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Human Reproduction PowerPoint PresentationIntroduction:Well, it is that time—yes, time for that talk. For this activity, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation about human reproduction. You are to pretend that the presentation is what you will use to give your son or daughter "the talk" about human reproduction. Make sure you use correct terminology. If you have never created a PowerPoint presentation, make sure you view the CSU Success Center videos suggested in the unit learning activity.Your presentation must include the following:- overall purpose of the reproductive systems;- information about the male and female systems including:-at least two visual aids illustrating the two systems, and-structure and function of the major organs of both male and females systems;-methods of practicing "safe sex" and preventing pregnancy; and- STDs.Be sure to follow the formatting guidelines provided below:- Use bulleted information on slides (5 lines or less).- Include details in the speaker's notes.—Include a separate title slide and a separate reference slide.- Use appropriate font and backgrounds.- Include at least nine slides, but not more than 15 slides (not counting your title slide or reference slide).- Use correct APA format for references and citations, and use correct grammar and spelling.- Upload the presentation as a .ppt or .pptx file.


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A childhood photo of Deisy Del Real.
When I was six, my family left Mexico to immigrate to the United States. At that time, I craved only three simple things in life. I wanted to eat lots of candy, attend school with my friends, and work on my family's farm with my dad. My parents never had money for candy, but I found ways to fulfill my other two desires. Whenever hard times hit our family, my father would say, "Deisy, you are de jinetes. You must be strong."
In these moments my dad was asking me to tap into the strength of my jinete ancestors. As legend has it, I come from a lineage of Maghrebian horsemen, Northwest African men and women who crossed three continents in search of fertile land. This legend would continue with my great-great-grandfather, who brought my ancestors to Mexico in the era of the Mexican Revolution. During this time, the rural elite of the country buried barrels filled with gold coins called reales in the ground. They had hoped to dig up the currency and regain their wealth once the revolution ended. In 1914, after Pancho Villa had defeated the federales in Zacatecas and was making his way to Mexico City, my great-great-grandfather found one of these mythical barrels. He changed our family's name to Del Real, after these gold coins.
While the legend of my great-great-grandfather's riches lived in our hearts, there was no evidence of his wealth in our lives. The North American Free Trade Agreement made it impossible for my family to compete with the government-subsidized agribusinesses in the United States. My parents could not sell their crops at a competitive rate, and poverty struck our family. Farming could no longer sustain our livelihood, so like the Maghrebis before us, my parents started their search for better land.
I was only six years old when, after a long day of working in the cornfields, my father dyed my blonde hair black to prepare for our migration to the US. A few days later, his siblings arrived from California. They separated my immediate family into strategic units for the border crossing. I was sent with an aunt whom I had never met before, and I was instructed to call her Mom. My two younger siblings were given to other aunts and uncles.
We were too poor to ever qualify for a US visa, so we immigrated to the US the only way we could: without authorization. When my family set out to cross the Mexico-US border, we did not know if we were going to see each other on the other side. We did not know whether one of us was going to be discovered and detained. My dad's siblings were risking arrest, and my dad was risking death. "Suffering is necessary," my father told me before we parted ways; it was the only way that we would find our own reales.
Over the next few weeks, my immediate family slowly reunited in Los Angeles. The last one of my family members to arrive was my father, who had crossed the border by foot. Two immigration officers had chased and beat him, but luckily he had escaped their detention. As a family united, we began to live in my aunt's small garage, where we would remain for several years.
When I was 13, I began to dream of college. To prepare, I decided to apply to a collegepreparatory program. There was one small problem, though: the program required a copy of my Social Security card. When I asked my parents for a copy of my card, they frantically told me that I did not have one. While struggling with their own fears, my parents asked me to lower my expectations, to avoid becoming completely shattered by my unrealistic dreams. They encouraged me to finish high school so that I could get a black-market job in order to help them provide for my siblings.
I quickly learned that being an undocumented immigrant meant that I would not qualify for financial aid and would have to pay for college on my own. Desperate for a solution, I called my father's boss to ask for a job at the factory. At the early age of 13, I joined the electronic assembly line next to a proud father who saw me as his safety net—the key to the family's survival if he was to be deported. Filled with remorse, I did not tell him that I was saving to pay for my own college education.
At the factory, I befriended other hardworking undocumented individuals who were worried about getting deported or separated from their children. In their company, I discovered a new kind of fear, one so real that absolutely nothing felt safe. If I ever did feel comfortable, the anti-immigrant headlines on the news announcing efforts to "deport illegals" served to remind me of my vulnerability. I was aware that anybody who found out about my immigration status could, with one phone call, have my entire family deported.
People would tell me to live in the moment, but they did not realize that every moment for me was filled with a real threat of being separated from my family. I was scared that one of us would get sick and be forced to endure, or die from, a curable illness because we could not access regular medical care. I feared that if my dad lost his job, we were a few misfortunes away from becoming homeless. My life could unravel at any moment.
As I got older, my perspective started to change. I realized that even though I was undocumented, because of my education, I had more privileges than my parents. I had become fluent in English, and I had learned about US history, US government structures, and social movements. I also realized that my friends who were US citizens were also struggling; many were dropping out, joining gangs, or finding out that our inner-city education was not preparing us very well for college.
As a way to expand my horizons, I began to work with Digital Migrant, a documentary filmmaking program that focused on the lives of four undocumented hotel workers who had become union leaders. A woman named Lupe, the only female leader on the team, left a deep impression on me. Despite being poor, undocumented, and a single mother, Lupe embraced life with enthusiasm and fearlessness. Her ferocious spirit helped me see that amid the legal barriers we faced, we undocumented immigrants could be powerful. This power that I discovered while among the hotel union leaders sunk in slowly—a part of me believed it, and the other part was facing a hopeless reality.
When senior year of high school started, I had barely saved enough money to cover one year of year of community college. But soon, without my even realizing it, things began to change. My efforts to improve my life and the lives of others slowly cultivated a network of allies. My college counselor, who knew about my social and creative campaigns, nominated me for a merit-based scholarship to attend Grinnell College, a liberal arts institution in Iowa, which eventually gave me a fulltuition scholarship.
A group of Deisy's close friends at Grinnell College.
Deisy and her mother at her college graduation.
At Grinnell, I realized that immigration is a fractured system and that I could help others navigate the process. I immediately began working with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) to help create a statewide network of undocumented students in California.
In 2005, during my time at Grinnell, my family received a notice from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services informing us that, after waiting for 16 years, our case was going to be reviewed. For me, the excitement was short-lived. Soon after we received the notice, I realized that I would age out of my family's application for permanent residency when I turned 21, which was in two months. This would mean that I could be deported and banned from reentering the US for ten years. In other words, the immigration officer, one person, could destroy everything I spent a decade cultivating.
When I told Angelica Salas, the director of CHIRLA, about my situation, she asked if I would be willing to share my story before the media. My parents objected; they were afraid that calling attention to myself would lead to my being deported before our immigration interview. But I was tired of being scared, and more than anything, I wanted to tell my story so that other undocumented immigrants would know that they were not alone.
Deisy's adopted Buddhist grandmother, Elso Kanagawa, and Deisy at her high school graduation.
I started out talking to reporters and college groups. Then, one afternoon, Angelica asked me to join a social justice bus tour that CHIRLA had organized for tourists visiting Los Angeles. I explained to the tour group that I was just a nerdy student—just a human being who had struggled to get into college and wanted to stay in the country to get my degree and give something back. If I got deported without a degree, I had no idea how I was going to survive in Mexico by myself. I was scared.
At the end of my talk, an elderly man with silver hair introduced himself to me as Craig Clark. He was a priest from New Mexico. "Your story really moved me; we need to keep you in this country," he said as he handed me his business card. "Please contact me and count on my support," he told me as he hugged me. Later that week he wrote to tell me that he was mobilizing several religious congregations under the campaign he had named Saving Miss Deisy. In case I received a deportation order, they were getting ready to fight to keep me in the US. In that same tour, a lawyer also offered his services to help with my case. A second lawyer joined my family for our immigration interview, and it was there that our legal counsel successfully convinced immigration services to grant us permanent residency.
I have been a legal resident of the US for nine years now. In 2014, I became a US citizen. Over the past decade, I have been searching for ways to heal from the scars of my undocumented life and to find ways to share what I learned with other immigrants. My search for healing and for solutions to improve the broken immigration system has led me to work in other countries that are recovering from political oppression.
I have worked with the children of the Khmer Rouge survivors in Cambodia. Additionally, I have lived among former political refugees in Argentina, and I have worked with immigrant rights organizations that serve migrants across the world. Through my work and travels, I have met many other oppressed people who are also struggling to find ways to take care of their loved ones.
The 16 years that I was undocumented taught me that even in the most fertile soil, not everybody can have access to opportunities. Arbitrary legal, immigration, class, and ethnic boundaries leave millions of people barely surviving in the margins of society. My father was right that suffering is inevitable, but suffering should not be legalized. I also understand that I could not have thrived in this country if it were not for the kindness of people I met along the way.
So instead of searching for my own barrel of gold, I am dedicating my life to finding policy solutions that will expand the rights, protections, and opportunities of immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless people around the world. I hope that my work and the work of other immigrant rights activists will help the millions of other jinetes find a place where they too can thrive.
Story by Deisy Del Real (2011 Fellow), PhD candidate at UCLA

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Some serious pre-China anxiety setting in. I am — despite my aura of world-seasoned, globetrotting, time-zone scoffing meanderings — a hater of change and a serious agoraphobic who needs a Rainman-like routine to survive. Here is my home from August 5 through the 26th. The Beijing Grand Empark.
This place looks like the dollhouse for Hello Kitty and the rest of the Sanrio menagerie. With nighttime lighting like this they should play steam calliope music through tin bullhorns at all hours. The number one amenity of the Empark is this mysterious feature, the "Underground Non-Night City:"
"The underground non-night city features various shops, gourmet street, super market, indoor swimming pool, recreational centre, beauty salon, KTV, sauna, night club, DISCO, etc."
Along with "KTV" I need to figure out this mystery activity as soon as I arrive:
"Tennis Court / Pool Tables / Physical jerks / Badminton"
The Empark is way on the western side of the city (if the Forbidden City and Tienanmen Square are the center of Beijing, then the Empark is out at 9'o'clock), south of the Summer Palace in Shijingshan. I used Lenovo's Olympic venue mashup of Google Maps to locate the place and orient myself in relation to the rest of the action. It's not in Outer Mongolia, but the Empark doesn't look like its in the heart of the action, which I predict will be more to the east around Chaoyang and the embassies. On the plus side, the hotel is near the baseball park, so if I can score some ballgame tickets, I'll be close.
Travel around the city is not an easy thing when the Olympics aren't in town, and even with even/odd driving restrictions in place, this is not a great city for a non-Chinese speaker to simply leap into a cab and issue directions. Indeed, I usually get a card with the hotel address in the appropriate characters and laminate the sucker to show to cab drivers when I get lost. Beijing is not a walker's city — not in the Manhattan sense of the work — although one can definitely get some good strolls in around around the Forbidden City, a cross-town expedition is not recommended due to the sheer vastness of the megapolis.
My big concerns, as always pre-trip, are the adequacy of the gym, the conduciveness of the neighborhood to walking (I am an incessant walker when stressed out), and food. To give you a sense of how weird I am, I have eaten, with very few exceptions, the same breakfast for the last four months — steelcut oatmeal with apple sauce and almonds, two slices of Canadian bacon, a teaspoon of codliver oil, and two cup of Peet's French Roast cofee, black. That's it. No eggs. No pancakes. Beijing is the land of congee for breakfast — a favorite of mine — and the weirdest bacon (very tasty) I've seen outside of the US. As for the gym, I'll bring my jump rope, new ultra-ugly Nike IDs, and the Crossfit list of hotel-room routines to try to stay on the fitness bandwagon.
I will say I'm psyched not to be at the usual Lenovo hotel — the Loong Palace (aka "The Lonely Palace") which is way north of the city near the company's offices in Haidan — a perfectly fine place to sleep, but per the nickname, pretty much in the middle of nowhere out on the Baidaling Expressway which leads to the Great Wall.
I need to get my affairs in order on this cloudy Cape Cod day and start packing for 21 days out of my normal routine. I don't think the TSA is going to be cool with me packing a pint of Norweigan cod liver oil ….. Imagine how freaked out an athlete must get when traveling to a foreign venue? US athletes brought their own food to Rome in 1960 and half of the squad got dysentery from eating unwashed fruit. I can only imagine how freaked out some over-trained specimen must feel about getting settled into a new timezone, bed, diet, and air quality before trying to perform in the most important competition of their lives. I guess the lucky ones are those athletes who perform in what Uncle Fester calls the "Smoking Sports" — sports where one could, if dumb enough, smoke a butt while participating. Sailing comes right to mind (what I would pay for a picture of some Olympic sailors on the downwind leg cracking open Budweisers and lighting Camels in the wind like Cotuit Skiff sailors in the Sunday afternoon Informal series) along with shooting (Billy Bob with a shotgun taking aim at clay pigeons with a Merit menthol hanging from his lip) and maybe bowling (except bowling isn't an Olympic sport). The athletes with the freakish metabolisms and the V02 max ratings up in Lance Armstrong territory – they must have a hellish time dealing with travel and staying competitive. I get stressed thinking about it.
Okay, back to my second-to-last day off, some paperwork and bills, tomorrow I'll start packing and worrying about my own details.


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In recent years, residents and voters of the battleground state of Florida have faced their share of challenges — from the controversial presidential election of 2000 that required a vote recounting and the U.S. Supreme Court before a clear winner could be determined (George W. Bush won by 537 votes over Al Gore), and GOP Gov. Rick Scott both shortening the early voting period and getting rid of a favorite among Black voters, "Souls at the Polls" Sunday voting, to the tragic deaths of two 17-year-old Black boys, Travon Martin (February 2012) and Jordan Davis (November 2012).
And while the 2018 congressional elections don't take place for another year and a half, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has already targeted 79 GOP-held districts that they believe they can take. However, some Floridians believe victory won't come without the on-the-ground efforts of the state's sole organization representing the African-American members of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Black Caucus of Florida.
The Caucus, founded in 1983 in order to increase voter participation and to unite and increase political power for Black Democrats, once ignored by state party officials, gathered in Orlando last weekend for their 35th annual conference where they elected new officers, met with leading Democrats from Florida and the U.S. and began to strategize for the upcoming midterm elections.
Bill Nelson, 74, a Miami native and a career politician, has represented the state as a U.S. senator since 2000. He told the Caucus members that they must stay the course in this age of Trump.
"You can go down the list and see that Donald Trump wants to push through legislation that will not reflect our interests," he said. "Health care, Medicare and Social Security are being threatened. We can't let that happen. I had considered retiring but realized that this is not the time. There's too much at stake," Nelson added, who previously served six terms in the Florida Legislature.
Val Demings, 60, a first-term member of the House for Florida's 10th congressional district, challenged the Caucus during their gala on Sat., May 20, where she and other speakers focused their remarks on economic empowerment and community politics.
"This country is on fire and there are efforts to close the gate, to make us go back — I refuse to go back," said Demings, who previously served as Orlando's first Black female chief of police. "This president doesn't have a clue of the magnitude of his job or the crucial role that government plays in the lives of Americans. We lost in 2016. Some of us were unable to get out of bed on Nov. 9 (the day after the presidential election). But we had to get up. We'd better wake up."
New York Assemblyman Michael Blake, 35, lives in and represents the Bronx, formerly serving in several capacities for Barack Obama from 2008 to 2012. He said complaining about the Republican agenda won't change things.
"We can moan all we want but if we want to take back the House, the Senate and the White House, we have to do more than promise voters that we'll change policies," he said. "Folks want to make sure they have food on their tables and a roof over their heads. They want to enjoy life just a little and know their children have a future. What we have to do is vote their butts [Republicans] out of office."
Other guest speakers included: Judy Mount, vice chairman, Democratic National Committeewoman, the first Black woman to hold the position; Commissioners Charles Smith and Dale V.C. Holness; and Art Rocker, chairman, Operation People for Peace, Inc.
The Caucus, with a statewide membership of 742, had 194 credentialed voters cast their ballot on early Saturday. Henry Crespo Sr., the president for the past four years and credited with bringing new energy and focus to the Caucus, handed over the reins to Lydia Hudson, a Tampa Bay resident, elected by 2 to 1 margin. The other new officers include: Russell Drake, 1st vice; Glenda Alfred-Atkins, 2nd vice; Hazel Gillis, secretary; and Cornelle Maxfield, treasurer.
"Leadership isn't always easy and sometimes we make some mistakes, but no one can ever question our commitment," Hudson said. "Working beside Henry during his terms as president has allowed me to travel this state and better understand the needs of Black communities in Florida. We're going to continue the work he began. And we're going to make our voices and our votes heard."


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Otherwise Unseeable
Betsy Sholl
Four Lakes Prize in Poetry
Ronald Wallace, Series Editor
Winner of the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize
Winner, Maine Literary Award, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
What if ruin is a good thing? What if each day is built on the ruin of the one before? What if all our attempts to avoid ruin only make us bitter or closed off from what's around us? What if only by exploring our ruins do we become human?
The poems in Otherwise Unseeable examine such questions. It is a poetry full of music and surprise, in voices that are personal, invented, and historical, sometimes belonging to the poet and sometimes to others. Betsy Sholl probes what there is still to learn from the devastations of the twentieth century, and she explores the roots of human envy, greed, and generosity in lively, unexpected ways, enacting the kinds of arguments we have with ourselves: between control and relinquishment, grief and ecstasy, regret and acceptance, faith and skepticism. The end result is a book of verbal wrestling, a girl-Jacob mixing it up with one kind of angel or another, limping for sure, but still blessed.
Betsy Sholl is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Late Psalm and Don't Explain, 1997 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. A former poet laureate of Maine, Sholl teaches at the University of Southern Maine and in the MFA Program of Vermont College. She lives in Portland, Maine.
"Whether in praise or in mourning, what bears these poems up is Sholl's wonderful ear for the music within language. . . . Sholl has a way of making words crackle and sing over an otherwise silent page."
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"For a good four decades now, Betsy Sholl has been producing a poetry of stern self-reflection, risky lyrical fluency, and a deeply empathetic social consciousness. With Otherwise Unseeable, she gives us her finest collection thus far, a book which has refined itself into something I can only call wisdom—sometimes rueful, sometimes fierce. This is work in which, as one poem memorably puts it, we must 'unlatch our wounds and love our ruins.'"
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"Otherwise Unseeable is faithful, as is all [Sholl's] work, to the contradictions we live with from day to day. These deeply earned, masterful poems take in the full range of human nature, looking unflinchingly at human evil and human suffering, while also acknowledging the ground-note of joy that waits to be heard in our daily lives. Sholl's poems can be elegiac and mournful; they can riff and fly on the force and spirit of their own language as they chart a path between despair and hope, making seeable what is 'otherwise unseeable,' as they give us glimpses of a 'kingdom' which is always here and always to come."
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Final Ford Falcon, Territory Roll Off the Line in Australia
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The final Ford Falcon and Territory have rolled off the Broadmeadows line in Australia, marking an end to 91 years of Ford manufacturing in the land of Oz. The last four vehicles to be produced—a Falcon XR6 sedan, XR6 Turbo Ute, XR6 Sprint, and a Territory Titanium—will be auctioned off on October 15 for charity.
Ford announced the shuttering of its Australian manufacturing operations in 2013. The closures mean slashing about 1200 jobs between the Broadmeadows plant and the Geelong Stamping facility, which support production of the Falcon, Falcon Ute, Territory, and Ford Performance Vehicles models.
Reasons behind the decision to end Australian production essentially amount to Ford losing money on it as a result of a strong Australian dollar and stiff competition from Asian imports. Ford Australia lost $583 million between 2008 and 2013.
Similar difficulties soon after prompted the decision to close both General Motors and Toyota manufacturing operations in Australia, placing the entire industry in that country in jeopardy, including supplier companies.
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text: Michael R. Perry is an American television producer, television writer and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Thomas Worthington High School and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His television credits include Eerie, Indiana, New York Undercover, American Gothic, The Practice, Millennium, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (including the episode "Limitations" for which he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series), FreakyLinks, The Guardian, The Dead Zone, House M.D., Persons Unknown, The River (a series he co-created) and NYPD Blue for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. As a screenwriter he wrote the film The Voices[2] and co-wrote the film Paranormal Activity 2.[3]


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It seems like in every draft we see a huge number of Offensive Linemen that get drafted in the middle-to-late rounds (we've looked at a couple already), and most of them have a one or two round range of where they'll most likely fall. Virginia Tech's Nick Becton, however, I've seen someone say third round, and someone say 7th to Free Agent. That's a huge range, so let's find out why.
Becton only started one year for the Hokies, which was last season, but did move around the Offensive Line, playing on both sides and at both Guard and Tackle. He suffered a Turf Toe injury that cost him his 2010 season, and played behind some veteran depth in 2011, playing in every game, just rotating at Tackle with Andrew Lanier, the starter from the previous year. Without having seen him play, I wonder if he dedicated himself in the offseason between his junior and senior seasons to being able to play multiple positions, so he could be on the field all the time. Shows some good initiative if that is the case.
He would be considered an athletic tackle, meaning he can get to the next level well, and pull from one side to the other if he were to kick inside. From reading some scouting reports on him he could use some strength work (19 bench press reps at Combine), but more workout time in the NFL can cure that quickly. This is why some see him as a Day 2 pick, as it's easier to fix strength problems if the work ethic is there, as well as the athleticism. My guess is that spread Offense teams will see him as more valuable.
The Colts could certainly use the position flexibility Becton brings, as would most NFL teams. My guess is the Colts wouldn't have him higher than a 6th rounder, however, as their new offensive style is probably not a match for Becton's strengths. It's really tough to tell with a guy who has only played one full season as a starter, so some team may see a bunch of potential there and take him a few rounds earlier. You see raw prospects get drafted a little higher than they're skill level is on draft day, and I think Becton will be one of those guys. I'm just thinking it won't be with the Colts.
Scouting Profile from NFL.com:
Athletic left tackle prospect with the necessary height and length for the position. Possesses good lateral movement, can deliver a good punch while keeping his feet alive. Stays balanced to cut off the inside lane. Widens his base and anchors quickly against bull rushes. Good mobility to reach the second-level and get out in front of outside runs and quick screens.
Not a dominating lineman in terms of pure strength, though he doesn't have the attitude of a finesse blocker. Sometimes relies on his punch to knock defenders off their route, leaning or stopping his feet in the process. Other times, can he slow to get his hands up, allowing ends and second-level targets to get into his chest.
NFL Comparison
J'Marcus Webb
STRENGTHS: Ideal long-armed frame for the position. Looks quick off the line when asked to release into the flat and set up the screen. Absorbs pass-rush impact with consistent knee bend. Maintains flat back on contact in pass protection. Keeps consistent base width in his kick-slide. Doesn't get overextended off the line, displaying good patience to sit back and punch.
WEAKNESSES: Could get better arm extension as a run blocker on contact, and approaches his target too high at times. Doesn't break down and redirect in space very well, and fails to square up at the second level, often bending at the waist and losing his balance in reaching for his opponent.
COMPARES TO: Frank Omiyale, OL, Seattle Seahawks - Like Omiyale, Becton offers a team versatility to play either tackle or guard. He's technically sound as a pass protector on the outside, but possesses the power to move inside, although he'll need to become more consistent as a run-blocker to start there at the next level. Guys who can consistently protect the edges are extremely valuable in the NFL, which is why I see Becton as a prospect who could be off the board before the fourth round.
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Early Corpus Linguistics and the Chomskyan Revolution.
What is a Corpus and What is in it?
Quantitative Data.
The Use of Corpora in Language Studies.
What you won't find at this website.
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Linguistics Topic
Web pages to be used to supplement the book "Corpus Linguistics"
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ISBN: 0-7486-0808-7 (cased) and 0-7486-0482-0 (paperback)
written by: Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson.
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Hot on the heels of the release of their new album <shutdown.exe>, Los Angeles' industrial rockers 3Teeth played the Gas Monkey Bar n' Grill in Dallas, TX. Paying no mind to the opening acts, I made my way from the bar to the concert area as the band was taking the stage. Playing a set covering songs from their latest release and their 2014 debut self-titled album, the band was louder than hell and ready to set things off from the first note.
Opening with "Divine Weapon" from the shutdown album, the bands intensity was immediate. Frontman Alexis Mincolla, mohawked and mustachioed, led the charge as his bandmates pounded on their instruments relentlessly. While many industrial drummers are relegated to keeping metronomic time, 3Teeth's
Andrew Means Andrew Melendez is certainly the exception. Pummeling his drum kit with abandon, he seemed to trigger both the music and the audience when songs would slow or stop and then resume with an explosion.
Xavier Swafford (keyboards) and Andrew Means (modular synth) were also more than just two guys standing behind their instruments. Swafford, frequently lifting his keyboard from its base and slamming it back down, is probably the most exciting live keyboardist I've seen in recent memory. Likewise, Means also provided some backing vocals as he made sounds that wavered between pure noise and melody. The band is rounded out by guitarist Chase Brawner who stalked the stage with his domineering presence and razor ship riffs. Effortlessly switching between working the crowd and beating on his guitar, Brawner's energy was as strong as the rest of the band.
Certainly, Mincolla pulled most of the crowds attention. Singing, screaming, and generally owning the stage and crowd, he possess the presence that many of his genre peers lack. But, it's truly the passion of the entire band that makes their live show something special. I was a little surprised the crowd wasn't more physical. They were by no means docile, but it really wasn't until the set closer, "Master of Decay" from their debut album, that they seemed to let loose. That said, their chants of "3Teeth, 3Teeth" quickly coaxed the band back onstage for one song encore.
Drawing on influences from 90's industrial music, 3Teeth is not a throwback act. In fact, their brand of industrial is refreshing and fused with a metric shit-ton of anger and energy. Their live performance is likely to win over anyone previously ambivalent to their music. If they're coming to your town, put them on your must-see list.
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With the tennis Championships being just over a month away, Wimbledon is fast becoming a very hot topic. The Londonist.com just released their guide to 'the best places to watch the tennis on a big screen in London' and we're proud to say that our Big Screen on The Piazza was featured at the top of that list! With our deckchairs and comfy lawn getting a special mention, we couldn't agree more that it's a fantastic way to enjoy the tennis in the heart of Wimbledon. We'll be releasing more details soon about what we've got in store for this year, so keep your eyes peeled on our website and social media. What we can guarantee is no costs, no queues, a mighty big screen and a fantastic atmosphere.
We've got an action packed calendar this summer with not just our Big Screen event but also our Ride London Street Party, Monthly Markets, our Summer Sit-Out is returning this year for 3 whole weeks and a brand new app-venture for all the family to enjoy.
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Revised Call for Papers and New Deadline - "II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas."
Revised Call for Papers and New Deadline - "II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas."
July 15-16 (Monday-Tuesday), 2019
Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
The first International Conference, "Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion," held in 2016, was a landmark event for Lascasian scholarship. In response to this success, Providence College is pleased to invite interested scholars to our next gathering in 2019: "II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas."
Conference organizers welcome academic presentations related to the life, labor, and legacy of Bartolomé de Las Casas. We especially encourage proposals that employ Las Casas as a prism for the interpretation of the interaction, expansion, culture, and ancestry of Indigenous people, Africans, Europeans and Asians in the American Hemisphere. The organizers programmed this Lascasian conference to coincide with the III International Conference on the History of the Order of Preachers in America, to be held July 17-19th (Wednesday-Friday) at Providence College (Dominican conference link). Participants can benefit from and contribute to the rich combination of unique research interests afforded by these two international gatherings.
For the Las Casas's Conference, organizers welcome scholarly reflection on the themes of contact, conquest, colonization, and conversion as found in theology, philosophy, law, literature, poetry, theater among other disciplinary approaches. Scholarly panels as well as special plenary sessions by leading scholars are planned. Organizers are planning the publication of a peer-reviewed volume based on revised and extended versions of conference papers.
Call for Papers:
Papers in Spanish, Portuguese, and English are welcomed. Interested scholars, whether presenting an individual paper or collaborating in a panel of three papers, must submit an abstract for each proposal (250-500 word, Microsoft Word, single-spaced, 12pt New Times), and the following:
· Author(s): (maximum of three) including name(s), professional title(s), and affiliation;
· Title of presentation, and relationship to Conference theme(s);
· E-mail and mailing addresses;
· Short biographical note (maximum 200 words).
1) Please email paper proposals before October 31st, 2018. Send your proposal(s) to both Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D. and David Orique, O.P., Ph.D. email@example.com More information and details to follow.
2) Approved proposals will be announced by email on December 15, 2018.
3) Conference oral presentations are limited to 20 minutes (approximate 8 double-spaced pages).
Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
Boston University School of Theology
David T. Orique, OP, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Providence College
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Is Beauty Cultural? (And if so, can I change cultures?)
Margaret is one of the few people I could actually ask why it seems that African women don't seem to have the same hang-ups that Anglo women do about size.
Margaret explained that in Africa size 14 - 18 women are considered more beautiful than say, size 4, because it is healthy. (David-the-Artist-Pastor confirmed that in Uganda, the Western-produced mannequins are added to with wire frames to make them wider and curvier.)
With African-American women there is a beauty that seems to come from within--a confidence that radiates whether size 4 or size fourteen. I know this isn't true across the board, but I'm curious if someone did a sociological study if they wouldn't find that African-American women actually know more about how to be beautiful. Margaret promised we could get together for coffee at some point to talk about it because she has noticed the same phenomenon, but her short e-mail answer was that she believes it is about discovering who you really are. About not conforming to the box that society says you belong in.
I'm curious why we don't give our daughters symbols of what it looks like to be feminine and beautiful in a context that isn't dependent on wearing a smaller size jean. Poor Bethany. I can't do it. I've been dieting since I was twelve and have been everything from size 8 (pre-kids) to a size 18. At a size 12 (right now) I'm still not happy.
I hate it that all the female TV stars change their faces the second season after their show becomes a hit and everyone pretends not to notice. Hate it that young girls have their real breasts torn out and balloons stuffed in so they can be "sexy." (Seriously. Think that one through. Ow.)
But mostly I hate it that I can run, dance, laugh, speak, see...and can't appreciate any of that half the time because I'm so focused on the belly flab or bingo arms. Seriously. What is wrong with me? (Apparently lots.)
If only I could change cultures with a spray tan. It would be cheaper and way less scary than plastic surgery.
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- wishful nals said...
hmmm. very interesting post!
- 2/09/2010
- Ashley said...
Cathy I love this post!! A fad dieter since age 12 am I and what the heck for? I appreciate the women who say- I naturally maintain at this weight and that makes me a size 10,12,14 or whatever and embrace it. I just wish i could erase years of brainwashing. Case in point: I had a Turkey Burger for lunch with my clients. I opted for greens instead of fries and am still beating myself up... figuring out how to get to the gym and what I won't eat to make up for it. Or attempting to tan and get rid of freckles in my teen years...AND WHAT FOR? Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes and complexions. I just wish our western society would get on board as well... and I wish I wasn't such a foolish female that I felt the need to conform to society's version of beauty.
- 2/09/2010
- Cathy_H said...
Can I get in on that French fry action? Seriously. Fried + potatoes... My favorite.
- 2/09/2010
- Angie said...
Hi, I just came across your blog and I love this post. I live in Africa (Mozambique) and what your African friend said is totally true. In this cultural being fat means you are doing well......that you can afford to eat. Being thin is associated with sickness or poverty.
Living outside the US and watching the culture change has been quite interesting. I still fall prey to the "world's" standard of what true beauty is and end up hating myself half the time. God's not pleased with that.
I'm on a quest right now to eat foods that give me energy and trying to exercise to take care of the body God gave me. That is hard because I crave the things that make me feel sluggish - cinnamon rolls, any bread, anything with sugar and chocolate!!!
I'll definitely be back to visit!a
- 2/16/2010


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In Thirteen at Dinner, Jane Wilkinson (Faye Dunaway) , an actress who is associated with a "dumb blonde" persona wants to divorce her husband, Lord Edgeware and asks Poirot (Peter Ustinov) to try and reason with her husband who she says is refusing her a divorce. Poirot, finds to his surprise that Lord Edgeware has long since dropped his objection.
When soon after this, Lord Edgeware's murdered, suspicion falls on Wilkinson who has an airtight alibi, having been at a dinner with twelve other guests. Poirot has to unravel the mystery and find out who really killed Lord Edgeware.
Ustinov had portrayed Poirot in two motion pictures and this was the first of three outings for Television. The decline in overall quality is noticeable. The program is supposed to be set in the 1980s, but it feels like it was only half way updated, giving it a feel that's neither contemporary nor old style.
Faye Dunaway is okay, but not at her best in this film. The appearance of David Suchet as Inspector Japp was a treat, although he doesn't quite fill the bill with this Japp being quite a bit more grumpy and less trusting of Poirot than he's been elsewhere portrayed and much more like the typical police detective. Amanda Pays made a brief appearance. The rest of the supporting cast was no help at all with Jonathan Cecil turning in a weak performance as Captain Hastings.
What ultimately saved the production was the story and the performance of Peter Ustinov as Poirot. And even then, the overall package is mediocre at best.
Rating: 3.25 out of 5.0
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If you're going to play games using RetroArch, you're going to need a proper controller. There are a variety of wired, "classic-style" controllers out there that can offer you a variety of retro experiences, but they all need a driver to work. Fortunately, the Ubuntu repositories have you covered!
First, install the Joystick input driver package:
sudo apt-get install joystick
Next, install the Joystick Configuration package:
sudo apt-get install jstest-gtk
Now you can use
jstest-gtk to configure your settings and calibrate the controller. Everything else is ready to go!


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The Reno program features 19,000 square feet in a natural healing non-institutional environment and offers an industry-leading staff/patient ratio, specialized equipment and intense nursing of up to 10 hours per patient daily. Individualized care plans support patients with brain, spinal cord and other traumatic injuries or medically complex illnesses, and patients in need of a spinal cord injury rehabilitation program.
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For Abelardo Hall Concert Series 2018 Season 1 finale, the U.P. College of Music proudly presents "CHOPIN: BEFORE and BEYOND" A Solo Concert Featuring Albert Tiu.
Described by American Record Guide as "an artist of uncommon abilities", the Filipino pianist is also known for his innovative programming and eclectic repertoire. His recitals, billed "The Classical Elements" (Earth, Air, Water and Fire), "Chopin without Chopin" (music by Godowsky, Busoni and Rachmaninov influenced by Chopin), and "Bee Flat" (the two Sonatas in B-flat by Beethoven) are just a few examples of his inventive recital programs. His 2010 recording "Nocturnal Fantasies", featuring Chopin and Skyrabin was hailed by Gramophone for "performances where heart and mind unite in a deeply affecting union".
Catch the highly acclaimed classical pianist on June 29, 2018 (7PM) at the Abelardo Hall Auditorium.
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14:42 PM, 26th November 2010, About 13 years ago 18
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Buy to let landlords making big rental profits and looking to save tax often flirt with the idea of running their business through a limited company.
The main benefit is a company can be a tax-effective way of managing income.
Profits within the company are taxed at lower rates than top rate income tax and shareholders can manipulate their personal income by declaring dividends at just below the top rate threshold.
For the current tax year that means a full time landlord and his non-working wife could draw £43,875 each from a company before either pays 40% tax.
One of the problems is transferring buy to let properties in to a company.
Assuming a husband and wife own 10 buy to let properties valued at £1.6 million, on the transfer they have to consider capital gains and stamp duty implications.
If a business was to transfer a trading property, like a shop, workshop, or factory in to a company, the property owner could apply incorporation relief to negate the capital gains tax element because the business is a going concern.
Residential property owners cannot benefit from incorporation relief because tax law says although business rules underline how a property investment is taxed, it's still an investment and as such is not a going concern.
Case law supports this view – judges have held that even if landlords work full-time managing their properties, even though the activity comes close to a business, it does not quite hit the mark.
So, transferring a property portfolio in to a company will incur capital gains tax if a gain has been made.
Then comes stamp duty. Expect a hefty bill of 5% of the portfolio value as the transfer is considered a linked transaction and stamp duty is charged at the highest rate on the total value of the portfolio.
And having done away with about a third of the value of the portfolio in tax, do not forget the legal fees involved in the transfer plus hefty mortgage arrangement fees and legal costs that can run to 3%+ of the borrowing as well.
Some accountants and lawyers will argue that claiming incorporation relief on a residential portfolio transfer is not tested in law – which it is not.
The problem is HM Revenue and Customs will only take a look at the matter after the transfer when the deal is too late to unravel – and those same tax advisers will want £10,000 or more of your money in barrister's fees to seek a legal opinion to defend your position.
If you want to make legal history and have money to burn, then you could open the door for many landlords to follow in your footsteps – or you could waste hundreds of thousands of pounds.
If income tax on rental profits is an issue, we have plenty of proven methods for you to reduce it. If you need to sell you need to take advice, especially if your property(ies) have increased in value since you purchased them. If you want to access your capital gains you may not even need to sell.
Before you make any choices it's important to know what choices you have to make.
13:40 PM, 29th November 2010, About 13 years ago
So should buy to let landlords form a Ltd Company before they buy their property portfolio?
13:56 PM, 29th November 2010, About 13 years ago
That's not what we are suggesting.
You may find these posts useful:-
What sort of property business do you run?
Is your property portfolio ownership structure optimised to enable you to pay the minimum amount of CGT, income tax and IHT?
5:07 AM, 30th November 2010, About 13 years ago
Simply move to a no-tax or low-tax CGT duristiction for 5 years to negate CGT liability.
7:44 AM, 30th November 2010, About 13 years ago
I have a property in my Ltd Co name which was initially purchased for refurbishment and sale, however I have decided to keep and manage the property as a BTL within my Ltd Co. I have changed the SIC codes of my business with Companies House on my annual return to reflect this and am now searching re-mortgage BTL deals for this particular property. My Ltd Co. was previously used for my surveying business of which I intend to set up another Ltd Co., so the two are not linked. Does anyone know if this is legal?
9:27 AM, 30th November 2010, About 13 years ago
Thanks for your coments Anon. That would work but it isn't a practicle solution for most people.
9:56 AM, 30th November 2010, About 13 years ago
Our tax and accountancy partner Steve Sims at Yardleystar will be able to answer this question for you. I'll ask him to post his answer here. Alternatively you can call Steve on 01766 780165.
21:40 PM, 30th November 2010, About 13 years ago
With times like these, where my portfolio may be in negative equity, is this not a decent idea to move our (my wife and my) properties into a company?
Where I cannot show a gain (capital gains) due to the deprecated value of the properties, is now not a good time to do it?
And with mortgages that I have on the properties at the moment result in a higher than normal income due to them tracking at good rates, is this not a decent idea that would benefit mean in terms of not paying gains tax, and having a lowered taxation on the property income?
21:49 PM, 30th November 2010, About 13 years ago
Hi Darian
Thank you for your enquiry.
You would need to sell your properties to a company. This might well cost stamp duty depending on values as well as legal fees. Then you would have to repay your existing mortgages and apply for new ones in the company name. The rates are likely to be higher and the company would have to find a substantial deposit. The advantages seem to be far outghweighed by the disadvantages I'm afraid. I suspect you will decide to stick with what you've got. That might not be a bad idea though. See this article
I hope this helps
5:22 AM, 1st December 2010, About 13 years ago
Mark, re Anon's suggestion of moving "to a no-tax or low-tax CGT jurisdiction for 5 years to negate CGT liability", isn't that now in question following some recent Inland Revenue pursuit of a non-resident property owner I read about? If you remain non-resident for tax for 5 years, can you escape CGT on selling BTLs? I have the impression that is no longer enough - you may also need to become non-domiciled and severe any links with the UK that the Revenue could argue show you still have interests there. How do you see the current position on this?
8:21 AM, 1st December 2010, About 13 years ago
Hi David
I think this could be the article you are referring to.
I will check with my tax partner to see if there is more that we can add to the debate and I'll either post a reply here or make an article of it in a future version of Landlord News.
Thanks for your interesting question.
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JOSH WARRINGTON is the new featherweight king of Europe after hammering Davide Diele into fourth round defeat in front of his raucous Leeds faithful.
The 23-year-old – also British and Commonwealth champion – cranked up his high-powered engine from the opening bell, much to the delight of fans in First Direct Arena, and overran his opponent.
"How can I not get fired up with all these fans?" said Warrington. "They are absolutely amazing. I don't know any other place in the country which creates an atmosphere like this.
"It's hard not to get carried away because they get you very fired up, but I use all the energyB from the crowd and take it into the ring. They keep me going from the first bell to the last."
The 35-year-old Italian had no answer for the array of punishment heading his way and he was dropped for an eight-count in the fourth, before a breathless follow-up smothered the life out of his challenge. After the referee halted the fight, Warrington punched the air in delight and revealed a showdown with Welshman Lee Selby is in his sights.
"I'm still learning with every fight," said the 19-0 Warrington. "I'll leave it to the team – I'd fight Nonito Donaire tomorrow but I'll leave it to the team.
"I'm always learning and getting stronger. [Selby] has set out of the traps a little bit quicker than me and he's got a world title eliminator, but I'm hot on his heels. If he gets a world title then I'll be looking to be his first defence but I'll take each fight as it comes."
Ricky Burns failed to impress on his light-welterweight debut despite ending a three-fight winless streak by outpointing Alexandre Lepelley over eight rounds. The former WBO super-featherweight and lightweight boss signalled afterwards that he has some tough decisions to make, and a return to 135lbs is likely.
Brian Rose had an easier time in his first bout since a one-sided loss to WBO light-middleweight ruler Demetrius Andrade. The Blackpool fighter halted Ignacio Fraga in round one.
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The Everyday Art of Staying Alive: Honey Brown Eyes at The Working Theater
The Working Theater has spent the past 25 years producing theater that focuses on the struggles of ordinary people. Their newest production, opening in January on Theater Row, is Stefanie Zadravec's Honey Brown Eyes (Helen Hayes Award recipient for Best Play 2009). Directed by Erica Schmidt, the play depicts the devastation that descends upon middle class people when war tears through the walls. Set in two kitchens, one in Sarajevo and another in Visegrad during the Bosnian war, the play tells the story of Alma, a baker to be played by Sue Cremin, and her brother, Denis, a former musician, to be played by Daniel Serafini-Sauli, as each try to survive another day.
"I never feel like I can write expertly on war at all," says playwright Stefanie Zadravec from her Ditmas Park home, where she lives with her husband and twin boys. Rather than trying to capture the confusing political climate that caused Bosnian Civil War, Zadravec focuses her attention to the human scale, and how individual lives are transformed in the face of historical cataclysms. "I tend to write smaller stories that fit into larger contexts," she says, reflecting on her approach to such a daunting subject. "Originally I wanted to write about the rape camps, but I found the play was more alive in the kitchen."
This familiar setting brings the audience of Honey Brown Eyes in to encounter the relatable occurrences of daily life as they collide with startling violence. Too often, stories of genocide come to us through the media in ways that make it easy to turn them into abstraction. Death tolls and numbers are easily forgotten. Zadravec asks us to rethink the events of war in terms of the small tragedies that beset ordinary people every day. Honey Brown Eyes begins with its main character, Alma, being held at gunpoint as she invites her aggressor, Dragan (Edoardo Ballerini), to join her for a morning cup of coffee. The scene reveals with sickening clarity how atrocity in war becomes ordinary routine.
"There is a sense of distancing and not distancing the audience from what happens. I want to show how we are more similar than different [from Bosnians]," Zadravec comments as she describes the devices the play uses to that effect. The characters speak in the American vernacular without accents, but their stylized speech is undercut by a syncopated laugh track that plays from a small television set that sits on the table. The characters watch Alf and make Cosby Show references which are easily understood by an American audience but have entirely different meanings given the context.
Born to a literary family, Zadravec grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, as the youngest of six children. Her parents met while both writing for the Washington Post, her father a sports writer, her mother a columnist who later became a poet and Emily Dickinson scholar. Zadravec's father was the child of immigrants who grew up speaking Slovenian and Hungarian. Traces of the playwright's heritage can be found in Honey Brown Eyes, from the poetic, rhythmic force of the dialogue to the attention paid to a time and place mostly forgotten by Americans.
The war in Bosnia raged on while the playwright was in college. "It was a war that I grew up on," she recalls, describing her connection to the conflict largely ignored by the international community despite horrific stories of rape camps and ethnic cleansing. After graduating from college, Zadravec came to New York to pursue a career in acting which landed her behind the bar in an Upper East Side restaurant called Lumi, owned by a woman from Kosovo. Staffed primarily by immigrants from that region, there Zadravec became friends with people whose lives had been shattered by a war she had only read about. "Working with them made me aware of my own ignorance," she says. From the first hand accounts of her co-workers, Zadravec came to understand the crushing impact war has on individual civilian lives.
Director Erica Schmidt centers her production of Honey Brown Eyes around the notion that "this could be any kitchen in the world." Schmidt and Zadravec have been working on changes to the play from its previous production at Theater J in Washington, D.C., to create one kitchen where the two narratives from dueling cities collide, in an attempt to underscore the cruel redundancy of war's terror on everyday homes. "As Americans it's hard for us to think it could happen here. We ignored Bosnia and Rwanda. We ignore Afghanistan. The more we as Americans can see ourselves in these characters, the better for us," says Schmidt about why this story is important now. She refers to the fact that people in wartime often go without water, with scarce food, trying to survive with shattered infrastructure: "People in Fallujah went without power for longer than people did in Sarajevo. Think of how people [in New York] were panicked during the blackout." New York went one day and it felt catastrophic. Fallujah went eight months without electricity. Schmidt remarks, "It is important to understand what war does on a domestic scale."
Mark Plesent, Producing Artistic Director of the Working Theater, read Honey Brown Eyes and "fell in love with it." Although not directly about working class struggles, the production fulfills his theater's mission because the play depicts the way war affects the fabric of daily life for ordinary people. Plesent's father is a World War II veteran, and he grew up under the fear that he would be drafted into Vietnam. But like many Americans, war for him "always felt like it was happening somewhere else. This play made me feel like this is what it would be like if it was being fought in New York City. It felt immediate in a new and powerful way."
The Working Theater was founded by a group of actors in the 1980s against the backdrop of Reagan-era trickle-down rhetoric. Its first leader, Bill Mitchelson, had not seen a play until he was 18 years old, and he made it the theater's priority to get working people into the audience as much as it was to represent them onstage. "We do a lot of outreach," says Plesent, "and most of it is based on one-on-one relationship building." Despite the technological advances of the information age, the fundamental unit of human communication continues to be a conversation between two people.
Honey Brown Eyes illustrates this point by showing how dramatic historical events come down to the choices individuals make in one-on-one interactions. In that comes the realization that ordinary people create reality through personal actions, which posits us both as powerful and culpable. According to Schmidt, the play also shows "the hopeful choices humans make in the worst of circumstances." The character Jovanka (to be played by Marcia Haufrecht) extends salvation and generosity to Denis by offering a plate of cooked food. Everyday things take on significant import in the play's brutal, war-torn context, reminding its audience of the value of a peaceful life often taken for granted.


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Don Johnson is scheduled to be executed by the state of Tennessee on May 16, 2019, for the 1984 murder of his wife, Connie, in Memphis. Connie's daughter, Cynthia, is a frequent speaker for TADP's Sharing Our Stories program and is asking Governor Lee to spare Don's life. Over the past thirty-five years, Don has embraced the Christian faith and become a model inmate. He is a force for good on death row and shares his faith with others, in prison, in the community, and around the world.
Don profoundly hurt Cynthia, his stepdaughter, by taking her mother's life when Cynthia was only seven years old. For years, Cynthia had hoped for Don's execution, but, in 2012, all that changed. She visited Don on death row to tell him how much he had hurt her and to unleash her full anger. Her intent for the visit was to "let him have it," and then leave.
And though Cynthia boiled over with rage at Don, after she had the opportunity to tell him all the things that she needed to say, she heard a voice speak to her, "Let it go." In that moment, Cynthia forgave Don and found that with forgiveness, came her own freedom. Cynthia asks that Governor Lee do the same and spare Don's life.
Today Governor Lee received Don's official request for a commutation of his death sentence.
Please visit Don Johnson's clemency website and take action now on his behalf.
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A few weeks ago, in my Art Talk, I shared with you the story of an unusual collaboration between Ed Ruscha and Joe Goode that took place in the late 1980's. The project was initiated by major Los Angeles art collector, Fred Weisman, who asked these two well-known artists to paint his private jet, both inside and outside. I put the photo of this plane on the Art Talk page of our website, KCRW.com.
And sure enough, one of the listeners sent me an email with a fascinating photograph of this very jet with a few Angelinos standing in front of it, looking happy, very happy. It was taken when Mr. Weisman invited his friends to join him on a trip to Baltimore. So let me share this new photo with you on our website. Here they are, left to right: Joan Quinn, the Los Angeles collector with her trademark red hair; Joe Goode; Dana and Ed Ruscha; Fred Weisman himself; and Henry Hopkins, founding director of the Hammer Museum. Only one person, the woman in blue on the right, is left unidentified.
You probably want to know what happened to this plane. Who is its lucky current owner? Where, twenty-five years later, can it be seen? Sorry to disappoint you, but this unique plane, which was so much a part of Los Angeles art lore, is no more. Part of the deal between Mr. Weisman and the artists was that, if the plane is sold, the painting done by Joe Good and Ed Ruscha must be whited-out. And that's exactly what happened. Imagine how adventurous, how glamorous this plane would look in front of one of the pavilions of the Getty Museum as part of its current exhibition, Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970, celebrating L.A. art at its iconic best.
But enough with this wishful thinking. After all, upon entering the museum rotunda we are greeted by an impressive, massive black granite sculpture by Robert Irwin, specially designed by him for the museum. Somehow, this sculpture comes across as minimalistic and, at the same time, a rather dramatic art work, exuding a lot of gravitas to accompany its crushing weight of twenty tons.
According to the museum press release, this sculpture, titled Black on White, will be on display only through March, which is a pity. After the ten years of research and $10 million that the Getty invested in the current citywide extravaganza of Pacific Standard Time, wouldn't it be the perfect symbolic gesture for the museum to acquire this sculpture for its collection? The usual excuse that the Getty doesn't collect 20th Century art simply doesn't hold water any more.
After all, the museum's terraces and its major garden, which, incidentally, was designed by Robert Irwin himself, are full of monumental sculptures by a number of important 20th Century artists. With all the time and money that's been already poured into celebrating L.A. art, why not turn this monumental sculpture into a lasting memory of the unique, super-ambitious project that the Getty undertook to honor the artistic legacy of our City of Angels?
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970
J. Paul Getty Museum, Exhibitions Pavilion
Through February 5, 2012
Robert Irwin's Black on White
The Getty Center
Through March 18, 2012
Banner image: (L-R) Joan Quinn, LA Collector; Joe Goode; Dana and Ed Rushca; Fred Weisman; Henry Hopkins, founding director of the Hammer Muesum. Courtesy of Amanda Quinn Olivar


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My name is Sheila Willard and I am a 2L student at IU McKinney Law. Born and raised in Texas, I moved to Indiana a year and a half ago with my Hoosier husband to escape the humidity and to start a new life in the Midwest. My parents hail from Argentina, South America, and I am a first generation American.
I first became acquainted with the Military Commission Observation Project (MCOP) after receiving an email from Professor Edwards soliciting applications from those interested in participating in the observation of 9/11 hearings. My entire adult life I have been concerned with human rights and, having grown up with the tragedy of 9/11, the email naturally piqued my curiosity. I submitted my application, and hoped for the opportunity to be involved in an observation. A few weeks later, I received clearance to observe the hearings at Ft. Meade, Maryland, during the week of October 10, and immediately began planning my trip there.
Due to Hurricane Matthew wreaking havoc in the Caribbean and off the southeast coast of the U.S., the hearings originally scheduled to begin on Monday, October 10, will likely be pushed back a day and begin instead on Tuesday, October 11. As of this afternoon, there is no update stating otherwise, so I may change my flight to arrive on Monday instead of Sunday, as originally planned. Regardless, I am happy for the opportunity Professor Edwards has given us and am looking forward to making the trip next week.
Until then, I am preparing by reading the Guantanamo Bay Fair Trial Manual and keeping a watchful eye out for further instructions. I am excited to make the trip, but am emotionally torn for the thousands of people affected by Hurricane Matthew. As of this afternoon, the casualties have soared to over 800 people in Haiti, and Florida is next to be hit. Having lived in Houston through Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, I know from experience how much stress is involved in evacuation and how much heartbreak is felt in the aftermath. I pray for the people who have lost everything overnight and hope for the strength they will require to rebuild their lives.
Sheila Willard, J.D. Candidate 2018
NGO Monitor, U.S. Military Commission Observation Project (MCOP)
Program in International Human Rights Law
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We have participated in the development of a many key building blocks required to digitize our client's research engine.
Our scientific software engineering team members participated to the UI/UX design of the front end of the research engine. With the implementation of full stack web applications and graphical user interfaces, the scientists can now digitally design and order mRNA constructs for use in research and preclinical studies. They begin by selecting existing proteins to be further engineered or they can create novel proteins from existing domain, scaffold or other sequences.
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Next foundational building block is integration. We integrated all data and applications, so they are as efficient as possible. This ecosystem of integrated applications queries data that's persisted in different data islands of the data fabric. Carrying out this strategy, it was important to remain tactical, so we automated one data island at a time and prioritized urgent problems.
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Security professionals who possess operational, architectural and privacy knowledge could embark on a new career if their company moves computing processes to a secure cloud environment. Although transferring computing functions to an off-site location often eliminates IT jobs, it may actually create roles for those who have the right combination of skills, according to Seth Kulakow, Colorado chief information security officer for the governor's Office of Information Technology.
BankInfoSecurity.com interviewed Kulakow about the requirements for the emerging position of information security specialist, dedicated to cloud computing. During the audio interview by Tom Field, Kulakow described his view of the role and indicated that many organizations may lack the employees to fill the security positions because they require a comprehensive skill set. Knowing the requirements can help aspiring professionals acquire the requisite competencies or tout their broad talents to prospective employers.
He referred to cloud security professionals as "specialized generalists" who need knowledge of Statement on Auditing Standards 70 (SAS) and the ability to assess physical risks as well as those coming from cyberspace, since they will be evaluating and monitoring an off-site facility. Here are some of the additional job requirements cited by Kulakow:
- Knowledge of controls for the secure cloud environment and virtualization security
- Ability to conduct physical inspections and monitor camera storage and related video feeds
- Ability to synchronize access controls
- Understanding of various privacy laws such as HIPAA, PII and PCI and the ability to map those regulations back to security policies
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Convicting Bradley Manning
Implications for WikiLeaks and Whistleblowers
"[I]t is the duty of all persons in the service of the United States, as well as all other the inhabitants thereof, to give the earliest information to Congress or other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds or misdemeanours committed by any officers or persons in the service of these states, which may come to their knowledge"
Continental Congress, Jul 30, 1778
The state has not disappointed. The U.S. military legal system has done badly, and it is scant comfort that it might have done something even worse. It was hard to expect that Army Colonel Denise Lind could do anything else. Private First Class Bradley Manning's head on the stake of institutionalised violence was wanted, and received. He now faces a 136-year jail sentence for leaking files to WikiLeaks.
That said, the judge was careful to reject the "aiding the enemy" charge, one as preposterous as it was dangerous. Guilty of 19 charges, but not that vital one. The Manning family have every reason to be relieved that he wasn't tarnished with that brush, tarnished as he might have otherwise been. "The tortured logic behind the charge, if upheld," wrote Rem Rieder of USA Today (Jul 30) "would have posed a serious threat to journalism and democracy." (That said, Rieder could still claim that Manning had been a foolish whistleblower, unlike his latest successor, Edward Snowden.)
This would have been a blow to the Obama administration, but victory was still assured over a broad front. Investigative journalists in the digital world will not be out of the woods. Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Centre for Justice makes the unmistakable point that the conviction of Manning is without parallel. "A lot of Manning supporters are breathing a sigh of relief that he was not convicted on the aiding-the-enemy charge, but it is important not to lose sight that this is really unprecedented that someone could go to jail for his life for disclosing information to the media."
The policy of the Obama administration against whistleblowers is clear: if the "enemy" can read a disclosure of government activity, however abusive, the charge of aiding them will be made. Lind's decision has barely been a spanner to throw in the works, even if was a "striking rebuke" against the prosecution.
Even now, commentators find it hard to commune in the implications of what actually happened. The Telegraph's Peter Foster's summary took a swipe before summarising the achievements of Manning's disclosures. "Manning has at times cut a weak, pitiful figure – bullied at school and in the army, and wrestling with gender identity issues". Woe to the whistleblower.
Then, Foster switches gears, moving to the implications of the leaks. "From exposing the horrors of the Iraq war to helping ignite the Middle Eastern tinderbox by releasing diplomatic cables that spelt out the wealth and hypocrisy of the ruling elite in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, Manning had an impact perhaps even beyond his own imagining."
That has been the Manning story through the entire description of both act (not always positive) and person (never flattering). The tactical dimension of the establishment – be it in terms of the security fanatics or the established journalists – is to demean and disable the discloser. Discredit the person, heap filth on them, and hope no one else notices what has actually been revealed.
Let us, however, find in the steaming muck something of note. Republican lawmaker Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has proclaimed it his aim to make the date of the Manning verdict a National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. "Anything we can do to uphold whistleblowers and their protection is the right thing to keep government responsible."
For Grassley, the violation of laws and the misspending of money requires patriotic correction. He should know, having been the author of the False Claims Act in 1986 and co-author of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989.
Both Grassley and co-sponsor Carl Levin have made it clear that July 30 is a significant day in terms of the whistleblower canon. The Continental Congress was certainly aware of the legal duties inherent in disclosing abuse, though the quibblers will probably say that the key question was to whom. But the story goes to show that even in March, 1777, when Marine Captain John Grannis revealed that Commodore Esek Hopkins of the Continental Navy had been responsible for torture against captured British sailors, the whistleblower was not merely vital but duty bound.
This element of public service is finding form in an international movement – the Pirate Party in Iceland, and now, the WikiLeaks Party in Australia. The spirit of Manning's achievements hover over them, the spectral reminder over why people make the critical decision to reveal the untenable and expose the unacceptable.
The platform of the WikiLeaks Party tells us what a democratic system should be: parties aware of the limits of state power; parties keen to engage in the democratic conversation. In recent years, there has not been so much a conversation as a choking silence, an addled consensus that the spy is worthier than the discloser; security better than regulation. Revulsion against this, and a disposition to reform the culture, is what is required.
We know what we are up against in terms of changing minds. The frenetic and demagogic Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called in U.S. "campaign heavyweights" including "Barack Obama's digital attack dog" to defeat his opposition counterpart, Tony Abbott (Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 31). That particular campaign canine goes by the name of Tom McMahon, former executive director of the Democratic National Committee. With that gloss of Obama mania, we can assume that the anti-whistleblower establishment will be emboldened.
The quest against that sort of establishment will have enormous challenges. But whether it was an intrepid Grannis in 1777, a morally repulsed Manning in 2010 and a conscience stricken Snowden in 2013, they were the ones that took those steps. The costliest steps tend to be the first ones. Political will is now required to bolster them.
Binoy Kampmark was as Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: email@example.com
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We combined two of our favorite takeout soups into one you can make right at home. Don't rely on the delivery guy to bring you hot soup. You've got everything you need to do it yourself! If you've been looking for an egg drop soup recipe to make right at home, then you've come to the right place. This Wonton Egg Drop Soup recipe is so easy, we know you'll want to make it all the time!
What You'll Need
- 1/4 pound ground pork
- 3 scallions, thinly sliced, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 (6-ounce) package wonton skins
- 2 eggs, beaten, divided
- 8 cups chicken broth, divided
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
What to Do
- In a medium bowl, combine ground pork, 1 sliced scallion, ginger, and garlic powder; mix well.
- Place wonton skins on a work surface, then place a teaspoonful of pork mixture in each. Brush egg around edges of skin, bring 2 opposing corners up to meet, and press to seal. Moisten remaining corners and fold each one up to meet the other corner; press to seal.
- Meanwhile, in a large pot over medium-high heat, bring 7-1/2 cups chicken broth and the sesame oil to a boil. Drop wontons into broth and cook 10 minutes or until tender. Remove wontons to individual soup bowls.
- In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and remaining chicken broth. Add to soup, stirring constantly. With a fork, slowly stir the remaining egg into the soup, forming egg strands. Stir in remaining scallions and the soy sauce. Remove from heat and serve over wontons.
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gypsy 2014
Jan 12, 2015
Looking so forward to making this - have a question, though. That's a lot of soup! Is there a way to freeze it, or would I be better off separating the pork freezing till I make the soup? Any help most appreciated, thank you!
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Jan 13, 2015
Hey there! The test kitchen has not tried freezing this recipe before. We would recommend freezing the pork wontons and soup separately, or freezing the wontons until you're ready to make the soup. Hope this helps!
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jopaul 7785999
Oct 23, 2013
Thank you so much, this is a light and wonderful soup. Keep up the good work. JAH
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jopaul 7785999
Oct 23, 2013
Thank you so much, this is a light and wonderful soup. Keep up the good work. JAH
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Oct 22, 2013
thank you I want to try this one it sounds oh so good
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Oct 22, 2013
If you cook the filled won ton wrappers separately in a pot of simmering water it will not make your broth cloudy. Then it will look just like you were served at a Chinese restaurant. The powdered surface of the wrapper makes the broth cloudy.
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In today's Wall Street Journal,
Why Women Don't Want Macho Men
New research suggests that women from countries with healthier populations prefer more feminine-looking men. Jena Pincott on the science behind attraction and masculinity, and the future for manly men.
After crunching the data—including the women's facial preferences, their country of origin and that country's national health index—the Face Lab researchers proved something remarkable. They could predict how masculine a woman likes her men based on her nation's World Health Organization statistics for mortality rates, life expectancy and the impact of communicable disease. In countries where poor health is particularly a threat to survival, women leaned toward "manlier" men. That is, they preferred their males to have shorter, broader faces and stronger eyebrows, cheekbones and jaw lines. The researchers went on to publish the study in this month's issue of the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences.
Feminine-looking men? Ugh.
Must be a generational thing.
Compare and contrast:
Orlando Bloom:
No contest: Sean at age 79 and Jon at age 39 win over Orlando at age 33. Especially since Orlando waxes his chest hair. Yes, Jon's only 6 years older than Orlando but Jon looks like a grown-up while Orlando still looks like a kid.
Is my preference based on my age?
Is it based on the subjects' testosterone?
The link is testosterone, the hormone behind manly muscles, strong jaws, prominent eyebrow ridges, facial hair and deep voices. Testosterone is immunosuppressive. This means a man must be healthy and in good condition to withstand its effects on his development. Testosterone is also linked to other traits related to strength: fitness, fertility and dominance.
Or is it because of my land of origin?
Meanwhile, women with the strongest masculinity preferences tended to hail from the countries with higher disease and mortality rates and some of the poorest scores on the health-care index: Mexico, Brazil, Bulgaria and Argentina.
The article ends asking,
So will it be considered progress if women start pursuing "metrosexuals"—impeccable guys who exfoliate, order salads for dinner and carry man purses?
Not in my book!
What do you say, gentle readers?