar $\lambda_i$. Please let me know if this is the wrong definition.

*Instead of a nilpotent operator $T_n$, we'll consider a quasinilpotent operator $T_{qn}$, i.e. an operator whose spectrum is $\{0\}$, or equivalently $\lim_{k \to \infty} \|T_{qn}^k\|^{1/k} = 0$. Again let me know if there's a better notion to use here.
So then the question is: for an arbitrary bounded operator $T$ on a complex Banach space $X$, do there exist commuting bounded operators $T_{ss}, T_{qn}$ such that $T_{ss}$ is semisimple, $T_{qn}$ is quasinilpotent, and $T=T_{ss}+T_{qn}$? If the answer is no, I'd like a counterexample, and also any results establishing a positive answer on special classes of Banach spaces.
It does worry my that a positive answer to my question would immediately imply that any counterexample to the invariant subspace problem differs by a scalar from a quasinilpotent operator. Is this true/known?
EDIT
As Mariano implicitly points out, the shift operator seems to scuttle this idea since it has no obvious "diagonal part" and it is not itself quasinilpotent.
But here's a modification to the question that just might be worth making. The quasinilpotent operators are exactly the limits of nilpotent operators in the norm topology. Instead we could take limits of nilpotent operators in the strong topology. Note that the shift operator is of this type. I haven't thought through the ramifications of this defintion -- If there's anything interesting to know about this class of operators, or if they have a name, I'd like to hear it.
So: does every operator $T$ on a Banach space decompose as $T = T_{ss} + T'$ where $T_{ss}$ is diagonal, $T'$ is a limit of nilpotent operators in the strong topology, and everything commutes?
EDIT
As Ivan points out in his answer, although the "backward shift" operator on $\ell_p(\mathbb{N})$, say, is "strong-quasinilpotent", the "forward shift" operator is not. In fact, on $\ell_\infty(\mathbb{N})$, even the backward shift operator is not strong-quasinilpotent. Since the whole point of widening the definition is to accommodate various types of shift operators, the idea really doesn't work. A last-ditch effort would be to restrict to Hilbert spaces and consider "weak-quasinilpotent" operators $T$, i.e. those such that $T^n \to 0$ in the weak topology. At least the usual shift operators on $\ell_2(\mathbb{N})$ and $\ell_2(\mathbb{Z})$ are weak-quasinilpotent. Or maybe there's some other approach entirely to characterizing "shift-type" operators?
In the case where there is no topology, as Ivan points out, it's possible that simply specifying the matrix similarity class of a "shift operator" on a space with a countable algebraic basis might yield a sufficiently robust notion. But I don't know whether we can get a "diagonal - shift" decomposition with this definition.

A: From now on $V$ will be our Banach (Hilbert) space.
Let's call $S^+$ the "$+1$" shifting operator and $S_-$ the "$-1$" shifting operator. Well, in your definition $S_-$ is quasinilpotent, the other is not. In my opinion that's the main point of the question.
We have to generalize the notion of "generalized eigenspace" as follow.
Let's call $W_{\lambda} := \bigcup_{n} \ \operatorname{ker}(T-\lambda\operatorname{Id})^n$
Since clearly in the case of $T= S_-$ we get that $V = W_0$ we obtain that in the case of  $T= \lambda\operatorname{Id}+S_-$ then $V = W_{\lambda}$. Now it's sounding as Jordan Normal Form.
But still we are far, what about $S^+$?
I think it's time to admit that we have to take it as a  brick of our "Generalized Jordan form".
I'd move as follow. Let $\lambda \in \operatorname{Spec}(T)$, consider $(T-\lambda \operatorname{Id})^k$ and, as in Jordan normal form, find a basis of increasing kernels, obtaining that the restriction of $T$ to $W_{\lambda}$ is similar to $\sum_i (\lambda\operatorname{Id} + N_i) $ where $N_i$ are nilpotent operators or $S_-$ operators on suitable subspaces of $W_{\lambda}$.
Actually I believe that $\{ W_{\lambda} \}_{\lambda \in \operatorname{Spec}(T)}$ is a family of subspaces in direct sum. I've no idea to prove it but may be obvious from here .
Now let's take any vector $v$ outside $\oplus_{\lambda} W_{\lambda}$. If we consider $\{ T^k(v) \}_k$ we may generate a supplementary space for $\oplus_{\lambda} W_{\lambda}$ or may not but if we don't we can take a vector outside $(\oplus_{\lambda} W_{\lambda}) \bigoplus \operatorname{Span}(\{ T^k(v) \}_k) $ and go on till space is over. Clearly the restriction of $T$ to any of ${Span}(\{ T^k(v) \}_k)$ is similar to a $S^+$ operator.
So, at the end $T \sim \sum_{ik} (\lambda_k\operatorname{Id} +  \ ^kN_i) + \sum_j S_j$ where $N_i$  are nilpotent operators or $S_-$ operators on suitable subspaces of $V$ and $S_j$ are $S^+$ operators on suitable subspaces of V.
What do you think? I've be thinking for better approaches but I can't find anything.

I'd like to point out that the notion of "quasinilpotent" is not intuitive as one would like. Consider $$e_i  \mapsto \frac{1}{2^{i+1}}e_{i+1}.$$ This is similar to $S^+$ but it's quasinilpotent. (If we ask for continuous operators things are tamer).

I think that all I've said is correct for algebraic basis on Banach Spaces but  would be wrong for Hilbert bases on Hilbert Spaces (and continuous operators) because base changes might not be continuous.

A: If $T$ is a spectral operator then it is known that $T=S+N$ where $S$ is of scalar type, i.e. $S=\int z E(dz)$ where $E$ is the resolution of the identity for $T$, and $N$ is quasinilpotent, i.e. $\operatorname{Spec}(N)=\{0\}.$

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Posts Tagged 'documentary'
A Long Way Home · 2018
Luc Schaedler | go between films
CH 2018 | 73 | EN, DE, FR, Chin
The documentary « A Long Way Home» centers around five of the most significant representatives of contemporary Chinese counterculture: the visual artists the Gao Brothers, the choreographer and dancer Wen Hui, the animation artist Pi San and the poet Ye Fu.
With bravery and subversive wit, they each shed light on the social problems in their country from their unique perspective. What they share is a struggle to come to terms with their respective pasts, all scarred by violence and oppression. Their vision is of a democratic, supportive and humane civil society.
A Long Way Home takes us on a fascinating journey into both the grim days of recent Chinese history and the dazzling cultural scene in present-day China. In doing so, the film poses universal questions that ultimately concern us all: which values determine our cultural identity and in what kind of world do we want to live? A Long Way Home is an entertaining and moving plea for human solidarity.
«My exploration of China and Chinese culture goes back more than 25 years now. Since the brutal suppression of the Democracy Movement in 1989, I've traveled through China several times. I have followed its economic development and subsequent political and social upheaval with both amazement and bewilderment: What do external events, ruptures and changes trigger in people, and how does it impact their daily lives?»
→ INTERVIEW with Luc Schaedler (04:30)
→ ALWH: Statement director
→ ALWH: The protagonists
→ ALWH: Background
→ ALWH: Downloads
(photos & presskit)
For international sales
of «A Long Way Home» → click here
– Solothurner Filmtage (Switzerland)
Nomination Prix de Soleure
Nomination für Swiss Film Award
– Montréal, Festival des films du monde (Canada)
– Dharamshala Intl. Filmfestival (India)
– Cracking the Frame (Netherlands)
– International Filmfestival Innsbruck (Austria)
– Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Starnberg (Deutschland)
– EPOS Intl. Art Filmfestival (2020), Tel Aviv (Israel)
→ Wen Hui performing «Red Detachment of Women» (Clip)
→ Nomination for Swiss Film Award 2018
→ Swiss Films Promotion Agency
→ imdb.com – A Long Way Home
→ Facebook – A Long Way Home
PLAYLIST (10 Clips):
Gao Brothers, Wen Hui, Pi San, Ye Fu, original Kuang Kuang Clip etc.
Feb 10, 2019 | films | Comments Off on A Long Way Home · 2018
Angry Monk · 2005
CH 2005 | 97 | EN, DE, FR, Tib
Tibet — the mystical roof of the world, peopled with enlightened monks? Only one of them wouldn't toe the line: Gendun Choephel, the errant monk who left the monastic life in 1934 in search of a new challenge. A free spirit and multifaceted individual, he was far ahead of his time and has since become a seminal figure, a symbol of hope for a free Tibet. A rebel and voluble critic of the establishment, Gendun Choephel kindled the anger of the Tibetan authorities.
The cinematic journey through time portrays the life of this unorthodox monk, revealing a face of old Tibet that goes against popular clichés. The film makes an abundance of unique and rare historical footage available to the general public for the first time.
But it does not dwell on the past; rather it skilfully oscillates between tradition and modernity. Archival images of ancient caravans and monasteries give way to scenes of discos and multi-lane highways in Lhasa, where pilgrims pros- trate themselves as they circle the holy temple. ANGRY MONK offers a fascinating insight into a country whose eventful past is refracted in the multiplicity and contradictions of everyday life.
Ultimately, the documentary «Angry Monk» also tells the story of a man who left home to search for something that could have liberated traditional Tibet from its rigidity. An outsider who was always open to new things, he eventually became a stranger in his homeland and homeless in foreign lands — a wanderer between worlds.
(The documentary «Angry Monk» was also the main part of my Ph.D. in Visual Anthropology at the University of Zurich)
→ Ph.D.: ANGRY MONK: Literary, Historical, and Oral Sources for a Documentary Film (2007)
→ Gendun Choephel Conference at the Latse Library, New York
→ AM: Statement director
→ AM: Interview director
→ AM: Bio of Gendun Choephel
→ AM: Texts of Gendun Choephel
→ AM: Downloads
PLAYLIST (9 Clips):
Unpublished scenes from Angry Monk · 2005
→ FESTIVALS (selection)
– Sundance, Nomination Grand Jury Award
– Busan (Competition)
– Vancouver (Competition)
– Montréal, Festival Nouveau Cinema (Competition)
– München DOK.fest (Competition)
– Melbourne (Competition)
– Auckland (Competition)
– Solothurner Filmtage official selection
→ Film Review – San Francisco Chronicle
→ Film Review – Indiewire
→ Film Review – Phayul
→ More on Gendun Choephel
→ imdb.com – Angry Monk
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Contact – Address → from the universe to «Tellstrasse 3, Zurich»
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Luc Schaedler © Nomination Swiss Film Award (2018)
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Naga Identities · 2009
Ethno documentary
Naga Identities
Camera, director: Luc Schaedler
Production: go between films
CH 2009 | 60 | Ethno documentary
The village of Zanghkam in the Nagaland region of the Northeastern frontier in India certainly has a great potential for a long documentary film. But not as a remote mountain village untouched by civilisation with an intact indigenous culture. Rather the opposite: Zanghkam is a tragic example of being suspended between a lost tradition, a confusing and sad present and an unpromising future. The documentary Naga Identities tries to grasp this dilemma and make it comprehensible. Work in progress.
«The twelve hours of footage were shot in March 2009 as part of a large research project on Nagaculture in India's Northeastern border regions. Other products of the same research were the exhibtion "Naga: Ornaments and Ashes", as well as the publication "Naga Identities: Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India". It contains a collection of articles by various authors spanning an enlightening ark from the warring past, to an equally problematic present, to a very uncertain future.»
A traditional headhunter song from Nagaland · 2009
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Burial Rites · 2007
CH 2007 | 32 | TV documentary
Writers & directors: Mehdi Sahebi, Aya Domenig
Camera: Mehdi Sahebi
Editing: Aya Domenig
Production: go between films | Luc Schaedler
SRF Sternstunden
Burial rites in change (German only): Are cemeteries outdated? Are new burial rites needed? Certainly the demand for rectangular graves in straight lines is declining. To slowly decompose in the ground has a growing negative connotation. More and more people seem to ask for communal graves or wish their ashes to be scattered in special places.
The city of Zurich had these tendencies investigated in a scientific study and made the results accessible in a touching TV documentary film. With surprising openness both young and old people discuss their attitude towards dying and how they would want to be buried – and thus develop new burial rites.
«On the level of grave forms, a strong tendency towards community graves can be observed. Rational, aesthetic and ideological considerations play a role in the individual decision for a community grave. Changing family structures and the increasing mobility of society have meant that family members often live far apart. This makes grave visits difficult in many cases.
In this context, the community graves offers a simpler and less individual solution than a traditional row grave: the relatives can visit the community grave, but do not have to, and they always know that the buried family member is not alone».
Aya Domenig (Director)
Burial Rites – Trailer (German only)
Sep 03, 2017 | films | Comments Off on Burial Rites · 2007
WaMa – Shooting Locations
Shooting Locations
Minqin (Gansu Province)
Wusutu (Inner Mongolia)
Both cities lie in the gigantic coal and industry belt that stretches for over 1000 kilometres west to east across northern China. In addition to the destructive exploitation of the landscape this region suffers from severe pollution and water scarcity. Despite all that – or because of it – both places were one of the most fascinating shooting locations I have ever worked at.
Jiuxiancun (Guangxi Province)
A small rice-growing village that dates back to the time of the Qing Dynasty (1616-1912). It is situated in the south of China, not far from the tourist-centre of Yangshuo, where rain is plentiful. The region is known for its iconographic landscape, consisting of innumerable karst hills rising above the rice fields. In no other province did the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) rage with such devastating force as in Guangxi.
Chongqing (independent administrative unit)
A booming mega-city on the Yangtze, the largest river in China. With over 30 million inhabitants, it is currently one of the most populous cities in the world. In recent years, it has grown with greater intensity and the city is in a constant state of upheaval.
Jul 20, 2013 | materials | Comments Off on WaMa – Shooting Locations
AM – Statement Director
Statement Luc Schaedler
Why Gendun Choephel
«The idea for the film «Angry Monk» originated during several trips to China, Tibet and India between 1988 and 1999. Without being aware of it, I travelled to the same places that the protagonist of the movie visited 50 years before. Since 1988 I have been studying the country of Tibet and how the western world perceives it. And I repeatedly came across the name of Gendun Choephel.»
A wanderer between worlds
«Gendun Choephel (1903-51) was a wanderer between worlds — at once a dreamer, a rebel and a researcher. He lived in a time that was decisive for the future of his country, between the British colonial invasion of 1903 and the occupation by the Chinese army in 1951. At that time Tibet wasn't the inaccessible Shangri-La that people often claim, but a torn country on the verge of big changes. Tibet's attempts to introduce a new social structure and to find its own way into the twentieth century failed because of the resistance of the conservative nobility and the monasteries.»
Breaking the isolation
«As Tibet moved towards isolation, Gendun Choephel was open to new experiences. We can trace his path through his writings, articles, pictures and sketches. He looked at his own society in a critical way, was interested in political issues and tried to apply them to everyday life; he was, therefore, the initiator of critical and intellectual thought within Tibetan society.»
Becoming a role model
«During his last years, Gendun Choephel became a role model for many young Tibetans in Chinese-occupied Tibet and also for those in exile in India. While their parents lost Tibet, the younger generation looked for role models that would allow a critical view of their own society. But the western world only slowly became aware of Choephel because his life story doesn't mesh with our rigid image of Tibet, which prefers to portray Tibetans as victims rather than the makers of their own history.»
Luc Schaedler, 2018
Dec 29, 2011 | materials | Comments Off on AM – Statement Director
AM – Bio Gendun Choephel
A short Biography
Childhood in Eastern Tibet
He was born 1903 in a small village in eastern Tibet, near the silk road, at the Chinese border, in a remote region populated by nomads. This region was inhabited by Muslims, Chinese and Tibetans that were constantly fighting each other. The villages often were attacked and looted by warlords. In this explosive and mixed cultural climate Gendun Choephel started to be interested in his Tibetan identity early on.
He received a traditional education as a monk in the most important monastery of the region, where he developped a friendship with an American missionary that the other monks and his family resented. In 1927 he left the monastery and moved to Lhasa with a caravan of merchants.
Monastery education in Lhasa
In Lhasa Gendun Choephel studied in Drepung, the biggest monastery in the world. His rebellious attempts to bypass the monastery's rules annoyed the other monks. Ultimately, monastic life suffocated him too much in Lhasa as well and he left the monastery. Afterwards he survived as a portrait painter and artist for rich aristocrats in Lhasa. In 1934 he met Rahul Sankrityayan, an Indian researcher of Buddhist teachings who also was a communist activist for the Indian struggle for independence from British colonialists.
Journey across Tibet (1934-1938)
Rahul Sankrityayan and Gendun Choephel travelled together across Tibet searching for old texts that were destroyed in India centuries earlier but had survived in remote monasteries in Tibet. For Rahul, historical research is part of his political fight; for him researching history is the key to the present. Gendun Choephel was Rahuls translator as well as his mediator for Tibetan culture. At the same time the fascinating stories about India awoke his curiosity.
Journey across India (1938-1946)
In India, Gendun Choephel was confronted with a foreign world. For the first time he saw a railway and other technological achievements. India was then undergoing radical changes and, contrary to Tibet, the Indians took their destiny into their own hands. The fight for independece was at its peak. Gendun Choephel's view of his own culture started to change; in India he experienced the most creative phase of his life.
He travelled across the country as a Buddhist pilgrim, lived in the crowded city of Calcutta, saw the ocean, visited brothels and libraries, wrote his first newspaper articles and translated the Kamasutra in Tibetan, enriching it with his own experiences. He sent many of his writings, notes and sketches back to Tibet in order to convey his impressions of a foreign world.
Return to Tibet (1946-51)
In 1946 Gendun Choephel returned to Tibet passing through the Indian-Tibetan border town of Kalimpong which, next to British and Chinese agents, was a nest of radical Tibetans who fell out of grace with Lhasa's government. In 1939 they founded the Tibetan Revolutionary Party. Choephel got acquainted with the party and designed their logo: a sickle crossed by a sword. The Tibetan Revolutionary Party's goal was to overthrow the tyrannical regime in Lhasa.
In Lhasa (1946-51)
When Gendun Choephel arrived in Lhasa the Tibetan government was already informed about his political activities. He began to write the political history of Tibet but this attempt was abruptly stopped by his arrest. He was accused of insurrection and thrown in jail for three years.
In 1949 he was freed. But his heart was broken and he drowned his desperation in alcohol. Soon afterwards the Chinese army overran the Tibetan troops in eastern Tibet and, in 1951, shortly after the occupation of Lhasa by the Chinese army, Gendun Choephel died. Supposedly he commented on the political events of his era in this way: «Now we are in deep shit!»
More on Gendun Choephel:
Biography of Gendun Choephel by Donald Lopez Jr.
(Chicago University Press)
Short Biography of Gendun Choephel
(Archive.Today)
More information on Gendun Choephel
(Rigpa Wiki)
Gendun Choephel shortly before his death, 1951
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By Philip Chin
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Asian American Curriculum Project, Inc. (AACP), the Foster City Library, the San Mateo Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), and the San Mateo Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) are pleased to present the Asian Pacific American Heritage Authors Celebration.
The event will be on Saturday May 22, 11am - 6:30pm, at the Foster City Library, 1000 E. Hillsdale Blvd, Foster City, California.
This gathering of distinguished authors has greatly added to our pride in the rich heritage and history of Asian America. Collectively they have brought its impact to a wider American consciousness through their award-winning work.
Cynthia Chin-Lee is the author of many children's books, including Amelia to Zora and A Is for Asia, named one of the Best 100 American Children's Books of the Century by Ruminator Review. Cynthia graduated from Harvard University and was a graduate fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii. She lives in California with her husband and two children.
Jack Matsuoka was born in Watsonville, California. He spent his late teen years interned in the Poston relocation camp that gives his book its title, Poston: Camp 11, Block 211, recounting the story of his internment through cartoons. After the war he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent one semester at the Cleveland School of Fine Arts before being drafted into the army.
His time in postwar Japan was spent acting as an army interpreter and then as a college student. During this period, Jack contributed many sports cartoons to the Japan Times and Japanese sports magazines. In addition, he did political cartoons for the Yomiuri News, drew humorous illustrations for books about Japan, and published his first cartoon book, Rice-Paddy Daddy.
Currently, Jack Matsuoka is a San Jose freelance cartoonist contributing to newspapers and magazines in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the creator of a Japanese American (Nikkei) comic strip character, Sensei. He contributed to the Pacific Tribune newspaper from 1974 to 2000 as an editorial cartoonist and is a member of the National Cartoonist Society.
The reading will be by Mr. Matsuoka's daughter, Emi Young. She was educated as an elementary school teacher and currently teaches English as a Second Language and Workplace Basic Skills to adults in Union City's adult school.
Ann Bowler was raised in Ojai, California and has taken many journeys to Asia. She has a BA in Sociology and training as a teacher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is now a full-time writer living in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California.
Ms. Bowler has written seven books for children, including Gecko's Complaint: A Balinese Folktale and Adventures of the Treasure Fleet, recounting the adventures of Admiral Zheng He, who led the Chinese fleet to East Africa and Arabia before the Europeans first arrived there nearly 70 years later.
A special Chinese language presentation will accompany her reading of Adventures of the Treasure Fleet.
Using banjos and accordion Plink and Plunk offer a selection of sing-along-songs and folk song favorites for people of all ages. The duo, made up of retired school teacher, George Louzensky, and writer, Charlie Chin, have played their fun-filled presentations at senior centers, yoga studios, schools, and libraries throughout the Bay Area. Their motto is, "High Tone Banter and Tasty Tunes."
Charlie Chin has been recognized with a "Community Folklore Scholar Certificate" by the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of his work in Asian American Studies and is a frequent consultant on Asian American communities for the Smithsonian Office of Folk Life and Folkways.
He has also appeared in several PBS documentaries about Chinese Americans.
Margo King Lenson, a native of Honolulu, Hawaii and publisher and editor of Pacific Voices: Talk Story v1-4, chronicling the personal experiences of Asian Pacific American Islanders, will be holding a workshop on preserving Asian and Pacific Islander American stories through oral histories.
Ms. Lenson is the founder and owner of Tui Communications. Her writings and business help to keep the spirit and material presence of Island life, history, and culture alive in the American consciousness and in their own hearts.
Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a native of Sacramento, California, is a retired librarian of the San Francisco Public Library. He was interned at the Tule Lake camp during World War II, a subject that he has dramatized in plays, poems, and stories. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Screen Actors Guild. His first book, Swimming in the American: a Memoir and Selected Writings, was awarded the American Book Award 2005 by the Before Columbus Foundation.
Mr. Kashiwagi will be performing a reading of his play the Betrayed with Sue Asano of the Center Players of San Francisco. She played the lead part in the plays, Laughter and False Teeth and Window for Aya, both by Hiroshi Kashiwagi. Last year Sue Asano performed The Betrayed Act II for the release of Hiroshi Kashiwagi's book Shoebox Plays. She is married to David Asano and they are in the recycling business in San Rafael, California.
Mr. Kashiwagi will end this session with a few related poems from his recently released book of poetry Ocean Beach.
Rick Rocamora took pictures of Filipino WWII veterans for 18 years as they waited for US Government recognition as equals to American veterans.
His photo-documentary work, including words of supporters, historical anecdotes and chronology is now part of the book America's Second-Class Veterans. His images have been credited with inspiring others to advocate for the equity long sought by these veterans.
Eddie Fung, co-wrote with his wife, historian Judy Yung, The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War. The autobiographical book covered Eddie's experiences growing up in Chinatown, running away at age 16 to become a cowboy in Texas, then joining the Army only to be become the sole Chinese American soldier captured by the Japanese during World War II. Eddie managed to survive three tough years as a slave laborer on the infamous Burma Railroad before returning to the US. Eddie is a Stanford alumnus.
Mr. Fung will be interviewed by Margo King Lenson.
Judy Yung is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 and the author of Unbound Feet: A. Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. She has been recognized as one of the most distinguished scholars of Asian American and women's history by numerous prestigious awards.
Professor Yung will be giving a sneak preview to her soon to be released book Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America.
Grace Takahashi, novelist of To Breathe the Sky, and others will be on hand to meet the public. Periodically check the AsianAmericanBooks.com website to catch the latest additions to our event.
For more information about the event please contact the Foster City Library at 650.574.4842 x236 or go to AsianAmericanBooks.com.
Here are some events that AACP will soon be attending.
Events that AACP will be Attending or Hosting
May 22 The Asian Pacific American Heritage Authors Celebration Foster City Library
May 27 Chennault's "Flying Tigers"
Author Christina Lim and Chinese American WWII Veterans of the 14th Air Service Group and 987th Signal Company will be in attendance San Mateo Library
Other Event of Interest that AACP May Not Attend
8-4pm NPIEN Northern California Chapter's 2nd Annual Conference - Cultural Connections to Higher Education CSU East Bay
June 1-5 23rd Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in American Higher Education National Harbor, MD
June 17-20 OCA National Convention Houston, TX
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Just had another busy month. We had three events last weekend. If you've never been to the LA Times Festival of Books and you're a book lover, start making your plans to attend next year's event. Lots of authors, celebrities, book publishers and sellers, and wonderful fans were in attendance. I've never seen anything that could compare to this event.
Although our May 22 event pales in comparison, we believe that we have a very interesting program for you all. Please join us. If you can't make it, try to attend an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month event near you. I'll try to video record our program and put it on the Internet. If I can figure out how to do it, perhaps I'll try to stream it on the web too. Stay tuned to our website to check for additions and updates to the program.
George Hassinger informs me of a great website, buddhagate.org/Vegetarian/recipes/English.html, for vegetarian recipes. I was trying to get him to contact the creator of the website to let me use one of the recipes for our newsletter. Perhaps next month you'll see one.
Thank you to the sender of the emails referenced in my editorial. I don't want you to feel alienated or put off by my piece. There's always room in my mind and heart for clear, insightful, non-bigoted discourse and information. Please strive to be a better filter of what you read and learn, and I will too.
Thanks Philip for the piece on our May 22nd event.
Note: our self-imposed moratorium on article writing is not over. Don't let this newsletter fool you into thinking that we're not begging you for article submissions. We still very much want your help. Please contact me if you have some ideas for an article.
See you all on the 22nd.
Leonard Chan
An Editorial by Leonard D. Chan
When I stepped up my efforts to garner your submissions to the newsletter back in our February newsletter, I was hoping for some material that would be appropriate for our newsletter. I am very sorry to say that one of you has been sending me emails that are quite the opposite.
I don't know whether to be angry or to be thankful for this opportunity to make this a learning experience.
We're all entitled to our own opinions and views on various aspects of politics and life, but when I get emails that pass on inaccurate nonsense that also is filled with hateful and poorly disguised bigotry, I have to respond.
The J Word
When did it become okay to start using the J word again? Okay, for those of you that may not know what the J word is, it rhymes with cap and is used to disparage people who are Japanese. This person that wrote to me is Chinese and obviously was just passing on one of her many emails that she must be receiving from her circle of friends.
This email was about some film footage on the Internet of the Japanese surrender signing ceremony at the end of World War II. Perhaps the originator of the email was getting into the mindset of the people at that time, but there's a reason why we don't use such language anymore.
Words such as the N and J words may have some use for historical and cultural (as in art) purposes, but that was not the case for this email. It just sort of slipped in there. Maybe it was Freudian slip, but that makes it even worse. Do people still subconsciously think of Japanese people as *aps?
I almost felt like writing back to this emailer using the C word (rhymes with sink). Maybe something like, "Loved your video - I think all of us *hink should see it."
Okay, maybe I'm being a little too sensitive and some of you may really believe that it's okay to use politically incorrect speech. But racial slurs and hateful language are often the signs of a society that is going in the wrong direction. When we start to use language that makes a group appear less than human, that opens the door for much worse things.
Don't think it can't happen here - it has and it still does. Maybe not in the scale of a Rwanda, but it still happens on the individual smaller levels. Just ask Vincent Chin's family and countless others.
Islamic Stamps
You may think that this is just a one off email and that I shouldn't be bothered by, but the real reason I was so disturbed by this sender was an email she forwarded to me last month regarding the issuance of US postage stamps commemorating Islamic holidays. I won't repeat the full text. You can read it for yourself at snopes.com.
Essentially the email blames Muslims for various acts of terrorism and asks why we should honor them with a stamp. Here's some of the email. "To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors�Pass this along to every Patriotic AMERICAN that you know and let's get the word out!!!"
The snopes.com website does an adequate job on rebutting the accuracy of the email, but fails to critique the basic wrongness of the message.
So what's wrong?
A recent conversation with a friend of mine, on a similar topic, seems to reaffirm my belief that people still are in the mindset of grouping people together and using these classifications for blame. I know how hard it is to refrain from the guessing game, stereotypes, and profiling - I even sometimes find myself doing it. I wrote a related editorial, called "Where are you from?," back in August 2008.
How can I say this to make people understand? Islam is not to blame for acts of terrorism, people are.
Someone listening to a Beatles record, recruits easily influenced young followers, and goes on a rampage of killing people does not make all listeners of Beatles records murders.
A disturbed student at Virginia Tech that goes on to massacre his fellow classmates, and just happens to be Korean American, does not mean that Korean Americans are ticking mental bombs.
The Crusades during the Middle Ages are not evidence that Christians are all out to take over the world.
And what make that email truly wrong is the portrayal of Muslims as non-Americans. By one estimate, we have anywhere from between a million to seven million Muslims living in the US. Some of these loyal Muslim Americans are fighting and dying in our overseas wars - working to preserve the very same free speech rights that allow these horribly misinformed individuals to go on passing around these terrible misleading emails.
Try explaining to Elsheba Khan, how she and her dead soldier son, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, are not loyal Americans because they are Muslim.
I'm not exactly sure what this editorial will accomplish. I guess I was kind of hoping that the sender of these emails would stop sending me such stuff. But what would that accomplish? Other uninformed individuals would go on passing around such emails even if my emailer learned her lesson.
Please, I implore you all, stop yourself and others from blindly categorizing people. I know it can't be helped and it can even be of use sometimes. After all, if we stopped using labels, what would we call our organization :)?
But when you see or think of others, imagine them to be multifaceted - more than just an ethnicity or a member of a group.
When you read heated rhetoric, step back and do some thinking and research of your own. Question your beliefs, try to keep an open mind, and expand your way of thinking.
Most of all, shy away from those that wish to divide and tear us apart. We're all in this short life together - let's not try to make it worse for anyone else.
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When Enzo Ferrari pissed Henry Ford the second royally off.
One of the great stories of racing.
And mace FTW to get things started.
I think the cashier broke his hand doing that beat down, shook it out near the end.
I liked watching the chair legs bend, lol.
I don't think he broke his hand myself. I can't see that he'd be shaking out a broken hand without some reaction to that sort of movement. Awesome vid. I like the big guy, just pummelling the fool.
He got what he deserved, no doubt.
Perp was in real pain there.
Crack me up, Butch. But I would've turned the chair around.
That's how they do it in 'rassling. I bet his head bending those legs like that felt good afterwards!


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For the Canadian politician, see Frederick Forsyth Pardee.
Forsyth in 2003
Frederick McCarthy Forsyth
(1938-08-25) 25 August 1938 (age 80)
Ashford, Kent, England
Crime fiction,
The Day of The Jackal
The Odessa File
The Fist of God
Military career
Service/branch
www.frederickforsyth.co.uk
Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, CBE (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, journalist, spy, and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List.
Forsyth's works frequently appear on best-sellers lists and more than a dozen of his titles have been adapted to film. He has sold more than 70 million books in total.[1]
Military and journalism
The son of a furrier,[2] Forsyth was born in Ashford, Kent.[3] He was educated at Tonbridge School and later attended the University of Granada in Spain.[2]
Before becoming a journalist, Forsyth completed his National Service in the Royal Air Force as a pilot where he flew the de Havilland Vampire.[4][5][6] He joined Reuters in 1961 and later the BBC in 1965, where he served as an assistant diplomatic correspondent.
Forsyth reported on his early activities as a journalist. His early career was spent covering French affairs and the attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle. He had never been to what he termed "black Africa" until reporting on the Nigerian Civil War between Biafra and Nigeria as a BBC correspondent.[7] He was there for the first six months of 1967, but few expected the war to last very long considering the poor weaponry and preparation of the Biafrans when compared to the British-armed Nigerians. After his six months were over, however, Forsyth – eager to carry on reporting – approached the BBC to ask if he could have more time there. He noted their response:
I was told quite bluntly, then, 'it is not our policy to cover this war.' This was a period when the Vietnam War was front-page headlines almost every day, regarded broadly as an American cock-up, and this particularly British cock-up in Nigeria was not going to be covered. I smelt news management. I don't like news management. So I made a private vow to myself: 'you may, gentlemen, not be covering it, but I'm going to cover it.' So I quit and flew out there, and stayed there for most of the next two years.
He thus returned to Biafra as a freelance reporter, writing his first book, The Biafra Story, in 1969.[8]
In August 2015 Forsyth revealed that in Biafra he began work as a spy for MI6, a relationship that continued for 20 years. He claimed he was not paid.[9]
He is an occasional radio broadcaster on political issues, and has also written for newspapers throughout his career, including a weekly page in the Daily Express. In 2003, he criticised "gay-bashers in the churches" in The Guardian newspaper.[10] He has narrated several documentaries, including Jesus Christ Airlines, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle and I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal.
Forsyth decided to write a novel using similar research techniques to those used in journalism. His first full-length novel, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1971. It became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this book, the Organisation Armée Secrète hires an assassin to kill then-French President Charles de Gaulle. It was made into a film of the same name.
In Forsyth's second full-length novel, The Odessa File (1972), a reporter attempts to track down an ex-Nazi SS officer in modern Germany. The reporter discovers him via the diary of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who committed suicide earlier, but he is being shielded by an organization that protects ex-Nazis, called ODESSA. This book was later made into a movie with the same name, starring Jon Voight, but there were substantial alterations. Many of the novel's readers assumed that ODESSA really existed, but historians disagree.[11]
In The Dogs of War (1974) a British mining executive hires a group of mercenaries to overthrow the government of an African country so that he can install a puppet regime that will allow him cheap access to a colossal platinum-ore reserve. This book was also adapted into the 1980 film starring Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger.
The Shepherd was an illustrated novella published in 1975. It tells of a nightmare journey by an RAF pilot while flying home for Christmas in the late 1950s. His attempts to find a rational explanation for his eventual rescue prove as troublesome as his experience.
Following this came The Devil's Alternative in 1979, which was set in 1982. In this book, the Soviet Union faces a disastrous grain harvest. The US is ready to help for some political and military concessions. A Politburo faction fight ensues. War is proposed as solution. Ukrainian freedom fighters complicate the situation later. In the end, a Swedish oil tanker built in Japan, a Russian airliner hijacked to West Berlin and various governments find themselves involved.
In 1982, No Comebacks, a collection of ten short stories, was published. Some of these stories had been written earlier. Many were set in the Republic of Ireland where Forsyth was living at the time. One of them, There Are No Snakes in Ireland, won him a second Edgar Allan Poe Award, this time for best short story.
The Fourth Protocol was published in 1984 and involves renegade elements within the Soviet Union attempting to plant a nuclear bomb near an American airbase in the UK, intending to influence the upcoming British elections and lead to the election of an anti-NATO, anti-American, anti-nuclear, pro-soviet Labour government. The 1987 adaptation starred Pierce Brosnan and Michael Caine. Almost all of the political content was removed from the film.
Forsyth's tenth book came in 1989 with The Negotiator, in which the American President's son is kidnapped and one man's job is to negotiate his release.
Two years later, in 1991, The Deceiver was published. It includes four short stories reviewing the career of British secret agent Sam McCready. At the start of the novel, the Permanent Under-Secretary of State (PUSS) of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office requires the Chief of the SIS to push Sam into early retirement. The four stories are presented to a grievance committee in an attempt to allow Sam to stay on active duty with the SIS.
In 1994, Forsyth published The Fist of God, a novel which concerns the first Gulf War. Next, in 1996, he published Icon, about the rise of fascists to power in post-Soviet Russia.
In 1999, Forsyth published The Phantom of Manhattan, a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. It was intended as a departure from his usual genre; Forsyth's explanation was that "I had done mercenaries, assassins, Nazis, murderers, terrorists, special forces soldiers, fighter pilots, you name it, and I got to think, could I actually write about the human heart?"[12] However, it did not achieve the same success as his other novels, and he subsequently returned to modern-day thrillers.
In 2001, The Veteran, another collection of short stories, was published, followed by Avenger, published in September 2003, about a Canadian billionaire who hires a Vietnam veteran to bring his grandson's killer to the US. Avenger was released as a film starring Sam Elliott and Timothy Hutton.[13]
The Afghan, published in August 2006, is an indirect sequel to The Fist of God. Set in the very near future, the threat of a catastrophic assault on the West, discovered on a senior al-Qaeda member's computer, compels the leaders of the US and the UK to attempt a desperate gambit — to substitute a seasoned British operative, retired Col. Mike Martin (of The Fist of God), for an Afghan Taliban commander being held prisoner at Guantánamo Bay.
The Cobra, published in 2010, features some of the characters previously featured in Avenger, and has as its subject an attempt to destroy the world trade in cocaine.
On 20 August 2013, his novel, The Kill List was published. It was announced earlier in June that Rupert Sanders would be directing a film version of the story.[14]
On 10 September 2015, Forsyth's autobiography, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue, was published.
In January 2018 it was announced that Forsyth would publish his eighteenth novel, a thriller about computer hackers, inspired by the Lauri Love and Gary McKinnon stories.[15] In October 2018, The Fox, was published in electronic format and was released in hardcover in November. The Fox is an espionage thriller about an autistic but gifted hacker.
On 16 February 2012 the Crime Writers Association announced that Forsyth had won its Cartier Diamond Dagger award in recognition of his body of work.[16]
Forsyth was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1997 New Year Honours list for services to literature.[17]
In September 2005, Forsyth appeared on the ITV gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and raised £250,000 for charity. On 8 February 2007, Forsyth appeared on BBC's political panel show Question Time; on it, he expressed scepticism on the subject of anthropogenic climate change. On 26 March 2008, he also appeared on BBC's The One Show. On 17 June 2008, Forsyth was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live Midday News in relation to the restoration of the Military Covenant. On 2 February 2015, he appeared on Eggheads as a member of Rewarding Talent.
Forsyth is a Eurosceptic Conservative. He has been Patron of The People's Book Prize since 2010. He is Patron of Better Off Out, an organisation calling for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union and supports Brexit.[18] In 2003, he was awarded the One of Us Award from the Conservative Way Forward group for his services to the Conservative movement in Britain. He is also a patron of the Young Britons' Foundation.
In 2005, he came out in opposition to Kenneth Clarke's candidacy for the leadership of the Conservative Party, calling Clarke's record in government "unrivalled; a record of failure which at every level has never been matched". Instead, he endorsed and donated money to David Davis's campaign.
In 2016, he said he was giving up writing thrillers because his wife had told him he was too old to travel to dangerous places.[19]
Works by Frederick Forsyth
The Biafra Story
1969 Non-fiction. 1977 edition titled: "The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend".
1971 Adapted into the 1973 film of the same name.
The Shepherd
1975 Illustrated short story. Chris Foss illustrated the UK edition. American edition published in 1976: Lou Feck illustrated this edition.
The Devil's Alternative
1979 American edition published in 1980.
Emeka
1982 Biography of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Revised in 1991.
No Comebacks
1982 Collection consisting of ten short stories.
Great Flying Stories
1991 Compiled, edited and introduced by Forsyth. Also features his 1975 story "The Shepherd".
The Phantom of Manhattan
1999 Partly adapted into the 2010 romantic musical Love Never Dies.
The Veteran
2001 Collection consisting of five short stories: "The Veteran", "The Art of the Matter", "The Miracle", "The Citizen", and "Whispering Wind".
The Afghan
The Cobra
The Kill List
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
2015 Autobiography. Published in September 2015.
The following four works listed above are not fictional novels or novellas: The Biafra Story (1969), Emeka (1982), Great Flying Stories (1991) and The Outsider (2015).
As writer only (except for Soldiers, as presenter)
1973 The Day of the Jackal Adapted from The Day of the Jackal
1974 The Odessa File Adapted from The Odessa File
1980 The Dogs of War Adapted from The Dogs of War
1987 The Fourth Protocol Adapted from The Fourth Protocol
1997 The Jackal Based on the 1973 film
1973 Money with Menaces TV play; one of 10 short stories in No Comebacks
1980 Cry of the Innocent TV film
1984 Two by Forsyth 2 episodes: "Privilege" and "A Careful Man"
1985 Soldiers 13 episodes; as presenter
1989–90 Frederick Forsyth Presents 6 episodes; as writer and presenter
1996 Code Name: Wolverine TV film
2005 Icon TV film; adapted from Icon
2006 Avenger TV film; adapted from Avenger
2010 Love Never Dies West End; partially adapted from The Phantom of Manhattan
2012 Love Never Dies Direct-to-video
2016 "Fallen Soldier" Melissa Adler
Forsyth wrote lyrics to a lament titled "Fallen Soldier", with music by Gareth Ellis Williams, which was released as a single by Royal Opera House soprano Melissa Adler in 2016.[20]
List of bestselling novels in the United States
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^ a b Forsyth, Frederick (10 September 2015). The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue. Bantam Press. p. 84. ISBN 9780593075401.
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^ Guy Walters (2010). Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice. Crown Publishing Group. pp. 139, 156.
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^ Avenger on IMDb
^ Han, Angie (20 June 2013), "Rupert Sanders to Direct Frederick Forsyth Adaptation 'The Kill List'", Slash film .
^ Katherine Cowdrey (January 9, 2018), Forsyth to release hacking thriller this autumn, The Bookseller.com. URL accessed April 19, 2018.
^ "Frederick Forsyth wins the CWA Diamond Dagger". CWA Diamond Dagger Awards. Crime Writers Association (UK). Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
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^ Frederick Forsyth The author His Views on Brexit
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^ "Novelist Frederick Forsyth takes on lyricist role in song for soldiers". Daily Mail. DMG Media. Press Association. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
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Opening July 30th 5pm – 8pm.
I try to do interesting paintings. Not many have picked up a brush with the intent to do otherwise, yet a positive outcome is never assured. Failures become the ground for the next attempt. Many years ago an instructor of mine stated, for the first time to my ear, that sentimentality is the enemy of art. I have always considered this statement in relation to the obfuscation of truth. I find it a useful thought to hold as I search around the city for subjects, or prepare to merely recycle a used canvas.


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package org.kuali.rice.krad.data;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.DocumentEntry;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.test.KRADTestCase;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.test.TestDictionaryConfig;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

/**
 * Created by nigupta on 5/8/2014.
 */
@TestDictionaryConfig( namespaceCode="KRAD",
        dataDictionaryFiles="classpath:org/kuali/rice/krad/test/datadictionary/TestDocumentEntry.xml" )
public class DataDictionaryTravelAccountDocumentEntryTest extends KRADTestCase {

    protected static final String MAIN_DATA_OBJECT_FOR_TESTING = "org.kuali.rice.krad.test.document.bo.Account";

    @Test
    public void verifyDocumentEntry() {
        DocumentEntry entry = dd.getDocumentEntry( "AccountMaintenanceDocument" );
        assertEquals( "The business rule class does not match.",
                "org.kuali.rice.krad.test.document.BusinessRuleImpl",
                entry.getBusinessRulesClass().getName() );
    }
}

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What is your take on SWFL? What do you like? What do you dislike?
The only thing I don't like is the seasonal traffic.
I will agree with you there, I dread "season", it is a tradeoff though, cool weather, but snowbirds are here..... They do help with the economy though.
The sunsets are a positive.
Stearch for "old florida" people and haunts. There are great out of the way beaches and inland parks and trails. Small cow town diners and bars still offer some of the best grub in the state.
After living there for 4 years, I have a few thoughts.
The weather is pretty damn nice most of the time. Summers are extremely hot and humid (but you deal with it like you deal with cold and snow up north).
Snowbirds are a-holes (most), with a ridiculous sense of entitlement. But again, come March they go back home. Traffic is bad, but tolerable when they flood the area.
There is a giant lack of culture (unless you spend time in the hispanic communities).
The food is mediocre. If you love seafood (as I do) it takes some time (or a local) to find the really great places. Avoid the touristy places (most), unless it's off season.
If you love the water, get yourself a boat (or make friends with a boat owner) ever a kayak. I miss paddling the back waters the most!
There is very little industry there aside from service and retail, so the economy is in the crapper most of the time and the housing market is in the top 3 worst in the country (at least Lee county is).
Florida state education was ranked 48 out of 50 in the country (at least it was two years ago.
Depending on your age, it can be difficult to meet decent people. There seems to be a gap between the ages of 25-40...I'm right in the middle, so unless your fresh out of college or close to retirement, there are not too many quality people to hang with.
If you like laid back, any tropical region will do. I do miss flip flops everyday!
I miss fresh fruit...bananas, oranges, grapefruit, limes and coconuts in my back yard!
I met some good people and will stay in touch, but compared to back home (Pittsburgh) not too many people I met know the meaning of true friendship down there. This is also true of Orlando area Another Florida city I lived in.
No don't get me wrong, I enjoyed most of my time there, just not the tourists, sweating at 5am before the sun is up, fire ants, and mosquitos (or no-see-ums)!
Will I go back? maybe, definitely to visit as my girlfriend was born and raised in Cape Coral.
If your looking for an excellent bike shop, I can recommend Naples Cyclery.
I had the extreme pleasure of working for them for a short time before moving back north. Great group of cyclists!
Food, Skip One seafood or 3 Fishermen both in Fort Myers.
Bar/ restaurant...Blue Sushi, The Pub in Naples at Mercado, Landsdowne Street in Bonita.
Best authentic Mexican food...Taqueria San Julian, its a little A-frame building corner of Bonita Beach road and Old 41.
If you like wheelin', there are some swamps down Bonita Beach road on the left that have some decent (for SWFL) trails. don't go at night or in the summer unless your lifted tall with a snorkel and a group who knows the area. Recovery gear is a must and stay out of the restricted areas!
Here's a few thing you all can do year round here in SW FL . Why subject yourself to only being able to enjoy what you love to do less than 6 months out of the year?
No jobs unless you like serving food. Too many people in the winter. Entitlement prone government workers.
Outdoor recreational activities. No Freezing Rain, Few long stretches of cloudy weather.


With cameras built-in to most of these phones, that's a lot of photographers. And with over 16 billion photos published via 3 year-old Instagram, a ton of people are getting better all the time at 'pretty good' photography.
We are all adopting new behaviors about capturing, publishing and sharing pictures. Brands can take advantage of this change (and should).
Percolate has done quit a few smart things. I particularly like them because they are committed to design. Not 'make-it-pretty-design' but putting design at the heart of their products where they really listen to users and solve problems via design first, technology second. This includes their approach to image capture.
Photographer 2.0 is one of the great features in their platform for sourcing content. Simply put, it's an app that allows a distributed group of photographers –like your employees in your marcom department – to grab images and send them to the Percolate content workflow. These images pop into a database ready for publishing via your content + community team via Facebook, Instagram, dotcom and more.
Imagine giving select people within your marcom team, the enthusiastic designer in the product design lab, the event-team, even the sales team, the simple instructions to be on the lookout for interesting visual moments. It could be behind-the-scenes at the brand film shoot, on the floor of the trade show, even a spontaneous customer testimonial. The IOS and Android app acknowledges that 'pretty good' and authentic photos are valuable.
You don't need 1000 employees shooting images to make this worthwhile.
This same idea can be broadened outside an organization to engage a world's worth of photographers. Imagine yourself a home furnishings brand like Ikea or a property insurance company. What if you could enlist 500 photographers from 35 countries to capture images of what they consider "home?" As part of a focused program (aka "campaign"), you could get unique content that really brought the idea of home to life via the visual images. These come from experienced photographers working in more of a journalism mode (nimble assignments).
Scoopshot is doing what Visual.ly is doing for infographics – providing a simple to access marketplace of photographers.
"Scoopshot currently offers the media and brands unrivalled access to more than 280,000 photographers, and counting, in over 170 countries worldwide. Scoopshot's service is used by more than 60 publications globally including Metro International, WAZ Media Group, the Daily Star, De Persgroep, Ebyline, MTV3 Finland, Expressen and Hürriyet.
As brands adjust their ideas about where content comes from, crowdsourcing visual imagery either through a field-force of friendlies (people who know your brand like employees or agency partners) or through a world-wide, efficient marketplace deserves a section of the New Marketing playbook.


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>How wide-spread is vaccine use?
>What diseases can people in your setting be vaccinated against?
>>What conditions are there routine exams for?
>At what age do people get routine exams?
>How frequently do people get examined?
Habits and remedies for when people feel malaise, or that people suggest to those who are feeling under the weather?
>Are there any vitamin supplements that people go to when feeling ill?
>Are there any foods that people eat when they aren't feeling well?
>Have there been any scientific studies supporting these food choices?
>Do people tend to sleep more or nap when they feel they are coming down with something?
>Are there over-the-counter medications designed to boost the immune system or cut down the duration of illnesses?


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Central Avenue Bridge Opens New Pathway to Harbor Point
After more than a year of anticipation, neighborhood businesses react to the opening.
By Lauren Cohen | July 2, 2018, 03:07 pm
Multiple construction signs barricading the Central Avenue Bridge on the corner of Lancaster Street and South Central Avenue were officially removed this morning, making way for pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles to easily travel back and forth between Harbor East and Harbor Point.
"This is a really important corridor for us," said Mayor Catherine Pugh at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. "It's providing opportunities for our community to engage from one section of the city to another. These are the kinds of great developments that say, 'Baltimore is moving forward.'"
Construction work to connect the two areas began in January of 2017, and currently, the bridge offers two driving lanes, as well as bike lanes, and pedestrian walkways connecting to Lancaster Street. The new pathway is part of a larger initiative by the city's Department of Transportation (DOT) to accommodate increased traffic and improve the streetscape along Central Avenue from Baltimore to Lancaster streets.
"What we're doing here is creating a brand new connection to this part of our city," said DOT director Michelle Pourciau, mentioning that, until now, the only way to enter Harbor Point was on South Caroline Street. "This project adds safety, roadway capacity, accessibility, mobility, and, more than anything else, it adds a nice aesthetic and visual connection."
Come September, the completed bridge will extend all four lanes of Central Avenue to Beatty Development Group's Harbor Point. The 27-acre peninsula houses the Exelon headquarters and Sandlot recreation space, as well as other retailers like West Elm, Ceremony Coffee Roasters, CorePower Yoga, Plantbar, and Honeygrow.
"We're happy that the neighborhood has finally been connected to the rest of the city," says Honeygrow's general manager Mike Wainwright. "A year ago, people didn't know what Harbor Point was, and now it's part of a lot of people's routines as they're walking through the city."
Now that the bridge has made the development more accessible, Wainwright is looking forward to introducing the wholesome salads and noodle bowls to patrons coming from all over the city.
"I'm a little nervous about how busy it's going to be," he admits. "But we're excited to get more people to come over this way. It's pretty cool that it's not just a peninsula anymore. Now it's part of the route of traffic along the water."
At Plantbar, the Belvedere Square business that opened a second location at Harbor Point in May, staffers are eager to serve the shop's cold-pressed juices to more customers as the sweltering summer weather continues.
"It's kind of confusing right now with all of the different construction going on," says Plantbar employee Meg Neale. "From a visibility standpoint, it's going to make it a lot easier for people to get here. All of these businesses are going to be a lot more successful."
In addition to increasing foot traffic to the businesses at Harbor Point, Beatty Development is passionate about fostering a closer connection to the waterfront for residents and tourists alike. The bridge's opening now makes it possible for pedestrians to walk along the water from Harborview in Federal Hill, all the way to Canton.
"Some of the things that make our city so great are the passion, people, and our waterfront," said Jonathan Flesher, vice president of development for Beatty Development Group. "But it isn't just any other waterfront—we have an accessible waterfront. This bridge will finally allow us to connect the promenade to Harbor Point and beyond."
On the Harbor East side, construction barriers that once detoured traffic on Lancaster Street have been removed, making it easier for diners to get to neighborhood restaurants like Gordon Biersch and Ouzo Bay. At the press conference Monday morning, officials made a point to thank the local businesses on both sides of the bridge for their patience throughout construction.
"Bridges unite people," summed up Tim O'Donald, president of Harbor East Management and Waterfront Partnership chairman. "They break through natural barriers and connect areas that were once isolated from each other. Our hope is that this bridge will stand long and bring our city closer together."
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Yen rallies after BoJ chief's remarks
By Wanfeng Zhou
Published: Feb 23, 2006 4:23 p.m. ET
Euro lifted by positive German business-sentiment data
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The yen rose sharply across the board Thursday, striking a one-month high versus the dollar, after Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui indicated that the end of quantitative ultra-easing policy is near.
Meanwhile, the euro climbed against the dollar after the closely watched Ifo business-climate indicator for Germany topped consensus forecasts.
The U.S. currency remained lower, drawing little support from the latest weekly jobless claims report, which showed unexpected strength in the labor market.
At last check, the dollar changed hands at 117.13 yen, down 1% from 118.48 late Wednesday. The dollar had touched 116.74 yen earlier in the session, the lowest level since Jan. 26.
The euro was last trading at $1.1917, up 0.06% from $1.1901 late Wednesday.
BoJ signals policy shift
The yen rallied overnight after BoJ Governor Fukui dropped one of his clearest hints that the central bank is approaching the end of its five-year-old ultra-easing monetary policy.
Traders bid the yen higher, interpreting Fukui's comments before the government's Committee on Financial Affairs as a signal the central bank may soon tighten monetary conditions and boost interest rates.
"Although BoJ Governor Fukui indicated no new insights regarding the timing of the policy shift, markets are increasingly expecting the central bank to end the policy in its April policy meeting," said Ashraf Laidi, chief currency analyst at MG Financial Group, in a note to clients.
Fukui said the consumer price index "should show a relatively clear uptrend" from January, and the central bank will shift policy "promptly" as soon as certain conditions are met. One of these conditions will be a consistent year-on-year positive CPI growth.
Fukui said Japanese financial markets have taken into account, to a certain extent, the likely early end to the Bank of Japan's quantitative monetary policy, according to Japanese business-news provider the Nikkei.
"The markets are moving in the direction we prefer," Fukui said.
"Inflation may cause long-term rates to make unstable movements," he said. "We need to guide monetary policy appropriately so that the economy achieves sustainable growth amid stable price movements."
But David Gilmore, a partner at Foreign Exchange Analytics, said Fukui's comments did little to alter market expectations and the yen's rise was more a result of position unwinding.
He said the so-called yen carry trade, in which investors borrow yen at lower rates and invest in higher-yielding assets, "is very one-sided and out of balance."
"It's not unusual for investors and speculators to reduce their exposure periodically. Fukui was an excuse to reduce that exposure today."
The yen later eased from session highs after a Dow Jones story quoted Fukui as saying that he didn't intend to say the BoJ would end its easing program immediately, said Ronald Simpson, an analyst at Action Economics.
"[Fukui] He sort of backtracked," Simpson said. "The market reacts to these things and positions are unwound when things are clarified."
German Ifo at 14-year high
The euro was boosted after the Ifo business climate indicator for Germany rose to 103.3 in February from 101.8 in January, topping consensus forecasts.
"The IFO survey hit a 14-year high...receding oil prices and an exchange rate that has stayed below the 1.20 figure for most of the month has buoyed business confidence in the region and bodes well for future prospects of growth in Q1," said Boris Schlossberg, senior currency analyst at Forex Capital Markets, in a note. "The news also helps to buttress the expected [European Central Bank] decision to raise rates to 2.5% at the upcoming March 8 meeting."
He added: "Indeed IFO head economist Dr Gernot Nerb, noted that the upcoming ECB rate hike would not stifle growth in Germany as the recovery appears to be broadening and strengthening."
Germany is the largest economy in the euro zone.
"For the third time in succession, the surveyed firms gave more favorable assessments of both their current situation and their business expectations for the coming six months. In addition to exports, domestic demand appears to be gaining momentum as well," the Ifo Institute said.
Strong U.S. jobless claims data
The dollar moved marginally higher after a Labor Department report showed first-time seasonally adjusted claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 20,000 to 278,000 last week, reversing the prior week's gains. See full story.
Economists were expecting new claims to be steady at about 296,000, according to a survey conducted by MarketWatch.
The four-week average of new claims -- which smoothes out distortions created by one-time events such as weather -- fell by 1,500 to 281,750, close to the six-year low of 276,750 seen two weeks ago.
The four-week average of continuing claims fell by 19,500 to 2.5 million, the lowest since February 2001, the month before the recession began five years ago.
Analysts said sentiment for the greenback appears to have cooled this week after a benign retail inflation report did little to change the currency market's U.S. interest-rate expectations.
But the short-term outlook still looks positive for the dollar, said Simpson at Action Economics.
"Q1 growth is looking to be very strong based on the 2006 data that have been released so far," he said. "For the immediate term, the dollar should find continued support on the back of the interest rate outlook."
"If we continue to see numbers coming out that show ongoing strength in the economy...if we see continued upward pressure on prices...the Fed's move beyond 5% is certainly a very real possibility," he added.
Federal funds futures show financial markets have fully priced in another quarter-point increase in the Fed's target interest rate in March and still see a 75% chance of a move to 5% by mid-year.
The Fed has lifted rates 14 times in a row since June 2004 to the current 4.5%, which helped the dollar rally 14% against rivals in 2005.
In contrast, ECB key rate stands at 2.25% and BoJ has a zero percent rate to strike deflation.


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Q: Topology proof question? How to prove that $X_1 := \{(x, y, z) ∈ \mathbb{R}^3 : x^2 + y^2 = 1\} / (S^1 × \{0\} )$ is homeomorphic to the union $X_2$ of two tangent spheres minus two points?
What I know:
Let  $C$ be cylinder $:=\{(x, y, z) ∈ \mathbb{R}^3 : x^2 + y^2 = 1\}$,
$ (S^1 \times \{0\})$ collapses the circle in the $xy$-plane to a point which leaves a double cone connected by a single point which is given by the equation $x^2+y^2=z^2$.
So, firstly, we need to find an identification turning the cylinder into the infinite cone.
Could I please get a hint on how to do that?
Looking at the coordinate function for z, would it be the homeomorphism between 0 to (0,+infinity)
f_z: {0} $\to$ (0,+ infinity)
z $\to$ 1/z

A: Consider the two spheres $N$ and $S$, each with radius 1, $N$ with center $(0, 0, 1)$ and $S$ with center $(0, 0, -1)$. Now look at the following map from $C$ to $N \cup S$:
For $(x, y, z) \in C$ with $z > 0$, define $h(x, y, z)$ to be the intersection of the segment from $(x, y, z)$ to $(0, 0, 0)$ with $N$; for $z < 0$, define it to be the intersection of the segment with $S$. (In brief: consider $h$ as "the inverse of stereographic projection from the origin of $A \cup B$ to $C$").
For $(x, y, 0) \in C$, define $h(x, y, z) = (0, 0, 0)$.
I'm going to assume you can prove that $h$ is continuous, and that its image misses only the north pole of $N$ and the south pole of $S$. Let's say that $N$, without its north pole, is $N_0$ and similarly for $S_0$. (Note that $N_0 \cup S_0 = X_2$.) So $h: C \to S_0 \cup N_0$ is a surjection.
Now all that's left is to see that $h$ passes to the quotient. Well, $h$, restricted to
the $z = 0$ circle of $C$, is the constant map to the origin. So we get a map $\bar{h}: X_1 \to S_0 \cup N_0$ defined by
$$
\bar{h}(\pi(p)) = h(p)
$$
where $\pi :C \to X_1$ is the projection onto the quotient.
$\bar{h}$ is the required homeomorphism.


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KIEV IS NOT TO BE ABOVE CHANTAGE IN THE QUESTION OF PRISONERS EXCHANGE
Work on the implementation of the humanitarian component of the Minsk agreements was not crowned with progress during today's meeting of the Contact group.
The Ukraine's representative was engaged in outright blackmail today: he demanded that 4 people be handed over to the Ukrainian side in exchange for the signing by the Ukrainian president of a decree on pardoning 9 persons. At the same time, Leonid Kravchuk openly ignores the fact that Ukraine signed a protocol a year and a half ago, which clearly outlines the obligations of the parties to "process cleansing" of the persons participating in the exchange. Accordingly, all these persons should have been released from criminal prosecution a year and a half ago. However, to date, Kiev has carried out this clearing procedure only in relation to one person out of 51.
It is especially cynical that the Ukrainian party carries out its unscrupulous provocations and offers to give them four people, referring to their alleged serious health problems. However, firstly, according to our information, this statement does not correspond to reality. And, secondly, such manipulations, covered by considerations of humanity, only exacerbate the already extremely negative reputation of the Ukrainian representatives on the Minsk site. They ,instead of fulfilling their direct obligations and exempting 50 people from criminal prosecution, are exclusively engaged in unfounded PR and poorly disguised extortion.


The greatest evil is when you forget that you are the son of a king.
Yet, aren't I the son of Joe Terman, used car salesman?
on Cedar Hill in Cleveland Heights, Ohio?
And wasn't he the son of—whom?
And how far back do we search for our royalty?
and shot in the lower intestine, and pistol whipped.
after they raised the rent, and wept?
and showed him the door.
concealing, behind your sweater and plaid pants, your esoterica.
Kabbala and the Zohar in secret.
don your tefillin and yarmulke and sway to the psalms?
were kept, just there, did you house your Talmud?
will we uncover your scepter and crown?
will the ornaments of your authority be revealed?


Win 10 Doesn't Install Due My Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 - Can It Be Sorted?
I wanted to upgrade my PC with new Windows 10 OS but when I started doing so I got the compatibility issue message due to my NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 driver. Windows 10 shows the following message "Unfortunately, this PC is unable to run Windows 10". Can you sort this issue? If you have any solution regarding this, then please reply me as soon as possible.
In such case, I would recommend you to disable the graphics Driver from the device Manager. For this you have to open the Device Manager, then find the option Display Adapter, click on it to expand. Then right click on Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 and click on disable. After that install Windows 10. If still you are facing problem, then in that case, you should download & upgrade Windows from there.
And in this way, the Windows 10 will get installed in your computer.