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Jenni tagged me to do one of those “Seven Random Things About Me” posts a couple of weeks ago, and I started it, then quickly realised that because I’ve done these a few times now, there’s almost nothing about me that’s been left unshared here. Well, nothing that’s FIT to be shared, at least. I mean, I could bore you rigid with a lot of really mundane stuff (but then, that’s what Twitter’s for, surely?), and then there are all my deep dark secrets, obviously, which I just can’t share, but other than that, I got nothing.
OR SO I THOUGHT.
Once I got started, I realised that there actually is no limit to the rubbish I can talk about myself, so here are seven random facts about moi: I have a horrible feeling I may have already “shared” some of these (or maybe even all of them) at some point, so please just humour me, the way you would an elderly relative who is losing her marbles.
I have never had a pedicure or a massage in my life…
… and I probably never will. I just can’t stand the thought of people touching my feet, and I’m so bad at making small-talk that any other kind of treatment which involves strangers, you know, touching me, is horrifying to me, purely because of the socially awkward way I would handle it. I mean, I’m sure massages are super-relaxing for NORMAL people, but for the shy people amongst us, wine fulfils the same purpose, and is cheaper.
But I wear make-up every day, even if I’m not planning on leaving the house.
If you’d ever seen me without it, you’d understand why.
When I was laid off from my job as a reporter, I applied to work as a salesperson in a designer clothing store, purely for the sake of the staff discount.
I got the job (after one of the toughest interviews I’ve ever had, actually), but turned it down in favour of a job in PR which had twice the salary and made use of my mad writing skillz. It didn’t allow me to get 30% off designer fashion, though, so obviously that sucked.
I have developed a mild phobia about escalators
I’m secretly convinced that the moving stair is somehow going to suck me in and EAT ME. So while other people are able to step onto it without even breaking stride, I hop around at the top for ages, waiting for exactly the right minute to step on without being sucked in. And when that moment arrives, I kind of grab the handrail, close my eyes and jump, often whilst emitting a girlie little “ooh!” sound. It must be REALLY annoying for anyone waiting to get on behind me…
And I’m terrified of lifts
I think most people are, though, to at least some extent, aren’t they? And if they’re not, they should be. Because lifts are scary.
I have had cosmetic surgery…
… to remove two (non-malignant) moles from my face, which I’d hated my entire life. It cost a small fortune, and they both grew back after a couple of years, and had to be removed AGAIN, but it was still one of the best things I ever did, and I wish I could go back in time and have it done much sooner. They’ve both now been cut out at the root, and I’m told the chances of them returning a second time are slim, so naturally I’m expecting them to reappear any day now.
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Being authentic means that we have to assimilate the teaching we are writing about and that we have to live it. Only then will we be able to share genuinely from the heart and from the richness of our being in a way that readers will find believable.
This means, breaking out of the box—the “Mother said” or “Morya said” formula. This can be scary. It may feel like we are breaking an agreement with the masters, or that we are doing something we should not be doing. Yet, modern readers demand authenticity, and unless we explore ways to showcase our own authenticity in our writing, what we write is likely to have little effect on our readers.
One simple exercise we can use to explore our authentic voice is to write about a spiritual concept as if we were explaining it to a child. Depending on the child’s age, we may only be able to share a few details about the concept. But children respond to the heart quality found in simple words. And it’s this heart quality that generates our own authentic voice.
Here is one example. Many are familiar with the story of Prince Siddhartha and how he ventured out on his own to discover the answer to suffering—achieving the enlightenment of the Buddha in the process. Usually when this story is told, it includes a level of complexity that isn’t appropriate for small children. But author Andrea Miller captured the Buddha’s story well in a few simple sentences in a children’s book called The Day the Buddha Woke Up. Here is a short passage from this book. Take note of the simple words she used to convey deep meaning:
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When the morning star rose in the sky, Siddhartha was the Buddha.
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Agents will no longer have to register the properties they sell, which has led to complaints that this is a barrier to agents’ ability to sell to buyers.
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Agencies will be able also register properties by registering the names of the buyers and sellers.
The Minister of Financing will then register the registered properties with agents.
The registration fee is set to be waived for agents who have a client who is registered with the Finance Department.
Agents can also register the names and addresses of buyers and agents, but agents will not be able register the addresses of any properties that are not registered with a government agency.
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The rules also state that the agent must complete a registration form and pay a fee to the Finance Ministry, and will not collect the agent fee from buyers.
The government said that the regulations will “create a transparent and transparent process for property buyers and property agents, with a clear and transparent result”.
“The realignment of the real estate registration system is a result of a new system for registering properties, which ensures that the realty market remains in an efficient and competitive state,” the government said.
“The changes will improve the transparency and transparency of the property market, while reducing the burdens for agents, buyers and the market.”
Agents and buyers will be paid the fees for registering property by the Ministry and will also be paid by the agents who register properties.
Agents and buyers would not be required to pay the agent registration fee, which is collected by the government agency that registers properties.
Agence, a real estate marketing company, said the registration fee will be waived on a per-property basis.
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AgENT Registration Fee and Real Estate Registration System for AgentsAgents must register a real property in order to sell it to buyers and pay the registration cost.
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Agreement to increase the Real Estate Registrations FeeAgence said that it will now charge an agent registration cost R$160 to register their property with a local government agency and will increase the registration costs to R500.
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Agreed changes to Real Estate Registry, which will result in an increased registration feeAgence also announced that the new Real Estate Registrar will be created in Brazil to manage real estate registerants.
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He married the daughter of the Francis Manners 6th Earl of Rutland, Katherine Manners, later suo jure Baroness de Ros, on May 16, 1620 despite the objections of her father. Villiers was happy to grant valuable royal monopolies to her family. Parliament began an investigation into misuse of the monopolies in 1621 and Villiers was quick to side with Parliament to avoid action being taken against him.
In February 1623 he accompanied Prince Charles to Spain for marriage negotations regarding the Infanta Maria. The negotiations had long been stuck but it is believed that Villiers' crassness was key to the total collapse of agreement; the Spanish ambassador asked Parliament to have Villiers executed for his behaviour in Madrid. Despite this he was made a Duke in his absence and gained popularity by calling for war with Spain on his return. He headed further marriage negotiations but when in 1624 the betrothal to Henrietta Maria of France was announced the choice of a Catholic was widely condemned.
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0.0: Final shot count in the game was 34-34.
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16:12: ZACHA PPG AGAIN! After receiving another great pass from Bratt, Zacha rifled a shot from the left circle past Gibson for his second of the game. | NJ 2, ANA 0
16:49: Carter Rowney hauled down Nico Hischier as the Devils forward drove to the net, resulting in another Devils power play.
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0.0: Shots on goal after one were 12-5 for the Devils.
2:54: ZACH! Pavel Zacha took a nice backhand feed off the rush by Jesper Bratt and put it into the open cage to put the Devils on the board first. | NJ 1, ANA 0
— New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) March 2, 2020
4:10: Sonny Milano was sent off for two minutes, giving the game’s first power play to the Devils.
8:47: Devils now outshooting Ducks 6-1.
10:54: Shots on goal nearly midway through the opening period were 5-1 for the Devils.
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The area where our city is located was originally land granted to General James Taylor, who was a general in the War of 1812, as well as a pioneer, banker, and statesman. He relocated from Virginia to land which is now Newport and Bellevue, bringing a large contingent of settlers with him. To this day, his mansion remains on East Third Street in Newport. Our namesake, Bellevue, translates from French as “beautiful view,” but it refers—not to our spectacular view of the Cincinnati skyline but—to General Taylor’s family plantation in Virginia, which had derived its name from a nearby creek.
General Taylor named most of the streets in Bellevue. Berry Avenue was already named upon his arrival, so it remained. Coming east through Bellevue, Lafayette Avenue was named for the French nobleman who served with the American forces in the Revolutionary War; Taylor Avenue was named after the General’s family; and Washington Avenue was named for the father of our country. General Taylor’s four daughters married men by the names of Foote, Ward, Van Voast, and O’Fallon. These names account for the names of the four streets next to our city’s eastern boundary.
Only 20 years after our incorporation in the 1890s, Bellevue was bustling. Balke’s Opera House at Berry and Fairfield Avenues served as both town hall and the firehouse. A city directory from that time lists 15 grocery stores, seven confectioneries, seven saloons, six doctors, six boot makers, four bakeries, three millenaries, two livery stables, a blacksmith, and a wagon manufacturer. Our town at that time also featured the Bellevue Hotel at Fairfield and O’Fallon; a gas company—the Bellevue Water and Fuel Company at 190 Fairfield Avenue; and two undertakers, Louis Betz at 104 O’Fallon Avenue and John Cunningham at 135 Fairfield Avenue.
Throughout the history of the city (and to this day), Fairfield Avenue has served as the center of town commerce. In 1894, Bellevue’s city fathers published a brochure in an effort to bring more settlers to the city. They described Fairfield Avenue as follows: “Fairfield Avenue, running east and west through the entire town, is the principal business thoroughfare, and business houses are kept well-stocked with the latest and best of everything in all branches of trade.”
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- Living History: The Architecture of Northern Kentucky
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And that is the least strangest thing about this book.
The 2010 publication of ‘Piratas’ brought to the world the earliest known Spanish language writing on maritime piracy — predating all other works by 50 years. It also gave scholars an incredibly detailed bibliography of sources; ones which no one has ever heard of it, or have been found to exist.
What is now being called “the lost pirate library” is a list of 30 ‘foreign works’ (not in Spanish) which Seyxas cites but nobody can find. Most of these lost books hint at some fascinating works. One is about the history of a lost settlement, founded in Chile by a group of English peers fleeing from Charles II. He cites this work as being printed in Bristol in 1683, but so far this title — as well as this colony — remains lost to history.
Seyxas also discusses a 1665 attack on Peru by France, this time referring to two separate sources. This failed attempt was led by someone named Estienne de Toledo, whose published journal Seyxas quotes from. This attack, person, and journal remain unknown.
One of the most puzzling references is to Carlos Enrriquez Ckrelck’s ‘Derrotero Y Diario,’ which wasn’t published until 1695 — a full year after Seyxas wrote his book. Did he see an unpublished manuscript at some time? If so, when and where?
This of course brings up the question as to whether or not Seyxas may have simply made up his sources. Scholars do not think so. Seyxas mentions the difficulty of finding many of the works he used, many which he did not have on hand. He quotes passages from memory, but he is always clear to mention when he is doing so. Additionally, he provides exacting details, naming not only the work and its author, but also the year of publication, page number, city of publication and the name of the printer.
A good example is the book about France’s attack on Peru, which he does not own, but names the French bookstore, from where he had previously bought 10 copies from, as requested by a member of the royal family.
What happened to these lost books? There is a good chance many of them were destroyed. The Spanish Crown was more than happy to destroy books — especially foreign works — which they viewed as a security threat. This was also the time of the Inquisition — not really known for their tolerance of reading material in general.
It is hoped that at least some of Seyxas’ lost pirate library did indeed survive, sitting buried on a shelf somewhere.
Mike Selby is Reference Librarian at the Cranbrook Public Library
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https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/opinion/pirates-of-the-caribbean/
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The treasurer's office is one of the primary offices where people come to do business. Anyone owning property or a vehicle is served by this office. The County Treasurer is the custodian of all county funds.
- Files a semi-annual settlement with the Board of Supervisors and reports all fees collected.
- Receipts are given of all monies collected and deposited, and records are kept of all the funds.
- Annually, on the third Monday of June, the County Treasurer shall offer at public sale all parcels on which taxes are delinquent.
- Collects all taxes certified by the County Auditor and collects 1.5% interest per month on all delinquent taxes. The first installment becomes delinquent on October 1st and the second April 1st of each year.
- Pays all county warrants drawn by County Auditor.
- Pays interest on drainage warrants not paid for lack of funds.
- Apportions monthly all taxes collected to the various schools, townships, town corporations, state and county funds.
- The County Treasurer, as agent for the state, collects use tax on motor vehicle transfers and also collects license fees on all motor vehicles and trailers.
- Issues license plates on all motor vehicles and trailers.
- Issues driver's licenses, I.D.'s, and handicap placards as an agent for the Department of Transportation.
- Affidavit of Death Intestate in Re Transfer of a Motor Vehicle - Department of Transportation Form 411088 (PDF)
- Affidavit of Foreclosure Sale - Department of Transportation Form 411067 (PDF)
- Application for Duplicate Vehicle Certificate of Title - Department of Transportation Form 411033 (PDF)
- Application for Notation of Security Interest - Department of Transportation Form 411046 (PDF)
- Application for Vehicle Certificate of Title and or Registration - Department of Transportation Form 411007 (PDF)
- Certification of Death Testate (with a will) in Re Transfer of a Motor Vehicle - Department of Transportation Form 411083 (PDF)
- Claim for Refund - Department of Transportation Form 411047 (PDF)
- Damage Disclosure Statement - Department of Transportation Form 411108 (PDF)
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https://millscountyiowa.gov/245/Treasurer
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The concept of clusters is an incredibly fascinating topic. How business clusters form and grow is an important for those interested in economic development.
In 1890, Alfred Marshall, one of the founders of neoclassical economics, first described clusters as a “concentration of specialized industries in particular localities”. He termed these industrial districts. That theory was extended in 1990, when a Harvard MBA by the name of Michael Porter presented the theory of the Business Cluster. The general theory is that a cluster is a group of industries in a particular geographic area. This cluster is made up of the components in that environment.
Links to content about Cluster Theory can be found below.
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https://nickroseth.com/2018/01/18/cluster-theory/
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Strategic Thinking and Business Planning
Mentoring – How to focus on leading the business – work more on the business and less in the business.
How to do your business planning so that you have a business plan which you can share with grant providers, investors and/or banks to access new funds, and which you can also use with your management team to focus and drive the business forward.
Be the captain of the ship. Guide the business in the direction you want to go. Stay focused and what you really want. Ignore the noise and detritus around you.
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https://roaringsuccess.com.au/services/strategic-thinking-and-business-planning/
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A Special Election will be held November 2, 2021.
In-Person Absentee: You can vote in-person absentee at the DeSoto County Circuit Clerk’s office. The address is: 2535 Highway 51 S, 2nd Floor, Hernando, MS 38632.
In Person Absentee Voting began on September 20, 2021, in the Circuit Clerk's Office. Hours: Monday – Friday 8am-5pm.
The clerk's office will also be open Saturday, October 23 & Saturday, October 30 8am-Noon. The last day to vote absentee, in person,
is October 30, 2021, 8-Noon.
Absentee by Mail: You can also vote absentee by mail. Call the DeSoto County Circuit Clerk’s office for a ballot 662-469-8350. Ballots must be postmarked on or before November 2, 2021 and must be received by November 10, 2021.
Election: There are three races on the November Ballot:
*Justice Court Judge - District 1
*Election Commissioner - District 2
*Election Commissioner4 - District 3
Voter Registration: We made it easy to check you registration status – and look at the ballot in your district (There aren’t elections in District 4 & District 5 – which means people in those districts will not see a ballot.) Just go to this website: www.desotoms.info/Webpgms/VRINQNAME1.PGM...
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https://www.desotocountyms.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=875&ARC=1776
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Listed here are 5 main reasons why you reap the benefits of getting Leitchfield, Kentucky payday advances:
- You’ll have the money fast. If you read a minumum of one review, you understand that after dealing with old-fashioned loan providers, you may need to watch for times before you receive usage of the funds. In the event that you require cash now, top loan providers in Leitchfield, Kentucky offer considerably faster application procedures and quick approval, that allows you to definitely have the cash within every day in the event that you make an application for Leitchfield, Kentucky pay day loans online.
- You’re free to invest the funds on anything you require. When you have the funds, you may utilize them to purchase any item you need. Nonetheless it’s do not to get two loans during the time that is same given that procedure for repaying your debt can be complicated. But you’re able to get a brand new loan the following month if you need extra money again after you cover the previous one in case.
- No credit check loans. If for example the credit rating has seen better days, you are able to nevertheless get a money loan in Leitchfield, Kentucky. All payday loan providers verify that you’ll be able to repay the loan and don’t concentrate on your bad credit score.
- You can rely on a direct loan provider if you’ve payday loans AL got no other choices. In the event in the event that you found myself in a super taut situation that is financial and there’s hardly any other choice as opposed to obtaining that loan to obtain your affairs in an effort until your payday, give consideration to getting pay day loans online.
- Fast loans are really easy to get. Once we stated before, this particular loans doesn’t need you to have an amazing credit history. Every United States resident who fulfills most of the needs set by loan providers is entitled to a loan that is short-term.
The expense and laws surrounding Leitchfield, Kentucky payday advances
Here’s exactly what charges you may expect whenever getting loans that are online Leitchfield, Kentucky:
- Finance costs. In the event that level of your loan is certainly not larger than $30, payday loan providers cannot charge significantly more than $1 per every $5 you borrow.
- Optimum APR. Whenever acquiring a 14-day $100 loan, the most annual percentage price you could expect is 309%.
- Acquisition fees. In the event that level of a cash loan you borrow is between $30 and $100, you could expect a acquisition that is legit of one-tenth associated with the cash advance quantity. When your loan is more than $100, the purchase fee can not be a lot more than ten dollars.
- Optimum quantity. The absolute most of an online payday loan in|loan that is payday} Leitchfield, Kentucky isn’t specified.
- Optimum term. The terms of payday advances in Leitchfield, Kentucky(KY) change from one to 31 days week.
What you ought to submit an application for a payday loan in Leitchfield, Kentucky
With MayBeLoan, it is an easy task to submit an application for a loan that is quick Leitchfield, Kentucky, however you have to be alert to particular conditions needed for this action.
- You need to be at least 18 yrs . old or higher. lending cash to someone under this age is illegal in the united states. Therefore if you’re over the age of 18, at this point you meet with the very first requirement.
- You should be a resident that is legal of, Kentucky. To have a pay day loan in|loan that is payday} hawaii of Leitchfield, Kentucky, you’ll want to verify your appropriate resident status by giving your contact target. From then on, the prosperity of getting that loan is practically guaranteed in full.
- Your credit that is bad is a problem, you still require a well balanced income source and make at the least $1,000 every month. In this manner, we could make certain that the repayment can be handled by you.
- To receive instant approval, you want an unknown number and a email that is valid. In the event that you don’t offer us with this particular information, we won’t have the ability to contact you.
- Last but not least, you must certainly not be a debtor in bankruptcy.
All we want while you need to indicate how much you wish to borrow from you is a couple of personal details, such as your social security number, your name, and your address. Once you offer us aided by the necessary details, we shall contact you after we approve the information and knowledge to confirm most of the conditions and terms regarding the contract.
A small advance loan may be a useful and convenient asset whenever dealing with crisis circumstances. But keep in mind that this kind of loans can’t remedy serious troubles that are financial. Getting way too many loans from a couple of businesses on top of that is maybe not the most useful choice, while you chance damaging your economic security.
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http://www.ihtilalgunduzinsaat.com/do-you-know-the-great-things-about-leitchfield-2/
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Ok, I said in a recent comment I'd do this so here goes. The rules are simple.
Anything goes, but keep explicit questions about my characters to a minimum.
I will try to get to everyone so please be patient.
Attempts to turn this into a full scale RP will cost you your turn.
No scat related...
Would anyone like to adopt a dad-bod Granbull/Houndoom hybrid wearing zipper speedos? If so, please click the link below fo more information. (^w^)
www.furaffinity.net: Dad-Bod Pokemon OTA part 1 OPEN!!! by Twiphase3468
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https://forums.furaffinity.net/tags/houndoom/
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Russia has today connected unit 1 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant to the grid and it has started producing its first power, state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced. The VVER 1200 reactor was brought to the minimum controllable power level on 6 February.
"The new, super-powerful Leningrad power unit has begun to produce its first electric power and moved from the category of under construction to the category of operation," Alexey Likhachov, Rosatom director general, said. "I congratulate the staff of the Leningrad nuclear power plant, as well as the designers, builders, installers and commissioners on the birth of a new nuclear giant!" he added.
The existing Leningrad plant site has four operating RMBK-1000 units, while Leningrad II will have four VVER-1200 units. The new unit will be the second to come online in Russia this year - Rostov 4, a VVER 1000 which is near the city of Volgodonsk, was connected to the grid on 1 February.
Alexander Belyaev, chief engineer of Leningrad NPP II, said the thermal capacity of the new Leningrad unit was raised to 35% of its nominal value, and then its high-speed turbine was successfully put into rotation at 3000 revolutions per minute. It was then integrated into the national grid at a minimum level of electric power of 240 MW and continued in this mode for 4 hours. During this time, it will have generated about 1 megawatt hours of electricity, he said.
Vladimir Pereguda, director of Leningrad NPP, added that the technological systems of the unit had successfully completed reliability and safety tests. "Having released the first kilowatts into the network, we have completed the power start-up stage and are ready to proceed to the next stage, which is pilot operation," he said.
Leningrad II-1 is the second VVER-1200 reactor, following the launch in 2016 of Novovoronezh 6.
Start-up operations of the new Leningrad unit began on 8 December last year, when the first fuel assemblies were loaded into the reactor core.
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https://rusatom-overseas.com/media/mass-media-about-us/leningrad-ii-1-starts-pilot-operation.html
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You want to prevent your pictures from being auto-uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive. However, you find no Group Policy setting to disable the Camera roll upload photos and videos option for OneDrive. Additionally, when you try to disable OneDrive synchronization for Windows 8.1, the Do not sync Group Policy setting is used.
After this Group Policy setting is applied, and then you try to connect to a Microsoft account, you discover that all settings are blocked and disabled.
All the Sync settings are turned off, as expected, without Camera roll upload photos and videos.
This behavior occurs because there is no Group Policy setting to disable the Camera roll upload photos and videos option.
To disable the Camera roll upload photos and videos option, set the following registry key on the client computer.
Note This can also be done by using Group Policy Preferences.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SkyDrive\CameraRollValue name: Photos
Value type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 00000000
After this setting is applied, the synchronization of the Camera roll option to OneDrive is disabled.
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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-prevent-pictures-from-being-auto-uploaded-to-onedrive-5e95628b-3a16-360f-e60d-ec5cb039dc88
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Whether you’re looking for a domestic or foreign vehicle, the search for the perfect used vehicle is easier now than it’s ever been. Most car dealers, even those that specialise in a particular make of vehicle, offer cars and trucks of all makes and models, especially in their used-car selection. This makes it easy on anyone who is researching used vehicles, so whether you want something made by Mitsubishi, Audi, or Ford, you can usually find it quickly, especially if you visit these dealers’ websites. If you go online, you can view full-colour photographs of the vehicles themselves, and learn about everything from fuel type to transmission type, and everything in between. Shopping online also saves you a lot of time later on once you get to the dealer, because you will already have an idea of which vehicle you’d like to test drive.
A Large Selection to Choose From
Most car dealers offer only used cars that are in great condition, even keeping them well maintained until they are sold. In addition, because many of these cars start at under $12,000, you can easily find something that suits your budget just right every time. Whether you want an automatic transmission, a diesel engine, or simply a vehicle that has low mileage on it, you can easily find it if you start your search online. Most Canberra used car dealers have excellent websites that are user friendly and continuously updated, which means you can view their current inventory at any time. If you’re ready to test drive the vehicle or need additional information, you can contact the dealer via phone or email to get your questions answered, bringing you one step closer to having the car of your dreams.
Easy to Work with Every Time
Car dealers are easy to work with because they have professional and experienced salespeople who are familiar with every vehicle on the lot, and if you tell them what you’re looking for, they can likely find it for you. Of course, this isn’t all these dealers offer, because they also provide the parts you need if you wish to work on your vehicle yourself, an excellent service department should you need basic maintenance or any type of repairs, and a great finance department that is eager to show you simple ways to pay for the vehicle you’ve chosen. In other words, their job is to make your life a little easier when you’re in the market for a new or used car, and they concentrate on being easy to work with, regardless of what your needs are. When you need a new or used car or truck, you’ll likely find shopping for it a lot easier than it used to be, especially if you decide to start your research online.
Used vehicles save you a lot of money, and these dealers work hard to provide you with a large selection to choose from so that you always get what you want. Their websites make the process both faster and easier, so starting online is always highly recommended when you need another vehicle.
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https://www.goautonet.com/choose-the-right-dealer-for-your-next-used-car-purchase.html
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Peer Review helps VNFIL providers to develop the quality of their validation provision with the help of Peers “critical friends”. Read more.
WHY, HOW, WHAT PEER RIEVIEW
What do YOU say!
Teresa Guimarães is quality manager at CITEFORMA (Portugal). She was peer facilitator at the peer visit at CITEFORMA. Further, she has been in one national Peer Review (ISLA Santerém) and in one transnational Peer Review (Vigor Transitions BV, the Netherlands). Read more
Susana Gonçalves is VNFIL-coordinator at CITEFORMA (Portugal). She has been a peer in one national Peer Review (ISLA Santarém) and in one transnational Peer Review (Vigor Transitions BV). During the Peer Review at CITEFORMA, there were peers from Weiterbildungsakademie (Austria), Libereaux (the Netherlands) ISLA Santarém and CECOA (both Portugal). Read more
Tomas Sprlak is working at CIBC (France) as HR consultant and Career Counsellor. He has been a transnational peer at two Peer Reviews: one in Lithuania at the Vocational Training Centre and one in Austria at AK Salzburg. During the peer visit at AK Salzburg, Tomas was peer coordinator. Whilst the peer visit at CIBC, Tomas had the role of Peer Review facilitator. Peers who were visiting CIBC came from AK Salzburg (Austria) and Libereaux (The Netherlands). Read more
Franz Fuchs-Weikl is working as staff member at the department of Education at the Chamber of Labour in Salzburg (Austria). He has been the peer coordinator at one national Peer Review (BOKU) and has been a transnational peer at two Peer Reviews: at CIBC in France and at Vigor Transitions BV in The Netherlands. During the Peer Review at AK Salzburg, he was the Peer Review coordinator. AK Salzburg welcomed transnational peers from CIBC (France) Vigor Transitions BV and Libereaux (The Netherlands) and a national peer from Frauenstiftung Steyr. Read more
Tatjana Babrauskiene is the International Secretary, Lithuanian Education and Science Trade Union (FLESTU) and at the moment Chair of the Governing Board of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop). Tatjana has taken the role of transnational peer during the peer visit at Libereaux. Besides that, she was responsible for the national strategy papers of the partner countries (IO8). Read more
Kees van Oosterhout is owner and director quality assurance of Vigor Transitions BV (The Netherlands). During this project, he participated in two Peer Reviews as transnational peer (AK Salzburg and Frauenstiftung Steyr). During the Peer Review at Vigor Transitions BV, he invited peers from Austria (AK Salzburg), Portugal (CITEFORMA) and Slovakia (NUCZV) to review his organization. Read more
Marloes Smit is working as Quality coordinator at Libereaux BV (The Netherlands). Because of her role as ‘coordinating body’ she participated in Peer Reviews at: ISLA Santarém, CITEFORMA, Weiterbildungsakademie, AK Salzburg, Frauenstiftung Steyr, CIBC and BOKU. During the peer visit at Libereaux, she was Peer Review facilitator. At Libereaux, transnational peers from Lithuania (Lithuanian Trade Union) and Austria (BOKU) and national peers from Gilde Opleidingen, OFGV and ErikKaemingk BV participated. Read more
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https://www.peerreview.work/
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Hairstylists never forget their first. “Her name was Anne Brooke, and I cut her hair with bad, bad kitchen scissors in the Botanical Gardens where we would hang and smoke cigarettes,” recalls Australian David Mallett. “She thought the cut was marvelous and I thought it was marvelous, and my career began.”
The Parisian hairstylist whose salon includes Natalie Portman and Charlotte Gainsbourg as clients, became Schwarzkopf’s Hairdresser of the Year at 21. The prize involved moving to Dusseldorf, but he also traveled.
“I always thought I’d go back to Australia after visiting all the great museums,” says Mallett (whose name rhymes with ballot). “But after seeing Miró and Picasso and eating real cheese and drinking real wine, I never went home.” A shoot with Jean Baptiste Mondino and Emmanuelle Alt for French Vogue sealed the deal that Paris would be his home. More editorial work followed, and in 2003, he opened his first salon. Four years later, he launched Hair Serum #DM027.
“It was an easy-to-use light oil that everyone could use. We sold it only in the salon, and you had to be a client to buy it,” he recalls. “Then Sarah Andelman asked if she could sell it at Colette, and Giambattista Valli asked if he could sell it in his boutique, then Bon Marché called and the entire thing just took off.”
In 2016, David Mallett au Ritz Paris, his second salon, opened as part of the iconic hotel’s renovation. “I really enjoy the one-on-one of the salon,” he says. “The happiness levels — both my own and my clients — excite me a lot more than doing a show and wondering how the whole world sees me. I’m either not interested or too fragile to bear it. But I don’t want to swim in that pool anymore. I feel much richer doing this.”
He’s recently started doing “this” at his boutique salon in the Webster in Soho on the fifth floor, dividing his time between NYC and Paris, while also expanding his product line, whose upcoming Styling Cream and Vitamin Gel will make 22 products, total.
Product development aside, the chair will always be his first love.
“Each client is like an apéritif. By the time the drink is finished and you’re still fascinated with the bubbles, they’ve left. A month later, you’re happy to see them again. There’s always something new to do and someone new to talk to.”
Mallett spoke with the Cut about his aversion to socks, his respect for Elnett hair spray and the Clash member he wanted to emulate.
Bath or shower? Bath, with Oilatun Bath Formula.
Shampoo/Conditioner of choice: My color shampoo and my color mask because I love the texture.
What is your daily uniform? A three-piece suit by Officine General, Marni or Berluti.
Scent of choice: Bottega Veneta by Daniela Andrier.
Scented candle of choice: Le Salon en Hiver, which Cire Trudon made for me.
What, if anything, is usually on your lips? A secret.
SPF of choice: Invisible Zinc from Australia, or Sisley.
What beauty look on a woman do you love? I like hair that has natural movement. Very little makeup and very natural hair.
What beauty look do you just not get? Artificial stiff hair, flat-ironed hair. I like things that breathe.
What was your first grooming product obsession? Dax hair grease. Someone introduced me to it in London. It was very hard to get out of your hair.
What was the first fragrance you ever wore? Eau Sauvage. One of my first loves gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday.
Work shoe of choice: Church moccasin without a sock. I don’t own socks.
Netflix and chill outfit: Muji cotton pajamas, with my two bull terriers.
What was your first fashion obsession? Joe Strummer from the Clash. I wanted to look like him.
What do you splurge on? New York.
What do you scrimp on? Paris.
Wish list travel destination: Spitsbergen, an island at the top of Norway. I want to go with my partner and our son and do a cruise through the glaciers.
Bed linens of choice: The saffron sheets from Merci in Paris.
Towel brand of choice: Merci.
Window or aisle? Couldn’t give a damn.
How do you stay fit? Yoga. And I am a militant vegetarian.
If you could have one ridiculous indulgence, what would it be? It’s too personal.
What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done? Meeting my parents. I’m adopted, and I met them when I was 27. It was challenging.
What could we use more of? A sense of humor.
Less of? Cruelty.
Last great book you read? Michel Houellebecq’s Vanquished White Male. It’s about French discontent.
What do you do or take when you can’t sleep? A bath.
Jetlag cure: A bath and a glass of red wine and my partner.
Cold cure: Fervex.
Favorite smell? My son’s hair.
Least favorite smell? Cigarettes.
What do you think Pantone’s color of 2019 should have been? Jaune Vallauris: The color of smoke-ridden ceilings in old French tabacs. It’s one of my favorite interior design colors because it reminds me of oxidized Polaroids.
What do you wish you had invented? Elnett hair spray.
Where are you usually when the best ideas come to you? Les Arcades du Palais Royale. Meditative and repetitive.
Describe your most starstruck moment: Bumping into Helen Mirren while swimming in the sea in Cuba. I made a remark that she looked just like Mirren, and that she confirmed she was.
Name a trait or talent you possess that few know about: Years lived in Italy taught me to make good pastas and risottos. A mean mushroom risotto served only for friends on holidays. Highly laborious and only for the initiated.
What talent do you wish you had? To speak Russian fluently.
Favorite meal and where: Saturne in Paris. I eat there four times a week. Bruno makes anything I want. It’s the best food I’ve ever tasted. And an ice-cold beer in Shorehouse in Swanbourne beach, Western Australia.
What is always in your fridge? Salty butter.
Comfort food: Mashed potatoes.
Vice: Roquefort cheese.
Favorite wine: Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Most impressive dish you make: Roast pumpkin stuffed with quinoa and mushrooms.
Comfort music: Erik Satie.
What do you foresee as the top beauty trends in 2019? A connection with real beauty and real happiness. It’s a lot harder than just doing good makeup and beautiful hair on someone, but it can be had by promoting healthier imagery. There is still a lot of beauty elitism that is really unhealthy and needs to be cut off. People who sell makeup and hair products need to get real.
What product in your domain is misunderstood and should be a best seller? My Volume Mask! It’s so incredible, there is no other product like it out there, but it’s hard to use because it dries like a gel and makes hair feel hard, but when you take it off, the hair is full of body.
If you won the Power Ball tomorrow, what are the first five things you would do? (after, of course, donating the majority of it to your top charities … ) Finish my roof garden in Paris, go to Lake Baikal In Russia and see the fresh water seals. I’d buy another painting from Claire Tabouret and buy myself a brand new Patek Philippe watch in platinum. It’s tough, because I have everything I need.
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https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/interview-parisian-hairstylist-david-mallett-opens-nyc-salon.html
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Unleash the power of the Gods and embark on a merciless quest as Kratos, an ex-Spartan warrior driven to destroy Ares, the God of War. Armed with lethal double chainblades, Kratos must carve through mythology’s darkest creatures— including Medusa, Cyclops, the Hydra and more, while solving intricate puzzles in breathtaking environments. Driven by pure revenge, nothing can stop Kratos from achieving absolution.
- Remastered at a resolution of 720p
- Anti-aliased graphics for 60 frames per second gameplay
- Full PlayStation Network (PSN) Trophies Support
- Does not include bonus/behind-the-scene materials
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https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/98824
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Epiphenomenal or Constructive?: The State Action Doctrine(s) and the Discursive Properties of Institutions
Critiques of the state action doctrine typically take two forms. Critics either point out that the doctrine itself is muddled, confused, and inconsistent, or argue, for either historical or doctrinal reasons, that the doctrine is not a necessary part of the Constitution. Both the state action doctrine and its critics, however, overlook the role of the American state in the construction of the identity categories typically at issue. An equal protection analysis cannot proceed, for example, without a finding of state action. However, the calculus does not account for how categories like race, gender, and sexuality have been in part constructed by the state. In short, both the state action doctrine and its critics take an impermissibly short time horizon. This is a mistake. To make this case, I first explain the state action doctrine itself and some of its flaws typically pointed to by critics, including the various iterations of “state neglect” or “state permissions” doctrines. Next, I draw from the literature on the development of the American state and point to several examples where the state has helped to shape and define identity categories in time. I argue that attuning to the discursive properties of state institutions uncovers a new critique of both the state action doctrine and its proposed alternatives. The analysis reveals that bringing these discursive properties in at the ground level opens up new areas of study of both the development and use of legal doctrine and the role ideas and discourse play in the development of American politics.
The state action doctrine is one of several ways the Supreme Court has limited the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the Civil Rights Cases in 1883, the Court decided that the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment limited only “state action,” rather than private conduct. The doctrine relies heavily on the state/nonstate or public/private distinction. As the argument goes, truly private actors (whoever they may be)—the ones who are not providing, or implicated in, any kind of public function—are not restrained by the Fourteenth Amendment. But the public/private or state/nonstate distinction is notoriously hazy, and the Supreme Court has done little to make it clearer. As a result, the state action doctrine has received substantial criticism. This criticism has broadly taken two forms. On the one hand, critics point out that this leads to normatively bad outcomes—namely, private actors being allowed to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender, or another characteristic, mutable or immutable. It is in this realm that the Court’s most confusing state action cases have fallen—Shelley v. Kraemer, for example. On the other hand, scholars have pointed out that the state action doctrine is not a logical outgrowth of the Reconstruction Amendments. There are, they argue, good historical and legal reasons for eschewing the doctrine altogether in favor of a “state neglect” or “state permissions” doctrine. For these scholars, the Reconstruction Amendments leave room for state intervention between private actors in certain cases.
Both the state action doctrine and the proposed state neglect or state permissions doctrine are concerned with drawing the line between when it is appropriate for the state to intervene to protect victims of discrimination and when it is not. Under the state action doctrine (all exceptions notwithstanding), it is only appropriate when the state was the one discriminating. Under the state neglect or permissions doctrine, though there are several variants, it is when the state has refused to intervene to stop an act of discrimination by a private actor. The state neglect doctrine and its variants, therefore, posit a greater scope of state intervention than does the state action doctrine. To be sure, though, even under the state neglect doctrine there would still be some situations in which state intervention in a private interaction is not appropriate.
The problem with this picture, though, is that its justification for refusing to intervene is based on an incomplete calculus. It sees the cost of obliterating any private sphere because of the watchful eyes of the state as too high to justify the benefit of eradicating discrimination in the private sphere. Though the state neglect doctrine and its variants treat more things as either state action (neglect counts as action) or as triggering a duty of state intervention (the state cannot grant permission for a private actor to discriminate), it still takes an unduly narrow view of the state’s behavior. Both the state action and state neglect doctrines treat state intervention and private discrimination as separate and distinct. They treat the creation and maintenance of the groups who are often the target of “structural injustice” as natural or organic. This is a mistake. It is important to attend to the ways these groups have been constructed and made through state policy. Doing so, I argue, reveals that the state/nonstate, public/private, and state action, permission, or neglect dichotomies are premised on giving the state a pass for its hand in the formation of identity categories. In this Note, therefore, I argue that both the state action and so-called state permissions doctrines rest on an incomplete calculus. They both treat law and other actions and regulations by the state as epiphenomenal. Though they are interested in the ways the state has created injustice or done violence to members of specified groups, they implicitly treat those groups as organic. They fail to see that law and regulation have had and continue to have a reciprocal, discursive impact on the people they regulate. They ignore the ideological and discursive properties of state institutions. It is imperative to understand the role the American state has played in the creation, molding, and definition of identity groups.
This Note proceeds in four Parts. Part I explains the state action doctrine in more detail by providing some background on its origins and development. It also explains some of the confusion that surrounds the doctrine. Part II dives into the various iterations of what critics have suggested courts use to replace the state action doctrine—state neglect or permissions. It suggests that though it would leave greater room for the state’s invocation of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, it leaves much to be desired. Part III explains why the observation that law and state policy are not just epiphenomenal, but also have a reciprocal, constitutive impact on the people they regulate, is essential to understanding the trouble with both the state action and state permissions doctrines. It makes the traditional state action analysis look disingenuous at best and makes the state permissions doctrine look passive or even complicit. Part IV concludes by explaining my contributions to both the legal literature on the state action doctrine and the political science literature on the relevance of ideas and discourse to institutional change.
I. The Conventional View: The State Action Doctrine and the Public/Private Distinction
The state action doctrine is a complete mess. The doctrine holds that most constitutional provisions apply only to actions taken by the government, rather than by private actors. The Thirteenth Amendment is a notable exception. Private actors, therefore, are free to do some things that the government is not. The problem, though, is the line between state action and nonstate action is often nearly impossible to spot. The Supreme Court has done little to clean up the doctrine. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court held the state action doctrine precluded judicial enforcement of a racially restrictive covenant, even though the restrictive covenant at issue only limited relations between private actors. In Marsh v. Alabama, the Court found that a private company had violated the First Amendment (something only state actors can do under the state action doctrine) by arresting (with privately owned police forces) a Jehovah’s Witness for passing out literature. The crucial fact was that the private company owned and ran the entire town, thereby serving a public function. Similarly, in Terry v. Adams, the Court found that a private group could not exclude nonwhite voters from their straw-poll primary because in practice it determined the outcome of the Democratic Party primary and therefore served a public function. In DeShaney v. Winnebago County, the Court held that the decision by several employees of a county department of social services to not remove a child from the custody of his violently abusive father did not amount to a violation of substantive due process because there was no state action. The decision to not intervene was, the Court held, not a state action.
Legal philosopher Brookes Brown, in a nod to Charles Black, calls the state action doctrine a “disaster zone.” Given the conceptual muddle that even Shelley, Marsh, Terry, and DeShaney present, Brown’s characterization is accurate. For Brown, the problems with the doctrine stem from the fact that “the concept of the state is itself incoherent.” It is not that there is no state at all, but that the Court has used multiple, inconsistent justifications to find “state action.” Brown identifies the “entanglement test,” the “public function test,” and the “traditional state actor” test. Charles Black suggested—prior, it is worth noting, to the DeShaney decision—that the state action doctrine is “little more than a name for a contention that has failed to make any lasting place for itself as a decisional ground, and that has failed of intellectual clarification.” A significant portion of the confusion can be attributed to the distinction between public and private spheres. While many political theorists, particularly early proponents of the social contract (and their progeny), take the separation as given, some legal theorists find the distinction incoherent. The distinction may be somewhat clear in discussions of the social contract, but for courts it often is not.
Mark Tushnet and Cass Sunstein have each argued that the existence of any private sphere depends upon state acknowledgment that it should exist. Tushnet argues that a private act is only private because a public authority decided it should be so. A decision not to regulate is a decision nonetheless. Sunstein argues that “state action is always present” because the state always has the ability to alter “background rules.” Similarly, Tushnet and Louis Seidman argue that a “moment’s reflection makes clear that all private action ultimately rests on the state’s willingness to enforce the civil and criminal rules that facilitate that action.” In a way, this is a point about state power. A modern state with high extractive capacity could always choose to alter the conditions that allowed private action to stay private.
Others have made similar versions of this argument. Drawing on ideas from property law, Isaac Saidel-Goley and Joseph William Singer propose reinterpreting the state action doctrine so that it is more capacious. The existence of private property, they note, depends on the state’s recognition of it. Because the state plays a role in regulating relationships, they would find state action “at least when (1) someone is arrested or prosecuted; (2) a court issues an order; (3) the government enforces or encourages a custom; or (4) the government makes an allocative decision.” But even this approach to the state action doctrine does not go far enough for Saidel-Goley and Singer. To actually ensure compliance with the Equal Protection Clause, “the analysis must be refocused on a more progressive conception of equal protection informed by contemporary understandings of equality and dignity foundational to a free and democratic society.” What matters, they argue, is not whether there was state action, but whether the state’s laws “provide for equal treatment in the spheres of social life to which a free and democratic society guarantees access, liberty, and dignity.”
As these critics have implied, the state action doctrine’s reliance on a clean distinction between state and nonstate behavior is unwise. Yet, the doctrine purports to do so nevertheless, despite the series of cases—Shelley, Marsh, Terry, and DeShaney—that muddies the waters. The doctrine still “attempts to demarcate the public/private distinction upon which it was originally premised.” It still relies on a sharp distinction between circumstances—discrimination or unequal treatment or outcomes, for example—that the state caused and those it did not. Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 illustrates this well. At issue in Parents Involved was a school-desegregation plan implemented by Seattle Public Schools, a district that had never operated legally segregated schools or been subject to court-ordered desegregation. Yet, when certain public schools were oversubscribed, the district used the race of a student as the second tiebreaker—after whether the student had a sibling enrolled at the same school.
Applying strict scrutiny while writing for the Court, Roberts explained that there are two relevant interests the Court has found to be “compelling.” The first is the “compelling interest of remedying the effects of past intentional discrimination,” and the second is the “interest in diversity in higher education upheld in Grutter [v. Bollinger] . . . .” The Court held that the district’s plan did not serve a compelling interest and was not narrowly tailored. There was no compelling interest because there was no evidence of prior de jure discrimination. As Michael Wells argues, the de jure–de facto discrimination distinction was essential for the Court’s analysis. Roberts comes close to invoking the language explicitly when he explains that the “distinction between segregation by state action and racial imbalance caused by other factors has been central to our jurisprudence in this area for generations.” Justice Kennedy in his concurring opinion, however, goes further. Kennedy explains that prior cases relied on the “fundamental difference between those school districts that had engaged in de jure segregation and those whose segregation was the result of other factors.”
According to Michael Wells, the Court’s version of the de jure–de facto framework rests on two distinct rationales. The first comes from the “discriminatory purpose” framework in the line of disparate-impact cases, notably Washington v. Davis. The second can be understood as a distance, attenuation, or chain-of-causality rationale. Here, Wells points to Keyes v. School District No. 1. At some point, the Keyes Court explained, the “relationship between past segregative acts and present segregation may become so attenuated as to be incapable of supporting a finding of de jure segregation warranting judicial intervention.” The question for the Court in Parents Involved can, according to Wells, be understood like proximate cause in a negligence claim. How direct must the link be in order for the Court to find de jure segregation, as opposed to segregation that is simply the product of “private choices”? So, segregation or discrimination may still count as de facto if a court can find no discriminatory purpose or if it decides the chain of causation is too attenuated. That is, if a court finds no de jure segregation, then there is no state action and thus nothing for a court to remedy.
The problem, though, is that this inquiry rests on an incomplete calculus. It fails to account for the effects of the state on the definition and meaning of the categories at issue—race, for example. In other words, it does not account for the power of discourse and ideology. This will be addressed in much greater detail in Part III. First, though, an exposition of another criticism of the state action doctrine is warranted.
II. The Alternative: State Neglect, Permissions, and Horizontal Rights
The state action doctrine does not follow directly from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Though it may correctly apply more squarely to other parts of the Constitution, many scholars have argued that there is room in the Fourteenth Amendment for a retooled approach to the federal government’s role in protecting private actors from discrimination. Though they have various names, iterations, and justifications, I refer to them broadly here as the state neglect or state permissions doctrines. In a way, this (proposed—to be sure, it has not been adopted by the Court) doctrine tries to move away from the wooden public/private distinction. Instead, it offers room for state intervention in private affairs under certain circumstances. However, as I argue in the next Part, it too suffers from the same fault as the state action doctrine. Though it would offer more avenues for the state to quash discrimination or remedy structural injustice, it fails to account for how the categories have been in part constructed by the state through time.
The conventional wisdom is that in 1883, the Supreme Court in the Civil Rights Cases foreclosed one significant aspect of the Fourteenth Amendment’s reach. Writing for the Court, Justice Bradley declared the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment “is prohibitory in its character, and prohibitory upon the States.” On the next page, he writes that “[i]t is State action of a particular character that is prohibited. Individual invasion of individual rights is not the subject-matter of the amendment.” The Fourteenth Amendment does “not invest Congress with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain of State legislation; but to provide modes of relief against State legislation, or State action, of the kind referred to.” Tying the state action doctrine to the judicial abandonment of blacks during Reconstruction, therefore, is tempting. It looks even more tempting when we recall the Court’s decision in United States v. Cruikshank to overturn part of the Enforcement Act of 1870, thus precluding punishment for Klansmen responsible for the Colfax Massacre. Further, historian C. Vann Woodward’s influential account of the “Compromise of 1877” makes this conventional story particularly appealing. According to political scientist Pamela Brandwein, Vann Woodward’s account makes it appear as if the Court’s narrow construction of state action suggests they were “consolidating the political abandonment of blacks by the Republican Party.”
The story of the Court’s abandonment of blacks and the Reconstruction project more broadly, however, may not be correct. In fact, according to Brandwein, the abandonment of blacks and of Reconstruction may have been more the result of failures of the Legislative and Executive branches than of the Judiciary. The scope of the state action doctrine is a necessary part of this story. Brandwein’s reading of the Civil Rights Cases is markedly different from the conventional view. She shows that the Waite Court “did not handcuff congressional power to protect blacks to the extent imagined by scholars.” Brandwein shows that Bradley’s opinion in the Civil Rights Cases employed a more complex distinction between state actors and private actors than scholars typically believe. Essential to Brandwein’s discovery is the Court’s “explicit approval” of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Bradley’s discussion of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 elucidates the distinction between state action and private conduct and provides insight into what Bradley had in mind. Section 2 of the Act states:
And be it further enacted, That any person who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any inhabitant of any State or Territory to the deprivation of any right secured or protected by this act [as outlined in Section 1 of the Act] . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
In his opinion, Justice Bradley called this section “corrective in its character.” It was “intended to counteract and furnish redress against State laws and proceedings, and customs having the force of law, which sanction the wrongful acts specified.” For Bradley, this Act “retains the reference to State laws, by making the penalty apply only to those who should subject parties to a deprivation of their rights under color of any statute, ordinance, custom, etc., of any State or Territory . . . .” As Brandwein explains, the essential phrase here is “under color of law . . . or custom.” Though today the phrase “color of law” is interpreted narrowly, that interpretation is at odds with Justice Bradley’s view. According to Brandwein, Bradley’s opinion suggests that “certain race-based wrongs committed by private individuals gain the color of law or custom if state authorities do not punish them.” Here is where we can see an opening for the state neglect doctrine. As Brandwein shows in her detailed analysis of the opinion, for Justice Bradley, the phrase “under color of” is “clearly associated with state action of some kind.” Importantly, however, Bradley’s opinion suggests that “a state can deny rights by shielding, excusing, or protecting individual, race-based wrongs.” In other words, Justice Bradley does not draw the sharp distinction between state and private action that contemporary accounts of the state action doctrine typically assume. Bradley’s language “does not require the active participation of state agents in order for that wrongdoing to have the color of law.” In a way, therefore, state neglect can count as state action for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The contemporary story about the state action doctrine, it seems, is incorrect. While Brandwein’s discovery has ramifications for understandings of the failure of Reconstruction and the abandonment of federal protection of black Americans by Congress and the Executive in the late-nineteenth century, others have described a similar doctrine from a different standpoint. Stephen Gardbaum, for example, frames the issue as one of horizontal rights versus vertical rights. Gardbaum, a comparativist, points out the distinction between the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of several other countries, namely Ireland, Canada, Germany, South Africa, and the European Union. While the United States, with the help of the state action doctrine, only applies constitutional rights to the (vertical) relationships between individuals and the government, these other countries also at times apply them to the (horizontal) relationships between private individuals.
Gardbaum’s argument, unlike Brandwein’s, is not historical. Gardbaum does not claim to have uncovered an early, forgotten jurisprudential hole. Rather, Gardbaum argues that the traditional state action inquiry is misguided. To do so, he compares the United States’s rigid state action inquiry process with the often-squishier inquiry in other countries. For Gardbaum, the “threshold search for state action in order to trigger a constitutional claim is entirely unwarranted and unnecessary.” In comparative constitutional law, the scope of application of various constitutional rights is often determined by appealing to a series of questions: “(1) Are individuals as well as government actors bound by constitutional rights? (2) Do constitutional rights apply to private law or common law? (3) Are courts bound by constitutional rights? (4) Do constitutional rights apply to litigation between private individuals?” As Gardbaum explains, only the first question is asked in the traditional state action inquiry in the United States. Yet, as Gardbaum shows, the United States does not adhere to the strictly vertical approach as is often assumed. Rather, it looks more like the Supremacy Clause-type argument suggested by Justice Kriegler’s dissenting opinion in the South African case Du Plessis v. De Klerk. Justice Kriegler wrote that, “[u]nless and until there is a resort to law,” private individuals are free to conduct their affairs as they please, including to discriminate on the basis of “race, gender, or whatever,” but, and crucially, none of those private individuals “can invoke the law to enforce or protect their bigotry.” Similarly, in the United States, all law is subject to the Constitution through the Supremacy Clause. Every law, “whether public or private, whether statutory or judge-made, whether relied on in litigation between an individual and the state or between individuals—is directly, fully, and equally subject to the Constitution.” The only question, Gardbaum argues, should be whether that law is consistent with the Constitution.
Importantly, this would not mean transforming the United States from a strictly vertical to a wholly horizontal polity. Rather, it means that constitutional rights would have a greater indirect effect on the relationships between private actors. Gardbaum is careful to point out that though no constitutional duties are suddenly placed on individuals, constitutional rights would have a “substantial impact on (1) what individuals can lawfully be permitted or required to do, and (2) which of their interests, preferences, and actions can be protected by law.”
Gardbaum is not the only one to posit a more robust place in the United States for constitutional rights in private relationships. Saidel-Goley and Singer’s argument, for example, is strikingly similar, though narrower, than Gardbaum’s. They take Gardbaum’s point that common law is law too and should therefore be subject to constitutional protection, but they go deeper by focusing most directly on property law. Even common law rules require the state be present to enforce them. For the normal state action doctrine, state and society are separate and distinct. But as Saidel-Goley and Singer argue, the “problem with this picture of the relation between state and society is that it cannot accurately reflect the institution of private property.”
Larry Sager and Nelson Tebbe, too, have put forward a similar theory. They argue for a doctrine of “state permissions.” Starting from the same premise as some of the critics of the state action doctrine, namely the premise about state power and the state’s background presence, Sager and Tebbe go one step further than Sunstein or Tushnet and Seidman. Properly understood, though, Sager and Tebbe’s argument has nothing to do with the state action doctrine per se. Instead, they are concerned with state culpability. Their principal concern is the idea that “when a state permits private acts of discrimination against the victims of structural injustice and signals official endorsement of such discrimination, it violates the equality provisions of the Constitution.” More precisely, their argument does not ask the typical question: Has the state acted? Rather, they reorient the analysis and ask: Has the state granted permission for this discriminatory act? If it has, they argue, the state may rescind that permission. In other words, the state may have the constitutional authority to ban actions like it.
Their argument is not that there is an affirmative constitutional duty for governments to ameliorate all patterns of embedded social and economic inequality—what they call structural injustice. Theirs is not a deontological theory for government action. Rather, they draw a distinction between laws that signal the state’s approval of acts of private discrimination and laws that do not. Sager and Tebbe operate from two key assumptions. The first is there is a “continuity between governmental and nongovernmental actors” that can serve to produce and maintain structural injustice. Second, they believe there is a “continuity of state action in a world where the law is ubiquitous, and where that which is not prohibited is permitted by the state.”
Sager and Tebbe’s paradigmatic example is Mississippi’s H.B. 1523, otherwise known as the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act.” The Act prohibits the state from taking “discriminatory action,” which, as defined in § 4 of the Act, includes most legal penalties, against those with “sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions” when those religious beliefs require a religious organization to discriminate. The religious beliefs in question include:
(a) Marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman; (b) sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage; and (c) Male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.
Sager and Tebbe mean to suggest that this law does not do what its proponents say it does. That is, it does not simply carve out an exemption for those with closely held religious beliefs from legal penalties when they fire someone for being gay or having premarital sex. It is not simply a law designed to protect religious liberty. This law, for Sager and Tebbe, does more than “step aside” and let private actors with sincerely held religious beliefs act on those beliefs, even if it means treating gay couples or transgender individuals differently. Some laws like this one—some governmental permissions to discriminate—do more than just declare that the state will not intervene. Some laws “carry with them unmistakable approval of the discriminatory conduct, and thus encourage that conduct.”
Their conclusion should by now be clear. Sager and Tebbe argue that there are some situations in which the state’s grant of permission is unconstitutional. When governments enact laws that do this—laws like, for Sager and Tebbe, Mississippi’s H.B. 1523—they not only exacerbate the patterns of structural injustice, they violate the Constitution. To be sure, there is no question of state action in their argument. It is not a question of state neglect, but a question of state permission. The “permission” here is an action. Sager and Tebbe’s argument is not just theoretical or normative, however. They also find sufficient precedent in a line of cases—notably McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. and Reitman v. Mulkey—for justifying the application of the Equal Protection Clause to certain types of private discrimination. Though the Supreme Court has, of course, never wholly endorsed the state permissions doctrine Sager and Tebbe posit, it has endorsed a reading of the Equal Protection Clause that prohibits state “authorizations.”
It may appear that Sager and Tebbe are developing a theory that would expand the scope of the Equal Protection Clause without limit. They do suggest that because the state is sometimes responsible for the existence of patterns of structural injustice, “in the sense that it has actively contributed to its creation and perpetuation by its laws,” it has the “constitutional duty to protect their citizens from the systematic and sustained failures of equal membership which they helped to create, and which they actively sustain by maintaining structures of law that permit and enforce private discrimination against the victims of those failures.” However, Sager and Tebbe are careful to outline limits on their theory. They tread the line that maintains the public/private distinction. First, they do not see all laws that allow religious exemptions, for example, as unconstitutional permissions. It is only “those permissions that signal approval of, and thereby encourage, discrimination” that “are subject to judicial invalidation.” Mississippi’s H.B. 1523, for instance, was enacted as a direct response to the Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. When looking to invalidate a state permissions law, a court would look for the law’s “social meaning”—its background, history, and context—to determine if, to the “objective observer,” the law was marking some as outsiders while protecting others as privileged insiders.
Second, there are institutional limitations to the scope of the state permissions doctrine. They see their theory as “entirely consistent” with the public/private distinction. Though they operate from the premise that state law and behavior are everywhere and therefore ubiquitous, they do not go so far as to argue there is no state/nonstate distinction. Additionally, they believe courts are poorly designed to deal with the problem of structural injustice. Though courts may have a role to play in invalidating laws that violate the Equal Protection Clause, they do not have the same duty to remedy structural injustice as legislatures. Federalism, too, complicates the picture. Nevertheless, this “sharp division of constitutional labor” does not, for Sager and Tebbe, protect a state or the federal government from judicial intervention when it permits but subtly endorses discrimination.
Though Sager and Tebbe’s theory, like the other variants of the state permissions or state neglect doctrine, attempts to enlarge the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment, it fails to acknowledge that the groups at issue do not exist organically. Though it leaves room for the acknowledgment that the state, in granting permission to discriminate, may bear some of the responsibility for structural injustice, it overlooks the fact that the groups who are the subject of that structural injustice are themselves shaped by the state. It is not just that the state or private individuals may do material harm to vulnerable groups, but that the groups themselves—their own discursive meanings and social histories—have been shaped in part through state action through time. So, while the various expositions of a state neglect or state permissions doctrine—whether theoretical, doctrinal, historical, or some combination—all posit a greater role for constitutional rights in private relationships, they all suffer from the same shortcoming. This is the subject of the next Part.
III. Taking the Long Lens Approach
Both the traditional state action doctrine and the various iterations of the state neglect doctrine suffer from a similar problem. They both rest on an incomplete calculus. They all operate on the premise that the state is not a cause of the actions of private discrimination. Rather, the state is simply choosing not to intervene. They assume that the drivers of discrimination in the private sphere and the perpetuation of structural injustice are separate and distinct from all state behavior. The state, in this calculus, is choosing not to jump in to remedy something that it never had a hand in. In a way, then, the state action and state neglect doctrines take a very nearsighted view. They both account only for the immediate role the state has or has not played in the violation of someone’s or some group’s constitutional rights.
Though the state can, for example, enact a racially discriminatory law that would be unconstitutional under either or both doctrines, they gloss over the important point that the identity categories at issue—here, race—do not exist organically. The calculus, however, looks dramatically different once we factor in the fact that the state has had a hand in the creation and maintenance of structural injustice. Further, the identity categories at issue were formed in part through actions the state has taken. Attuning to the discursive and ideological impacts of state behavior on the creation, maintenance, and reshaping of identity labels, categories, and groups, therefore, reveals the shortcomings of the doctrinal analyses.
According to the conventional view of state action, “the effort to define and apply constitutional rights need not even begin unless the complaining party first demonstrates that some government entity was responsible for the violation of her rights.” This applies to the state permissions doctrine as well, but rather than “responsible for the violation of her rights,” simply substitute “has the constitutional ability to rescind permission because it perpetuates structural injustice.” The problem, though, is that law and state policy are not epiphenomenal—they are not just the product of societal interests and preferences. They also have a reciprocal impact on the way people behave and the way identities are defined, regulated, and constructed. If the state’s actions are seen to also be a (not the only) cause of structural injustice, then not only is the state declining to intervene in a situation of discrimination between private actors, but it is declining to intervene in a situation it in part caused. This seems even more morally problematic than simply granting permission or declining to intervene between private actors.
A. Epiphenomenal or Constructive?
Understanding the shortcomings of the state action and neglect doctrines from this perspective requires taking a step back. It requires temporarily setting aside the doctrinal frameworks in favor of a broader perspective. It requires engaging with the literature on the history and development of the American state. It means taking a broad perspective that is sometimes unfamiliar to lawyers and legal scholars. In the words of legal historian Robert Gordon, the point that law and society are “inextricably mixed” is not immediately apparent to legal scholars because they “sometimes restrict their view of what law is to a bunch of discrete events that occur within certain specialized state agencies . . . and therefore assume that the only question for a social history of law is the relation between the output of these agencies and social change.” Rather, if we restrict our analysis to see the only output of the agencies as “law,” then how, Gordon asks, “are we going to characterize all the innumerable rights, duties, privileges, and immunities that people commonly recognize and enforce without officials anywhere nearby?” We must, in other words, position ourselves to see the discursive patterns and ideational fluctuation that occurs as a result of law and state behavior. The real power of a state and its legal regime “consists less in the force that it can bring to bear against violators of its rules than in its capacity to persuade people that the world described in its images and categories is the only attainable world in which a sane person would want to live.”
Though a state’s extractive and bureaucratic capacity are of course important, so too are the effects they have on societal consciousness, language, and identities. In a word, law is not epiphenomenal. Rather, law, like all forms of state behavior, is constructive of action, discourse, ideology, and identity. Consider interpellation: though one need not accept Louis Althusser’s version of interpellation to understand the broader argument, it can elucidate the point by offering a mechanism. How can the state construct discourse and identity? For Althusser, all state institutions are bound up with ideology; there is no such thing as a nonideological state institution. Ideology is crucial to the reproduction of certain societal forms, and the “State Apparatus” acts as the vehicle that translates ideology into real, lived experience. This in part relies on Althusser’s definition of “ideology.” For him, ideology represents “the imaginary relationship of the individuals to their real conditions of existence.” Ideology as a concept has no history and requires an individual to have meaning or relevance. Ideology, therefore, operating through state institutions, “hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects . . . .” Ideology interpellates an individual by marking them as a subject—someone subject to the label given. By using a certain label, a state institution can mark someone and maintain a certain ideology through the reproduction of subjects. The individual becomes a subject because that individual “recognized that the hail was ‘really’ addressed to him, and that ‘it was really him who was hailed’ (and not someone else).” For Althusser, then, the “existence of ideology and the hailing or interpellation of individuals as subjects are one and the same thing.” The reproduction of identity—the subject, how an individual is seen and (sometimes) sees him or herself—happens at least in part through ideology and state action.
The broader point is that the language often used in identity categories is not organic. Ideologies and the categories they employ often do not exist ontologically prior to the state. While certain characteristics may be immutable, it is quite a bit harder to describe the language used to discuss those characteristics, or the decision concerning who is seen to have the same characteristics (and is therefore lumped into the same category), as immutable. Teasing out the often-tenuous link between immutable characteristics and discursive forms is essential for the larger point. According to historian of sexuality Margot Canaday, the best work on the state “takes state institutions seriously, but incorporates rather than jettisons the ‘society’ or ‘culture’ side of the binary, blending social and cultural with legal and political history.” Blending discursive, societal, or cultural studies with studies of state institutions allows us to gain analytical leverage over the way the two interact.
B. Constructing Identity in Time
How has the American state interpellated individuals as various subjects? How have identity categories been constructed and molded through time by state action? This subpart addresses some of those questions by providing a series of examples, primarily from the literature on American Political Development (APD). To be sure, this is not an exhaustive list—far from it. Rather, these examples serve to illustrate the larger point about how the groups at issue—the groups who are often the targets of discrimination and whose constitutional rights often trigger a state action or state neglect inquiry—are shaped and delimited by the state through time and how this observation is omitted from the state action and state neglect analyses.
First, consider the issue of citizenship. Political theorist Iris Marion Young contends that the person or citizen is at least in part constructed in the eyes of another. A political context is what distinguishes the citizen from the “other.” Similarly, political theorist Judith Shklar argues “[w]hatever the ideological gratifications that the mnemonic evocation of an original and pure citizenry may have, it is unconvincing and ultimately an uninteresting flight from politics if [citizenship] disregards the history and present actualities of our institutions.” Focusing instead on the context in which a citizen is created or acknowledged by political institutions brings the focus from the citizen herself to the institutions. As political scientist Stephen Engel writes, focusing on how the citizen is constructed or made “shifts the operative focus of citizenship from the individual claiming citizenship to the set of institutions that recognize or confer citizenship status.” Engel argues for defining citizenship narrowly, as “recognition.” Doing so gives us more analytic leverage to explain how the actions of political institutions impact the creation and manipulation of citizenship as a fungible category.
Changing the focus from the individual citizen to the institutions that do the recognizing has uncovered not only how citizenship is constructed in the eyes of the state, but how identity is as well. It is imperative to understand that to “see like a state” means something distinctive. Historian Margot Canaday, for example, uncovers how sexual identity was at least in part constructed through concerted state action. Canaday shows how World War II was a critical moment in the formation of the category of homosexuality in America. To be sure, it is not that same-sex attraction was somehow invented by the state. Rather, by focusing instead on how state policy was designed and implemented, we can understand how institutional action changed what it meant to be homosexual. State regulators and federal bureaucrats became more aware of sex and gender nonconformity during the war, and “they worried about those whose bodies or behaviors seemed perverse to them.” Homosexuality became explicitly linked to “perversion,” which in turn was linked to “regulatory devices aimed at broader problems: poverty, disorder, violence, or crime . . . .” As the state expanded during WWII, however, it “wrote this new knowledge into federal policy, helping to produce the category of homosexuality through regulation.” Canaday reveals that the state did not “merely implicate but also constituted homosexuality in the construction of a stratified citizenry.” The state crafted military, immigration, and welfare policies that “crystallized homosexual identity, fostering a process by which certain individuals began to think of their sexuality in political terms, as mediating and mediated by their relationship to the state.” The state was productive of both difference and identity. It used certain labels and language to manipulate human conduct and behavior and construct the meaning of homosexuality.
A similar story can be told about race. Race is created, shaped, and given meaning by social and political context. Legal scholar Ian Haney López uncovers how court action was at the center of the construction of “whiteness” (and by extension, nonwhiteness). Because Congress restricted naturalization to “white persons” in 1790, courts had to answer the question, “what is white?” Courts could come up with no easy answer. Courts commonly looked toward either “common knowledge” or purportedly scientific data to support their assertions. But this, unsurprisingly, presented problems:
The early reliance on scientific evidence to justify racial assignments implied that races exist as physical fact, humanly knowable but not dependent on human knowledge or human relations. The Court’s ultimate reliance on common knowledge says otherwise: it demonstrates that racial taxonomies devolve upon social demarcations.
In other words, race is not by definition a matter of physical appearance or biological ancestry but was and continues to be constructed through the actions of political institutions. Haney López explains that focusing on the role of law and state institutions in the construction of the category of race opens a massive range of inquiry. It places the focus on the examination of “the possible ways in which law creates differences in physical appearance, of the extent to which law ascribes racialized meanings to physical features and ancestry, and of the ways in which law translates ideas about race into the material societal conditions that confirm and entrench those ideas.” Racial categories are, Haney López writes, “a series of abstractions, but their constant legal usage makes these abstractions concrete and material.”
The case of miscegenation laws illustrates this same point. State regulation and prohibition of interracial marriage created a problem for legislatures and courts. Namely, they struggled with defining “race.” The result was deliberate state manipulation of the category and meaning of race. One of the most salient yet enduring fictions of miscegenation laws was the “popular notion that race actually existed, that it was a thing that could be measured, determined, gotten to the truth of.” Therefore, taking “race” as fixed groups that exist organically, as the state action and state neglect doctrines do, means ignoring enormous swaths of legal and political history.
The first law prohibiting interracial sex and marriage was passed in Maryland in 1664. The last, Alabama’s, was not repealed until 2000—though it, of course, was unenforceable post-Loving v. Virginia in 1967. Though miscegenation laws were often justified as protecting equality, they were, to be sure, a project steeped in white supremacy. As historian Peggy Pascoe shows, miscegenation laws acted in practice as a “kind of legal factory for the defining, producing, and reproducing of the racial categories of the state.” Both courts and clerks that issued marriage licenses had to confront the often-difficult problem of labeling people by their race. Often, they were guided by the text of miscegenation laws themselves, which typically listed the races at issue and often defined them by blood quantum. This problem was particularly prevalent in Alabama state courts between 1918 and 1928. As political scientist Julie Novkov uncovers, this decade in the Alabama state courts heavily featured one question: “What must be proven in order to establish that the defendants in a prosecution are of different races?” There was a conflict between purportedly scientific definitions of race that relied on blood and heredity and definitions that relied on appearance. Witnesses that appeared in court to testify to someone’s race often relied on more capacious or flexible definitions of race than the statutes did. Ultimately, both state legislatures and, for example, the 1930 national census moved toward a more narrow definition of blackness, in part to try to split the difference between definitions of race rooted in social class, behavior, and appearance with those rooted in ancestry.
Marriage-license clerks were confronted with a similar problem. And indeed, as Pascoe shows, a “seemingly natural documentary ‘fact’ of race was produced in marriage license bureaus.” Every state that had a miscegenation law in force needed clerks to declare couples’ fitness to marry. By the turn of the twentieth century, marriage licenses had largely replaced earlier forms of less-regulated marriage, including common-law marriage. By 1931, every single American state had a marriage-license law on the books. As a result, every state needed low-level bureaucrats to issue the licenses. As Pascoe shows, the rise of marriage-license requirements coincided with the development of new procedures and practices for determining who was fit to marry. Proponents of these practices— typically “eugenicists, vital statisticians, and white supremacists”—put their faith in these low-level bureaucrats and required them to sort license applicants into a “wide, and increasing, number of categories, some racial, others physical or mental.” Consequently, by the 1920s, this flurry of activity mixing bureaucracy with eugenics had, according to Pascoe, “turned marriage license clerks [of which there were 6,070] into the gatekeepers of white supremacy.” It is important to recognize, therefore, the centrality of miscegenation laws to the production and definition of race in the United States.
The racial categories produced through the coercive power of the state were not, to be sure, only a matter of state record keeping. Race was not only a label used on forms, but had significant, lasting discursive and material effects. This is illustrated by the fact that the demise of miscegenation laws “did not lead to a colorblind utopia.” Not only does the state still categorize by race for other purposes, but the use of race in miscegenation laws in particular involved the state in a powerful act of interpellation. Prosecutors and county clerks involved in the enforcement of a miscegenation law were “engaged in a very powerful act of naming, categorizing, and defining.” Miscegenation law as a whole was, as Pascoe shows, a national project that was motivated by and reified white supremacy and white purity. It was a “key arena for the production of race in everything from language to criminal prosecution to the structuring of families.”
The two-pronged effects of miscegenation laws—(1) the structuring of families and (2) the language of race—roughly map onto the larger point about the nearsightedness of the state action and state neglect inquiries. At most, they can both account for only the former—the material impact of the law in action. They fail, however, to account for how the categories at issue are themselves a (partial) creation of the state. It is the language of race we must attune to. The language of race alone is a performative act, one that becomes real through use and practice. The discourse of race on its own does work. As political scientist Lisa Wedeen reminds us, the use of certain words and patterns of words produces “specific logics and generate[s] observable political effects.” Taking into account the discursive work done by the state’s use of race, gender, and sexuality highlights the crucial shortcomings of the frameworks employed by the state action and state neglect doctrines. The categories at issue are not organic. They are neither grounded entirely in immutable characteristics, nor are they only the creation of society (as distinct from the state). Rather, they have been defined and shaped with the help of the state. In seeking to regulate and define homosexuality and whiteness, state institutions gave new meaning and salience to those categories. They shaped not only how members of those groups came to be seen and marked in the eyes of the state, but also how persons given those marks came to see themselves, as well as how others came to see them.
Any discussion of discrimination or structural injustice needs to reckon with the role of the state in the construction and maintenance of the groups and categories that are now the target of injustice and discrimination. Both the state action doctrine and the state permissions doctrine do not include these types of state actions in their scope of inquiry. In looking for something the state has done or has refused to remedy, the doctrines overlook how groups targeted by structural injustice have been molded through time. They miss the discursive work of state institutions. This is a mistake. Including that category of state behavior radically changes the calculus of assessing whether there has been state action or state culpability. To be sure, I have not provided an exhaustive list of all the ways in which the state has done discursive work to shape identity groups. The sample provided here is only a tiny fraction. Nevertheless, it shows how taking a longer lens approach, particularly one attuned to the impact on the enormous role the state has taken in American political and discursive development, can reveal the shortcomings of a doctrinal analysis.
The public/private distinction has troubled generations of political and legal theorists. Even if one prefers—from a normative standpoint—a “bigger” welfare state, it does not follow that anything and everything is fair game for the state. Intuition dictates that the state cannot, or perhaps should not, interfere with some decisions. Yet, the data does not tell as clear of a picture. While it seems that some actions or decisions are clearly off-limits for the state, the evidence indicates that the causal chain in one way or another reaches back to the state. But what does this mean for the state action doctrine? When can we say that the government has violated the Equal Protection Clause, for example, when the state shapes so much of our lives, whether readily apparent or not?
For many critics, the existing state action doctrine is a complete mess. Not only has the Court invented a doctrine that does not necessarily follow from the text of the Constitution or the Fourteenth Amendment specifically, but it has failed to create a reliable rule to determine when there is state action generally. For these reasons, critics have mounted two types of critiques. On the one hand, critics like Brandwein have suggested how the existing state action doctrine does not follow from the text of the Constitution or from cases typically seen as foundational, and actually precludes important realms of enforcement of constitutional rights. On the other hand, critics like Gardbaum, Sager, Tebbe, and others have argued that even the existing state action doctrine could be abrogated in favor of a more robust doctrine of state permissions or state neglect.
However, as I have argued, even these critics do not go far enough. While they posit a greater place for governmental enforcement of constitutional rights, especially to protect historically underrepresented groups, they still treat the existence of those groups themselves as separate and distinct from the state. They do not account for the role the state has played in shaping and constructing those groups in time.
This Note, therefore, has offered two contributions. First, it has argued that both the current state action doctrine and its proposed critiques or replacements that I have referred to collectively as the state neglect or permissions doctrines omit a key variable in measuring what the state has done. However, it does not necessarily follow that the government has a duty to account for the impact of the discursive effects—both past and present—of political institutions in all future policymaking. For example, it is admittedly not clear exactly how taking into account the discursive effects of the state’s regulation would reshape the Court’s doctrinal calculus. Of course, it risks asking courts to do something they are unprepared to do: social-science research to measure the impact of the state’s discursive praxis on an individual’s situation. This task goes far beyond the institutional capacities of courts, even as Donald Horowitz has described them. I offer no solution here. Rather, I merely argue that the existing frameworks ignore this category of state action and use an arbitrarily short time horizon.
Second, this Note contributes to our understanding of the relationship between law and political development. Legal scholarship has historically not engaged with work on political and constitutional development, though there has been some engagement in the other direction. More directly, though, this Note contributes to the literature on American Political Development by emphasizing the importance of discourse and ideas for political and legal change. The relationship between ideas or discourse on the one hand, and institutions on the other, has been tentatively explored by recent work in and outside APD. However, existing work treats ideas as institutions as wholly separate objects of study but examines how they interact. With few notable exceptions, work in APD has not attended to the discursive properties of institutions themselves. However, as I have suggested here, discourse is a necessary feature of political institutions. In fact, it may have important downstream consequences for political development itself. As Lisa Wedeen argued in her study of nationalism and state power in Yemen, “[b]y focusing on the logics of a discourse and its political effects in material practices, we can specify how ideas relate to institutions; how group identities are summoned into existence; and how publics—national, deliberative, pious, and transnational—get made.” As I have argued, studying discourse not as epiphenomenal, but as a constructive, performative act itself—as a thing worthy of study because of its efficacy, or perhaps causal impact—reveals a new set of shortcomings for legal analysis. It reveals that the state action doctrine and its proposed alternatives, though frequently focused on the protection of constitutional rights for minorities (other applications of the state action doctrine notwithstanding), do not do as much as they claim. Critics of the state action doctrine, or even critics of the scope or enforcement of constitutional rights and inequality broadly, need to attend to the historical construction of identity categories like race and sexuality. Taking a longer lens approach that takes the state’s discursive praxis into account uncovers new areas of political and legal inquiry.
- .109 U.S. 3 (1883). ↑
- .334 U.S. 1 (1948). ↑
- .I use these terms interchangeably unless specified. See, e.g., Pamela Brandwein, Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction (2011); Pamela Brandwein, A Lost Jurisprudence of the Reconstruction Amendments, 41 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 329 (2016); Stephen Gardbaum, The “Horizontal Effect” of Constitutional Rights, 102 Mich. L. Rev. 387 (2003); Isaac Saidel-Goley & Joseph William Singer, Things Invisible to See: State Action & Private Property, 5 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 439 (2018); Michael L. Wells, Race-Conscious Student Assignment Plans After Parents Involved: Bringing State Action Principles to Bear on the De Jure/De Facto Distinction, 112 Penn St. L. Rev. 1023 (2008); Lawrence Sager & Nelson Tebbe, Discriminatory Permissions and Structural Injustice 2–4 (2019) (unpublished manuscript) (on file with author). ↑
- .The use of “epiphenomenal” here refers to its treatment in the political science literature on institutional change. A comprehensive discussion of the literature on institutional change could fill several libraries and is, partially as a result, beyond the scope of this Note. However, at the risk of doing injustice to the literature, a (brief) explanation is warranted. Historically, most explanations for institutional change, especially rational-choice institutionalism—though also some of the “new institutionalist” work (including sociological, historical, and discursive-institutionalist accounts)—relied heavily on assumptions about how rules and incentives structure behavior and channel preferences into formal institutional change. For example, many political scientists interested in institutions and institutional change were concerned with equilibria, or at least what the lack of frequent equilibria can tell us about how institutions affect politics. For paradigmatic examples of this treatment of institutions, see John Aldrich, Why Parties?: A Second Look (1995); R. Douglas Arnold, The Logic of Congressional Action (1990); Keith Krehbiel, Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking (1998); and William H. Riker, Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions, 74 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 432 (1980). For an example of this older approach from the field of public law, see Martin Shapiro, Law and Politics in the Supreme Court: New Approaches to Political Jurisprudence (1964). More recent work, however, has observed that these existing assumptions may not hold up. They downplayed the possibility that institutions often change in subtle ways—ways that the search for channeled incentives overlooks. Institutions are constantly changing, often in unanticipated ways. Decisions, rules, policies, actions, and other institutional outputs may explain later change, both institutional and noninstitutional. Political scientists who produced work making up the wave of new institutionalist approaches noticed this and sought to provide a theoretical foundation to support future work. E.g., Peter A. Hall & Rosemary C. R. Taylor, Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms, 44 Pol. Stud. 936 (1996); Ellen M. Immergut, The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism, 26 Pol. & Soc’y 5 (1998); James G. March & Johan P. Olsen, The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life, 78 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 734 (1984).
As Rogers Smith wrote in his groundbreaking work that explored the relevance of the new institutionalist work for the field of public law, this approach “preserve[s] the possibility that the actions themselves may not prove epiphenomenal to any combination of background factors, and that they may have unexpected significance for later events.” Rogers M. Smith, Political Jurisprudence, The “New Institutionalism,” and the Future of Public Law, 82 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 89, 103 (1988). That is, actions and institutional outputs themselves may not be simply and exclusively the byproduct of the institution or other social forces. The actions and decisions of an institutional actor may have a reciprocal impact on the institution itself, even if the actor did not intend it. Recently, however, political scientists have discovered that a similar dynamic may exist with ideas. As Robert Lieberman has observed, even many of the “new institutionalist” approaches treated ideas as “epiphenomenal, simply consequences of material (or structural or institutional) arrangements.” Robert C. Lieberman, Ideas, Institutions, and Political Order: Explaining Political Change, 96 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 697, 699 (2002). As Lieberman pointed out, the challenge for scholars of institutional and political change was to “find a way to treat ideas as analytically consequential in accounts of political action, policy development, and institutional change, and to do so without falling into the characteristic traps,” which include treating ideas as exogenous or parallel to institutional change. Id. My use of the word “epiphenomenal” is similar. In a way, I argue that the existing doctrinal approaches to the state action and state neglect doctrines make the same error as the traditional approaches to the study of institutions. In the same way that Shapiro treated law as simply a product of social forces and failed to explore the possibility that it may have an impact on the institution that produced it or other institutions, I argue in this Note that courts and scholarly approaches to state action and state neglect have treated law and state behavior as simply a product of social forces—that is, as epiphenomenal. Law and state behavior has not just material consequences, but ideational and discursive ones. See discussion infra Part III. For more examples of research that explores the relevance of ideas for institutional and political change, see infra note 148 and accompanying text. ↑
- .See The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. at 20 (finding that the Thirteenth Amendment is “not a mere prohibition of State laws establishing or upholding slavery, but an absolute declaration that slavery or involuntary servitude shall not exist in any part of the United States”). ↑
- .334 U.S. 1 (1948). ↑
- .326 U.S. 501 (1946). ↑
- .345 U.S. 461 (1953). ↑
- .489 U.S. 189 (1989). ↑
- .Id. at 191. ↑
- .Brookes Brown, A Conceptual Disaster Zone Indeed: The Incoherence of the State and the Need for State Action Doctrine(s), 75 Md. L. Rev. 328, 328 (2015); see also Charles L. Black, Jr., The Supreme Court, 1966 Term—Foreword: “State Action,” Equal Protection, and California’s Proposition 14, 81 Harv. L. Rev. 69, 95 (1967) (pointing out that the state action doctrine is a “disaster area”). ↑
- .Brown, supra note 11. ↑
- .Id. at 333–37. ↑
- .Black, supra note 11, at 96. ↑
- .See Mark Tushnet, Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law 172 (2008) (“One cannot balance a preexisting private property interest against some constitutional interest when the question at hand is, What is the proper scope of the background rules in light of constitutional norms?”). ↑
- .Cass R. Sunstein, State Action Is Always Present, 3 Chi. J. Int’l L. 465, 465 (2002). ↑
- .Louis Michael Seidman & Mark V. Tushnet, Remnants of Belief: Contemporary Constitutional Issues 61 (1996). ↑
- .Saidel-Goley & Singer, supra note 3. ↑
- .Id. at 476. ↑
- .Id. at 485. ↑
- .Id. at 503. ↑
- .Developments in the Law—State Action and the Public/Private Distinction, 123 Harv. L. Rev. 1248, 1251 (2010). ↑
- .551 U.S. 701 (2007). ↑
- .Id. at 712. ↑
- .Id. at 711–12. ↑
- .Id. at 720. ↑
- .Id. at 720, 722 (citing Grutter v. Bollinger, 509 U.S. 306, 328 (2003)). ↑
- .Id. at 720–21. ↑
- .Id. at 726. ↑
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- .Parents Involved, 551 U.S. at 736. ↑
- .Id. at 794 (Kennedy, J., concurring in part). ↑
- .Wells, supra note 3, at 1031. ↑
- .426 U.S. 229 (1976); Wells, supra note 3, at 1031. ↑
- .413 U.S. 189 (1973); Wells, supra note 3, at 1032. ↑
- .Keyes, 413 U.S. at 211. ↑
- .Wells, supra note 3, at 1033. ↑
- .Freeman v. Pitts, 503 U.S. 467, 495 (1992). ↑
- .The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 10 (1883). ↑
- .Id. at 11. ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .92 U.S. 542 (1876). ↑
- .Id. at 566. ↑
- .C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (Oxford University Press 1991) (1951) (arguing, among other things, that the failure of Reconstruction was due in large part to the political deal struck between Democrats and Republicans to end the dispute over the 1876 Presidential election, which resulted in Republicans maintaining control of the White House in exchange for pulling federal troops out of the South). ↑
- .Brandwein, supra note 3, at 330. ↑
- .Brandwein, supra note 3. ↑
- .Pamela Brandwein, A Judicial Abandonment of Blacks? Rethinking the “State Action” Cases of the Waite Court, 41 Law & Soc’y Rev. 343, 344–45 (2007). ↑
- .Id. at 352. ↑
- .Civil Rights Act of 1866, Pub. L. No. 39-31, 14 Stat. 27 (1866). ↑
- .Id. § 2, 14 Stat. at 27. ↑
- .The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 16 (1883). ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Id. at 16–17. ↑
- .Brandwein, supra note 47, at 352. ↑
- .See, e.g., United States v. Price, 383 U.S. 787 (1966); Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167 (1961); Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91 (1945). ↑
- .Brandwein, supra note 47, at 353. ↑
- .Id. at 356. ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Id. ↑
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- .Gardbaum, supra note 3, at 394–95. ↑
- .Id. at 388. ↑
- .Id. ↑
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- .Id. at 411. ↑
- .1996 (3) SA 850 (CC) (S. Afr.). In Du Plessis, the Constitutional Court held that although the South Africa Constitution’s bill of rights did not have “general direct horizontal application,” private litigants could nonetheless still “contend that a statute (or executive act) relied on by the other party is invalid as being inconsistent with the limitations placed on legislature and executive” by the Constitution. Id. at 48 para. 62, 35 para. 49. ↑
- .Id. at 93–94 para. 135 (Kriegler, J., dissenting). ↑
- .U.S. Const. art. VI, cl. 2. ↑
- .Gardbaum, supra note 3, at 415. ↑
- .Id. at 415. ↑
- .Saidel-Goley & Singer, supra note 3. ↑
- .Id. at 485. ↑
- .Sager & Tebbe, supra note 3. For a similar theory, though one aimed more directly in conversation with the state action doctrine (from one of Sager’s former students, no less), see David M. Howard, Rethinking State Inaction: An In-Depth Look at the State Action Doctrine in State and Lower Federal Courts, 16 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 221 (2017). ↑
- .Sager & Tebbe, supra note 3, at 53. ↑
- .Id. at 60. ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .2016 Miss. Laws 427. ↑
- .Id. at 430, § 4. ↑
- .Id. at 428–30, § 3. ↑
- .Id. at 428, § 2. ↑
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- .Id. at 60. ↑
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- .135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015). ↑
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- .Id. at 35. ↑
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- .Robert W. Gordon, Critical Legal Histories, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 57, 107 (1984). ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Id. at 109. ↑
- .See Smith, supra note 4, at 103 (hypothesizing that the actions of political actors and institutions “themselves may not prove epiphenomenal to any combination of background factors, and that they may have unexpected significance for later events”). ↑
- .See Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation), in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays 85, 97 (Ben Brewster, trans., with new introd. ed. 2001) (1971) (“I shall say rather that every State Apparatus, whether Repressive or Ideological, ‘functions’ both by violence and by ideology . . . .”). ↑
- .Id. at 106. ↑
- .Id. at 109. ↑
- .Id. at 107. ↑
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- .Id. ↑
- .Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America 5 (2009). ↑
- .Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference 60 (reissue ed. 2011). ↑
- .Judith N. Shklar, American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion 9 (Harvard Univ. Press 1991) (1990). ↑
- .Stephen M. Engel, Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives 25 (2016). ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .See James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 11 (1998) (showing, among other things, that states often engage in projects of “legibility” that require specific scientific knowledge and patterns of control). ↑
- .Canaday, supra note 107, at 3. ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Id. at 4. ↑
- .Id. at 10. ↑
- .Ian Haney López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race 7 (10th anniversary ed. 2006). ↑
- .Id. at 1–2. ↑
- .Id. at 7. ↑
- .Id. at 10. ↑
- .Id. at 13. ↑
- .Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 8 (2009). ↑
- .An Act Concerning Negros & other Slaues [sic], 1 Md. Archives 533–34 (1664). ↑
- .Ala. Const. art. IV, § 102 (amended 2000). ↑
- .388 U.S. 1 (1967). ↑
- .Pascoe, supra note 123, at 9. ↑
- .Julie Novkov, Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865–1954, at 108 (2008). ↑
- .Id. at 108–47. ↑
- .Id. at 142. ↑
- .Pascoe, supra note 123, at 133. ↑
- .Id. at 138. ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Id. at 139. ↑
- .Id. at 9. ↑
- .Id. at 13. ↑
- .Id. at 14. ↑
- .See Lisa Wedeen, Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen 15 (2008) (emphasizing the importance of “performance” and “performativity,” as initially invoked by J.L. Austin, for the creation and maintenance of identity and nationalism). ↑
- .Id. ↑
- .Consider, for example, Frymer’s work on the impact of the idea of America as a white settler nation for the speed and style of American territorial expansion. See John A. Dearborn, American Imperial Development, 81 J. Pol. e44, e48 (2019) (explaining the importance of Frymer’s work and others to the study of ideas in the field of American Political Development). Homesteading policy during the mid-nineteenth century “provided a very conscious means of getting more and more white settlers onto lands populated with people perceived not to be white, enabling the government to manufacture demographics while expanding and incorporating these lands more easily and quickly.” Paul Frymer, Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion 133 (2017). ↑
- .See, e.g., Suzanne Mettler & Andrew Milstein, American Political Development from Citizens’ Perspective: Tracking Federal Government’s Presence in Individual Lives over Time, 21 Stud. Am. Pol. Dev. 110 (2007) (tracing the history of federal government involvement in social programs). ↑
- .See discussion supra Part II. ↑
- .See discussion supra Part II. ↑
- .See Donald L. Horowitz, The Courts and Social Policy (1977) (describing the limits of courts as institutions, namely that (1) judges are generalists; (2) the adversarial process limits and skews factfinding; and (3) courts are limited in their choice of remedy). ↑
- .E.g., Jeffrey K. Tulis & Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics (2018); John A. Dearborn, The Foundations of the Modern Presidency: Presidential Representation, the Unitary Executive Theory, and the Reorganization Act of 1939, 49 Presidential Stud. Q. 185 (2019); Brian J. Glenn, The Two Schools of American Political Development, 2 Pol. Stud. Rev. 153 (2004); Suzanne Mettler & Richard M. Valelly, Introduction: The Distinctiveness and Necessity of American Political Development, in The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development 1 (Richard M. Valelly, Suzanne Mettler & Robert C. Lieberman, eds., 2016); Vivien A. Schmidt, Taking Ideas and Discourse Seriously: Explaining Institutional Change Through Discursive Institutionalism as the Fourth ‘New Institutionalism,’ 2 Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev. 1 (2010); Rogers M. Smith, Ideas and the Spiral of Politics: The Place of American Political Thought in American Political Development, 3 Am. Pol. Thought 126–36 (2014). ↑
- .The one notable exception is Pamela Brandwein, Law and American Political Development, 7 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 187 (2011). ↑
- .Wedeen, supra note 139, at 17. For a more detailed explanation of the importance of language for the study of politics, see Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, Wittgenstein and Justice (1972). ↑
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Verify the Fitness for Service of Your Above-Ground Tanks
TEAM Tank Consultants (formerly TCI Services, LLC) believe that quality inspections are the key to reliability. Our inspection crews are made up of specialty trained, experienced technicians who adhere to the highest quality standards. Our API 653 inspectors deliver thorough, reliable evaluations for code compliance. We methodically inspect any in-service or out-of-service above-ground storage tanks according to API, STI, FTPI, or 12R1 standards and provide detailed on-site reports.
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TEAM’s tank inspection technicians are put through a rigorous, method specific, multi-level certification and training process resulting in the industry’s most knowledgeable and experienced team.
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This virus from the Pibby Universe has affected many antagonists of FNF, this time it has hit the ex BF, Tabi! This is a new mod for the musical game of Friday Night Funkin, where you will help the boyfriend beat Tabi, who has been corrupted by a virus in the Pibby universe. So, you will now play a mod where the tracks are remixed and re-charted and the graphics have been glitched. The tracks featured in this episode are My Battle Glitched, Last Chance Glitched and Genocide Glitched. Just turn the progress bar in your favor before each track ends.
- Mod creator: Krieqr
More Info: Play FNF vs Pibby Glitched Tabi unblocked at Y9 Games. Play more unblocked games today on our website.
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- By Henry Faulkner Brittany
- January 19, 2022
Are you a beginner in Forex? If you’re passionate to become a Forex trader then you must read till the end to learn the fundamentals of Forex trading.
In this article, I’ll give you a full-fledged overview of online Forex trading, with complete assistance on how to become a forex trader or how to trade on live markets. So, let’s get started with global Forex trading first.
Before engaging you with online Forex trading let me give you a brief overview of the foreign exchange market. One of the most widely traded markets in the world is the Foreign Exchange market, with a total average of over and above $5trillion per day.
When individuals, companies, or organizations conduct business to gain an advantage of rate fluctuation, it turns into extensive currency exchange.
The central bank, retail bank, cooperations, and retail traders primarily use the foreign exchange markets. They put their hands on the foreign exchange markets with the purpose of managing their nation’s currency. They can also trade extensive currency on the interbank markets, or deal with overseas companies.
Forex stands for “Foreign Exchange.” Forex refers to the global currency exchange trading or the trading in currencies from different countries against each other. For example the exchange of US dollars against the Euro.
Global Forex trading is also apprehended as Forex exchange trading or FX trading. It provides traders the platform to speculate on price fluctuation within the FX market with an eagle eye. Assessment is the major goal of FX trading if the value of one currency weakens or strengthens contrary to the other.
Forex traders have to face several trading shots each day due to daily news releases. Daily news releases provide an opportunity for the FX traders to gain advantages by becoming flexible with them. And then Forex traders take advantage of the suspicious sentiments of the market and trade based on them.
Forex trading is always conducted in an exclusively electronic format. In simple words, Forex trades in currency pairs such as GDB/USD (Sterling v US dollars).
Global Forex trading gives you an opportunity to speculate whether the price of one’s currency will rise or fall against another’s currency country and take your next step accordingly.
If you look at the GBP/USD currency, GBP is the first currency called the ‘’base currency’ and the USD which is the second currency is known as the ‘counter currency’.
The base currency and counter currency are bought and sold 24 hours a day and 5 days a week by the traders globally.
So you can speculate the rise and fall in the price of the base currency against the counter currency Forex trading tools. In online Forex trading, participants engage remotely with the FX traders via internet connectivity. So if you forecast the rise in GBP contrary to the USD currency then go long the currency pair. If you think there will be an alternative, shorten the currency pair.
Forex brokers expedite the transaction by increasing the margin when sending buy or sell orders to the traders in the market. Accordingly, the traders will unlock new spots far beyond investment, with the aim of acquiring profit by beneficial speculation.
As I told you, Forex is the most traded market in the world with an average of more than US$5-trillion a day. The forex market has deep liquidity that big banks and liquidity providers let you trade with leverage.
If you want to trade with leverage then simply set aside the required margin for your trade size. Let’s say if you’re trading 200:1 leverage means – you have to put £10 in the margin in your trading account to trade £2,000 in the market.
If you’re trading 50:1leverage, for instance, you would be required to set aside only £10 in the margin but you can trade £500 in the market.
Depending on your account type and risk preference you can trade much smaller or larger deal sizes. You can use different levels of leverage but keep in mind that higher leverage can increase your potential profit. But it can also lead to potential losses.
As you can see in the previous example if you trade £2000 in the market, it has good potential to give profit. But it can lead to possible casualties.
So, if you’re a beginner then it’s best to trade with lower leverage because it will ensure that you’ve enough capital to become a Forex live market expert.
In Forex trading, the margin is the amount of money a trader needs to deposit to the broker in order to open the trade. In simple words, a margin is the good faith deposit which the broker requires to cover any potential loss.
If you become a Forex trader and you trade on margin then you have to keep this amount in your account to keep the position open.
You only need to pay the percentage of the full value of the position to keep the trade open while trading on Forex. Margin is the vital component of Forex trading as it enables the participants to control positions far beyond capital reserves.
I do recommend keeping in mind the pros and cons of Forex before making any decision. For any enthusiastic participant, it’s important to conduct adequate due diligence and make sure if Forex trading is a suitable venture.
Forex is the largest exchange market with consistent dept and deep liquidity. Besides, it has other benefits like remote accessibility, limited capital requirements, low operational cost, forex margin, and deep liquidity are a few pros enough to attract traders of all types.
However, you should be aware of the drawbacks Forex has. If you’re new to the Forex market then the availability of enhanced leverage and several trading options can lead to potential losses. In addition to this, the pricing is volatile in nature and can be swift and dramatic. In online Forex trading, future results have no concerns with past due diligence. It is always changing but emphasized one step ahead strategy and strong risk management.
The two biggest advantages of trading Forex are Flexibility and diversity. Saving either short or large spots in minor, major or exotic currencies exchange markets require traders enormous strategic options.
The atmosphere in the Forex live market is so dynamic that proper training is really important. No matter, you’re a seasoned market doyen or beginner to cryptocurrency trading, producing consistent profits compels traders to be prepared.
Of Course, it’s easier said than done. If you want to have your best at Forex trading then it’s imperative to follow one rule that never stops training.
There are a few ways to stand ahead in this competitive environment which are to develop trading habits, attend expert webinars, and continue your market education.
If you’re passionate to become a forex trader then never stop educating your trading skills.
Thanks for Reading
Also Read: What is Blockchain Technology? How Does It work?
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The Best Black Friday Steel Gifts for Loved Ones
Our Black Friday sale is still motoring on, and there’s a lot of stock flying out of the door! However, we’ve got plenty more where that came from, so don’t be afraid to order something for a loved one this November! After all, the best gifts are usually the ones you get to give, especially when you know the recipient will love it!
Black Friday often gets a bit of a bad rap...ok, so it’s got a lot of bad attention. In between the rampaging crowds, long lines outside malls, and the sheer insanity surrounding the day, Black Friday has become circus-like in recent years. Still, there’s plenty to be said about the sales and the ability to make sure you can grab that perfect gift for a loved one before the festive season.
So, in today’s blog, we’re going to review some of our favorite steel art gifts from the store and tell you what makes them special.
2 Line Cat Address Monogram
If you have a loved one that loves cats almost as much as we do, then look no further than this address monogram! This steel artwork is perfect for those that enjoy advertising their love of felines! The piece even features an additional section below the house number that allows you to write your own message to guests as they visit your home!
This cute little monogram will help any cat lover embrace that relationship with a gorgeous silhouette of a feline friend prancing above the custom address number. This piece is made from American steel in the state of Texas and is available in a range of colors and sizes to make sure this kitty is perfect for your home!
If you have a loved one that loves the thrill of the great outdoors, then there’s a pretty good chance that they are the proud owner of a Jeep Wrangler. Although we’ll admit, they’re pretty cool.
This monogram lets a loved one show off their love for their Jeep with a stunning steel visual that will make you feel like this vehicle is practically leaping out of the frame! This American steel piece is also fully customizable, allowing you to personalize the color, size, and text to suit your needs.
Bigfoot Monogram Yard Sign
Sometimes, family and friends become increasingly hard to reconnect with. Whether it be conflicting schedules or distance from a lengthy spell abroad, there are times that our loved ones can begin to feel a bit like Bigfoot - always talked about but never actually seen.
This piece embodies that feeling and features the mercurial creature as it walks across the countryside - much like the iconic photo most closely associated with it. This piece is hard as nails and can be customized with a selection of powder coating colors and a personalized monogram across the frame.
If you have any questions about the above designs, don’t be afraid to contact us. Just give us a call at (844) 915-3232.
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I ran out of business cards on the first day of MoCCafest. I also did not sleep the night before. I think I creeped out some of the women at tables around me, because I was staring at them. I didn't snap to it until the next day after I had a good night's sleep.
I haven't worked on my next issue for about a month. Look for it in January or February.
Family troubles have put a lot of stress on me. I sent an email to a woman where I went off on her. I tried to go on about the behavior I perceived from her and at least be courteous towards her as a person. I enlisted a friend of mine to issue an apology to her on my behalf, so that I wouldn't send any more emails to her her.
I talked to Brett tonight. My vocal performances for Insect Sex Acts next album are all done, and he doesn't need any more contributions from me. We should have our last show sometime in August, I think. We're thinking about the Scoot Inn in east Austin with maybe Honky and Churchwood on the bill.
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This week is the week all my literature units visit the Art Gallery of NSW. What a wonderful storehouse it is of aesthetic wonders and inspirational ideas. A visit to the gallery provides a total wrap-around, hands-on experience of what was going on in a particular literary period. For all prospective teachers I cannot recommend more strongly the way that the visual imagination can profoundly amplify a student’s understanding of what was going on during the literary age being studied and also what wonderful aesthetic experiments were being conducted during the time.
The Blog Question for all our NSW Art Gallery goers this week is:Describe the impact on you of ONE of the paintings viewed on our tour- talk about how it has opened up your understanding of the key issues in the period we are studying!
In the Victorian Age -to take one obvious example- there was such a profound concern with “The Condition of England Question” that artists, writers and musicians were all trying to respond to this fundamental question about what was going wrong with England in the mid nineteenth century. The country on the surface seemed to be “doing well”; but then it all comes down to what this phrase “doing well” means. It might have been producing wonderful Wedgwood Pottery that was being sent all around the world (especially to the British Colonies), but the British working class being used to produce this pottery were being horribly abused. The country was in a deep crisis and artists and writers were desperate to come up with some answers. We begin to understand what Charles Dickens’ answer was. And yesterday we had a glimpse of what the Pre-Raphaelite answer was in that amazing work by Ford Madox Brown, Chaucer at the Court of Edward III:
Listen to what the curator of the gallery has to say about this work at: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/703/
I trust you all enjoyed your visits this week!
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https://michaelgriffith1.com/2016/04/05/nsw-art-gallery-visits-2016/
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For Fandango’s Story Starter #24, where we build something around the following phrase:
She overheard the couple whispering in the adjoining room and realized…
Jesus, it was hard enough, cheating on your husband, and keeping it secret.
But then add to that, her show on Channel Nine regularly received over ten million viewers, each and every one of the bastards out to erode whatever slivers of privacy she had left.
And add to that, that her partner just happened to present on the Shopping Channel.
An anonymous motel… an assumed name… but she overheard the couple whispering in the adjoining room and realized that the game was up.
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https://mrbump.uk/2021/12/14/rumbled-2/
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Have you been searching for a way to add value and pride to your living environment? Is constantly crumbing exterior rendering making you embarrassed of where you live? Thanks to our stylish and durable solutions the father and son team of plasterers at All Aspect Plaster can improve, update, and beautify your home. For over 25 years our plasterers have helped Richmond residents and other Melburnians in the city’s suburbs get the most out of their homes.
Incorporating both modern and classical styles and designs into our works, All Aspect Plaster can breathe new life into homes with our restorative plastering and rendering. From small repair works through to large-scale installations our methodical and personalised approach ensures that we deliver superior workmanship at all homes we work on.
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From artistic styles and additions such as roses, plastering services, lath and plaster improvements, ornamental and Victorian cornices, straps, plasterboard services, and archways, through to external installations including textured rendering works if it relates to the walls or the ceiling we are the team for you! Passionate about our work, our plasterers improve Richmond homes with our timeless and rich plaster and rendering services.
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Not to be outdone by the NYT's recent skewering of the current occupant of the White House, another very liberal outlet, The Atlantic, offers a frank view of the vice-occupant. They don't sound overly impressed, which places them well with the rest of America. If you're a Dem, do you want Zhou to hang on or to be replaced? Quite the dilemma, as you watch things go to sh*t.
The vice president and her team tend to dismiss reporters. Trying to get her to take a few questions after events is treated as an act of impish aggression. And Harris herself tracks political players and reporters whom she thinks don’t fully understand her or appreciate her life experience. (She often mentions an episode in which a Washington Post reporter mistook the cheer of the historic Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha for “screeches,” I was told.) She particularly doesn’t like the word cautious, and aides look out for synonyms too. Careful, guarded, and hesitant don’t go over well. But she continues to retreat behind talking points and platitudes in public, and declines many interview requests and opportunities to speak for herself (including for this article). At times, she comes off as so uninteresting that television producers have started to wonder whether spending thousands of dollars to send people on trips with her is worthwhile, given how little usable material they get out of it. ...
Harris has been an elected official for 18 years straight, but she has only a few senior aides on staff who have worked for her for more than a few months. Turf battles have been a recurring feature of Harris offices over the years, but her newest circle believes it is finally getting her on track after years of past staffers not serving her well. Some have been surprised at how much work there is to be done, whether that’s briefing her on certain policy issues or helping her improve her sparring-with-journalists skills.
UPDATE: The latest YouGov poll quantifies the poor impression that Kama Sutra makes, everywhere she goes. She's underwater: +41 versus -48. Extremely unimpressive, even for a vice-occupant. It seems that the problem isn't that people don't know that much about her. It's that the things they do know lead them to dislike her with an unusual degree of intensity, considering her lack of profile.
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Jeff Falk began making art in 1973 with his first oil paintings. Before long, he discovered he was better able to deliver his vision using mixed media. In the early 1990s, Falk began working with collage, which he feels is an extension of painting. Falk, a native of Nebraska who was brought to Arizona as a child in 1959, has been an active participant on the Phoenix art scene since 1984. His work is in the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art; the City of Chandler, Arizona; Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and Mesa Contemporary Arts.
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Hyperpigmentation is a big word for a relatively harmless skin condition. People afflicted by this condition usually experience dark patches of skin on certain areas. These areas can be a stark contrast to the surrounding skin. If you think you might have hyperpigmentation in Peachtree City, learn more about the causes and treatments.
The Root Cause
At the heart of it, hyperpigmentation is caused by too much melanin. This is a pigment in the skin that causes it to have a brown appearance. Hyperpigmentation can also surface as liver spots. These are smaller blotches of dark skin that are brought on by extensive exposure to the sun. Finally, melasma is a form of dark spots that usually occurs due to hormonal changes. Yet, underlying it all is an overabundance of melanin.
Other Related Issues
Not all dark spots are due to hyperpigmentation in Peachtree City. Some skin problems may actually be the result of other diseases. For example, skin can be scarred from a previous bout with acne. It can also become damaged due to different types of surgery. Additionally, may accompany underlying diseases, such as lupus.
Treatments for Hyperpigmentation
Fortunately, there are some effective solutions to hyperpigmentation. One of the best things you can do is to avoid the sun as much as possible. You should also resist the urge to pick or scratch the affected areas. If it becomes unbearable, you can use special topical creams for some relief. In more severe cases, you can opt for a cosmetic procedure, such as laser therapy.
There are many different ways to combat hyperpigmentation in Peachtree City. Also consider getting a chemical peel or an intense pulsed light treatment. Just know that there are ways to deal with the condition if necessary.
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Between transcendence and hyper-rationality, Franco Morbidelli is enjoying the moment. Which is infinite and beautiful, a success as long as a dream.
“What I felt today was a different kind of concentration: Brazilian concentration, I call it. And when it is like that, it is above normal. One of my idols is Senna, you know. I have never believed in a higher level of concentration, different from the normal one you can have during a race. But today I began to believe in it more. The human being can do fantastic things if he is in an optimal mental condition like we were today, like I was today. And this condition of mine is due to the fact that we worked splendidly, my team put me in this condition: to think about riding the bike in the best possible way”.
He went into a tunnel, a trip, "and when I finished the race it felt like two laps, not twenty-three. That's why it felt like a trip. I don't believe in that kind of thing. I'm a hyper-rational person. But today I felt something different. I'm not even a believer, but today on the bike I felt something different. "
He calls it a "trip", because there is something mystical in this great roundabout of Aragon, a track that was difficult and instead became an epiphany for Morbidelli…
Morbidelli: "Thinking of winning for a satellite team is irrational, but not impossible"
"Thinking of winning is irrational. There are two reasons: we are a customer team and I have a package from last year. But irrational does not mean impossible. We have to believe 100% in what we are doing and we will see where we will be at the end of this championship. Nothing is impossible in life, nothing. There are improbable, inconceivable things. But they happen. And they happen because whoever makes them believes in them one hundred percent. Especially in sport. We will keep pushing, and then we'll see at the end of the year ".
It is a journey that can become a method. Maybe yes, maybe not: today Franco doesn't care. Look to tomorrow, but enjoy the now. "It will be difficult to replicate everything, but these things will certainly be a reference for the next Grands Prix. I don't know if it will become a method. But they will be a reference."
Franco’s greatness is blooming, it is his second success in this world championship of absurdities, surprises, incredible things. And he too is back in the fight for the championship: fifth place, the horizon is beautiful…
“I knew today was all or nothing, I also knew that my team had done a great job this weekend. They set up the bike perfectly and I knew, I was confident one hundred percent in what they had tried. I wanted to give everything in every lap, I had to give everything in every lap. I felt great throughout the entire race. Thanks to everyone and if I won today it is thanks to all of them. By doing this job in such a short time we were able to achieve a great result ”.
Morbidelli: "In the next three races we will have to attack, but without making a mistake"
Franco glitters with joy, even if he is so calm that he seems imperturbable…
“Apparently we're back in the game today. We have 25 points to make up and we are ready to face these three remaining races. We can’t even make one mistake. We have to work very hard and very well, and see where we will be in the end ”.
Franco was eleven seconds faster than last weekend. There were various reasons for this and Morbidelli found them
“Everything went very well this week, this was the key . We did some laps with used tyres, we set up the bike for new tyres and we also tried to prepare the bike for the tyre wear, and that paid off: eleven seconds faster. A different tyre choice which was better for me ”.
Being fourth in the standings "is a great thing" said Morbidelli. Something even more: "It is a great thing in itself. I am here where I dreamed of being as a child, and also last year and even two years ago. It's a great situation for me, but when you're in the game you always want more. "
When the going gets tough, what does Morbido do?
“I will push more and more. When they asked me to make any predictions, I didn't answer, I avoided answering ”.
There are no comparisons with Quartararo.
"It is difficult to compare my way of riding to that of Fabio, he has a different bike. It is difficult to compare his Yamaha with mine. You are analysing two different bikes, and it is difficult to compare the data and even the riding style. But we know that he is an aggressive driver. He is slightly more aggressive, I'm different ”.
Morbidelli: "The factory Yamaha is better but I have to focus on what I have"
Now is Yamaha the favourite?
"It's funny, yesterday I was out of contention, today I'm the favourite. We just need to all focus on doing our job best. There are three contenders within Yamaha. All three of us are at the top, competing for the title, I have to concentrate on myself, to do my best, and Yamaha to push for all three ”.
To everyone who says that it is better to have an unofficial bike also in 2021…
"We all know that it is better to have the factory bike, the current year's bike is the best possible: it allows you to have a greater development from the technicians. But as I have been doing since the beginning of the championship, you have to focus on your own package and squeeze your own package, if not more".
There are already those who are wondering what advice has come from Valentino Rossi. As always, Franco shows a lot of wisdom…
"Morbidelli:" When you grow up with a legend like Rossi you ask yourself: what would he do now? "
"It's hard to find a single piece of advice because when you grow up with a great rider, with a legend, with such an experienced rider, when you live with him and you steal the things he tells you, you take what he says, what he does, how he faces the situations, when you spend so much time together sometimes you cover up, you mask your personality. I have taken so many things over time that I approach things in my life and the sport as he would. I often say: what would Vale do in this situation? Because he always knows what to do at the right time. But it's hard to find a piece of advice or two. Valentino for me is an inspiration, every day. I look at him, I observe him. I observe how he reacts to different situations. And I adapt, I learn ”.
A thought, which is a concern, also comes for the situation with Covid. It’s a delicate moment...
"I am very sorry that we are experiencing this situation, the whole world is experiencing it. It is very bad. As always, we must be super diligent and super respectful of the rules, not to allow this virus to ruin the championship after it has ruined our lives. We hope to beat it as quickly as possible. I will try to respect the rules, to stay at home as long as possible. I will have to train a bit, in the gym, for the next races. It is a very difficult, very bad situation in the world. We must respect the rules, and I will be the first to do so. Compatibly with my duties. I will do my utmost to attack this bastard virus"
A soft smile, but with elegance in words, Franco celebrated his feat…
Morbidelli: "It was the best race of my life, we're putting our heart into it"
"It was a race, the best race of my life. I knew I had to be aggressive. I started strong, at first there was an obstacle with Taka. But then he crashed and I had the green light in front of me. From that moment on, I gave everything until the end. During practice we did a great job. I pushed hard from start to finish. In the end I was a bit in trouble, but so were the others it seemed. I pushed a lot up to four laps from the end. The team members worked terribly hard. We worked until 10 in the evening to understand how to improve. We are putting our heart into it, we are doing well ".
It was his masterpiece: from the first lap to the end, always there to attack the glory. When he arrived at the finish he yelled with joy, blew kisses to his team. Everything was beautiful for Franco. He caressed the bike, polished it…
“It all worked out very well. The last race was our weak point, we worked a lot to improve the handling in the middle of the corner. And it showed today ”.
The hugs with Andrea Migno was wonderful, joy shared between the two friends. The Sky Racing Team VR46 rider grabbed the throttle and gave it a damn good revving...
"Mig - smiled Morbidelli - I don’t have many engines: you can't rev it like that. I tell you on TV, at least you’ll listen to me ”.
In short, it was the perfect day. Morbidelli also set his first fastest lap in the top class…
"Last year I saw a video of Celestino Vietti, and his crew chief said that Celestino was entering a magical area. I didn't believe it, at one point I even made fun of him. But today I understood what it meant. Today it all came naturally, but the level of concentration was really high. The race slid away like a glass of water. I didn’t even notice".
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So Much Gratitude
I've been busy painting and have built up a nice body of work in preparation for two fairs. The first is in Alameda on Sunday, June 21 and the second is in Fremont on Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28. I'm hoping these fairs will be more successful than the first one I did last year. That one was really just to get my feet wet. For June, I've decided to completely jump in. I bought some table cloths and display easels. I also purchased a canopy and two wire grid panels to hang my big paintings.
All of this was expensive, but thanks to my sister and brother-in-law, who purchased three of my paintings, I was able to not only invest in these supplies, I was also able to buy more canvases and paints!
I am so grateful and consider myself extremely lucky to have family and friends who support my painting habit.
It makes me feel proud when people purchase my art. I love that they feel a connection with the piece and want to include it in their home. It's not just about the money. I think when people purchase art, it's more personal and they value it more. I've given pieces as gifts, but I often am disappointed when I go over to their homes and don't see it displayed or find it sitting in the garage! I try not to take it personally, after all, how many gifts have we received from people that weren't quite our taste. Over the years, I've learned that it works out better when people buy my paintings, even if it's just for the cost of the supplies. For some reason, when they purchase it, it rarely ends up in a closet, "waiting to be framed."
I still feel weird about charging for my work. I try not to and plenty of artist friends have lectured me about valuing my time and work. Even though logically I know it doesn't make sense to give it away for free, I still can't quite believe that my work is "good" enough. There's also the worry that I'm expending too much energy focusing on making money instead of making art. However, watching money go out the window for a very expensive "hobby" doesn't feel good either.
Who knows where this is all taking me. In the meantime I am having a good time. I love that some of my works are now hanging in the home of a loved one and as I said before, so grateful for my sister and her husband's support. My most recent landscapes have brought a lot of joy and I hope they too will find loving homes. However, my husband has said that he would be completely happy if I never sold a piece so, he could hang them all in our home. :)
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Public Bus services in Lewis and Harris are being suspended over the weekend as a result of a significant reduction over the past week in the available bus driver pool and the required limits on driving time in both Bus na Comhairle and the private service providers.
Services are expected to resume full normal timetables from Monday 15th March.
Those requiring to travel are reminded about precautions around car sharing [Further Information ]
Stornoway Bus Station remains closed for public access.
Further updates will be provided as appropriate and members of the public are asked to check the Comhairle website and social media channels.
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As Washington’s influence in the world and the Middle East wanes, Gulf countries are weaning themselves from their traditional orientation toward and dependence on the United States. America’s post-war political and economic supremacy in the region is now threatened as a result of its own foreign policy, but equally so by the rise in importance of the emerging powers. No country has capitalized on the shifting landscape more than China, which has, consistent with its actions globally, moved assertively to strengthen its ties with the Gulf region generally and in particular with its most important economic and political power, Saudi Arabia.
From the Chinese perspective, energy security lays at the heart of the bilateral relationship with Saudi Arabia, as has been the case with many of China’s most important strategic relationships over the past decade. China has adopted a multi-tiered foreign policy designed to acquire and secure long-term energy supplies by diversifying its sources of oil and gas, engaging in ‘energy diplomacy,’ and establishing energy reserves. With the world’s largest oil reserves, Saudi Arabia was bound to play an important role in Chinese energy policy.
The Kingdom demonstrated its intention to adopt an independent approach to global affairs more than 20 years ago by holding talks between the former Soviet Union and Afghan rebels in 1988. China and Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding and opened commercial offices in each other’s countries that year as well, which led to the formal establishment of diplomatic bilateral ties. Their relationship has steadily grown since then. Just as China has been vociferous in its pursuit of a deeper relationship with the region, Saudi Arabia has been the most assiduous in the region in cultivating a stronger relationship with China. For this reason, Saudi Arabia has, since 9/11, been perceived with some suspicion by America – even during the Bush years. King Abdullah’s first foreign visit upon assuming the throne was to China. And President Hu has paid two visits to Saudi Arabia in the span of three years.
Saudi Arabia cast its eye on Asia with greater fervor over the past decade, recognizing that Japan’s thirst for oil, combined with China’s and India’s economic growth and increasing influence in the global economy, meant that Asia will eventually replace North America and Europe as the largest consumer of Saudi oil. In 2009, Saudi oil exports to the U.S. fell to 989,000 barrels per day – the lowest level in 22 years, and down by a third from 2008. By contrast, Saudi oil exports to China doubled between 2008 and 2009 to more than a million barrels per day. The Kingdom now supplies a quarter of all of China’s oil imports. The economic importance of each country to the other cannot therefore be exaggerated.
A substantial boost in Chinese exports to Saudi Arabia occurred after 2000, when Chinese products became more price-competitive. As a result of rising oil prices in the early part of the last decade, Saudi Arabia’s appetite for Chinese products rose dramatically. Between 2002 and 2004, Saudi imports from China jumped by 160 percent – a growth rate not matched by any other country during this period in value terms. In 2006 Chinese President Hu declared a desire to boost bilateral trade between the two countries to SR150 billion by 2010. By 2008 Saudi exports reached SR116 billion and imports from China reached SR40 billion, when the volume of oil exported by the Kingdom to China reached 720,000 barrels per day.
China’s oil demand is expected to grow by nearly one million barrels per day over the next two years, with its overall oil consumption having nearly doubled between 2000 and 2009 (to 8.5 million barrels per day). China will account for one third of global oil consumption in 2010. So while China’s oil consumption is still only half that of the U.S. (at 18.5 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia knows that it is only a matter of time until China will become the top consumer. The Kingdom is reorienting its foreign and energy policy to become consistent with that eventuality.
The Kingdom is already China’s largest trading partner in the greater Middle East, and China is Saudi Arabia’s fourth-largest importer and fifth largest exporter in general. Chinese industrial products are increasingly replacing western goods in Saudi markets, which is impacting Saudi attitudes regarding the relative importance of China – and therefore the West – in long-term strategic relations. If China signs a free trade agreement with the GCC, China’s perceived importance to the entire region will grow.
The truth is that many in the GCC have grown tired of U.S. pressure on fighting terrorism and perceived U.S. interference in domestic affairs. Many Gulf states find their burgeoning relationship with China refreshing, in that China — which itself objects to perceived U.S. interference in its domestic affairs — tends not to do the same with its trading partners. But China’s cordial relationship with Gulf States is not without sensitivities. In particular, China’s repression of Muslims in Xinjiang Province has complicated its political dialogue with states in the region. Religious activists in the Gulf are bound to draw parallels between Xinjiang, Gaza, and Kashmir. Ultimately, the strength of the region’s economic relations with China will dominate its political relations with China, and any disagreements over state political policy will take a back seat to ensuring that regional and bilateral relations remain cordial and on the right track.
Presuming that the acquisition of oil remains central to China’s economic and foreign policy, it will not be long before China will want to take its relationship with Saudi Arabia to another level. It will want to transform its relationship from that of a somewhat bashful suitor toward a more formal engagement. To do so, it must choose between working within the confines of the post-War diplomatic landscape crafted by the United States, or challenging that order in bold fashion. Doing so would break the century-long dominance America and its allies have had on Gulf diplomatic relations and enable China to truly begin to mold its bilateral and regional relations in its own image. This choice may come sooner than China, or the West, may imagine, for China’s political power has in many respects already outstripped its economic power – something pundits tend not to focus on. For example, China has unleashed a fiscal and diplomatic tidal wave in an effort to secure economic resources in Africa for the better part of a decade.
But would this be something China actually seeks? Breaking the status quo ante and undoing a century of history and influence would entail enormous effort in terms of persuasion, fiscal largesse, influence peddling, and relationship building. Africa was a relatively easy nut to crack – most African nations need the money and infrastructure China has provided, and are drawn to China simply by the fact that it has pursued a relationship with them. But the Gulf does not need China’s money, or its infrastructure, and is not generally so easily accommodating to such overtures.
So what would China need to do to accomplish a similar feat in the Gulf? It would need to replace the security umbrella the U.S. has so carefully crafted over the past 60 years. This is clearly not something that will be easily achieved – if it can be achieved at all. China is not a global naval power-although Beijing is building its capabilities in that regard – through the protection of international shipping against Somali pirates right off the shore of Saudi Arabia from the Red Sea. But it has projected its military power in the Gulf since the 1980s through missile proliferation and arms sales. Saudi Arabia purchased intermediate range CSS-2 missiles from China in 1988, raising suspicion at the time about the Kingdom’s nuclear ambitions. China met an important strategic need for the Kingdom that America would not agree to meet. The U.S. has continued to measure its military support for the Kingdom with its strategic imperatives for Israel – something China has not and will not do.
Chinese behavior in the Gulf is primarily driven by two potentially contradictory factors. One is China’s newly-found status as a ‘stakeholder state’ favoring regime stability. But this is somewhat inconsistent with China’s tendency to elbow its way into relationships it deems important, and its history of dictating the terms on which it will address topics of critical perceived importance. China is also still finding its footing on the global stage, and at times clumsily manages bilateral relations. The other is the Chinese quest for energy in light of its economic explosion, the opportunistic pursuit of which may lead China to have a destabilizing influence in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia has hinted that it may increase oil shipments to China in times of military crisis, which could prompt China to overstep its reach in the Gulf, and elsewhere.
For now, Saudi Arabia will keep a foot in both the American and Chinese camps, judging that its own long-term interests are well served by maintaining the comparative advantages offered by both nations. That said, the pendulum is clearly shifting toward the Chinese camp. In time, as the Kingdom’s economic ties grow firmer with China, their military relationship will expand. As China’s military power comes to match its political and economic power globally, it will become Saudi Arabia’s strongest military ally. However, a potential roadblock stands in the way-the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). If the SCO brings Iran, from observer to member status, then the calculus may change as Beijing, and Moscow, arrive at the Gulf through a Persian doorway.
Overall, China’s strong trading relations with Saudi Arabia, and its bitterest rival – Iran — predate the Iraq war, but the new geo-strategic landscape created by Iraq, Iran, and AFPAK, has changed the dynamics of the relationships. With Saudi Arabia unhappy about the effects of U.S. policy in Iraq and quietly seeking ways to loosen the U.S. stranglehold over it — and with Iran keen to shore up support against potential U.S. aggression as it presses its case for nuclear capabilities as it prepares to fill the vacuum anticipated in Iraq after a U.S. withdrawal — both countries have an interest in cultivating the Chinese connection. At the same time, China has been actively pursuing its energy interests within Iraq, and specifically in the Kurdish region with policies apparently boosting Kurdish separatism. China is quickly becoming the regional power that Riyadh recognized more than two decades ago.
Daniel Wagner is a Non Resident Scholar at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA). Theodore Karasik is R&D Director at INEGMA
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Amazon Underground was actually the experiment of the company offering smartphone apps and games, that are known as Actually Free. Amazon Underground app store launched a few years ago offering developers to give access to their apps to Amazon Underground, and the platform will pay you a penny when someone uses their apps for every five minutes. The underground version of those apps wasn’t only free, but also offers no in-app purchases, which means the users get hooked up enough hours to use these apps and get developers paid by Amazon.
However, the Amazon Underground caught up in some share issues, and another problem was that it was only compatible with Android devices, and users were required to must download and install apps from either the most latest Amazon app or from the Amazon Underground store. Amazon Underground apps weren’t updated as regular as they are on the Google Play Store, as well as there wasn’t much content that makes users come back to the shop over and over again. The top download options of the Underground store remains the same as when the service was initially introduced, with the apps Where’s my Water, Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride, Sonic CD, etc. continues to tops its download options.
However, while the Amazon Underground lasted, it offered paid games and apps that had no in-app purchases.
Best Amazon Underground Apps
Below are some best Amazon Underground Apps.
Sonic CD is arguably the best game ever made and also among the best apps available at the Amazon Underground Store. The game features incredible time-travel and lets users explore numerous levels and paths, and some of them obscured in different time periods. Players are required to destroy objects in the past to make sure of a bright future.
The app features four different layouts and themes for each of its levels with past, present, and bad, and good future variations, which is an incredible achievement for a game, which is as old as 1993. After two decades, adding some tweaks and refinements to go along with the widescreen aspect ratio, North American and Japanese soundtracks, and mobile controller support features wholly transformed the game.
Platforms: Android 4.2 or the latest
- Support the widescreen aspect ratio.
- North American and Japanese soundtracks.
- Different themes and layouts for each level.
- Equally entertain both kids and adults.
- Best for nostalgia.
Goat Simulator – Waste of Space
Another best Amazon Underground app is Goat Simulator – Waster of Space. Playing Goat Z, you have already been in the zombie apocalypse and found friends with NPCs in the Goat MMO Simulator computed world. So is there anything left on the earth? The answer is nothing. Now its time to leave the earth behind and travel to space. In Goat Simulator – Waste of Space, players are allowed to be a space goat and create space colonies by looting other people’s money.
Everything players will do, earn them money that will go to fund the crazy operation, unlock spaceship battles, and opening up the game. The game will make you a real bridge commander, and you will be able to destroy asteroids and space pirates. You can build your own space museum or fly your spaceship.
Platforms: Android 4.0.3 and the latest
- Crowdfund a space colony and make other people pay for it.
- Fly your spaceship and shoot down space pirates.
- Space full of other planets to explore.
- It will teach you how to be a good bridge commander.
- Features the biggest map of the goat simulator history.
Star Wars – Knight of the Old Republic
Star Wars – Knight of the Old Republic is another best Amazon Underground app that you can have that too free of cost. This role-playing game is developed by BioWare and took place when there was no sign of Star Wars movies. The game’s morality system based on numerous other games to implement similar systems, including having a significant effect when the game ends. Moreover, the game made Dungeons and Dragons accessible for players by folding them in a Star Wars wrapper and with 3D visuals. The game is still one of the best RPG games played today by gamers and able to deliver countless hours of non-stop entertainment. Since it is a paid game on other platforms, getting it without spending a simple penny is a golden deal.
Platforms: Android 4.1 or the latest
- Unique characters, vehicles, creatures, and planets.
- Learn how to use force over forty different powers.
- Construct your own lightsaber.
- Take off for an adventure through iconic Star Wars locations, including Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk and Tatooine.
- Customizable characters, including Wookiees, Twi’leks, and Droids.
- A smooth user interface.
Farming Simulator 2014
Yet another best Amazon Underground app is Farming Simulator 2014. The game allows players to start their own farming career on their mobile and take control of their farm and its fields to satisfy their harvesting dreams. The refined look and feel of Farming Simulator 2014 give players twice the numbers of machines to control, and all of them are build authentically on the models of real agricultural machinery, such as Lamborghini, Case IH, Kuhn, Deutz Fahr, Krone, and Amazone.
Platforms: Android 2.3.3 or the latest
- Featuring a slick user interface with highly comprehensive 3D graphics for enhanced gameplay experience.
- Plant multiple crops, such as wheat, canola, and sell it in the market.
- Biogas Plant to sell grass or chaff to earn money.
- Sell your cows milk to the highest bidders.
Amazon Underground offers another best app for free, which is known as Jetpack Joyride. The game is a flash helicopter game, where players use a bullet-firing jetpack and dodge lasers. However, the game is very old but still has the ability to offer unlimited entertainment to its players. The game’s Amazon Underground version features tons of coins free of cost and enables players to enjoy the game with the customizations and boosts of their choice without spending any money. Though the game also has a free version available on other platforms, it is filled with in-app purchases opportunities.
Platforms: Android 4.1 or the latest
- Fly the amazing jetpacks in gaming history.
- Boost your rank by completing daring missions.
- Dodge guided missiles, lasers, and zapper while using bullet-firing.
- Ridiculous outfits to customize your looks.
- Make millions of dollars by collecting coins.
- Crazy vehicles and giant mechs to storm in.
- Equipped yourself with high-tech gadgets and power-ups.
- Straightforward one-touch controls to test your reflexes.
Another one of the best Amazon Underground apps is Badland. The app falls in a category that says test before you buy. The game is a one-touch flapping platform, which gives you numerous challenges to tackle, featuring a fancy shadowy visual theme. The game is perfect for mobiles and made gorgeously. You can play 100-plus levels in single-player mode, as well as cooperate mode of up to four players.
Platforms: Android 4.0.3 or the latest
- Single-player mode offering 100-plus different levels.
- Multiplayer mode of up to four players with 23 levels.
- Cooperate mode of up to four players.
- One-touch controls with innovative level design.
- Support game controllers.
- Incredibly immersive audio-visual gameplay experience.
- Support Android smartphones, tablets, etc.
- Immersive mode and cloud storage.
Amazon Underground offers another best puzzle game Monument Valley. The game is among the most popular paid games on other platforms, and we don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t have it for free. Players play as Ida, which is the main character in the game making way through an array of puzzles of optical illusions. Many other games of its kind tried to copy its gameplay, but only a few of them came close to this game. In this game, you are required to guide a princess through an incredibly beautiful world.
Platforms: Android 2.3.3
- Play on tablets or smartphones.
- A range of puzzles of optical illusions.
- Beautiful and monument valley.
- Incredibly beautiful design.
Amazon Underground was a platform that was launched by Amazon as an experiment offering free games and apps known as Actually Free to users that are available on other platforms with in-app purchases. If you are searching for the best Amazon Underground apps, above are some of the most popular and best games that you should have. Amazon shuts its Amazon Underground app store in 2019. If you have queries about the best Amazon Underground apps, write us a comment below.
Q: Is Amazon Shutting down its Amazon Underground App Store?
Ans: Yes, Amazon shut it down in 2019.
Q: Are Amazon’s Actually Free apps are legal?
Ans: Yes, it is legal and offers entirely free apps and games that are available on other platforms as a paid version.
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Cony’s National Honor Society Thanks Augusta School District
One thing there hasn't been a shortage of since this whole pandemic started is 'thank you's'.
We have been hearing and seeing thank yous all over Maine since day one of the pandemic. I mean, let's be honest, Maine was a pretty polite state long before coronavirus came about, but I think that these trying times have made us all go above and beyond with our common courtesies.
Here's a touching video made by Cony's chapter of the National Honor Society thanking the Augusta School District for their hard work and dedication during these trying times.
Have a "thank you" you'd like to share? Submit it now through the 92 Moose app!
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https://92moose.fm/conys-national-honor-society-thanks-augusta-school-district/
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Counterspin Ep. 46 – Vaxx Injured & Coercion of Children in New Zealand
In this episode, Kelvyn is finally joined by co-producer Hannah, in front of the camera to co-host Counterspin.
We are joined by Dan Allan and Rozanne De Wilde, both from Tauranga, and injured by the jab. Not only do they want to tell their stories to warn others, but they want to reassure the jab injured, that they are not alone.
As we make the case for keeping children away from the Covid jab, we are joined by a mother who describes the tragic moment she learned her daughter had been convinced by her dance teacher to get jabbed.
Finally, a young school girl shares her story of school coercion and teacher bullying, as they well and truly over step the mark of teacher/student relationship.
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The Lily Pad is an interesting piece in that its lines and colors seem to flow differently than in most other Mystique and Ocean paintings. Suitable for displaying in any orientation, it changes its appearance dramatically depending of the rotation. As we show it, the main flow is from the upper left to lower right, with the dark upper silhouette becoming a fantastic beast and the lower part, perhaps a shore being washed away. Somehow the usually more pleasing for a right-handed, right eye dominant person lower-left-to-upper-right direction of flow seems wrong for this masterpiece. But perhaps it doesn’t to you? We’d love to find out, send us a message if you think otherwise.
With its copper, green, yellow and black colors, the Lily Pad is warm and peaceful but the dark shapes in the painting put the viewer in a more alert state than other pieces such as the Trilobites or the Iridescent Bubbles. Suited well for any color interior with the exception of, perhaps, deep blue, the Lily Pad will look its best on metal of acrylic that will emphasize its deep dark tones and light up the god ones.
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One member of the so-called “Rolex Gang” was shot and injured and three others arrested after a dramatic shootout with police on Wednesday afternoon.
The shootout, which happened at the Allandale Road offramp in Midrand, was captured on camera.
Captain Kay Makhubele told News24 that the gang had earlier stolen a Rolex watch in Kramerville, Sandton.
Police spotted a vehicle that matched the descriptions of the gang’s, after they robbed a woman in Rivonia at about 15:00.
“Police tried to stop the vehicle, but the suspects sped off and started shooting at the police,” Makhubele said.
“Police returned fire, while calling for backup.”
Members of the Johannesburg Metro Police Department and Flying Squad cornered the suspects at the Allandale Road offramp, where one suspect was shot and three others arrested, Makhubele said. The injured suspect was taken to hospital.
An unlicensed firearm was also recovered. The suspects were driving a silver Volkswagen Polo, which was impounded for further investigation.
Makhubele said police would determine whether the vehicle had been used in other crimes.
The suspects are expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
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Marking DOT-Regulated Trucks and Trailers – Trucks that exceed 10,000 pounds and that are over 80 inches wide must mark their trailers with 2″ wide DOT C2 reflective tape that alternates white and red.. A 6/6 (6″ red and 6″ white) or a 7/11 (7″ white and 11″ red) pattern can be used. 50% of each side must be covered. (even distribution) In the rear, two horizontal red and white strips must be used in the lower rear and an inverted L using solid white must mark the top corners of the trailer. This outlines the back of the rig.
(This is a synopisis of the Federal regulation regarding DOT regulated truck marking. For a word for word copy of the law you can refer to the actual FMCSA document) In summary, to help reduce the incidence of motorists crashing into the rear or sides of tractor-trailers at nighttime and under other conditions of reduced visibility, the FMCSA has set up regulations requiring the use of conspicuity (reflective tape) materials on trailers and the rear of truck tractors. Accidents are reduced by over 40% when these markings are present.
In 1992, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA published a final ruling requiring that trailers manufactured on or after December 1, 1993, which have an overall width of 80 inches or more and a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of more than 10,000 pounds, (except for pole trailers and trailers designed only for living or office use) be marked on the sides and rear with a means for making them more visible on the road. The NHTSA ruling allows trailer manufacturers to install either red and white retro reflective tape or sheeting or reflex reflectors. This tape is commonly referred to as “DOT C2 reflective tape” which is marked for easy identification.
Locations for Conspicuity Treatment
The following paragraphs describe where the conspicuity treatments need to be located on trailers. An image is provided at the bottom of this page.
2″ wide red and white (silver) DOT C2 retro reflective sheeting must be applied to both sides of the trailer or semitrailer. Each strip of retroreflective sheeting has to be positioned as horizontally as practical, beginning and ending as close to the front and rear as practical. Conspicuity treatment is not required to be continuous, however, the sum of the length of all of the segments must be at least half of the length of the trailer and the spaces between the segments of the strip must be distributed as evenly as possible. The centerline for each strip of retroreflective sheeting (or reflex reflector) must be between 15 inches and 60 inches above the road surface when measured with the trailer empty or unladen, or as close as practical to this area. If necessary to clear rivet heads or other similar obstructions, 50 mm (2 inches) wide retroreflective sheeting may be separated into two 25 mm (1 inch) wide strips of the same length and color, separated by a space of not more than 25 mm (1 inch).
Lower rear area of the Trailer
The rear of each trailer and semitrailer must be equipped with retro reflective sheeting (or reflex reflectors). Each strip of retro-reflective sheeting (or reflex reflector) must be positioned as horizontally as possible, extending across the full width of the trailer, beginning and ending as close to the extreme edges as possible. The centerline for each of the strips of retro-reflective sheeting (or each reflex reflector) must be between 375 mm (15 inches) and 1,525 mm (60 inches) above the road surface when measured with the trailer empty or unladen, or as close as practical to this area.
Upper rear area of the Trailer
Two sets of white strips of retro reflective sheeting (or reflex reflectors), each pair consisting of strips 12 inches long, must be positioned as an inverted L on the right and left upper corners of the rear of the body of each trailer and semitrailer, as close as possible to the top of the trailer and as far apart as practicable. If the perimeter of the body, as viewed from the rear, is not square or rectangular, the conspicuity treatments may be applied along the perimeter, as close as practicable to the uppermost and outermost areas of the rear of the body on the left and right sides.
Rear of Truck
On August 8, 1996, the NHTSA published a final rule requiring that semi trucks manufactured on or after July 1, 1997, be equipped with red-and-white retroreflective material similar to that required on the rear of the trailers they tow to increase nighttime conspicuity. Manufacturers may choose either retroreflective sheeting or reflex reflectors. In the case of truck tractors delivered with a temporary mudflap arrangement rather than permanent equipment, the requirement for retroreflective material near the top of the mudflap may be satisfied with material carried by the temporary mudflap brackets that are transferable to the permanent mudflap system. Retroreflective material is also required near the top of the cab in a pattern similar to that used on trailers.
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For faculty, student and staff who are interested in creating and managing video content, Panopto is a video creation and storage platform that integrates into Canvas. With Panopto, enables users to organize existing videos, record materials, perform inside-video searches, take quizzes, administer quizzes, and more.
- Faculty, TAs, staff, and students can create and share Panopto video content.
- Panopto has teamed up with Penn to host on-campus lecture capture videos.
- The Panopto-Canvas integration is accessible through the rich text editor in Canvas.
- Recordings initiated using the PennZoom integration in Canvas will be automatically stored in Canvas.
- For questions about using the platform’s Canvas integration in your course, please contact your school’s Canvas support.
Uses for Panopto
Panopto can be used in a variety of ways, including:
- Automatic classroom recording (On-Campus): Some classrooms at Penn are outfitted with special capabilities that allow you to have your class sessions automatically recorded. For details, visit Classroom Technology Service’s (CTS) Central Pool Classroom site.
- Creating “screencast” videos using your own computer: With the Panopto Recorder software, you can record your voice, webcam, and on-screen activity. For example, you can record yourself giving a powerpoint presentation, or demonstrating how to use specialized software. Just about anything you do on your computer can be turned into a recorded presentation and published on your Canvas site.
- Upload other videos: If you have film clips, audio recordings, or other media files, you can upload them to Panopto and share them with your classes through Canvas.
- Student projects: You can create assignments in Canvas where students record and post their own videos.
Benefits of the Platform
- Allows faculty and students to create, manage, and share asynchronous content for class discussion and other assignments.
- Supports use on mobile devices (tablets and phones).
- Video files are uploaded directly to Canvas and can be used in addition to or in lieu of other assignment submission types.
Setting Up Panopto in Canvas
Using Panopto in Canvas is easy, but the process will be different depending on how you want to use your materials over time. For instructions on how to enable Panopto in a course, please refer to Add Zoom and Panopto to a Course.
The below links will provide detailed information for setting up, accessing, and organizing video content at your school:
- Nursing: Get Started with Panopto
- SAS: The Panopto Video Management System
- Wharton: Asynchronous Teaching Using Panopto
- Engineering: What is Panopto?
For further questions about Panopto, or if your school’s Panopto information is not listed above, please contact your school’s support staff. For a list of local support providers, navigate to the School-Based Support Staff page.
Editing Videos in Panopto
Whether you’ve recorded the videos with the Panopto Recorder app or using another recording source such as Zoom, you can edit the content once it is uploaded to Panopto.
Once you’ve either recorded your content directly or uploaded it to Panopto, you can trim out the unwanted content (called “heads” or “tails”) at either end of it.
- From within your Canvas course, click the Class Recordings tab in the navigation menu.
- Locate and hover over the video you want to edit.
- Click on the Edit button that displays to the right.
- The Panopto editor will launch in a separate tab and the timeline of your video will appear at the bottom of the screen. This is where you will perform your edits. Check the Preview cuts during playback box, if it’s not already checked.
Edit the Beginning of a Video
Follow the below steps to remove unwanted content from the beginning of your video.
- Click the Play icon on the video and pause it when you’ve identified the spot where you want the edited video to begin.
- A vertical red line will mark the place where you’ve paused the video. Hover over the red line, click and drag backward to the very beginning of the video’s timeline.
- The section at the beginning of the video that will be removed is now grayed out.
- Click the Play icon on your video to review the new beginning of the video.
- The new start time of the video is marked by a vertical black line. If you need to adjust the starting point of the video, pause your video and click and drag the new start time of the video backwards or forwards.
- If you need to trim the end of your video, move on to the next section of this article to learn how. Otherwise, click Apply at the top right of the Panopto editor window and move to the next step. Remember, clicking the Apply button will submit your edits and the video will begin re-processing. Do not click Apply if you still have edits to perform.
- Close the Panopto editor window.
Edit the End of a Video
Follow the steps below to remove unwanted content from the end of your video.
- Click the Play icon on the video and pause it when you’ve identified the spot where you want the edited video to end.
- A red vertical line will mark the place where you’ve paused the video. Hover over the red line, click and drag forward to the very end of the video’s timeline.
- The section at the end of the video that will be removed is now grayed out.
- Click the Rewind 10 seconds icon until the vertical red line in the editing bar shows up just before the start of the grayed out portion at the end of the video.
- Click Play to review the new endpoint of your video.
- The new end time of the video is marked by a vertical black line. If you need to adjust the endpoint of the video, pause your video and click and drag the new end time of the video backwards or forwards.
- Once all editing is complete, click Apply. Remember, clicking the Apply button will submit your edits and the video will begin re-processing. Do not click Apply if you still have edits to perform.
- Close the Panopto editor window.
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Although considered a modern comics classic that’s delighted millions of readers all over the world, Jeff Smith’s Bone is also one of the most commonly challenged books in American libraries. Bone tells of three creatures known as the Bones, who are outcast from their home village of Boneville and lost in a human land called The Valley. In The Valley, the Bones find themselves surrounded by talking bugs, vicious rat-like monsters, magic, and the occasional dragon. Smith’s epic follows Fone Bone and his two cousins, Smiley and Phoney, as they meet the valley’s denizens, become embroiled in their society, and discover their own heroism in confrontation with the rat creatures and their mystical master, the Lord of Locusts.
According to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, the Bone series has faced several challenges and at least one ban over the years. (Some cases that were reported directly to OIF by librarians or teachers have incomplete information in order to maintain the submitters’ anonymity.) In 2009 some or all of the series was apparently removed from an unidentified New Jersey school library in response to a parent’s complaint that it was unsuited to the students’ age group.
In 2010, a Minnesota parent petitioned for the series’ removal from her son’s school library. Ramona DeLay’s son had just graduated the local DARE anti-drug program when she discovered images she believed to be promoting drinking and smoking in the comic her son was reading. A letter from Smith decrying the ban attempt was read aloud at the review committee’s hearing, and the challenge was ultimately rejected by a 10-1 vote, to the praise of Smith and CBLDF.
In 2011 an anonymous submitter from a New Mexico school district told OIF that “a parent from an elementary school complained to a board member about [smoking and drinking in] book #4, The Dragonslayer, and the board member told administration about it.” The entire series was subsequently removed from all classrooms and libraries in the district with no oversight or review process.
In 2012 Bone was relocated from a Texas elementary school to a junior high school in the same district because of another “unsuited for age group” complaint. Finally in 2013 it was challenged twice more in Texas schools, at Colleyville Elementary School in Colleyville and Whitley Road Elementary in Watauga. In the latter case the unidentified complainant said that vol. 2, The Great Cow Race, was “politically, racially, or socially offensive,” while the parent in Colleyville complained of “violence or horror” in the entire series. Both school districts reviewed the books and opted to keep them where they were.
Because of the Texas challenges, Bone came in at #10 on ALA’s list of books frequently challenged in 2013. Smith responded to the inclusion of Bone on the list shortly after ALA announced it in early 2014:
I learned this weekend that Bone has been challenged on the basis of “political viewpoint, racism and violence.” I have no idea what book these people read. After fielding these and other charges for a while now, I’m starting to think such outrageous accusations (really, racism?) say more about the people who make them than about the books themselves.
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Ahoy there matey! One Piece is back again on New Release Tuesday for new adventures, including ones that everyone has been waiting for, Sabaody Archipelago! Now you can get Collection 13 on anime Blu-ray and DVD home video which rounds off Enies Lobby, and Season 7 Voyage 1 which introduces the Eleven Supernovas and the Celestial Dragons today!
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The assault on Enies Lobby rages on as Spandam drags Robin towards the towering Gates of Justice! Zoro’s demonic nine-sword fighting style sets the stage for a blistering barrage of heroic attacks as the Straw Hats inch ever closer to a joyous reunion with their captured crewmate. Thankfully, Luffy and his mates manage to emerge victorious, but after bidding a fiery farewell to the Going Merry, these pirates won’t be going anywhere! There’s a hefty new bounty of each of their heads, and their only hope for escape rests on the cyborg soldiers of Franky. The blue-haired, speedo-sporting, shipwright offers to build the Straw Hats a new vessel, but time is of the essence. Some very familiar marines are breathing down their necks, and the crew can’t set sail without a boat – or their stubborn sniper.
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Buoyed by the addition of a new crew member, the Straw Hats steer their quest for adventure into the dangerous waters of the Red Line!
Sanji’s meets his dream girl when the crew crosses paths with Camie, a beautiful mermaid in distress! Luffy agrees to help Camie save her best friend, but the rescue is quickly complicated by surly sea monsters, dive-bombing flying fish, and a foe with an eerily familiar face. The situation gets even stickier when the friend in need of rescue turns out to be a gilled goon from Nami’s dark past! Nevertheless, Luffy proves to be a man of his word and unveils some new tricks in a toe-to-toe brawl with a giant brute of a bull. Once the dust settles, the Straw Hats drop anchor at an island bursting with bubbles in the hopes of equipping their ship for underwater travel! But when Camie is kidnapped, job number one becomes saving their newest friend from the cruel clutches of the Celestial Dragons!
And now what everyone has been waiting for, the Supernova English Cast:
Trafalgar Law – Matthew Mercer
Jewelry Bonney – Laura Wetsel
Capone Bege – Kyle Hebert
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Eustass Kid – Justin Cook
Scratchmen Apoo – Brad Venable
Urouge – Major Attaway
Drake – D.C. Douglas
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Additional Season 7 Cast Announcements:
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Pappagu – Chris Cason
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Fans ages 12 and older are required to show proof of full vaccination to enter Chase Center. All eligible guests are required to show proof of vaccine booster shot beginning Feb. 1. Fans ages 2-11 need to provide either proof of full vaccination or a negative result within 24 hours for an antigen test, or 48 hours for a PCR test.
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While he may not have been considered a first-round pick by all draft analysts, the San Diego State star put up some impressive numbers.
All the Seahawks really need to do to sell the team’s fan base on the selection of running back Rashaad Penny in the first round Thursday is hand out a March breakdown on Penny from the football analytic site Pro Football Focus.
In a piece titled “San Diego State RB Rashaad Penny — a first-round talent,’’ PFF analyst Sam Monson even threw out the idea that Penny might be better than Penn State’s Saquon Barkely, who went second overall to the New York Giants.
“Penny is a prototypical NFL back who excels both on the ground and as a receiver out of the backfield. He may not have quite the same dynamism as a receiver as Barkley does, but he does have Barkley beat in some ways on the ground,’’ Monson wrote, then adding “Penny also led the draft class in elusive rating – PFF’s rushing metric that attempts to distil what a back did independent of the blocking that was given to him by looking at broken tackles and yards after contact. Penny broke 80 tackles on the ground last season and two more as a receiver. That figure was by far the most of anybody in this draft class, more than 20 clear of the rest of the field.’’
So enough said?
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Well, right now the Seattle fan base may be as skeptical of the team’s moves as at any time during the Pete Carroll/John Schneider era given the fall in 2017 to 9-7 and out of the playoffs for the first time since 2011 and an offseason that has been dominated mostly by shedding some of the Seahawks’ best-known players.
Nobody questioned taking a running back in the wake of a season in which Seattle’s leading rusher as a tailback was Mike Davis with 240 yards and got just one rushing touchdown from someone other than quarterback Russell Wilson.
But since few saw the pick of the 5-10, 220-pound Penny at number 27 overall coming, some wondered why Penny and not two bigger-name running backs who were still on the board in LSU’s Derrius Guice and Georgia’s Sony Michel, who would go a few minutes later at number 31 to New England.
Schneider and Carroll, though, were ready with answers.
Schneider, in fact, said the Seahawks were ready to take Penny at 18 had a trade not materialized with Green Bay to move down to 27 and get a third-rounder and sixth-rounder in return (while also giving up a seventh). Schneider also said a team he wouldn’t name called after Seattle took Penny and asked if he’d be available in a trade, something he said had never happened before his his GM career. “Pretty cool,” he said.
The unnamed team was apparently enamored with Penny for all the same reasons Seattle was — he proved durable at San Diego State, playing in 51 games during his four years with the Aztecs and leading all of college football last year with 2,248 yards; he showed enough receiving ability that he can play all three downs; and he had seven career kickoff returns for touchdowns, tying an FBS record, giving Seattle another option alongside Tyler Lockett, who, by the way, is also entering the final year of his rookie contract.
“Speed, durability, humble,’’ Carroll said. “…Whatever we want, he’ll do. His special teams (talents), so unique, he’ll be able to help take the burden off of Tyler at times. … he’s such an exciting player, so versatile and so dynamic that we know every time he gets his hands on the ball, he can score a TD. That’s in the running game and the passing game, he’s very gifted at catching the football and running routes as well. So we know the run game will help every aspect of our team. Helps defense, special teams … it’s a really exciting pick, can’t wait to get him here, get going and start fitting him in.’’
Seattle can use all of that to add to a backfield that consisted of just four tailbacks before Thursday — Davis, Chris Carson, C.J. Prosise and J.D. McKissic.
Carson and Prosise were also drafted to much excitement by Carroll the last two years. But each also missed most of last season with injuries, which have dogged Seattle at the tailback spot the last three seasons.
Asked if durability was a key attraction to Penny, Schneider said “yeah, absolutely.’’
Schneider also noted that the fact that Penny was a fulltime starter for just one season last year at San Diego State while having played behind Donnel Pumphrey previously means “the guy doesn’t have as much wear and tear (he had 488 career carries at SDSU, 289 last season).
And Schneider said not to worry about worries about the level of competition at San Diego State, noting how well Penny performed at the Senior Bowl (he could also have just mentioned Marshall Faulk, a former SDSU star now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame).
It was all enough to make Penny just the third tailback taken in the first round in team history, the others being Curt Warner in 1983 (third overall) and Shaun Alexander in 2000 (19th).
Many may debate the value of taking a running back in the first round, but Seattle couldn’t have done better with those two — Alexander is the leading rusher in team history and Warner third.
It’ll take a long time to know if Penny can live up to that kind of legacy.
But given what happened to Seattle’s running game last season, simply scoring a few touchdowns and staying upright all 16 games might be dividend enough in 2018.
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https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/analysis-can-rashaad-penny-give-the-seahawks-a-healthy-return-on-their-investment/
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After being awarded the Cyber Essentials accreditation earlier this year, Claritas Solutions is proud to say it has received the higher Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation.
The Cyber Essentials Scheme is part of the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy and accreditation demonstrates commitment to information security, providing assurance to clients and partners.
To obtain the Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation, five key controls were required: secure configuration; boundary firewalls and internet gateways; access control; patch management and malware protection.
Claritas Solutions has 20 years’ experience in designing robust I.T. security solutions. Claritas offers independent security solutions in partnership with the market leaders in data security. We also design software that embraces security from the ground up. Other services that Claritas offers include Hosting, I.T. Outsourcing and Support.
Having passed the Cyber Essentials self-assessment, we were keen to further demonstrate our commitment to our customers’ data security and confidentiality through obtaining the more stringent Cyber Essentials Plus. Protecting our customers against the threat of cyber-attack is at the core of what we do and the Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation demonstrates how serious we are about tackling cybercrime.Glenn Scaife, Managing Director of Claritas Solutions
With cybercrime being such a huge topic this year it’s important that companies are prepared and aware of the very real threat to their business. Downtime due to cyberattacks can be catastrophic for some therefore Claritas prides itself on being a ‘go to’ source for I.T. security needs.
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Dr. Greg, Vaneet And Variants
There's been a lot of talk recently about coronavirus variants and whether the the current vaccines will be efficacious enough. And what about double-masking? Dr. Greg talks with colleague Vaneet Arora about the latest COVID info you need to keep you and your loved ones safe.
Vaneet Arora is:
Associate Director - Clinical Microbiology in the UK College of Medicine.
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House Democrats likely would support a stopgap government funding bill that maintains current spending levels, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday.
Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said his caucus would need to review the specifics of any Senate-passed measure, but he expects House Democrats will join Republican leaders to pass legislation to avert a government shutdown next week.
But the Senate stopgap — expected to be passed in the next several days — would only stave off a shutdown for a few months, and senior aides say House Democrats will pressure Republicans to eliminate or reduce sequester spending cuts in any long-term funding bill. Given that the House GOP may need Democratic votes to pass any spending measure, the minority party is likely to have some leverage over any final agreement.
“We have been clear that we want to keep the government open,” the Maryland Democrat said. “Under the circumstances, it might [get] our support, but I don’t want to say that until I see what the Senate does.”
Hoyer and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have said that Democrats are unlikely to support any long-term government funding measure that doesn’t increase budget caps for defense and domestic spending.
The government will run out of money next Wednesday if the Senate and House cannot come together to pass a funding measure. But conservatives in both chambers want any continuing resolution to defund Planned Parenthood after the release of several sting videos showing alleged sales of fetal tissue by the nonprofit organization, which provides women’s health services.
In the House, Boehner, an Ohio Republican, is facing a revolt from his right flank, with more than 40 lawmakers pledging not to vote for any bill that gives federal money to Planned Parenthood.
Democrats, meanwhile, are insisting on a “clean” funding bill.
There is still debate between Democrats and Republicans over the length of the first short-term stopgap bill. The White House and House Democrats want that funding measure to last only through November, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill this week that would extend operations to mid-December.
Still, Hoyer was not entirely optimistic that lawmakers would be able to come together to avoid a shutdown.
“Hopefully, common sense and reasonableness will prevail, but there is not a lot to base that hope on,” he said.
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What is the healthiest sandwich at Arby’s?
5 Healthy Meals at Arby’s —Including Bacon King’s Hawaiian Brown Sugar Bacon BLT. 600 calories, 28 g fat (10 g saturated fat, 0 g trans fat), 860 mg sodium) Beef ‘n Cheddar Classic. 450 calories, 20 g fat (6 g saturated), 1,310 mg sodium. Arby’s Ham & Swiss Melt. Roast Turkey Farmhouse Salad. Fresh-brewed Iced Tea.
What is the best fast food fish sandwich?
A Definitive Ranking Of The Best Fast Food Fish Sandwiches Fish Sandwich — Ivar’s. Popcorn Shrimp Poboy Sandwich — Popeyes . COD Sandwich — Long John Silver. Giant Fish Sandwich — Captain D’s. North Atlantic Cod Sandwich — Culver’s. Filet-O-Fish — McDonald’s . Fish Slider — White Castle. Whatacatch Sandwich — Whataburger.
Does Arby’s have a fish sandwich 2020?
Fish Sandwiches Make Annual Return to Arby’s for 2020 Along with New Fish ‘N Cheddar Sandwich . The Crispy Fish Sandwich features a crispy-fried, wild-caught Alaskan pollack filet, iceberg lettuce, and tartar sauce on a toasted sesame seed bun.
What is the lowest calorie sandwich at Arby’s?
Best: Classic Roast Beef One of the healthier sandwiches you can order off the menu is Arby’s classic roast beef . At just 360 calories, this sandwich has half of the calories and only about a quarter of the sodium that the half-pound French dip with Swiss and au jus has.
Is Arby’s fish sandwich healthy?
While a piece of broiled fish probably would be more healthy than a burger from a fast-food joint, this doesn’t fit in that mold. Not with the breading and the huge glops of tartar sauce and the big fluffy bun. The Crispy Fish has 570 calories and 25 grams of fat. The carbs are also really high at 65 grams.
Does Arby’s use real meat?
They did some digging, and went straight to the source: Arby’s Quality Assurance. They confirmed there’s absolutely no truth the story, and said that their roast beef is, in fact, completely beef .
Who’s got the best fish sandwich?
In the nearly 60 years since the invention of the Filet-O- Fish , fast food fried fish sandwiches have become big business. We tried every single one of them to find out. Popeyes Seafood Po’boy. McDonald’s Filet-O- Fish . White Castle Fish Slider. Arby’s Crispy Fish Sandwich . Culver’s North Atlantic Cod Sandwich .
Is McDonald’s fish sandwich real fish?
Believe it or not, the Filet-O- Fish is actually fish . McDonald’s uses Marine Stewardship Council certified wild-caught Alaska Pollock.
How much is Wendy’s Fish Sandwich 2020?
The cod sandwich features a Wild caught North Pacific cod filet, panko breading, dill tartar sauce, dill pickle slices, and lettuce, all on a toasted bun. Customers can purchase the sandwich for $4.49 or $5.48 for a medium combo meal, which includes a drink and French fries. Prices may vary by location.
Who has the healthiest fish sandwich?
Here are some examples of the sandwiches available. Popeyes Catfish Po’ Boy. Calories: 800. Fat: 50 g. Cholesterol: 75 mg. Captain D’s Wild Alaskan Salmon. Calories: 116. Fat: 1 g. Cholesterol: 46 mg. McDonald’s Filet-O- Fish . Calories: 380. Fat: 18 g. Burger King BK Big Fish without Tartar Sauce. Calories: 410. Fat: 12 g.
What fish is in Arby’s fish sandwich?
Alaskan pollock fillet
Is Wendy’s fish sandwich available 2020?
Wendy’s Cod Sandwich is back on February 25, 2020 and will be here until early April 2020 . There’s no fish sandwich quite like Wendy’s . Get it while you can.
What is the best sandwich at Arby’s?
10 Best & Worst Arby’s Sandwiches Half Pound French Dip And Swiss. Triple Thick Brown Sugar Bacon BLT. Triple Thick Bacon Half Pound Club Sandwich. Buttermilk Crispy Chicken. Beef ‘N Cheddar Classic. Ham, Egg, and Cheese Croissant. Roast Beef Classic. Ham and Swiss Melt.
What is the healthiest fast food?
10 Fast-Food Restaurants That Serve Healthy Foods Chipotle. Chipotle Mexican Grill is a restaurant chain that specializes in foods like tacos and burritos. Chick-fil-A . Chick-fil-A is a fast-food restaurant that specializes in chicken sandwiches. Wendy’s . McDonald’s. Ruby Tuesday. The Cheesecake Factory. KFC. Subway .
Is Arby’s Roast Beef real or processed meat?
But just to be clear, Business Insider confirmed that the roast beef is solid meat that undergoes a few hours of slow- roasting . The bag does contain liquid — it just isn’t liquid beef .
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Composed in the middle of the mandatory lockdown period as a cathartic need to relieve the anguish caused by those particular moments, the new track “Car Crashes and Heart Attacks”, as usual released via Australian DIY label Detonic Recordings, from the Franco-Australian duet Distant Stars, is “a 3 and a bit minute visit to our trans-global doldrums to hopefully ease yours…..”
Muriel Annic and Richard Payne, operating respectively out of Caen and Melbourne, ably craft off-kilter synth-laden tunes, vibrant, and shimmering whilst at the same time dark and sinister.
Hypnotic scattering beats drag hazily under neurotic glowing synth stabs that flash obsessively laced with clanging claps and calm distorted bright chords, creating an equally mind-bending and disturbing smothering haze, as floating disconnected female vocals breathlessly wander, amid penetrating anxieties and the ominous future left hanging in the balance of uncertainty.
Intimate lyrics reveal the positive parts of being in lockdown, and the hesitancy to return to a mundane life centred around money, “Car Crashes and Heart Attacks.”
Hypnotic video captures the colors of a flame in a ritualistic dance igniting a world of hidden ideas and emotions while spinning layers of subliminal dreamscapes cast dimension under a lonely isolated backdrop of a ho-hum laundromat wherein lies an endless assortment of inspiration.
Keep up with Distant Stars:
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Last week Hugh Jackman announced on YouTube that he wants to reward fans by bringing a Hollywood-style premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to their town, complete with stars from the movie that opens nationwide May 1.
Local schools, businesses and, of course, the legions of X-Men and Wolverine fans are joining forces to create special videos on YouTube, launching Web sites and conducting grass roots campaigns — all urging their neighbors to vote for their town.
The top 10 leading towns as of Wednesday, April 8, are: Davis, Calif.; Hastings, Neb.; Austin, Texas; Melbourne, Fla.; Dallas; San Antonio; Las Vegas; Tempe; Chicago; and Philadelphia.
To put in a bid to host the premiere, entrants need only remember that “X marks the spot”: at the Web site x-menorigins.com/premiere, they should mark their town with a digital “X.” The location with the most votes/Xs will win the red carpet, star-studded movie premiere on April 27. The winning town will be announced on April 20.
The first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them.
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Bankruptcy may be a glimmer of hope for a fresh start for those who are direly in debt. But it has a lot of unpleasant consequences that must not be undermined.
Good thing is, there are several ways to avoid filing for personal bankruptcy.
If your financial situation makes you think about claiming bankruptcy, first take a look at this article to:
- Read insights on how personal bankruptcies work
- Find out how to steer away from the necessity of filing one
What Is Personal Bankruptcy?
In the modern legal system, bankruptcy is a status that provides debt relief to those who are financially insolvent. While this may seem quite straightforward, how bankruptcies work is actually a complicated process. Not everyone who declares bankruptcy will instantly be considered legally bankrupt as there are certain criteria that have to be met first.
Types of Personal Bankruptcies
There are different provisions for personal bankruptcies by state, but there are two types of bankruptcies that are most commonly filed for in court. These are the Personal Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and Personal Bankruptcy Chapter 13.
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
This type of bankruptcy is also known as “Liquidation Bankruptcy”. Individuals who wish to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the bankruptcy court must sell off their non-exempt properties in order to be able to pay debts.
- Liquidation Bankruptcy is meant for persons who cannot pay for all or a significant part of their liabilities.
- Individuals filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy have to first pass the Chapter 7 Means Test to meet certain conditions in the Bankruptcy Code.
- The easiest way to pass is if your income is below your state’s median. If your income is above your state’s median, you may still be able to pass the Chapter 7 Means Test if you can prove that you do not have enough disposable income.
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
In case you are not eligible for bankruptcy under Chapter 7, next to consider is Chapter 13 bankruptcy which lets you save much of your income and assets from being sequestered. Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is also known as “Reorganization Bankruptcy”.
- Chapter 13 bankruptcy lets you restructure payment schemes for servicing the debt.
- This scheme is a three to five-year court-approved plan which must be strictly adhered to.
- Individuals who have been diligent in following payment schedules may be able to have unsecured debts like hospital and credit card bills relinquished.
- Eligibility criteria for Chapter 13 bankruptcy include having a regular income, unsecured debts no more than $395,725, and secured debts no more than $1,184,200.
Negative Effects of Bankruptcy
Although bankruptcy offers a chance for a financial reboot, the consequences of filing for bankruptcy must also be seriously considered. If you’re in serious debt and are thinking about your personal bankruptcy options, here are some of the important things you should first look into before filing.
Filing for bankruptcy is not cheap
Yes, that’s right. Filing for personal bankruptcy costs money. It’s quite an irony that for the court to acknowledge you’re in neck-deep debt and that you could hardly pay, you’ll still have to add a filing fee to your financial burdens. The cost of filing for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy is $335, while a Chapter 13 costs $310.
You May Need to Hire Bankruptcy Lawyers
While it is possible to pursue filing for bankruptcy by yourself, proving your eligibility before a bankruptcy court is not as easy as going to a judge and saying you’re broke. Filing for bankruptcy can be a long and arduous process that will, more often than not, require expert counsel.
The cost of hiring bankruptcy lawyers can range from $1,500 to $5,000. This depends on how complex your case is and how much paperwork and effort it will take for the court to rule in favor of the personal bankruptcy chapter you’re filing for.
Loss of Property
If you’re filing for a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, then you’ll definitely have to let go of any property that has no exemption. Selling your property also does not mean you’ll get a good price for it. You’ll often find that assets you own will be undervalued as you’ll have to accept a lower offer in compromise.
While properties considered necessary for living and working are exempt from servicing the debt, you will not be able to keep other valuable assets such as those that may have sentimental values like a family heirloom or your favorite musical instrument, unless you’re a professional musician.
Damage to Your Credit Rating
Bankruptcy is one of the many major credit score factors lenders look into. After individuals declare personal bankruptcy, they might find themselves at a huge disadvantage when it comes to getting access to loan services. If you damage your credit score, financial institutions will be hesitant to grant you loans.
The good news is that some lenders have special programs that grant bad credit loans with guaranteed approval. These lenders provide services to persons with poor credit reports but may charge higher interests. If you get into this situation, you might consider checking out some trustworthy credit repair companies that can help you reestablish a good credit rating.
Damage to Reputation
It’s not only financial institutions that may stigmatize bankrupt individuals. A bankruptcy may also damage one’s social reputation which can have a negative effect on self-esteem and even relationships. Those who might want to engage in business and are looking for prospective partners may also have a hard time gaining trust.
Should You File for Bankruptcy?
It is a good way to get debt relief, but given its negative consequences, it’s much better if you can, at all costs, stay away from that scenario.
How to Avoid Filing for Personal Bankruptcy
So before you even consider when to declare bankruptcy for yourself, here are some better options you should look into.
Settle or Negotiate Your Debt
Having to go to court is a hassle for both you and your creditor. At the end of the day, what creditors really want is to get paid. The best approach is always to settle your debt. If you have multiple creditors, prioritize the one with the biggest interest if you can. This way, the amount you save on interests can in turn be used to pay the remaining obligations.
If you’re really short on funds, ask your creditor for a loan modification. This lets you restructure your payment plans to something more feasible given your situation. This may mean longer paying periods, flexible payment schedules, or any other adjustment that would allow you to pay off your loan completely.
As already mentioned, it’s always best to settle your debt, especially when this debt carries interest. You might find it wise to sell some property at the moment and use the proceeds to cover obligations instead of filing for bankruptcy. If you can do this before your interest balloons, this will definitely save you from future larger payments.
Borrow Money From Family/Friends
This may seem unwise as this means borrowing money again, but shifting your loan from institutions to friends or family is actually often a better option than filing for personal bankruptcy. Given, of course, that your social circle is willing to help you out.
Family and friends are more likely to be flexible with payment terms, and there’s even a great chance that they wouldn’t require you to pledge a property or ask for interest. Borrowing free money to pay interest-bearing loans or secured credit card accounts is an efficient strategy to get rid of your debts.
Loans for Bad Credit
Another option is to ask for help from financial institutions that specialize in giving bad credit loans. These lenders give access to loans even if you have a bad credit score. You can in turn use these loan facilities to pay off any maturing debt from other lenders. This way you will buy yourself more time as your transfer gives you a new payment schedule.
Consult With a Credit Counselor
If you’re really unsure of what to do, perhaps it’s time you seek help from experts. Consulting with a credit counselor is a great way to get educated on the ins and outs of financial obligations, especially if you’re already on the brink of filing for personal bankruptcy. These debtor education providers not only offer guidance, but they can also negotiate with financial institutions on your behalf to help bring down interests and avoid late payment fees.
You can also ask your credit counselor for advice on how to fix your credit score or how to get out of debt with no money and a bad credit score.
When to Declare Bankruptcy
After considering every option mentioned here and determining that none of the alternatives are applicable to your situation, you may decide that it’s inevitable that you push through with individual bankruptcy.
In cases like these, it’s best to act immediately as prolonging bankruptcy filing may make matters worse. Delaying filing may accumulate your liabilities until you find yourself drowning in debt.
If your debts have gone out of hand, filing for personal bankruptcy might be a tempting way to get a financial reset. But given the negative effects of bankruptcy, it’s always best to first consider other options with less detrimental impact. Only if you determine that there is no other option to be relieved of debt, then and only then consider filing for bankruptcy.
Is there an advantage in consolidating multiple loans into one account?
Loan consolidation can be a great strategy if you’re juggling multiple loans. One of the advantages of loan consolidation is that it makes due date tracking a lot easier since you’ll only be looking at one date. Consolidating loans is also a good way to extend maturity and even adjust different interest rates into one standard figure. Check out some of the credit card consolidation loans for examples of this type of service.
Can I still have banking privileges after I have filed for bankruptcy?
There are many financial institutions that cater to those with bad credit reports. They still offer loans, credit cards, while banks that do not use ChexSystems may not even care about past records or reasons for personal bankruptcies. You may be charged higher interests by these institutions, but being diligent with payments will definitely improve your credit score.
What assets can I save in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?
The laws related to filing for personal bankruptcy have been designed so that individuals can be relieved of debt without losing basic essentials for their livelihood. That’s why there are assets and properties that are exempted from liquidation when filing for personal bankruptcy Chapter 7. These things include everything that is necessary to sustain a decent but minimal living. Some of these things are: necessary clothing, household appliances and furnishings, retirement accounts, personal vehicles, jewelry up to a certain value, essential tools for trade, etc.
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Everyone has things that annoy them. I’m certainly not an exception (I annoy a lot of people.)
I’m normally a pretty relaxed guy but I go through phases where I have to stop myself and say/sing “Let it go.” If I don’t, I’ll just get grumpier and grumpier until I explode in a semi-comic rage.
There are things that no matter how happy I am, they will piss me, royally, off. So with no more delay here are:
Éric’s Top 5 Pet Peeves
5. Small Talk
I’m not talking about seeing a friend on the bus and asking them how they’ve been. I’m talking about the useless words to fill the void of silence.
Them, “So the weather is really weathering huh?”
Me, “Yep. Canada Eh?”
ARG! Why? Sure, it used to be fun and screw with people by going off script and saying I like winter or hate heat but it’s just so boring. (I love weather and the science behind it. I totally fanboyed when I met Mark Robinson.)
4. Being Corrected
If I say I hated The Dark Knight rises and you tell me I’m wrong, I will strangle you with my mind. My opinions, feelings, and philosophical thoughts are not yours to disprove. Star Trek 2: The Khan Strikes back wasn’t a Star Trek movie and I’ll happily argue it with you but don’t tell me I can’t feel that way.
3. Drivers that idle in the pedestrian crossing lane
I get that you’re in a hurry and that you want to be as close to the stop sign or light as possible but there’s this nice little part of the road that’s meant for pedestrians to cross the road. I’m not in a steel shell, I should be walking in front of you, not behind you because you’re too fraking impatient to stop at the right place.
It’s a yield sign. You need to stop for other cars and pedestrians and YIELD to their passage. It’s not a park in the middle of the lane sign or speed up sign. YIELD you stupid metal clad morons!
2. People who walk and smoke
I get that you can’t smoke in parks, city events, restaurants, bars, workplaces, etc, but how would you like it if I started spraying skunk smell as I walked?
I’m just trying to get from place A to place B, I don’t need your noxious smoke in my face. It stinks, makes me want to vomit and punch you in the face.
Don’t even get me started with the jerk-faced-morons that smoke in front of doors.
Someday I’m going to snap and start carrying a spray bottle and start treating you like a misbehaving cat.
1. Positive People
Being genuinely happy and positive is something that makes everyone around you feel better. Being perky or super-positive at people is annoying.
If I’m upset, no amount of telling me how I should be happy will help, unless you’re trying to make me angry. Seriously, let me be grumpy or not like mornings. What’s it to you?
I think all these disgustingly happy/perky people are hiding something. Either deep seated sadness or dead bodies.
That’s my top 5 pet peeves for the moment. I’ve purposely left out the category “Stupid People” (Climate change deniers, Antivaxers, Gamergaters, Rabid Puppies, preachy-angry religious or atheists, and people who give their carnivorous pets vegan/vegetarian diets, etc) and “Boring Conspiracy Nuts” (People who say: Aspartame is bad, Big Pharma, the liberal cabal etc .
What are your pet peeves?
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... the poor man's Davos (or was that Davros?)
It's the conspiracy theorists' favorite time of the year, as the annual Bilderberg Meeting kicks off on June 9 at the luxurious Taschenbergpalais Hotel in Dresden. The meetings, held since 1954, bring together around 130 business and political leaders from Europe and North America. This year ten main topics are up for …
I wasn't being serious; or didn't think I was...Are people taking that throwaway unthought out and instantly forgotten, and forgettable, comment for real? Hahahaha ..... Geoffrey W
That be a perverse laugh indeed, Geoffrey W, whenever you realise all sorts of realities are so easily created and destroyed. Surely you don't think everything is orderly and ordered whenever madness and mayhem, chaos and catastrophe run riot in systems everywhere?
Try to understand and accept this is true, for whenever it is not, is it then something completely new which all will be forced to deal with in order to have any effective say in the direction and way of the future. I Kid U Not.
Capiche, El Reg? And what is IT to be? A Wild Wacky Western Delight or Exotic Erotic Eastern Treat, both of which can, if certain definitive needs dictate, be Advanced Persistent and Active Cyber Threats to be fully explored and ruthlessly exploited? Where be located the spaces for the brightest and smartest of systems analysis ?
And why ever not a quantum amalgam of them both, to present something else quite different and unique and Earth shatteringly enlightening? Would that be too alien an AI Programming Project for current struggling with reality administrations to admit is transparently confronting them, and/or just far too much for a widely perceived and ill conceived elite and a chosen few, battling in vain against future remote progressive revisionary leadership[s] ..... for there may be considerably more than just the one?
They almost had me there with the inclusion of Dido Harding however a little tin foil hat searching on the internet states she was from McKinsey & Co is the daughter of a lord and the most telling nugget of information is that she grew up in a family pig farm in Dorset. I can only imagine the stories she knows about top Tories therefore the Bilderberg meetings are a cover of our lizard overlords.
icke was right
First of all it's bête noire, and secondly I'm pretty sure Donald Trump barely knows who Lindsay Graham is.
I Googled him, because I didn't know, and I find he endorsed Jeb Bush (everyone laughed and laughed), then Ted Cruz (also extremely funny).
Apparently he won't vote for Trump, which must mean he's going to vote for Hilary. Odd for a Republican I would have thought.
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Is honey baked boneless ham processed?
Aptly named, boneless ham doesn’t contain any bone at all. … Because it’s processed, boneless ham isn’t always as flavorful—and despite the added water, it can be a little dry. But it’s hard to beat the fact that boneless ham is so darn easy to cook and serve.
Does HoneyBaked Ham have preservatives?
Hams that are labeled “uncured” have not had any sodium nitrates or nitrites added to it, this includes the spiral cut uncured hams. There may be some naturally occurring nitrates or nitrites but none are purposely added to as a preservative. … They also contain no added nitrates and nitrites.
Is HoneyBaked Ham hormone free?
“HoneyBaked Ham products contain no added hormones and steroids. Only the finest, highest-quality ingredients are used to ensure adherence to the best-in-class food safety standards and we are proud that our delicious ham and turkey products are gluten-free,” declared Lee.
Are Honey Baked Ham turkey breast processed?
The Honey Baked Ham Company purchases its hams and turkeys from federally-inspected meat and poultry processors; the products arrive at the company’s retail stores fully cooked.
Is Honey Baked Ham better bone in or boneless?
YES! Bone-in ham has more flavor and is much more juicy than boneless. Generally, both bone-in ham and boneless hams are sold fully cooked. Just take a look at the package and make sure it says fully cooked or ready to serve.
What cut of meat is a Honey Baked Ham?
A ham comes from the back thigh/rump of a pig so this means there are just two per animal. Imagine where the “hams” are at the top of your own legs, it’s the same. WHOLE HAM – A whole ham will typically weigh 18 to 20 pounds and includes both the “butt” end and the “shank” end.
What brand of ham has no nitrates?
Boar’s Head Simplicity All Natural* Uncured Ham has no added nitrates or nitrites‡ and is slow cooked to perfection.
How do I know if my honey baked ham is bad?
Ham has a pink rosy color, even when the ham is fully cooked, it maintains the same color. Uncured ham is still pink but it’s very pale, almost beige. When a ham starts turning green, black, brown, or gray, it’s a sure sign that the ham has gone bad.
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Many CrossFitters have been using Yoga as a great way to prepare for workouts, and improve recovery following a tough WOD. In addition Yoga has helped in improving flexibility and range of motion in CrossFit athletes. Now, CrossFit couples have starting looking at yoga for couples as a way of also improving their relationship.
Today, yoga for couples is especially popular among young people. Such exercises help to develop harmoniously as a couple, keep yourself in the necessary physical form, and also find harmony with the world around you. Yoga for couples originates from antiquity – it is based on the traditions of tantra.
Yoga for two is a traditional hatha yoga where two partners participate. Classes help you learn how to relax, trust your partner, and also open up to them. Most couples claim that their relationship is becoming much better after joint yoga – a deeper spiritual connection appears between them. Such sports practice also allows you to attract your partner to sports and instill in them a love of a healthy lifestyle.
Joint yoga style has a number of useful newcomers:
• Removes energy barriers.
• Removes any barriers in communication with a partner.
• Helps build trust in relationships.
• Improves female body language and male’s emotional connection in a relationship.
• Improves the art of interaction between partners.
• Reveals new qualities in relationships – tenderness, openness, firmness, sensuality.
What is yoga for couples?
The direction of yoga has existed for many decades, which led to the formation of many trends and styles. Steam room yoga is one of them. The basis of this trend was hatha yoga which was significantly transformed. The new direction allowed people to not only do it solo but with someone else. So you can involve a couple or even 3-4 people at the same time.
Back in the day, only a loved person could have been involved in joint yoga exercises. However, you can now invite a friend or a relative to classes. Also, inviting a third person helps to diversify activities, complicate the performance of asanas. During training, special attention is devoted to proper breathing – it must be synchronous.
After completing a yoga exercise session, the two should not have feelings of discomfort or pain. During classes, it is very important to observe and feel not only your feelings but also understand your partner. Yoga often replaces a session with a psychotherapist, while still giving a positive effect on the muscles of the body. There are also several mindfuleness apps which can offer a similar effect.
Who needs steam yoga?
The practice of pair yoga is suitable for those who want to open up to each other more, relax, and trust the outside world. Joint yoga improves relationships – it is useful for both spouses, parents, and children.
What you need for couple yoga
The main advantage of the style is the ability to do it at home with a minimum amount of equipment: blocks, rollers, balls, ribbons, etc. You only need a rug. It is also important to create a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere. To do this, choose a spacious and brightly lit room. To abstract as much as possible from the outside world, turn on some relaxing music. Also important is the selection of clothes. Pay attention to convenient equipment that will not constrain your movements.
Yoga positions for couples
• Two trees
The exercise is aimed at finding the necessary balance and focus between partners. To perform it, is necessary to stand on the mat; your shoulder should face your partner’s shoulders. As a support, you should use the partner’s hand connecting your palms together. After that, we transfer the weight on one leg. At the same time, your foot should rest against the supporting leg. After that, we try to get the knee in the opposite direction as much as possible.
Benefit – This exercise evens out your posture and improves your concentration.
This yoga position for a couple improves your flexibility and strengthens the muscles of the back. Sit opposite to each other. Next, you have to establish the support by grasping each other’s wrists. Leaving the knees bent, you and your partner’s feet should touch each other. Then slowly straighten the knees, lifting the legs as high as possible in the process. At this moment, you must try to relax and make your back straight. Hold the pose for several breathing cycles.
• Joint cobra position
This yoga position is not very difficult when it comes to joint exercises; it can be performed even without special physical preparation. Your partner needs to lie on the rug while keeping their legs together. Then you have put our feet on both sides of the partner’s hips, bend your back, and try to reach your partner’s feet with your hands.
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Neil Lennon has shut down Chris Sutton’s questions about Steven Gerrard and Rangers in an interview with BT Sport ahead of tomorrow’s final.
The Celtic manager and his pundit friend sat down to discuss the game and Lennon’s second spell in charge more generally. However, the pair’s history didn’t mean that Lennon was ready to allow a teasing question from the mischievous Sutton regarding his rivals.
"Don't ask me that. It's not my place to comment on other managers."
Neil Lennon and @chris_sutton73 played in the same Celtic team…
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) December 7, 2019
Sutton is never far away from controversy and will have been angling for Lenny to fuel the fire ahead of the hotly anticipated fixture but the manager was too savvy and shut it down immediately.
The interview will be shown as part of BT Sport’s nine hour coverage of the Betfred Cup Final, starting at 9am tomorrow. The BT Sport team are committed to delivering a fitting finale to the first showpiece of the Scottish football season.
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Announcing the opening of the EMINENTO Salon, where you can find the best is trousers.
Echizenya in Tokyo. Developed for overseas markets, Ecjhizenya trousers are now available for experiencing and online ordering in Tokyo.
Echizenya used to be only in overseas shops. No more. Now this collection of quality trousers expertly crafted from top-rated materials can be seen and ordered in Japan as well. Exclusive materials plus world-class tailoring, that is the recipe for Echizenya trousers.
The Tokyo showroom is on the ground floor of Eminento’s headquarters building, and a special online store has been added for convenient ordering. Come in and see the classic-line Japanese artisan quality. There is sure to be something you like.
Echizenya also does made-to-order
Even the brand tag comes in a chic design and bold color scheme.
Stop in and get that special-occasion pair of trousers made to order.
Satiate your inner pantsaholic. Come in and see the full collection.
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Phone or email now to schedule an appointment, and to become a member if you are not one already.
Echizenya is a line of fine apparel built on the Calzoni offerings and branded for discerning international clients. Using the finest materials to produce sophisticated apparel with tasteful design, it has established itself worldwide as a core men’s fashion item. The only fine apparel brand with its own factory where experts turn top-rank materials into comfortable fashion, Echizenya has received accolades from knowledgeable buyers worldwide and is available at select shops in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Little wonder so many upmarket shops are proud to carry the Calzoni collection. The brand was born to the Eminento tradition of excellence and has been a major player growing its reputation for quality. Year after year, Calzoni has been a leader in the Italian-style market. This year is no exception as it debuts a new silhouette for men who care.
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Risan (pronounced [rîsan], Serbian Cyrillic: ?????, Albanian: Rizoni) is a town in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. It traces its origins to the ancient settlement of Rhizon, the oldest settlement in the Bay of Kotor.
Lying in the innermost portion of the bay, the settlement was protected from the interior by inaccessible limestone cliffs of the Orjen mountain, the highest range of eastern Adriatic, and through several following narrow straits in the Bay of Kotor from the open sea.
While the Krivošije karst plateau that hangs steep above the narrow shores of Risan bay receives over 5000 mm rain annually (European record), several strong karst springs that form a short brook collect in the narrow cultivable belt at Risan.
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This past weekend, my friend S told me about a new kind of ramen - gohôbi ramen. Now, gohôbi ramen isn't any one kind of ramen per se, but a special kind of ontological role for ramen - ramen as reward. Gohôbi is something like a special prize or added incentive, a reward for oneself upon the completion of a task. The task in question was climbing Takao-san, a low-lying mountain in Tokyo's western suburbs.
Less than an hour from the hustle and bustle of Shinjuku station, Takao-san is a 599 meter tall peak that is a popular weekend getaway from metropolites such as myself, S, and the 2.5 million other people that climb the mountain every year. But the best part about climbing Takao-san is that there are 8 separate tracks up, and by taking the most strenuous ridge route (relatively speaking of course; this IS only a 599 meter peak), we left the crowds quickly behind. After taking in a leisurely loop while enveloped in green growth, we figured we had earned ourselves a bowl of gohôbi ramen.
After a quick dip rubbing shoulders with tattooed yakuza in a public bath in the town of Hachiôji, S and I headed back to Tokyo to chow down and undo all of the day's hard work. We spent about an hour flipping through my newest ramen guide book and drooling, but in the end decided to go with a tried and true favorite - the one, the only, Ramen Jirô. I had to be back in Shinjuku to help my buddy interview heavy psych rock god Narita Munehiro, so we decided to hit up the Otakibashi branch of the celebrated chain, just a few hundred meters north from the station's west gate.
The second we walked in, "Danger Zone," the theme from Top Gun began playing on the stereo, and if you know anything about Ramen Jirô, you know how ironically appropriate a musical choice that is. Jirô serves the biggest, baddest, most brutally greasy, and downright ruggedest bowl of ramen in Tokyo. Loaded with lard and garlic, Jirô has been said to transcend the categorization of ramen itself to become, according to its die hard fans (known as "Jirolians"), a "totally independent food that can only be described as 'Jirô.'" A veritable cottage industry of Jirô-related knowledge has appeared on both the English and Japanese interwebs - for a full rundown by the most Jirôed man of the blogosphere, check out Ramen Tokyo's clearning house for all things Jirolian, including a link to the NPR story.
Last time, and every time I've eaten Jirô (usually at the Takadanobaba branch), I've had to nearly roll myself home, satiated to the point of bursting, moaning in pain and pleasure and swearing I wouldn't eat Jirô again for months. Between the volume and the oil, it's a delicious experience, but one that should not perhaps be repeated with too great a frequency, at least for this ramen writer. But the Shinjuku Otakibashi branch of Jirô is a kinder, gentler Jirô. Where was the lard slopped onto the floor? The tense mass of sweaty men hunched over their bowls? The famously frightening shop staff? The Otakibashi branch even boasts (gasp) a table! And, what's this? A Jirô tsukemen (dipping noodle option)? I can't even begin to imagine what that might look like, but it's clear that in the wake of last year's Jirô boom, when the shop moved from cult favorite status into the broad public eye, the shop is making an effort to find new (and perhaps female) customers.
The famous turn of phrase at Jirô is "Ninniku iremasu ka?" ("You want garlic?"), which has since been appropriated by dozens of imitator shops across the city. But those three little words, which must be properly parried by immediately rattling off a list of desired toppings (garlic, chili, veggies, and extra lard), were nowhere to be heard. Instead, the cook asked "Topping wa yoroshii deshou ka?" - imagine walking into a tough old fashioned New York deli and being asked "Would you happen to care for any mustard with your pastrami today, sir?" The pure visual impact of the bowl is perhaps less intense than at other Jirô branches as well - granted I ordered only a half serving of vegetables, but the Otakibashi bowl looks...well, more like an actual bowl of ramen than a terror-inducing mountain of wheat, vegetables, and liquid pig.
The noodles are different from most Jirô branches as well; rather than being unevenly cut, the noodles here are, while duly extra-thick and chewy, not as rough and raw as at other Jirô branches. Now, all this might sound like a big complaint, but if you've experienced Jirô before, the Otakibashi branch seems to be missing something of the ineffable Jirô-ness of the experience. But all it took was one single sip of that sumptuous soup to remember my Jirô-love. My sweet lord is it good. I think Jirô uses a very special kind of soy sauce in their tonkotsu shôyû (soy and pork bone) soup, and it is just exponentially richer and more delicious than anyone else's. Through some magical process of salt and marrow, Jirô has developed a broth that is almost sweet as sweet as sweet sweet lovin'. Toss a few shakes of chili on there and you good to go, holmes.
Nothing but nothing tastes as good as a bowl of Jirô after a long day of hiking and riding trains. I ate Jirô after climbing Fuji three years ago, and after this I may have to make reward bowls of Jirô a post-hiking tradition. I had never even come close to finishing all the soup at Jirô before, but when I looked down, I had nearly reached the bottom. Maybe my recent bowl of uber-fatty Tsubame-Sanjô ramen had recalibrated my tolerance? Despite my earlier whining, it was kind of nice to walk out of Jirô with my head held high and the top button on my pants still fastened. In the last year or two, dozens of imitation Jirô-clone shops have sprung up around Tokyo, but there's nothing like the original. Now to make pilgrimage to the original Mita Honten Jirô shop...
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The rise of project-based organisations
Unit Code: OPO5000
Duration: 6 weeks
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Credit Points: 6
The project-based organisation (PBO) is rapidly emerging as a genuine organisational form. This unit addresses the environmental forces that give rise to project-based organisations ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and the creation of value for the organisation. Also, you will investigate what leadership is, how it translates and you will critically analyse the requirements from leadership to guide the PBO.
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https://online.monash.edu/online-courses/units/the-rise-of-project-based-organisations/
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VIII International Biennial of Textile Miniatures, Vilnius, Litauen
THOUGHTS - THAT IS...
July 9 – 28, 2013 Exhibition opening at 5 pm, July 9, Tuesday, 2013 International textile miniature biennial "Thoughts - that is..." invited 87 artists’ from various 25 countries – from the Baltic countries to the most distant parts of the world (Australia, Japan, Latin America) into the join venue, which continues to tackle the urgent problem of human existence. Who and what are we? What settles our environment? The concept of the exhibition is based on the metaphysical statement, that material and spiritual worlds are interrelated, that thoughts can materialize. The invisible processes which are taking place in our mind create reality - real things, phenomena, emotions. Every object from our reality is the embodiment of the ideas, which have ever existed. Everything that surrounds us is the result of human mind. Human thoughts form not only objects, but also ones activity, creativity and personality. There is a lot of everything in the modern world - not only goodness, but also anger. The biggest discoveries in the world were born from bright thoughts, while anger and hatred gave birth to evil. Human mind is energy, which is able to create wonderful objects. Mind is propagating magnetic frequencies, which attract similar frequencies phenomena in the universe. The artists were invited to shape they thoughts into creation, irrespectively to what method of expression trey would choose - even surface or 3D composition, traditional forms of expression or innovative, interdisciplinary project.
The organizers of biennial encouraged the artists: a) to reflect the depth of their own personality through the materialized ideas in their creation; b) to raise the problems of human mind ecology and responsibility of what you think; c) to reveal the interaction of bright and dark minds and the consequences of their opposition; d) to analyze whether the thoughts have nationality, or whether the minds of different nations or ethnic groups are different. It is being expected, that facing the crises or disasters prioritizing spiritual values will correspond to the expectations of the artists at the time of biennial.
The works exhibited in biennial are different with respect to style and technique combining both traditional and innovative methods, reflecting individualities of the authors’ and dominating textile tendencies.
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Display your clothes in the best light possible with our practical yet stylish dressmaker form with tripod stand. Features height adjustable to accommodate a variety of garment styles and its pine wood finish looks good in any setting. The best part about this package that it is a complete deal with form and base in one with no need for two separate purchases. Made from high density foam is sturdy durable and perfect for displaying clothes. Lightweight design makes it easy to transport for use indoors or outside. Perfect for fairs market stalls and shops it will help boost your sales and appearance.
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Vicki discovered yoga by accident in London in the early 2000’s when she was working as a Senior Consultant in the Marketing recruitment industry. Her usual spin class was full, so she found herself in pigeon instead. A love affair began which continues today.
Once she moved to Sydney she embarked on the first of many teacher trainings, and has now undertaken thousands of hours of study with international teachers such as Tara Judelle, Noah Maze, Christina Sell, Darren Rhodes, and now trains under Tiffany Cruikshank and Yoga Medicine. In 2020 Vicki gained her Yoga Medicine® Therapeutic Specialist accreditation, and is passionate about working one on one therapeutically with students as well as teaching group classes.
With experience in several styles of yoga, Vicki is passionate about intelligent movement which draws influence from many modalities. Expect to work hard, and laugh a lot in her classes whilst moving safely through unique sequences and into shapes you never knew existed. Vicki is also trained in the teaching of myofascial release, so if you’re coming to one of her open classes, bring a tennis ball!
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Very slack blogging this week. I have been a little busy with school holidays and the twins birthdays, so forgive me. Check out that cake though!
Actually I didn’t make it – that’s what teenagers on holidays are for! The maltezers in the cream icing were yummy! And what did they get for their birthdays you may ask?
No, not a pony. Yet. But a whole day riding and playing with ponies. Yes, a whole day! Then they fell asleep in the car on the way home – a great gift for all!
Back to 1942. The 96th Battalion, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Coloured) arrived in Townsville on 10 April 1942 and camped at Oonoonba.
In late 1941, the Curtin Government’s Department of Information initiated propaganda which used a hate campaign against the Japanese as an instrument of war. The message was, “we’ve always despised them – now we must smash them.” On 10th April 1942, Robert Menzies (then an opposition back-bencher and later prime minister), gave a radio talk in which he spoke of the dangers of that policy, and thankfully the Curtin Government soon abandoned it. It must have been horrible to be a Japanese person in Australia or America at that time.
To nicer things….Look what I’ve found on ebay!
A Fowlers VACOLA #1 Preserving Kit, including 14 Jars Thermometer and instruction Book - from 1942.
I have bid on it of course. If I win I will really use it – promise.
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Dear Parents and Guardians, In response to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases at Holy Trinity Elementary and after consulting with our local Health Department, the decision has been made to close our school for the remainder of the week – Thursday, January 13 and Friday, January 14. There will be no > Read more
Calling all HTC, Marquette, and Aquinas Alumni! 2022 Homecoming week is quickly approaching and we would love to have some great ‘blast from the past’ pictures sent in so we can create a collage of fun memories made during our high school years! Please scan and email a copy of > Read more
HTC Homecoming t-shirt orders are now available! Orders due by Friday, January 7.
Holy Trinity would like to welcome Ms. Madeline Zillman as the new third grade teacher at Holy Trinity Elementary in West Point, IA. Ms. Zillman is a recent graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education with an endorsement in Special Education > Read more
We want to extend a big THANK YOU to HTC Athletic Boosters for their support of our atheltic programs, including the new girls basketball warm-ups! Check out the new warm-ups tonight at the basketball game vs. Danville (JV 5pm, VG 6pm, VB to follow). Student council will be collecting non-perishable items > Read more
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Joe Haden isn’t Albert Haynesworth.
The rookie CB only needed one attempt at passing a conditioning test. With that behind him, he is now cleared to start practicing with his new team. Just don’t expect him to be starting right away. Head coach Eric Mangini doesn’t want Haden being compared to his last first round rookie CB, Darrelle Revis.
“Everybody’s different, Revis is Revis and Joe is Joe. We’ll really have to see how it plays out.’’
Stay tuned to see how quickly Haden starts picking up the Browns defense.
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I recently read an account of a man on his way to his execution. When given the opportunity to express his last words, he simply said, “I am more than my life.”
This is a profound truth. We are all more than what is visible, more than our actions, more than what has happened to us. Our identities are never captured in a single event, a single descriptor, or a single characteristic. We know this because we automatically rebel a little inside when someone tries to put us in a box, even if the box is a good box. We want to say, “Yes, that’s true, but I’m also _____!” or “Sometimes I am ____________, sometimes I’m not.” or “I did do __________, but this is why and I meant to ________.” Teachers are notorious for putting students in boxes.
We are so quick to judge, to see others in narrow, confined ways, to categorize and then move on. Our hearing of the stories of others is broken. Our own brokenness arises from the way others listen to us because even though we know we are more, we start thinking of ourselves in these categories as well. We are more than the boxes, we are becoming more, we want to be more and we are called to be more.
Anthony Bloom, in his book, Encounter, gives us another way to listen, a way to “consent to the contents of what the other person says becoming part of us without picking and choosing: to listen to a person without discarding what is not congenial to oneself, or what is offensive or difficult to accept…to accept into oneself everything that that person will pour out, and to live through a shared experience in a kind of communion.” (p. 13) He says we know how to do this already.
We can listen to others the way we listen to music.
Think about that for a moment, think about how differently your mind and heart function when you listen to music. Music is never just one note. Unless we are music critics, we don’t approach it technically or objectively, instead we allow it to flood our minds and our heart. We relax and open, we give ourselves over to music, and even when the music is familiar we hear it a little differently each time with fresh ears and appreciation.
How would we listen differently to others if we listened to them like music?
We would not be in a hurry.
We would hear their beauty and experience the complexity of their whole being.
We would listen for the delight in each person and discover in their depths even more delight.
We would be listening in anticipation for the next part of their song rather than critiquing what we already heard.
We would be listening with enjoyment and appreciation and gratitude for their unique unrepeatable song.
We would create conditions to encourage them to keep singing.
We would hear how their song in intertwined with ours. We could tune our songs to them and offer them opportunities to harmonize with us and others.
We would develop policies and practices that are hopeful, life-giving, growth oriented and extravagantly spacious.
We would rebuke others when they forget to hear the music. We would say, “Maybe that is true, but they are more than that!”
Listening this way would heal us as teachers and make us the kind of teachers we want to be. Listening this way would teach our students to listen this way.
We are all more. We are all singing.
Bloom, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh (1999). Encounter. Oxford, UK: St. Stephen’s Press.
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https://educatingwithreverence.com/2015/12/03/listening-to-others-like-you-listen-to-music-2/
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G-Eazy Reveals Halsey Is Already Working On New Music
9 February 2018, 13:59 | Updated: 9 February 2018, 15:52
The rapper stopped by the PopBuzz Podcast to talk us through his new album and reveal what it is like to work alongside the 'Now Or Never' singer.
G-Eazy has given us some early details about forthcoming new music from Halsey, his girlfriend and collaborator on current single 'Him And I'.
G-Eazy was our guest on this week's PopBuzz Podcast when we asked him whether he had heard any of the 'New Americana' singer's latest work and he was FULL of praise for her songwriting ability:
"It's about me (laughs). Nah, but for real, she's working on some stuff and it's incredible. She's amazing, she doesn't miss, I swear, like, everything is incredible. If she writes it, it matters. That's how she works. And if it doesn't, she moves on."
Elsewhere, we also talked to the rapper about his current album The Beautiful And Damned as well as putting him through his paces in the dreaded PopBuzz Confession Booth.
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Posted on Politics and Social Sciences / eBook By Jo Fox / DMCA
Film Propaganda In Britain And Nazi Germany: World War Ii Cinema
Propaganda - so crucial to winning the battle of hearts and minds in warfare - witnessed a transformation during World War II, when film was fast becoming the most popular form of entertainment. In Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany, Jo Fox compares how each country exploited their national cinema for political purposes. Through an investigation of shorts and feature films, the author loo...
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s at how both political propaganda films and escapist cinema were critical in maintaining the morale of civilians and the military, and how this changed throughout the war. While both countries shared certain similarities in their wartime propaganda films - a harking back to a glorious historic past, for example - the thematic differences reveal important distinctions between cultures. This book offers new insight into the shifting pattern of morale during World War II and highlights a key moment in propaganda film history.
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In her most recent book, Seven Steps To Joy, Antonella Lo Re shares her personal journey to spiritual awakening, and gives her readers a step-by-step process that anyone can follow to find peace and joy in their own life.
Seven Steps To Joy
The pages of Seven Steps To Joy overflow with the strength, vulnerability and wisdom of a woman who began a journey with the love of her life, only to lose him. Through this dark and grief-filled period of her life, she had an awakening experience and found the path to continue with a heart full of joy, love and serenity.
Lo Re’s life story brings hope to the hopeless and encouragement to those who are in despair. Readers will be uplifted by her optimism and witty enthusiasm, as she shares what she has learned through her own journey: how to experience the inner peace and joy she once thought were impossible to reach.
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Another reader, Malaika Eastman, stated, “I whole-heartedly believe that Seven Steps To Joy is an invaluable gift to humanity that will indeed change many lives, undoubtedly liberate many hearts, and greatly contribute to raising the collective consciousness for a long time to come.”
In this inspirational, yet practical, self-improvement guide, readers will discover:
- how to reach joy and inner peace in 7 steps
- how to follow their own path of awareness
- what is missing from the current path they are following
- how to be joyful throughout the struggles life puts in their path
With the current level of interest around the topics of mindset psychology and the Law of Attraction, the story Seven Steps To Joy tells is a must-read for women.
Asked about her inspiration, Lo Re stated, “What really brought me to write this book was the need to put on paper what I had personally achieved after years of searching. I began realizing how easy it is for human beings to wish away our lives without savoring the present moment. So many of us are spending precious time complaining about the long-deferred joy we hope to attain, all the while overlooking the beauty and peace we could find in each day we live.
In response to the news that her book had become an international bestseller, Lo Re stated, “I am so pleased that I have this chance to share my story with women around the world. I believe anyone can find a path to joy and peace. Sometimes you just need someone who’s been there to show you the way.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Antonella Lo Re is a multilingual international traveler who is now enjoying the roles of “writer, self-improver, and mother.” Born in the beautiful Tuscany region of central Italy, she lived in several European countries before landing in the U.S., where she resided for more than two decades. Today she divides her time between homes in Switzerland and Washington, DC.
To learn more about, Antonella Lo Re, visit www.antonellalore.com
Seven Steps To Joy A Life Changing Path is available in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon:
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