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MA American Studies
- Attendance
- Full Time
- Award
- Degree of Master of Arts
Understanding America in the 21st century is more essential than ever. At UEA we have one of the largest concentrations of American studies scholars in the country, covering the entirety of the field. Join us and discover new perspectives on some of the classic questions in this subject.Watch It
"The intellectually rigorous seminars, the vibrant student body and the incredibly brilliant and dedicated faculty have continually challenged me to think between and beyond disciplines"
In their words
Alexis Acciani, MA American Studies Graduate.
Key facts
In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) UEA was ranked joint fifth in the UK for the quality of its research in Area Studies (Times Higher REF 2014 Analysis).
About this course
Understanding America in the 21st century is more essential now than ever. Studying one of the world's most significant superpowers at this fascinating moment of flux and change opens up a wide range of academic pathways.
The programme is organised thematically, covering race, gender and civil liberties; power and protest; and American popular culture and the avant-garde. Your studies will equip you with the critical skills and methodological training you need to pursue your interest in America from different disciplinary perspectives. It's a great preparation for future employment in a number of fields, as well as for doctorial research.
This MA is equally well suited to American Studies graduates wishing to deepen their expertise, and graduates of literature, history, or other disciplines wishing to discover new perspectives.
The programme is organised thematically, covering race, gender and civil liberties; power and protest; and American popular culture and the avant-garde. Your studies will equip you with the critical skills and methodological training you need to pursue your interest in America from different disciplinary perspectives. It's a great preparation for future employment in a number of fields, as well as for doctorial research.
This MA is equally well suited to American Studies graduates wishing to deepen their expertise, and graduates of literature, history, or other disciplines wishing to discover new perspectives.
Course Profile
American Studies allows you to understand the United States from a literary and historical perspective. On this course, you'll study landmark historical events, novels, films, comic books, photographs and paintings. In doing so, you'll gain in-depth critical insight into the key moments and debates that have animated the history and culture of the United States.
You'll discover the events and forces that shaped the United States, deepening your understanding of how this powerful nation moulds and influences the cultural, political and economic lives of its own peoples and the world.
You'll explore the subject through a mix of seminar classes and academic tutorials. You'll engage in debate and creative discussion, while choosing your own specialist pathway through the subject.
If your background is in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary American studies, we can support you as you continue to specialise in this vibrant field and find exciting new areas to pursue.
If you're a graduate of literature or history, or another discipline, we'll not only provide a place to explore the United States in depth, but offer new theoretical and conceptual perspectives that can enliven your existing learning.
UEA has been a pioneering centre of American Studies for more than 50 years. We're one of the most well-established and highly regarded departments of its kind in the UK, with a long heritage of researching and teaching all aspects of life and culture in the United States. We continue to be at the forefront of the field today.
Course Structure
This course is designed to help you develop exceptionally high levels of knowledge and theoretical understanding of American thought, culture, history and politics. All teaching is conducted in small seminar groups, giving you the opportunity to engage fully with your own ideas and those of others.
This broad-ranging programme combines the study of cultural theory, literature, film, history and politics. You'll take team-taught modules that directly reflect the cutting-edge research being carried out in the department. These may include areas such as race and resistance, democracy and dissent, and the American word and image. These are underpinned by a module that introduces you to both the field of American Studies, and to research practices and interests shared by the American Studies faculty. You're also free to choose one module from MA modules running across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Finally, you'll write a dissertation of 15,000–20,000 words over the summer, for submission in September. This is an opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the topics that have most stimulated your interest over the year. You'll receive intensive one-on-one mentoring from a supervisor whose expertise and interests match your chosen project.
Teaching and Learning
You will learn through seminars and independent study. We pride ourselves on small group seminar teaching and a high level of discussion between academic staff and students.
You'll refine your research skills throughout this MA and be introduced to new and exciting methodologies and theories that drive the study of American history and literature. This will culminate in completing your dissertation, a substantial piece of original research in an area of your choosing, which you'll undertake with the supervision of a member of the faculty.
As you progress through your degree, you'll develop as a self-motivated researcher and independent, creative thinker.
As well as timetabled seminar slots, each member of staff at UEA holds dedicated office hours where you can come and seek additional advice and guidance on a one-to-one basis. You'll also be assigned an adviser who can support you through your studies by providing academic and career guidance.
There's no written examination. Instead, you'll be assessed on the basis of coursework (essays and sometimes class presentations) and your dissertation. Your dissertation will count for a third of your total marks.
For every piece of assessment that you submit you'll receive constructive written and verbal feedback from tutors.
After the course
You will graduate from the MA American Studies with expert communication skills and a well-honed ability to evaluate and organise large amounts of information. As a graduate of this course you will therefore be able to put your skills and knowledge to a huge range of uses including further study at doctoral level; commercial and policy-related research; editing and content writing; and marketing and social media communications to name just a few. You will be particularly good at working independently and initiating, developing and successfully completing projects, and will be an invaluable part of any team.
Career destinations
- Publishing and journalism
- Civil service
- Marketing and advertising
- Cultural industries
- Teaching/lecturing
- Commercial/policy research
Course related costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of other course-related costs.
Course Modules 2020/1
Students must study the following modules for 160 credits:
This Autumn module will introduce you to key theories in American Studies. As American Studies is an interdisciplinary field, we require you to familiarise yourself with foundational concepts in the field through the taught aspect of this module. Along with this, you will have a unique opportunity to conduct your own research work alongside scholars in American Studies at UEA and to deepen your engagement with and participate in our research culture. Thematically, the research specialities in American Studies at UEA cluster around three key areas: race, gender and civil liberties; environment, space and place; and popular culture and the Avant-Garde. We work within the interdisciplinary tradition of American Studies as well as being engaged with traditional disciplines of history and literature. You will have advanced research-tutorials with American Studies faculty across the semester to enable a tailored teaching experience based upon these research specialisms.
Students are required to write a dissertation of a length as specified in their MA Course Guide on a topic approved by the Course Director or other authorised person.
American culture is powerfully visual. From the 'eyes of the world' judging Winthrop's City upon a Hill and Emerson's 'transparent eyeball' to advertising, art, TV and movies America is a culture of the image. But how do we read such a culture? This team-taught module examines the fecund intersection of word and image in post-war American literary texts, visual art, and popular culture in order to explore ways of reading postmodern America. You will cover key phases, figures and texts of late twentieth-century American writing (poetry, comics, autobiography) in conjunction with contemporaneous art practices (Abstract Expressionism, Performance Art, Conceptualism, and Pop art). You will examine works that challenge the historic separation of visual and verbal, instead reading poetry, illustrated texts, artists' books, philosophy, conceptual art, painting, comic books, photography, digital media, installations and exhibitions as places where images and texts meet and are mutually enhanced. You will learn about, and critically negotiate, key philosophical, literary, art historical, and art critical debates concerning post-modernity and post-war visual art in order to assess the powerful sway of word and image on America's imagining of itself in the late Twentieth Century. The overall aim is to investigate how correspondences between verbal and visual disciplines and practices affect both constructions of and reflections on modern American experience. This is taught in a number of two-week-long units with regular round-up sessions for the teaching team and you to consolidate and develop overarching themes and issues.
Democracy and Dissent
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." (Winston Churchill) "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? # Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine." (Henry David Thoreau) "America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel." (Allen Ginsberg) Democracy is both a mode to be celebrated, but also at times resisted. It is a process for ensuring equality and freedom, but also an overbearing 'machine' devouring individuality. Dissent is built into the very fabric of the US from the Puritan 'errand', through the Revolution, 'civil disobedience' and up to 60s draft resistance and more recently to the Tea Party, and Occupy movements. This module will explore the nature and practice of democracy in the US and the ways in which it develops through dissent.
Oscar Wilde wrote that 'The youth of America is their oldest tradition; it has been going on now for three hundred years'. Is this true? If so, why? This module aims to account for the preoccupation with youth in America, focusing particularly on the concept of 'innocence'. Drawing on a wide array of fictional and theoretical works, you'll consider the following questions: What is at stake in America's investment in innocence? What power interests and ideologies are maintained by repeatedly describing America as 'innocent'? How is this investment in innocence revised in different historical moments? How is it challenged? How is innocence (and loss of innocence) depicted differently for female, male, white and non-white protagonists? At the end of this module, you'll have had the opportunity to reflect on these questions in seminars, and pursued your own interests in assessed work (presentation and essay). You will also have developed your communication, writing and research skills.
"Where there is power, there is resistance" (Foucault). What forms resistance to oppression might have taken however, and indeed, what counts as resistance, are at the heart of this module. Your module is about theories of race and strategies of resistance within the Americas. Interdisciplinary and team-taught, it begins with the premise that the ideology of white racial dominance continues to subordinate American peoples of colour. You will then examine a range of forms and strategies of resistance, from covert and overt forms under the slave system, to the response of indigenous peoples to the overt power of the State, to the struggle for civil rights during the 20th century. You will consider particular case studies each week drawn from the teaching team's research areas. You will develop a deeper critical understanding of conceptual terms associated with race and resistance. You will be asked to think comparatively, reflecting on different forms of resistance and the differing methodologies used to analyse it. The interdisciplinary nature of your module means you will benefit from a range of expertise and disciplines (intellectually and methodologically). Your module will enable you to understand how history, literature and studies can be put in dialogue with each other around the same overarching theme. You will learn through seminars, tutorials, and self-directed study. The focus of the week's discussion will center around questions you've developed from the set-reading and your own additional resources if applicable. You'll be assessed through coursework with various workshops and tutorials to guide you in developing this. You will develop knowledge and skills to enable you to take forward either to further study or in your chosen career. Aside from honing your research, writing, and presentation skills, you'll also develop your communication and leadership skills. Growing intellectually through the weekly small-group discussions, you'll also meet each other outside of the context of the seminar for further discussions around a set task.
Students will select 20 credits from the following modules:
This module will use case studies of Southeast Asia, Central America and the Middle East to explore the reasons for American interventions and to assess their success or failure. It will offer an historical understanding of the assumptions and practices which lie behind contemporary US foreign policy-making. The module will introduce students to the institutions and processes involved in the making of American foreign policy.
'Hollywood' as an industry, cultural institution and maker of films has dominated the global cinematic imagination for decades. On this module, we investigate the history, production cultures and texts made by the US film industry from its classic period to contemporary filmmaking. This will include analysing Hollywood from a range of perspectives, which may include things like studio filmmaking, independent filmmaking, genre filmmaking and the blockbuster. In doing so we will discover the multiplicity of cinemas at work within the concept of Hollywood.
Various attempts at (sub-)categorising contemporary fiction interpret it as a departure from previous aesthetics or a response to political or historical events or movements: post-modern; post-colonial; post-feminist; post-communist; post-9/11; post-millennial; post-national; even post-post-modern etc. As a prefix, "post-" suggests supersedence rather than novelty; at worst it is merely an aspirational syllable. Its proliferation co-exists with more conventional attempts at temporal taxonomy such as monographs and student guides dedicated to specific decades. One way of reading "post"-something-or-other is to think of it as an engagement with, and critical reassessment of, the past it so assiduously hyphenates: its literary conventions, cultural heritage, philosophical traditions, political ideologies, and - paradoxically - its long shadows way beyond the present moment. The manifestations of these engagements and reassessments can be rather contradictory. The memory boom of the 1990s put paid to claims about "the end of history" or scepticism over Grand Narratives. The renewed popularity of the (neo)historical novel and period drama also chafes against the recent turn towards trauma studies. The effects of new market forces, media and digital technology on the form of writing and the construction of the "author" could also be seen as one of the legacies of modernism. A focus on mindfulness, ethics and affect sits uneasily alongside the necessity for art to provoke and push boundaries. Expressions of the regional contend with an increasing awareness of transnational subjects, diasporic identities and global issues, and some of the most interesting writing today comes from 'the East' or writers with hybrid origins and hyphenated identities. Can fiction still be formally inventive and how might it enter into dialogue with other art forms (photography, sculpture, painting, cinema)? In the light of the critical and commercial success of 'creative non-fiction' we might also want to ask precisely how narrative can perforate disciplinary and generic categories. On this module we will attempt to construct a (naturally provisional, selective and incomplete) genealogy of the contemporary by examining some of the discernible trends and tensions of relatively recent writing. Much of this writing will be Anglophone but you should be prepared for adventures in reading translations. We will also have to opportunity do some work in UEA's Archive of Contemporary Literature: what and who is being archived according to which criteria, and what do archivists, academics and critics consider archival about the contemporary?
How are sex, gender and sexuality brought together to ensure the normative privileging of heterosexuality and the sex/gender binary? What possibilities are there for resistance to these norms? How does such resistance situate us socially, culturally, and politically? With queer theory as its focus and drawing on case studies from different fields - literature, film, drama and performance, politics, history, among others - in this interdisciplinary module, you'll examine sex, gender, and sexuality as effects of historically specific socio-cultural and geo-political power relations. Rather than approaching queer studies as a singular or coherent school of thought, you'll be encouraged to continuously problematize queer studies as a field and a mode of analysis, asking: What does it mean for theory, in particular, to be queer? What is involved in queering theory and being critically queer? What kinds of bodies or desires does queer describe? What are the promises of queer theory, and what are its perils? What is the future of queer? While doing so, you'll explore a variety of topics, such as politics of difference, representation and cultural production, performance and performativity, temporality and spatiality, subjectivity and embodiment. Overall, in this module, you'll problematise and challenge normalisations, hierarchies and relations of domination and explore the powerful processes and languages that attempt to fix sex, gender and sexuality as unchanging and universal.
You will learn about the relationship between feminisms and the cultural history of (primarily) US and UK television from second wave feminism to the present. Your module charts the dialogue between feminism and television in Anglophone contexts from the 1970s through to the 2010s, focussing on flashpoint moments for feminism (e.g. the women's liberation movement; millennial postfeminism; the global financial crisis) and touchstone texts (e.g. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Prime Suspect, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sex and the City, Girls, Scandal) that have resonated particularly strongly with female audiences (e.g. soap operas; lifestyle TV; women centred dramas), struck a chord with feminist concerns (e.g. work/life balance, sexual freedoms, empowerment, the politics of relationships/singlehood/friendship), and generated foundational criticism by feminist television scholars. It will be structured chronologically, and topics may include feminism and female audiences; action heroines on television; the figure of the female detective; women's work; intersectional identities (queerness, post-racial discourse, masculinities) and recessionary culture.
Comic books have a long association with the world's film and television industries. Comics have long provided the origin sources for film and television adaptations, from the early animation and live action television to today's blockbuster films. Moreover, comics from around the world, from Marvel and DC Comics in the USA to European bande desinee to Japanese manga, have become the origin points for vast multimedia franchises. This module seeks to understand the relationships between comics and their media adaptations. To do so, you will take a global view of the comics in film and television, considering examples from Hollywood to Asia. In doing so we will consider the range of genres and topics that comics have influenced within film and television cultures including: issues of ideology and gender, issues of adaptation, franchising and transmedia production.
Providing a conceptual overview of feminist research approaches, you will examine contemporary gender and power relations. You will examine both the formal and informal power structures that shape the experience of gender. Bringing together the fields of media, sociology, politics and cultural studies, the module explores the extent to which feminist theory informs gender-based activism.
DisclaimerWhilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.
Further Reading
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Trump's challenge to the US legal system must be taken seriously.
Your University questions, answered
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Entry Requirements
- Degree Subject Humanities or Social Sciences
- Degree Classification UK BA (Hons) 2.1 or equivalent
Students for whom English is a Foreign language
We welcome applications from students whose first language is not English. To ensure such students benefit from postgraduate study, we require evidence of proficiency in English. Our usual entry requirements are as follows:
- IELTS: 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in all components)
- PTE (Pearson): 58 (minimum 42 in all components)
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
Other tests, including Cambridge English exams and the Trinity Integrated Skills in English are also accepted by the university. The full list of accepted tests can be found here: Accepted English Language Tests
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This course's annual intake is in September of each year.
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If you have alternative qualifications that have not been mentioned above then please contact university directly for further information.
All applications for postgraduate study are processed through the Admissions Office and forwarded to the relevant School of Study for consideration. If you are currently completing your first degree or have not yet taken a required English language test, any offer of a place will be conditional upon you achieving this before you arrive.
Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the academic year 2020/21 are:
- UK/EU Students: £7,850 (full time)
- International Students: £16,400 (full time)
If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home/EU students).
We estimate living expenses at £1,015 per month.
Scholarships and Awards:
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has a number of Scholarships and Awards. For further information, please click here.
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A test-runner designed for use with MySQL-based DBMS's. The intent is to have a standardized server and test management system which a variety of testing tools can plug into.
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Intended to facilitate a variety of testing scenarios for MySQL-based systems. This tool provides standard sever allocation and management, test management, and test reporting which various testing tools can plug into.
Currently supporting Drizzle, MySQL, and Percona Server databases
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drizzletest.cc (standard mysql / drizzle test suite)
randgen (random query generator)
writing tests in python unittest (basically test *anything*!)
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- Maintainer:
- Patrick Crews
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- Licence:
- GNU GPL v2, GNU GPL v3
View full history Series and milestones
trunk series is the current focus of development.
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- Bazaar
- Programming languages:
- python, perl, SQL
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The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has announced tenders to construct the 53 Km road project from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Rironi. The project while being designed and supervised by KeNHA is funded by the World Bank. The road is divided into three sections: JKIA-Likoni Road Junction at the Southern Bypass
Interchange; Likoni Road Junction-James Gichuru Road Junction near ABC Place on Waiyaki Way and the James Gichuru Road Junction-Rironi section.
The project entails building a dual carriageway from JKIA, passing through Likoni Road and linking James Gichuru Road to Rironi on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway. The road is set to have a dedicated Rapid Bus Transit lane from JKIA to Kikuyu.
The KeNHA General Manager David Muchilwa has said that they had to find a better way of moving people through a well-organised bus system using dedicated lanes, and thus they came up with the Rapid Bus Transit system, a faster and efficient way of moving people.
Rapid Bus Transit lanes will also be included alongside interchanges at intersections on Popo-Kapiti, Langata-Lusaka, Bunyala road, Rhapta and James Gichuru road.
The final stretch from James Gichuru to Rironi will have additional lanes on both sides and space will be left in the middle of the road for a future bus rapid transit system.


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Possibly the best PlayStation 4-exclusive to come out during the console's launch, Resogun has been given a new update by Housemarque, and it might be the last title update the game sees when it comes to fixing issues.
Check out the host of tweaks the studio has included in title update 1.07.
-Fixed enemies sometimes not spawning correctly while Overdrive is active.
-Fixed multiplier sometimes being displayed incorrectly when starting Arcade Hero.
-Fixed a corner case where player would get killed if they got hit in the same frame they activated Bomb/Overdrive/Boost.
-Fixed shared multiplier occasionally behaving incorrectly in Arcade online multiplayer.
-Fixed issue which allowed both players to trigger a bomb at the same time in online Multiplayer.
-Fixed some boost and score-related Feats not unlocking under certain circumstances.
-Fixed "Houses made of glass" Challenge not ending correctly if Phase 20 is completed.
-Fixed some minor sound effect issues during gameplay
This is (hopefully?) the very last bug fixing the game needs.
Are there any more bugs that need to be squashed in Resogun? If so, make sure to let Housemarque know.
[Source: Housemarque]
Resogun Update 1.07 Rolls Out, Fixes Enemy Spawns and More - PlayStation LifeStyle


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TWENTY five cents isn't much. Unless you don't have much to start with.
That is the premise causing citizen groups in New York and Los Angeles, two of the largest and most emblematic American cities, to fight in court 25-cent increases in bus-and-subway fares that they argue fall unfairly on the working poor and minorities.
If successful, the court battles may expand the scope of civil rights laws into a relatively new area: economic discrimination. Even if unsuccessful, the preliminary federal injunctions already won in both cases may alter municipal decisionmaking by putting minority concerns on the political map in a new way.
The New York City increase - from $1.25 to $1.50 - has been a see-saw affair, testing New Yorkers' patience. The hike, scheduled to go into effect Monday, was blocked last week by a federal judge who ruled that blacks and Hispanics appeared to be discriminated against.
The judge noted that city bus fares increased 20 percent while commuter-rail lines increased only 9 percent. The ruling was overturned - then argued again Tuesday. In the meantime, the city transport authority sold, then bought back, then sold again the $1.50 tokens to long lines of New Yorkers not amused by the circumstance. A circuit court of appeals ruling is now pending.
Los Angeles is already under an injunction, based on a discrimination suit brought last year. A judge essentially forced a compromise between passenger groups and the city after the transit authority tried to raise fares from $1.10 to $1.35 and eliminate the free passes riders use for transfers. A trial to decide the case opens Jan. 23.
In both instances, federal transportation subsidies anchor the legal challenge. Based on the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, discrimination on the basis of race or national origin where federal funds are involved is illegal.
Rider groups on each coast argue that not only has the overall cost of running the city metro increasingly shifted to those least able to pay - but also the majority of improvements and the new fares benefit wealthier suburban riders, who tend to be mainly white.
Riding the rail in L.A.
L.A., for example, is constructing a new rail system, now millions over budget, that will connect downtown with the affluent 'burbs. In the next decade, however, the rail will serve 10 to 15 percent of all L.A. riders - whereas the bus system, which has been cut back, will serve 90 percent of the users. The average income for rail users is $63,000, according to studies, while 62 percent of bus users have incomes under $15,000. Eighty percent of bus riders are minority.
Neither city contests the basic facts in the case. But they say it is smaller budgets and federal government cutbacks - not racial bias - that has forced higher fares. They also argue the proper venue for challenging the fares is the ballot.
''It's not discrimination to charge for operating your subway,'' a leading urban economist says. ''If blacks or whites happen to ride it, fine. But the city has to make the subway run.''
The lead lawyer for the New York Urban League and the Straphangers Campaign, G. Oliver Koppell, views the case differently: ''This is a disproportionate allocation of subsidies that is creating a burden on minorities. The way the system is set up and financed needs to be addressed.''
A ruling for the citizens groups in either case is expected to reverberate in city halls nationwide and may bring a major reassessment of transport systems. ''There is a huge amount of interest in this case'' in city planning offices, says Tom Rubin, a transportation official in Alameda County, Calif. ''It has already started to force city departments to think twice....''
Legacy of N.Y.'s inequity
In New York, the disparities between urban and suburban riders date back to decisions made in the '50s, experts say, when Robert Moses took over the Port Authority and rammed through a rebuilding program, against the warnings of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
''There is no question the city's transport system has been run to favor rubber-wheeled transport,'' says Ferdinand Shoettle of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. ''The whole decisionmaking process tilted the transport system against the poor.''
In legal terms, the cases may open up new ground. Previously, the Title VI guidelines of the Civil Rights Act were almost exclusively applied to inequities among school districts in states. They have never been applied to municipal services as in these two cases. The court must decide the reasonableness of the grievance brought by the two citizens groups. Since poverty does not fall under a constitutional protection, the court will weigh how many riders have minority and an economic-hardship status.
While the plaintiffs do not have to prove a ''conspiracy'' or ''intent'' to discriminate the court will also not assume ''all government actions can be perfectly executed,'' says Robert Jarvis, a transportation law expert at the Nova Southeastern University Law Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ''They can always work out a compromise.''


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COFFS COAST (NSW) – Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville put in an electrifying run to dominate Day 2 of the FIA World Rally Championship finale at Kennards Hire Rally Australia today.
PHOTO: Fast traffic! Leader Thierry Neuville throws his Hyundai i20 Coupe into a bend on today's stages of Kennards Hire Rally Australia (Bruce Thomas pic)
The Belgian won three of five stages south of the Coffs Harbour event base, ending the daytime section 19sec in front with two more runs on the harbourside Destination NSW Super Special Stage scheduled this evening before an overnight halt.
Tomorrow's final day comprises five more stages in State forestry to the north – two televised live worldwide – and a ceremonial finish wrapping up the 13-round season at 3.30pm in the city centre.
Typifying the competitiveness that has made 2017 the most unpredictable season in more than a decade, four different car makes filled the top four places today.
Jari-Matti Latvala held second although he dropped 13sec in his Toyota Yaris despite winning stage 10. The 31-year-old Finn has finished runner-up three times at Coffs Harbour but is yet to break through.
M-Sport's Ott Tanak took stage 11 and third place in a Ford Fiesta from Citroen C3 driver Kris Meeke, who then dropped out with suspension failure after stage 12, handing fourth to team-mate Craig Breen.
The day's main casualty was overnight leader Andreas Mikkelsen, who retired on the second morning stage after two punctures. Mikkelsen is expected to rejoin for tomorrow's final leg, but has lost the chance to successfully defend his 2016 Australian crown.
With a season-fourth victory in sight at the end of tomorrow's 65kms of competition, Neuville appeared aware of the need to balance speed with caution.
"This one was a bit more slippy," he said after the 12km SS13, Argents Hill. "I struggled a bit with the oversteer. Not so much fun but the stage time is still good.
"We have to keep on the good rhythm and keep pushing, but don't go too hard."
Finnish teenager Kalle Rovanpera performed impeccably in WRC2. The 17-year-old dominated in an M-Sport prepared Ford Fiesta R5 to hold 10th outright.
Skoda driver Richie Dalton in 11th is the first Australian-based entrant, one spot ahead of Coffs Harbour's Nathan Quinn in a 10-year-old Mitsubishi.
Quinn is entered simultaneously in the final of the CAMS Australian Rally Championship, where he holds a 2min43.1s lead over the defending titleholder Subaru's Molly Taylor. However, second
Today's contest was scheduled for six stages, but the afternoon's final pass on the 21km Newry17 stage was cancelled for World and Australian championship competitors because of damage to a wooden bridge.
The stage remained open for NSW and Queensland championship competitors, but under triple-caution conditions.
Tomorrow will see a 9.83km run through Pilbara Reserve, Bucca16 (31.90km) and Wedding Bells (6.44km) before a repeat of Pilbara and Wedding Bells to complete the 21 competitive stages.
Closing Rally Australia and the 2017 WRC season, Wedding Bells II will start at 1.18pm and will be televised to a live audience in more than 150 countries.
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by pm Terrell
Reviewed by Terry South for Bookpleasures
Ricochet is a compelling all engrossing story that includes murder, terrorism, illegal immigration and espionage all rolled into a powerful engaging story line. If you are looking for a fast paced story that will have you hooked and glued to each page then look no further, Ricochet will have you turning page after page from the beginning to the end. The story begins as Shelia and her friend Margaret go shopping at the mall before Shelia starts her academy training for the FBI. While Shelia and her best friend are at the mall they stop to grab a bite to eat, while standing in line Shelia becomes suspicious of a someone who is acting strangely and then there is an explosion and Shelia is knocked out. When she awakes she finds herself buried and is short of breath due to the fire from the explosion, as for Margaret she is not as lucky, she is in a coma.
Later a reporter comes to Shelia and she informs her that she will never forget that face, a terrorist amongst us, and a face that she will soon wish she had not seen. Her talking with the reporter has now put Shelia in more danger and it could mean life or death. Shelia joins forces with her instructor Steve Moran to piece together the events and to solve the case, but what she finds leads to more questions and unanswered questions, and the trail that may uncover that her parents deaths were no accident.
Where will all this lead Shelia? Will she find herself involved in another attack? Will she find the truth behind her parents deaths? You will have to pick up a copy of Ricochet to find out the answers and you will be glad you did, this is a great story that is highly recommended. Fans of suspense, mystery and action will be raving about this book. I look forward to reading more from this highly talented author who is a great storyteller.


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I just finished watching Margin Call (2011), a Wall Street thriller (?) set in the early hours of the 2008 financial crisis. As their world crumbles beneath their feet, one of the powerful suggests to one of his peers that perhaps it's a dream. The response — Maybe it's all been a dream, and we're now just waking up.
The questions raised by that curt retort are enormous.
One of my close friends is unswervingly convinced that our entire economy is a balloon on the verge of exploding. But I've always leaned toward optimism, brushing off the bleak prophesies of the doomsayers. Economies rise and fall. Fortunes are made and lost. It's a cycle.
But perspective comes with age. The older we get, the further we can see into the past. And it seems that with the ability to see into the past, we also gain an uncanny knack for peering into the future.
I can't even begin to comprehend the complexities and intricacies of economics. But I can understand addition and subtraction. And I can understand that there just has to be a limit to spending what we don't have. And I can understand that the world cannot go on forever with a small fraction of its population consuming most of its resources and enjoying the bulk of its wealth.
In the movie, one of the wealthy money men expresses his belief that there will always be fat cats and starving dogs. It's clear to him that life is a game with winners and losers. You're the first, you're the fastest, you're the smartest, or you lose. His point is illustrated in an almost comedic manner when two power brokers, engaged in an intense survival strategies discussion, enter an elevator and take positions flanking a cleaning woman. They continue their discussion uninterrupted as though the woman doesn't exist. Sadly, to them, she doesn't.
Over the millennia, people have responded to the wealth question in so many ways. Some take vows of poverty, some take up work to improve poor conditions, and others try to distribute a portion of their wealth to others in need. Some of the doomsday prophets respond by stockpiling and minimizing their connection to the grid.
But most of us generally ignore those on the financial rungs below ours, at least most of the time. Like the woman on the elevator, we don't see them. In our orbits, they don't exist.
So I keep returning to the question, Have we been living a dream and is the alarm about to ring? Can we really feel satisfied knowing that our IRAs are secure and growing? Can we really expect the years ahead to be as comfortable as the years behind us?
I believe Margin Call answers these big questions in a very subtle and indirect manner. Sam Rogers, a main character and one of the firm's managers, is relentlessly clobbered with an incessant stream of difficult questions and hard dilemmas. He stands to lose his career, his fortune, and his integrity.
But he is most troubled by the loss of his dog to a malignant tumor.
To take this any further, I risk sounding pompous, arrogant, or overly religious. But the bottom line truth is inescapable. Anything and everything that is tangible will pass away. We all know it, but few of us live like we know it. Our possessions, our careers, our wealth, and even our reputations are impermanent.
Whether we live like it or not, what matters most, at the end of the day, is authentic relationships.
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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I am sharing the experience of what happened when I found a lump in my breast for the second time in 2 years. I hope it serves as a reminder of the importance of self-exams and supporting your loved ones through health battles. Please share with all of the amazing women in your life:)
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Hayao Miyazaki, the genius behind "Spirited Away," is coming out of retirement for one more movie.
Great artists don't stay in retirement for very long. After Dave Chappelle's highly acclaimed performance as SNL host this past weekend, more news of an un-retirement have surfaced. Hayao Miyazaki, the writer and director behind "My Neigbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away," has announced that he'll be leaving his golden life of leisure behind to make one more feature film. That film, titled "Kemushi No Boro" ("Boro The Caterpillar" in English) will take four to five years to be released. Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from film in 2013.
Hayao Miyazaki has reportedly been planning to make this film for 20 years. The protagonist of the film is "a tiny, hairy caterpillar, so tiny that it may be easily squished between your fingers." Expect something spectacular.


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Al'dran; Immortal Dragon-king
Life incarnate, Al'dran was the first dragon and only one to survival the ancient dragon purge, which happened long before the age of Angel-kin(The dragon perception of humanoids).
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I don't think I have ever worn a nail color as much as I have worn Essie's In The Cab-ana this month. I have the tendency to be obsessed with a nail color when its fresh and new and then I move on to the next one once the obsession had subsided (which doesn't take long). However, I have been wearing this color so much, I was actually contemplating whether or not I should purchase a back-up when I was in Target the other night. Lol…
I won't bore you with the details. Take a look at the swatches of this color and you will know why I am obsessed with it:
In The Cab-ana is kind of a robin's egg blue with a hint of mint. It's very opaque in one coat, but I used two in these pictures. Like First Timer, the color isn't too bright and overpowering, but is still very eye catching. The formula was great, but since I have been using it so much I have noticed that it's getting a little thick. Other than that I think it's amaze balls!
What colors are you guys into right now? Have any of you tried the new neon collection from Essie? I haven't only because I don't like to feel like I am being forced to put white nail polish underneath another nail color to make it pop. I feel like they should be opaque enough on their own so I am on the fence about that collection.
I hope you all enjoyed this post…Talk to you soon! xx


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Abu Dhabi is going to get one more location to choose from when it comes to spending an entertaining weekend in 2020. After all, Abu Dhabi is ready to get a major entertainment hub by the end of next year.
Called Al Qana, this hub will be situated on the Khor Al Maqta waterway. This leisure destination is going to be spread over 7 districts with over 2.4 kilometres. Abu Dhabi Municipality and Al Barakah International Investment are working together on this project.
Al Qana is going to more than just a leisure centre, however. It will also be a paradise for food lovers since there will be a wide variety of restaurants covering the waterfront.
Al Qana will also be offering a fantastic panorama of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. The districts of this hub will feature breathtaking walkways that can encourage the visitors to take a stroll. Several entertainment options will certainly be there including cinemas, an outdoor skate park and a kids' zone. There will also be landscaped spaces for the community to enjoy.


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1. Re: JBoss Prtal server and Jboss IDE for eclipse Integrationpeterj Feb 22, 2008 11:55 AM (in response to sarfaraz)
Did you read the documentation? It is very good, and includes a portlet primer. http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.6.4/referenceGuide/html/tutorials.html
For general portlet programming, there is a free pdf available at http://www.manning.com/hepper/. It uses a different portal, but most of the portlet-related stuff applies to all portals.
Even the portal spec is very readable: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168
I also have another reference available, specific to JBoss Portal, but it is not free. I can supply the URL if you like.


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If you've heard more than one Drake song, then you've heard Noah "40" Shebib's work; Or at least his name dropped by Aubrey. 40 is the man behind the man. Drake's go to producer and long time friend. 40 recently sat down with Vibe, and discussed why he decided to cancel plans to put together a post humous Aaliyah album.
When asked how the opportunity came about, 40 had this to say:
"Aaliyah's label Blackground—the Hankersons, her uncle and cousin—came to me and said if she was around she'd want you to do this [posthumous] project. I've been obsessed with Aaliyah forever, and I know Drake has his relationship with her. But that opportunity was mine. Drake said, "Can I do it with you?" and I was like, "Of course, we'll do it together." " (Vibe)
40 then went on to explain that the reason he pulled the plug on the album was because Aaliyah's mother made it clear that she did not want the project to come out.
"[That] was enough for me," he said. "I walked away very quickly."
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Most men are not easy to buy for when it comes to Christmas gifting, but a groomer is always a practical and appreciated option. Remington have an affordable set with multiple attachments called the Barber's Best Personal Groomer. This new set has a beard trimmer, beard comb, nose and ear trimmer, foil shaver and body hair trimmer. With all this in one box, whether he wants … [Read more...]
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BOOK GIFT: Millie Marotta's Curious Creatures
The adult colouring craze has been on us for a while now and the selection of books is quite amazing. This Christmas give the gift of peace, tranquility and relaxation with this therapeutic colouring book of Curious Creatures. Colouring is no longer just for children with the much more intricate books now being designed for adults, but that doesn't mean that the … [Read more...]


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Posted weekly on Tuesdays, Reading Roots features a variety of book bloggers talking about their early reading influences and experiences, letting us catch a glimpse of the "roots" that each person has built upon in forming their identity as "a reader".
Today, I'm interviewing Jill from Fizzy Thoughts. Let's explore her reading roots!
What is your earliest memory involving books or reading? How were books, reading, and literacy approached in your childhood home? Were your parents or other family members "readers"?
Unfortunately, I don't have any particular early memories of books or reading. Or even learning how to read. I just know that I always had books in my room, and I was always in the advanced reading groups. While neither one of my parents were readers, they never discouraged me from reading. My mom does read more now than she did when I was a kid. However, we don't have the same taste in books, so there's not a whole lot of book sharing going on. When you look at my extended family, the book junkies start to pop up. One of my aunts and a couple of cousins are avid readers. In fact, my aunt and one of my cousins were both English teachers, My aunt was always giving me thesauri and dictionaries and reference books for Christmas.
Did you enjoy language arts/English classes as a kid, or were you more of a reluctant reader? When did you first consider yourself "a reader"?
I loved English. Looking back, I'm surprised I didn't decide to major in it. In fact, I regret not majoring in it (I don't use my history degree, so I'd rather have all that lovely literature knowledge floating around in my brain). I can recall my high school English classes much more vividly than my History classes. And I've always been considered a reader, by myself as well as friends and family.
Did you have any interesting reading habits when you were growing up? Do you still have them now?
I've always loved to stay up late on weekends reading. And I always feel guilty, like I'm doing something forbidden. I used to lie to my parents when they'd ask how late I'd been up. My dad would say he'd seen the light under the door, and I'd say I fell asleep with it on.
Where was your favourite spot to read as a kid? Are there any books you distinctly remember from your childhood? Why?
As a kid, I always read in my room, sprawled across my bed. But that's something that I rarely do now…I prefer a cushy chair. It's much easier on the neck! As for memorable books, I loved The Witch of Blackbird Pond and all of the Anne of Green Gables books.
How have your reading tastes developed from childhood until now? What were the phases that you went through along the way?
As a young teenager I was in to Fantasy. I loved it. Then it was Harlequin Romances. I blame this on my aunt the English teacher…that is all she reads! I think there's a recessive gene floating around the family tree for genre fiction. I still like to read the occasional paranormal romance, although you'd never guess it from my blog. As an adult, I've gravitated towards female authors, usually of the literary fiction variety. Since I've started blogging, I've been reading more non-fiction…I think I finally recovered from all those boring textbooks I had to read in college! There were years where I couldn't bear to even think of reading non-fiction. And over the past year my reading has changed yet again and I'm seeking out some of those classics that I've never read but always felt I should.
Bonus Literacy Question: If you have children, how did you encourage them (or how are you encouraging them) to become readers? If you do not have children of your own, what do you think is the most important thing to focus on in order to promote reading in the coming generations?
I don't have kids, but I think the most important thing to emphasize is that any book is a good book. Reading should be fun, and if graphic novels float your boat, then graphic novels are a Good Thing. If Harlequin Romances do it for you, than hallelujah. I don't like snobbery when it comes to reading.
I hope you enjoyed learning about Jill as much as I did! If you haven't read her blog before, I suggest that you go take a look.
See you next week for a look into the "roots" of another fantastic blogger!


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So, does baking soda clean out your system?
By this, are you asking if baking soda will remove toxins from your body, such as for a drug test? Unfortunately, unless you're willing to hook yourself up to some kind of dialysis machine that will remove toxins directly from your blood, you need to rely on your kidneys and liver to do most of the work. Baking soda will do nothing to help here, but many ingredients have been used in herbal medicine for thousands of years to support the body in "blood cleansing." These days, you can get such things in convenient supplements.
What happens if you eat or drink baking soda?
In a low enough quantity, baking soda isn't harmful. This is why it's safe to use it as a raising agent in cakes and certain types of bread. In fact, half a teaspoon of baking soda mixed in water can settle an upset stomach or provide valuable relief from acid reflux.
When baking soda reacts with the hydrochloric acid in the stomach, it produces water, salt, and carbon dioxide. The water is harmless of course. The carbon dioxide, meanwhile, will likely lead to excessive burping, especially with a large dose, and possibly a bloated feeling. The salt presents the greatest health risk, however, especially if you have high blood pressure or are at risk of heart failure.
In short, baking soda shouldn't be used regularly or in large quantities. It certainly shouldn't be used in an attempt to pass a drug test, because 1) it will not help and 2) there's a good chance you may start "peeing out of your ass."
So, how can you clean your system?
If baking soda does not clean your system, what else can you do? If giving your body the time it needs to clean itself is not an option, even with a supporting detox program, there are other options for the various types of drug testing.
For example, for urine drug tests, detox drinks are a popular way to prepare. These work best with a period of abstinence, the longer the better, and are usually taken an hour or two before a drug test. As they take effect, the concentration of toxins in your urine drops, allowing you to safely take a urine drug test. The effect is temporary, however, so you need to be sure you give your sample within about five hours of taking the detox drink.
Saliva tests also have an easy solution in the form of detox mouthwashes. Just like with a regular mouthwash, you just need to swish it around your mouth, albeit for a little longer than you normally would.


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There's big news at BAM! Social Business. Congratulations to our Owner and Chief Strategist, Phil Cobucci, for being named a 40 Under 40 business leader by the Nashville Business Journal.
As an active member of the business and non-profit communities, Phil continues to lead BAM! with the intention to empower through social media. His creative and innovative work keeps BAM! on the cutting edge of technology and social trends. The same knowledge and skill set he brings to BAM! is used to impact and empower the Nashville community.
Phil's current project involves keeping social media channels harassment free. His work with Ashley Judd led to conversations with key team members at Facebook and Instagram. The companies' interest in his anti-bullying processes may impact social channels in Nashville and far beyond.
We are proud to have Phil as the leader of our team. His tireless work will continue to make Nashville – and the internet – a better place.
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Mother's Brewery Beer Sampling
Mother's Brewery Beer Sampling!
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to a beer sampling.
Join the staff at Shaker Beverage for a Beer Tasting Event.
Come sample the beers from Mother's Brewing Company, from Springfield, MO.
We will be sampling three or four different styles, and all will be available for sale.
No RSVP is required.
Friday, October 4th, 2013
from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Shaker Beverage Shoppe
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The eXtyles and Edifix family of editorial and XML solutions automate the most time-consuming aspects of document cleanup, formatting, editing, and XML conversion. eXtyles runs within Microsoft Word, for a familiar, easy-to-use environment that requires no XML expertise; Edifix is an all-inclusive web-based solution for bibliographic references. eXtyles Arc brings new levels of automation to the production of accessible, machine-readable, multi-format content. Publishers of scholarly journals and books, standards, and government documents rely on our tools to standardize Word content and create high-quality XML to drive print, online, and EPUB production.
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With eXtyles, we saw a quick and substantial return on our investment. We've not only saved time and improved the quality of our publications; we've also significantly cut our production costs.
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In 1916, the Mountain Chief of the Piegan Blackfeet participated in a recording session with ethnologist Frances Densmore, who traveled the American West collecting Native music and reminiscences. The songs were recorded on wax cylinders and later pressed on vinyl.
In recent years, the Smithsonian has reissued much of the music, including a CD featuring a photo taken at the same time as this one. But the Blackfeet songs on the Smithsonian CD were all recorded no earlier than the 1930s. They are typical of Plains Indian songs, with elaborate vocalizations but very few words.
It is said that earlier Blackfeet songs, perhaps including the ones sung by this chief in 1916, had many more words and told long, complicated stories. Like so much of Native culture, it seems, the words are all gone now, and the singers have to try to sing without them.
On July 11, 1926, the Washington Post published this publicity shot for "the Gladyse Wilbur girls," a song-and-dance troupe that did its singing and dancing, as well as its teeing off, in bathing costumes. That's Dorothy Kelly on ice, backed up by Virginia Hunter, Elaine Griggs, Hazel Brown, and Mary Kaminsky.
The show was in Keith's Theater in Washington, which may have been air conditioned by 1926. The ice in the photo is obviously intended to suggest that the Gladyse Wilbur girls can be enjoyed in cool comfort, even in the middle of the summer.


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Super raw and blown to shit hardcore from Halifax, Nova Scotia. A high energy attack and a breakneck pace easily overpower any desire for missing melody, and the vocals are appropriately pained and ferocious. The icing on the cake? These women never once address war or starving children, choosing instead to scream lyrics of a more personal and poignant nature, even if songs like "D-Beat (My Ex-Boyfriend)" seem at first like snarky jokes, there is real content here, and combined with the overall intensity of attack I'm inclined to think that there might be some pretty great shit in the future. But never mind the future, the VIXENS demo is now.
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During the ITS Congress on intelligent transport, Bordeaux proved itself to be a key Smart City, followed over the course of the past month by many events in the field of digital technology, bearing testimony to the vitality of the local ecosystem.
French Tech celebrates its 1st anniversary with success
One year on since receiving its French Tech accreditation, Bordeaux Métropole brought together over 1,400 people to review the projects and actions carried out.
In one year, €776,600 has been allocated to 35 digital projects through French Tech grants, awarded in partnership with BPI France.
A digital technology "job market" was also organised with some 50 enterprises proposing 140 jobs and internships, including Concoursmania, the European leader in online games and competitions, and Jobijoba.
Bordeaux, a FinTech stronghold
Bordeaux also organised and hosted the first FinTech event in France, in the Darwin Eco-system.
Round tables and eminent speakers provided an opportunity to define the structure and identity of Fin Techs, as well as to comprehend this new model for collaboration and to share experience between financial start-ups and investors in this expanding sector.
Bordeaux has ten or so enterprises directly linked to FinTechs, in particular in crowdfunding, such as Happy Capital and Hello Asso, which has collected €13 million.
Other examples include Benoolend, which specialises in financing renewable energy in developing countries, and Evollis, a platform for hiring objects with the option of buying, which already employs 21 people.
Bordeaux, capital of immersive and collaborative 3D technology
With nearly 600 participants, #it3D Event was a two-day BtoB gathering for virtual and augmented reality. Held for the 2nd time, the congress was co-organised by Bordeaux company Immersion, a European leader in 3D simulation for industry, and brought together SMEs, start-ups and large groups in aeronautics, transport and energy, around these new technologies which represent an international market that is forecast to reach $150 billion in 2020.
This event was an opportunity for the sector in the region, which already boasts thirty or so enterprises, to launch a cluster specialising in 3D simulation for industry, headed by Immersion.
The next 3D collaborative technology #it3D Summit event has already been scheduled for 2016 in Bordeaux, with the it3D Aquitaine network, which includes twenty or so players (industrial suppliers and users as well as training institutes).
Launch of new initiatives for boosting attractiveness
One of the missions of French Tech Bordeaux is to encourage large groups to help the emergence of start-ups.
Interesting private initiatives in Bordeaux include:
- The Futur Village by Crédit Agricole: co-working spaces to allow leaders of innovative projects easy access to international groups and local medium-sized enterprises.
- BNP Innov: an Innovation cluster providing precise solutions to the specific needs of innovative SMEs.
- Launch of 4 accelerators to help digital technology enterprises to grow more quickly and raise funds: 33Entrepreneursin wine, gastronomy and tourism, Digit'halles for online selling and Hemera headed by the founder and Managing Director of Bordeaux group ConcoursMania.
- Launch of the 1Kubator incubator,a network for the launch of start-ups.
Bu hosting 30 or so international digital technology events on technological innovation each year, Bordeaux Métropole, which has also had the privilege of welcoming Xavier Niel, is promoting its knowledge at an international level.
(Sources: Aquitaine on Line, Objectif Aquitaine, Usine Digitale, Aqui, Invest in Bordeaux)


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The fall opener at Michael Warren Contemporary offers two back-to-back solos, both with work inspired by nature and the natural environment. Skyfaring: New Works by Allison Stewart fills the entire set of spaces up front with recent paintings by Allison Stewart, a New Orleans-based artist who also maintains a studio in Snowmass Village. (More than any other Denver gallery, Michael Warren Contemporary has tapped the rich vein of contemporary talent active in and around Aspen.)
For most of these paintings, Stewart begins with an impression in her mind's eye of an aerial view of the landscape; she translates this into layered abstractions in which linear elements are juxtaposed with organically derived shapes. In a painting such as "Skyfaring #11," Stewart crams the composition with an array of abstract passages, including ghostly gray bars indicating roads, dense squiggles for vegetation, meandering strokes suggesting creeks or rivers, and roughly geometric tangles standing in for buildings. Despite all of this, the paintings come across as pure abstractions, and not as literal depictions of landscapes.
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Abstraction plays a much more limited role in the solo in the back gallery, Travels: New Works by Heidi Jung. Long interested in drawing natural subjects, here Denver-area artist Heidi Jung offers renderings of plants that, despite her impressionistic handling of them — through the use of sumi ink and charcoal on Mylar, then going in with directed erasures to selectively remove parts of the imagery — are still clearly representational.
Jung's drawings and the name of the show were inspired by trips that she and her husband and fellow artist, David Menard, made after last year's election to escape the grim reality of a Trump victory. First they spent many months in Mexico, where Jung came upon spiky agave plants that she drew and erased. Then it was a serendipitous trip to Italy, where she encountered the delicate olive trees that she also conveys in drawings.
Jung is great at composition; the agaves are typically seen straight on, while the olive branches have been poetically cropped in their close-ups. Using plants for subject matter is one of the oldest approaches around, but Jung's smudgy and sketchy renditions have a definite freshness.
Both shows run through October 21 at Michael Warren Contemporary, 760 Santa Fe Drive. Call 303-635-6255 or go to michaelwarrencontemporary.com for additional details and gallery hours.


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Ex-Soldier Reveals 'Secrets' From Alleged Area 51 Army Base
Bill Brooks joined the army in 1968 – and he's got some secrets to spill about Area 51's alleged military base.
The ex-soldier has revealed he was told the Sennelager, Germany base he was located at was shared with a detachment of American agents who were from Area 51 – the infamous alien-sighting base.
The now 66-year-old claims he witnessed a 'mass abduction' and was subject to a series of mind-control experiments, the Daily Star reports.
Sound like something out of Stranger Things? There's no way to tell if that's where he got his inspiration from, or if the story is actually true, but Brooks claims he was part of an alien experiment.
The soldier said he was held at gunpoint by an agent and forced to follow his comrades into a light, who were marching in a trance-like state across the base.
Brooks described the man as 'dressed in black, with chiseled blonde hair, who probably was American, wearing a little blue patch on his right sleeve'.
Apparently, the man told him 'walk towards the light' and cocked his gun – and that's the last thing he remembers of that night.
When he regained consciousness, he claims he was instructed by top military agents not to talk about what he had seen and was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
But that's not all. The guy was also apparently subjected to a series of mind-control experiments in the army at a secretive government military science base called Porton Down near Salisbury.
Brooks claims he was fed mysterious substances on a sugar lump, which he believes was LSD, and then had psychedelic episodes. Apparently, the experiments involved a large black spiral moving on a white wall while two men shouted at him. All sounds a bit loopy to me.
It might all sound kind of believable at this point, but the stories of when Brooks also had alien encounters at 10-years-old and again after he left the army kind of ruins the credibility of it all.
When Brooks was 10, he apparently witnessed a crop circle being made before a family of four tall, blonde aliens took him into their space ship and asked him if he wanted to help save the world.
Again, after he left the army, he witnessed a cow being abducted by aliens before he himself (and his truck) were lifted into the space craft.
Don't think it can get any more strange? Apparently, he didn't remember any of this until he experienced a 'memory download' when he was 44 years old.
If this is real, this guy has terrible luck with alien abductions…


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Anyone hoping Ricky Ray would write a Cindarella ending to the story of his playing career by returning to Commonwealth Stadium as an Eskimos assistant coach will have to wait a while.
On Thursday, the Eskimos made a coaching announcement of another kind, with Derek Oswalt taking over as defensive assistant for William Fields, who is moving on to become defensive backs coach for Marc Trestman's XFL team in Tampa Bay.
Linebackers coach of the 2016 Grey Cup champion Ottawa Redblacks, Oswalt previously assisted on the same unit with the Eskimos in 2012, after serving as the University of Calgary Dinos special-teams co-ordinator.
The 11th annual Eskimos Women's Dinner was sold out Thursday at Commonwealth Stadium, which hosted 400 guests while fundraising for ovarian cancer research.
Created in the memory of 21-year Eskimos employee Pam Monastyrskyj, the previous 10 events had raised more than $600,000.
In and out: The Eskimos have signed American DE Darius Jacksonj, a six-foot-three, 242-pound Jacksonville State product.
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