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I went there and they treated me like a king.
Their customer service is top tier
Anyone but sw*des
can't; even on Jow Forums they provide this special warmth in their replies
uwu, huggu
The job I worked last year had me dealing with tourists all the time. Italians were arguably some of the most inpatient and rude people we dealt with. Probably the worst euro ones for sure.
<3 you deserve it
I'd be rude too if i saw a l*af behind the counter
Too many to name
any other people
Italians are rude and awful
Americans and Canadians. Italians are fake.
doctor cringe is back
you mistake their fake friendliness
this isn't true, I can accept people calling us assholes because it's true sometimes, but I don't think we pretend to be nice in general.
maybe he is talking about italians betraying the German volk for two times in less than 50 years.
well MAYBE if they didn't keep losing we wouldn't have to switch sides every time
this, based.
Americans and Canadians are fake af
Italians are friendly only towards their relatives and friends. They are often quite rude towards strangers.
they are very open and outgoing, doesn't mean that they are always friendly tho
the more south you go, the more what you're saying is correct
the more south you go, the more what you're saying is correct
completely untrue
the more south you go, the more what you're saying is correct
quite the opposite
Americans and our America lite brothers up north
and it's right here
Might be, I'm just speaking of my experiences, got a bowl of nona's pasta and tips on what roads to avoid etc. somewhere on the outskirts of grosio just because I asked for some directions. However, got told to go fuck myself when asking directions in Vizzini.
when I went to southern italy the locals were so friendly they offered me their daughters for my pleasure (I turned them down, of course)
even fake one is better than constant hostility and autism.
Irish and Finnish. My God they are all so nice and funny. At least all I've met so far.
Why did you turn them down?
English people
(I turned them down, of course)
you're never going to lose that virginity with that attitude
Because it never happened
Well for me sex should only be within the confines of marriage, however I was very flattered
He prefers men
it happened to me in England, needless to say I gladly accepted and slew that pussy like Saint George did the dragon and came back a winner, having reestablished the natural hierarchy.
kek. you are so naive, it's cute.
Based and christpilled
Don't be so daft. What stopped you from marrying a sicilian beauty then?
There is more to a woman than her beauty, my friend
should be the motto of the UK
Eesti is cute
butthurt t*rroni
Italian-Americans are not Italian
pol*Ntoni are trash tho
Here comes the assblasted /pol/ shill
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t. Southern surname
Even the word "eesti" sounds like a name for a small pet.
worst euro ones
I guess you don't count Brits as Europeans.
It's that Pastaboo Swede again
Cute. Always flattering
This. As far as country names go, Eesti is cuteness incarnate
They are scamming tourists on Airports. Fuck 'em
literally everyone
you mean high praces once you go over security check? the whole world does it
s-stop it!
That's me, but I'm not OP. There's more than one
Literally every Latin American.
Also some Italians can be very rude and indifferent, Romans are a good example.
Main/huge city anywhere
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Arsenal news: Aaron Ramsey representative responds to Man Utd rumours after contract snub
ARSENAL midfielder Aaron Ramsey has not received any contact from Manchester United - at least not yet.
That is the revelation of the Manchester Evening News, who say they spoke with a close confidant of Ramsey's about the rumours of interest.
Ramsey is set to leave Arsenal at the end of the current season with his contract due to expire.
The Wales international had neared an agreement over a new deal before talks bizarrely broke down, Arsenal rescinding their offer.
It is widely claimed that Ramsey wants a significant pay rise to reflect his importance to the team, with his £110,000-a-week rumoured wages dwarfed by the pay of the club's highest-earner, Mesut Ozil, who is on £350,000-a-week.
Arsenal's stance has alerted a host of clubs across Europe with Chelsea, Liverpool and United said to be among the interested parties in the Premier League alone.
Juventus are another club being linked with Ramsey and the 27-year-old can speak to forge in clubs as of January 1 to sign a pre-contract agreement.
He cannot talk to teams from England until next summer, which the unnamed source referred to.
The representative of Ramsey's told the MEN: "There can't be any interest in him [from United] at the moment because of the regulations.
Aaron Ramsey will leave Arsenal at the end of the season
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Ramsey almost signed for United before he joined Arsenal 10 years ago due to Arsene Wenger's influence.
The former Cardiff midfielder ruled out a January exit, meaning the north London outfit will lose him for nothing next summer unless an agreement is met. That, though, appears a very unlikely scenario at this stage.
He commented on his situation at Arsenal: "Everything has been going great with the club.
"We thought we were in a position where we had agreed a deal, but that is no longer the case.
"So I just have to carry on playing my football and do my best for Arsenal this season and I'll leave the rest with the club now.
"That's a decision that they have made. Things happen in football and you just have to get on with it and carry on playing the best I can.
"That is all I am concentrating on and giving my best for Arsenal."
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Thursday's two-game slate once again features question marks but with two strong pitchers to choose from and several quality hitters under $4,000, DFS players should be able to comfortably assemble lineups capable of putting up big points.
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Mike Foltynewicz, ATL at LAD ($8,300): Folynewicz finished the season with a 2.48 ERA on the road to go along with a .263 wOBA in 87 innings. It is also worth noting that his slider was the fourth most effective in the league according to RAA. The Dodgers don't have many weaknesses to speak of but did strike out 22.6 percent of the time against right-handed pitchers, while Foltynewicz notched 202 strikeouts in 183 innings.
Cheap GPP Consideration, Antonio Senzatela COL at MIL ($5,200): Senzatela won't blow you away with his statistics but the right-hander has been sneakily good away from Coors Field this season, as evidenced by the .277 wOBA he has kept against road offenses in 49.1 innings. He should also be able to use his heavy ground ball rate to keep the Brewers in the park, as they finished the year with the fourth-highest ground ball rate (46 percent) in baseball.
GPP Fade, Any Brewers pitcher: We don't know who will start for Milwaukee as of the publication of this article, but manager Craig Counsell told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that he will use multiple pitchers for "two (or) three-inning appearances." The uncertainty of the length of time any hurler will be out there makes it risky to take a cheap reliever as a contrarian play, as we don't get extra points for non-starters in this format.
Tyler Flowers, ATL at LAD ($3,200): Flowers has destroyed left-handed pitching this season, notching a .258 ISO and .477 wOBA in 66 at-bats. Manager Brian Snitker has been favoring Flowers over Kurt Suzuki ($3,400) in his platoon of late but Suzuki would make a fine option if the skipper has a change of heart due to the .216 ISO he has tallied against lefties in his 88 at-bats this year. Opposing starter Hyun-Jin Ryu has taken his game to another level at home this season (1.15 ERA) but both catchers offer enough upside to be playable at their respective prices.
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Max Muncy, LAD vs. ATL ($5,200): Muncy should be a mainstay in DFS lineups on these short slates as long as he is facing a righty due to the enormous .334 ISO and .417 wOBA he tallied against his opposite hand in 293 at-bats. There isn't much negative to be said regarding Foltynewicz but an 11 percent walk rate against southpaws during the regular season may ensure that Muncy sees pitches in hitter's counts.
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Travis Shaw, MIL vs. COL ($4,700): Shaw may just have the answer for the high ground ball rate of Senzatela, as he ended the year hitting fly balls at a 44.5 percent clip. The 28-year-old showed great power against righty pitchers during the regular season, as evidenced by the .285 ISO he tallied in 383 at-bats.
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Johan Camargo, ATL at LAD ($3,500): Camargo has been one of my favorite value plays throughout the season against lefties thanks to the .213 ISO and .347 wOBA he tallied against them in 141 at-bats. It may surprise some to learn that Camargo performed very well against the fastball in 2018, logging an 8.0 RAA in 464 at-bats.
Jonathan Schoop, MIL vs. COL ($3,800): Schoop's overall numbers from 2018 don't look very appealing but he continued to show power against same-handed pitchers, logging a .212 ISO in 326 at-bats. Senzatela kept something of a reverse split this year, allowing a .485 slugging percentage to right-handed hitters in 50.2 frames.
Yasiel Puig, LAD vs. ATL ($3,900): It would likely be difficult to find a hitter who had a better September than Puig. The 27-year-old notched a ridiculous .400 ISO to go along with a .437 wOBA in 65 at-bats. Foltynewicz showcased a strong .255 wOBA against righty batters this year but it will be hard to pass on a player swinging the bat as well as Puig for this price.
David Dahl, COL at MIL ($4,500): Dahl is another player who announced his arrival in the final month when he tallied a .368 ISO and .404 wOBA in 87 at-bats. We may not know who he will face but we know that Milwaukee is a great place for offense in general, as it ranked in the top 10 home run parks this season according to ESPN Park Factor.
Enrique Hernandez, LAD vs. ATL ($3,700): Hernandez is traditionally thought of as a platoon bat against left-handed pitching but the 27-year-old flipped the script in 2018, logging a .243 ISO and .349 wOBA against same-handed opposition in 202 at-bats.


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ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Investigators searching clandestine graves have found 32 bodies and nine human heads in a municipality in southern Mexico where rival drug gangs have been engaged in a wave of extortion, kidnappings and turf battles, authorities said Thursday.
Soldiers and police found the graves on Tuesday at an outlaw camp in Guerrero state after receiving a tip that people were being held at the site located near a mountain in the municipality of Zitlala. They said they rescued a kidnap victim and discovered 12 bodies and human remains in coolers.
On Thursday, officials announced that further excavations of the site had found a total of 32 bodies and nine human heads.
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Residents of the community of Tixtla, Guerrero found nine decapitated bodies on Monday along a highway. Prosecutors are looking into whether the nine heads found in Zitlala correspond to these bodies.
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Thank you for reading the August 2019 issue of Parvati Magazine.
From the moment we wake up each morning, we have the choice to feel energized. This decision allows us to participate in whatever the day may bring. The key to this vitality is in letting go of our resistance to the moment. We connect with source, like a battery that does not run out.
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COMMERCE, Calif. – In the first day of the SCIAC Championships, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps swimming and diving teams set new meet records and are each battling for the top spot in the conference. The Athenas, bolstered by a superb showing in the 1-meter diving, sit in first place with an 82-point lead over Pomona-Pitzer. The Sagehens hold a narrow 122-114 lead over the Stags after the first day of competition.
After dominating in the preliminary round, junior Maia Presti (SC) won the 1M diving competition with the score of 504.35. In the dual meet with Chapman in January, Presti lost to Kellyn Toole by just one point on the 1M board, but then came back in the finals yesterday to win by over 40 points. All five of the CMS divers finished in the top-8 in the finals. Senior Carli Lessard (HMC) improved from fourth in the prelims to third in the finals (459.85) and senior Mary Lynn Clark (SC) leap frogged up two places between prelims and finals to finish with a 407.50.
The swimming portion was kicked off by the 200-yard medley relay. The same women's relay teams that swam two weeks ago in the dual meet between CMS and Pomona-Pitzer went head to head again on Wednesday night, this time with the Athenas touching first. While the PP team went slightly faster than in the dual meet, the CMS swimmers of senior Kelly Ngo (CMC), freshman Claire Bacon-Brenes (SC), senior Stephanie Doi (CMC) and freshman Jocelyn Crawford (CMC) improved by over two seconds for the win at 1:43.88. The Athenas also earned top points in the consolation round with the "B" relay.
On the men's side, Pomona-Pitzer finished first at 1:31.31 in the 200 medley relay with the Stags just behind at 1:31.98. Despite touching second, CMS' team of freshman Dave Makhervaks (HMC), sophomore Aaron Lutzker (CMC), sophomore Jackson Crewe (CMC) and senior Graham Spurzem (CMC) earned a spot at No. 6 in the record books.
In the 800-yard freestyle relay, both the CMS men and women set new meet records. The Athenas, at 7:37.09, swam the second fastest time in program history with the team of junior Lauren Rosenberger (CMC), sophomore Riley Hoffman (CMC), sophomore Emma Stacy (SC), and junior Elizabeth Carrade (CMC). The Stags' team sponsored a swimmer from each year, captained by senior Matthew Williams (CMC) swimming the first leg. Freshman Ben Culberson (CMC), Junior Grant Murray (CMC) and sophomore Jackson Crewe (CMC) rounded out the squad whose time ranks at No. 3 in program history.
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From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 5 September 1803
To Henry Dearborn
Monticello Sep. 5. 03.
Dear Sir
About a twelvemonth after we came into the administration we learnt by a letter from mr Simpson that our predecessors had promised to the Emperor of Marocco 100. gun carriages. you have known most of the unlucky circumstances which have baffled our execution of it. the last however is but recently known. we had desired mr Simpson to have them made in Europe, or to offer the value to the emperor to have them made himself & in his own way. he writes that it is impracticable for himself to get them made, & advises strongly against offering money. we are therefore now exactly where we were 18. months ago. we had at first proposed to send 100. gun carriages from the Navy stores, and it was therefore referred to the Secy of the navy to do it. but Simpson says they must be for field service, made in the best manner, & equipped with every necessary however minute. in this case mr Smith says he is not in a situation to execute the order, having no such carriages, nor any person skilled in making them. he supposes it possible you might have good carriages ready made, & which could be spared & replaced at leisure for ourselves: or that you can command artists who know how to make them. he promised to write to you, and to take on himself any agency which should be inconvenient to you. I have thought it necessary to mention it, because this delay has been so great as to give me serious apprehensions the emperor's patience will not hold out. if we have proper ones, we had better spare them. otherwise I am in hopes it is in your power to have them made expeditiously, and mr Smith will have vessels ready for carrying them. altho' I shall be with you on the 25th. I have thought the case too urgent to defer for consultation with you till that time, and hope you may enable us at length to discharge this engagement of our predecessors. accept my affectionate salutations & assurances of sincere esteem and respect.
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P.S. mr Simpson says nothing of the size of the carriages. I presume they should be of different sizes, & you can best judge of the proportion of each size.—no letter should leave Washington for me after the 17th. inst.
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Mercedes-Benz India to increase prices by up to 4% across models
Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) Luxury automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz India on Thursday announced a price rise by up to 4 per cent across models.
According to the company, the revised prices (ex-showroom) will be applicable from September 1, 2018 due to geo-political dynamics, coupled with a rise in input costs and an unfavourable forex rate.
"While the INR has depreciated by more than 5 per cent against the euro in last 8 months, the repo rate has gone up by 0.5 per cent in last couple of months," the company said in a statement.
"The combination of all these factors led Mercedes-Benz India to upwardly revise the prices of its entire model range and also the retail finance rates."


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An Unusual Camping Trip part 4
Hey! As you know, am on vacation right now, and I am pre-writing this post. Today, I will show you the part 4 of the novel. Please do not hesitate to give me your reviews, and please note that I w…
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Testing your book ideas
Do you have an idea for a book, but you're not sure if it's a good one? I've written here about eleven criteria for writing books that other people are going to be interested in, but here I'd like to share additional ways that you can actually test out your book idea to see if it's a good one. This is a mix of both the practical and the creative.
The Passion Test
First, it's wise to start with yourself. Do you have enough interest in your book's topic to fully commit to the process of writing a book? I suggest considering seriously whether you can commit to living and breathing your book's intended content for at least 2 years, but really 5. Do you want to spend a year or two of your life writing and editing a book on this topic? Do you feel excited to commit to one to three years of promoting this book and its content to others? Better yet, could you spend the rest of your life fired up about this topic?
The Qualification Test
Are you legitimately qualified to write a book about your topic? Good books are written by people with deep, intimate knowledge and a nuanced understanding of their subject area. They've considered the subject more deeply than most people and have synthesized their knowing into something really valuable they can now share with others.
Good books are written by people with deep, intimate knowledge and a nuanced understanding of their subject area.
This goes for books in which you share your ideas (i.e. non-fiction) AND books in which you share your stories (i.e. memoir). In both cases, you have to have fully digested and processed your subject matter and be able to share cogently and clearly with your readers the knowledge, insight and expertise that is yours to share.
But here's the thing, two things actually. One, I can almost guarantee there's a voice in your head saying "But Jaime, what if I don't know enough about my topic? Who am I to think I can write about this? What if I don't have what it takes?" Let me tell you this is likely the voice of your inner critic talking, not the real you speaking.
So, let's not let that runaway fear-train derail us here. I invite you to consider from a wiser place inside of you whether you have enough knowledge and commitment to write about your chosen topic.
You don't have to have everything perfectly figured out and synthesized before you write.
Second– and this is really important so listen up– you don't have to have everything perfectly figured out and synthesized before you write. I'll say that again: you don't have to have everything perfectly figured out and synthesized before you write. That's not how this game works.
The process of writing your book will make you an expert in your subject area. The process itself will bring greater clarity, discovery and depth of wisdom about your topic and/or your life experiences than you could even imagine. The process and the expertise it will create in you cannot be underestimated.
In fact, writing a book is one of the best ways to actually gain expertise and depth of understanding in your area of focus. But you have to be willing to engage in your work deeply to emerge from your writing as an expert in your field. And you have to come in with a degree of expertise or knowing that you can build on.
Writing a book is one of the best ways to actually gain expertise and depth of understanding in your area of focus.
The Fear Test
Does the idea of your book stir something deep in you? Does it scare you, a lot or a little? While it may seem the opposite, fear in the face of our creative potential is actually one of the strongest clearest indicators that we are onto something big, that we are on the path of our souls. Thus, fear can actually be a sign that our idea is the right one for us.
Steven Pressfield, author and champion of the inner creative, writes in one of his brilliant books* that if we are deciding between a few book ideas, we should always go with the one that scares us the most.
Does your book idea scare you? That's a good thing.
The Visibility Test
Do you have the means to get your book into the hands of your intended readers? Do you speak to your intended readership on a regular basis about your topic area? If not, could you begin now? And in what ways? How could you begin to contribute your wisdom and knowledge to your target audience now so that you have a ready and poised audience to receive your book?
Platform building is beyond the scope of this post, but I do invite you to consider how you will reach people with your book.
The Short Write Test
Another great way to discover if you have a strong concept to which you want to commit is this: write 25-40 pages of your manuscript as an experiment. Simply write a chapter or two of your book before you commit. Get your feet wet. See how it goes and what you learn from this experiment. Obviously, this sample won't be perfect, it's just a first draft, but you can learn a lot about your book by testing the waters in this way.
Did you love it? Do you want more? Can you dive deep enough into this topic to write a whole book about it? Can you swim in these waters a while? What did you learn about organization, style and tone of your book? What else did you discover in this process?
Testing your idea with others
Talk with trusted circles and book sellers
You can speak with other experts in your field, members of your prospective book's intended audience, and other smart folks you trust about your book concept and get their perspective on it. If you know anyone in the publishing industry you can also speak with them about your ideas. Lastly, you can go to your local book store (extra points for going to the indie book store in town!) and ask them for feedback on your book idea.
If you have a mailing list or a social media following you may begin to pose questions that gauge interest in your potential book's subject area. Now, you may not come right out and say you're considering writing a book, but you may invite some feedback on your subject area so you can begin to get an idea of what people are interested in, what their questions and challenges are with your subject area, and the like.
Offer talks about your topic
You can begin to test your ideas and messages by offering them in free or paid talks in your local community. You may also offer readings of some of your polished written work to get support focusing and structuring ideas.
Share your ideas in smaller bites
You can seek out guest posting opportunities on blogs, podcasts, and online publications and newspapers such as the HuffPost. (Be sure to include your name in the content of any guest blog post you write.) You can offer live videos or posts on social media platforms to share your ideas and gauge interest.
You can start a blog on your book topic and notice the level of engagement, interest, and other feedback on your work. (Blogging as a strategy for book writing is a longer topic to be covered elsewhere.)
Your Turn
From these options, what feels like the most exciting way to test out your book ideas? What other ideas come to mind as you read this list? I'd love to hear from you! And if you found this blog post useful, please share using the links below.
*Pressfield's War of Art, Do the Work and Going Pro are amazing reads for aspiring authors and other creatives.


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Tenure: Leasehold
Term: 10 years negotiable
Rent: € 850 Monthly
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History oozes from every corner of this well-known and long-standing bar located on the outskirts of the capital city.
With an interior space of around 80m2 and a terrace of a further 35m2 (approximately), this business is capable of seating at least 60 people with standing space for many more. Traditional in style, customers have been welcomed here for over 30 years.
You approach the premises via the terrace and walk into an air-conditioned, but cosy space with the well-equipped bar running down one side. You will find the compact, but also well-equipped kitchen to the rear, as well as storage areas and male and female washrooms. There are Sky tv and music systems, with an impressive range of cd's.
The business runs all year round, serving drinks and snacks to an international mix of ex-pats, residents and tourists, who return to just sit and read through the enormous collection of naval memorabilia adorning the interior
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A New Future for Teachers and Students
It's time to try something different.
As Saskatchewan's 13,500 professional educators enter into the next round of provincial collective bargaining, that's the message that kept surfacing.
Every day, our members feel the consequences of several years of austerity budgets. Despite the spin and the political posturing, several key facts can't be ignored. The first is that per-student operating funding for education remains well below where it was in 2016. This has occurred during a period of enrolment increases, much higher expectations and students who are presenting themselves in the classroom with far more intense and challenging needs.
If you travel across Saskatchewan and talk with teachers, their message is the same. They feel like they're drowning. They feel like they can't do their jobs. Some say they entered the teaching profession in order to make a difference. And that's something teachers are finding increasingly difficult to do.
This anecdotal sense is reinforced by our traditional pre-bargaining survey. Historically, one main issue dominates. This makes it relatively easy for the Teachers' Bargaining Committee to translate the will of the membership into a coherent set of bargaining positions.
This time, things are different. Yes, as always, teachers are looking for fair compensation and for a wage package that makes up for the ground lost through inflation following the arbitration settlement released September 7, 2018.
However, of equal significance to teachers is the requirement that their working conditions – and by extension, the learning conditions of their students – are in dire need of attention. Normally, this is not something that is addressed during the course of collective bargaining. However, the issue is of such pivotal importance to teachers that it soon became obvious a new approach was required.
Class size and classroom composition are of such crucial importance to the teaching profession they must be addressed at the bargaining table.
Change has not been limited to the concerns and challenges facing the teaching profession in Saskatchewan. The relationships between major players in the education sector are also in an unprecedented period of flux. As STF Executive Director Randy Schmaltz stated in his address to the 2019 Annual Meeting of Council, long-standing relationships of trust, consensus and predictability have been shattered. The system, as Schmaltz said, is broken. Traditional relationships have been torn apart.
Much of this is due to the significant alterations made to the education funding system that were introduced in the March 2009 provincial budget. School boards were stripped of their authority to set taxes. They are no longer free to set their own mil rates, articulate areas of priority or concern and raise funds to cover emerging priorities. With a few exceptions, money is now channeled through the province's General Revenue Fund.
This seemingly esoteric and insignificant policy change has had a profound effect on education in our province. Control has been centralized. Important local decisions about the future of education are now highly centralized. Authority, once widely distributed, is held in the hands of a few who are significantly removed from classrooms.
It's important that teachers be heard when it comes to identifying the needs of their students. When the door closes, classroom teachers are in the best position to determine what each student requires. Teachers must have room to exercise their professional autonomy. The best way to help teachers meaningfully exercise their professional judgment is through actions at the bargaining table.
How this round of bargaining will be different.
Previous rounds of provincial collective bargaining have exhibited the hallmarks of a standard industrial relations model. The parties met for an initial set of discussions. Norms were established that defined the scope and style of future discussions. Some of these time-honoured norms included statements like "nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to," allowing for significant bartering or give-and-take until the very last minute. Another traditional norm was secrecy. Bargaining was judged to be a private affair, with no details of intermediate positions divulged as the talks progressed.
The first change many STF members will note in this round is a new and unique commitment to transparency. The provincial collective bargaining team will provide STF members and the general public with regular updates on the status of bargaining plus the rate of progress or lack thereof.
This is being done for one simple reason: so that teachers can inform parents and other interested parties about the significance of the issues facing education in Saskatchewan and the progress being made towards their resolution.
Tackling the problems associated with class size and classroom composition will not be easy. It will be time consuming. It will be expensive. Tackling these issues will also require a degree of focused commitment that has been notably absent from government in recent years.
Without support from parents and the public, these issues will not be resolved.
The second departure from past bargaining practice will be the narrow and focused quality of our negotiating package. In more traditional bargaining processes, both sides present numerous demands, fully expecting many of them will drop off during the back and forth of standard collective bargaining.
This time, the STF will be bargaining transparently. Our efforts depend to a significant degree on the level of public support we can gain and retain. The teachers' bargaining position will always seem reasonable because they will be reasonable. You will not see 20, 30 or 40 items on our list. Our bargaining proposals will be deliberately tight and focused.
The third significant change STF members will notice in this round of provincial collective bargaining will likely be a rapid escalation of intensity. Change in any structured or formal relationship creates fear and uncertainty. In past rounds of bargaining, we've seen government advertising designed to demonize teachers as greedy and uncaring.
As we head towards the October 2020 provincial general election, the pressure to resolve our issues will become more intense. It will become increasingly important for teachers to stand together and not back down.
Over the past few years, the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation has deliberately positioned itself as the voice of publicly funded public education in our province. We firmly believe that regardless of where they live, regardless of their economic circumstances, regardless of the physical or cognitive challenges a student may face, that student deserves a high-quality education delivered by a trained professional.
This gets expensive in a province as vast as ours. However, we've fallen into a trap in Saskatchewan. Education spending is often seen as a road block to a balanced budget – a number that must be reduced at all cost.
We're paying the price for this approach. Students and teachers are suffering the consequences of failing to see education for what it is – a key investment in our future.
This current round of collective bargaining, at its core, is our commitment to a new future for teachers and students.


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The Bakersfield Police Department worked with the Bakersfield Fire Department to recover a body from a canal.
Officials were called out to the 4100 block of Truxtun Avenue at about 1:18 p.m. for a body in the canal near the Bakersfield City Street Department and Bakersfield Garbage Pick up.
The Bakersfield Fire Department were called out to the scene to retrieve a body from the canal and when they arrived they found a deceased male in the water up against the canal grate.
The Kern County Coroner's Office will release identity of the man along with the cause and manner of the death at a later time.


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Itaewon Freedom
This one had taken longer than she had expected. Ara glanced around the motel room. The faded pink wallpaper had chipped in new places, and as she surveyed the damage her eyes eventually bumped into the hanging clock; she shook her head. It was already 4:30AM and she had squandered her time on a cheap customer, a mere boy of around 18 who was now struggling to get dressed in the corner of the room. The boy was flustered, his fingers darted around his clothes, unsure of which button to land on first, and his awkward poise and averting eyes made it clear that he did not want Ara to watch him. Ara, of course, couldn't care less about the worries of a bashful teenager, and as she watched the boy fling his jacket on, she silently decided that this would be her last shift for the workday.
The boy now held his backpack by the straps, and teetering on his toes, glanced questioningly at Ara. She gave a half-hearted gesture towards the only door in the room, and as the boy began to leave she gave him a quick but charming smile—cheap or not, she had to secure her customer base, and a little kindness never hurt, especially for a teenager whose insecurities were large enough to make him resort to her services. As the door closed on the boy's heels, Ara slipped back into her dress, and texted a quick check-out message to Ms. Kwon before sliding out the inconspicuous fire escape that led down to the motel parking lot. There were a few cars in the cramped lot, the light overhead was dim and finicky, and the neon sign that read 'GO Motel' cast frenzied tints all over, but Ara never had trouble spotting her blue BMW near the exit. As she placed herself in the front seat and started the ignition, Ara amused herself with fantasies of falling in love with the awkward boy, who would then grow up to be rich, and whisk her away to some fantastic place: maybe Guam. The humor in thoughts like this never grew old, and she giggled as she drove the car out of the lot.
The drive home was short, and she parked in her usual spot by the dumpster before entering the modest apartment complex. It was a faded concrete building that was modified from a local library, and the former study rooms now provided housing for young students preparing for college entrance exams and people working various temp jobs across the breadth of Seoul city. Ara didn't interact much with her neighbors, and they didn't seem to mind her either. People kept to themselves in this complex, as it was merely a provisional solution to most of its inhabitants. Any bonds created there would surely amount to little or nothing in the future, and so Ara felt no discomfort in disregarding and strutting past her next-door neighbor, a disheveled female student, who was smoking on the walkway that led to their doors. As she fidgeted with the keys and unlocked the greening copper door to her cubicle, she remembered a time when she would have been greeted with the smell of warm food and the sounds of her family. There was no melancholy to her reminiscing, just a few matter-of-fact images in the periphery of her thoughts.
In her youth, Ara had lived with her parents and older sister, Areum, in a high-rise apartment complex on the southern bank of the Han River. Naturally, when she resorted to sex work, she kept her parents unaware, but her sister was quicker to catch on. Areum was studying to become a nurse, and when she noticed how Ara, a supposedly unemployed college dropout, consistently returned home later than her own interning shifts at the local hospital, she began to harbor suspicions. Ara was never fond of her sister's meddling in her affairs, and she often had to bide her bubbling frustrations at the dinner table when Areum would try to interrogate her in front of their parents. In other, less exposed moments, Ara would take to the solitary confines of her room, and either out of shame or irritation, avoid much sought-after conversation with her sister.
On one particular night, pent up emotions spilled forth onto the dinner table when Areum, in a shaking fit of tears, accused Ara of selling her body. How could you dare to soil the body given to you by mom and dad, she had sputtered, do you not feel guilty for the lord that protects our home? All of us. Working til' we shit blood, trying to support the family. Support you, for you. And here you are wasting it all on this disgusting— thing. Ara was stunned speechless, and yet a cluttered storm of anger and disappointment was fit to burst when her father calmly interjected: What are you talking about Areum? That kind of thing is illegal now. Didn't you see the news? They outlawed it a few years back! It's all a thing of the past, he chuckled, your sister must be stressed from all the work at the hospital, right Ara?
Ara could never forget her father's face when he had spoken that night. He was smiling right next to her at the table, but he looked as if he were hiding in the corner; he looked small and cowardly. From that point in time, dinner conversations resumed their usual composure, but an unnamed pressure settled in the back of Ara's mind—they knew—they all knew, and a part of her wished they would just say something. She noticed that her interactions with her family became increasingly brief and ridiculous, satirical even. So when the pressure quickly built to unbearable levels, and a few years later, when Areum moved out to live closer to the larger hospital, Ara had taken the first chance she had had to follow her sister out the door.
And as she stepped through the door, nearly a decade later, into the hastily repurposed library cubicle overlooking the northern bank of the Han River, she harbored no harsh feelings. The room was sheathed in warm, yellow wallpaper, and as she entered the space she was greeted with the gentleness of the woolen carpet on her toes, and the musty smell that always settled with summer in the city. There was a small kitchenette directly before her, straddling an exposed shower in the corner, and a quaint blue futon against the opposite wall. A small window awkwardly punctured the space above the futon, through which Ara could just barely recognize the silhouette of the Lotte tower in the dawning sunlight. She slid out of her dress once again, and took a quick shower. Afterwards, she drew the curtains of her small window to obscure the morning sun with a kitschy print of the Paris skyline, and with water still clinging to her straight black hair and naked back, dropped into her futon.
Ara had initially planned to quit the sex industry after moving out, but after a year or two, she was struck with the reality that there was little a solitary young woman without a college degree could offer in her city, except that which was always in demand. Ara remembered her confusion when her sister had accused her of wasting the family's hard earned money. In the first place, when she had dropped out of college due to her parents' financial instability, it was the guilt of burdening her family that had dragged her into the city's underworld. As a child, her parents had always prioritized excellence, and had promised her money in the bank for her hagwons, books, materials, and college. When that ceased to be a reality, Ara had felt an insufferable guilt that somehow she had squandered the time and money that was put into her upbringing—that she was the cause of her miserable circumstance. Throughout the years, that guilt had festered and developed into what was now a sort of resigned pride: Pride that she had become excellent in her field; Pride that she was now the leading breadwinner of her family, out-earning both her sister, a nurse at the Seoul General Hospital, and her father, who clung to the lower rungs of a toy manufacturer; Pride that after her mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her money was paying for most of the treatment.
The buzzing of her phone under the pillow roused Ara in the late afternoon the next day. It was Ms. Kwon calling to let her know that she was on call in the evening. Ara sprung out of the futon, and without pause leapt across the room, past the unused kitchenette, and into the shower. Afterwards, she threw on a simple white summer dress, and with her hair tied up in a dripping bun, rushed into the tepidity of the urban sunset. The walk to the local subway station was short—she wouldn't be needing her car today—being on call meant that she had no clue where she would end up by the evening's closing, and Ara didn't want to risk leaving her car overnight in the lot of GO motel. The rush hour crowd irritated her and sweat held the dress pressed to her back as she descended down the steps into the subterranean arcade. Fluorescent lights spilled onto the marble floor and made glistening islands of gum, which Ara dodged as she swung past the rotating bars and onto the platforms. Three stops and a flight of stairs later, Ara emerged from Itaewon Station Exit 3 into the night.
The road at which Ara emerged was placed on a hill and palpably quiet, with just a few burly American men occasionally strutting up the sidewalk. Ara followed this road up the hill for two blocks, and then turned right into a narrower, steeper alley, in which she was greeted with the sudden din of nightlife. What seemed like a hundred different languages echoed off the narrow buildings into her ears, and patrons of all ages and colors shuffled upon the packed sidewalk, laughing, drinking, and smoking under the psychedelic reflections shed by backlit-billboards and tacky neon signs. A group of Americans were singing by the entrance of a bar, Korean teenagers were cackling through their cigarette smoke, and French men were sitting on the curb with their vapes, exhaling the aroma that Ara adored. She then continued up the rowdy hill, and turned into yet another alleyway that was darker and more reserved in its signage. The third store to the left had a blinking orange neon sign that read, "GO Motel", and Ara stepped through its opaque double doors and down the tight staircase.
The "GO Motel" was a three story complex with rooms across the first through third floors, and a juicy bar that operated out of the basement. The bar itself was unassuming and modest, and Ara walked in to a rather conventional atmosphere. There were dim, lukewarm lights suspended from the ceiling panels, illuminating the haze of cigarette smoke that hovered above the clientele. There were three men at the bar nursing their drinks and glancing at each other. Two of them seemed to be companions, but there wasn't much conversation that broke the deep jazz tune that saturated the air. Ara walked past the bar, greeting Minho, the bartender, with a quick smile and a nod before entering a door in the back corner that read 'Employees Only' in English. Ara emerged into the sterile fluorescents of a dressing room, where two other young women were chatting in front of the mirrors.
This room was the 'base of operations' for the lucrative business run by Ms. Kwon, the matron of the place, who was now busy attending to the makeup and hair of the two younger women. You're late, Ms. Kwon mumbled, as Ara took her seat next to the two women and began to apply her makeup. The women waved, giggling and saying good morning sunshine as Ara smiled and rolled her eyes.
The woman directly to the left of Ara was Ha-Rim, a twenty-eight year old beauty that had entered the industry eight years ago after her failed singing career. She had never gone to high school, and had dedicated most of her youth to auditioning for several different talent agencies. The production company that finally cast her at age eighteen frequently forced her to sleep her way through the business. Ha-Rim gladly obliged to those demands in order to fulfill her long-held dreams of fame. Before she knew it, she was being sold at jaw-dropping prices to Japanese and Chinese diplomats, and when her singing career ultimately crumbled, she was forced to depend on the darker fame that she had cultivated as a product.
Ha-Rim in turn sat across from Chong, a Thai immigrant who had settled in the city. Ara was not aware of Chong's actual age, but her best guess lingered in the mid-twenties. Chong was slender, dark-skinned, and confident, as if she had never lost the childish poise she had when her parents first sold her into the Thai sex trade. Her eyes were large, reflective, and curious, like an almond shaped pond, and she had always been well liked by the South Korean customers in Thailand, from whom she picked up bits and pieces of the language. By the time she was a teenager, Chong could speak Korean fluently, and when a certain businessman decided he would purchase her and forge her travel documents to bring her back to South Korea, her language had been integral in the process. After a year or two though, her owner became disinterested. He cast her into the Seoul streets, and she had made it to the place where she could do the only thing she had done well since childhood.
Ms. Kwon herself was the relic of a darker past in the Korean sex industry, and nothing could shake the respect and sorrow Ara held for this woman. Even as she slowly curled Ara's hair, Ms. Kwon stood with a bent dignity, sixty-four years resting on the curve of her back. Ms. Kwon had overseen the business at GO Motel since its opening in the early nineties, and many girls had passed through her careful management in the time since. Before the GO Motel, she had been yet another product in the industry. In her twenties, the Korean military government under Park Chung-hee had enlisted her as a diplomatic tool in order to ameliorate US-Korean relations. In her youth, the government pressured and propagandized poor women like her to serve their country by pleasing the American soldiers and diplomats. Pay was incomparably meager back then, and after years of being the leverage for political bargains, Ms. Kwon had gathered enough money to leave the profession.
Instead of abandoning the industry, though, she had used her money to set up shop near the Yongsan American Military Garrison, in the booming cultural melting pot of Itaewon. Ara could not fathom Ms. Kwon's intentions in remaining as a matron in the industry. Perhaps it was pity for the younger generation of women. Perhaps it was resignation. Perhaps it was the lack of another option. Whatever the reason was though, Ara was constantly thankful for the old lady's work, and as she finished up her hair, Ms. Kwon patted her on the head and said softly, beautiful.
Ara was luckier than all of these women, and she held a reserved relief in her heart for the good fortune. Ms. Kwon and Chong, and Ha-Rim to a degree had little to no choice in their past and current careers. For Ara, however, this occupation had come with a conscious choice that she had made for herself after months of consideration. For Ara, this lifestyle was her way of living, and not merely a survival tactic. For Ara, this lifestyle, the GO Motel, and the men, were deliberate. This was her freedom.
That beautiful image in the mirror was something that Ara was willing to fight for, and in the past year, the need to defend her freedom had increased significantly. Amongst rising accusations from international human rights organizations, the South Korean government had recently initiated a systematic removal of sex businesses in Itaewon. However, it remained that the heaviest consumers of the sex industry were the very same government officials whose hands were now tied to a foreign and unwanted initiative, and therefore the removals were half-hearted at best. Conspicuous businesses in Itaewon were uprooted, but no further preventative measures were ever taken, and many workers had simply relocated to poorer, darker areas of Seoul's urban web.
Due to those unprecedented government actions, many of the women and men who remained in the Itaewon industry, including Ms. Kwon and her girls, had felt tremors in their established lifestyles. Just the week prior, Ara and Ha-Rim had joined their fellow sex workers in a sit-in at the Seoul Station Plaza. The hundreds present at the sit-in were clad in white shirts and hats, fighting for their rightful place in the South Korean workforce. Many were fighting for the continuation of their livelihoods, for their lives truly depended on the matter. Most of them wore facemasks to preserve their anonymity, and although their chants were muffled, they were loud and poignant. We have the Right to Work! We have the Right to Live! Some women held pickets and placards with pleas to the government. Ara had carried a sign that read, I have chosen my lifestyle. I am Happy. You have no right to take it away.
Many of the protesters that day had worried that mass media would expose their identities, and that their businesses would be targeted, but that had turned out to be an optimistic concern. The event was not aired in any major mass media outlet, and the protests simply remained in the obscurity of personal accounts and insignificant blog posts. In one way or another, the voices of the sex workers had been hushed, along with the very reality of their existence. Ara couldn't hide her disappointment as she scrolled through the Internet on her phone—the Seoul Station protests were nowhere near Seoul's trending topics of the month. Seeing Ara's frown in the mirror, Ms. Kwon patted her on the head once again and sighed, even if they all cared, none of them would understand. It's alright Ara, we just have to fend for ourselves.
Ms. Kwon then hobbled over to an old desktop computer placed on a little table against the back wall of the dressing room. After staring intently at the screen for a moment, she looked up at Ara and motioned towards the back door, your car's here, she said, and you know to call Mr. Park if anything goes wrong right? Ara gently nodded, put her phone in her purse, and tiptoed through the door out into the familiar flickering of the motel's back lot, where a heavily tinted black sedan stood in waiting. The driver, Mr. Park, was one of the four security personnel employed under Ms. Kwon, who in instances like this also undertook transportation. He jostled his large, muscular frame out of the drivers seat to greet Ara with a bow and to open the back door for her, and she slipped into the cool, leathery air of the vehicle.
Mr. Kwon would always tell the girls stories of the few years he had served as personal security for the Korean Minister of Labor, and how he had decided to leave the toxic working conditions. They were bad people, Mr. Park had said, you lady's are much more pleasant to work with, and I actually want to protect you. Now that his new job was to protect the girls from their clients, Mr. Park often got the satisfaction of punching unruly drunkards in the face, many of whom were the same government officials he had once reluctantly sworn to protect.
The car carried Ara out of the huddled lights of Itaewon and into the surrounding darkness of the American military complex and closed embassies. After wading through this dim silence, the sedan penetrated the boundary of the Han River and onto a colorfully lit bridge. Ara could see the blinking of many such bridges above the water as the blackness of the river shot into the horizon. They seemed like light bulbs strung across the night sky, and their image barely shifted as the car darted across the smooth asphalt. Mr. Park took a quick right onto an exit ramp soon after landing on the southern bank of the river, and thereafter came to a stop facing a small but magnificently lit hotel. The sign read, Riverside Hotel, in posh golden cursive.
A moment later another black sedan pulled up behind them, and Mr. Park promptly exited and walked towards the newcomers. Ara watched through the rearview mirror as a sharply dressed, white, middle-aged man exited the passenger's seat to greet Mr. Park. Ara guessed that he was some foreign diplomat, and prayed that he was American—they always paid an unnecessarily large sum, the excess of which went into Ara's own pocket. After a short exchange of bows and a lengthy conversation, the man handed Mr. Park a thick envelope and entered the rotating doors of the hotel as his driver pulled away into the parking lot. Mr. Park reentered the car and to Ara's delight, took a while to count the money in the envelope. Room 36, knock before going in, he's paid for two hours but he wants a few minutes to himself first, he told Ara as he shrugged and slid the money in the glove box. After waiting for another five minutes, Ara opened the car door and strut into the hotel, where she was washed by the golden lights of the lobby.
She walked straight past the front desk, took the elevator up to the third floor and stopped in front of the door marked 36. Ara paused for a moment and pre-wrote her alert message to Mr. Park, ready to send at a moment's notice. Her high-heels sunk into the red tessellated carpet that covered the hallway as she stashed her phone in the front pocket of her purse. She then knocked on the door, waited a beat, turned the doorknob, and entered the room as gracefully as she could.
The sharply dressed man she had seen outside was now standing in the middle of the room, between the queen bed and the minibar. He was half dressed and wore a confident expression, but there was guilt in his stance and anxiety in the empty bottle of wine by his feet. Ara took a moment to bow, then slowly moved forwards. The man was rather plain without his garb. His hair was short, golden, and neatly brushed to frame his rotund face, which carried a drunken tint that contrasted his transparent, grey pupils. He blended in effortlessly under the cozy lights of the hotel lamps, between the white linen resting on the bed, the faded gold wallpaper, and the beige carpet. As Ara continued to walk towards him, he raised a hand and motioned for her to stop.
His eyes began at her forehead, slid down her cheeks, around the curve of her shoulders, and rode down the folds of her dress, inspecting her as if to spot a defect. He paused his search at her feet, then abruptly shot his gaze back up into her eyes, then asked DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH? Ara did not respond, and so the man switched to a heavily accented Korean, my name is Sean, what is your name? Ara remained silent. You must not like talking much, well I'm okay with that, I guess that could be fun too.
The man walked forward and caressed her face in his shaking hand, wrapped his other arm around her waist and clumsily turned her back to the bed. But I'm more of a romantic. I bet. I bet I can get you to talk to me by the end of my time tonight. The man reminded her of the boy she had met the night before, and the thought filled her with confidence and a humorous pity. He began to lean in for a kiss. In response, Ara quickly placed her finger on the man's lips, stopped him a few millimeters away from her own, and swung him around so that he was now pinned between the bed and her body. NO KISSES, she whispered.


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2012 'Чекајќи ја Македонија' Skopje: Tabahon Publishing
(with financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Macedonia)
2007 'Waiting for Macedonia: Identity in a Changing World' Toronto University Press
Reviewed in:
Anthropology of East Europe Review. 27 (2): Fall 2009 (253-255), by Andrew Graan, University of Chicago. 2009. Social Anthropology 17: 2009 (139-140), by Christos Karagiannidis, University of Sussex.
Chapters in Books
2013 'Eu as Future?: From a Macedonian Viewpoint' in Macedonia: The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State, de Munck , Victor C. and Ljupcho Risteski eds. I.B.Tauris and Co Ltd.
2010 ' Macedonia's Liminality in the European Imagination - issues of methodology'
Anthropology in the City: Methods, Methodology and Theory in Urban Anthropology. Italo Pardo and Giuliana Prato eds. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishers.
1999 'The Essence Of Being: Procreation And Sexuality in mid-century Macedonia.' In Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth. Peter Loizos and Patrick Heady eds. London: Athlone Press.
Selected Journal Articles:
2012 'Identity with a price: Consumption and the political economy of Macedonia. EthnoAnthropoZoom 10 :10-37.
2010 'Daughters of 'Post'-Socialist Macedonia'. Anthropology of East Europe Review. 28 (1):40-61.
2002 'Body-alterations and the Creation of the Other: a Macedonian case'. Anthropology of Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia Review 20(2): 55-60.
2002 'Leb I Sol (Bread And Salt): The Meanings Of Work In The Changing Society Of Macedonia'. Anthropology of Work Review 23(1-2): 8-13.
2001 'The Social Construction of Gender: Female Cannibalism in Papua New Guinea.' Anthropos 96: 141- 156.


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After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in. ---->>>
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world. ---->>>
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I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending. ---->>>
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary. ---->>>
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When Marvel Comics launches its "Fresh Start" publishing initiative with Avengers #1 in May, the publisher will implement changes to its relaunched series' that honor the Legacy numbering of the past, while also providing newer readers a fresh jumping on point.
Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski discussed these changes at Chicago's C2E2 Diamond Comic Distributors retailer summit Thursday morning. The changes for all Issue #1's include a brand new trade dress highlighting an issue's creative team, a smaller UPC box, and dual numbering for the higher Legacy numbering and the lower, relaunched number.
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[ pres-i-duh n-see, pri-seed-n-see ]
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noun, plural prec·e·den·cies.
What Percentage Of English Words Are Derived From Latin?About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. In the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent. About 10 percent of the Latin vocabulary has found its way directly into English without an intermediary (usually French). For a time the …
Nearby words
precautionary principle, precautious, precava, precede, precedence, precedency, precedent, precedented, precedential, preceding, precent
Origin of precedency
First recorded in 1590–1600; preced(ence) + -ency
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Crillon, disregarding all precedency, sprang from his table and hurried first to the threshold.A Gentleman of France|Stanley Weyman
This produced a universal uproar—each fighting for precedency, and thoroughly determined not to be the last.
Rank and precedency are the important points which he is always discussing within himself.
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Here For The Ride
September 16, 2017
Here For The Ride is Andre D. Wagner's first monograph and comprehensive body of work. The book chronicles the everyday life of people as they embark on a personal journey through the New York subway system.
Made up of sixty-two photographs that are intended to be read more than viewed, Here For The Ride is a collective sequence alluding to the qualities of life that are often invisible to the common eye. What started as an approach to kill the mundaneness of commuting between Brooklyn and Manhattan soon turned into a three-year journey through the New York City subway. Rather than attempting to depict all subway lines and boroughs, Wagner focused on photographing his personal journey in transit. This approach was natural in practice, but still demanded a sense of urgency as the visual dynamics changed from one stop to another, leaving Wagner not knowing when his subjects would arrive at their destination and exit the scene forever.
Containing two interrelated documents, the hardcover book contains the primary photographic narrative, consisting of 100 pages and 62 photos, with an introduction by Miles Hodges. The paperback includes an essay by Zun Lee that examines the photographic work in the book. The paperback also contains an in-depth interview with the artist and a series of images that delve deeper into the artistic process behind book.
Here For The Ride is produced and published by Creative Future. The first edition is limited to 750 copies, each comes with a numbered certificate, verifying the originality of the work.
Out of Print
Selected Press
Aperture - Take the J Train by Jessica Lynne
The Paris Review - Andre D. Wagner's Subway Photographs by Andrew Boryga
The Photographic Journal - An Alternate Introduction by Miles Hodges
NYT - An Ode to Acts of Kindness on the New York City Subway
Mass Appeal - Photographer Andre D. Wagner is 'Here For The Ride'
i-D - Striking photographs of New Yorkers on the subway
My Modern Met - Photographer Spends Years Documenting His Daily Commute on the New York Subway