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More from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art's's important 'Unpacking the Archives' exhibition, unpacking the 150 years of archives of architect Frank Lloyd – this video (part of a series) unpacking yet another delightful artefact.
. . . promoting capitalist acts between consenting adults.
More from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art's's important 'Unpacking the Archives' exhibition, unpacking the 150 years of archives of architect Frank Lloyd – this video (part of a series) unpacking yet another delightful artefact.
"What began as a single campaign on a college campus in 2010 has grown into a worldwide movement. It does not simply focus upon climate change or green living, but rather de-funding the fossil fuel industry. They call it divestment.
"Fossil fuel divestment, the opposite of investment, means the selling of fossil fuel stocks…
"In order to transform the climate change debate into a movement, [environmental campaigner Bill] McKibben and his fellow ecofascists needed an enemy. So he started the divestment movement that casts the fossil fuel industry and those who invest in its companies as the morally sinister destroyers of the environment. McKibben's admission of creating an enemy to bolster his campaign should delegitimise the moral claims of the movement. But it hasn't…
"Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress and author of the New York Times bestseller The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, notes that there are seven billion people on the planet who need access to inexpensive, reliable energy in order to flourish. Yet three billion people have virtually no energy. For much of the world, lack of energy, not use of energy, has been the greatest barrier to growth and productivity.
"While the divestment movement has succeeded in creating both an enemy and a moral cause based upon fear and guilt, the evidence points to the reality that energy has helped hedge against climate-related disasters and provided food and health care to aid human life. Divesters fail to grasp how energy powers every modern convenience from a warm shower (natural gas), to adequate hospital care (electricity), to food (diesel-powered farm equipment), and they offer few, if any, real solutions to our planet's energy needs. Perhaps they should invest in our future instead of trying to undermine it."
~ Caroline Camden Lewis in her article 'Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels'
As part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art's's important 'Unpacking the Archives' exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's work comes this video, part of a series …
Examine the original drawing of Frank Lloyd Wright's Mile-High Tower (the drawing itself measuring over eight feet long!) with MoMA curator Barry Bergdoll, and learn why clues left on the drawing have led Barry to view this piece from the archives as the great architect's last autobiography.
"The purpose of economic activity is consumption, both now and in the future. Nobody works for no reward. Month to month, and even year to year, consumers who decide to run down their savings can, of course, trigger greater demand and greater GDP growth.
"But that isn't sustainable. Over long periods of time, consumption isn't the real driver of growth: it is the product of an expanding economy, not its cause."
~ Allister Heath, from his Telegraph article 'Yes, Supply Does Create its Own Demand*'
* Technically not correct ...
[Hat tip Julian D.]
"The tidal wave of cheap money from … central banks has to go somewhere, so now it is flooding into housing and making serfs out of the middle class."
~ Tweeter Rudolph E. Havenstein, quoting Ken Sherman, in reference to WSJ's article: 'Meet Your New Landlord: Wall Street'
"Both the neoclassical synthesis and the neoliberal consensus ... condition economists to argue, without irony, in their roles as professors, private consultants, and high-ranking public employees, that they have special expertise in setting economic policy, but also that the most reasonable economic policy is no economic policy. Mainstream economists acknowledge their inability to predict the effects of economic policy in order to emphasise that when the economic policies they endorse have adverse economic consequences, nobody is to blame. But they still contend that in moments of economic crisis, only economists possess the special expertise to fix a failing economy. This is the Ponzi scheme of contemporary economics….
"One is tempted ... to wonder whether the 'Queen of the Social Sciences is a dry cellar, a cactus land, a paralysed force, a headpiece filled with straw. What part of the record of economics should persuade us economists aren't altogether expendable? 'What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow, out of this stony rubbish?'"
~ Matt Seybold, from 'The End of Economics' in the LA Review of Books
[Hat tip Per Bylund, who adds his own very pertinent comment … ]
This to me is far more important than any election: Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) celebrating the work of Frank Lloyd Wright 150 years after his birth.
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th century, a radical designer and intellectual who embraced new technologies and materials, pioneered do-it-yourself construction systems as well as avant-garde experimentation, and advanced original theories with regards to nature, urban planning, and social politics. Marking the 150th anniversary of the American architect's birth on June 8, 1867, MoMA presents Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, a major exhibition that critically engages his multifaceted practice. The exhibition comprises approximately 450 works made from the 1890s through the 1950s, including architectural drawings, models, building fragments, films, television broadcasts, print media, furniture, tableware, textiles, paintings, photographs, and scrapbooks, along with a number of works that have rarely or never been publicly exhibited. Structured as an anthology rather than a comprehensive, monographic presentation of Wright's work, the exhibition is divided into 12 sections, each of which investigates a key object or cluster of objects from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, interpreting and contextualizing it, and juxtaposing it with other works from the Archives, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The exhibition seeks to open up Wright's work to critical inquiry and debate, and to introduce experts and general audiences alike to new angles and interpretations of this extraordinary architect.
Here's the lecture/interview celebrating what's been and being unpacked.
"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are always interested in dogs."
~ P.J. O'Rourke
"Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and wider, with less and less pretense at justification. Economically, the forced demands of one group create hardships for all others, thus producing an inextricable mixture of actual victims and plain parasites. Since need, not achievement, is held as the criterion of rewards, the government necessarily keeps sacrificing the more productive groups to the less productive, gradually chaining the top level of the economy, then the next level, then the next. (How else are unachieved rewards to be provided?)
"There are two kinds of need involved in this process: the need of the group making demands, which is openly proclaimed and serves as cover for another need, which is never mentioned—the need of the power-seekers, who require a group of dependent favor-recipients in order to rise to power. Altruism feeds the first need, statism feeds the second, Pragmatism blinds everyone—including victims and profiteers—not merely to the deadly nature of the process, but even to the fact that a process is going on…
"[A] real turning point came when the welfare statists switched from economics to physiology: they began to seek a new power base in deliberately fostered racism, the racism of minority groups, then in the hatreds and inferiority complexes of women, of 'the young,' etc. The significant aspect of this switch was the severing of economic rewards from productive work. Physiology replaced the conditions of employment as the basis of social claims. The demands were no longer for 'just compensation,' but just for compensation, with no work required.
"So long as the power-seekers clung to the basic premises of the welfare state, holding need as the criterion of rewards, logic forced them, step by step, to champion the interests of the less and less productive groups, until they reached the ultimate dead end of turning from the role of champions of 'honest toil' to the role of champions of open parasitism, parasitism on principle, parasitism as a 'right' (with their famous slogan turning into: 'Who does not toil, shall eat those who do')."
~ Ayn Rand, from "A Preview," The Ayn Rand Letter, I, 23, 1
Satirical magazine Private Eye explains Corbynomics — and the electoral bribery thereof— better then the man himself. Metiria Turei, Gareth Morgan, and others, all appear to have been listening ….
[Hat tipHani Mustafa]
"…but don't force me to participate if I don't want to… [State] welfare is morally wrong. Spend your own money [if you want] to help the poor."
~Yaron Brook
"All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons." ~ Ludwig Von Mises
"Today the dominant voice [in popular music] is thug poetry or [so-called] rap "music," which is lower than even the genuine, original jungle impulse. Growing from the helpless ghetto child's fear and insecurity, it expresses an enormous defensive facade hiding his feelings of weakness, vulnerability and inadequacy, overcompensating with an exaggerated mask and pageantry of impervious toughness, threatening might; it is an aggressive parade of the thug's willingness and readiness to commit crimes against you here and now. It is the essence of a thug's character and persona: a life of physical, criminal force negating the mind."
~ M. Zachary Johnson, from his book Emotion in Life & Music: A New Science
"Dante made great poetry out of a great philosophy of life; and that Shakespeare made equally great poetry out of an inferior and muddled philosophy of life… Dante's pattern is the richer by a serious philosophy, and Shakespeare's the poorer by a rag-bag philosophy, [but] I should say that [as a writer skilled in the two arts of poetry and drama] Shakespeare's pattern was more complex, and his problem more difficult, than Dante's."
~ T.S. Eliot, writing in G. Wilson Knight's The Wheel of Fire
"Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial."
~ Thomas Sowell
"The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."
~ Salman Rushdie
"But this is by no means a history of 'fatal impact,' in which European contact and colonisation lead unremittingly to the destruction of an indigeneous people that was throughout the innocent victim of European aggression and manipulation …
"[My] emphasis on (bilateral) 'outcomes' rather than (unilateral) 'impacts' leads to a "dual agency' view of settlement history – 'Maori and Europeans sharing the initiative in developments and, by implication, responsibility for them.' This perspective fits uncomfortably into the adversarial framework of Treaty claims history, to which admissions of joint initiative and responsibility are anathema pro facto.
"Such quasi-judicial inquiry into our colonial past threatens to reduce it to a world of binary opposites: Pakeha were villains; Maori were victims. Colonisation was bad; indigneous society was good. Pakeha were devious; Maori were honourable. Maori were destroyed; Pakeha flourished.
"By implication [then in the way history is now told], Maori became passive and Pakeha active participants in the encounter situation. Maori 'agancy' is acknowledged only in terms of political resistance, its exercise in economics ignored in the rush to blame the Crown for the material losses of Maori.
"Although anthropologists have brought valuable cultural perspectivesto the inquiry,they have also widened gaps by reinforcing notions of the 'other,' making cultural dissonance between Maori and Europeans inevitable .. [and] have tended to reinforce notilns of frozen culture.
"Giselle Byrnes articulates the concerns of many when she writes: '… treaty claims history is tending to invert colonialist paradigms of hegemony and reinvent old binarism's."
~ quoted from Paul Monin's 2006 book Hauraki Contested, 1769-1875
"It's starting to look as if Grant Dalton is well-named, because he's after another one. A grant. A handout. A reach-around from taxpayer to pocket -- the pocket being his and his colleagues, the lever to extract the dosh being the fear "we" may not have [an] America's Cup [defence…
"Because his America's Cup programme is looking increasing like it's just welfare for well-fed sailors.
"If he and his colleagues want to run another challenge, then I suggest they approach a few of those businessmen and women who can be heard saying the America's Cup would be "good for the economy." People like Marine Industry Association bludger-in-chief Peter Busfield [who says "a decision not to invest would be disastrous for New Zealand." If people like Mr Busfield think it would be good for their economy, then let them either front up, or shut up. Put your hand in your own pocket, Peter, and keep it out of ours."
~ quote from this blog's 2014 post 'Piss Off, Grant.'
"The bottom line is this: if people with their own money want to enjoy having a team in the Cup, then all power to them. Great. Put up your own dosh.
"If businessmen and women think a Team NZ in the America's Cup will help their business, then all power to them too. Let them put up their own money to help their business out.
"And if politicians, like [Bill English] and Steven Joyce et al want a place at the international sporting table, then let the bastards go out and get a real job to earn it.
"[And] don't employ economists to write bullshit on your behalf to justify your expensive grandstanding."
~ quote from this blog's 2014 post 'Sailing in Subsidised Waters'
Bruce Goff's Crystal Chapel, designed in 1949 - unbuilt, but recently modelled digitally so you too can see the genius …
[Hat tip SOCIETY OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTS]
I spent the weekend with several dozen nudes. it was thrilling!
There were women and men, big and small, young and old. They were bathing, washing, dancing. There were groups picknicking, drinking, playing. One (or two?) were sitting strangely in armchairs. One was trying on hats. Another caressing a dying young hero. One woman was even lying down as a fish.
And there was a couple kissing, or about to. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Flesh-like marble. Intertwined and interlocking. Erotically charged. Moving and alive. Only a true master at the top of his game could have created it, and it took him a decade.
Of course, I've seen it before. In protographs. But photographs can give only the suggestion of a story like this. The shadow, but not the substance. Nothing prepares you for the real thing, live and in the flesh and in front of you. There is nothing else in the world like it!
It took me several hours to walk around it — studying it, enjoying it, imbibing it — and I look forward to many more before it returns home in July. It seems to have the whole world in it, and create whole new worlds of its own.
If you have an ounce of soul yourself stiil unstrained, still unfiltered, then take it along to Auckland's Art Gallery to see the Tate Gallery's exhibition of nude masterpieces. Take an hour, at least, to walk around Rodin's The Kiss. Any direction. Sit with it. Study it. if there is a greater work of art in the world, I don't know it.
If you want to know what's wrong with the modern world, then most of what's wrong (apart from Geelong's inability to play consistent football) is due to bad philosophy. And most of that bad philosophy in the modern world comes under the heading of postmodernism.
Every student at every institution will have encountered it, and then either absorbed it (in whole or in part) or, if they're particularly courageous, combatted it. Every one of those students — and you! — needs this book by Stephen Hicks in their backpack: something now made infinitely easier by author Stephen Hicks having made the first edition available to download completely free!
Download free here.
As my friend Jeffrey Perren says,
This is your chance to get FREE one of the best books on philosophy written in the past 25 years. If you want to understand much of what's happening today, read this.
So some of you have been asking why blogging here has been so light, recently. There's a simple answer: it's not just that politics is so dire, it's that the workload of my current projects has been so heavy.
Among the (too) many projects is this one, another renovation project for a 'mid-century modern' in Howick which, like every good renovation project, involves a bit of untangling …
Author Henry Hazlitt makes an interesting differentiation between types of automation that is entirely pertinent to what some are calling "the Fourth Industrial Revolution,' i.e., the predicted revolution in robotics artificial intelligence, the differentiation being:
1. Automation of a task previously done manually ("labour saving")
2. Automation of a task inherently impossible to humans ("possible-making")
3. Automation of a task via usage of superior materials ("quality improving")
4. Automation of tasks via breaking into contexts formerly unknown or inaccessible ("integrating")
(NB: The expansion and the terms in brackets were chosen by online commentator Felix Mueller.)
Hazlitt's original quote is here:
"Not all inventions and discoveries, of course, are "labour-saving" machines. Some of them, like precision instruments, like nylon, lucite, plywood, and plastics of all kinds, simply improve the quality of products. Others, like the telephone or the airplane, perform operations that direct human labour could not perform at all. Still others bring into existence objects and services, such as X-rays, radios, and synthetic rubber, that would otherwise not even exist."
So some of you were asking why blogging has been so light here recently – and it's not just that politics has been so dire, it's that the workload on my current projects has been so heavy.
So among the projects that have been keeping me away from the writing keyboard is this one, untangling an existing Remuera bungalow, and better connecting its occupants to sun, to views, and to its difficult site.
Here's a post from February that is relevant again today in the wake of the
Commerce Communist Commission's prohibition of the Fairfax/NZME merger. ACT's David Seymour calls the Commission a dinosaur, suggesting it had its day once. It's more like a dangerous man-made virus that should never have been released into the wild at all.
So Vodafone and Sky want to merge with each other. And so do Fairfax and NZME. But the Commerce Commission has ruled the former two may not, and has now declared the latter two must not.
Who is this Communist Commission when it's at home, and what gives it the right to tell shareholders of major businesses what they should do with their property? I went to their website to find out:
The Commerce Commission [they say] enforces legislation that promotes competition in New Zealand markets and prohibits misleading and deceptive conduct by traders. The Commission also enforces a number of pieces of legislation specific to the telecommunications, dairy and electricity industries. In ensuring compliance with the legislation it enforces, the Commission undertakes investigation and where appropriate takes court action; considers applications for authorisation in relation to anti-competitive behaviour and mergers; and makes regulatory decisions relating to access to telecommunications networks and assessing compliance with performance thresholds by electricity lines businesses.
So we have a monopoly that allegedly fights monopolies, a Quango that allegedly "promotes competition"; as if it were possible for bureaucracy to do that, or a bureaucrat to even fathom what competition looks like and how it works in the real world – as if "competition" itself were a primary, and not the result of the freedom of free people to do deals and make contracts with each other which are the job of governments to enforce.
That enforcement is the real job of government here. Instead, we have a quango enforcing what for them is a floating abstraction –so-called pure and perfect competition – a thing never seen alive in the wild -- so no wonder they can frequently be seen, for example, "enforcing" competition by prosecuting for "price gouging" when prices are too high, for "predatory pricing" when they're too low, and for collusion when they're the same. Such is the nature of bureaucratic enforcement of something they know nothing about. Yet due to their random decision-making all business activity becomes less certain, so by that amount already decreasing the range of options open to consumers – and so making monopolies even more likely, not less.
They are morons given power by idiots.
The idiocy leads to more idiocy. The Communist Commission's draft decision to discourage (in February) and now ban altogther the Fairfax NZME merger on the basis it creates a monopoly saw analysts tell Fairfax that if it doesn't merge then it must withdraw from NZ, which would of course create the same alleged monopoly over which the Commission is this week wringing its hands. (I say alleged monopoly because the Commission ignores all the other national and international news sources by which New Zealanders may acquire their news now and in the future, many far superior to the superficial offerings of these two fat-headed giants.)
Meanwhile the Commissars' determination that that Vodafone and Sky must not merge leaves shareholders in both already poorer, and consumers less able to access the sport the Commissars have decided is a human right -- and gives existing telcos less competition than would have otherwise been the case, the very reason some of these non-competitive vultures are crowing today: because they can now safely put their prices up.
We should prosecute the Commissars themselves for false advertising:
Quite simply, they are the legislative manifestation of the tall-poppy-syndrome - they attack any big private business and do nothing meaningful to the protected positions of bloated, wasteful, bullying government organisations just like themselves.
They are not a dinosaur, as David Seymour suggests, they are a dangerous man-made virus that should never have been introduced into the wild.
The idea that a bureaucrat could command competition sounds like it would be a product of a central planning mindset, yet the Communist Commission was not even a product of Muldoon's command economy – it was a creation of Roger Douglas, a product of the flawed floating abstraction of 'pure and perfect competition' held by the Chicago economics he espoused, a floating, 'Platonic,' idea of competition bearing so little relation to the real world that it needs a bureaucracy with government power to try unsuccessfully to make it happen, damaging all and sundry in the process.
They should prosecute themselves as a predatory monopoly.
While I was visiting Canberra recently (as my more astute readers spotted), I met up with inspirational practitioner of organic achitecture Laurie Virr — to the delight of both of us.
Bruce Goff has been an architectural hero for us both over many years, but never having heard him speak, I was delighted to find that Laurie had a video of Goff talking about and visiting many of the homes he'd designed: homes as unique as the characters he'd designed them for.
The video quality is poor, but I find every minute thrilling!
Occupational licensing doesn't protect who you think it does. Rather than protecting consumers, its more about protectionism for those being licensed — and ideal way to bar competitors and minimize the dangers, to incumbents, of the new, novel and innovative.
In fact, argues Jason Sorens in this guest post, Licensing tradesmen and professionals is about little more than consumer exploitation, .
Do occupational licensing laws protect you from unscrupulous and unqualified practitioners? Or do they just protect the current practitioners against new competition?
These laws ban ordinary people from practicing a certain trade or profession — be it dentistry or hair-styling — until they have paid fees, undergone a certain number of hours of schooling, and usually passed certain examinations in order to get a license.
The proponents of such licensing laws generally claim that they help keep consumers like you safe from harm and fraud.
But let's take a look at the evidence for ourselves.
Licensing's Effect on Quality, Pricing, and Availability
We can examine the effects of occupational licensing on practitioner quality in part by looking at complaints to state governments. University of Minnesota economist Morris Kleiner has found in his book Licensing Occupations and a series of related papers that states that license practitioners see no fewer complaints than states that do not license them.[1]
In terms of pricing, an Obama White House report from 2015 noted that "the evidence on licensing's effects on prices is unequivocal: many studies find that more restrictive licensing laws lead to higher prices for consumers."
Furthermore, occupational licensing reduces the supply of new entrants into a profession. A study of Vietnamese manicurists in the American Economic Review found that lengthier training requirements reduced the number of practitioners significantly.
Occupational licensing also reduces low-income entrepreneurship activity significantly. Low-income workers often find it hard to pay for training, particularly when they have to go to school for a year or more to achieve certification for skills they already possess, over which time they still have to support themselves somehow.
Because licensing requirements vary by country and by state, and many do not automatically recognise those of other territories, licensing also prevents practitioners from moving easily or practicing across state lines.[2]
As Econ 101 tells us, that reduction in new entrants raises the wages of existing practitioners at the expense of increased prices to consumers—whom these laws are allegedly intended to protect.
How Licensing Laws Happen
You could call into question a lot of the prior evidence, and it's not hard to find a few studies that find no effects of licensing (this isn't too surprising, given the difficulty of measuring these effects). But what makes the incumbent-protection theory of licensing most plausible is actually the politics of the licensing process.
1. Legislators Only Hear from Lobbyists
Who proposes new licenses? It's almost always a practitioner group that lobbies the state legislature. Very rarely do you see a new licensing proposal emerge because of consumer outcry for it. When state legislators hear testimony on a licensing bill, only practitioners show up to testify, and they are almost always unanimously in favor of licensing.
Consumers don't show up, and neither do people who might want to enter the profession someday. So it would be really surprising if state legislatures didn't overregulate occupational entry when the information and pressure they are getting is always so skewed.
2. Licensing Always Grandfathers Existing Practitioners
If licensing were about protecting the public, then licensing requirements would be applied equally to all practitioners. But that's not what state governments do. Invariably, they exempt incumbents (known as "grandfathering")and apply the new requirements only to future practitioners. This discrimination makes sense only if you want to restrict supply in order to help incumbents, not if you want to protect the consumer.
3. Strong Sunrise Review Helps
Some places (but very few) have strong "sunrise review" provisions. These require all new licensing proposals to be reviewed by an executive department before the legislature can vote on them, and specify that licensing is only justifiable if it is the least restrictive means necessary to achieve the objective of protecting public health and safety. Colorado and Vermont are two American states that seem to have strong procedures. And these two states have much less licensing than other states.
If review by government licensing bureaucrats (who are hardly free-market ideologues) results in less actual licensing, that fact suggests that the additional licensing seen in other states is probably not justified by consumer protection.
Certification Is Rare
If you want to protect the consumer, so-called 'certification' almost always makes more sense than licensing. Certification — or "title regulation" —merely applies penalties to illegitimately calling yourself a certified practitioner if you haven't met the criteria for certification. Laws against calling yourself a registered architect for instance wouldn't forbid you from practicing architecture if you were unregistered, simply from claiming to be registered if you weren't. (And if registered architects are perceived to be superior, then consumers won't be fooled by fellows fraudulently preteneding to be so.)
In essence, certification lets consumers decide if they want to get services from a certified or an uncertified practitioner, alllowing them to be the purveyors of quality.
But certification is in fact rare. Where it exists, governments usually end up replacing it with licensing. Why? Because certification doesn't restrict entry — it doesn't serve the interests of incumbents the way licensing does, and it's incumbents who pay the lobbyists.
To be sure, government certification is hardly necessary today, especially as it can be easily achieved by private sector certification done by experts such as Underwriters Laboratory, voluntary organisations like Master Builders or Certified Builders, or by the public at review aggregation services like Yelp and Trip Advisor and in sharing apps like Uber, Lyft, and AirBnB.
The Upshot
The combination of all these facts strongly suggests that the motivation and function of occupational licensing is not to protect consumers like you and me, but to exploit them, and to protect existing practitioners from new competition.
Where there really a grave risk to public health and safety from incompetent practice in a certain industry, there is a simple and effective solution: bonding. Require a prospective practitioner to put up a bond or prove liability insurance coverage sufficient to cover the costs of a reasonable lawsuit judgment. And require both incumbents and new entrants to meet the requirement.
Jason Sorens is a lecturer in the Government Department at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2003. He is also vice president of the Free State Project.
His post has appeared previously at Learn Liberty and FEE.
[1] Note that this research can look only at occupations that are licensed in some states but not others.
[2] From the Obama Administration report: "Forthcoming analysis of five licensed occupations finds that, controlling for observable differences that could affect migration rates, individuals in three of these occupations have lower interstate migration rates than their peers in other occupations, while their intrastate migration rates are similar. This is to be expected if a State-based licensure system depressed mobility" (15).


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|Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson
|Political party:
|College of William & Mary
|Deism or Christian Deism
|April 13, 1743
|July 4, 1826 (aged 83)
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States. He was generally a Democratic-Republican, but not an official member.
The most notable thing about his Presidency is the case Marbury v. Madison. Oh, and something about France and Taxes and Barbary Pirates and allegations that he may have fathered at least one illegitimate black child. [1] [2][3] [4]
He also wrote the Declaration of Independence, so The Bush's aren't big fans. Jefferson political beliefs could be considered in some ways Liberal. Jefferson sent Abigail Adams a letter on September 11 1804 (197 Years to the day 9/11 happened). [5]. Also 9 years later on the same day Jefferson sent a letter to a man named John Wayles Eppes[6]
- ↑ Sally Hemings
- ↑ Sally Hemings Biography (1773-1835)
- ↑ The Hemings children carry Jefferson genes, so are descended from a Jefferson, but there's no proof that they descend from Thomas Jefferson rather than a relative of Thomas Jefferson.
- ↑ Conservative racists care about the possible interracial relationship and discrediting Liberals by discrediting a leading Liberal thinker. Liberapedia understands that attacks on Liberalism which discredit Liberal thinkers are ad hominem. We don't care that Betty Hemings was a slave, of African descent, or Jefferson's sister-in-law when it comes to evaluating Jefferson's thinking. We do care that Jefferson may have taken advantage of a young girl who couldn't easily say no, when he owed her a duty of protection.
- ↑ From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 September 1804
- ↑ Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 11 September 1813

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|Milward Chronicles, Book 3: Whispers of War by Robert Lee Beers (Fantasy)
|A Bernie Bolton Book: Bernie Bolton's Big Apple Christmas (ebook and print) by Sheryle Criswell Sturdevant (Mid-Grade Reader)
|The Hunt Series, Book 1: Dawn Memories by Michelle Levigne (Urban Fantasy/Young Adult)
|Worlds of the Timestream: The Interregnum Series, Book 1: The Peace by Richard J. Sutcliffe (Christian Irish/Fantasy)
|Adventures in Amethyst Series, Book 4: Christmas in Amethyst by Karen Wiesner (Contemporary Romance Short Story)
|2-in-1 Supernatural Romance Novellas by Karen Wiesner (Romance/Fantasy/Science Fiction Anthology)
Humming one of her favorite songs, "Pennies from Heaven", Emergency Room Supervisor Helen Middleton leaned against the counter of the nurse's station. As usual, she was early for the start of her 7 am shift.
Her keen hazel eyes scanned the pages of the morning medication charts with the intense concentration and efficiency that she was so well known for among the hospital staff. The number one graduate in Rhode Island General Hospital's class of 1937 constantly focused on her duties with precision and accuracy, two qualities which had indeed set her apart from her classmates on that proud day four years ago.
How was Dr. Peabody, she wondered, looking for his chart, and what was his condition after the incident yesterday? With all the activity Rhode Island General Hospital's ER had seen in the past twenty-four hours, she was beginning to think there was something to be said for the correlation made between accidents and the full moon.
At least, she mused, as she settled her slender five-foot four frame onto the creaky office stool behind the desk, this October of 1941 seemed to contain more frenzied activity and upheaval than normal.
"Thank you for saving my mother's life."
A deep, smooth voice traveled across the counter of the nurses' station, slid between the pages her reports and filtered upwards to please her discerning musician's ear.
Distracted from her task, she looked up. The early morning sunlight filtered in through the windows behind him, past the tweed jacket, and the confident, ruddy smile until Helen looked up and met the friendliest pair of cornflower blue eyes she had ever encountered.
She guessed him to be in his mid-thirties, a little taller than average, with sandy hair and just a hint of gold in his skin that would assure him of tanning easily. But what she liked the most was his rugged, open countenance.
Giving him an experienced appraisal, she gauged him to be in radiant good health and vitality. Unlike many of the patients she saw, he was well taken care of, wearing new clothes, well-nourished and apparently worry free. Just the way life should be for everybody; but in these days of uncertainty, with bombs falling in Germany and many families, including her own, still reeling from the Depression, she knew this gentleman had to have a background of privilege.
She couldn't resist flicking a glance to the enormous bouquet wrapped in white florist's paper that he had bundled up against him in the crook of his arm. Fresh flowers like that were a rare and precious commodity. What an extravagance in this day and age!
Her nurse's radar instantly went up. Sometimes the families with money thought that the hospitals were actually hotels, and the staff there to wait on them and cater to their every need. But as long as Nurse Helen Middleton was on duty as Supervisor, everyone had to adhere to the same rules.
"Excuse me, sir," she used her most professional tone. "It's too early for visitors and there are no floral deliveries accepted through the Emergency Room. They all go through the main reception area in our central lobby."
With an efficient point of her pen towards the doors marked "Entrance to Main Lobby", she turned her attention away from the stranger, suddenly feeling self-conscious and intimidated by his obvious affluence.
Even from where she sat she could smell the deliciously pungent calla lilies and pink roses emerging from the deep green ferns and delicate baby's breath where they were nestled. It would take her six months of scrimping to be able to buy a small bunch of wildflowers for her beleaguered parents.
She tried to concentrate on her medication log but could feel him standing there watching her. Perhaps she should consider calling Security: gimpy old Pat Burns. A lot of good he'd do.
Without looking up, she said, "The main lobby us that way, sir, as I already told you. Through those doors."
With all the responsibility on her shoulders, at work as well as with her family, the last thing in the world she could do was indulge in the luxury of a romantic daydream with this handsome stranger. She had to keep her life in strict control. So she kept her eyes on her charts. Business was business.
After all, wasn't that why she and her sister, Marie, had enrolled in nursing school in the first place, fortunately winning scholarships and living in the dormitories on the hospital grounds with all the other nurses? Of course it was, so that there would be two less mouths for her parents to feed back in the old homestead. At least they had been lucky enough not to have to be separated, like many other families she knew.
"I'm not looking for the mail lobby. I came here to thank you. At least I think it's you. Are you Nurse Helen Middleton?"
Her eyes traveled back up to his and she was enveloped by his warmth and friendliness. He continued to smile at her, and she couldn't look away.
The telephone on her counter rang, bringing her back to reality. What in the world was she thinking about? She had an ER to run, not a daydreaming, eyeball gazing facility. She was a nurse, not and ophthalmologist.
Helen held up an index finger to him, indicating she would be with him in a moment, and picked up the phone.
"Rhode Island General Emergency Room. How may I help you?"
"Hi, honey. It's only me, Gladys. I'm calling to see how our new hospital hero is today?"
Helen's mind instantly went back to the crisis in the emergency room the day before, when Dr. Peabody had collapsed and Helen, to the amazement of the entire operating room surgical team, had completed the emergency appendectomy on the elderly female patient.
Helen smiled into the phone. At nearly seventy, Gladys had been a fixture at the hospital switchboard for nearly fifty years. "I'm okay, thanks, Gladys. How's Dr. Peabody? No one left me a note on how he's doing."
"Can't you just tell me how I can find Nurse Helen Middleton?"
Once again the visitor's voice interrupted her. She turned on her stool to look back at him, the tweed with flowers, a small frown furrowing her snowy, unmarked brow.
She regarded him steadily. "Gladys, let me call you right back."
She ended the call with one of the efficient clicks she was known for among her underlings in the hospital circles. She scanned the ER with her experience, eagle-eyed glance and saw that all was stable.
Turning to the handsome stranger, she asked: "I am Helen Middleton. How may I help you, sir?"
He answered her with a disarmingly warm smile that turned her insides into melted caramel. And what was that thumping all of the sudden in her chest?
"I came here to find an angel named Nurse Middleton and thank her for her heroic efforts yesterday that saved my mother's life." His glance landed on her name tag. "You're that angel, and now you are my new hero."
As she recalled the pressure packed situation, Helen felt the color rush to her cheeks--much to her consternation. In all her four years she had never been flustered. And today should be no different. Nursing Supervisors were not supposed to blush!
Observing her carefully, the stranger extended his hand and leaned in to her across the counter. "I'm Mrs. Williamson's oldest, William. My friends call me Red."
Something about his name sounded vaguely familiar to her, but she couldn't place where she might have heard of him. As she shook his hand, she noticed how warm and strong his grip was. And he had a good, steady pulse. The fact that she was feeling an electrical charge of about 20,000 volts pumping through her at his touch was a jolt she'd rather have ignored. She did her best to remain focused and unflustered, and managed to compose herself.
"Nice to meet you, sir. I'm very glad I could help your mother yesterday. But don't be misled. I'm no hero and I'm definitely not an angel."
The corners of his eyes crinkled upwards, and the sight of that made her fluttering heart race even quicker. He passed the enormous arrangement across the counter. "These are for you. With my sincere thanks."
Helen pursed her lips. "It's very thoughtful, but you really shouldn't have. We have hospital regulations about accepting gifts from family members. I'm sorry."
"Where I come from, Nurse Middleton, rules are made to be broken."
She gave him a sidelong glance. Oh, boy, do I like the sound of that, she thought. She took a deep breath before replying: "And where I come from, jobs are made to be retained. There are some patients who will enjoy these, though." Her eyes searched his face.
"Of course. I'll bring more if you like."
She waved her hand quickly, her cheeks reddening. "No, that's fine, please. We're not a charity hospital. And when someone does something like that it only makes the patients without such gifts feel left out."
"No offense meant." His voice was gentle.
"Fine. I can, sir, give you detailed information about your mother's condition. She is still in intensive care, but she's going to be just fine. We only have her staying there to monitor for post-operative infections. Even the tiniest internal puncture can cause trouble, as you probably know, but it's already been over fifteen hours and there's no sign of any problems."
He raised an eyebrow. "Something tells me you could have been a doctor." There was no mistaking the admiration in his voice.
"Where I come from, there's no time for frivolous daydreams like being a woman doctor," she answered with a good-natured shrug. "I have a responsibility to help out my family. Otherwise," she let a mischievous twinkle appear in her eyes, "I might as well let my wild side out and set my sights on being a cabaret singer, for all the chance I would have of making that happen."
"I can see you doing that, no problem. I heard you humming a moment ago," he offered.
"You didn't!"
He nodded. "Sounded pretty on key to me."
"I wasn't aware that I was humming. But, thanks..."
"See, there's something that didn't make you blush. So you do like it."
"It's not exactly what a Nursing Supervisor is supposed to be doing." She smoothed her skirt in a gesture of dismissal that mirrored the ways he had whisked her ambition of being a vocalist. She noticed his eyes following the path of her hands. Hopefully, he wouldn't notice the run in her stockings.
Just last night she had tried to mend it, unable to afford the price of a new pair until her next pay check arrived. The thirty-nine cents might as well have been a million dollars to her. Then her pride kicked in: so what if he had seen the run? She didn't make explanations or excuses about her life to anyone, and she wasn't about to start with Red Williamson. She didn't owe him a thing.
"But maybe it's the real you," he persisted.
Little did he know, that as farfetched as it sounded, it actually was her lifelong dream. But at this stage of the game, it seemed that life had other plans for Helen Middleton.
"Correction: it's the daydream me. The real me? I am a nurse, and I have been for four years. And I take my job very, very seriously."
"You seem to be the epitome of professionalism, if my opinion matters," he tilted in towards her. "Especially since it's only 6:45 in the morning. How about we keep your dream vocation our secret?"
She looked at him from the corner of her eye. "I'm not the kind of girl who shares secrets with strange men that I've just met."
The corners of his eyes crinkled upwards again and she thought she saw his broad linebacker shoulders heave up and down a few times.
"Now if you don't mind?" Raising her eyebrows archly, she fanner her hands over the paperwork covering her desk.
"No, Helen, I don't mind a bit. But here's something to think about." His voice sounded thoughtful to her. "The Depression has wreaked havoc with many of our plans, but no matter what happens in life, remember this: You must never give up on your dreams."
She wanted to reply: "That's easy for you to say, coming from such obvious affluence." But she didn't; it wasn't his fault that life's circumstances had fallen this way for her. She was much luckier than many of the other girls she knew. Besides, something in his voice struck a chord in her heart. This man, for whatever reason, somehow, really understood.
Just then the emergency room doors flew open and a team of medics wheeled in a gurney, one medic pumping furiously on the prone patient's chest.
"Which Operating Room, Helen? Stat! We're losing him!" cried the attendant.
"Number Four!" Helen jumped from behind the counter and headed off in their direction. Then she remembered her visitor and turned back to him with a broad smile. "Thank you so much for the flowers! The patients will appreciate them."
"You're welcome, Nurse Middleton," he answered.
She nodded professionally and turned to the next crisis awaiting her.
"Okay, and remember--I'm Red. And I always deliver."
She gave a jaunty nod and turned towards her duty. As he was leaving, what he didn't see was the wistful look that Helen Middleton gave him as she hurried toward OR number 4. She felt her face redden again as she noticed that other nurses and orderlies, too, were staring after him. Had they noticed the effect he had on her? She was human, after all, and it wasn't every day that a man like Red Williamson walked into her life.
With a pang of regret, she bit her lip and stopped herself from calling after him. The way her life was organized, she had to let him walk away. There was work she had to do. Just as easily as he had walked in, when she turned to look back, he was gone.
Hours later, after doing an extra four hours in the pediatric wing, she plopped down on the bed in the Spartan dorm room she shared with her sister. As long as they worked at Rhode Island General, the nurses could live there and have her room and board.
Cringing, she shook her head "no," to the pleading look in Marie's eyes.
"Don't do this to me, Marie! I'm exhausted. You know what it's like to do one and a half shifts." And to be thinking about Red Williamson all day, she added silently to herself.
Her sister sat on the edge of the bed next to her, wringing a handkerchief in both of her hands.
"I know, Helen and believe me I would never in a million years ask you unless it was an absolute last resort emergency. I had Olive all lined up and now she's backed out at the last minute." She rolled her eyes expressively. "Please? You know how Jim is."
Looking at her sister, Helen couldn't help but smile. With her brown curls and hazel eyes, there was a definitely a Middleton resemblance. But even though Marie was only two years younger, their temperaments could not have been more different. Helen was Madame Calm, Cool and Collected, while Marie was Madame Frantic. Or so her parents said.
She closed her eyes at the thought of them. Even though they only lived fifteen miles away, she could only afford to take the trolley down to see them once a month. It seemed like an eternity between visits. Sometimes she missed them so much she could hardly bear it.
"You know I can't say no to you," Helen chuckled wearily and draped herself across the pillows.
Marie squealed, "Oh, thank you!" and moved to hug her.
Helen timed it perfectly: as soon as Marie was within arms' reach, she lunged at her younger sister and launched a relentless tickling attack on her sensitive ribs. After a few moments, they were spent.
"Draw me my bath and then pull me into it, Marie," Helen murmured, wiping the tears of laughter from her eyes and sighing in exhaustion.
"You sound like you're ninety, not twenty-six," Marie replied tartly. "The only thing that would save you now would be to sing me, 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow', like you're planning to do in the pageant."
"Twist my arm, sister," Helen's eyes twinkled. She clutched a pillow to her and began an acapella rendition of the song that brought nurses from their studies into the Middleton sisters' room to hear Helen's beautiful tones.
There wasn't a dry eye in the room when she finished. Marie was looking at her, her pretty face streaked with tears, her plump lips forming the words, "I love you, Helen."
She nodded, blinking away the tears that burned at her eyes. The words of the song echoed in her heart: Why oh why can't I? But she knew she never could follow her rainbow and be a singer.
How could she? Her family was depending on her and she couldn't let them down, even though the rush of fulfillment she felt when singing made her feel more alive than anything else in the world. Helen knew that singing was nothing more than an avocation for her, a pleasant pipe dream that would lead her down the road to nowhere. She had to be practical and face reality. Her parents needed her nursing stipend to keep the family homestead running. And that was her first obligation. Dreams had no place in her world!
Taking a deep breath, the softness melted from her features and her countenance hardened as she turned to Marie. The stern Nursing Supervisor Helen came to the forefront as she asked: "What time are these guys getting here?"
One of the nurses overheard her. "Don't tell me Helen is going out with you tonight, Marie?"
Soon all the nurses had reconverged on the Middleton sister's room, chatting excitedly about the prospect of Helen having a date.
"Sevenish," Marie gave her a quick hug. "Thanks Helen. Now off you all go! Let us get ready."
"You'd better tell us everything tomorrow," called one nurse.
"Do everything I'd do, and then more!" called another, as peals of laughter faded down the hall and they went back to their rooms.
After a quick shower, Helen put on her herringbone suit - the only dressy outfit she had--her beige silk blouse, and dabbed two precious drops of Shalimar behind her ears.
Even though it was still only mid October, there was a brisk wind kicking up over the Providence riverfront hills as Marie and Helen stood outside the nurse's residence under the starry autumn sky. The brisk wind told them that winter was definitely on the way.
"It's already ten past," Helen said, using her best warning tone.
"Look!" cried Marie, relief flooding her tone. She pointed to a set of headlights that had just turned into the long, winding drive. "They're here."
"Jim owes me so big for this one it will take him years to pay me back," Helen muttered, then giggled, unable to keep up her stern act in front of her ever earnest little sister.
"We made it, Marie," Jim Newberg jumped out of the driver's side, waving and smiling. "Helen, you won't believe how much I appreciate your helping me out tonight. Wait till you see-"
Before he could finish, however, a dashing figure had emerged from the passenger side of the car, calling, "Helen Middleton, Angel of Mercy. Isn't life just full of surprises?"
Astonished, Helen looked over. It couldn't be--but it was! Red Williamson, from earlier that day, in the car with Jim.
Marie grabbed Helen's arm. "Oh my God, Helen! He's gorgeous! Olive missed out BIG time tonight. You know him?"
Helen stared at her sister. This was the worst thing that could have happened! Her surprise blind date to do her sister a favor had turned out to be an absolute disaster.
"Marie, I can't go! He's my patient's son."
Marie looked at her as if she had suddenly sprouted a second head. "What?"
"You know we're not supposed to go out with family members of our patients!" Helen's voice was getting shrill.
"Oh, come on, Helen," Marie waved her hand breezily, "no one pays any attention to that stupid old rule."
Helen's stomach was churning. She didn't want to let down Marie, but she couldn't jeopardize her job.
"Are you ready to paint the town with Red?" Red approached the car, ready for a good time.
What was she supposed to do? She looked at Red and her heart started racing double time. Who would it hurt, really, if just this once she let her guard down and enjoyed herself for a change?
Marie jostled her arm. "Come on, Helen. It's not like you're a doctor or anything. Wake up and let's go have some fun!"
"You're looking way too serious for an off duty nurse, ma'am," Red said with a smile. "I think there's some action out there in big old Providence with your name written all over it."
He took her arm and walked her to Jim's car. And at that moment something spoke to the foxy little part of her that craved attention and believed that rules were meant to be broken. His touch sent an electrical charge through her. She knew that she was about to have the time of her life.
"I'm just surprised it's you, that's all," Helen said. She could hear Marie's sigh of relief behind her.
"I'm not so sure surprises are your favorite thing, Nurse Middleton."
"I know you're teasing, Red, but you have a point," Helen answered saucily.
"Hey, you two sounds like you already know each other." Jim got behind the wheel of the metallic gray Studebaker as the other three clambered in. "We're going to the Biltmore," he added. "What about it, Helen, you know Red?"
She looked at Red out of the corner of her eye and he gave her the kind of wink that made her stomach to back flips.
Moistening her lips, she replied: "He stopped by to visit someone today, and I showed him the door."
Roaring with laughter, Red slapped his thigh. Helen couldn't help but notice how thick and solid it was. She looked away quickly.
"This beauty saved my mother's life yesterday."
"What do you mean?" Jim turned the car on the thoroughfare along the waterfront, the lights of the city glimmering in the Providence River.
"Helen, what happened?" Marie was aghast. "Don't tell me you're the one who did that emergency appendectomy? I heard of it, but I didn't know it was you!"
Red sat forward. "I'll tell you what I know. My mother was on that table and Old Doc Peabody pulled the big one. Flat out, right on the floor. The whole place was in turmoil trying to keep him from checking out, and someone had to finish Mrs. Williamson." He took Helen's hand. "That would be this Florence Nightingale right here."
"Way to go, Helen!" Jim beamed.
"She is a nightingale, too, you know, Red. She sings like an angel." Marie added proudly.
"Don't say?" Red looked at Helen. "What's that, some sort of secret dream of yours?"
Helen glared at him in the darkness, glad her flaming cheeks were in the shadows.
Marie was nodding eagerly. "You can hear her at the hospital pageant--which she is directing--on December 7th."
"That's quite enough, all of you. Any nurse would have closed up Mrs. Williamson. It was just a few stitches, for Heaven's sake."
"That's not what I heard." Marie's protest was subdued but insistent.
"Me, neither," Red agreed. "They told me you had to do the whole thing."
Helen remained silent, trying to calm the uneasiness in her heart about being out with her patient's son. But Marie was right, in a way. She wasn't a doctor, so Mrs. Williamson wasn't really her patient. And she had never heard of anyone being spoken to about who they were seen with after hours, anyway.
Jim pulled into the parking lot of the Biltmore Hotel. With its fancy dining room and sizzling jazz lounge, L'Exotique, it was the hottest night spot in all of Providence.
And that night, it seemed as if all of Providence was there. They checked their coats and were ushered to their corner table in the Neptune Room. No sooner had they been seated than two very well dressed and prominent looking men approached their table.
"It's Mayor Carter! With Senator Kendrick!" Marie exclaimed, in a breathless stage whisper.
"What's our sterling Senator doing with our shady Mayor?" Helen murmured, hoping he would just pass them by. Everyone had read about his questionable exploits in the Providence County Gazette, and Helen was of the opinion that there was more to all of the stories about him than anyone really knew. Lately, however, his involvements had become a welcome diversion from the ominous war news coming out of Europe. The Senator, though, seemed on the up and up.
"Well of course Red would know them," Marie added, "being Postmaster General and all."
Helen's eyes widened. This handsome stranger was the Providence Postmaster? That's why everyone was staring at him earlier. And why he had said he always "delivered". Where had she been--obviously in the ER too long.
"How are you, Red?" the charismatic Mayor grasped Red's outstretched hand firmly as they all stood up to acknowledge him. "Thought you'd be out delivering the mail. Nice looking company. I see you've upgraded."
Red laughed. "I'm always trying, Michael, you know me. Whatever it takes."
The Mayor raised a bushy black eyebrow. "Don't I just, now? You're a real patriot." He slapped his back in camaraderie.
"Please, Mayor, Senator," Red indicated the table, "Won't you gentlemen join us at least for a drink?"
Shaking his head, the Mayor replied: "Some other night for sure, on the condition that you bring your friends. But we have to get to the Heart Association fundraiser."
Red nodded, then introduced the men around the table. "Helen, here, saved my mother yesterday when Doctor Peabody collapsed."
Senator Kendrick looked at her thoughtfully. "Did you? I'll just bet we have some medal or commendation for that one."
"There's no need for that -"
"On the contrary. That's just what the commendations are for." Senator Kendrick was looking at her thoughtfully.
"You still look familiar to me, though," Mayor Carter continued. "Have you been here before?"
Marie piped up. "She's been the vocalist at L'Exotique a few times. Maybe you've seen her?"
"Could be," he replied, "could be. But I'll make more of a point of it now, if I know you're going to be here."
She noticed Red looking at her out of the corner of her eye, a grin as broad as Texas across his handsome face. The pounding of her heart made her want to yell for help--she was falling for Red Williamson fast and hard. And that could only mean trouble for her.
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Kentucky celebrates the 225th Anniversary of becoming a state in 2017, and the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea honors that history with the exhibit 225: Artists Celebrate Kentucky's History.
With a long and rich history behind it, Kentucky offers artists a multitude of historical subjects, ideas, traditions and connections. This exhibit looks for works by artists that record, capture, embrace and celebrate a facet or subject from Kentucky's rich 225 year history. Kentucky history should be an integral part of each creation as conveyed by choice of subject or it may connect style wise to a historic creative tradition – such as the KY Shakers.
Original works by Kentucky artists that use this history as a subject, focal or starting point will be considered.
This exhibit is open to any medium in 2-D or 3-D formats. Works can be functional or non-functional, with maximum dimensions of 4 feet in height or width. As part of this exhibit, artists will be asked to write about the particular Kentucky history that inspired their work and give some background and insight into their creative processes.
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Amnesty abortion report details 'human rights violations' in Ireland
An extensive report published by Amnesty into Ireland's abortion regime has found the country is not complying with its international human rights obligations.
The report, 'She Is Not A Criminal: The impact of Ireland's abortion law', says that Ireland's abortion laws are putting women and girls at risk every single day.
Every day, between 10 and 12 women and girls living in Ireland travel to England for an abortion, the report says.
These women, the international human rights organisation said, are being treated like criminals and stigmatised under some of the most restrictive laws around abortion in the world.
The 8th Amendment should be repealed, it is the source of Ireland's restrictive abortion regime and the human rights violations that follow
— Amnesty Ireland (@AmnestyIreland) June 9, 2015
"The findings of this report reveal violations of fundamental human rights," Amnesty says. "These rights include the right to life, the right to be free from torture and other ill-treatment, the right to privacy, the right to health, the right to determine the number and spacing of children, and the right to information, and the right to non-discrimination.
"The issues described in this report demonstrate that Ireland is not implementing its international obligations to respect, protect and fulfil these rights."
The report adds that "many of the specific human rights violations highlighted [in this report] are rooted in discriminatory and harmful stereotypes of women and girls."
just launched @AmnestyOnline report - on #Ireland's abortion laws. #notacriminal https://t.co/CSl9PrsGHv pic.twitter.com/kf8LEnt3WY
— Salil Shetty (@SalilShetty) June 9, 2015
"Ireland's law, which allows for the punishment of women and girls undergoing abortion as well as the doctors providing abortions, is in violation of international human rights law, regardless of whether or not the law is applied.
"The Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, along with other UN treaty bodies, have called for the removal of punitive measures for abortion, in Ireland and elsewhere."
Only allowing abortion if the woman's life is at risk, Ireland's abortion law is one of the "most restrictive" in the world, forcing at least 4,000 women and girls to travel outside the country for an abortion every year at considerable mental, financial and physical cost.
Women and girls who cannot travel are left without access to necessary health treatment, or risk criminal penalties if they undergo illegal abortions at home.
Ireland's abortion law in numbers, via @AmnestyIreland pic.twitter.com/zqU7RFXAap
— Órla Ryan (@orlaryan) June 9, 2015
"The recent Marriage Equality referendum showed a country that prides itself on being an open and inclusive society, but all is not well in the Republic of Ireland. The human rights of women and girls are violated on a daily basis because of a constitution that treats them like child-bearing vessels," said Amnesty International's Secretary General Salil Shetty.
"Women and girls who need abortions are treated like criminals, stigmatized and forced to travel abroad, taking a serious toll on their mental and physical health. The Irish state can no longer ignore this reality, and the appalling impact it is having on thousands of people every year."
As well as a change to the laws surrounding abortion, Amnesty are also calling for the law - which makes it a crime for doctors and counsellors to give women information about how to get a safe abortion - to be repealed.
In #Ireland a woman or doctor can get 14 years in jail for an abortion #notacriminal pic.twitter.com/LaT1tMYyEV
— Amnesty Ireland (@AmnestyIreland) June 9, 2015
"Ireland's draconian laws have created a climate of fear where counsellors can be fined for telling women how to seek medical care, and as a result some women are avoiding doctors altogether," said Colm O'Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland.
"Ireland turns a blind eye when women travel abroad for abortions, and is indifferent to the suffering involved. It condemns the weak, poor and vulnerable who cannot travel to become criminals for making decisions about their bodies, decisions which sometimes are a matter of life and death.
The personal testimonies & the account of Miss Y case by her lawyer in @AmnestyIreland #notacriminal report are frightening #repealthe8th
— Dearbhail McDonald (@DearbhailDibs) June 9, 2015


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Corki Build Guide by Mohitoz
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Corki Build
Ability Sequence
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The masteries shown here are not yet updated for the current season, the guide author needs to set up the new masteries. As such, they will be different than the masteries you see in-game.
Pros / Cons
-After you get the Trinity force your ulti will damage alot
-Corki deals a huge amount of damage in teamfights
-Corkis ulti is good for poking
-Your ulti drains alot of mana
-After using Valkyrie you are vulnerable so watch out
-When you play Adc you have to farm alot
-Gatling gun is a good farming ability
-Use your ulti on bigger minion waves
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-When you play Corki in ranked be focused all the time
-Poke/Harass the enemy as much as possible
-Farm alot
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Finance is a branch of applied economics which studies monetary and financial decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Firms and investors utilize various instruments and institutions to manage the transfer of funds from those who save to those who invest in regulated markets.
The concentration in finance should include principles and concepts of micro- and macroeconomics, accounting, and legal aspects of business. Problem solving in finance uses advanced quantitative methods, including statistical analysis and often calculus.
The finance function consists of assessing the financial horizon, utilizing quantitative and analytical tools and methodologies. The concentration typically will include one or more studies which focus on the firm as the generator of financial instruments and on the valuation of those instruments. In addition, students should comprehend tools and analysis used by businesses to make their financial decisions (e.g., Corporate Finance, Financial Management). Building on this, students explore financial instruments and valuation and investment of those instruments (e.g ., Investments, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management). Knowledge of financial markets — both domestic and international — is crucial for full understanding of funds transfers in the global economy (e.g., Money and Banking or Financial Markets and Institutions and International Finance). In the current financial arena, an understanding of ethical and social responsibility is imperative. Sophisticated financial modeling software and electronic spreadsheets are used in "real world" simulations using advanced quantitative skills and methodologies, which might include econometrics.
Students seeking a broad-based finance career should build competencies in the topics listed above through a combination of experience, studies and/or internships. Students are encouraged to take an integrative (capstone) study to assimilate their knowledge of finance. The capstone might integrate prior knowledge and create pathways to the professional work.
There are various career opportunities in finance. Among them are:
For students wishing to study finance as a path to corporate management, many of the studies in the management or business administration concentrations (such as accounting, strategic management and leadership) are also appropriate. Other students might wish to focus more on the theory of finance and would find additional studies in economics, corporate finance, portfolio theory and research methods appropriate. Those interested in a more "Wall Street"- focused career might consider international accounting, risk analysis and symbolic logic.


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to list the contents of a directory by placing a
semicolon before a filename with a mapped extension.
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I Don't Want to Live My Life In A Working Haze
I don't want to look back after 20 years and think, what the hell did I do in all that time? Was the most important thing I got done something that someone else directed me to do? Did I let the time pass by in a haze of commuting, drive-thru meals, meetings, paperwork and stuff that deep down or not so deep-down I think is a bunch of bullshit? Because let's be honest, I think most stuff is bullshit, nothing is worth getting too serious and worked up about, and yet I find myself getting worked up on a daily basis, sitting at my desk, doing things that someone else is telling me to do. I need to wake up early enough to see the sunrise, to catch the glint of the morning sun as it rises over the landscape. I don't want to get stuck in the rut of sleeping till the last minute, waking up to a frantic fifteen minutes of get-dressed-walk-the-dogs-brush-teeth-chug-OJ and get out the door to jump into the car for a 45 minute commute, work mindlessly all day, sit back in traffic for another hour to get home, and then try to cram a bunch of activities in the next four hours of the evening before I pass out again, having skipped at least 4 of the "must do today" tasks on my list, to repeat that same day four more times before the weekend hits. I've done that routine before. It drove me crazy. I fell into a mindless routine and spending money was the only escape. But there are so many opportunities in the day I just described. It's easy to miss them [wake up early to work out] [take a morning walk for a break] [bring a book or journal to study or write at lunch][take advantage of work at home and non-commute options] and I think I have been for the past few weeks. So I have to remind myself to not work myself into a foggy haze. To not let someone else do my thinking and not take any initiative. To not question my own abilities. To not let writing fall to the wayside because "I'm tired" (must be said in a pouty voice, with hands on hips). I can do everything on my plate and much, much more. I'm ready for the next big challenge.
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I have never been happier.
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Carved from wax and inspired by mourning rings from a time past with a focus on the living this time around. The skeleton duo is set amongst stars and the moon, ever existent, engraved within is the phrase, "The Nature of Things."
"The sun shines on all and all alike, It's not surprising that we feel good when we immerse ourselves in nature."
―Lucretius,The Nature of Things, 1st c. BCE.
'Poesy' or 'posy' rings received their name from the French word 'poésy' meaning 'poetry,' indicative of the poetic mottos with which they were engraved. They became popular in the 16th century through the 18th century as lovers' gifts and wedding bands, but were also frequently given as a sign of friendship or loyalty.
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Located at beach 24 kilometers of the most picturesque Bay of Banderas, the hotel offers a variety of services and recreational options to make the holidays enjoyable. The architecture of the Hacienda style hotel with a blend of exceptional beauty. The resort is ideal for families or couples.
The attractive beach hotel is 30 m away from the centre of Puerto Vallarta. The Plaza Para�so is located 3 km away, whilst Bucer�as flea market is 8 km from the hotel. The shopping centre is a 10-minute drive away and the centre of Bucer�as is roughly a 15-minute drive from the hotel. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz international airport lies 17 km from the hotel.
Spacious and comfortable rooms overlooking the garden or the sea, equipped with cable TV, individually controlled air conditioning, clock radio, telephone with voice mail, ironing kit and complimentary amenities.
There are 1 heated swimming pools (the largest in the area) in the outdoor complex as well as a pool/ snack bar, a children's paddling area, sun loungers and parasols. Further leisure options include aerobics, basketball, volleyball, beach volleyball, billiards, shuffleboard and a gym. The hotel also organises an entertainment programme for adults and children. The all-inclusive programme additionally comprises dance classes as well as certain sports on the water and the land.
It is possible to book all-inclusive stays.
American Express, MasterCard and VISA cards are accepted as methods of payment.
Leaving the airport take Highway No. 200, drive north to reach the second entrance to Nuevo Vallarta, turn left and continue along Boulevard Nuevo Vallarta to the Avenida Paseo de los Cocoteros. Turn right and the hotel is about 5 minutes later the left side
(not included in package) wave runners, water skiing, travel agency, medical service 24 hours, massage, golf.
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Tips On Choosing Water Restoration Company In St Lucie
You might require flood restoration or water restoration services and it is mainly important to restore your home so that you and your family can live peacefully and safely for several years. It is very critical to choose the best restoration company for your home from the various companies offering the same services in the market.
To select a home repair company in St Lucie for restoring your home from water damages you must ask for references from your friends or search online. In the search box of the search engine you can type as water damage port St Lucie and check the best restoration company from the desired result.
You must follow the below guidelines or strategies when you are in a position to choose the home repair company.
The first thing you have to do is check with your insurance company. Sometimes your insurance provider suggests you the list of restoration companies in your region. You must also be aware that the insurance providers recommend the restoration service providers who normally offer the services at lower cost. If you are not satisfied with the company referred by your insurance provider then you can ignore it and find out the best company that offers you the quality services based on your need.
You can claim the compensation for restoring your home from any of the licensed restoration service providers and it is not always essential to follows the suggestions of the insurance firm.
You must select some restoring firms and find out the history of the company before hiring them. You can find their history details from "About Us" page in their business website. You should not hire the restoration service provider where the service is carried by a single person. You must hire the professional company that has experience in offering the services for several years.
You must hire a reputed repair company in your region so that it is guaranteed to get the expected output. You must check with them the total cost estimate for restoring your home. Most of the companies offer you free cost estimate by visiting your home and analyzing the damages thoroughly.
You must get the price quote from few companies and compare their prices. You must also check whether the firm responds to you promptly for your query either through e-mail or message. The company which responds immediately updates you about your home progress once hired for repair service.
You can also check the qualification and training for the experts working in the company. The company must use proper equipments for repair service. Only the trained and skillful staff will offer the efficient services. The professional restoration company must have a fantastic team of experts who are both talented and offer quality services to their customers.
You must get solid coverage for your insurance plan from the restoration company you are hiring. A good restoration company helps you in the documentation process and takes care of the entire process from filling the documents till you submit the form with the required documents. You must check all these factors before selecting a home repair company.


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Breakwater Condos
Breakwater is a detached condominium gated community located on the north end of Pelican Bay off of North Point Dr. Constructed in the late 1990's, Breakwater has 216 residences and offers two floor plans with living area from 1,700 to just over 1,800 square feet.
Breakwater features a community swimming pool, spa, sauna and fitness room as well as a recently remodeled clubhouse. Views from the units at the Breakwater consist of lake front, protected preserve and beautifully landscaped areas.
Breakwater Pelican Bay condo owners are permitted to lease their homes up to three times a year with a 30 day minimum each. Breakwater is also pet friendly, allowing homeowners to keep a conservative number of pets with no size or weight limits but they are required to carry or keep animals on a leash outside their premises.
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Microwave Serimuka Kueh Recipe-Reduced Sugar/Fat
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I found this recipe on the internet, made it and lowered the fat/sugar ingredients.
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- 1 cup glutinous rice
- 1 cup water
- 3 cups light coconut milk
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons cornflour
- 6 tablespoons plain flour
- 2 eggs (or 4 egg whites)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon green food coloring
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- Soak glutinous rice for 5-10 minutes.
- Drain glutinous rice of water.
- Add 1 cup of coconut milk and 2 cup of water to the rice.
- Microwave rice for 5 mins on high.
- While rice is in microwave: mix cornflour, flour, egg, sugar and 2 cups of coconut milk together.
- Add colouring to the mix.
- Check rice after microwave is done, if required add more water, microwave for an additional 5 mins on high.
- Put the rice on a tray of desired size and shape and press it down until firm.
- Pour the green mixture over the rice.
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An employee at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago was charged with identity theft after allegedly using the personal information of patients for the past four years to pay her personal bills, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Shatina Golden, 35, of Matteson, Ill., has worked at the hospital for the past four years and is charged with aggravated identity theft and identity theft, the Cook County State's Attorney's office says, according to the Tribune.
Police in the village where Golden lives began investigating after municipal officials reported suspicious activity in Golden's payments for her water bill, according to the Tribune.
Credit card companies helped police tie some of Golden's bill payments to a lab at Northwestern, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. All of the victims, including some battling cancer, had gas, electric or phone accounts opened in their names, the Sun-Times reports.
When authorities searched Golden's home, they found documents that included Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and dates of birth of more than 50 patients, the Tribune reports the state's attorney's office says.
If convicted, Golden could face up to seven years in prison, according to the news organization.
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Think You Can't Measure the Value of Social Media? Think Again.
About a month ago, I had an identity crisis. I am an account manager at a firm that does social media marketing for small businesses, and I had all but tweeted myself into burnout.
I swear, I would think, drowning amidst Google Alerts and the ever-updating Hootsuite feeds, if I have to cleverly craft one more status update … It's a wonder one of our clients didn't end up "getting' slizzard" with the Red Cross. Even for people that love social media, the feeling of being trapped in a bottomless pit can get overwhelming.
In the end, a break wasn't even what I needed — I just needed to know there was a point to the hours and hours of work. While I had noticed great uptakes in engagement with our accounts, I had no way of knowing whether the comments and follower counts were actually doing anything. Was there a social side to social media?
I asked one of our clients, a wedding venue, if I could write a case study on our work. "Did we increase sales?" I asked with the aggressive urgency of an investigative reporter. "If not sales, then business leads? How has business changed since you started working with us?"
The results shocked me. In nine short months, business leads and online requests for more information about the client increased 600 percent. Actual bookings increased by 1,000 percent. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I ended the phone call and smiled deeply as I breathed a sigh of validation. My hard work was worth it, oh so very worth it.
Why did it work?
1,000 percent is obviously an almost surreal number, and admittedly this is partly due to the fact that the client had not been marketing itself previously. Still, what business wouldn't kill for these results in just nine months?
It's also interesting to note that the client does not spend money on any form of marketing outside social media, and our firm does not cheat. We didn't Beverly Hillbilly our way to success — this wasn't luck. We also don't engage in this auto-follow or follower.me funny business. The results came organically, and while I'd love to take the glory for my brilliantly crafted tweets and statuses, much of the credit goes to our client.
Why? The client came to us with goals. Business goals, not social media goals: increase sales, increase business leads, and rebrand away from the weddings-only clientele. This allowed us to form a strategy to meet those goals. While I had to proactively seek the proof of results, I always knew what to post, why we were posting it and what themes to play up each week.
Curious, and with a new found confidence in social media ROI, I sought out other companies that achieved bottom line results with purely social media marketing. Very quickly I found Freshfully, an Alabama-based CSA. I contacted their CMO, asking for trade secrets. Within 30 seconds, I got my answer:
"Before we do anything," said the CMO, "we write down our goals."
The déjà vu was uncanny.
What does this mean for you?
Marketing, advertising, PR, customer service. These C-suite elements have two things in common:
1) Their functions can all be accomplished extremely well with social media
2) They're pointless if they don't contribute to business bottom lines.
No marketer or corporate communication officer would report to his CEO that "more people know about our company, but we're not sure what that means."
These execs prove their worth with revenue. There are other things, such as public sentiment, but any good marketing officer knows that his strategies exist solely to support the goals of the business. It's the same with social media.
Want to get 500 followers? Who cares? Want to get 500 followers, ask those followers what they want to see in a product, create that product, and then persuade those followers to purchase the product? Now we're talking.
What are your goals for social media? If you can't list them out right now, you've got some time to spend at a drawing board.
Are you looking for more information on how to maximize your business and sales potential through social media? Check out our 3-day Social Media Boot Camp or click here to receive more information on all of our marketing training and services.
About the author: Joseph Havey is the Director of Social Media for the Triangle-based Shelten Media, LLC, a start-up company specializing in social media marketing. He is a member of N.C. State's PRSSA chapter, and writes for the school newspaper, Technician. In his free time, he trains for triathlons.