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The Marea and the PSOE will soon sign a pact to lay the foundations of mobility
The Marea and the PSOE will soon sign a pact to lay the foundations of mobility
The local government and the Socialist Party will sign before the end of the year a pact that will lay the foundations in terms of mobility for the coming years in the city. The document is not yet completely defined but in the last days, there was a meeting between both formation and in which Salvador Rueda, director of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona, who has on the table the restructuring of the urban bus lines, also participated.
This agreement will focus on generic aspects of mobility for the city and will not go into detail about specific actions. The objective is to establish bases that can be maintained in successive mandates and that are not altered in the face of possible changes in government. The idea follows the example of what is taking place in Vitoria.
The definition of these basic parameters for the city model has the support of the Socialist Party to the local government, although the former is still waiting to receive the proposal of Marea. Although there is no date for its signature and approval, the mayor, Xulio Ferreiro, explained yesterday that it will take place before the end of the year.
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Taking an Adult Services course in library school got me thinking about programming and how it tends to be lacking in public libraries. It seems like there's so much more potential for really cool programs – especially those related to the arts. It's much easier for many people to visit their local public library than a museum or art lecture, so why not combine the two? This is a great way to collaborate with museums and enhance those all-important community partnerships. Maybe local artists could show and give talks about their work – they get the public exposure, the public gets the art appreciation. Win win.
So I was glad to see that this idea has been embraced by the Williamsburg Virginia Regional Library in a series called "Centuries of art @ your library." Through a partnership with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, they have scheduled a series of lectures on topics such as "The History of Soviet Realism," "and "American Realist Painters of the Early 20th Century." Hopefully other public libraries will borrow this idea.
I find myself wondering how anyone really manages to swallow the fear of unknown outcomes and take on huge, dangerous responsibilities such as mortgages, car loans, children, etc. Sure, as a country, as a global economy, we were riding on a credit high for the past couple decades and are only now seeming to come back down to earth. People are losing their houses. People are losing their jobs. Until now, I have largely avoided the ill effects. I live well below my means and I am a compulsive saver. I do not take on consumer debt. Thank goodness I remained cautious and did not take on a mortgage, despite lots of advice that it would be a great financial move. Regardless of my good intentions and careful planning, the recession is starting to nip at my heels.
The art market is a strange and unpredictable bellweather of economic conditions. In government employment, you know pretty immediately when things have taken a turn for the worse. But art sales are part commodity, part investment, part consumer-driven emotion. They're like a microcosm of the larger capitalist system, playing by unique rules. For months the lower end of the market has slowed precipitously. I've seen galleries representing emerging artists struggle and fail. Yet the high end of the market has remained strong. The wealthiest investors continued to buy up the priciest art on the market. In the same way that investors were turning to stable commodities such as gold, so were they turning to long-term investments in art. Then the stock market fell off a cliff, and nobody's buying anything.
I'm seeing the effects of the recession in all areas, which makes sense in a period of 6.5% unemployment. The hiring process for the university VR position has been suspended due to budget concerns. It may or may not be reopened next year. I think the same is true for the state of NM, and my friend in Colorado said there is also a hiring freeze there for government jobs. My brother works for a retail distributor and could lose his job any day. If art sales continue to slide, my job is very much in jeopardy. This means putting all my plans on hold until I see how things work out. That's a disappointment. From several choices I have gone to just hanging on by my fingernails, like just about everyone else. But like any challenge, this will be a learning opportunity if I stay positive and avoid panic.
It's exciting to see how during the past few years the VRA community has become more collaborative and standardized. Initiatives such as CCO, CONA, and the new cataloging wiki are all part of a process that has been evolving since before I became aware of these issues, but just in my short experience with visual resource management there have been many new developments.
The larger cultural resource management community is paying attention. Just recently the Getty Foundation awarded the Visual Resource Association Foundation a grant of $26,400 to use towards "Implementing CCO: Standards and Best Practices." The idea of this project is to develop an international standard that will provide training and guidelines for combining with existing standards.
This obviously signals a greater interest in cross-institutional standards, and the support, means, and interest to implement them.

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Unfortunately we have some bad news for this weekend. We just found out there will not be a Dryway release this Saturday or Sunday due to a collapse of the structure under the wooden part of the mill building at the put-in. As far as Brookfield knows right now the Fife Brook section will run as normal this weekend. Here's the email we received from the power company 20 minutes ago:
Great River Hydro, LLC is alerting you that due to a substantial failure of the embankment rock wall that was located beneath the former wooden structure portion of the Glassine mill, currently being demolished, this weekend's whitewater releases at our Number 5 Dam (BOTH Saturday and Sunday) are cancelled. Great River Hydro is not directly involved with the demolition or remediation activity but is managing flows to facilitate remediation.
The result of the embankment failure has placed a significant amount of material into the Deerfield River at the base of the site. Contractors, environmental engineers and state officials are evaluating the site to coordinate emergency remediation to prevent further collapse, reduce the potential for additional material entry into the river, and remove material presently in the river. At this point, given the substantial material in the river and the possibility that high flows (i.e. whitewater release levels) could further exacerbate the situation, causing further failure of the remaining embankment and material, and/or put workers on-site at risk, Number 5 Dam white water releases are cancelled for June 17 and June 18.
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17.11.2004: Meldung: Honda and Plug Power Announce Experimental HES II Operation
HES II is the further evolution of a joint development effort by Honda and Plug Power to produce a home refueling unit that provides hydrogen from natural gas for vehicle refueling, heat for domestic hot water use and electricity for the home. Testing of the HES II system will be done in conjunction with demonstration of Honda"s 2005 FCX fuel cell car on public roads in the Northeastern U.S.
The development of this new, more compact, HES II, along with operation of the Honda FCX and Honda FC Stack in sub-zero temperatures, represent significant advancements in this industry-leading program to develop advanced, real world, fuel cell vehicle and hydrogen refueling solutions.
"Honda is taking a comprehensive approach that includes the development of both fuel cell and refueling technologies," said Ben Knight, Vice President Honda R&D Americas. "We feel that home refueling could play an important role in the introduction of fuel cell technology and the development of a hydrogen refueling infrastructure."
"We have enormous respect for Honda"s technical capabilities and are excited to be part of this collaboration," said Dr. Roger Saillant, President and Chief Executive Officer of Plug Power. "The development of a Home Energy Station represents an important milestone towards a hydrogen infrastructure and sustainable energy future."
In a continuation of earlier research efforts with the first-generation HES station -- located on the campus of Honda R&D Americas in Torrance, California, the HES II incorporates several subsystems which utilize Plug Power"s proprietary technology. By optimizing production and storage of hydrogen for home use, the space needed for natural gas reformation and hydrogen compression is significantly reduced. Previously housed in two separate units, it has now been internalized into one, significantly smaller package that includes the natural gas reformer, hydrogen purifier, fuel cell stack, compressor, fuel storage and delivery system. This fully integrated system now provides improvements in overall operation and efficiency.
By testing the HES II in conjunction with the 2005 Honda FCX, Honda is taking another step forward in its comprehensive approach to advancement of both the vehicle and refueling infrastructure components of a hydrogen-based transportation system. Honda began demonstration of its 2005 FCX with the Honda FC Stack on public roads in the Northeast in September of this year.
The 2005 FCX, the world"s most advanced fuel cell vehicle, is the first production fuel cell vehicle to be powered by Honda"s own unique fuel cell stack (Honda FC Stack) with the ability to start and operate in below-freezing temperatures, a significant breakthrough in fuel cell vehicle technology.
The FCX is the first and only fuel cell vehicle to receive certification from both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB), and in December 2002 became the first fuel cell car leased for everyday commercial use.
About Honda
Honda (NYSE: HMC - News) is one of today"s leading manufacturers of automobiles and power products and the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world. Honda has always sought to provide genuine satisfaction to people worldwide. The result is more than 120 manufacturing facilities in 30 countries worldwide, producing a wide range of products, including motorcycles, ATVs, generators, marine engines, lawn and garden equipment and automobiles that bring the company into contact with over 17 million customers annually.
About Plug Power
Plug Power Inc. designs and develops on-site energy systems based on proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Plug Power"s strategic partners include GE Fuel Cell Systems, DTE Energy Technologies, Vaillant GmbH, Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Engelhard Corporation and Pemeas GmbH (formerly Celanese Ventures.) The Company"s headquarters are located in Latham, N.Y., with offices in Washington, D.C., and The Netherlands. For more information on Plug Power, go to www.plugpower.com.
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Complete Genomics today announced an agreement with investment bank MLV & Co. for the potential sale of an aggregate of $30 million of its common stock.
The sale of Complete Genomics' stock would be made on the Nasdaq Global Market under the Mountain View, Calif.-based firm's currently effective Form S-3 at market prices. Shares also may be sold through MLV at negotiated prices or at prices related to the prevailing market price, Complete Genomics said.


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I should have known better. A few years back I suffered from heat exhaustion while on a long run preparing for San Francisco. It was an out-and-back route that I was running with my group. It was a day not much unlike yesterday, but it was early on a Saturday morning. On the return portion of the run, I felt the call of nature (the kind that you can't take care of behind a tree) and told my buddies that I was headed up to the park that was just a little ways off our route to use the facilities. Got there in time. Took care of business. But heading back out I suddenly could not move. I felt dizzy and my legs just wouldn't move. No one was around, so I gave up on trying to run and just walked. I walked about a mile back to the greenway we were running on and decided, I was in trouble. My head hurt bad. Everything looked cloudy, and I was a little disoriented. Luckily I saw an older gentleman mowing his lawn and asked him if I could use his phone. I called my wife and she came a picked me up complete with that look of "what in the hell were you thinking?!!" It was a quite ride home.
For the first 45-60 minutes water is fine. After 60 minutes, you 'll need to start using a sports drink or supplementing with a sports gel or a salty food like pretzels. After 60 minutes (and sometimes sooner if it's really hot and you sweat a lot) you begin to deplete vital electrolytes (i.e., sodium, potassium, etc.). Sodium is needed in order for your body to absorb the fluids your ingesting. Ever get that sloshing feeling late in a run? That's probably due to your body being low on sodium and not being able to absorb the fluids you're drinking, so it just sits in your stomach and sloshes around not doing you any good.
4. Run early! If at all possible, run in the early morning. The hottest part of the day is actually around 5PM. So, if you can't run until after work, wait until later in the evening.


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Instant payday loans are popular with many people. They are a way to bridge the gap between paydays and offer the best chance of gaining a loan even with bad credit. However, there are some dangers to these instant payday loans and you should always watch out for them.
The problem with instant payday loans is that they are designed for short term lending. This will mean that they are not for debt consolidation or to offer a way to pay off a credit card. To stop you from doing this, the interest rates can be exceptionally high; usually with an APR of between 1000 and 2000 percent. This could turn that L100 loan into thousands if you left it for the year.
By not paying back the loan on time, you will also do a lot of damage to your credit rating. Instant payday loans could help you because they will give you the chance to show that you can borrow money and pay it back. However, keeping it for a long period will show that you are not financially responsible; they will prove that you cannot even borrow money for a month, let alone make regular monthly repayments over the long term.
You will need to be extremely careful with this type of loan that you take out. Another way that you can damage your credit rating is if you take lots of them out in a short space of time. They are there if you need emergency money for a broken boiler and not just because you want to splash out for a month. They should not be used as a way to budget your monthly outgoings. Borrowing too much will make it look like you are rely too much on the instant payday loans and that you are financial unstable.
If you find that you are flying on the instant payday loans, you should start looking at different ways of budgeting. This can be difficult but it will help your credit rating in the long term. You should work out your incoming money and then find out how much you are paying out. If you really need more money to come in then look at other ways, such as a second job or even selling items that you no longer use. You could also look at websites that allow you to sell off your talents, such as if you are a photography or artists.
Instant payday loans offer a great option if you really do need that one-off loan to help you afford your car repair costs one month. However, you should not use them on a regular basis and search for other ways to budget. They will help your credit rating if they are used correctly but when you decide that you need them all of the time, you will find that they hurt it dramatically. Become responsible with your money and stop borrowing all of the instant payday loans that you can each month.


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Childish Gambino's (aka Stone Mountain native Donald Glover) underground works often stressed being different from the rest of the rap world. Camp, his first proper album, finds Childish Gambino in a class of upper echelon emcees and manages to balance influence with individualism.
The album title serves as a loose framework of a story that often comes back to truth and maturation with track names outlining what one might encounter during a summer. Camp opens with introspective cut "Outside" set to a backdrop of arranged harmonies. The layered choral refrain states "There's a world we can visit if we go outside" and almost seems like a hopeful allegory to Glover's goal of being more than just an actor who happens to rap.
The remnants of stream of conscious rhyming Gambino used so strongly on breakthrough tracks like "Freaks and Geeks" make way for even more potent story telling and focused passion. Candor and emotion pepper nearly every track on Camp. Reoccurring themes include racism, poverty, homophobic accusations, realism and internet hate. "Backpackers" is a humorous Chuck Inglish inspired take on the hip-hop genre's most vocal critics. "L.E.S." is dedicated to a flame backed by soothing strings that make risqué love in the heat of the moment seem like a graceful story. Even the fiery freestyle feel on "Bonfire" acts as a honest PSA for the music industry complete with warning horn, tribal looped sample and machine gun flow.
One element that was always a surprise on Gambino's self-released albums was the polished production. From the classical music elements to tribal sounds and harmonic arrangements, Gambino clearly had aspirations to be more than just an actor turned rapper. Kanye West's musical influence is particularly present on standout tracks "Heartbeat" and "All The Shine." Sparse piano and hushed vocals build up to an eruption of ticking snare and 808's & Heartbeat-style synthesizer. "All the Shine" is engulfed in an epic soundscape complete with strings, drum, and handclaps. Much like West, Glover shows he can sing and rap while waxing poetic about the anxiety of fame and family pressures.
"That Power" closes with an anecdote about summer love and its bitter end. The story and album's conclusion insinuates that Donald is still a boy, but he should really give himself more credit. Camp is a grand endeavor that showcases that Donald Glover has more than matured as an artist. From the engaging storytelling to the stellar production, Childish Gambino is an alter ego that shouldn't be hidden from the limelight. While it may be a revelation to many in the hip-hop industry, long-time followers won't be surprised to see Childish Gambino next to the genre's top stars soon.


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In order to build a growing community of leaders, Teach For India has developed a two-part theory of change.
In the short-term, through our Fellowship program, we provide an opportunity to India's brightest and most promising individuals, from the nation's best universities and workplaces, to serve as full-time teachers to children from low-income communities in some of the nation's most under-resourced schools. Through this experience of teaching in classrooms and working with key education stakeholders like students, principals, and parents, our Fellows get exposed to the grassroots realities of India's education system and begin to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to attain positions of leadership in the education system and identify their role in building a larger movement for equity in education.
In the long-term, we engage these leaders, our Alumni, and support this growing community to advocate for change. Our Alumni work in diverse roles within the education sector, as teachers, teacher-trainers, school principals, curriculum designers, and education policy researchers, as well as in the ecosystem surrounding and supporting the education sector, as journalists, lawyers, health experts, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders, all with a shared purpose to build a broad people's movement for educational equity that will accelerate progress towards that day when all children in India have the opportunity to attain an excellent education so that we, as a nation, can find our light and our true potential.
Teach For India Fellows commit two years, full-time, to providing their students with the opportunities that can put them on a different life path.The Fellowship journey is one of teaching and learning, of working for children while developing your leadership. Our Fellows are on a mission to end educational inequity for their children, and through this, they develop a long-term commitment to multiplying that impact as Alumni.
Each Fellow is assigned a classroom in one of Teach For India's placement cities, and charged to teach academics, values and mindsets and to give their students the access and exposure they need to reach their personal, long-term visions. Our framework for leadership at Teach For India is called the Leadership Development Journey, and is centered around three commitments:
- The Commitment to Personal Transformation: Exploring who you are, your purpose, and striving to be a better person.
- The Commitment to Collective Action: Building relationships and organizing partners to multiply and deepen our impact.
- The Commitment to Educational Equity: Deepening our understanding of educational equity and committing to attaining it.
Fellows work on these commitments in and beyond the full-time lab of their classroom, where they relentlessly focus on moving their students towards "path-changing" learning, the highest level of our Student Vision Scale.
By growing in the 3 commitments, and embedded with real life leadership experiences in the classrooms and communities, Fellows are ready to be lifelong learners and leaders for greater impact on children.
The power of a movement depends on the people who fuel it. Teach For India recruits our country's most promising college graduates and working professionals for our Fellowship Program. Our Fellows come from a diverse array of backgrounds including the nation's leading corporates (e.g. Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, TCS) and a wide range of universities - both local and abroad (such as Columbia University, Indian School of Business, St. Xavier's College, St. Stephen's College, Oxford University and more)
Fellows complete a rigorous, multi-stage selection process where they are evaluated for core competencies that, according to our internal data, are essential for success within and beyond the Fellowship. Competencies include demonstrated leadership, critical thinking, grit, and commitment to our mission.
The Fellowship is a challenging and incredibly transformational experience for both our students and Fellows.
Teach For India provides Fellows with extensive training and support throughout the course of the Fellowship. Designed to equip Fellows with the knowledge, skills and mindsets to become successful teachers and leaders, our support is both pre-service and in-service:
Institute: Prior to their school placements, Fellows undergo a rigorous five-week residential training program that focuses on classroom practice and leadership development. At Institute, Fellows are not only introduced to the pedagogical foundations of classroom instruction (e.g. lesson planning, vision setting, classroom culture) and content instruction, but they also begin to internalize the mindsets and beliefs needed to drive transformational change within education. Additionally, they get an opportunity to practice their teaching at Summer School during Institute training.
Ongoing Support: Throughout the two years, Fellows receive ongoing support through a combination of in-person training sessions, leadership forums, as well as online training courses and resources. In addition, each Fellow has a full-time Program Manager who provides on the ground, intensive technical, leadership and emotional support.
Teach For India places Fellows for a period of two years in full-time teaching positions in low-income schools. We strive to place Fellows within high-need schools - where poverty and other environmental factors may limit our students' choices in the future. Within their classrooms, Fellows are responsible for ensuring that their students reach ambitious academic and personal goals that are deeply grounded in their context and developed in partnership with key people in our children's lives - parents, other teachers, and community members.
Currently, Teach For India's 900 Fellows work in over 260 schools across Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore.
At Teach For India, we believe that India's students need and deserve a holistic educational experience - one that equips them with the knowledge, skills and mindsets to succeed. The need for a holistic education only grows more pressing for India's most disadvantaged students, who must navigate a range of issues arising out of poverty to achieve their dreams.
We have a threefold Student Vision: Academic Achievement, Values and Mindsets and Exposure and Access and believe that it is when we integrate the three that the magic of a great education comes to life.
Impact Assessment: To ensure that our Fellows and students are making progress towards our vision of an excellent education, we employ a number of metrics and assessment tools to measure our efforts.
Reading Comprehension and Mathematics: All of Teach For India's students take bi-annual standardized assessments, developed in partnership with an external assessment company, to measure progress on reading comprehension and mathematics.
Personal Growth: Using standardized rubrics and sampled surveys, we measure personal, non-academic growth that includes values, mindsets, and exposure and access.
Ongoing Studies: In addition to internal assessments, we are currently implementing a longitudinal study, designed in partnership with Columbia University, to measure the academic and non-academic effects of our program over time.
Where possible, Teach For India students stay with a Teach For India Fellow until they complete their schooling.


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Hello Friends! Apologies for being so quiet for the last couple of weeks but I have been sooooo incredibly busy that there just weren't enough hours in the day for blogging. I've been doing some decorating and DYIing and general life got in the way, too.
Some of you may recall me mentioning decorating the living room a very long time ago. And that's true. We finished most of the work months ago but still had some little 'finishing' touches that needed to be... errr.. finished :).
One of those 'outstanding' projects (meaning incomplete, not super pretty) were our dining chairs. We're quite fond of our chairs so we didn't see any point in buying new ones. But Hubster and I both agreed that the seats really needed refreshing. The seat pads can be unscrewed so we knew it wouldn't bee too difficult to recover them with new fabric.
But what we found most difficult was sourcing a reasonably priced fabric, that wouldn't end up costing more that a set of brand new chairs... Quality upholstery fabrics we've been looking at were about £50/metre. We needed 3 meters of fabric. Ouch!
But one lovely summer afternoon we stumbled upon some curtains on sale at Dunelm. They had an interesting design which matched our colour scheme and the fabric seemed quite strong and durable. And most importantly, they only cost £25.00! For our project we only used one curtain so all in all we spent £12.50 on having our chairs reupholstered. Can't be bad, can it?
I was so excited with the end result and how easy it was to do, that I just had to share it! So I prepared a short tut, which I hope will inspire you to inject some new life into your upholstered furniture - and you'll have unique 'designer' pieces for a fraction of the cost! :)
I'd love to know what do you think! Was it better 'before' or 'after'?
Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!
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Bay Area arts news, Feb. 9
Marin wisely balances its art, budgetary roles
Who says nonprofit arts organizations are fiscally irresponsible? Marin Theatre Company, the 45-year-old mainstay of North Bay drama, just reported that the organization ended its 2010-11 season with a $255,000 surplus and total revenue exceeding $3 million. Moreover, this is the third consecutive year that it ended the season with a surplus.
In April 2011, Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis won the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for director (for theaters with 100 to 300 seats) for Bill Cain's "Equivocation."
'Great' opera for Dallas
The Dallas Opera is commissioning a full-length opera by Jake Heggie - whose "Moby-Dick" comes to the San Francisco Opera in October - and Tony Award-winning playwright-librettist Terrence McNally in their first joint project since "Dead Man Walking." The commission, "Great Scott," an opera within an opera, is based on a story by McNally and is scheduled to open the Dallas Opera's 2015-16 season. It will star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and be conducted by Evan Rogister.
A promising Moses season
Robert Moses' Kin has announced its 17th annual home season, March 30-April 1 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Novellus Theater, and the program looks promising. It features the world premiere of "Helen," inspired by the words and music of Carl Hancock Rux and the poetry of E. Ethelbert Miller, as well as excerpts from the forthcoming "Scrubbing the Dog," created by Moses in collaboration with visual artist Elaine Buckholtz and rock guitarist Paul Carbonara (Blondie, Mary McBride).
Also on the schedule are the Isadora Duncan Dance Award-winning works "The Soft Sweet Smell of Firm Warm Things" and "Speaking Ill of the Dead," Moses' 2007 meditation on war. Last, Moses will present "Biography," inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin, featuring the 1961 audio recording of a roundtable discussion about American art, featuring Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Emile Capouya and Alfred Kazin. For tickets and more information, go to www.ybca.org or phone (415) 978-2787.
East Bay jazz
Jazz heads of the East Bay now have a series to call their own. Jazz at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek starts July 7 with a concert by trumpet player Arturo Sandoval, winner of four Grammys and an Emmy. Other headliners in the four-concert series, produced by the Diablo Regional Arts Association, include guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli (July 28), trombonist Wycliffe Gordon (Aug. 4), and vocalist Jane Monheit (Aug. 11). Subscriptions to all four concerts are available for $99 at www.lesherjazz.org.
Our happy feet
Six of the Bay Area's leading dance companies devoted to North and South American and Spanish cultures will take the Cowell Theater stage at Fort Mason for the premiere of a new series, Our Feet Speak the Rhythms of Our Hearts. The 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday performances offer something for everyone - from the drama of flamenco and the flash of the Argentine tango, to the courtship dances of Peru and the cheerfulness of California miners.
Produced by World Arts West and directed by Argentine dance star Pampa Cortés, the series features dance companies La Tania (Spain), Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco (Mexico), Valverde Dance (Peru), Barbary Coast Cloggers (USA), Ballet Pampa Argentina and Pampa Tango Company (Argentina). Tickets are $15 to $25 and may be purchased by phone at (415) 345-7575 or online at www.fortmason.org.
French baroque
San Francisco Early Music Society and Harmonica Felice present the works of pioneering female composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre this weekend, as part of a pre-Valentine's Day French baroque concert series. Largely unknown today, de La Guerre was acclaimed in her lifetime; the child prodigy was honored by Louis XIV, who published several volumes of her harpsichord music, as well as chamber pieces, sacred cantatas based on the Old Testament, and an opera. Also on the program are other French baroque works.
Harmonia Felice is a new ensemble that includes Elizabeth Blumenstock and Katherine Kyme on violin; Amy Brodo and William Skeen on viola da gamba and cello; and Katherine Heater on harpsichord.
The concerts are at 8 p.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church in Palo Alto; 7:30 p.m. Saturday at St. John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley; and 4 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco. Tickets are $35 general, $30 seniors, $12 students. To purchase, call (510) 528-1725 or go online at sfems.org.
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We carry out a range of investigations and practical activities in maths to reinforce our learning.
If you need any support with helping children with any maths at home please don't hesitate to come and speak to me. We encourage children to use any apparatus to help them carry out questions (coins, cubes, pasta etc). If unsure of the technique the children are using ask them to show you first or come and speak to me.
Some key learning points in Year 2 are:
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On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, Ortal Shmueli gave an interview with Israel's Channel 2 News. Shmueli is a pivotal part of the pro-Israel activist community at Ben-Gurion University and is an employee of the World Betar Movement, in addition to being an Israel Studies student at BGU. She is also an elected member in BGU's Student Union. Last year she took courses taught by Professors Neve Gordon and Dani Filc. During the interview with Channel 2, Shmueli said that "students have complained over the years about BGU's Department of Government and Politics and finally, an international committee that was assigned by the Council for Higher Education to examine the Government and Politics department of BGU actually said that the department isn't working well."
On December 2, 2011, Shmueli wrote on her facebook account her opinion about the BGU Government and Politics department, that she doesn't believe that they are behaving professionally about promoting students in the department, for they are "promoting based on political views and not academic excellence." Shmueli, like a series of other pro-Israel students, is concerned about a trend within Ben-Gurion University, where only students who support the views of radical academics get to become teaching assistants.
After Shmueli wrote this on her facebook, Michal Rotem, a teaching assistant of Neve Gordon, copied Shmueli's status to her facebook account and stated "From the conclusion of the status, I am not left wing but a traitor." Michal's sister Ofirwrote that "Ortal Shmueli needs to cool down; otherwise I will deal with her." In one of the comments Michal Engel, also a student in BGU's Government and Politics Department wrote regarding Ortal Shmueli, "she is a stupid bitch. When I see her, I could beat her."
On December 4, 2011, after Shmueli turned in her seminar papers, she filed a complaint with the Be'ersheva Police. She says: "As a woman and member of the student union I walk out of the university very late at night sometimes. I am scared of these people." The complaint says that a member of a very radical and extremist group threatened Shmueliand they are already known for their violent protests during the Flotilla crisis. During this time, they organized the most aggressive protest that the BGU campus has ever seen. Protesters chanted "Long live Palestine; by spirit, by blood, we will redeem you; A thousand blessings to the warriors of freedom, a thousand blessings to the shahids (suicide bombers) of freedom; Oh Erdogan, oh beloved, we want you to punish (bomb) Tel Aviv; No, no, the fascism will not pass." Radical pro-Palestinian activists at BGU also gave Nazi salutes, wove the PLO flag, and physically hurt a student who disagreed with them, requiring Magen David Adom intervention.
On a phone conversation Shmueli added that two days after she reported the incident to the police, Prof. Neve Gordon wrote an email to the BGU internal forum accusing her of publishing calls to murder him on her web-page. Shmueli insists that this has never happened. While she can prove being threatened by his teaching assistant and her friends, he can not find a single incident related to her.


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FCC starting to wade into Fox-Cablevision battle
A senior Federal Communications Commission official wants to know whether Fox and Cablevision are negotiating in "good faith" or are spending all their time running attack ads against each other.
It is almost a week since the signals of News Corp.'s Fox's television stations in New York and Philadelphia were yanked from about 3 million Cablevision Systems Corp. homes in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. So far, the two companies are nowhere near reaching a deal, frustrating consumers and angering politicians.
In a letter to Chase Carey, chief operating officer of News Corp., and James Dolan, chief executive of Cablevision, FCC Media Bureau Chief William Lake asked both companies to provide details of their negotiations to the regulatory agency so it can determine whether both sides are actually interested in getting a deal done and engaging in good-faith negotiations.
"I know that you are aware that both broadcasters and multichannel video programming distributors have a statutory duty to engage in 'good-faith' negotiations," Lake wrote, adding that if either company is "aware of any conduct by the other side that you believe violates the good faith requirement, please so indicate and provide supporting evidence."
Although the FCC is somewhat limited in the role it can have in these negotiations, the longer the fight drags on, the more of a push there will be from politicians to change the current laws that govern how broadcasters and distributors negotiate in a way that will give the FCC more clout. Sen. John F. Kerry, (D-Mass.) has already said he plans to introduce legislation to do just that.
Lake reminded both companies that their dispute has affected "millions of innocent consumers who expect to watch their preferred broadcast programming without interruption."
In a statement Friday morning, Fox said "it's becoming clear that Cablevision believes Fox has very limited value to their customers" and told the company's subscribers who want to see the network's coverage of the World Series to "switch providers or purchase an over-the-air antenna now."
Cablevision has said it is willing to let a third-party arbitrator settle the dispute. Fox has refused that option partly because if the ruling were to lead to a pricetag cheaper than what other distributors are currently paying for Fox's TV signals, the company would have to renegotiate the deals that contain so-called most-favored nation clauses.
Lake set a response deadline of Monday. Fox said it would respond to the FCC letter. A Cablevision spokesperson said it welcomes the FCC's internvention. "Whether through FCC action, binding arbitration or any other means, the time has come for News Corp to end the Fox blackout of 3 million Cablevision households," a Cablevision spokesman said.
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For the record: This post was updated to include Cablevision's response to the FCC letter.


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Since it was a meatless dish I was worried my hubby wouldn't care for it. He loved it. He said it would be even more amazing if it had pancetta or bacon in it. (Sorry, never going to happen because I HATE bacon/pork/anything that comes from a pig) And I was in heaven. It was fresh, light and full of flavor. I will most definitely be making this again. And if my Mr. is lucky maybe I will make him some with pancetta...ok probably not.
Garden Vegetable Frittata
Recipe Courtesy of Kelsey Nixon; Cooking Channel
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 5 small red potatoes, thinly sliced
- 1 bunch green onions, trimmed and sliced
- 1 cup grape tomatoes, sliced
- 1 cup baby spinach, torn
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 8 eggs
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil, plus more for garnish
- 1 to 2 cups shredded Asiago cheese, plus more for garnish
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
DirectionsPreheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the sliced potatoes to the skillet, saute for about 6 to 8 minutes, until tender but firm. Remove the potatoes from the skillet. Add another tablespoon olive oil, and add the green onions, tomatoes, spinach, and garlic. Saute for an additional 1 to 2 minutes or just until the spinach is wilted. Season the vegetables with salt, and pepper.
In a medium bowl, beat together the eggs, basil, cheese, salt, and pepper. Pour into the skillet over the vegetables. Reduce heat to medium-low and scramble the eggs for 1 minute. Return the potatoes to the skillet. Cook for an additional 2 to 3 minutes, or just until the eggs start to set around the edges. Drizzle olive oil around the edge of the pan to ensure easy removal.
Finish cooking in the oven for an additional 10 to 12 minutes, until the eggs have completely set in the center. Serve straight out of the skillet, or flip onto a serving plate. Garnish with shredded Asiago cheese and fresh basil.


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Description of problem:
For current "FC devel" as of 2007-03-03, there is no entry in the
"GNOME" menus for the system monitor utility.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to "GNOME" session.
2. Try to launch "g-s-m" by brwosing the menus.
Actual results:
No entry for "g-s-m". Utility has to be launched manually.
Expected results:
Menu entry present in "System > Administration".
Additional info:
The "Categories" entry in the corresponding "desktop" file has
changed since "FC5". It used to be:
"Categories=GNOME;GTK;Application;System;Monitor;X-Red-Hat-Base;" .
In current "rawhide", it has become:
"Categories=GNOME;GTK;System;Monitor;X-Red-Hat-Base;" .


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Marcus Pailing took a degree in Ancient History and Archaeology where he specialised in the history of Alexander the Great and the Successor kingdoms. Later he took a Masters degree in Medieval History, specialising this time in 12th century historical writing and the Icelandic Sagas.
He worked for a number of years in the business training industry, including a stint as a writer of e-learning courses, before training to be a teacher. He now teaches History in Leicestershire, England.
He is a keen traveller, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia, where he busies himself visiting as many ancient and medieval sites as he can. In England, he thrives on visiting medieval castles and cathedrals!


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I disappeared from my blog. For pretty much the entire month of July.
It wasn't intentional by any means, but it was necessary. July was insanely packed with things that I had to prepare for, be present for, or patiently put up with. There were moments of extreme stress, and moments of complete calm. Regardless of what specifically was going on in my life, being actively engaged in work on my blog just was not a priority for me during this past month.
I have missed blogging though, so I'm looking forward to getting back on the wagon again. I have lots I'd like to try to talk about in a short amount of time, so *hopefully* there will be more frequent posts up here. I'm a work in progress, don't give up on me yet!
Thank you so very much to those that have stuck around and for those that have newly subscribed via Bloglovin'; I really and truly appreciate your support and interest. I will do my best not to disappoint!
Thank you and till next time!
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Hi, I'm Thomas and I work for the IRS.
I got an e-mail that said it was from the IRS.
It said I had a refund coming and to fill out a form with my bank account number.
You know, so they could put the money in my account right away.
Now, I know that an unexpected e-mail that says it's from the IRS is a scam, but others might be tempted to check it out.
Clicking a link or opening an attachment could download malicious software onto your computer.
That could allow the sender to access your passwords, bank information, and other things on your computer.
And then they can steal your identity or your money.
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Runway re-purposed 2016 fashion show
They say you can't go home again. But I did. That is I returned to the town I called home when I first moved to America almost 9 years ago. Why? Well my step-son still lives there and it was his birthday Sunday and also to attend and cover a fashion show. But wait a minute you say, you remember that I lived in a very small town back then. It's true, it was small but it also had a lot going on for it's size! Known as the Runway Re-purposed Fashion Show it's been held every February for 8 years now in Howell, Michigan. This show is a little bit different than most others you may have attended. First, this is a unique, eco-friendly fashion design competition. Second, there's that Re-purposed part. This means that each designer needs to use at least 70% of the recycled clothing and materials that were donated by the local residents and businesses. As you can see from the photo below, on the screen behind the runway, this designer is showing the recycled clothes they picked to create their fashion masterpiece. Third, this event is a fundraiser. The money collected from entrants and the audience goes to help renovate the Howell Opera House. This building's secret past had been hidden away for years by, of all things, a hardware store before some local history buffs discovered it and let people know that a buried treasure was right in the middle of their town. Ever since they've been finding ways to raise funds for repairing the structure which was built in 1881.
This program is near to my heart for many reasons. As I mentioned, I lived in this small but very nice and charming town for 5 years. How nice is it? The kind of place where strangers will say hi when they see each other on the street. Neighbors ask how you're doing and really mean it. These same neighbors will help clean the snow from your sidewalk or cut grass in front of your home if they see you didn't get the chance to do it. We had so many neighborhood parties, BBQs and gatherings. But the most important reason is, I entered the very first and second years of this competition.
You may recall I love fashion design and always dreamed of being a fashion designer. So when we first heard of this program I thought it was a perfect outlet for me to push myself and learn more English. I will dig into my photo archives later so I can show you my two design entries. I guess that means you have to come back again to read more this Friday and next Monday. But then, that was probably your plan anyway!
This year the theme was Hollywood Then and Now. This show has gotten bigger every year and for the 2016 competition there were more than 70 designers who entered their creations.
There were several age and skill categories starting with Young Beginner Designs and then Beginner Student Designs. Here are some of the cute looks from them.
After a brief intermission the second part of the show featured Beginner Adult Design, Avant-Garde Design and Ambassador Models who showed off some winning outfits from previous years looks. Here are a few of my favorites below.
After another short break the highlight of the afternoon came with the Advanced Designer entrants. I have to say some of the outfits looked so professionally made it was hard to believe they started with those recycled clothes and reused materials. All the designers were so creative. Here are some that really made my heart skip a beat. To see all the people that came to watch, the volunteers that put in their time and effort to help run the show, and the contestants that worked hard to make their creative vision come true, made me very proud of my little town. And happy that I can use my blog to help spread the word.
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This is a fashion and humanitarian award event organized by "La Mode Magazine initiative" with the aim of supporting people living with disabilities.It is mainly focused on people living with Down syndrome in Nigeria.The Event will feature Designers and Models for Runway and will be awarding prominent Nigerians who significantly contributed to humanity.
Lots of outstanding personalities and companies who have shown a lot of concern to the well-being of people will disabilities will be awarded with the Recognition Award.
Event Details
Date: October 01, 2015
Venue: Peninsula Hotel Block 9, Plot 16 Providence Street Lekki Phase 1,Lagos, Nigeria
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Los Angeles-based sustainable skateboard company Bureo has developed the world's first skateboard deck made entirely out of recycled fishing nets! The company has set up a recycling program called "Net Positiva" that salvages old fishing nets from the coast of Chile to create its Minnow boards. Every board takes 30 square feet of nets out of the ocean, which reduces the design's greenhouse gas footprint by as much as 70%
Bureo calls the Minnow the "ultimate cruiser skateboard." It features a signature fish design with a split tail and a scale pattern on the deck. Each skateboard uses roughly 30 square feet of harvested fishing nets, and the wheels of Bureo's board are made from 30% veggie oil and feature 100% recycled cores.
Bureo was founded by three friends, Ben Kneppers, David Stover, and Kevin Ahearn, and they worked in partnership with Satori Movement and the talented designer Gabriella Laruccia to realize the Minnow. In addition to taking plastic waste out of the ocean, their "Net Positiva" program ensure that all labour and materials are locally sourced. Even the company's name, which means "the waves," comes from the native Chilean language.
Related: Bycatch: There's More Than Just Your Seafood on the Line
So far Bureo has everything in place for its first production run, especially since the company's Kickstarter more than doubled its original goal. Those who pledged can expect a board on their doorstep by this August.
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Last night was the company holiday party. There wasn't much to celebrate, though, as even the people who were keeping their jobs were losing friends and colleagues. The party was at a hotel downtown. There was an open bar, a buffet and a huge dance floor.
"You know," Meg mused. "With the amount of money they spent on this party, they probably could have kept a whole bunch of people for at least another year."
"I was just thinking that," I said. "It feels crazy to be sitting here eating mini crab cakes and drinking champagne when 750 people just lost their jobs. Especially when most of them are here, and can see how much money the company spent on this."
"Yeah, it's pretty gross," Brad agreed.
Just then, a slightly-tipsy Janelle approached us. She looked fantastic -- her dark brown hair was in loose waves instead of in her usual ponytail, she'd traded in her glasses for contacts, and had actual makeup on, as well as a killer little black dress.
"Wow!" I said. "You look hot!"
She blushed and smiled. I introduced her to everyone, and she sat down and joined us at our table. We gossiped about the station for awhile. Janelle made some very weak attempts at flirting with Brad. It was actually pretty adorable. She's so shy and serious usually.
Shannon came over a little bit later, and we made room for him, too. Everyone got along famously.
"Is that Gina?" Shannon asked at one point, nodding toward the dance floor.
"It is!" Janelle squealed as we all saw her sloppily kissing some random guy. "Who is she making out with?"
"I think he's in marketing," Brad said. "I've definitely seen him before."
As the night wore on, people started to get really, really drunk. There was a lot of making out, a lot of tears, and Meg thinks she may have heard two married fired executives going at it in the ladies room. Our table was buzzed, but not sloppy, probably because we weren't mourning the loss of our jobs.
Janelle excused herself to get more drinks at one point, and Brad offered to help her carry them. As they walked away, he put his hand on the small of her back. When they came back, they were all giggles.
People started to clear out around midnight, and we decided to follow their lead. None of us felt like going home, thought, so we hit a divey bar down the street from the hotel that wasn't too packed. I called Brandon, and he met up with us. He seemed relieved to be out of the house, and happy to have some boys to bond with.
Janelle announced she was leaving shortly after 2:00 in the morning.
"I'll walk you out," Brad said hurriedly.
Meg raised her eyebrows at me.
Brad never came back. I'm all for he and Janelle getting together, but I really hope he's not just using her to distract himself from Meg.


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3 immediate ways to build loyalty and engage with today's shoppers online. The habits of grocery shoppers are changing as consumer expectations heighten and shopping patterns shift, creating a new breed of grocery consumer. This new breed of consumer is trackable, targetable and omni-channel, but edging ever closer to being more online. This provides new opportunities to engage shoppers and grow revenue. In this short report, we analyse the changing behaviours of grocery shoppers to see where the best opportunities to respond and adapt lie, focusing specifically on three key areas:
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Over the last fifteen years working with and advising successful business owners I have found that a common feeling is that so many have just fallen out of love with their business.
The buzz and excitement of the early days of building and then growing the business is replaced by the day to day grind of …well just doing. It becomes humdrum and repetitive. The income is good, the trappings (the house, car and occasional holiday) have become the norm but where has the buzz gone?
What has happened to the energy and drive?
I have found that people start their own businesses for many reasons but all can be distilled down to the need for security. To secure their lifestyle, their future and the future of their family. But once that has been achieved then what?
Again there are many answers to this question and I have no intention of going into the meaning of life. Still trying to work out that one myself!
However, what I have learnt is that what most business owners want is freedom.
Freedom of choice, freedom of actions, freedom of how to spend their time, freedom to pursue their life dreams, freedom to just go off and play golf when they want without feeling guilty! (The last one is a real life example from last week).
So what is it that stops so many business owners from achieving their freedom?
What I see over and over again is that their business has grown over the years and has become stuck between two levels. The four key drivers of the business (time, team, money and delivery) are out of balance and the overwhelming pressure is for the business to consolidate back to the underlying level below. This is covered in Chapter 7 of 'The Levels'.
It's natural for the owner to justify the hours they work and the stress they are under as normal or that it is the price to pay for owning your own business. Commonly they tell me they just can't find good people, that their workforce is lazy and won't step up to the challenge whilst complaining that they themselves are working harder and longer hours just to stand still. Interestingly, ignoring the fact that their income is actually falling in real terms year on year. The business is slowing before sliding backwards. Potentially on a slippery slope.
But there is another way.
Here are few ideas to get started.
Look at the business through fresh eyes. It is time to take stock. Do a simple SWOT analysis on the business (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats).
List the imbalances and think how they can be bought back into balance.
Start to look for the good things in the business. Get the mental juices flowing again.
Fall back in love with the business as that is the road to change and then freedom.
You will be amazed what will happen when you fall in love with your business.
Let me know what happens.


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If an agency is to promote your brand, it's important to see how the agency promote itself as well. 2 very smart campaign were observed recently
1) IMC square: Digital Shop Sets Up Social-Media Fund for Market
smart enough, right? and can skew towards social media on their upcoming campaign, brilliant. Dressing up a discount or whatever, it makes perfect sense.
2) Leo Burnett HK
usually agency take the brief and pitch against each other, this would be vice versa, client "might" do the pitching, though i dun think they will, but absolutely good for branding, and a good excuse to "invite" NEW BUSINESS! and most importantly, have more say on the campaign rather than just a brief from client.


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Yolen, J. (1988). The devil's arithmetic. New York, NY: Penguin Group.
Hannah dreads Passover at her grandparent's house. She's tired of remembering and observing all the Jewish traditions. When she opens the door to Elijah, she's transported to Nazi Europe where she experiences the Holocaust for herself.
My grade: A
I am partial to fantasy, so I enjoyed that aspect of this story. I also like how Hannah gained a new perspective on her Grandfather's behavior.


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From women's strikes to a new class movement: The third feminist wave
By Cinzia Arruzza
April 26, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Viewpoint Magazine — On October 23, thousands of Glasgow cleaning workers kicked off the union demonstration for equal pay organized by Public Services International, Unison, and GMB with a minute's silence, in memory of the women workers who died before being able to see the day when their work would be finally granted the same dignity and value as the work of their male colleagues. In this act there was full awareness of a long history of great and small humiliations, of invisible, unacknowledged, or underpaid work, of countless instances of injustice and petty abuses, as well as of the enormity of the challenge faced by the women's strike. Equal pay: a reasonable, almost trivial goal, and yet so difficult to achieve, to such an extent that the World Economic Forum has calculated that – based on current trends and data – it will take at least 217 years to finally bridge the wage gap between women and men globally. (Granting that the world will still be habitable in 217 years…)
The Latin American left's setbacks: What does it all mean?
Interview with Steve Ellner by Alan Freeman for Canadian Dimension
Freeman: The progressive Latin American governments of the twenty-first century, the so-called Pink Tide governments, have over the recent past received heavy blows and have been replaced by conservative and right-wing governments in Brazil, Argentina and evidently Ecuador. What are people on the right saying about these setbacks for the left?
Ellner: The detractors of the Pink Tide phenomenon imply or explicitly state that it will soon become a thing of the past without any long-lasting effect. The view is underpinned by the "dinosaur" narrative and the "end of history" thesis of Francis Fukuyama, along with the rights' standard argument that socialism and the policies associated with it will end up in the dustbin of history. These writers and political activists, however, ignore that socialism has really not been put to the test because none of the Pink Tide countries have been socialist. Eighty percent of the Venezuelan economy, for instance, is owned by the private sector.
Brazil under Bolsonaro: Social base, agenda and perspectives
By Ana Garcia
April 26, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project — The rise of the far right is a worldwide phenomenon, rooted in the nefarious effects of neoliberal globalization which have pushed the world into mass unemployment and enormous inequalities. I consider it to be a late political effect of the global financial crisis that hit the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It is not an easy task to explain the phenomenon of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and to understand the groups that support him, both within and outside government. It's difficult, for anyone, to draw a truly complete and sober analysis of what we have experienced. This essay is not based on in-depth research but on collective reflections and debates. I intend to pose some key questions and try to identify some clues to answer them.
Building the Slovenian left: Successes and challenges in Eastern Europe's most promising New Left project
April 26, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung — Luka Mesec is the coordinator for the party Levica ("The Left") in Slovenia. The party was only founded in summer 2017 and emerged from an electoral alliance between three left-wing parties that has been represented in the Slovenian parliament since 2014. In the last parliamentary elections in summer 2018, Levica won over nine percent of votes and has tolerated the liberal governing coalition since last fall. This makes it one of the few new left parties in Central and Eastern Europe that has met with electoral success. In conversation with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's Wenke Christoph, Luka discusses the political models that helped them succeed, and what challenges and chances come along with tolerating the government and building local structures.
Climate emergency manifesto: We only have one planet. Let's save it. Now!
By European United Left/Nordic Green Left
The latest IPCC Special Report (October 2018) is our last alarm bell for stopping mass human and environmental destruction caused by human-induced climate change. Its findings were alarming-rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes before the year 2030 are what is required if we are to have any chance of staying well below 1.5° global warming. The failure of governments to adequately deal with this man-made crisis is already impacting millions of lives, and the most vulnerable worldwide are always hit the hardest. Short-sighted market logic has delayed an adequate response for way too long. We need unprecedented political will to achieve an ecologically just Europe, where we accept our full climate responsibility and where our climate is not sacrificed for the profit of the few.
No shortcuts: The climate revolution must be ecosocialist
By Daniel Tanuro, translated by Richard Fidler
April 26, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Climate & Capitalism — The following red-green manifesto for the 21st century was adopted by the national leadership of Belgium's Gauche Anticapitaliste. Translated for Climate & Capitalism by Richard Fidler, who blogs at Life on the Left, with light editing by Ian Angus.
A Marxist turn in animal liberation?
"Bring slaughter to an end: expropriate the meat industry, abolish capitalism". Rally against the Meat industry, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018
Interview with Daniel Werding, Christin Bernhold and David Müller
Daniel Werding, Christin Bernhold and David Müller are members of the Alliance for Marxism and Animal Liberation. The Alliance is a political association of various animal liberation groups centered in Germany and Switzerland. It was formed to support research, criticism and debate over the ideas of Marxism as they impact the animal liberation struggle and to contribute to a new approach to the praxis of the movement. The Alliance published it's 18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation[1] in January, 2017. An English translation was released August 2018. Along with 2 other members of the Alliance, they spoke with Currents editor Michael John Addario. The interview was conducted over email between November 2018 and April 2019.
Spanish state: candidate preselection turmoil as 'existential' election looms
By Dick Nichols
March 26 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — According to Josep Borrell, outgoing Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) foreign minister and self-appointed scourge of the movement for Catalan sovereignty, the April 28 general elections will be «existential» for the Spanish state. For People's Party (PP) opposition leader Pablo Casado they will be a "referendum on the secessionist menace".
This shared judgment of Spain's "parties of government" would only have been heightened by the resounding success of the March 16 Madrid demonstration "Self-Determination is not a Crime: Democracy is Deciding". The rally, organised by the Catalan National Assembly, Òmnium Cultural and the platform Women and Men of Madrid for the Right to Decide, brought into the capital up to 120,000 supporters of the right to self-determination of the nations of the Spanish state. The size and spirit of the demonstration marked an important step ahead down the long road to a democratic alternative to Spanish state unionism.
Paul Le Blanc: Reflections on coherence and comradeship
By Paul Le Blanc
March 26, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Recent discussions with European comrades, whom I have known for many years and whose experience in the struggle goes back many more years, have stirred a desire in me to draw together some political thoughts long swirling and at least partially coming together in my mind.[1]
Working in Europe during the period from mid-January to mid-April of 2019 took me away from a political earthquake and after-shocks hitting my organization in the United States, the International Socialist Organization (ISO). Regarding aspects of both the earthquake and the after-shocks, I have formed only tentative and partial judgments. An impending dissolution of the group seems likely. What I have written is not a commentary on these recent specifics. Yet they have deepened my desire to draw together these longer-range thoughts, and find reflection in what I have to say here.
The gist of what I am reaching for involves several things.
Rethinking some dominant approaches to climate change
By Richard Fidler
March 26 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left Blog — Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis, the result of an economic system (capitalism) with an inherent growth and profit dynamic which ensures that the exploitation of natural resources (both renewable and non-renewable) exceeds the carrying capacity of nature. You have read the almost-daily scientific reports, each more alarming than the ones before, on the scope of the crisis. I won't belabour the point.
Our approach must be informed by, and congruent with, the challenge that crisis poses to the way society must be organized if we are to halt and reverse the ecological catastrophe toward which we are now hurtling.
Looking for loopholes: On the misuses of Lenin's "'Left-Wing' Communism"
By Doug Enaa Greene
March 26, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left Voice with the author's permission — With the 2020 U.S. presidential election already in full swing, we are already hearing the familiar clichés from liberals: that this is the "most important election in our lifetime" and that we must support the Democrats to defeat Donald Trump. Any left-wing criticism of the Democrats is met with a prompt demand to "shut up," renounce our principles and get in line. Unfortunately, there are socialists and communists who not only repeat these liberal refrains, but also quote Lenin to justify supporting for the Democratic Party and to attack other socialists and communists as "dogmatists," "purists" and "ultra-leftists." The Lenin text most often cited as providing "loopholes" for radicals to abandon their principles and support the class enemy is "'Left-Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder" (LWC). This is, however, a gross misinterpretation of the purpose of Lenin's LWC, which is not about rationalizing opportunism; rather, it is intended to help communists think seriously about strategy and tactics in order to successfully lead the working class.
Contribuciones a la teoría revolucionaria desde las montañas mexicanas: Una reseña de Lucio Cabañas y la guerra de los pobres
Silva Nogales, Jacobo. 2015.
Ciudad de México: Deriva Negra y Cooperativa Rizoma. 207 páginas.
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Venezuela — Interview with Stalin Pérez Borges: "It will be very difficult to defeat us."
March 3 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Stalin Pérez Borges is a union leader and veteran socialist militant. He is currently a member of LUCHAS (acronym for Unitarian Unionist Chavista League, and also 'Struggles' in Spanish) and of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers' Central (CBST) Advisory Council. Intersecciones spoke to Pérez Borges about the current crisis in Venezuela. The original Spanish version was published on February 7. Translated by Pedro Alvarez from Aporrea
Before commenting on the current political crisis, how would you describe the social and economic crisis in Venezuela today?
This question leads to a very long answer, so I apologise if it gets tiresome. The economic and social crisis has grown exponentially for about five years now, and has got to this rotten state of hyper-inflation that we're barely coping with, and which is breaking world records. This is the cause for the huge discontent that we have at this stage and for the important change in the correlation of political power in this juncture. In my opinion this is a consequence of three fundamental facts: two of them circumstantial, and one structural.
Budgeting for black-out in South Africa
By Patrick Bond
March 3, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Upon taking power in a palace coup a year ago, Cyril Ramaphosa's African National Congress (ANC) government was supposedly going to sweep out the prolific corruption associated with the 2009-18 Jacob Zuma ANC regime. But although excruciatingly-slow progress is being made in evicting the most obvious villains, durable Zumite influences remain, and whistleblowing continues to unveil rapid ANC degeneracy, even stretching into the Ramaphosa family.
Contributions to revolutionary theory from the Mexican highlands: A review of 'Lucio Cabañas y la guerra de los pobres'
Lucio Cabañas y la guerra de los pobres.
Silva Nogales, Jacobo. 2015.
Mexico City: Deriva Negra and Cooperativa Rizoma. 207 pages.
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Review by Nevin Siders
March 3, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Many biographies have been written on Lucio Cabañas. This one's value derives from how it highlights his contributions to revolutionary theory. In the first chapter we see how he was in teacher training in the early 1960s in the state of Guerrero, home to Acapulco but also one of Mexico's most violent and y despotic. When he left school he was assigned to a school in the rural county of Atoyac where he got involved in the small revolutionary movements of the time, the Teacher's Revolutionary Movement (MRM), the Mexican Communist Party, and a group that the latter directed, the Independent Farmer's Confederation (CCI).
Spanish state: an early election about breaking the Catalan struggle
By Dick Nichols
February 25, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Pedro Sánchez, prime minister of Spain's minority Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) government, announced on February 15 that the country would vote on April 28. The election comes 15 months short of a full term and only nine months after the previous People's Party (PP) government of Sánchez's predecessor Mariano Rajoy fell to a PSOE censure motion in the Spanish Congress.
The censure motion was supported by the rest of the all-Spanish left (Podemos and the United Left), the alliances in which they participate in Galicia, Catalonia and the Valencian Country (respectively In Tide, Together We Can and A La Valenciana) and by nearly all nationalist forces, left and right.
These were the conservative Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the left pro-independence Basque alliance EH Bildu, the conservative Catalan European Democratic Party (PDECat) and the centre-left Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the New Canary Islands group.
Once in government, Sánchez, with only 84 PSOE seats in the 350-seat Congress, had to negotiate support for his legislative program bill by bill. Nonetheless, he had been saying before the announcement that his government would run its full term. Why did he change his mind?
Iran: Class struggle and neo-liberal capital accumulation
By Minna Langeberg
February 25, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Recent months have seen protests throughout Iran, by teachers, nurses, labourers, retirees, oil industry workers, bazaar traders and shopkeepers, truck drivers, farmers, the unemployed, students, and many more.
The current wave of protests across the country is a continuation of those of December 2017- January 2018 that were brutally suppressed by the regime. Like the 2017-18 protests, they signal the deep crisis of legitimacy of the regime, as expressed by one of the most enduring slogans that emerged from those protests: 'Fundamentalists, Reformists, the game is over'. The main slogan of current protests is 'Bread. Work. Freedom'.
These protests are sporadic, self-organised, fragmented and generally small in size – but more or less continuous. They are grassroots protests against the current situation in Iran, which has reached a boiling point. These are protests of the working class, women, the poor, the unemployed, marginalised, the underclass and the 'surplus population' who cannot be absorbed into capitalist wage labour.
On fire: A dialectical heritage
By Jason Devine
February 24, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Heraclitus has come down to us as the philosopher of Πάντα ῥεῖ, of the view that everything flows. This immediately calls to mind the image of water. Indeed, a saying of his that most commonly attends discussions of his philosophy is the following: "Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow."[1] However, this can only lead to false impressions. For fire plays a far greater and more fundamental role for Heraclitus, as both an element and a metaphor, than water ever did. Fire expresses and is the eternal alteration between life and death, movement and rest, between uniformity and diversity viz. what has come to be known as the dialectic.
Revolution, capitalist restoration and class struggle in China
By Chris Slee
February 24, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — In 1949 the Chinese Communist Party (CP), led by Mao Zedong, came to power after more than 20 years of war. They had fought against the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek regime, and against the Japanese invasion of China.
For a time there was an alliance between the CP and Chiang Kai-shek against Japan, but this ended when Japan was defeated. The CP, based in rural areas, won the support of the peasants through land reform and other progressive measures. This enabled them to win the war, despite US military aid to Chiang Kai-shek.
Initially, the revolution was intended to be democratic, not socialist. Those capitalists who had not been closely associated with Chiang Kai-shek were allowed to continue in business.
But after the outbreak of the Korean war in 1950 there was a change. The party's policy became more radical
Revolution and revolutionary strategy in Latin America
By G.LL. Williams
February 24, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The need for social revolution and socialist revolution is rather obvious in Latin America — a need that stretches from Mexico to Argentina. While this need is different in the various countries of Latin America, the overall nature of the struggle for social revolution and socialist revolution in Latin America is very similar. The history of the revolutionary struggle in Latin America, since the twentieth-century, shows the necessity of such a social revolution and socialist revolution. For the Latin American Left that struggle continues today.


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The Zoo was opened. Little did we know when we started what an interesting ride it would be.
And thanks to my dad being retired Army and living near the Ft. Myer base (where the Old Guard is housed and all the Army's ceremonial units are) I was able to think I was a princess on my wedding day. I even had a horse drawn carriage ride around the base.


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Mapping games
I hear rumors that they are dead and gone. Anyone know when the last time a mapping game appeared? I've only attempted three (the stupid country of Zendu one from the LG Bible, the city map from PT 9, and the one with the trains from PT 18) and pretty much bombed them all. I thought I was on a roll with the train one and then ended up missing 3, the others I didn't even know how to begin. I know they are "rare" but are they gone for good?
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See if anyone has had one in their experimental section. I suspect the answer is no.
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LSAC will probably never say if they are gone for good, but there hasn't been one in well over a decade, so I wouldn't sweat them too much. If you're worried, redo the ones you've done a few times to get the hang of em.
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I personally doubt they'll come back. Even the monster games that have shown up in recent years have still been conventional games. It doesn't really make sense for LSAC to punish test-takers for not knowing how to do a game that hasn't showed up in so long. But I'd still do the old ones, just in case. If nothing else, it'll help teach you to think on your feet when you come across something that seems entirely new.
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Additional online coursework must also be completed.
Non-credit* tuition, $499, (Course number: 9.422).
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