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Lara Pulver made her first TV appearance in 2009, but she's quickly racked up a list of credits that'd impress just about any TV viewer, including roles on Robin Hood, True Blood, MI-5, Sherlock, Skins, and Da Vinci's Demons. In addition to popping up briefly in the current run of Sherlock and returning to Da Vinci's Demons for its upcoming sophomore season, Pulver can also be found in BBC America's new limited-series event, Fleming, playing Ann Charteris, the woman who – 62-year-old spoiler alert! – eventually went on to be Mrs. Ian Fleming. Bullz-Eye was fortunate enough to chat with Pulver at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, and we asked her about all of the aforementioned small-screen roles while also touching on her film work with Idris Elba, Michael Sheen, and Tom Cruise.
Bullz-Eye: So how much did you know about Ian Fleming's life before you signed on to this project?
Lara Pulver: As a Brit, I knew his novels, I knew he was behind the Bond franchise, but I knew nothing about the man.
BE: How surprised were you to learn about him?
LP: I found him fascinating. Like, from a psychoanalytic point of view. His relationship with his mom, the depressive arrogance, his ego when it came to women, his failure as a man when it came to finding an occupation, finding his niche in life… And yet he never really lived long enough to find out the true success of what we now celebrate as 50 years of Bond as a franchise. So I found it fascinating.
BE: Were you a Bond fan going in?
LP: It's definitely in British arts and culture history. It's on TV at Christmas. There's always a Bond movie. And it's quite fascinating how they've been able to reinvent to make it so current 50 years on.
BE: Were you familiar enough with the franchise to recognize the bits and pieces of it that turned up in his real life?
LP: Yeah, and it's also so interesting, having done Fleming, to see a Bond movie now. That's even more interesting.
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The Science of Conservation Biology
Conservation biology is a mission-oriented discipline that focuses on how to protect and restore biodiversity, or the diversity of life on Earth. Like medical research, conservation biology addresses issues where quick action is critical and the consequences of failure are great.
To preserve biodiversity, scientists must answer three general questions.
- How is the diversity of life distributed around the planet?
- What threats does this diversity face?
- What can people do to reduce or eliminate these threats and, when possible, restore biological diversity and ecosystem health?
To answer the third question, an understanding of human behavior is required and a multi-disciplinary approach is needed. The discipline of conservation biology thus includes--in addition to biological sciences--economics, anthropology, psychology, and history.
These resources provide a brief introduction to the discipline
- Conservation Biology FAQ
- Conservation Biology in the Nature Education Knowledge Project Library (Gerber, 2010)

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Erik Satie called his vocal work Socrate a "symphonic drama," though it's anything but dramatic in a theatrical sense — or symphonic, either. Based on excerpts from the dialogues of Plato, the text describes the philosopher's influence, his friendships, and his suicide in prison. Completed in 1920, the music aimed for purity and calm, as an antidote, perhaps, to the horrors of the Great War that had just ended. Socrate was originally scored for orchestra and four sopranos, but Satie made an even more transparent version for solo voice and piano. It's this arrangement that Mark Morris and Celebrity Series brought to the Cutler Majestic last weekend.
Socrates is Morris at his most austere. Without even minimally identified characters, this is a work for the ensemble. Fifteen dancers do almost nothing but walk, as tenor Michael Kelly sings the text, in French, accompanied by pianist Colin Fowler. The dance illustrates the words, probably more one-on-one than I could detect, though I'd read an English translation in the program beforehand. I decided that Morris was adding a layer of displacement onto a story that had already been several times removed — from Plato's account, through Victor Cousin's Greek-to-French translation, to Satie's musical setting, to Kelly and Fowler's interpretation.
While Kelly tells the story, Morris's forces become a kind of Greek chorus: not stilted and statuesque but almost ordinary, representing Plato's fellow-citizens of Athens, who listened to Socrates's wisdom and witnessed his death. In some way, detachment was Socrates's answer to the pressures of politics and war, and this was what Plato admired in him. So neither philosopher is represented in the dance, only the populace.
To begin ("Portrait of Socrates"), the dancers pass by in pairs, linked by short, knotted ropes. They travel in horizontal planes, adopting different step rhythms— light runs, leaps, hitch steps, gallops, bounces — and have small conversations along the way. They push and pull against the ropes, gesture to each other, declaim important words they may have heard. Nothing looks naturalistic. Everything is mirrored somewhere in the crowd. In the second section ("On the banks of the Ilissus") the pairs disperse into groups, strolling and discussing, but the formality never crumbles. Finally ("Death of Socrates") they seem to be telling each other the story in shifting groups of five, with different individuals taking the parts of the dying teacher and his mourning companions.
I took Socrates very much on the surface. I noted occasional poses copied from Greek sculptures or pottery, but I wasn't erudite enough to spot other Morris references to painting and literature. Not to mention other deaths, other wars, other lessons that I'm sure were there. The dance left me feeling peaceful, if not enlightened.
Opening the program were two recent Morris couple-dances. The Muir was a Scottish fantasy of the Sir Walter Scott variety, to ballads and folk songs arranged by Beethoven. Three couples, dressed by Elizabeth Kurtzman to suggest the period, sketch standard romantic-ballet tropes — watching, chasing, lifting, switching partners, rejection, despair, indecision — all in a light, speedy vocabulary laced with ballet steps. The Muir could fit right into a ballet company's repertory, but I think it would be less engaging if it weren't danced barefoot.
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The recent article
League of Nationalists in The Economist
(19-11-2016, pps. 51-54) sets out to answer the question: "All around the
world, nationalists are gaining ground. Why?"
Despite noting that "many
countries are shifting from the universal, civic nationalism towards the
blood-and-soil, ethnic sort", the authors agree that "comparisons with the
1930s are fatuous."
The authors also
argue that "as positive patriotism warps into negative nationalism, solidarity
is mutating into distrust of minorities". It could also be argued that, with
the election of Trump, negative nationalism [Bushism] is warping into positive
patriotism [Trumpism] as Americans demand that their multinational corporations
be held accountable for their evasion of their responsibilities to the state which
they managed through the creation of tariff free areas [in the past state
income consisted of up to 90% of tariffs], export of jobs [outsourcing] and tax reductions [in Ireland their taxes had
been reduced to as little as 2%].
According to the
"Many westerners, particularly older ones, liked their countries as they
were and never asked for the immigration that turned Europe more Muslim and
America less white and Protestant. They object to their discomfort being
dismissed as racism."
They liked their
countries as they were before when their countries were less indebted, less
involved in military activities abroad and basic services did not roll from
crisis to crisis. After all, it was not their decision to be re-designated
'consumer' rather than 'citizen'.
They also write:
"Western voters aged 60 and over – the most national cohort – have lived
through a faster cultural and economic overhaul than any previous generation,
and seem to have had enough."
It is true they have
had enough. They have seen university fees and taxes going up and social services
going down. They have seen through immigration as mainly facilitating military
adventurism abroad. They are long in the tooth enough to know that there is no
real democracy in the EU. They want to wrest control of their society back into
their own hands for their future and the future of their naive iphone obsessed
children. Maybe for the first time in their lives they have made a political
decision that was actually in accordance with all the realisations they have
had over the years but never acted upon.
They do "dislike the balkanisation of their countries into identity groups" as they grew up with concepts like that of the 'citizen' where all were equal before the state in the social contract of rights and responsibilities.
These 'nationalists'
are contrasted with liberals whose "two sources of identity: being a good global
citizen (who cares about climate change and sweatshops in Bangladesh) and
belonging to an identity group that has nothing to do with the nation
(Hispanic, gay, Buddhist, etc)." Liberals stress non-nationalist identities and welcoming in immigrants. This
is laudatory except they do this without questioning why the immigrants are
coming in and doing something about it or else they support the wars of
dominance that result in the mass migrations of their victims to safe havens
away from the 'dictators'. The liberal dislike of any state control makes them
easy prey to those who really couldn't care less if Bashar al-Assad, for
example, is a 'dictator' or not, but, rather whose geopolitical side he is
dictating on.
Some populist leaders
supporting Brexit tend to emphasise the objectives of ordinary people but
studiously avoid the agenda of the 1%. They avoid discussing the geopolitical
alignments and re-alignments of their political masters, their agendas for
global domination, their constant creation of new free trade areas, their
endless sourcing out to the cheapest labour
costs in the world, their unceasing seeking out of the lowest taxation on their
profits and their control of the media and the banks everywhere.
These populists
misrepresent people as having narrow concerns like the future of their pensions
or racist fears of immigrants 'taking our jobs'. They seek to rile up anger to
gain support for narrow right-wing ends. For the liberals any questioning of
the weakness of the state is perceived to be a movement towards 'fascism'. However, they miss the point. Unlike the liberals, the working class is
not afraid of a strong state. People want a state that protects their jobs,
strong borders that keep out criminals, and decent health and education systems
that their taxes are supposed to be paying for.
The vote for Trump proves that
ordinary people are very well aware of the negative sides of neo-liberalism.
Trump has talked about bringing jobs home, controlling immigration, investment
in infrastructure and creating a stronger pro-people state and the people
supported him. The people are also well aware that the liberal cry that
'governments can't do anything about growth' is a sleight of hand when it is no
secret that neo-liberals are doing their damnedest to reduce the power of the
state in the first place.
The Economist article sub-heading
'Nations once again' refers to the poem A
Nation Once Again by the Irish poet Thomas Davis who calls on the Irish
people to throw off colonialism and take control of their own destiny. However,
the article makes a jump from the nationalism, 'controlling one's destiny',
referred to in the sub-heading to a 'better question': "what turns civic
nationalism into the exclusive sort?". To want jobs and better services at home
and an end to meddling in other people's countries and economies is anathema to
the freedom of the neo-liberal elites to do whatever they like around the world
maximizing profits and monopolizing control of world markets.
Brexit and the Trump election are good examples of passive politics, of people sitting
back, casting a vote and hoping for the best, or at least better. There is
nothing new in this, it may even be a case of 'we pretend to vote and you
pretend to lead'. In the past the dangers of passive politics were pointed out
by various writers such as James Connolly who wrote: "If the national movement of our day is not
merely to re-enact the old sad tragedies of our past history, it must show
itself capable of rising to the exigencies of the moment."[1]
Frantz Fanon
also pointed this out in The Wretched of the Earth:
"We have seen […]
that nationalism, that magnificent song that made the people rise against their
oppressors, stops short, falters and dies away on the day that independence is
proclaimed. Nationalism is not a political doctrine, nor a programme. If you
really want your country to avoid regression, or at best halts and
uncertainties, a rapid step must be taken from national consciousness to
political and social consciousness."[2]
Rousseau was aware of the dangers of passive politics. He advocated a more proactive approach of continual political
activity. He wrote,
(notwithstanding the existence of slavery at the time), "[a]mong the Greeks,
whatever the people had to do, they did themselves; they were constantly
assembled in the market place."[3]
is likely that Trump will disappoint his supporters given the limitations of
his new position but the possibilities for change signaled by Trump should give
people hope and make them realise that only by getting out on the streets and
showing their strength in numbers, choosing their own representatives and
leaders and demanding change will anything progress.
P. Beresford Ellis, ed., James Connolly: Selected Writings (Middlesex:
Pellican, 1973) 121.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (London: Penguin, 1990) 163.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right
[1762] (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1998) 45.


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It's caucus day in Nevada!
Today's election will feature the most diverse electorate yetin this Democratic presidential nominating contest.
And it presents a challenge for each of the candidates on the ballot. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who finished second in Nevada in 2016, is the favorite in yet another race, as the more moderate candidates continue to duke it out.
Here are six things to watch:
1. Does Sanders expand his base?
National polls, like the most recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, have started to show Sanders expanding beyond his loyal base of young voters and progressives. But so far, he has won only about a quarter of the vote in both Iowa and New Hampshire.
The higher the percentages he starts receiving, the better the case he will have to get the nomination with the pledged delegate lead but without an absolute majority.
It doesn't help him win over nervous moderates or establishment Democrats when he perpetuates conspiracies about The Washington Post and its owner Jeff Bezos for the Post's reporting, like he did Friday.
The newspaper reported that U.S. officials had told Sanders' campaign that Russian intelligence agents are trying to help the candidate and to meddle in the Democratic elections.
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For now, though, Sanders doesn't need to win over that part of the party. He just needs to keep winning — and accruing delegates.
2. Does Warren capitalize on her fiery debate performance?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren won the most plaudits from progressives after her debate performancebecause of the way she took the fight to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
She maintains a solid organization, and if she does well in Nevada, where will that vote come from? Does she pick off some of Sanders' progressive support, given she's second to Sanders in most polling with them? Or does she take from former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, since they are both vying for college-educated whites? Or would it be a little of both?
In any event, Nevada will show if Warren is back — and if her approach in Wednesday's debate worked.
3. Biden needs a boost
Maybe no one has more on the line Saturday than former Vice President Joe Biden.
After lackluster showings in Iowa and New Hampshire, his candidacy is hanging by a thread. He has been saying he would do better with voters of color, so here's his chance to prove it. Nevada's electorate in 2016 was 41% nonwhite, including 13% black. He has polled well with black voters for the better part of a year in this campaign, but there have been signs recently that he's slipping.
Nevada entrance polls will provide the first measure of how well Biden is holding up with black voters.
Black voters, by the way, put Hillary Clinton over the top in Nevada in 2016 and helped her to a win. Clinton lost both the white and Latino votes (19% of the electorate overall) to Sanders. But she won 76% of African Americans.
One other thing Biden has to hope for — that Bloomberg's uneven debate performance means voters will give him a second look.
4. Can Buttigieg or Klobuchar get out of each other's way?
Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar tussled quite a bit at Wednesday's debate. That's because they see the other as a threat in the moderate lane.
Buttigieg is the overall delegate leader in this very early stage of the contest (just 2% of the delegates have been allocated so far). And yet, he's treated as something of an afterthought for the nomination. That's because of his inability – thus far – to be able to win over voters of color. Nevada could go a ways to changing that, if he shows at least some strength with a more diverse electorate.
Klobuchar, on the other hand, needs to show she's more than just a flash in the New Hampshire pan and beat out some of her moderate rivals. She's going to need to to keep the money flowing, so she can compete in lots of (expensive) places Super Tuesday, March 3.
It's especially important she have a good showing in Nevada, considering just how important momentum is to her cause. Even if she does well in the next contest, South Carolina, there will only be three days between South Carolina and Super Tuesday.
5. What about all that Steyer money?
For all the attention paid to Bloomberg's money — and with reason, he has spent an unparalleled $425 million — wealthy venture capitalist Tom Steyer hasn't exactly been shy about opening up his wallet.
Steyer has spent more than $250 million on his campaign, and he has pumped in more than $16 million on ads in Nevada, according to Advertising Analytics. But, so far, it hasn't paid off in votes or delegates (he has gotten zero delegates so far).
Is it all for naught? Does he start changing the dynamic, given how hard he has worked to court Latino voters and African Americans? Or does he wind up just pulling votes away, especially in South Carolina, from, say, Biden?
Not that Steyer seems to care about the calculation of a moderate defeating Sanders. "I am not one of the people who's ever going to join a 'Stop Bernie' campaign," Steyer said on NBC's Meet the Press earlier this month.
6. How does the Nevada Democratic Party perform?
After the debacle in Iowa, Nevada scrapped a reporting app it was going to use that was made by the same company at the center of the controversy in Iowa. But the party then introduced new technology — each of the 2,100 precinct leaders were given iPads to help with caucus calculations.
Training has been conducted throughout the state, but introducing new technology this late in the process is making people nervous.
The party has a good reputation and is confidentthat things will go well. The party is taking lots of steps, like increasing the number of people answering phones for calling in results, and precincts can do their calculations the old-fashioned way — on paper.
How smoothly — or not — the process goes is going to have consequences.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is arguing that with Iowa's collapse, Nevada has a good case to go first. But if things don't go well, it could spell the end for caucuses in more places, as states have increasingly moved to primaries.
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Jivan Bhakta's Rotlo
Bhagwan Swaminarayan is the Supreme Entity of them all and part of His Supremacy is His compassion for all devotees. Jivan Bhakta was one of many devotees whose wishes were fulfilled by Sahajanand Swami.
Jivan Bhakta was a very poor devotee of Shiji Maharaj and news reached him that Maharaj was staying in a nearby village he decided that he must go for darshan. He had his wife make a millet Chapatti as this was all that he could afford.
After making the journey to the nearby village on foot, Jivan Bhakta found the place where Maharaj was resident. However there was a queue of devotees in front of him, all with sumtuous meals, which they were planning to serve to Maharaj. Shree Sahajand Swami was taking a small item of food from each plate and returning the plate to the devotees as prasad.
Jivan bhakta was disheartened at this sight. He felt out of place in the queue as other devotees were giving lavish meals, whilst he was at the back of the queue and felt that Maharaj would not be accept his humble offering. He was about to turn around and leave, when Maharaj called out his name and rushed towards him.
Sahajanand Swami, the God of all Gods and Master of all snatched the rotlo from Jivan Bhakta's hand and began eating it. He commented on it being delicious and the best meal He had received. All the other devotees gasped in amazement as this very poor devotee had earned the divine pleasure of Lord Shri Hari. The delight of Jivan Bhakta knew no bounds.


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Twelfth Evening
"I shall give you a picture of Pompeii, said the Moon. "I was outside the city, in the Street of the Tombs, as they call...
Twelfth Evening
"I shall give you a picture of Pompeii, said the Moon. "I was outside the city, in the Street of the Tombs, as they call the place where happy youths, with wreaths of roses on their heads, once danced with the fair sisters of Lais. Now the silence of death reigns there.
"German soldiers, in the service of Naples, kept guard, and played cards and diced. A group of strangers from beyond the mountains walked into the city, conducted by a guard. They had come to see, in the full clear rays of my light, the city arisen from the grave. I showed them the ruts of the chariot wheels in the streets paved with great slabs of lava. I showed them the names upon the doors and the signs still hanging before the houses. In the narrow courts they saw the fountain basins ornamented with shells, but the waters no longer spouted forth. No longer were songs heard from the richly painted chambers, where the bronze dogs kept watch before the doors. It was the City of the Dead. Vesuvius alone still thundered his eternal hymn, and each stanza of it men call a new eruption. We visited the Temple of Venus, built of pure white marble, with its high altar in front of its broad steps; the weeping willow has sprung up between the columns. The air here was transparent and blue, and in the background loomed Vesuvius, black as coal, its flames rising straight as the trunk of a pine tree. The glowing smoke cloud lay in the still calm of the night like the crown of the pine tree, but red as blood.
"Among the group was a lady singer, a truly great artiste; I have seen the honor done her in the first cities of Europe. They approached the amphitheater, and there they all seated themselves on the stone steps; thus a small space was filled, whereas thousands of years ago the entire place had been. The stage was still there, as in the olden days, with its brick side walls and the two arches in the background, through which the same scenery was visible as in times of old, and Nature herself spread out before us the hills between Sorrento and Amalfi.
"In jest the lady walked up onto the ancient stage and sang. The place inspired her, and I could not but think of a wild Arabian horse, snorting, its mane standing erect, as it dashes off in its wild course; here were the same ease and confidence. I had to think, too, of the suffering mother beneath the Cross of Golgotha, so deep was the feeling, the pain expressed. Round about sounded shouts of delight and applause, as they had thousands of years before here. 'What a heavenly gift!' they all exclaimed.
"Three minutes later the scene was deserted; everyone was gone, and not a sound was heard, for the group had wandered off. But the ruin stood unchanged, as it will stand for centuries yet to come. The momentary applause is forgotten, as are the singer's notes and smiles, forgotten, gone. Even to me this hour will be but a fleeting memory."


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Foro Abraham ha trabajado con otras asociaciones dedicadas al diálogo y a la promoción de una cultura de paz en un documento sobre la importancia de aprovechar la creatividad, la expresión artística y los medios de comunicación para acercar a las personas de diferente tradición religiosa.
La ONG italiana Europe HOPEs, la jordana Youth Spirit y la marroquí Creadores sin Fronteras, junto con Foro Abraham, han firmado la siguiente declaración:
The signatories of this declaration believe that:
Though diversity often creates difficulties and arouses conflict and wars, if properly lived and understood it enriches our societies and our world. We respect and admire the traditions of each individual society and feel that cultural diversity should be cherished and protected against homogenisation. Furthermore we believe that people of different ethnicity, nationality, language or religion can live together peacefully and learn from each other.
Religion can also be used to divide people and to incite violence. We think, however, that religious beliefs can and should contribute to a more inclusive, fair and humane society.
Every culture is the result of a blending of different communities and traditions over the course of centuries. There is a narrative that binds a community together and too often this narrative is developed against other community groups who have different beliefs or traditions.
Both formal and informal education should take account of this diversity and teach respect for other people's beliefs and traditions thereby promoting an inclusive society that tackles the issue of exclusion and discrimination.
Frequently, the media contributes to the spreading of prejudices and stereotyping of "others." In most cases, this misinterpretation of "others" is unintentional and is a result of ignorance and oversimplification. The long-term consequence of this miscommunication is a "de-humanisation" of "the other person", so that the image of him/her presented in social media does not correspond to a real person with feelings, fears, rights and aspirations similar to those of any other human being.
In order to counterbalance the negative effect of such communication, the signatories commit themselves to:
- creating spaces of dialogue and exchange between young people ofdifferent cultures and backgrounds
- sharing experiences about faith, culture and tradition
- stimulating creativity in order to use journalism and the arts (music, writing, theatre, film-making, photography, painting, sculpture, architecture, design, computer games, on-line applications) to provide innovative tools to overcome existing stereotypes and re-interpret one's community narrative
- developing critical thinking to identify prejudices and stereotypes in the media and the arts
- establishing permanent on-line communication tools between our organisations and members to ensure long-term cooperation.
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(born 1927). American lyric soprano Leontyne Price was the first African American singer to achieve an international reputation in opera. She became one of the most frequently recorded opera singers, and she was the recipient of more than 20 Grammy Awards from the American Society of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Leontyne Price was born Mary Violet Leontyne Price on February 10, 1927, in Laurel, Mississippi. Both of her grandfathers had been Methodist ministers in black churches in Mississippi, and she sang in her church choir as a girl. After graduating from the College of Education and Industrial Arts (now Central State College) in Wilberforce, Ohio, in 1948, Price decided to seek a career as a singer. She studied for four years at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, New York, where she worked under the former concert singer Florence Page Kimball, who remained her coach in later years. Price's debut took place in April 1952 in a Broadway revival of Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. Her performance in that production, which subsequently traveled to Paris, France, prompted Ira Gershwin to choose her to sing the role of Bess in his revival of Porgy and Bess, which played in New York City from 1952 to 1954 and then toured the United States and Europe. In 1955 Price successfully performed the title role in the National Broadcasting Company's television production of Tosca, and she sang leading roles in other operas on television in the next few years.
Price's operatic stage debut did not take place until September 1957, when she appeared in the American premiere of Francis Poulenc's Les dialogues des Carmélites at the San Francisco Opera in California. Price continued in San Francisco until 1960, appearing in such works as Aida, Thaïs, and The Wise Maidens. By that time she was one of the most popular lyric sopranos in the country and had also made successful appearances in Vienna, Austria, in 1959 and at Milan's La Scala in Italy in May 1960.
Despite this great success, Price's debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City was deferred until January 1961, when she appeared there in the role of Leonora in Il trovatore. After a brilliant performance Price became one of the Met's leading regular sopranos. Her later roles there included Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Liu in Turandot.
In the 1970s Price began to devote more time to recitals, but she scored another great success in her first performance of Ariadne auf Naxos in San Francisco in October 1977. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, the Spingarn Medal in 1965, the National Medal of the Arts in 1985, and a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recorded Arts and Sciences in 1989. Price gave her farewell performance of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in 1985 but continued to give recitals, which she described as her first love. She published a book, Aida, based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera, in 1990.


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MIDDLEBURY — The Counseling Service of Addison County (CSAC) has instituted a hiring freeze and could resort to layoffs depending on the severity of mental health program cuts lawmakers are considering for the fiscal year 2012 state budget.
As the Addison Independentwent to press, the House Appropriations Committee had passed out a draft budget calling for a 2.5-percent cut in spending for mental health and developmental disability programs. Rep. Joe Acinapura, R-Brandon, said the committee decided it could not support Gov. Peter Shumlin's proposal for a deeper, 5-percent budget cut in those areas.
"We know we have to make cuts, but not as much as the governor," Acinapura said during a phone interview on Tuesday.
Robert Thorn, executive director of CSAC, said a 5-percent cut — coupled with inflation — would translate into a roughly $893,000 hit for the agency next year. The Counseling Service employs approximately 300 people and has an annual budget of around $16 million.
If a 2.5-percent cut (with inflation) is ultimately endorsed by the Legislature and Shumlin, CSAC can expect more than $500,000 in cuts to programs like youth and family services, adult outpatient services, community rehabilitation and treatment, emergency programs, substance abuse services and Community Associates programming.
The organization's last true budget increase (4 percent) was in fiscal year 2008, according to documents provided by CSAC. The fiscal year 2009 state budget granted CSAC and other mental health agencies a 2.5-percent spending increase, but that hike was wiped out by subsequent rescissions.
This year (fiscal year 2011) CSAC took another $155,235 cut in state funding, coupled with a $115,000 reduction as part of Vermont's "Challenges for Change" directive.
"Since 2009, we have been hit pretty hard," Thorn said. "It seems like mental health is getting a little bit picked on here."
Thorn and his colleagues are waiting to see how the fiscal year 2011 budget numbers ultimately shake out.
"It's too early to know what's really going to happen," Thorn said. "We are working to minimize disruption to our staff and clients."
Disruption will likely take the form of longer waiting lists for some client services, such as for adult out-patient mental health counseling.
"If you have a loved one that needs services, you don't want them to wait," Thorn said. "A 60-day wait is not OK."
Thorn added it is will be critically important for CSAC to make sure its other clients don't slip through the cracks, such as substance-abusers who require prompt attention; people seeking 24/7 emergency services care who need someone to talk to; and developmentally disabled clients seeking to stay in jobs that help them remain productive members of society.
In order to weather cuts in the past, CSAC has eliminated various positions through attrition and by asking existing staff to multi-task. The organization will likely have to use those, and other more dramatic strategies, to meet the new budget reduction target, according to Thorn.
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The first picture is Anchor Bay's Evil Dead 2 Limited Tin, which I already have, but it's in great condition and sports the excellent looking THX transfer of the film (see here and here). Wizard Video's fanastic big box of Trauma sits next to it. Trauma (Enigma rosso) is actually a 1978 Alberto Negrin-directed giallo starring Fabio Testi. I have another copy of this Wizard tape, but the box was butchered to fit into a small plastic case.
The second picture starts out with the Simitar Video edition of Daniel Boyd's Chillers from 1987. I'm unsure about this tape, but I've heard the Raedon Video VHS is uncut while the Troma VHS/DVD releases are cut. Still trying to find concrete information on this though. I hear Movie House Massacre (Blood Theatre) (1984) isn't terribly good, but that cover is an eye-catcher. I believe it was released with the same art in big box before this cheap "Star Classics" edition. It's hard to believe Gate II is sitting dusty in a Sony-owned vault since the tape below was distributed by Columbia Tri-Star.
Then we have New Horizon's Demon Keeper, again horrid, but in great shape. I've been pining to see John McNaughton's The Borrower and Rolf de Heer of Bad Boy Bubby-fame's Encounter at Raven's Gate, so these were cool finds which I'll pop in soon. I picked up Roller Blade merely because of this goofy title screen intro uploaded by Mr. TangerineMan of The Scandy Factory.
The last two are a bootlegs of Tim Ritter's Killing Spree and Lucio Fulci's A Cat in the Brain. My DVD copy of Killing Spree from the cheapo Eden Entertainment simply doesn't work in any player I have. I really enjoyed Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness, so I'm looking forward to checking this one out. The Fulci boot is an odd one. The cover appears to be a scan of an Italian VHS release from "Dischi Ricordi" with a quote from Jean-Luc Godard(!?!) on the front. This was one of those weird occurrences where you find a tape in which the seller and other items for sale don't match. An old guy with all these blacksmith tools had the tape (and this tape only) sitting atop old Popular Mechanics issues just under a table. The situation was so weird, I asked him if it was even for sale first instead of how much. The transfer turned out to be ripped from the Box Office Spectacular/Grindhouse Releasing Laserdisc release. Hopefully I can uncover some more this coming weekend!


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Union forces under General George McClellan arrive at Yorktown, Virginia, and establish siege lines instead of directly attacking the Confederate defenders.
This was the opening of McClellan's Peninsular campaign. He sailed his massive Army of the Potomac down Chesapeake Bay and landed on the James Peninsula southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. He reasoned that this would bring him closer to Richmond, and the Confederates would have a difficult time gathering their scattered forces to the peninsula. The first resistance came at Yorktown, the site of George Washington's decisive victory over Lord Cornwallis to end the American Revolution 81 years earlier.
McClellan was discouraged by what he thought was a substantial force resting inside of strong and well-armed fortifications. The Confederates he saw were actually 11,000 troops under General John B. Magruder. Although vastly outnumbered, Magruder staged an elaborate ruse to fool McClellan. He ordered logs painted black, called "Quaker Guns," placed in redoubts to give the appearance of numerous artillery pieces. Magruder marched his men back and forth to enhance the illusion. The performance worked, as McClellan was convinced that he could not make a frontal assault.
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'Only 47 percent of the U.S. workforce is "fully employed" at this point.'
– Labor Day 2011: What Are We Celebrating? The Lack Of Jobs In America? (Economic Collapse, September 4th, 2011):
If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011. So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy. But your day may be coming soon. This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating. They are not enjoying a break from their jobs because they don't have any jobs. In fact, it seems kind of heartless for the rest of us to be celebrating while so many of our countrymen are destitute. What are we celebrating on Labor Day 2011? The lack of jobs in America? At this point, the U.S. economy closely resembles a gigantic game of musical chairs. Every time the music stops, even more good jobs are pulled out of the game and even more workers are added. Once upon a time, if you really wanted a job in America you could get one. But now the competition for even the most basic jobs is absolutely brutal. If you gathered together all of the unemployed people in the United States, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the world. It would be a nation larger than Greece. All of those unemployed people are not going to be taking trips with their families this holiday weekend. Instead, most of them are going to be trying to figure out what to do with their shattered lives.
With the economy in such a mess, you would think that someone out there would be suggesting that Labor Day 2011 should really be a day of mourning. This economic downturn has shredded the lives of millions of American families.
Is there any other crisis in recent years that has had more of an impact on a national level?
On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that no new jobs were created during the month of August and that the official unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 percent.
Wait, aren't we supposed to be in the middle of an economic recovery?
Actually, we need at least 125,000 new jobs or so each month just to keep up with the growth of the U.S. population. So it seems odd that the economy would add zero jobs but the unemployment rate would not increase.
But that is what the government is saying.
In any event, things don't look good. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the civilian employment-population ratio was at 58.2 percent last month. This is an incredibly low figure.
In a recent article, John Mauldin explained what would have to happen to return the employment-population ratio to where it was in the year 2000….
The US has roughly the same number of jobs today as it had in 2000, but the population is well over 30,000,000 larger. To get to a civilian employment-to-population ratio equal to that in 2000, we would have to gain some 18 MILLION jobs.
Does anyone have an extra 18 million jobs laying around somewhere? The following is a chart showing what has happened to the employment-population ratio over the last several decades….
What makes this chart even more startling is that the number of women in the workforce was constantly rising for most of the time period reflected in this chart. So when you take that into account our current situation is far worse.
For example, back in 1969 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. Pretty much any man in his prime working years that wanted a job could get a job.
In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.
But that is only part of the story. Another significant trend has been how flat wages have been. Average hourly earnings fell 0.1% in August. Meanwhile, the prices in the stores continue to go up.
In this column, I write a lot about how the middle class is being destroyed in this country. When you look at the ratio of employee compensation to GDP, it is now the lowest that is has been in about 50 years. In other words, U.S. workers are taking home a smaller share of the pie than at any other time in modern U.S. history.
But at this point those that still actually do have jobs consider themselves to be the lucky ones.
Tonight, there will be millions of desperate unemployed Americans that will blankly stare at their televisions as they try to figure out how their dreams got flushed down the toilet.
Remember how I mentioned at the beginning of the article that unemployed Americans would constitute a country larger than Greece? Well, 42 percent of all of those unemployed Americans have been out of a job for 27 weeks or longer.
What would you do if you lost your job and you were unemployed for half a year?
Would you be able to survive?
In America today, the longer that you are unemployed, the harder it is for you to get another job. If you have been unemployed for at least one year, there is a 91 percent chance that you will not find a new job within the next month.
Out of sheer desperation, many Americans have taken jobs that they never even dreamed that they would take.
Only 47 percent of the U.S. workforce is "fully employed" at this point. Right now there are hordes of Americans that are waiting tables, flipping burgers or stocking shelves at Wal-Mart because that is all that they can find right now.
Sadly, this is all part of a long-term trend.
Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
This middle class is being pummeled out of existence, and most Americans don't even understand what is happening.
It certainly does not help that both the Republicans and the Democrats have stood by as millions upon millions of our jobs have been shipped out of the country.
It also certainly does not help that both the Republicans and the Democrats have stood by as millions upon millions of illegal immigrants have taken jobs away from American citizens.
It also certainly does not help that both the Republicans and the Democrats have stood by as U.S. businesses have been absolutely crushed by mountains of nightmarish regulations and have been taxed into oblivion.
The decade that just ended was the worst decade for job growth in America since the Great Depression. In fact, even though thirty million people were added to the U.S. population during the decade, there was essentially zero job growth.
Sadly, things look like they are going to continue to get even worse. For example, the United States Postal Service is in such trouble that it is asking Congress to allow it to lay off 120,000 workers. Overall, the Postal Service wants to eliminate 220,000 positions by 2015.
So is this big speech that Obama is going to give on Thursday going to solve anything?
Of course not.
The reality is that if Obama or any of his advisors had any grand ideas for fixing our situation they would have implemented them by now.
And what is the big deal in making us wait until Thursday to hear these "new ideas"? Why not just tell us now?
Sadly, the truth is that everything that our politicians do now is about setting themselves up for the 2012 election.
Most likely, Obama is just going to take a bunch of tired ideas that do not work and "spin" them into a grand new plan.
Millions of Americans will actually buy into it.
But it is not as if establishment Republican candidates have anything to offer either.
You know, if Obama wanted to do something substantial, one place to start would be to order the Federal Reserve to stop paying banks not to make loans to individual and small businesses.
But just like all of our other weak-minded recent presidents, Barack Obama is not going to confront the Federal Reserve.
In fact, everything that Obama actually does "for the economy" only seems to make things worse.
As I have outlined before, we know exactly why our economy is losing jobs and we know things that we could start doing right now to reverse the long-term trends that are absolutely killing us.
But Barack Obama is not talking about real solutions and neither are the establishment Republican candidates.
So things are going to continue to get worse. The number of Americans on food stamps has increased 74% since 2007. Every month we have been setting a new record. The middle class is going to continue to disappear as the number of good jobs continues to decrease.
So, no, there are not too many reasons to celebrate on Labor Day 2011. Our economy is dying and millions upon millions of our fellow citizens are deeply suffering.
Urgent action is required in order to prevent our situation from rapidly getting worse, but right now the vast majority of our politicians are asleep at the switch.
So instead of celebrating this Labor Day, why don't you say a prayer for America instead?
We really could use it.


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Plymouth shooting: Six dead in Keyham incident including suspect and a child
Six people have died in a shooting in the Keyham area of Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall Police have confirmed.
Three males and two females died at the scene, including the only suspect. Another woman received treatment for her injuries at the scene, but later died in hospital.
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He said more people were being treated for their injuries in hospital, and tweeted: "I'm utterly devastated that one of the people killed in the #keyham shooting was a child under ten years old."
All next of kin have been made aware of the deaths and Cornwall and Devon Police have confirmed they are not looking for any other suspects, nor is the incident being treated as terror-related.
In a statement early on Friday (13 August) morning, a spokesperson for the force said: "Devon and Cornwall Police would stress this is not a terrorism related incident.
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Hide Ad"The area has been cordoned off and police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident."
The incident took place on Biddick Drive shortly after 6pm, where witnesses claim they saw a man dressed all in black and armed with a shotgun.
Police cordoned off the street and the surrounding area while investigations are underway, with road closures in place around the Keyham area.
Witnesses described hearing gunshots with one saying she saw a man "randomly" start shooting at people.
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Hide AdRobert Pinkerton told the BBC he had "walked around the corner" and "bumped into a bloke with a shotgun".
Another witness who lives on one of the neighbouring streets, named only as Sharon, told the BBC: "Firstly, there was shouting, followed by gunshots – three, possibly four to begin with.
"This was when the shooter kicked in the door of a house and randomly started shooting… he ran from the house shooting as he ran and proceeded to shoot at a few people in the Linear Park up from the drive."
The police urged anyone with video footage of the immediate aftermath not to share it on social media and warned against speculating about the incident on social platforms, in order to "respect those families who have lost loved ones this evening".
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Hide AdPolice officers and marked patrol cars were stationed at cordons on Thursday night on roads close to the scene of the incident. Air ambulances were also deployed in the immediate response to the incident, while crime officers in white suits could be seen taking pictures of the street.
The South Western Ambulance Service said it was called at just after 6pm on Thursday and responded with a "significant number of resources", including Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART), multiple ambulances, air ambulances, multiple doctors and senior paramedics.
In a video posted on Twitter earlier, Mr Pollard said Ford Primary School and St Mark's Church on Cambridge Road in Keyham would be open from 9am on Friday and he, along with police and local councillors, would be attending to support the community.
He said "time and space" will be needed "to process what has happened tonight", but "this will be a safe space for the community to come together".
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Hide AdHome Secretary Priti Patel tweeted: "The incident in Plymouth is shocking and my thoughts are with those affected. I have spoken to the Chief Constable and offered my full support. I urge everyone to remain calm, follow police advice and allow our emergency services to get on with their jobs."


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