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I'd been thinking about a post on the topic. Both the more usual (relatively speaking) position on concerning blacks for slavery, and Senator Warren's recent comment regarding Native Americans. Then 538 came along and gave me a hook to hang it on: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-americans-think-about-reparations-and-other-race-related-questions/
The first, obvious, and generally ignored question is: who qualifies? I mean, pretty obviously President Obama, although black, doesn't qualify. After all, none of his ancestors were slaves in the US. But is there a threshold for how much of your family tree includes slaves? Do we have a sliding payout scale, based on what fraction of your ancestors were slaves? (And if so, how do we deal with having some white ancestors who are in your family tree merely because some slave owner raped one of his slaves?)
Similarly for Native Americans: how much of your ancestry must be Native American for you to qualify? Do you have to somehow be registered by a specific tribe to qualify? Does it matter if your only basis for even knowing (because until then nobody knew) is a recent DNA test looking at your ancestry?
The second question is, are we talking about a symbolic gesture, i.e. an apology and token payment? Or something actually proportional to the level of harm done? I note that, when reparations were paid to Japanese Americans who were interned, the amount ($20,000) was a bit more than symbolism – even if inadequate to the actual harm done. And in that case, we were talking about the actual individuals who had been interned being readily identifiable, and their heirs likewise readily identified. For slavery, both time and poorer initial record keeping make that problematic.
Third, are we (in the case of blacks) only talking about slavery? Or are we talking about institutional discrimination (Jim Crow laws)? Or even less formal discrimination? (Hmmm... On that basis, perhaps President Obama does qualify....) And how do we decide who was actually impacted and how much?
To be clear, I'm not saying that all of those questions are unanswerable. Just that anyone arguing for "reparations" needs to be asked for answers to them. Otherwise we don't have an actual policy proposal, just a feel good (or, if you oppose the idea, "feel bad") slogan.

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Linux Mint 11 – coming up May 2011
I received many emails and questions about Linux Mint 11, whether it was coming with Unity or Gnome 3, when it was going to come out and what should be expected from it… so, here's a bit of information about our upcoming release.
ETA (Estimated time of arrival)
We're on schedule.
Linux Mint 11 should have two releases:
- an RC release in the middle of the month
- a stable release by the end of May.
As always, we release "when ready" and we can delay a release if we're not happy with its quality.
The Desktop
Linux Mint 11 comes with Gnome 2.32, the traditional Linux Mint desktop layout, mintMenu and the same desktop elements featured in previous releases.
Compiz is installed by default and so is fusion-icon, which lets you switch easily between Compiz and Metacity.
Software Selection
- LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice.org as the default office suite.
- Banshee replaces Rhythmbox as the default music player.
- gThumb replaces F-Spot as the default photo application.
- Gwibber is no longer installed by default.
- padevchooser, paman, paprefs, pavumeter and pavucontrol are no longer installed by default.
- The update manager is faster than before and comes with numerous bug fixes. It also features multiple UI improvements.
- The deskstop settings tool is now desktop-agnostic and serves both generic settings (such as the ability to enable/disable fortunes in the terminal) and desktop settings specific to Gnome, KDE, Xfce..etc. In Xfce it will eventually replace mintconfig-xfce and mintdesktop-xfce.
- The software manager looks much more polished. It loads marginally faster and now features a splash screen. Its templates were refined to give the user a much nicer browsing experience. The installation and removal of applications are now simulated before the application screen is shown, allowing the software manager to show precisely how much data is to be downloaded, how much space is required on the hard drive and exactly which packages are to be installed and/or removed.
- Mint-x-theme comes with numerous improvements, bug fixes for Gimp, Banshee, Synaptic, Deluge and round radio buttons.
- A new "apt download" command was introduced which downloads a .deb package locally along with all its dependencies.
- Flash Square runs in native 64-bit while 32-bit users can choose between the stable 10.2 and beta 10.3 plugins and have both installed at the same time, easily switching between them using "update-alternatives".
- Firefox 4, Chromium and Opera come with an improved mint-search-addon plugin.
With the upstream changes in Unity and Gnome 3, some of the big Linux Mint projects (netdiscovery, restoration snapshots) were postponed and more time was given to ensure this release would feature a functional yet traditional desktop. In many ways, Linux Mint 11 feels like a more modern and more polished version of Linux Mint 10. In contrast with the many distributions adopting new interfaces, Linux Mint 11 will feature the best Gnome "2" desktop you've ever got to see.
Well, that's what we're aiming for anyway 🙂
Wish us luck and stay tuned for the RC release.


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By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press
HOLTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The 13 people killed in one of the deadliest highway crashes involving migrants sneaking into the U.S. had entered California through a section of border fence with Mexico that was cut away, apparently by smugglers, immigration officials said Wednesday.
Surveillance video showed a Ford Expedition and Chevrolet Suburban drive through the opening early Tuesday, said Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol's El Centro sector chief. The video has not been publicly released because it's part of an ongoing investigation.
The Suburban carried 19 people, and it caught fire for unknown reasons on a nearby interstate after entering the U.S. All escaped the vehicle and were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents.
The Expedition crammed with 25 people continued on, and a tractor-trailer struck it a short time later. Ten of the 13 killed in that crash have been identified as Mexican citizens. The Border Patrol said its agents were not pursuing the vehicle before the wreck.
The opening in the fence was about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the crash in the heart of California's Imperial Valley, a major farming region now at the height of a harvest that provides much of the lettuce, onions, broccoli and winter vegetables to U.S. supermarkets.
It was made of steel bollards that were built before former President Donald Trump blanketed much of the border with taller barriers that go deeper into the ground. Photos show a panel of eight steel poles was lifted out and left on the ground in the desert next to an old tire and other debris.
"Human smugglers have proven time and again they have little regard for human life," Bovino said. "Those who may be contemplating crossing the border illegally should pause to think of the dangers that all too often end in tragedy, tragedies our Border Patrol Agents and first responders are unfortunately very familiar with."
The breach occurred in a busy area for illegal crossings near the Imperial Sand Dunes where migrants often climb over an aging barrier and wait for drivers to pick them up, hoping to avoid the scrutiny of Border Patrol agents at checkpoints on highways leading to Los Angeles, San Diego and Phoenix.
A pandemic-related measure that allows the Border Patrol to expel people without an opportunity to seek asylum potentially leads some to try to evade authorities instead of surrendering, sometimes with fatal consequences. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced expulsion powers nearly a year ago under Trump, and the Biden administration has signaled no plans to lift them anytime soon.
The cause of Tuesday's collision wasn't yet known, authorities said. The Expedition is built to hold eight people safely, but smugglers are known to pack people into vehicles in extremely unsafe conditions to maximize their profits.
Seats in the SUV had been removed except for those for the driver and front passenger, said Omar Watson, chief of the California Highway Patrol's border division.
The crash happened in an area that became a major route for illegal border crossings in the late 1990s after heightened enforcement in San Diego pushed migrants to more remote areas.
Barely a mile from the crash, there is a cemetery with rows of unmarked bricks that is a burial ground for migrants who died crossing the border.
In 2001, John Hunter founded Water Station, a volunteer group that leaves jugs of water in giant plastic drums for dehydrated migrants.
"I was trying to figure out how to stop the deaths," said Hunter, whose brother Duncan strongly advocated for border wall construction as a congressman.
Illegal crossings in the area fell sharply in the mid-2000s but the area has remained a draw for migrants and was a priority for wall construction under Trump. His administration's first wall project was in Calexico.
When police arrived Tuesday at the crash site about 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of San Diego, some passengers were trying to crawl out of the crumpled SUV. Others were wandering around the nearby fields. The big rig's front end was pushed into the SUV's left side and two empty trailers were jackknifed behind it.
The men and women in the SUV ranged in age from 15 to 53, and those who survived had injuries that were minor to severe, including fractures and head trauma, officials said. The driver was from Mexicali, Mexico, just across the border, and was among those killed.
The 68-year-old driver of the big rig, who is from the nearby California community of El Centro, suffered moderate injuries.
The crash occurred around 6:15 a.m. under a clear, sunny sky at an intersection just outside the community of Holtville, about 11 miles (18 kilometers) north of the border. Authorities said the tractor-trailer was heading north on a highway when the SUV pulled in front of it from a road with a stop sign.
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Associated Press reporters Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles, Julie Watson in San Diego, Anita Snow in Phoenix, Tom Krisher in Detroit and Mark Stevenson in Mexico City contributed.


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Born in USSR in 1986 in Leningrad city (Saint-Petersburg), photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina has long been impacted by her Russian heritage. Working on a new book that explores the fairy tales of pagan Russia, Bakhtiozina looks for the stories behind the image. The artist studied photography at Central Saint Martins, London, where she lived for a number of years before returning to Moscow. Currently specialising in photo-based-art, fashion photoshoots and music videos, she has been published in Vogue Italy, exhibited work internationally and was the first Russian speaker at TED. She speaks to Aesthetica about her favourite locations and her frustrations with the current trends in photography.
A: Can you remember the first photograph you took?
UB: The first picture I took was when I was six-years-old with my father's film camera. He set up everything for me and I just chose the right perspective. It was in our countryside house. However, the first photograph, which started my career as photo based artist, was a self-portrait that I took in 2009 in London. I can remember it very clearly because it was a very emotional shooting process and it became very popular on the internet after publication. This particular photograph is in my biography as a memory and as a mission statement to fight against stereotypes and for positivity.
A: What do you aim to capture in your images?
UB: I aim to record the central ideologies and characteristics of a person. There is always a long story behind each of my photographs and my models bring their own ideas to the conversation. There are way too many bland, cold and boring fashion images out there. My works try to express something deeper than today's average trendy photo formula. I make an active effort to get away from that. I want to learn or feel something when I look at an image – so I try to create the same experience with my my art and my life. I want to shoot stories that existed before the photograph was taken and that draw the audience to think about what will happen next.
A: Which photographers have inspired you?
UB: I never searched for other photographers, until I was compared to them by other people. The reason for this is that for a while I didn't consider myself as a photographer, but as an artist and photography was my tool to express ideas. I prefer to get inspiration from life, people in my country, English painters, comic books, fairy tales and magic. I am deeply impacted by Pre-Raphaelites and the poetry of the 19th Century. However, at the same time I am very passionate about modernity and the media, and I also love super heroes, especially Iron Man, the German language and coloured hairs on girls.
A: Is there a location in the world where you would love to shoot photographs?
UB: I have actually already taken photographs in my dream location: Iceland. And I will certainly do it again!
A: What do you have planned for the future?
UB: I am planning to train myself to do 40 press-ups in a row, as, like a lot of women, I want to lose wait before the beach season! For work, I am in the process of creating a series of photographs for a book I was commissioned to make. This book will be dedicated to the history of Russian fairy tales and the hidden facts about heroes and shamanic powers that were highly respected in Russia before Christianity arrived. This project is going to take me quite long time because I am designing and stitching all costumes and headdresses. I am also taking long walks into Russian forests to find the perfect locations, to get connected with nature and to find models who are still connected to paganism and the history of Russian fairy tales.
To find out more about Uldus Bakhtiozina, visit www.uldus.com.
1. Images courtesy of Uldus Bakhtiozina.
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New York, NY, March 02, 2018 –(PR.com)– Former Fashionista.com Creative Director and Mashable Art Manager Nina Frazier Hansen, a digital marketing and content development expert, and Gallery PR Founder Sonia Hendrix, a veteran lifestyle, fashion and celebrity publicist, have announced a partnership between their newly founded communication agencies.
The partnership will combine the duo's client list, professional networks, and services into one fluid solution for brands in the culinary, fashion, lifestyle, adventure and wellness space. Hansen, who spent years growing online audiences and monetizing top news titles with digital marketing strategies and content creation, will lead the marketing division at Gallery PR, while Hendrix will leverage her strategy experience and relationships with press, influencers, and celebrities to drive the PR needs of Olive & Bones clients.
Hansen and Hendrix first met in 2014, where the pair immediately struck a bond over a shared belief that New York's PR and marketing industry needs non-traditional models to emerge as a bridge between disparate generations and changing technologies.
"In the digital age, every hour for a business matters and dollars matter even more. Combining our expertise in PR, digital marketing and media strategy means that we are able to cross-reference resources, ideas and data to build unique solutions based on audience development, social media, and web analytics that will propel brands forward," said Hansen. "Olive & Bones was created to give brands the tools they need to effectively tell their stories in the digital age. I'm proud to expand my agency's full suite of content and marketing offerings to include Sonia's expertise in PR, knowing there is much more we can effectively do now with influencers and media."
"Brand budgets are shrinking, everyday another label joins the market, and PR agencies are out there making a boon. But what are they really doing for these brands? And are they giving editors what they want? When I sit back and look at the agency landscape I see traditional, broken models led by a dated vanguard, who can't effectively deliver measurable results for the brands they're signing," said Hendrix. "Nina's expertise combined with mine makes our firm a far more logical option, because we are on the ground delivering the latest digital media marketing and PR strategies for media-worthy brands that have to track their ROI. Start thinking of us as two sides of the same coin. We're here to shake up how brands are doing business."
Hansen spent much of her time at digital media companies directing and executing sponsored content, where she worked with brands, such as Samsung, TIDE, Gap Inc., David Yurman and Converse. Hendrix came from respected New York PR firms Linda Gaunt Communications and The Bromley Group, where she handled PR for iconic brands, such as KENDALL+KYLIE, Jessica Alba x DL1961, Guess Eyewear, and Nina Footwear Corp. Previously, she owned a lifestyle PR agency based in Asheville, N.C. and St. Louis, Mo.
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Gallery PR is just that – a gallery of emerging talent and creative genius for the media to cull from. Headquartered in New York City, we champion and promote the insights of news-making executives, international men's and women's designers, life-changing products, and viral influencers from around the globe.
Clients under the Gallery PR umbrella were handpicked, a result of our reputation, and proven ability to deliver clear and measurable results. We are committed to discovering new and emerging talent scouted from around the world.
Our relationships with media, influencers, celebrity stylists and agents is vital to our success and runs deep, spanning a decade of experience working hand-in-hand with press to provide culturally relevant content to their audiences in a strategic, sophisticated manner.
As a boutique firm, Gallery PR prides itself in catering to our clients on a highly personalized, consistent level.
We invite you to become a part of that conversation.
About Olive & Bones Consulting
Olive & Bones Consulting was founded to help brands tell stories effectively and put those stories in front of audiences who care when it matters most. We build premium content and experiences that engage people and meet established goals.
We work with your current marketing team, web developers or agency to make sure your brand has everything it needs to succeed in the digital age. From your website to your social media strategy, we work to find a plan that meets your business needs and then train your staff or take over the day-to-day workload or project ourselves.
Our specialties, include: Marketing Strategy, Content Development, Project Management, Event Planning, Audience Growth, Social Media, Email Marketing, Website QA and UX Testing, Ad Marketing, Photography and Video.
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Peep at This Weekend's New Angry Birds Toon
On this Sunday, April 28, Rovio will air a new episode of Angry Birds Toons -- "Cordon Bleugh." Before the animated short appears on your Angry Birds game of choice this weekend, check out a sneak peek here!
If you weren't aware, every Sunday a new episode of Angry Birds Toons is available across all Angry Birds apps on iOS and Android devices. They will also appear on the YouTube channel, in addition to regular sneak peeks and behind the scenes content!
Rovio also has deals for different TV packages, so check your listings to find out where you can watch it on the big screen.
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As we shield ourselves in any way possible from the novel coronavirus, there are some parts of the country handling social distancing better than others.
"This is a public health problem; it's not a private health problem," explained Dr. Bhaskar Chakravorti, who leads the Fletcher Institute for Business at Tufts University. "If I get sick, I could make three other people sick."
Over the past few months, Dr. Chakravorti and his colleagues have been analyzing mobility data from across the country.
What did he and his team discover?
The top three states who were practicing social distancing the most were New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Nebraska, South Dakota, Arizona were among the worst when it came to practicing social-distancing procedures. Dr. Chakravorti says that has led to higher contagion rates in those areas.
"In this post-pandemic moment, each state is going in somewhat a different direction as far as how it's managing the pandemic," he added.
In bigger cities with higher rates of infections, the study found that people responded better to restrictions because they could see the impact the coronavirus was having around them. Dr. Chakravorti hopes public health officials use his findings to make more uniform policies nationwide.
"This whole issue of COVID has become a political issue, so even the act of wearing a mask has become a political statement," he said. "You never want to mix politics with anything. You definitely don't want to mix it with public health. That's a dangerous combination."


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D. G. Hart, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011). ISB: 978-0-8028-6628-8. 252 Pages. Cost: $25.00
Darryl Hart's From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism is less about how Evangelical Protestants have betrayed American Conservatism than it is about how they never really fit within the post -World War II Conservative Movement. As a former Evangelical Protestant, reading this book profoundly confirmed many of my traditionalist intuitions and greatly expanded my understanding of the challenges for Evangelical Protestants who desire to identify themselves as being Conservative–of the Burkean or traditional variety.
Hart explores the history of Evangelical Protestants and their intellectual engagement in politics, especially their relationship with the American Right (but also, to a notable extent, with the Left) after World War II. Although he includes a fascinating chapter about the politics of American Protestants before this period, most of the book is detailed intellectual history of politically influential Evangelical leaders (e.g., Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, Mark Hatfield) and thinkers (e.g., Chuck Colson, Francis Schaeffer, Peter Marshall, Ron Sider, Tony Campolo, Marvin Olasky, and Michael Gerson). In this examination, Hart marshals significant evidence for the conclusion that American Evangelicals have historically, culturally, and epistemologically been at cross-purposes with the traditional Conservative wariness of ideology, revolution, nationalization, and economic centralization. The so-called "Religious Right" has displayed the most systemic political and philosophical similarity with various Left-leaning ideologies, those that aim at social-political perfection by realizing (via coercion) favored ideological principles through politics.
One weakness of the book is Hart's failure to emphasize that American Evangelicals on the Right actually fit hand-in-glove with many of the key tenets and aims of so-called Neoconservatives. Both groups tend to focus, albeit with different arguments, on (1) using national governmental institutions and policies to strengthen the moral culture; (2) expanding America's international greatness; and (3) American loyalty toward Israel with respect to foreign policy in the Middle East. Hart misses an opportunity to develop these similarities as well as the historical correlations (that are probably causal) between Right-leaning Evangelical political involvement and the success of Neoconservatives at infiltrating the apparatuses and institutions of power on the political Right since Reagan's presidency.
Temporarily placing this quibble to the side, Hart develops a powerful and highly-recommended case for why the American Evangelicals have been constantly at odds with the traditionally-defined Conservative thought. His detailed consideration of texts written by the above mentioned leaders and thinkers are not only persuasive with respect to his overall thesis; his research also serves as a fascinating review of literature that would be overlooked by a non-Evangelical audience. Of the many interesting examples, I was particularly taken (or, more accurately, disturbed) by the intellectually-sophisticated theory of Heroic Conservatism that Hart shows Michael Gerson to advocate. Unlike other Evangelicals, whom Hart implies may be less aware of the insights of traditional conservatism, Gerson seems to have fully consumed, expunged, and rejected such wisdom. Hart summarizes this and other facets of Gerson's non-traditionalist views as follows:
Gerson was unconvinced by traditionalist affirmations of small government, neo-conservative critiques of the welfare state, or even Roman Catholic teaching on subsidiarity, and still found room to insist on national government as the institution with responsibility to preserve human dignity and implement the freedom of individuals of both in the United States and on planet earth—these elements of Gerson's conservatism suggested an inability to grasp the fundamental tensions between his own idealism and the realism that undergirds any position that qualifies as conservative. One the chief reasons for Gerson's willingness to identify with conservatism, which was at the same time the source of his discomfort with the Right, was his faith. Unlike the skepticism about idealism that characterizes conservatism, firm religious and moral convictions, he believed, inspire and motivate. "Without a belief in right and wrong," Gerson asserted, "without a firm conception of better or worse…without a vision of how things ought to be… we do not even know what progress might look like." "Muscular action," however, "based on conservative principles, has led to progress, sometimes dramatic progress." In other words, Gerson's faith and moralism could not find a resting place within the many rooms of the Right's intellectual mansion (184).
Here Hart suggests a contrast between Gerson's views and the entirety of the Conservative intellectual movement—Neoconservatism included. Although Hart's description of this position is effective, I am drawn back to my prior criticism that Hart overplays this contrast and misses how such variants of Protestant Evangelicalism are actually quite similar to the idealist and very powerful ideological manifestations within the intellectual Right. In particular, I doubt that there is much daylight (aside from Gerson's explicit appeal to religious motivations for his public policy preferences) between the above summary of Gerson's views and many of the contemporary idealist Conservatives (e.g., West Coast descendents of Leo Strauss's student Harry Jaffa and/or neo-Kantian natural law adherents like Robert George and Hadley Arkes) whom are often willing to expand the reach of the federal government for the sake of realizing their favored cultural objectives. Such idealist Conservatives exert a powerful, leveraged position within the apparatuses of the Republican Party, major Right-leaning funding sources, and the so-called Conservative think tanks.
Another virtue of Hart's book is the loving hand that he extends to his Christian brethren via his multi-step counsel for how Evangelicals can become more traditionalist minded. He demonstrates that some Evangelical beliefs about the importance of family and the problems of socialism actually overlap well with traditionalist concerns about the importance of local, human-scale institutions, or what Burke called "little platoons." Furthermore, Hart counsels Evangelicals to strive for the following objectives: (1) abandon their flirtations with ideologically narrow views of social reality; (2) refrain from trying to establish a Christian civil religion; (3) avoid attempts to impose nationally monolithic morals legislation; (4) stop de-emphasizing spiritual evil over social-political evils; (5) avoid undue focus on political solutions for problems that are largely cultural; (6) refrain from wrong-headed emphasis on being crusaders who fight to win a culture war; and (7) and, very importantly, focus on being City-of-God-pilgrims who travel within the City of Man.
Hart's book both confirmed and expanded my own thinking about the problems of Evangelical Protestantism's social-political theology, and I am wiser for having read his work. For those seeking to understand such themes, I highly recommend Darryl Hart's From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin.


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While literature in translation can be a tough sell to U.S. readers, in recent years the Nicolas Grivel Agency, which represents such acclaimed international comics artists as Ulli Lust, Dylan Horrocks and Blutch, has managed to place a host of impressive foreign titles at U.S. publishers. And with big new graphic works coming from Horrocks, Lebanese comics artist Zeina Abirached and French comics artist Philippe Squarzoni, 2014 looks to be much the same.
A former senior editor at Pika, a manga imprint at Hachette France, Grivel spent seven years acquiring and editing, "bandes dessinées," the French term for comics, in Paris before setting up his agency in New York in 2011. "Pika is the French twin of Yen Press, it's how I know Kurt Hassler," Grivel told PW, referring to the publishing director of the Hachette Book Group's manga and graphic novel imprint here in New York.
While acknowledging the difficulty in selling foreign language graphic novels to American publishers, Grivel emphasized that "I have a lot of hope," pointing to such U.S. publishers as Fantagraphics, First Second, Top Shelf, NBM, Abrams ComicArts, Pantheon and others. "They have been publishing novels in translations for years. I think more and more U.S. publishers are looking for foreign licenses. Nowadays it's easier to get information about what's going on in the comics scene around the world."
Grivel said the key to selling in the U.S. is, "to choose strong stories which could fit for U.S. readers. With my European angle and my experience in New York, I try to be a bridge between foreign projects and publishers."
Here's a list of a few of the books and artists represented by the Nicolas Grivel Agency that will be coming out in 2014 and beyond.
Dylan Horrocks, author of the much acclaimed graphic novel Hicksville, has sold his new graphic novel, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, to Eric Reynolds at Fantagraphics. Originally a web comic, the book is the story of Zabel, a cartoonist who has created a much-acclaimed work that now overwhelms his ability to create anything new, and will be published in the Fall 2014.
Zeina Abirached, author of the much-lauded 2012 graphic bio, A Game for Swallows, the story of Abirached's childhood in Lebanon in the 1980s, has sold I Remember Beirut, the latest in a series of graphic memoir that look back over a life growing up in war torn Lebanon. The book was acquired by Lerner editorial director Andrew Karre and will be published by Lerner Graphic in 2014. Karre has also acquired Tao The Little Samourai by Laurent Richard and Niclas Ryser, a children's graphic novel about the hijinks of a kid samurai known as much for mischief as for his fighting skills. Lerner Graphic will publish the book in January 2014.
Over at Abrams ComicArts, editor Carol Burrell has acquired Philippe Squarzoni's Climate Changed, a major nonfiction comics work that meticulously examines the scientific research around climate change and takes on the task of explaining its potential impact. The book will be published in April 2014. Abrams' David Cashion has acquired Jim Curious by Matthias Picard, a delightful fantasy about a young boy diving to the bottom of the sea in an old-fashioned diving suit that's created in detailed 3D images. The book will be published in April 2014.
Grivel has sold another work of serious nonfiction to publisher/cartoonist Tom Kaczynski at Uncivilized Books, a small indie press in Minnesota rapidly gaining a reputation for releasing outstanding comics works. The book, An Iranian Metamorphosis by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani, winner of the 2010 Cartoonists Rights Network International Courage Award in editorial cartooning, is the story of how one of Neyestani's cartoons spurred a riot and a repressive backlash that ended with Neyestani and his editor in an Iranian Prison. His "Kakaesque" experience is the backdrop to the title of the book. Kaczynski has also acquired Pascin, a biography of Julius Mordecai Pincas (1885-1930), the Jewish modernist painter known as Pascin, by the acclaimed French cartoonist Joann Sfar, that looks at his revolutionary art and on the role sexuality in his life and artwork.
The Russian Notebooks and the Ukrainian Notebooks by Igort Tuveri, a work of nonfiction comics that chronicles sufferings of the people of the former Soviet Russia in the past and in the recent present, was sold to S&S in North America and will be published in the U.K. by Jonathan Cape. The books will be edited by Dan Franklin at Jonathan Cape and by Michael Szczerban at S&S.
Over at Top Shelf, publisher Chris Starios has acquired Renée, a new graphic novel by Ludovic Debeurme, the sequel to his much acclaimed graphic novel Lucille, a love story about two teenage misfits from families with a legacy of devastating dysfunction.
Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize in 2010, The Art of Flying by writer Antonio Altarriba and the artist Kim, has been acquired by Dan Franklin of Jonathan Cape in the U.K. and will be published in 2015. The acclaimed graphic work is based on the suicide of Altarriba's father but uses that tragedy to create a narrative about the human condition that is driven by love and humor.
Grivel had a good 2013 with the release of new volumes of Ariol by Emmanuel Guibert and Marc Boutavant (Papercutz), David B.'s Incidents in the Night (Uncivilized Books), Blutch's So Long Silver Screen (PictureBox) and Ulli Lust's Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (Fantagraphics), which was named a PW Best Book of 2014.
Another key to selling translations, he said, is to work with "good translators such as Edward Gauvin or Jamie Richards to bring English samples to the publishers to consider the projects." But he also acknowledged that his biggest problem, "a tricky point," is not having the authors in the U.S. to promote the books when they are released. "Readers need to see the authors at [bookstore and convention] signings, lectures, on stage."
Nevertheless he also represents authors beyond Europe, including the Iranian artists Mana Neystani. "I do hope to find soon a U.S. publisher for an amazing graphic novel by Kun Woon Park of South Korea. So I wish to bring more from various countries." And he even hopes to eventually represent American comics artists.
"Maybe in the future, I will work with U.S. authors for the US market, we will see," he said. "But I'm already glad to represent the rights of Sam Zabel & The Magic Pen by Dylan Horrocks because the story is also a part of the American [comics] culture—even though Dylan is from New Zealand."


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Bañez, Domingo
(Originally and more properly VANEZ and sometimes, but erroneously, IBAÑEZ), DOMINGO, a Spanish Dominican theologian, b. 29 February, 1528, at Medina del Campo, Old Castile; d. there 22 October, 1604. The qualifying Mondragonensis, attached to his name, seems to be a patronymic after his father John Bañez of Mondragon, Guipuscoa. At fifteen he began to study philosophy at the University of Salamanca. Three years later he took the Dominican habit at St. Stephen's Convent, and made his profession 3 May, 1547. During a year's review of the liberal arts and later, he had th afterwards distinguished Bartolomé Medina as a fellow student. Under such professors as Melchior Cano (1548-51), Diego de Chaves (1551), and Pedro Sotomayor (1550-51) he studied theology, laying the foundations of the erudition and acquiring the acumen which later made him eminent as a theologian and an exponent and defender of Thomistic doctrine. He next began teaching, and under Domingo Soto, as prior and regent, he field various professorships for ten years. He was made master of students, explaining the "Summa" to the younger brethren for five years, and incidentally taking the place, with marked success, of professors who were sick, or who for other reasons were absent from their chairs at the university. In the customary, sometimes competitive, examinations before advancement he is said easily to have carried off all honours. He taught at the Dominican University of Avila from 1561 to 1566. About 1567 he was assigned to a chair of theology at Alcalá, the ancient Complutum. It appears that he was at Salamanca again in 1572 and 1573, but during the four scholastic years 1573-71 he was regent of St. Gregory's Dominican College al Valladolid, a house of higher studies where the best students of the Castilian province were prepared for a scholastic career. Elected Prior of Toro, he went instead to Salamanca to compete for the chair of Durandus, left vacant by Medina's promotion to the chief professorship. He occupied this position from 1577 to 1580. After Medina's death (30 December 1580) he appeared again as competitor for the first chair of the university. The outcome was an academic triumph for Bañez and he was duly installed in his new position amid the acclamations of professors and students. There he laboured for nearly twenty years. His name acquired extraordinary authority, and the leading schools of orthodox Spain referred to him as the prclarissimum jubar -- "the brightest light" -- of their country.In another way, Bañez in his prime was rendering memorable service to the Church as director and confessor of St. Teresa (1515-82). Her own words mark him as the spiritual adviser who was most relied upon as a guide and helper, both in her interior life and in her heroic work of the Carmelite reform. "To the Father Master Fra Dominie Bañez, who is now in Valladolid as Rector of the College of St. Gregory, I confessed for six years, and, whenever I had occasion to do so, communicated with him by letter.... All that is written and told, she communicated to him, who is the person with whom she has had, and still has, the most frequent communications. " (See "Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, by herself ", tr. by David Lewis, 3d ed., London, 1904, Relation VII, 448, 450.) Of the first foundation of the reform, St. Joseph's Monastery at Avila, she wrote that Bañez alone saved it from the destruction resolved upon in an assembly of civil and religious authorities (op. cit., ch. xxxvi, 336 sqq.). He did not then know the saint, but "from that time forth he was one of her most faithful friends, strict and even severe, as became a wise director who had a great saint for his penitent." He testifies, in the process of her beatification that he was firm and sharp with her, while she herself was the more desirous of his counsel the more he humbled her, and the less he seemed to esteem her (op. cit., p. , xxxvi). He looked for the proof of her love of God in her truthfulness, obedience, mortification, patience, and charity towards her persecutors, while he avowed that no one was more incredulous than himself as to her visions and revelations. In this his mastery of the spiritual life was shown to be as scientific as it was wholesome and practical. "It was easy enough to praise the writings of St. Teresa and to admit her sanctity after her death. Fra Bañez had no external help in the applause of the many, and he had to judge her book as a theologian and the saint as one of his ordinary penitents. When he wrote, he wrote like a man whose whole life was spent, as he himself tells us, in lecturing and disputing" (ibid.).
As the schoolman, the lecturer, and academic disputant, Bañez stands forth as a figure of unprecedented distinction in scholastic Spain. In his time discussion was rife, and disquieting tendencies counter to the beaten paths of Augustine and Thomas manifested themselves. The great controversy, with whose beginnings his name is prominently associated, goes back to a public disputation held early in 1582. Francisco Zumel, of the Order of Mercy, was moderator. Prudentius Montemayor, a Jesuit, argued that Christ did not die freely, and consequently suffered death without merit, if the Father had given him a command to die. Bañez asked what the consequences would have been if the Father had given command not only as to the substance of the act of death, but also as to its circumstances. Prudentius responded that in that case there remained neither liberty nor merit. Louis de Leon, an Augustinian, sided with Prudentius and presently the discussion was taken up by the masters in attendance and carried to the kindred subjects of predestination and justification. Other formal disputations ensued, and strong feeling was manifested. Juan de Santa e Cruz, a Hieronymite, felt constrained to refer the matter to the Inquisition (5 February), and to his deposition he appended sixteen propositions covering the doctrines in controversy. Leon declared that he had only defended the theses for the sake of argument. His chief thought was to prevent them from being qualified as heretical. Notwithstanding these and further admissions, he was forbidden to teach, publicly or privately, the sixteen propositions as reviewed and proscribed.
In 1588, Luis Molina, a Jesuit brought out, at Lisbon, his celebrated "Concordia liberi arbitrii cum gratiæ donis", bearing the censura, or sanction, of a Dominican, Bartolomeu Ferreiro, and dedicated to the Inquisitor General of Portugal, Cardinal Albert of Austria; but a sentiment against its appearance in Spain was aroused on the ground of its favouring some of the interdicted propositions. The cardinal, advised of this, stopped its sale, and requested Bañez and probably some others to examine it. Three months later, Bañez gave his opinion that six of the 11 forbidden propositions appeared in the "Concordia".
Molina was asked to defend himself, and his answers to the objections and to some other observations were added as an appendix, with which, sanctioned anew (25 and 30 August, 1589), the work was permitted to circulate. It was regarded as an epoch-making study, and many Fathers of the Society of Jesus rallied to its defense. From Valladolid where the Jesuit and Dominican schools in 1594 held alternate public disputations for and against its teaching on grace, the contention spread over all Spain. The intervention of the Inquisition was again sought, and by the authority of this high tribunal the litigants were required to present their respective positions and claims, and a number of universities, prelates, and theologians were consulted as to the merits of the strife. The matter was referred however, by the papal nuncio to Rome, 15 August 1594, and all dispute was to cease until a decision was rendered. In the meantime, to offset his Dominican and other critics, Molina brought counter accusations against Bañez and Zumel. The latter submitted his defense in three parts, all fully endorsed by Bañez, 7 July 1595. The Dominican position was set forth about the same time by Bañez and seven of his brethren, each of whom presented a separate answer to the charges. But the presiding officer of the Inquisition desired these eight books to be reduced to one, and Bañez, together with Pedro Herrera and Didacus Alvarez was instructed to do the work. About four months later Alvarez presented their joint product under the title "Apologetica fratrum prædicatorum in provinciâ Hispaniæ sacræ theologiæ professorum, adversus novas quasdam assertiones cujusdam doctoris Ludovici Molinæ nuncupati", published at Madrid, 20 November, 1595. It is noteworthy that this work was signed and ratified by twenty-two masters and professors of theology. To it was added a tract on the intrinsic efficacy of Divine grace. Nearly two years later, 28 October, 1597, Bañez resumed the case in a new summary and petitioned the pope to permit the Dominican schools to take up their teaching again on the disputed questions. This was the "Libellus supplex Clementi VIII oblatus pro impetrandâ immunitate a lege silentii utrique litigantium parti impositâ", published at Salamanca. An answer to the "Libellus'' was conveyed in a letter of Cardinal Madruzzi, 25 February, 1598, written in the name of the pope, to the nuncio in Spain: "Inform the Fathers of the Order of Preachers that His Holiness, moderating the prohibition that was made, grants them the faculty freely to teach and discuss, as they did in the past, the subject-matter de auxiliis divinae gratia, et eorum efficaciâ, conformably to the doctrine of St. Thomas; and likewise the Fathers of the Society, that they also may teach and discuss the same subject-matter, always holding, however, to sound Catholic doctrine". (Serry, Hist. Cong. de Aux., I, XXVI.) This pronouncement practically ended whatever personal participation Bañez had in the famous controversy.
It has been contended that Bañez was at least virtually the founder of present-day Thomism, especially in so far as it includes the theories of physical premotion, the intrinsic efficacy of grace, and predestination irrespective of foreseen merit. To any reader of Bañez It is evident that he would have met such a declaration with a strenuous denial. Fidelity to St. Thomas was his strongest characteristic. "By not so much as a finger-nail's breadth, even in lesser things", he was wont to say, "have I ever departed from the teaching of St. Thomas". He singles out for special animadversion the views in which his professors and associates dissent even lightly from the opinions of the Angelic Doctor. "In and throughout all things, I determined to follow St. Thomas, as he followed the Fathers", was another of his favourite assurances. His zeal for the integrity of Thomistic teaching could brook no doctrinal novelty, particularly if it claimed the sanction of St. Thomas's name. In the voluminous literature of the De Auxiliis and related controversies, the cardinal tenets of Thomism are ascribed by its opponents to a varied origin: The Rev. G. Schneeman, S. J., (Controversiarum de divinæ gratiæ liberique arbitrii Concordiâ initiae progressus, Freiburg im Br., 1881), the Rev. Father De Regnon, S. J. (Bañez et Molina, Paris, 1883) and the Rev. Father Gaudier, S. J. (in the Revue des Sciences Ecclésiastiques, Amiens, 1887, p. 153) are probably the foremost modern writers who designate the Thomists as Bannesians. But against them appears a formidable list of Jesuits of repute who were either Thomists themselves or authorities for other opinions. Suarez, for instance (Op. omn., XI, ed Vives, Paris, 1886, Opuse., I, Lib. III, De Auxiliis vii), credits Medina with the first intimations of physical premotion and elsewhere (Op. omn., XI, 50; Opusc. I, Lib. I, De Conc.-Dei, xi, n 6) admits that St. Thomas himself once taught it. Toletus (Comment. in 8 Lib. Aristotelis, Venice, 1573, Lib. II, c. iii, q.8) and Pererius (Pref. to Disquisit. Magicarum Lib. VI, I Ed.) considered as Thomistic the Catechism of the Council of Trent, which was the work (1566) of three Dominican theologians. [For Delrio see Goudin, Philosophia (Civita Vecchia, 1860), IV pt. IV, 392, Disp. 2, q. 3, 2.] The Rev. Victor Frins S. J., gives it as his opinion (S. Thomæ Aq. O. P. doctrina de Cooperatione Dei cum omni naturâ creatâ præsertim liberâ, Responsio ad R. P. Dummermuth O. P., Paris, 1893) that whilst Medina and Pedro Soto (1551) taught physical predetermination, the originator of the theory was Francis Victoria, O. P. (d. 1546). The Dominicans Ferrariensis (1576), Cajetan (1507), and Giovanni Capreolus (d. 1436) are also accredited Thomists in the estimation of such authorities as the Jesuits Becanus [Summa Theol. Schol. (Mainz, 1612), De Deo, xviii, no 14] and Azorius [Institut. Moral. (Rome, 160-11), Lib. I, xxi, 7], and the theologians of Coimbra (Comment. in 8 libros Phys., Lib. II, q. 13, a. 1). Molina, strangely enough, cites the doctrine of a "certain disciple of St. Thomas" -- supposedly Bañez -- as differing only in words from the teaching of Scotus, instead of agreeing with that of Aquinas [Concordia (Paris 1876), q. 14, a. 13, Disp. 50]. These striking divergences of opinion of which only a few have been cited would seem to indicate that the attempt to father the Thomistie system on Bañez has failed. [Cf. Defensio Doctrinæ S. Thomæ, A. M. Dummermuth O.P., Louvain and Paris, 1895, also Card. Zigliara, Summa Phil. (Paris, 1898), II, 525.]
The development of Thomistic terminology in the Dominican school was mainly due to the exigencies not only of the stand taken against Molina and the forbidden propositions already mentioned, but of the more important defense against the attacks and aberrations of the Reformers. The "predetermination" and "predefinition" of Bañez and his contemporaries, who included others besides Dominicans, emphasized, on the part of God's knowledge and providence, a priority to, and independence of future free acts, which, in the Catharino-Molinistic theories, seemed to them less clearly to fall under God's causal action. These terms, however, are used by St. Thomas himself. (Comment. de divinis nominibus, Lect. iii.) The words "physical premotion " were meant to exclude, first a merely moral impulse and, secondly, a concurrence of the Divine causality and free will, without the latter's subordination to the First Cause. That such terms, far from doing violence to the teachings of their great leader, are their true expression, has, of course, been an unvaried tenet of the Thomistic school. One of the presiding officers of the Congregation De Auxiliis, Cardinal Madruzzi, speaking of Bañez in this connection, said: "His teaching seems to be deduced from the principles of St. Thomas and to flow wholly from St. Thomas's doctrine, although he differs somewhat in his mode of speaking" (Serry, Hist. Cong. de Aux. appendix, col. 89). It seems but fair to the memory of Bañez that this opinion should ultimately prevail.
As a writer, Bañez is clear, direct and vigorous. Occasionally prolix, he is never dull or inane. He treats a subject lengthily only when it is highly important or manifestly useful. His thought is generally lucidity itself in his pithiest scholastic condensations, nor is it less perspicuous when he adopts a freer and more elegant style in behalf of a wider range of readers. Of copious erudition, he was also keen in logic and profoundly versed in metaphysics, surpassing, in this respect, the ablest of his contemporaries. He evidenced a broad-minded and progressive spirit in placing, at no little expense, a fully equipped printing establishment in the convent of St. Stephen, and in employing for its successful operation the best craftsmen that were then to be had. The list of his works is completed as follows: (1) "Scholastica commentaria in Iam partem angelici doctoris D. Thomæ usque ad 64 qu.", fol. Salamanca, 1584; Venice, 1585, 1602; Douai, 1614; (2) "Scholastica commentaria super cæteras Iae partis quæstiones", fol. Salamanca, 1588; (3) "Scholastica commentaria in IIam IIae, quibus quae ad fidem spem et charitatem spectant, clarissime explicantur usque ad quæst. XLVI", fol. Salamanca, 1584; Venice, 1586; (4) "Scholastica commentaria in IIam IIae quaest. LVII ad LXXVII de jure et justitia decisiones", fol. Salamanca, 1594; 1604, Venice, 1595; Cologne and Douai, 1615; (5) "Relectio de merito et augmento charitatis anno MDLXXXIX Salamanticæ in vigilia pentecostes solemniter pronunciata", Salamanca, 1590, 1627; (6) "Commentaria in quaestiones Aristotelis de greneratione et corruptione", fol. Salamanca, 1585; Venice, 1596; Cologne, 1614; (7) "Institutiones minoris dialecticae and In Aristotelis dialecticam", Cologne, 1618; (8) "Responsio ad quinque quæstiones de efficaciâ divinæ gratiæ", Angelica Library, Rome, MS. R. l. 9. fol. 272; (9) "Respuesta contra una relación compuesta por los padres de la compañia de Jesus de Valladolid," Medina del Campo 1602, MS., Dominican Library, Avila.
BAÑEZ, autobiography in preface to Comment. in Iam P., D. Thomae.; QUÉTIF-ECHARD, Scriptores Ord. Praed. Paris 1721) II, 352; TOURON, Hist. des hommes illustres de 1'ordre de S. Dominique (Paris 1743) IV, 750; MANDONNET in Dict. de théol. cath. (Paris 1903), Fasc. X, col. 140; MORGOTT in Kirchenlex. (2d ed., Freiburg 1882), 1, s. v. Bañez; SERRY, Hist. congregationum de auxiliis (Venice, 1740); MEYER, Hist. congregatioum de divinae gratiae auuxiliis (Venice, 1740); DUMMERMUTH, S. Thomae ct Doctrin. Praemotionis Physicae (Paris, 1886); GAYRAUD, Thomisme et Molinisme (Toulouse, 1889); BERTHTER in Revue Thomiste for 1893, 87; REGNON, Bannésianisme et Molinisme (Paris 1890); GAYRAUD, Réplique au R. P. Th. de Regnon (Toulouse 1890).


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"The Duke of Edinburgh traveled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition," the statement said.
Philip retired from public life back in 2017. The 98-year-old patriarch is rarely seen publicly these days and is believed to spend most of his time at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate.
The statement added that the admission was a "precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness' Doctor."
The announcement from the palace came shortly after Queen Elizabeth II made her way to Sandringham in Norfolk. The 93-year-old caught a train from London's King's Cross train station on Friday.
The monarch traditionally celebrates the festive season with members of the royal family at her country estate in rural Norfolk, about 100 miles north of London.
With his advancing age, the duke has been taken to hospital several times in recent years. Last April, he was underwent a planned hip surgery at King Edward VII Hospital and in 2012, was admitted to medical facilities on multiple occasions for bladder infections.
The British sovereign and her husband marked their 72nd wedding anniversary in November. Although he no longer carries out engagements, Philip remains patron, president or a member of more than 780 organizations.
For decades, Philip was a constant support to the British monarch, becoming the longest-serving British consort in 2009. By the time he stepped away from royal duties, he had conducted more than 22,200 solo engagements since his wife's ascension to the throne in 1952.
Philip married then-Princess Elizabeth in November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
Born the prince of Greece and Denmark on the Greek island of Corfu in 1921, Philip left Greece with his family when he was 18 months old after King Constantine was forced to abdicate the throne following a revolution. The family moved to Paris and then to England in 1928. Philip also went to school in Germany.
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Unfortunately, Clebuterol is also illegally used by many individuals in the agriculture and farming industry. In Europe and Asia, many farmers frequently inject their animals with Clenbuterol to increase muscle mass. It has been shown that Clebuterol can selectively reduce the fat and increase the lean muscle mass of animals-thus increasing profits. However, there have been several incidences of poisoning in humans who have consumed animals fed Clenbuterol.
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Clenbuterol is widely available in many health and nutrient stores as a health supplement. It comes as a pill, syrup or an injection. Often the drug is smuggled in from Europe and, Mexico where it is approved for clinical use. In Mexico Clenbuterol is prescribed to treat asthma under the trade name Brogen.
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Clenbuterol Testing
Clenbuterol does show up in the urine soon after ingestion and can remain in the body for a few days. There is some scientific data which suggests that Clenbuterol is never completely eliminated from the body and minute amounts do remain in the liver and the corneal tissues. Animal fed Clenbuterol have shown residual drug in the eyes 5-6 months after the treatment was stopped.
Legal status
Clenbuterol is not a prescribed drug in the USA. It is widely available as a weight loss supplement in many health and food stores. However, for all athletes, the drug is banned by most sports organization including the IOC. Many professional sports athletes have been penalized recently for the use of this drug.


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"If you are prone to heel cracks as I am, Foot Favor has been the answer. The deodorant stick applicator bathes the heels in lovely scented balm. I use it after showering and before bedtime. Foot Favor has kept my heels smooth and crack free for well over a year now!"
Ellen T.STOWE, VT
Our soap dishes are made specially for us by local artisans and provide a handsome way to display and preserve your Vermont Goat's Milk Soaps.