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From Russia With Love
Freshly polished, newly proud, St. Petersburg retakes center stage
From the October 2012 issue of National Geographic Traveler
"Hey, dance with us!" a young man yells to me over the music's pulsing beat. He's draped in a crimson elf vest ten sizes too big for his slim frame, but seems oblivious to his silly appearance. Gripping my elbow, he steers me to a circle of arm-waving revelers in this cozy place called Purga Club I, stuffed into a cellar in the imperial Russian city of St. Petersburg. Three couples in equally daft costumes—Santa hats and fuzzy bunny ears—are grooving to a DJ mix on the dance floor.
I fall into this whirlwind of whimsy with an embarrassed smile, feeling out of place in jeans and hiking boots. Spotlights swirl. Red and green bulbs wink merrily on plastic Christmas trees. But it's not Christmas. More like early summer, the season of the White Nights, when the sun barely sets this far north (St. Petersburg is near the latitude of Anchorage). This is the time when city residents shrug off endless months of winter gloom and party all night long, explaining the bacchanalian atmosphere. Except that in this lighthearted club on St. Petersburg's Fontanka River they joyfully celebrate New Year's Eve every night of the year.
"Desiat, deviat, vosem, sem … ," shout partygoers. I know just enough Russian to join in the countdown. "Ten, nine, eight, seven …" When the clock strikes midnight, clouds of confetti burst out from the ceiling. Champagne corks pop. "To the new friends!" enthuses my newest friend, Sergey Kudryashoff, as he clinks glasses with Irina Nabok, a brunette whose rabbit ears flop winsomely across her eyes. Kudryashoff, 25, is a Web designer, and Nabok, 20, a drama student. They invite me to their table, eager to share with a visitor their passion for their hometown.
"It's a mystical place," Kudryashoff begins.
"A magical city, like no other place in Russia," Nabok says dreamily. She flashes a brilliant smile at Kudryashoff and adds: "Especially now, during White Nights. It becomes the city of love."
A 20-something waitress in a slinky polka-dot dress takes our order and adds her two cents. "St. Petersburg is the most European city in Russia," she says over the blare of the music. Her name is Nadya, and from her fluent English it's clear to me that she is a well-educated waitress.
I find myself warming to this half-shouted conversation over the jaunty strains of a Brazilian lambada. But I'm distracted when a vaguely familiar face suddenly crowds the video screen just over Nadya's shoulder. It's a black-and-white image of Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, delivering an address to a nation that no longer exists. "An old New Year's speech to the people," explains Nadya, laughing. "Part of our nightly celebration." The music is way too loud for any of us to hear Brezhnev's words, not that anyone would listen. The dour days of the Soviets have been banished, reduced to grist for light-hearted mockery on a nightclub's plasma screen.
IT'S A FAR CRY FROM THE LAST TIME I was here. Then, in the mid-1990s, St. Petersburg was still shrugging off seven decades of neglect as Soviet Leningrad. Everything was cloaked in gray, as though the entire city had been mothballed. Gangsters were feasting on the carcass of the defunct U.S.S.R.; fear had imposed a de facto curfew on the streets after dark. The visit left me wondering whether Russia would ever get its act together or if it would remain, as a Russian philosopher friend of mine asserted, "a dark mirror to the West."
A dozen years of growing prosperity have brought renewed vigor to this onetime capital of the tsars. Renovations that were begun in advance of the city's 300th anniversary in 2003 continue, with major restoration projects in full swing. Western hoteliers are lining up to stake their claim, with new W and Four Seasons hotels the latest outposts of opulence just a stone's throw from the palatial Hermitage Museum. Cruise ships from Helsinki and Stockholm bring tourists to docks in and around the city.
After a tumultuous century of revolution and Cold War, has St. Petersburg returned to the world stage? Is the city, once famed across Europe for its palaces and artworks, again ready for prime time? If a feeling of safety is any indicator, the signs are good: It's well past 3 a.m. by the time I step out into the streets, and they're still very much alive with the shouts of carousers.
Nadya's words return to me the next morning as I hike across the Neva River along the Trinity Bridge and take in the view: baroque and rococo palaces in pastel blues and greens, stretching along the embankment as far as the eye can see, with the gold dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral rising beyond them in gilded magnificence.
Bisected by the Neva and laced with scores of smaller rivers and canals fronted by an endless parade of architectural gems, St. Petersburg really does have the look and feel of an enchanted city. It was its access to the Baltic Sea and, some say, the seemingly supernatural quality of the White Nights—when the northern sun barely sets and the midnight sky deepens to a Maxfield Parrish blue—that led Tsar Peter the Great to found a new capital for the Russian empire on marshlands here at the start of the 18th century. He named his creation for his patron saint, Peter. The city was to be Russia's "window to Europe"—and to the Baltic Sea, all the better to project the empire's might.
In the course of the next two centuries, the seat of power moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow and back again, as the monarchy passed from one generation to the next. All the while a succession of master builders, most notably from Italy and France, transformed the remote backwater into a unique blend of Russia and Western Europe, an imperial metropolis of palaces, boulevards, plazas, and canals of such grandeur that even today, residents claim it has a life and soul of its own.
That conviction has given rise to a movement of preservationists called Living City. Its followers are alarmed by what might be seen as the downside to all the new investment—the intrusion of sleek new hotels and buffed-granite arcades into the heart of St. Petersburg, which has been designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
I'm headed out to meet with Petr Zabirokhin, one of Living City's organizers. I dodge through thickets of pedestrians as I make my way east along Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's main thoroughfare, past Palace Square, fronted by the Hermitage Museum, and Uprising (Vosstaniya) Square—two unbroken miles of world-class architecture. I bypass Kazan Cathedral, a limestone colossus that was modeled on St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and houses the crypt of Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, the commander who stood up to Napoleon's army at the Battle of Borodino in 1812. I skirt the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, a pink fortress girded by a phalanx of neoclassical male statues. Great Gostiny Dvor, a shopping center that was designed in the mid-1700s—making it one of the world's oldest such centers—sprawls the entire length of another block.
Zabirokhin is waiting for me in a coffee shop just off Nevsky. He is tall, slender, mid-30s, with blue eyes and a luxuriant blond mane, which seems to add several inches to his considerable height when he stands to greet me. A structural engineer for an international firm, he doesn't strike me as a rabble-rouser. Nonetheless, he was arrested in 2011 while trying to block deliveries to the construction site of a new department store. "Demolition and construction," he says to me in his deliberate, school-taught English, "are the twin threats that are facing our city." Even the historical buildings that lack landmark status are precious, he says, worthy of protection. "What distinguishes St. Petersburg is its historical unity. If a new building doesn't reflect this special quality, it damages the soul of the city."
He wants to show me another location his group is fighting to save from the wrecking ball. We step out into the hot July morning and cross the Fontanka River, tour boats shooting from beneath our bridge like torpedoes. Zabirokhin pulls up at an unassuming brick affair wedged into a block overlooking the water. It seems an unlikely candidate for the stirring of passions. "This is a prime example of avant-garde constructivism from the 1920s," he states, apparently sensing my doubt. A plaque drilled to the wall says the building housed the electricity station that powered the city's trams during the infamous "900-day siege" of Leningrad by the Nazis in World War II. Now investors want to raze the structure for a hotel. "The damage to St. Petersburg today," Zabirokhin laments, "can be compared to what the Nazis did during the blockade." I think he's kidding, but he's not. "More buildings on Nevsky Prospekt have been demolished in the past eight years than were destroyed by the Nazis."
I'm finding it almost impossible to grasp, after a few days of strolling its boulevards and its bridges guarded by bronze horses and winged lions, that this city endured one of the longest, most brutal sieges in history. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died of starvation and disease along these streets and canals. At least another half million defenders were killed. To pay tribute to this heroic resistance, I head over to Fontanka Street the following day for a visit to the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad. Its second floor is packed with artifacts from those two and a half years of hell: Soviet banners, propaganda posters, captured German weapons. There are graphs charting the mind-numbing quantity of air raids, firebombings, artillery barrages. A diorama depicts a typical Leningrad living room from the era: woodstove, heavy brocade curtains, a samovar on a small wooden table, a portrait of Stalin on the wall. Your imagination is left to fill in the suffering its occupants must have endured.
A caretaker off to one side is keeping a vigilant eye. She is a stout woman in a long flannel skirt, her white hair pulled back severely into a bun. It occurs to me that she might be old enough to have lived through some of this history herself. She regards me warily as I approach, but the iciness melts almost instantly. "People don't usually ask me," says Galina Sergenevna Bodrova, 73, who was only two years old when Hitler's forces drew their noose around the city in the fall of 1941. Nearly her entire family died in the first six months of the siege. "My grandparents, my parents, brothers and sisters," she says. "Only two sisters and I survived." On a sunny morning in 1942, blockade-runners took Bodrova and a younger sister through German lines to safety. Bodrova went on to marry and have a son. She has a cell phone too, shattering my image of the gruff babushka. She gives me her number and urges me to call whenever I like.
I'm beginning to sense that these small, facade-cracking encounters are a big part of what makes 21st-century St. Petersburg such a compelling place to visit.
"Do you need some help?" The question comes from the back of the bus in crisp British English. I've figured out how to navigate the buses and trams that cruise Nevsky Prospekt, but on my way to meet a friend, I'm uncertain which is the right stop to get off at. Seeing my confusion, a young woman with flaxen hair bounds up the aisle to my side. "We are learning to be more helpful to visitors," she says, smiling. Irina Federova, 23, shows me which stop to take and offers to walk me to my destination. "I'm on summer holiday; I don't need to be anywhere."
A student at St. Petersburg State University, she's majoring in something called "Japanese management." In years past it was nearly impossible to find someone on the street here who could speak anything besides Russian. But a new generation of St. Petersburg men and women eager to be part of a larger world is emerging.
Federova asks what I've seen of her city. I tell her about climbing up to the lookout beneath the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral and traipsing through the spectacularly ornate halls of the Hermitage, fighting crowds to catch fleeting glimpses of the Rembrandts, Gauguins, van Goghs, and Renoirs. "Have you been to the Russian Museum yet?" she asks. "You must go!" Its collection of works by Russian artists is much larger than that in the Hermitage, she pronounces, all the better for experiencing the true heart of Russia.
She is waiting for me the next morning at the entrance to the yellow-stone Mikhailovsky Palace, which houses the museum. There are no lines, and thus, once we scale the grand staircase to the upper galleries, no need for us to crane our necks to behold medieval icons and monumental canvases. We pause to examine the intricate brushstrokes in "The Last Day of Pompeii," a 19th-century masterpiece by St. Petersburg–born artist Karl Briullov that depicts an apocalyptic scene of lava overwhelming the ancient Roman town. "As you can see," Federova says with the authority of an experienced tour guide, "this shows that something old is dying, but something new is already appearing."
Her words resonate as we sit in the Literary Café, surrounded by portraits of the great Russian writers Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, and Gogol, and dine on draniki—potato pancakes smeared with sour cream and red caviar. Our table has a view of the Moika River, where crowded boats churn past, peals of laughter rippling off them like trumpet calls to merriment. Everywhere, it seems, the scent of freshness is in the air.
Even where you might least expect it: the primly manicured gardens of the gargantuan Catherine Palace in the St. Petersburg suburb known as Tsarskoye Selo. This "summer" palace, commissioned by Catherine I, the wife of Peter the Great, emerged as the center of Russian autocracy in the mid-1700s when her daughter, Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, and, later, Catherine the Great, resided here and assembled works of unparalleled lavishness and staggering beauty. I take the 45-minute bus ride south from the city, lured by intriguing news that a fashion show featuring St. Petersburg's top designers is to be held on the grounds of the royal estate.
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Festivities are in full swing by the time I arrive. Beneath the onion domes of the palace's church, ethereal nymphs in gauzy gowns prance across lawns, their hair piled high in gravity-defying beehives. Loudspeakers pump out an odd mix of music that shifts between baroque violin sonatas and bass-heavy European techno. I wander over to the pondside Hermitage Pavilion, a minor palace in its own right, where models dressed in taffeta stride onto the veranda to enthusiastic applause.
"The high spirit and imperial atmosphere of St. Petersburg are what inspire me," says 38-year-old designer Stas Lopatkin during a break. His hair is spiked with gel, his eyes hidden behind a pair of stylish sunglasses rimmed with mother-of-pearl. He stands arms akimbo, looking calm in a whirlwind of chaos as makeup artists tend to his bevy of models. A touch of eye shadow here, a blast of hair spray there. The winter months will find Lopatkin working elsewhere in Europe, he tells me, but summer always brings him back to St. Petersburg, the source of his creative energy. "It's the transparency of air and water here," he says, pausing to search for the right words. "The colors, the light …"
The St. Petersburg I've seen is all about the coexistence of light and shadow, imperial rule and revolution, haute couture and savage invasion. For every aristocratic palace here there is an Uprising Square, for every lavish Tsarskoye Selo estate a Soviet-style Finland Station—the St. Petersburg rail terminal where Vladimir Lenin arrived from exile in 1917, unleashing the storm that led to the triumph of the Marxist Bolsheviks.
Perhaps no artist captured the dark side of St. Petersburg—and the dreary characters who peopled its fetid slums—more convincingly than the 19th-century master Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who lived in the city as an adolescent and, intermittently, an adult. I join a procession to the Dostoyevsky Memorial Museum, an annual event that commemorates the writer's tenure in St. Petersburg. A crowd ten deep gathers around a stage outside the museum—a four-story tenement building in the historic district where the writer lived his final years. Beneath a banner proclaiming, "Art is as basic a necessity to humans as the need to eat or drink," onlookers hoot and cheer as characters from the pages of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot strut the stage, pantomiming acts of lewdness, thievery, inebriation. I spot the obsessive police inspector, the drunken philosopher, the prostituted daughter, and, of course, an ax-wielding Raskolnikov. Natives claim that Dostoyevsky's characters are so graphically drawn that even now you can recognize personages from the pages of his novels walking the streets of St. Petersburg. "You see it in the faces of the people," says Alla Shapiro, a student of Russian literature who teaches English at a private academy here. "Dostoyevsky's characters are alive. These are real people."
For all of its newfound openness and budding cosmopolitanism, St. Petersburg retains an atavistic edge that remains distinctly and uniquely Russian. As I follow the street away from the Dostoyevsky tribute, I pick up on the rousing strains of an all-male chorus. When I turn the corner, I run into an entire company of Russian Army recruits in baggy uniforms belting out a song while they march. It's a stirring partisan anthem, stridently nationalist, carrying a strong scent of Mother Russia and a whiff of the wild Siberian steppe. The sight of a foreigner with a video camera spurs the soldiers to even higher decibels, as if to say: "Make no mistake! You are in Russia!" As the detachment approaches, passersby along the street burst into hearty applause.
On my final night in St. Petersburg, two friends, Tatyana and Nikolai, invite me to join them for a cruise on the Neva. We stroll along the embankment to our boat, passing the white-columned Admiralty, the old headquarters of the Russian Navy. Couples walk by arm in arm, stopping to watch clowns juggle flaming batons. Vendors hawk balloons, cotton candy, popcorn.
The sun has dipped below the horizon, spreading a band of deep crimson light and casting the skyline on the far bank into mysterious silhouette. Our vessel lurches into the current and heads upstream, past the vast Hermitage. Somewhere in the distance, an accordion intones the syrupy notes of a Russian ballad. Waiters strut past, their trays laden with ice buckets and fifths of vodka. Other boats slide by us in the semidarkness, the lilt of saxophones and tinkling glasses rising on the wind.
Nikolai and Tatyana snuggle. I return their smiles. Then, as we approach the Palace Bridge, the span's illuminated drawbridge arms slowly rise, as if inviting us to enter the gates of a magical kingdom. But I've known for some time that, in fact, I'm already there.


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Screamin' Jay Hawkins was the most outrageous performer extant during rock's dawn. Prone to emerging out of coffins on-stage, a flaming skull named Henry his constant companion, Screamin' Jay was an insanely theatrical figure long before it was even remotely acceptable.
Hawkins' life story is almost as bizarre as his on-stage schtick. Originally inspired by the booming baritone of Paul Robeson, Hawkins was unable to break through as an opera singer. His boxing prowess was every bit as lethal as his vocal cords; many of his most hilarious tales revolve around Jay beating the hell out of a musical rival.
Hawkins caught his first musical break in 1951 as pianist/valet to veteran jazz guitarist Tiny Grimes. He debuted on wax for Gotham the following year with "Why Did You Waste My Time," backed by Grimes & His Rockin' Highlanders (they donned kilts and tam o' shanters on-stage). Singles for Timely ("Baptize Me in Wine") and Mercury's Wing subsidiary (1955's otherworldly "[She Put The] Wamee [On Me]," a harbinger of things to come) preceded Hawkins' immortal 1956 rendering of "I Put a Spell on You" for Columbia's OKeh imprint.
Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad. After he and his New York session aces (notably guitarist Mickey Baker and saxist Sam "The Man" Taylor) had imbibed to the point of no return, Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon. A resultant success despite the protests of uptight suits-in-power, "I Put a Spell on You" became Screamin' Jay's biggest seller ("Little Demon," its rocking flip, is a minor classic itself).
Hawkins cut several amazing 1957-1958 follow-ups in the same crazed vein -- "Hong Kong," a surreal "Yellow Coat," the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller-penned "Alligator Wine" -- but none of them clicked the way "Spell" had. DJ Alan Freed convinced Screamin' Jay that popping out of a coffin might be a show-stopping gimmick by handing him a $300 bonus (long after Freed's demise, Screamin' Jay Hawkins was still benefiting from his crass brainstorm).
Hawkins' next truly inspired waxing came in 1969 when he was contracted to Philips Records (where he made two albums). His gross "Constipation Blues" wouldn't garner much airplay, but remained an integral part of his legacy for quite a while.
The cinema was a beneficiary of Screamin' Jay's larger-than-life persona in later years. His featured roles in Mystery Train and A Rage in Harlem made Hawkins a familiar visage to youngsters who never even heard "I Put a Spell on You." He died February 12, 2000 following surgery to treat an aneurysm; Hawkins was 70.

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Check Out the Best Easter on the River Photos
Townsquare Media took over Shreveport's Stoner Park Saturday, April 12 for an Easter Egg hunt and family event to remember. Check out all our photos of the cutest kids and funniest moments from Easter on the River.
Besides the epic Easter Egg hunt (can you say 20,000+ eggs?!), kids were drawn to the wealth of fun bounce houses. Giant inflatable slides, a kid-friendly zip line and an arts and crafts table were also popular attractions.
Home Depot employees were on site to let children plant -- and keep -- their own flowers, while adoptable puppies drew plenty of 'awwws!' Several food trucks kept families energized throughout the day, but cotton candy was a popular choice for those with a sweet tooth.
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Snapchat will ask users to stop using unauthorized apps after the compromise of an app that offered to save snaps led to questions about the security of the photo and video messaging application itself.
The company, whose claim to fame is that it deletes content from its own servers and the Snapchat app on mobile devices after it is viewed by recipients, has also warned previously that any application that isn't from the company but claims to offer Snapchat services violates its terms of use and cannot be trusted.
Starting Tuesday, Snapchat will notify its users when it's detected that they may be using third-party apps, according to a blog post. It will ask those users to change their password and stop using unauthorized apps.
"We've enjoyed some of the ways that developers have tried to make Snapchat better," the company said in the blog post. "Unfortunately, some developers build services that trick Snapchatters and compromise their accounts."
Last month, Snapsaved.com, the developer of an application that let users save snaps sent on Snapchat, said it had been hacked, after reports that images were leaked. "SnapChat has not been hacked, and these images do not originate from their database," it said in a Facebook post. The breach affected 500MB of images but no personal information, according to Snapsaved.
Snapchat used the incident to warn about third-party applications and the threats these can pose to the Snapchat community. Referring to a cottage-industry of application developers, who had accessed the private Snapchat API (application programming interface) to build applications, Snapchat pointed out that the applications often ask for Snapchat login credentials, and use them to send or receive snaps and access account information.
"When you give your login credentials to a third-party application, you're allowing a developer, and possibly a criminal, to access your account information and send information on your behalf," Snapchat said in October. The company said it had prohibited access to its private API, and would take some time before it would review its decision "to get it right." Until then, any application "that isn't ours but claims to offer Snapchat services violates our Terms of Use and can't be trusted," it said.
Snapchat settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in May over charges that it deceived customers by promising that messages sent through the service would disappear after a sender-designated period expired.
Several methods exist by which a recipient can use tools outside of the application to save both photo and video messages to access and view the photos or videos indefinitely, FTC said in its complaint. Recipients can, for example, log into the Snapchat application using a third-party app that uses the Snapchat API, and download and save snaps and videos as the timer and delete functionality only works when it is activated within Snapchat, it said.
Snapchat has revised its privacy policy and other public statements to emphasize that while it deletes all viewed snaps from its servers, recipients can still save them.
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TIBCO Kicks Off Transform 2013 in Paris and London
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TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) today announced the company is kicking off the Transform 2013 user conference in Europe, with events in Paris on Tuesday, 11 June and London on Thursday, 13 June.
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Weatherization Assistance Program
The Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is a national program that began in 1976 as a response to the 1973 oil embargo to help low-income households cope with rising fuel costs. The goals of the program are energy conservation and healthier living conditions for low-income residents who either own or rent their homes. Local non-profit agencies such as SEVCA deliver no-cost weatherization services to eligible residents. The national program supports nearly 25,000 direct and indirect jobs within related industries.
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The movie "Won't Back Down" opened yesterday in more than 2,500 theaters across America. The film brings to the big screen the highly charged issue of education reform by showcasing how two committed parents take on the establishment.
With a cast of stars, including Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis, the movie has already prompted protests from union leaders like Randi Weingarten and opponents of school choice.
The movie, set in Pittsburgh, is based on actual events that stemmed from the parent-trigger law in California. The law allows parents to organize and, with the support of at least 50 percent, implement reform measures such as converting to a charter school or changing leadership.
Earlier this week, one of the films producers, Chip Flaherty of Walden Media, visited Heritage to chat with talk-radio host Ernest Istook on Istook Live!, which airs daily from 9 a.m. to noon ET. Below is an abridged transcript of the interview.
ISTOOK: Everybody that's a parent is concerned with the quality of their child's education. Government gets in the way in so many ways. We've been talking about the draconian measures of school lunches that are causing so much controversy. But in your case, this movie is about schools and it's about parents who decide they need to really get involved.
FLAHERTY: Exactly. It is a major motion picture. We have an unbelievable cast of Holly Hunter, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Volia Davis. And it's really a celebration of the fact that parents need a seat at the table when it comes to their children's education.
ISTOOK: It's about parents. It's about schools. And people are saying "Oh, OK we've seen a lot of movies that are about school and have kids and parents." But this is not exactly Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
FLAHERTY: No, not at all. It's truly like an underdog movie. It's like Rocky, like Erin Brockovich. It's a situation where — and it's my favorite type of story like It's a Wonderful Life — where you find a common person, in this case two moms who realize something cosmic. They're able to turn around their school and give their kids a better chance for a better future. And with it the other kids in the neighborhood.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has said that if you can turn around education, that's the best poverty plan and the best crime prevention plan. Education really is the key to everything. And the beauty of this film is it's wildly entertaining, it's one of the best movies of the year, but you go into it and via the journey of the characters you identify with, by the end you've learned a lot more about education and you're hopefully inspired to go out and make change in your community.
ISTOOK: And in this case, it's not about triumphing over some rival school's sports team. It's about triumphing over the lethargy and the bureaucracy of the education establishment that gets in the way of getting your kids prepared for their future.
FLAHERTY: You're exactly right. At the end of the day, it's an anti-complacency film. Because right now in education we have too many people that are complacent. They just want to maintain the status quo because that keeps their power structure in place. And we really need a shift in that paradigm. We need parents to have a seat at the table. Right now, you have the room and you have the parents out in the corridor on a folding chair. And that is just not acceptable because no one is more invested in their kid's future than parents. We need to get them into the same room, get them to the table so they can talk to the unions, they can talk to the school board and they have a real voice.
ISTOOK: Now, what area of the country is this taking place in? Because a key thing about this movie is that what enables them to get involved is a parent-trigger law that allows parents to get in there and take charge if the school is failing their children. So in what area of the country is this taking place? Because I know there are only a handful of schools in the country that have a law like that.
FLAHERTY: The parent-trigger movement started in California back in 2010. This movie is set in Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh at a failing elementary school. Pennsylvania does not have the parent trigger yet. Right now it's in seven states in the country and 12 states are deciding whether or not they're going to enact it. Like many things, it's going to be something that starts out in California and sweeps its way across the country.
Within the movie, what happens is, Maggie's character, which I mentioned is a common hero achieving cosmic things — she works in a used car dealership during the day, tends bar a couple of nights just to try to make to make some many for her only daughter. She's a single mom and her daughter is being crushed in the elementary school; she's in the third grade and can't even read. And Maggie just wants to protect her child. So she goes to the teacher and asks if she can stay after school and help her daughter. The teacher says no; the union rule is door shut at 2:30 and can't help. So Maggie goes to the principal and says, "I want another teacher." And the principal says, "No, she has tenure and I can't get rid of her."
So Maggie keeps on trying all of these different things and she slowly becomes radicalized by the situation. Not because she has the time to do it — like so many reluctant heroes in life — but because she has an objective to defend and fight for her daughter. And we go on that journey with her and then she joins forces with Viola Davis, and eventually they're able to utilize this parent-trigger law to give them something so they can really finally bargain and get to the table and have some power. And we talked about shifting that power to put power back in the hands of the parents and they're able to take over the school.
ISTOOK: I know in the movie there will be some exposition to explain to people what the parents-trigger law is but maybe it would be good if you filled people in a little bit now in case they think it's a parent bringing a gun to school.
FLAHERTY: Like any legislation, it has a provocative term. But really what it means is that if you are in a failing school and if you get 50 percent or more of the parents in that school district to sign a petition to say that they want change in the school, then you're able to effectuate certain kinds of changes. You could have a charter school come in and take over the school. You could change the principal and leadership. There are a couple different steps you can take.
I think with any great legislation, the power of it is because parents can finally have a say. They will finally be able to have a "bargaining chip" and finally be listened to by the school board, by the unions, by the teachers.
All parent trigger means is if parents can get more than 50 percent of signatures of parents in that district, then they have the power to take over the school. It's happening right now in Adelanto, CA, at a school where 68 percent of the kids were below reading level. The parents took over that school and right now it's a big court fight and everything else. But so far, it is turning out for the parents.
ISTOOK: This is an era when public employees, and in particular school teachers, really push back against someone that threatens them. Now, I know you don't mean to be a threat to them; you're concerned about the kids. But are you getting some push back from places or organizations like teachers unions relating to your film?
FLAHERTY: Very much so. And it really is a manifestation of human nature. We talked about that power paradigm. If you're currently holding all the cards, you don't want to see any shift in power. And I have to look at myself and say if I was holding all the power, I would probably feel the same way. Any time there is change to the status quo, it's difficult. But what we try to do — and I think it's very nuanced in the film and very fairly done — in the movie one teacher, who is an excellent teacher, talks about how the union came in to defend one of his favorite teachers growing up. Sometimes the power can be used to have positive results, but I think the pendulum has swung too far.
The film is rated PG and runs about two hours. Here's the movie trailer:


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MEDFORD — Aisling McCarthy Brady, the Quincy nanny accused of assaulting the now-deceased toddler in her care, huddled out of sight in Cambridge District Court Tuesday morning, as her lawyer declared her innocence. Over the day, details emerged about Brady's past, including previous allegations of violence and harassment.
During the arraignment, prosecutors said Brady, 34, injured 1-year-old Rehma Sabir while caring for the girl at her parents' Cambridge apartment on Jan. 14. The toddler sustained massive head trauma, authorities said, and died two days later.
"It is very clear the only person who had direct contact with this child at the time of the injuries was the defendant," Middlesex prosecutor Katherine Folger said.
Brady, a native of Ireland who has been in the country illegally, was ordered held on $500,000 bail. Prosecutors said they expect to charge Brady with murder when an autopsy is complete.
Doctors who examined the toddler found bruising and compression fractures in her spine that were "consistent with the slamming of a child," Folger said, along with multiple bone fractures that had partially healed.
The child's parents, identified as Sameer Sabir, a British native who studied at Harvard and MIT, and Nada Siddiqui, could not be reached Tuesday.
Brady's attorney, Melinda Thompson, denied the accusations, describing Brady as a caring child-care provider who was in no way responsible for the "unspeakable tragedy."
Thompson said the child had been traveling for weeks with her family, and had been diagnosed with malnutrition. After a lengthy trip to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the child was "very sick," Thompson said. "Who knows what could have happened?" she asked.
In court, prosecutors described Brady's account of the day Rehma was taken to the hospital. After the child's mother left around 9:30 a.m., Brady said she played with the child, then put her down for a nap. When she awoke shortly after 1, Brady fed her lunch, but noticed the girl seemed sleepy. After seeing that Rehma had slumped in her highchair, Brady put her back in her crib.
A few hours later, Brady called 911 when the girl had an apparent seizure in her crib. When responders arrived, she was breathing but unconscious.
Brady, who had been caring for the toddler for about six months, went to the hospital with the family that evening and later exchanged text messages with them about her condition, Thompson said.
"She was mourning this child with the family,'' said Thompson. She had fully cooperated with investigators and submitted to several hours of interrogation, she said.
"Ms. McCarthy has no idea what happened to this child."
The infant had no "outward signs" of bruising or bleeding when she was taken to the hospital, Thompson said, suggesting the injuries may have been sustained earlier.
Outside the courtroom, Thompson said Brady was "devastated" by the child's death and the accusations against her, and maintained her innocence.
As Brady was charged in court, details began to emerge about her past. One of 10 children, she had worked as a nanny since she came to the United States in 2002.
Brady has no criminal convictions, but in 2007 was charged with attacking her female roommate in Dorchester during an argument. The roommate "had a laceration to her right pinky finger, which she claimed was a bite received from Brady," and also had a bite mark on her right bicep, according to a police report. Her roommate was also arrested in the altercation, and the case was dismissed.
Last March, a woman took out a restraining order against her, alleging that Brady harrassed her. The woman said Brady set up a fake Facebook profile in her name, falsely accused her of abusing children, and bothered her boss, in a campaign that began in August 2011.
In 2005, a man filed a restraining order after Brady allegedly attacked him in a bar for "talking to a lady friend." She hit and scraped him in the face repeatedly "with closed fists and her finger nails," the man complained.
"I'm afraid of the day that it's going to be a beer bottle she hits me with, or worse," he wrote.
Immigration officials said Tuesday that said Brady entered the United States from Dublin in 2002 under an international agreement that allows visitors to stay in the country for 90 days without documentation. She has not left the United States since, officials said.
"She did not depart as required," said Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. "This is her first encounter since that time with immigration officials.''
Officials will move to deport her once the criminal charges are resolved, he said.
In Cambridge, one business owner regularly saw Brady caring for the child, and saw nothing amiss. "We would see the kid going by almost every day. When the stroller went by, she would stop and let the kid wave," said Dao Lee, 55, who owns a laundromat on Mt. Auburn Street, near where Brady cared for Rehma.
It is unclear how the parents had come to hire Brady, but she had posted her profile on several child-care websites, including sittercity.com, looking for work, and the website removed that posting on Tuesday.
"Immediately upon learning of this situation, we removed Ms. Brady from the Sittercity network, terminated her membership, and notified members with whom she had ever communicated, even though she has not been active on Sittercity for nearly a year,'' the company said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the state Department of Children and Families said Brady "does not have a history" with the agency.
The company said it routinely conducts background checks, but noted that she has no criminal convictions in Massachusetts. "The Sittercity team is deeply saddened about this situation,'' the company said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this difficult time.''
Martine Powers, Akilah Johnson, Brian MacQuarrie, and John R. Ellement of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Peter Schworm can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobePete.


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Guernsey City Jail Inmate Search and Prison Information
Guernsey City Jail inmate locator: Loc, Arrests, Release Date, Inmate List, Charges, Detainer Information, Court Record, Issuing Auth, Bookings, Booking Date, Appeals Court, Warrants, Charges, Arrest Date, Address Given, Fine/Crt Costs, Type, Who's in jail, Warrant #, Bond, Mugshots.
The city of Guernsey Jail is located in Platte County, Wyoming. The men and women inmates are the offenders that are held in Guernsey City Jail are either awaiting trial or have been convicted and sentenced for 12 months or less for crimes such as murder, rape and/or robbery.
The Guernsey City Jail is operated by the Guernsey Police Department. The Guernsey City Jail serves the city of Guernsey and the surrounding area. The Guernsey City Jail is a short term detention center for adults.
- Facility Name
- Guernsey City Jail
- Facility Type
- City Jail
- Address
- 81 West Whalen Street, Guernsey, WY, 82214
- Phone
- 307-836-2400
- City
- Guernsey
- Postal Code
- 82214
- State
- Wyoming
- Country
- Platte County
- Official Website
- Website
Visitation Hours
- Sunday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Monday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Tuesday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Wednesday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Thursday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Friday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Saturday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Holiday Closed
Inmate Search
To search for an inmate within the Guernsey City Jail you can go to the Guernsey City Jail website. You will have to scroll through the inmates to find who you are looking for. You will be able to see the following information on the inmates:
Full Name
Booking Date
Booking Time
Bond Type
Bond Amount
You can also call 307-836-2400 for more information.
Sending a Mail
Inmates at the Guernsey City Jail are allowed to receive 4" x 6" metered, unstamped, plain white postcards, nothing different. Please use a pencil, black or blue ink to write on the postcards and envelope. Anything that would be considered offensive or a threat to security and safety is prohibited.
All incoming and outgoing mail gets checked by the jail staff. Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your mail getting sent back to the return address posted on the envelope.
Wyoming Inmate Search
Sending Money
Those who are in custody rely on their loved ones to fund their account so they can purchase day to day life items from the commissary. They may also need funds to make phone calls.
If you would like more information about funding an inmate's account or want to transfer money to an inmate at Guernsey City Jail you will need to call the jail at 307-836-2400 . Be sure to have the following information before you call:
Inmate's full committed name
Inmate's ID number
Inmate's location – or a system
Phone Calls
You will not be able to call those who are in custody, however, they will be able to call you. Inmates at the Guernsey City Jail have the option of making collect calls to loved ones or they can use a pre-paid service.
Visiting Rules
Those who are in custody at the Guernsey City Jail are allowed to have visitors. Please keep in mind that you will need to leave all of your personal items including your cell phone in your vehicle. You will also be searched and be required to go through a metal detector before you are allowed in the visitation area.
Children under the age of 18 are allowed to visit as long as they are accompanied by their parent(s) or legal guardian.
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Polish Food – Zapiekanka Recipe- Polish Cuisine
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At the European Market Deli and Cafe, we are big fans of Polish food. So we offer a wide variety of foods both imported directly from Poland, as well as made in the United States according to Polish recipes. If you like … [Read More...]
If you are interested in Russian cooking, you have found the right place. We make Russian foods - appetizers, soups, and hot dishes in our own kitchen. You can get freshly made borscht aka borsch, … [Read More...]
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- July–August 2014
- Harvard Business Review
The Crisis in Retirement Planning
By: Robert C. Merton
Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration of America's shift away from employer-sponsored pension plans toward defined-contribution (DC) plans—epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)—which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton. Traditional pension plans were conceived and managed to provide members with a guaranteed income. And because that objective filtered right through the scheme, members thought of their benefits in those terms. Ask a member what her pension is worth and she'll reply with an income figure: "two-thirds of my final salary," for example. Most DC schemes, however, are designed and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash amount and perhaps a lament to the value lost in the financial crisis. The trouble is that investment value and asset volatility are simply the wrong measures if your goal is to secure a particular future income. In this article, Merton explains a liability-driven investment strategy whose aim is to improve the probability of achieving a desired retirement income rather than to maximize the capital value of the savings.
Merton, Robert C. "The Crisis in Retirement Planning." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2014): 43–50.


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^ Collectively (all cities), 79.7% of all New York residents live in a household where Internet is available, which ranks 19th in the nation [2].
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^ There are an estimated 88 Cove Neck residents who are not connected to the Internet at all - whether at home, work, or elsewhere [1].


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Soldering is a group of joining processes which produces coalescence of material by heating them to a suitable temperature and by using a filler metal having a liquidus not exceeding 450°C and below the solidus of the base metals. Like brazing and other joining processes, soldering involves several fields of science, including mechanics, chemistry and metallurgy. Soldering is a simple operation, consisting of the relative placements of the parts to be joined, wetting the surfaces with molten solder, and allowing the solder to cool until it has solidified.
Soldering is a group of joining processes which produces coalescence of
material by heating them to a suitable temperature and by using a
filler metal having a liquidus not exceeding 450°C and below the
solidus of the base metals.
The filler metal is distributed between the closely fitted surfaces of
the joint by capillary attraction. Solder is a filler metal used in
soldering which has a liquidus not exceeding 450°C. It is normally a
nonferrous alloy.
The temperature of 450°C is the temperature that differentiates
soldering from brazing. This arbitrary number was selected many years ago
and is universally accepted. Most of the factors involved with brazing
apply to soldering.
Like brazing and other joining processes, soldering involves several fields
of science, including mechanics, chemistry and metallurgy. Soldering is a
simple operation, consisting of the relative placements of the parts to be
joined, wetting the surfaces with molten solder, and allowing the solder to
cool until it has solidified.
The mechanism for joining by soldering involves three closely related
factors: 1) wetting, 2) alloying, and 3) capillary attraction.
Soldering in the field of electronics is in many respects different from
soldering in other branches of industry. Although the physical principles
of all soldering (and brazing) processes are the same, the features
specific to their use in electronics are so numerous that it is possible
to speak of soldering in electronics as a separate subject.
Soldering has several clear advantages over competitive joining techniques:
Mass soldering by wave, drag, or dip machines has been the preferred
method for making high-quality, reliable connections for many decades.
Despite the appearance of new connecting systems, it still retains this
position. Correctly controlled, soldering is one of the least expensive
methods for fabricating electrical connections. Incorrectly controlled,
it can be one of the most costly processes, not because of the initial
costs, but because of the many far-reaching effects of poor workmanship.
Iron soldering (INS) was the earliest soldering method. The hand-held
soldering iron used in this process continues to be popular. It is the most
cost-effective tool for:
Torch Soldering. Torch soldering (TS) utilizes a fuel gas flame as the heat
source in the soldering process. The fuel gas is mixed with either air or
oxygen to produce the flame, which is applied to the materials to be
soldered until the assembly reaches the proper soldering temperature.
Solder filler metal, which melts at temperatures below 450°C, is added
to the assembly to bond it. Successful torch soldering is accomplished when
parts are clean and fit together closely, and when oxides are not excessive.
Furnace and Infrared Soldering. Furnace soldering (FS) encompasses
a group of re-flow soldering techniques in which the parts to be joined
and pre-placed filler metal are put in furnace and then heated to the
soldering temperature.
Dip Soldering. Dip soldering (DS) is accomplished by submerging
parts to be joined into a molten solder bath. The molten bath can be
any suitable filler metal, but the selection is usually confined to the
lower melting point elements. The most common dip soldering operations
use zinc-aluminum and tin-lead solders.
Resistance Soldering. Resistance soldering (RS) is a soldering
process in which the heat needed to melt the solder is developed by the
resistance of the material when a large electrical current is supplied.
Resistance soldering can be applied to electrically conductive materials
that allow the passage of electric current. The process can be used for
selective spot soldering of small components, for the soldering of closely
placed parts on an assembly, or for heat restriction when necessary. It is
similar in many ways to resistance brazing.
Laser Soldering (LS). Industrial lasers are able to deliver large
amounts of heat with great precision and without contact, making them
ideal for application that have either a destructive nature, such as
cutting or drilling, or a constructive nature, such as soldering or
annealing. Laser soldering uses the well-focused, highly controlled
beam to deliver energy to a desired location for a precisely measured
length of time. The main advantage of laser soldering is a non-contact
Hot Gas Soldering. Hot gas soldering is a process that is commonly
used in applications where the work-piece thermal mass is small and the
melting temperature of the solder is relatively low. The electronics
industry utilizes hot gas soldering to reflow or melt solder in localized
areas on circuit assemblies.
Induction Soldering. Induction or radio frequency heating are
versatile means of providing heat to the joint area. Heating is caused
by electrical resistance to eddy currents induced in the work piece.
These currents are induced by the rapidly changing magnetic field generated
by a coil supplied with an alternating current. The eddy current is
generated at the surface of the work-piece (skin effect) and diminishes
toward the interior. The advantages of induction heating include the
ability to supply heat uniformly over the entire joint area while
maintaining a localized temperature rise so heat sensitive materials
or devices neighboring the joint area are not damaged.
Soldering of aluminum and aluminum alloys is relatively simple. Compared
with brazing, soldering presents advantages such as little loss of base
metal temper, minimal distortion, and easy removal of flux. Aluminum is
soldered at a minimum 110°C below the solidus temperature of the
base metal.
Wetting and spreading are affected by the presence of an oxide at the
surface of the joint. The nature of the aluminum oxide is different from
alloy to alloy. The heat-treatable alloys present a more tenacious oxide
that is more adherent and more difficult to remove. The oxides of the
non-heat-treatable alloys are less tenacious and easier to remove. The
action of a corrosive flux is enough to disrupt and displace the oxide
layer in a non-heat treatable aluminum alloy. However, the oxide layer
of a heat-treatable alloy must be removed by chemical or mechanical means
before soldering.
Solderability of aluminum alloys is influenced by alloying elements of
the base metal. Generally, purer aluminum alloys are easily soldered.
Analysis shows that alloys of groups 1xxx, 3xxx and 6xxx have good
Solderability is primarily affected by two alloying elements, magnesium
and silicon. The presence of magnesium in an aluminum alloy not only
reduces the wettability (more than 1.0 wt%) but also increases the
intergranular penetration (more than 0.5 wt% Mg). Magnesium content
up to 1.0 wt% does not reduce the flux effectiveness, so it does not
affect wetting and spreading of the molten filler metal. Alloys with
less than 1.0 wt% Mg can be soldered with all flux types. Between 1.0
and 1.5 wt% Mg the low-temperature organic-type flux is not effective
to remove the surface oxide of the faying surface. When the amount of
magnesium exceeds 1.5 wt%, the corrosive flux does not work either.
Silicon plays the same role. Thus, if the amount of silicon is higher
than 4.0 wt%, all flux types are ineffective. To solve this problem, a
fluxless technique such as abrasion or ultrasonic soldering should be
Typical solders used for aluminum are Zn, ZnCd, SnZn, SnPb, SnCd, SnZn.
Solders that melt below 260°C are called low-melting-point solders. Those
that melt between 260 and 370°C are called intermediate-melting-point
solders. Those that melt between 370 and 440°C are called
high-melting-point solders.
Aluminum alloys can be soldered to all usual metals and nonmetallic
materials. However, loss of corrosion resistance should be expected.
The high-melting-point solders are suitable for soldering mild steel,
stainless steel, nickel, copper, brass, zinc, and silver directly to
aluminum. Magnesium, titanium, zirconium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum
and tungsten may be soldered if they are plated with a solderable metal
coating such as silver.
Copper and copper alloys are among the most frequently soldered engineering
materials. The copper oxide is easily disrupted and displaced by most flux
types. The presence of alloying elements such as beryllium, chromium,
silicon, and aluminum modifies the nature of the oxide, making it more
tenacious. For these alloys, a special flux is recommended to remove the
oxide from the surface and enhance the solderability of these base metal
The most common solders for copper are tin- or lead-base solders. Tin can
react with copper and form two intermetallic phases, Cu6Sn5
and Cu3Sn, at the solid-liquid interface.
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AFP's bind over rules on donors
Americans for Prosperity spent tens of millions of dollars on the 2010 election and will spend tens of millions more this year to see conservative advocates of limited government elected — all without revealing any of its contributors.
Taking advantage of a complex web of federal laws, the group, founded and financed by billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch, has successfully kept its donors secret.
But when AFP decided to wade into a Nevada Senate primary in June, it might have triggered a state law that could open its donor list to the public.
In a complaint filed July 19, the Nevada Democratic Party asked Secretary of State Ross Miller to investigate whether the nonprofit organization must report the contributions it received to fund mailers attacking state Senate candidate Kelvin Atkinson, a Democratic assemblyman from North Las Vegas.
Under federal law, political nonprofits such as AFP can escape disclosure requirements by not including words such as "vote for" or "defeat" in political messaging.
But under state law, it doesn't matter whether those words are used.
If there can be "no other reasonable interpretation" than that the ad seeks the election or defeat of a candidate, then the producer must disclose the funding source for the ad.
"If you get in state races, you expose yourself," said one Democrat familiar with the complaint.
In this case, AFP sent mailers in Atkinson's district just before the June 12 primary election with his picture and accusations that he worked for special interests and sought a $1 billion electricity rate increase.
The mailers didn't say "vote against" Atkinson; rather, they urged voters to call his office and tell him what they thought of his record.
But Miller has aggressively enforced the concept in Nevada that such mailers are clearly designed to influence an election and that the money associated with producing them should be reported.
He's filed suit against an out-of-state group that spent money attacking former Gov. Jim Gibbons in his 2010 primary against Brian Sandoval, and he filed a civil complaint against Citizens Outreach for failing to report contributors that funded a similar attack mailer against Assemblyman John Oceguera.
Miller also succeeded in passing legislation last year to strengthen the definition of what constitutes political advertising.
Despite aggressively pursuing such cases, Miller hasn't been successful in compelling such groups to report their donors. Both cases are slowly winding their way through the court system, stretching well beyond the elections the groups sought to influence.
Still, AFP is intent on building a lasting nationwide network to promote its limited-government philosophy and has been just as intent on keeping its donors anonymous.
It operates a Nevada chapter, which is very likely funded mostly through the national headquarters.
But AFP doesn't appear to have organized a separate Nevada entity, which could mean donors to the national organization might have to be disclosed.
The potential has piqued the interest of advocates for campaign finance transparency.
"It all depends what state law requires," said Paul Ryan, senior counsel for the Campaign Legal Center in Washington. "I'll be interested in watching this one."
Ryan said AFP's tax-exempt status as a nonprofit could also be threatened if the Nevada group is proven to be engaging primarily in political activity.
"There's definitely tension there," he said.
As for AFP, Nevada chapter Director Adam Stryker, who coordinated the mailers against Atkinson, said he thinks the organization was working within the confines of Nevada state law.
"Basically, we kept a close eye on the bills Ross had last year, and our lawyers are confident that we did not cross the line into express advocacy," Stryker said.
Anjeanette Damon writes for the Las Vegas Sun, which is partnering with POLITICO to cover the 2012 presidential elections.


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Part-time lecturer, Department of History, Valparaiso University, 2000-01; visiting assistant professor Chinese, Swarthmore College, 2001-02
Republican- and Socialist-era Chinese illustrated satire magazines
Chinese modern and contemporary poetry
Chinese literature and film
Literary translation
Bluegrass/folk guitar, harmonica, ocarina, tin whistle, gardening
Manhua Modernity: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn. California, University of California Press, 2020.
Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009.
Online Publications/Digital Scholarship
Resistance Sketch (抗戰漫畫) no. 3 (1 February 1938). English scanlation of Chinese pictorial magazine. With Fanyi Zhang.Published on ISSUU, October 2017.
Shanghai Sketch (上海漫畫) no. 10 (23 June 1928). English scanlation of Chinese pictorial magazine. With Carmen Kong. Published on ISSUU, September 2017.
"The Pictorial Turn and China's Manhua Modernity, 1925-1960." Association for Chinese Animation Studies website, 2017. [A summary of my current book project] (http://acas.ust.hk/2017/02/10/the-pictorial-turn-and-chinas-manhua-modernity-1925-1960/)
Manhua Semi-monthly (漫畫半月刊) no. 92 (8 July 1957). English scanlation of Chinese pictorial magazine. With Li Jiang. Published on ISSUU, October 2015.
"Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s." Online lecture posted by MITVideo. (Based on April 25, 2012 lecture at MIT). 2012.
"China's Modern Sketch: The Golden Era of Cartoon Art, 1934-1937." Visualizing Cultures website, MIT. (http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html) 2011. Includes three-chapter illustrated essay (~12,000 words), nine visual narratives, and image gallery linked to Case Library Special Collections online digital archive of Modern Sketch (Shidai manhua).
"The Poetry of Slogans and Native Sons Observations on the First China Poetry Festival." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center. http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/crespi.htm. November 2005.
"No Laughing Matter?: Cartoon (Manhua yuekan) and the Satire Pictorial in 1950s China." Maoist Laughter, ed. Jason McGrath, Zhuoyi Wang, Ping Zhu. University of Hong Kong Press. Forthcoming.
"A Chinese Poet's Wartime Dream." In David Der-wei Wang ed., Harvard New Literary History of Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, 443-449.
"Beyond Satire: The Pictorial Imagination of Zhang Guangyu's 1945 Journey to the West in Cartoons." In Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner ed., Oxford Handbook on Modern Chinese Literatures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 215-244.
"Living Beijing: Encountering the Asian City through Digital Storytelling." ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 18 (2) (Spring 2011): 62-78.
《一个汉学家看中国当代诗歌中什么有意义》(What matters in contemporary Chinese poetry: the view of one sinologist). Translated by Zhao Fan. Dangdai shi (Contemporary poetry) 2 (June 2011): 139-148.
"The Treasure-seekers: Poetry of Social Function in a Beijing Recitation Club." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (22) 2 (Fall 2010): 1-38.
"Poetic Memory: Recalling the Cultural Revolution in the Poetry of Yu Jian and Sun Wenbo." In Christopher Lupke, ed. New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, 165-183.
《从运动到活动:诗歌朗诵在当前中国的价值》 (From Yundong to Huodong: The Value of Poetry Recitation in Today's China). Trans. Wu Hongyi. 《新诗评论》 (New poetry review) 6 (November 2007), 3-19.
"Calculated Passions: The Lyric and the Theatric in Mao-era Poetry Recitation." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 13 (2). (Fall 2001): 72-110.
Encyclopedia, dictionary, and other reference work entries
"Bai Hua." In David Pong, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. August 2009.
"Jiang Guangci." In Thomas Moran, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 328: Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007, 66-72.
"Form and Reform: New Poetry and the Crescent Moon Society." In Joshua Mostow ed., The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 2003, 364-370.
"Traveling Poetry and the Presence of Soul: An Interview with Wang Jiaxin," Chinese Literature in Translation(Summer/Fall 2011): 78-82; with five poems ("In Upstate New York," "First Snow," etc.), co-translated with John Cavanagh (Colgate Class of 2008): 83-85.
Sun Wenbo, "Torture" and Yu Jian, "He is a Poet." In From The Obscure Lives of Poets. Edited by Dong Li. Berlin: Verlag Matthes & Seitz. Forthcoming, 2018.
Chen Fangming, "Preface," and "Grassroots Manifesto"; Huan Fu, "The Evolution of Taiwan's Modernist Poetry" and "Poetry Snippets: A Digression on the "Highbrow'"; Lin Hengtai, "A Message from the Editors." In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan. Edited by Yvonne Song-Sheng Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Three poems by Yan Wo: "The Gift of Another Big Bowl," "To My Husband, Mai Xiaoke," and "Is It Love that Makes Me Sad." In Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China, edited by Qingping Wang with translation co-editors Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-Chun Li. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2011.
Duo Duo, Snow Plain. Translated by John A. Crespi (with contributions from Harriet Evans, Jiang Hong, Gregory B. Lee, Larry McCaffery and Danny Wang). Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press, 2010.
"Pastoral" (Tianyuan shi), "Simple Autobiography" (Jiandande zizhuan), "The Last Days of Octavio Paz" (Wanniande Pasi), "A Darkening Mirror" (Bianande jingzi), Wang Jiaxin. Co-translated with George O'Connell and Diana Shi. Atlanta Review China issue (Spring/Summer 2008), 43-47.
"Two poems by Yu Jian, 'fat man with a kind face' and 'crows in black robes...'." basalt 2 (1) (Spring 2007), 29.
"Pastoral" (Tianyuan shi), Wang Jiaxin. Co-translated with George O'Connell and Diana Shi. Circumference 3 (1) (Autumn/Winter 2006-2007), 48-49.
"The Afternoon Call" (Wuhou dianhua), Hao Yu-hsiang. Taiwan Literature in Translation, 12 (December 2002), 109-114.
"The Miraculous Antler Tree" (Lujiao shenmu), Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 10 (December 2001), 25-28.
"Seven Strange Brothers" (Guai xiongdi), Chiang Hsiao-mei. Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 9, (June 2001), 15-19.
"Mount Morrison Journeys" (Yushan laiqu), Chen Lie. Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 7 (June 2000), 91-101.
"Sea Sleeve, Mustard Grass, Butterfly Orchid" (Huazhi, mocao, hudielan), Zheng Qingwen (Cheng Ch'ing-wen). Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 6 (December 2000), 13-27.
"Vacation." Duoduo. Abandoned Wine: Chinese Writing Today, 2. Henry Y. H. Zhao and John Cayley ed. London: Wellsweep, 1996, 271-282.
"The Day I Got to Xi'an." Duoduo. Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China. Howard Goldblatt ed. New York: Grove Press, 1995, 99-111.
Book Reviews
Sean Macdonald. Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Association for Chinese Animation Studies website. (November 2016)
Christopher Rea. The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China. University of California Press, 2015. Frontiers of Literary Study in China 10 (2) (June 2016): 343-345.
Paul Bevan, A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei's Circle, and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. MCLC Resource Center.
Yunxiang Gao. Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making During China's National Crisis, 1931-1945. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014. American Journal of Chinese Studies 21 (2): 249-250.
Paul Manfredi, Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2014. C.L.E.A.R. (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews) 36 (2014): 10-12.
Perry Link, An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. Journal of Asian Studies 74 (1) (February 2015): 200-202.
Nicholas Kaldis, The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun's Wild Grass (Yecao). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2014. MCLC Resource Center (2015). http://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/crespi/
Maghiel van Crevel, Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem, and Money. International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter, 50 (Spring 2009): 33.
Charles Laughlin, Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience. C.L.E.A.R.(Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews), 27. 2005, pp. 171-173.
Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Colgate Scene, March 2004, p. 14.
Zhang Xudong, ed., Whither China? Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China. Journal of Asian Studies 62 (1) (February 2003), pp. 263-264.
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I don't recognise people very well. I worry that I'll forget what he looked like, if it wasn't for that pesky photo of us on my phone, that all the synching of the Apple can't seem to remove. This man in Covent Garden, he was a dead ringer. The same features - nose, bright blue eyes, wide smile and thinning hair. And I felt sick (so much so that I sat down and wrote these paragraphs into my phone, I knew there'd be a story down the track).
He said hello, offered me his arm to guide me across the road. He spoke to me, friendly and tripping over his words and curious from the drink. He asked me what was wrong with my face. Concerned and curious. Frustrated that I couldn't change things.
And so was I. Though I was frustrated I couldn't change a different set of things.
It's been a long time since things changed between us. I am all the better for it, and I know he is too. I've had just over six months to get used to this milestone in his life. Last September, I wrote him a letter, farewelling him from my life. I signed off:
And just like that, he was gone. Sort of. Of course, he's still here in my heart. I think about him sometimes. This week especially. One of his dreams has come true. He's happy.
So I'll leave you be, remembering you with fondness, sadness and love. I am glad that I played a part in saving your life.
I imagined this week would come at me like with a thud, that I'd be worn out by emotions and over thinking, and that my tears would make my face hurt. But none of that happened. Is this it? There was no emotional catastrophe. But there was something. Something less than I expected and something bigger than I thought I was capable of. I felt a mixture of something.
While I no longer feel like I love him, it's hard not to feel something. Reflection. Happiness for him. Wondering and a little sadness at what might have been. Sick of carrying the cumbersome yet beautiful memory of him with me - though the load's becoming lighter. It's as though I've made progress.
All of the relevant song lyrics are floating through my space. For a little while, all I could do was play this song over and over.
And I'm relieved I feel something. It reminds me I have loved. I've given myself permission to feel something, rather than beating myself up over feelings I cant control, even though I constantly worry that it's not right to feel so much over someone I had very little time with - to miss somebody that I never really had. Because when others are suggesting I haven't moved on, I know my heart is full (for me and for him), and my skies are no longer grey.


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KenWid10 asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum how best to send encrypted information to someone over the Internet.
You should never, ever just email credit card numbers, passwords, or other private information. You don't know how many servers the message will pass through between your computer and the recipient's, or who has access to those servers. Email is only slightly more private than a billboard. (A slight exaggeration, but you get the point.)
A truly private message must be encrypted before it leaves your computer, and remain encrypted until the recipient receives it. To complicate things further, you can't assume that the recipient is any more tech savvy than that uncle who freaks out when you open a new tab on his browser.
Here are two ways to safely send private information over the Internet:
Email an encrypted .zip file
You can put the sensitive information into a file (of any format the recipient can handle), then compress the file into a password-protected, encrypted .zip archive file, and email that to the recipient. This works, with two caveats:
The .zip format's default encryption standard, ZipCrypto, could probably be hacked by a duck. And while most up-to-date zip programs support much stronger, 256-bit AES encryption, not everyone has one of these programs. Most users rely on Windows's native .zip support, which doesn't support AES.
Both you and your recipient will need a .zip program that supports AES. And no, you can't create an encrypted .exe file and mail that; many email programs won't allow you to send or receive .exe files.
Among the programs that support AES are the industry standard WinZip and the free 7-zip.
The other caveat: You and the recipient have to share a password, and emailing the password isn't safe.
The best passwords for this situation include shared information. For instance, if you're sending tax forms to your accountant, you can use your social security number, which he or she already has.
Skip email altogether and use the cloud
Or you can try a solution that doesn't require special software or a shared password. To my mind, the best such solution is a cloud-based service called Sendinc.
To use this service, both you and the recipient must have Sendinc accounts. Joining is easy, and unless your messages are larger than 10MB each, or you're sending more than 20 of them a day, a free membership will do. If you send a message to someone who doesn't have a membership, they'll be invited to sign up.
Sendinc uploads and downloads encrypted information via SSL (the same technology used by banks and shopping sites). Your messages remain encrypted on the Sendinc server, with a unique password per message, until they are destroyed after seven days. During that time, they will only be decrypted for delivery (via SSL) to the recipient.
But whatever method you choose, remember that your security is only as good as your password. Come up with a strong one that no one is likely to guess.
Read the original forum discussion.
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I had a wonderful call with a Share 11 member the other day who lives in non-separation. The member, who knows who he is, had patiently explained to me how he had navigated from separativeness to non-separativeness.
It turns out that his process, in my view, is the same as that used by Krishnamurti, Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle, Sri Ramana, etc.
What he called the forms of separativeness are similar to what I would call "unfinished business," Sri Ramana, the "vasanas" or latent tendencies. (1)
"Vasana" is a Vedantic term for a persistent reaction pattern triggered by a current upset which resembles a past upset.
Eckhart Tolle called the vsanas plus the residual muscular holding patterns in the body the pain body; Wilhelm Reich called the same structure "character armoring."
The Share11 member observed the forms of separativeness as they arose, without in any way trying to react to or change them. He experienced them through to completion. In completion was non-separativeness.
I noticed that who we are at this moment is that God-Self plus these forms of separativeness or vasanas.
God-Self sets out to experience life and effect its return to the Origin in a blissful meeting of God and God. During its travels through duality, the prodigal child of God acquires the mud of unfinished business, karma, vasanas.
When it has finished its need to experience duality and cleans itself of this mud through the process being described, it returns to its Original Self. The prodigal child returns to the Father. We re-attain our Origin, so to speak.
So, if we experience through to completion all our vasanas, unfinished business or reactivity, we are left back at the Origin.
I'm willing to bet that this is what Zen Masters are referring to when they say, "Show me your Original Face." Show me yourself without your vasanas.
I'm also willing to bet that this Origin, Original Face, or GodSelf is what Jesus was pointing to when he looked at a child and said: Of such are the Kingdom of Heaven.
And, reckless gambler that I am, I'm willing to bet that this is precisely what Ashtar was referring to last night when he said that "everybody, everybody, everybody needs to get their slates clean. There's another way of talking about it. This is how to get to zero point."
OK, clean slate, zero point, origin, original face, childhood innocence – they are all the same.
They lead to non-separativeness, unitiveness, and the Kingdom of Heaven.
We have been given our road map.
But there may still be some who don't get the point of what I am saying. If we are projecting our anger outwards, blaming others, resenting them, feeling jealous, etc. (all of which I still do), then we still have unfinished business, vasanas, or separativeness.
That must be observed and experienced through to completion if we wish to "wipe your slate clean" and "reach your zero point." That zero-point is our origin, our original face, and it is where non-separativeness is to be found.
I haven't heard a sage or master, galactic or celestial yet who does not say that this is what the essence of our work is.
(1) "Vasana" is a Vedantic term for a persistent reaction pattern triggered by a current upset which resembles a past upset.


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