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__label__cc	0.672603	0.327397	The Winner's Circle: Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000) Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell isn't in the best of circumstances as Bud, Not Buddy opens. His mother is dead, all of his possessions fit into a single suitcase, and he's being shipped off to yet another foster home during the heart of the Great Depression. But after things at the foster home go very wrong, Bud sets off on his own to find the father he's never known, with little to help him other than a faded flyer for a band: Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! So begins one of the modern classics of children's literature. Bud's adventures bring him into contact with a whole host of some of the best-realized characters in any children's book I've ever read. From the loathsome Todd Amos, to the jovial Lefty Lewis, and on to the enigmatic Herman E. Calloway himself, each one of them seems fully real, with personalities that extend far beyond the boundaries of the pages. Indeed, the characters are so impressively developed that Christopher Paul Curtis was later able to spin an entire novel around a minor character, Deza Malone, whose whole appearance in Bud, Not Buddy barely spans eleven pages. The tone of Bud, Not Buddy is also truly exceptional. It's a story full of deep sadness, albeit laced with real hope -- and yet it's also very, very funny. Bud is the kind of child who's learned to laugh in order to keep from crying, and his witticisms and sharp observations buoy the novel even in its darkest moments. It's extremely difficult to balance humor and pathos, and I'm hard-pressed to think of another children's book that does it better. With over a decade's worth of hindsight, Bud, Not Buddy appears to be an example of the Newbery committee making an unassailable choice. There were three Honor books in 2000: Getting Near to Baby, by Audrey Couloumbis; Our Only May Amelia, by Jennifer L. Holm; and 26 Fairmount Avenue, by Tommie dePaola. In most other years, Holm probably would have won the Newbery, but even as well-regarded as Our Only May Amelia remains, I haven't really heard anyone argue that it was unfairly passed over. Bud, Not Buddy also won the Coretta Scott King that year, and that too is an award with almost no complaints. Although his list of published works isn't particularly long, Christopher Paul Curtis is unquestionably a major author. In addition to his Newbery medal, he also has two Honors, for The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (1996 Honor), and Elijah of Buxton (2008 Honor); Elijah also won the Coretta Scott King, the Scott O'Dell, and the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children. But Bud, Not Buddy is still the cornerstone of Curtis's reputation, and a rock-solid one it is. Posted by Sam Eddington at 10:23 AM Labels: Newbery Wayback Machine, The Winner's Circle 2014 Contenders: Call Me Oklahoma!, by Miriam Glas... 2014 Contenders: Sugar, by Jewell Parker Rhodes 2014 Contenders: Doll Bones, by Holly Black The Winner's Circle: Bud, Not Buddy, by Christophe... 2014 Contenders: My Adventures as a Young Filmmake... 2014 Contenders: P.S. Be Eleven, by Rita Williams-... 2014 Contenders: A Girl Called Problem, by Katie Q... Digressions: Comment fail and Horn Book win 2014 Contenders: The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia ... 2014 Contenders: Never Say Die, by Will Hobbs	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line3
__label__cc	0.583113	0.416887	Tag Archives: Planned Parenthood Action Fund University of Arizona VOX: Summer Travelogue Posted on August 26, 2013 by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona University of Arizona VOX students represent Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona in Washington, D.C. Earlier this summer, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona sent four University of Arizona students to the annual Youth Organizing and Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by Planned Parenthood Action Fund. The conference brings together hundreds of young people from around the country who support the mission of Planned Parenthood and seek to bring awareness around sexual health and reproductive rights to their college campuses. The forum provides an opportunity for young people to learn from each other, share experiences and ideas, and become familiar with the top issues impacting sexual and reproductive health across the country. Apart from the obvious benefit — getting out of the 100-plus-degree weather here in Arizona — this conference is also a perfect venue to inspire and remind young people about the important role they play in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement. We wanted to take a moment to share some of highlights — from our VOX students — about the conference so you, too, can be inspired as we kick off the fall semester. From Nancy … Although I have been a youth volunteer with Planned Parenthood for five years now, this was the first time I was able to attend one of these wonderful conferences. The 2013 Youth Organizing and Policy Conference brought together like-minded people and encouraged us to speak out about reproductive justice, equal pay, and health care. Not only was it powerful to listen to advocates from around the country share their stories, but it helped me to understand how just a few voices can change the outlook of elections and large policy decisions. My favorite part about the conference was being able to walk through the Capitol and speaking with our Congressmen and women about issues we found important. I also thought it was mind-blowing how many young people there were behind the scenes running our governmental offices! It’s encouraging to know that when we reach out to our representatives, we are also reaching out to people of our age who help them in office. Overall I had a great experience in Washington, D.C. I walked away with many new ideas for outreach and also a renewed sense of optimism about our continued fight for our civil liberties. From Zoe … My experience at YOPC was truly inspirational. We were able to see and meet so many amazing people. My favorite part of the conference was lobby day, when we were able to meet with five Arizona congressmen and women to discuss issues important to young people and Planned Parenthood. Those who were involved in planning the conference did an incredible job, and I hope that I can attend another conference like this in the future! From Georgia … Attending the Youth Organizing and Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., was such an eye-opening and inspiring experience. We were so lucky to be able to meet with five supportive Congressional representatives from Arizona, which really gave me insight into what the lobbying process is like in Congress. While we were pretty exhausted after running around on Capitol Hill all day, the experience itself was extremely energizing and it felt awesome to be able to actively participate in the political process. The rest of the conference was just as awesome, and incredibly encouraging. In a time when it seems like there is a new anti-choice or anti-woman bill passed every day, it was amazing to see all the great work that is being done to push back across the country. I found it especially heartening to hear from students from states like Texas, North Carolina, and Florida, who are putting up an amazing fight against the choice-limiting legislation that is coming out of their states. Overall, I came back from the conference motivated and ready to implement what I learned with our VOX chapter next semester. We all wish the UofA VOX crew best of luck on campus this year and look forward to seeing what they do! To find out about a VOX chapter near you, check out Planned Parenthood’s website. Posted in PPAA News \| Tagged Arizona, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, UA, University of Arizona, UofA, Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood, Washington D.C., Youth Organizing and Policy Conference \| Leave a reply A Conversation With Faye Wattleton: Part 4, Looking Back Posted on February 25, 2013 by Rachel Port Faye Wattleton was president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992. She was generous enough to speak to me on January 7, 2013, and throughout the month of February we’ve shared her experiences and perspectives in observance of Black History Month. In this final installment, we look at her thoughts about her time at PPFA and her life after leaving Planned Parenthood. In 1970, just a few years after receiving her master’s degree, Faye Wattleton left the Dayton Health Department and the Visiting Nurses Association to serve as executive director for Planned Parenthood of Miami Valley in Ohio. While she was there, the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down, and when a local reporter asked for a comment, Ms. Wattleton realized that her affiliate had no prepared statement. As she wrote in her autobiography, “The national offices had communicated no strategy for addressing the implications of such a landmark decision.” “The exercise of safe reproductive health services and choices for women around the world is vital to the planet.” At the time, no one had known what to expect from the Supreme Court, and the ruling came as a shock to Wattleton and her colleagues. But the Roe v. Wade decision would eventually thrust Planned Parenthood into the highly politicized abortion debate, despite the fact that their mission was — and is — broader than that, focusing most of their energies on contraception, preventive care, and education. When Ms. Wattleton became Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s president in 1978, the organization had become, according to a 1979 Time Magazine article, “as all-American as the Girl Scouts and debutante parties.” But Ms. Wattleton restructured the national office staff in preparation for increasing political challenges, while continuing to expand medical and education services. During her first year, more than 60 percent of the national managerial staff left the organization. Reflecting on the restructuring, Ms. Wattleton says that had she known then what she knows now, she would have begun her tenure at PPFA differently. “I had been the executive director of a Planned Parenthood [affiliate] for seven years before I became president [of the national organization]. I felt like I really knew the organization, but what I learned [is that] anyone who has the privilege to ascend to national or international responsibilities can’t quite appreciate what it’s like, until you’re actually in the seat. Perhaps I really overestimated my perspective on some of the nuances of the importance of touching base with a number of the elements within the organization; like any other organization, Planned Parenthood has its factions.” Continue reading → Posted in History, National News \| Tagged abortion, African American, Alvarez and Marsal, Black History Month, Center for the Advancement of Women, Dayton, family planning, Family Planning International Assistance, Faye Wattleton, Faye Wattleton interview, gag rule, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Guttmacher Institute, Ohio, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood of Miami Valley, PPFA, religious right, reproductive rights, right to privacy, Robert Bork, Roe v. Wade, Ronald Reagan, squeal rule, Supreme Court, Title X, violence \| 7 Replies Meet Our Candidates: Dr. Richard Carmona for U.S. Senator The Arizona general election will be held on November 6, 2012, with early voting starting on October 11. After the many recent legislative challenges to reproductive health care access, both nationally and statewide, the importance of voting in November can’t be overstated. To help voters, Planned Parenthood Action Fund has endorsed candidates who have shown strong commitment to reproductive health and freedom. Along with those endorsements, we are spotlighting our endorsed candidates in a series called “Meet Our Candidates.” To vote in the general election, you must register to vote by October 9 — and can even register online. Make your voice heard in 2012! When announcing Dr. Richard Carmona’s endorsement by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, President Cecile Richards said that “Arizona women need a champion who has long fought to protect and promote women’s health representing them in Washington” — and as a former U.S. surgeon general, Carmona is uniquely positioned to advocate for scientifically driven, rather than agenda-driven, policies on health and medicine. “Health care should not be politicized.” Carmona already has experience fighting for evidence-based health policy in an increasingly polarized political climate. After leaving his position as surgeon general, Carmona testified before Congress that the George W. Bush administration continually hampered his attempts to present scientifically sound public health policy when it conflicted with their political agenda. As Carmona said in his testimony, the Bush administration silenced him on many issues, including emergency contraception and comprehensive sex education — and the public was denied access to the latest unbiased evidence on important public health issues. Carmona is running against Republican challenger Jeff Flake to succeed Jon Kyl as U.S. senator from Arizona. Flake’s congressional voting record is problematic, and includes support for an amendment to the Affordable Care Act to prohibit abortion coverage, support for defunding Planned Parenthood, and a vote against expanding the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). As a U.S. senator, Carmona can bring his lifetime of experience as a physician and public-health expert to the legislature. When it comes to our medical care, no matter our political affiliations, we all need access to the best scientific evidence, and we need someone who will be a champion for our health in the U.S. Senate. Dr. Carmona generously took time for an interview with us via telephone on October 3, 2012. Many of us, including myself, are becoming increasingly concerned about the hostility toward science exhibited by some of our current lawmakers. What can you do to inject reason and scientific evidence into an increasingly politicized discourse about public health? Well, first and foremost, if you remember my tenure as surgeon general, I had to do that. There was a lot of ideological, nonscientific-driven sentiment, and when necessary I stood up and I addressed the issues appropriately. It wasn’t a perfect world, especially when you have many of those ideologues thinking differently, but nevertheless, I will do the same thing as a senator. And I think I enter the Senate with, if you will, the imprimatur of being a surgeon general and a trauma surgeon and a registered nurse and a paramedic. I bring all those years of cumulative science to the table as I discuss things with my colleagues. And although they may be ideologically driven, and I will certainly acknowledge their personal beliefs, that’s not science and it’s not fact. Continue reading → Posted in Elections \| Tagged 2012 General Election, abstinence only, ACA, Affordable Care Act, AHCCCS, Arizona, Cecile Richards, comprehensive sex education, election, endorsement, evidence, family planning, general election, health care, health disparities, insurance, Jeff Flake, Medicaid, medicine, Meet Our Candidates, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, preventive health care, pro-choice, public health, reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, Richard Carmona, science, sex ed, sex education, sexual health, teen pregnancy, Todd Akin, U.S. Senate, U.S. surgeon general, unintended pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, vote, voting, women, women's health \| 2 Replies	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line8
__label__cc	0.576867	0.423133	Podcast 14: The Maternality of Anaïs Nin with Jessica Gilbey Australian scholar Jessica Gilbey explains an often ignored relationship—that between Anaïs Nin and her mother. Nin’s connection with her father has received a lot of intention, and to this day search data for their incestuous relationship on this blog remains among the top five. Searches for Rosa Culmell de Nin? Virtually none. Jessica Gilbey When Gilbey decided to write her doctoral thesis on how motherhood played a major role in Nin’s writing, her supervisor advised her to also explore Nin’s relationship with her own mother, which, at first, Gilbey was reluctant to do—mainly because the mother seemed to be mundane, plain, prosaic. But when she truly began to explore the bond between them, she discovered how much it informed Nin’s decisions, her rebellions, her path in life, her art, and even the other relationship in her life, including her father. All of these topics are included in Gilbey’s contribution to Volume 13 of A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, “Our Mother (Re)Born—The fertile treasure of Nin’s matrilineality.” Listen as Gilbey brilliantly and objectively discusses how Nin became a symbolic mother to many and biological mother to none, and how critics lashed out at her for her life choices, not to mention her decision to write about them. To listen to the podcast without iTunes, click here. To order a copy of Volume 13 of A Café in Space, click here. March 16, 2016 \| Filed Under A Cafe in Space, Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood, Anais Nin Podcast, Anais Nin Scholarship, incest, Podcasts \| Leave a Comment Upon the occasion of Anaïs Nin’s birthday Where Nin was born Today is Anaïs Nin’s birthday. She was born February 21, 1903 in Neuilly, France, near the Bois and the Seine. Her house was in a stately neighborhood where, perhaps, Proust’s characters could have lived. It was a time of horses and carriages, top hats, long voluminous gowns, gaslights and the rare telephone. In such a setting, who would have imagined someone was born who would become one of the leading modernists of the twentieth century, someone an entire generation not yet conceived would admire and look to as an inspiration, a guide, a guru, someone who would break all the rules, both in literature and in life? A little, sickly girl with a stern but musically gifted father, a mother whose own musical career would be stifled, a little girl who would nearly die from a burst appendix, a little girl whose father called “ugly,” whose father would abandon, thrusting her from all sense of comfort and security into a life of struggle and poverty in a foreign land? Who could imagine? And yet, here we are, 113 years later, celebrating the birth of this amazing icon of feminine literature by reading her work, talking about her, listening to her words recorded long ago, watching Anaïs Nin Observed or Henry and June, or just thinking about her for a few moments. This day in 1903 was a gift to all of us who have somehow been touched by Anaïs Nin, or are yet to be. To you, to us, to Anaïs…I lift a glass of gratitude. A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, Volume 13, is out now. Check it out for the latest on Anaïs Nin. Episode 13 of The Anaïs Nin Podcast has just dropped. You can listen to “The Music in Anaïs Nin” by clicking here. (14 minutes) February 20, 2016 \| Filed Under A Cafe in Space, Anais Nin, Anais Nin as inspiration, Anais Nin childhood, Anais Nin Podcast, Anais Nin Scholarship, Anais Nin's birthday \| Leave a Comment Anaïs Nin’s Incest: A Key To Understanding Her Art Recently I was interviewed by Anaín Bjorkquist, hostess of the SexLoveJoy podcast, about Anaïs Nin. Part of the discussion had to do with the fact that Nin had adult-onset incest at the age of thirty with her father, Joaquin Nin, in 1933 after two decades of estrangement. Nin described it in the unexpurgated diary aptly titled Incest, and she wrote about it honestly, explicitly, and beautifully from a literary point of view. The significance of it in terms of discussing Anaïs Nin’s sexuality was, naturally, part of the podcast. Despite the fact that the podcast is rated “explicit,” some listeners felt the incest portion was inappropriate, that somehow incest was “romanticized,” or that it should have been edited out, never mentioned. I feel Anaín was courageous for not making any changes, even after the feedback. But the feedback prompts me to discuss this hot topic further here, distasteful or not, as it may be. Question: how can one truly understand the life and work of Anaïs Nin if the nature of her most important relationship—the one with her father—is edited, disguised, or sugar-coated? Answer: it cannot. Incest, of course, is taboo in most cultures, disturbing to say the least, and is usually referred to in hushed voices. But Nin never backed down from any aspect of life, and I, for one, cannot back down from mentioning incest within the context her writing—that’s part of my job, to tell the truth as I know it so that readers can better understand her, her relationships, and ultimately the meaning of her work. Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V and I discuss this very topic in our recent podcast interview. The loss of Nin’s pianist/composer father at age ten (he abandoned the family for a young and beautiful piano student) was by far the most significant event in her life; it created the path she would take and the woman she would become. There was severe psychological damage—she not only lost her father, but her grandparents, the countries she adored (France and Spain), her language, her culture, and the entirety of her life as she knew it. She began her diary at age eleven onboard the ship that would bring her, her mother and two brothers to New York in 1914. It was originally intended as a letter to her father, naïvely pleading with him to come to New York and rejoin the family. In it, she painted a distorted but alluring picture of America to win him back…yes, she learned ruse and enticement at a tender age, but its first application was for naught since her father never did come back. When her father failed to return, and the reality of the impossibility of such a return became apparent, Nin began to seek him in others. This began when she married Hugh Guiler, a man whom she saw, in some ways, as a substitute father, but one who was kind, gentle and faithful. However, the nature of her attraction to him, coupled with Guiler’s own inexperience with women, created a sexual incompatibility that would last for the rest of their lives. She then began a search for a man who not only could fill the role of father figure, but who could also make her feel like a desirable woman. Her first attempt was with John Erskine, Guiler’s former professor, in 1929. But Erskine, overwhelmed by the young Anaïs’s beauty and a sense of loyalty to Guiler, was unable to finish the act in a hotel room. This sent Nin into a tailspin of self-doubt and shame. She had feelings of incompleteness, of failure as a woman, and most of all—of abandonment. She contemplated suicide, thought of jumping off a ship into the ocean. This depression lasted for years. Henry Miller, whom Nin met in 1931, seemed to be the man she’d been seeking—not only was he older, wiser, and took Nin under his wing, he was also the one who initiated Nin to sex as she hoped it would be—raw, passionate, all-consuming. This, coupled with the fact he would mentor her writing, gave her the sense of having finally become a woman in the true sense of the word, as she writes in the unexpurgated diary, Henry and June. By 1933, Nin was sexually alive, her impulses were strong, and she was engrossed in Miller’s life. But she soon began to realize that Miller had an inhuman quality, one that, especially when he was writing, shut out all others, Nin included. Nin realized he could never be completely hers, or anyone else’s, and his long list of romantic failures bears this out. When Miller locked himself in his room with his typewriter, Nin felt the presence of the old demon—abandonment—once again. How could she rid herself of this constant imbalance, this constant fear of being left alone? Her desires, of course, had long been distorted and amplified by the original abandonment, and she grew to feel that no singular man could provide her with a sense of being loved or could commit to her absolutely, so that even with two main men in her life (Miller and Guiler), she felt utterly alone. Then, Nin’s father, after a long silence, began to write her again after a friend told him what a beautiful woman she had become. This led to a reunion at her house in Louveciennes almost exactly twenty years after he’d left the family. This meeting, of course, had a huge impact on Nin, who was finally beginning to realize she was a desirable woman, a fact most men in her company did not fail to notice, most notably her Don Juan father. The elusive father, dashing, charming, romantic, aristocratic, impeccably groomed, with a grandiose personality, then began an all-out campaign to woo his daughter. He told her that of all the women he’d known, she was the one—and he lamented the fact that the “one” was his own daughter! “You are the synthesis of all the women I have loved,” he told her. He said that if she visited him in the South of France, everyone would believe they were lovers, thereby introducing the concept to her. His letters were frequent and increasingly emotional. He predicted “chapters” would be written in his hotel room that would surpass those of D. H. Lawrence. All of this, combined with everything else that had preceded his return, was a potent elixir she had no ability to resist. She had spent most of her life trying recapture the father she had lost, and he was giving her a way to do it literally, a way to face the demons and to destroy them at long last. She described the affair in eloquent detail in her diary; she called the passages the “father story.” The incest itself was, for her, a living symbol. She looked at it from the inside, through the lenses of literature and psychology, not one of morality or artificial convention. She did not condemn herself, nor her father, and some readers find this outrageous. They expect guilt, remorse, atonement, but Nin had none. It was part of her life, an event that occurred, a stone in the mosaic, and like all other events, she recorded it in her diary from the depths of her psyche. As one of my recent podcast guests, Lana Fox, says, “She didn’t judge herself for this. She embraced it, made it her own, and she wrote about it in stunning language.” Fox, a childhood incest victim, says Nin’s incest passages changed her life, gave her permission to accept what had happened to her, to accept herself, to empower herself, to grow, to flourish. That is what we mean by the power of writing. Nin’s incest is more than a taboo, more than a forbidden act, more than two family members engaging in a sexual affair—it is the culmination of many complex events and emotions, the result of trauma, loss, years of mourning and craving, a product of self-loathing, doubt, the feeling of being unloved and unlovable. And it was an event that would forever change her life, especially the nature of her work. Nin wrote about incest abstractly in The House of Incest (1936), lyrically in “Lilith” (1939) and injected its essence into much of her later fiction. It flavored who she was—it caused her to grow in a completely different direction. It didn’t save her—she ultimately rejected her father, who died alone in Cuba in 1949—but it made her more aware of who she was and what she needed from life and relationships. There are those who refuse to accept Anaïs Nin because of incest. There are others who refuse to believe it really happened. There are those who wish this would never be mentioned again, that it is “icky,” “disgusting,” “immoral,” and so on…but the failure to include it in any comprehensive discussion of Anaïs Nin would be a failure to understand exactly who she was, how she got that way, and what informs her writing. October 22, 2015 \| Filed Under Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood, Anais Nin Podcast, Henry Miller, Hugh Guiler, incest, Joaquin Nin and Anais Nin \| 6 Comments Anais Nin Podcast 5, part 2: 5 more questions for Anais Nin with answers La Coupole: 1930s social media? Part 2 of episode 5 of The Anaïs Nin Podcast picks up where Part 1 left off: with answers to the last five of the ten questions Nin fans said they would have liked to ask her, the answers to which are thoroughly researched and explained. The subject matter of Part 2 includes the Paris café life as a precursor to social media and how Anaïs Nin would have used Twitter, Facebook, blogs and podcasts today; the end of her love affair with the famed “laboratory of the soul,” her home in Louveciennes, and her undying affinity with France; how Nin kept (or didn’t keep) her two husbands unaware of each other; Nin’s choice to not bear children—whether it was selfishness, as commonly thought, or a much deeper reason; and how Nin went about the construction her most ignored genre of work, her fiction. The “laboratory of the soul” With the invaluable help of Sex Love Joy podcaster, Anaín Bjorkquist, these questions are addressed, discussed and answered as closely as possible to how Anaïs Nin herself would have. Once again, special thanks go to Lulu Salavegesen (@Shimmerinbloom) for the concept of this series. You can listen to Podcast 5, Part 2 on iTunes by clicking here, or, if you don’t have iTunes, by clicking here. To learn about Part 1 and listen to it, click here. Run time: 33 minutes. Enjoy. June 18, 2015 \| Filed Under A Cafe in Space, Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood, Anais Nin Podcast, Daisy Aldan, Henry Miller, Hugh Guiler, Joaquin Nin and Anais Nin, Louveciennes, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, Paris, Podcasts, Rupert Pole \| Leave a Comment No Ordinary House: Anais Nin’s 110th Birthday Anaïs Nin was born 110 years ago on Feb. 21, 1903 at Neuilly-sur-Seine in what was then a newly built luxurious building at 7 rue du Général Henrion Bertier, which still stands today. The house, and the one next door, an identical building, were both built in 1895. The city of Neuilly was kind enough to send along some specs for the house. The specs roughly state that the houses were built parallel to each other and perpendicular to the street, with basements and four floors and a courtyard. The building materials consist of limestone, stone and slate. The front of the house has covered gables, and the roofs are made of long sections. The rear of the house is broken into sections with uncovered gables. There is a spiral staircase which is suspended, and a décor which consists of sculpture. This was no ordinary house, and this was no ordinary neighborhood. It would perhaps be the most luxurious place little Anaïs ever occupied. The street view is below: Alas, the family would not remain long in Neuilly, since Joaquin Nin was a composer and pianist who traveled much of Europe on concert tours. They would go to Havana, Cuba, where 2 year old Anaïs contracted typhoid fever. She became very ill, losing weight and her hair, drawing taunts from her father as an “ugly duckling,” something that would scar Anaïs for life. After Havana, the Nins settled in a cheaper house in St-Cloud, near Paris, one of many places to which they would relocate, followed by Berlin and Brussels. To learn more about the Neuilly house, click here. To see more posts on Anaïs Nin’s birthday, including her family heritage, click here. To celebrate Anaïs’s 110th, get Volume 10 of A Café in Space, which contains excerpts from her unpublished diary. It is available in both print and digital formats. February 20, 2013 \| Filed Under Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood, Anais Nin's birthday \| Leave a Comment Thorvald Nin: Anais Nin’s brother Anaïs Nin valued writer Marguerite Young’s opinions about her as-of-yet unpublished Diary 1, which begins in 1931, just before the 28 year old Nin met Henry Miller. While Young understood why Nin and her editor/agent Gunther Stuhlmann decided to begin the first published diary at that stage of Nin’s life (because it was arguably the most interesting period), she still expressed a desire to know more about Nin’s early years and her family members, all of whom are briefly mentioned in the diary for the sake of background. In this revealing conversation, Young gets Nin to open up about her feelings towards her brother Thorvald, her mother, and her father. Nin explains how, as a child, she knew everything about her father’s infidelity and that when he left the family at Arcachon in 1913 he would never return. She reveals why she felt Thorvald had estranged himself from the family, and Young offers her own rather surprising opinion, as you shall hear. In response to her Aunt Anaïs’s remarks, Thorvald’s daughter, Gayle Nin Rosenkrantz, says, “I must respond to the theory about my Dad’s going into the business world. My poor Dad had no choice in the matter. His mother made him turn down a four year engineering scholarship at Cornell and told him he had to get a job to help support the family. He was obedient. He went into business because that is all an 18 year old boy could do. Get a ‘go-fer’ job in a bank and hope it leads to something. Believe me, he was broken hearted.” Thorvald Nin, ca. 1950 She adds that Thorvald “was never ‘estranged’ from his family. He always remained loving towards his mother and [his brother] Joaquín. He helped support his mother throughout her life. He was not a great letter writer, that is for sure, but ‘estranged’ is not the right word. When I was growing up we never lived in the States so we never saw my grandmother or Uncle Joaquín or Aunt Anaïs except during the brief times we spent in New York in between living in one Latin American country or other. When we were there we did spend time with both Anaïs and Hugo and Grandmother and Joaquín, and I remember in particular how warm and caring Hugo was with us. In the late 40s and early 50s Anaïs and sometimes both Anaïs and Hugo would come to Mexico and spend time with my Dad and his second wife Kay quite often. When Kay and Dad retired and moved to Florida, Anaïs and Hugo visited them off and on. Now my Dad was critical of Anaïs, no doubt about that. He did not think she was a ‘good’ writer and thought her novels were impossible to understand. He also knew that she was not living a straight and narrow domestic life, and because he cared for and admired Hugo, he disapproved of her infidelities. He talked about this to me when I was much older and long after Anaïs died. When I was growing up, Dad never discussed Anaïs in a hostile manner. “My Dad loved music so even though he himself was not a professional musician, he did appreciate the arts. He always remained close to Joaquín. “When Anaïs started publishing her diaries, in the 1960s, my Dad very clearly requested that she not include anything about him. She ignored that, and he was furious. The last time they saw each other was in San Francisco in 1971 for the Mass of Dedication of the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary. Joaquín had been commissioned to compose the music for the Mass so Dad and Kay flew in from Florida and Anaïs came up from Los Angeles. [My husband] David and I took everyone out for dinner that evening and the exchange between Dad and his sister was not pleasant for the rest of us. So, yes, my Dad became estranged from his sister, but not from the rest of his family.” To listen to the 16 minute conversation between Anaïs Nin and Marguerite Young, click here. For more on Nin’s parents, click here. To hear Young and Hugh Guiler discuss Nin’s diary, click here. To listen to Nin read “Under a Glass Bell,” click here. To listen to Nin reading about her fictional characters Lillian, Djuna, and Sabina, click here. To see all Nin titles available as e-books, visit our e-bookstore. To purchase books from Anaïs Nin’s Silver Lake collection, click here. June 23, 2011 \| Filed Under Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood, Anais Nin sound files, Nin Family \| Leave a Comment Anais Nin’s childhood writings: Christmas, 1919 The Nin home in Kew Gardens, NY By the time sixteen (almost seventeen) year old Anais Nin wrote the following passage in her childhood diary (translated from the original French), she, her mother, and two brothers had been in New York for five years. Stubbornly hanging onto her French while her hopes of agains seeing her father, who remained in France, were fading, Anais describes her Christmas Eve and Day: December 26, 1919. After having waited for Maman on Christmas Eve with great impatience, I had the joy of seeing her arrive with a dozen little packages containing a few small details to decorate the tree. After dinner we began to trim the tree–a tall fir, with its topmost branch kissing the lofty ceiling, as though to wish it a Merry Christmas too. The four of us were busy, happily placing the little candles, balls of every color, snowflakes, stars, little dolls, little bags of candy, and all the other charming things that traditionally disguise a solemn evergreen to make it more human, that is, more attractive to man’s gaze and all his senses. That was quickly done. Then came the moment to place the gifts, the packages nicely wrapped in tissue paper and red ribbon, and crowned with a little tag with a name. What mysteries, what smiles! Joaquinito’s eyes were worthy of study. Thorvald’s were not quite so big, but almost as expressive. My curiosity, which had been dormant a long time, was also awake but less noisy, like Maman’s. Once again I had the impression of being much older in my ideas, very far away from Thorvald and Joaquinito, unable to share their happy-go-lucky nature, and because of that, closer to Maman, closer to the more serious things in Life. The time came to go to bed. I took one last look at the holly which I had used to decorate the mantels, lamps, windows, and banister, and the mistletoe hanging on a red ribbon. The tree shone at the end of the dark parlor. Do you believe that I thought only of the beauty of the scene? No, mixed with my somewhat poetic impressions were thoughts that responsibility has taught me. I was thinking also that everything was clean and in order. A woman has to be a practical poet! The night was disturbed by dreams. The doors were open and I heard all of my dear family rolling over and over, each in his own bed. It wasn’t just the excitement of Christmas night, it was also the cold and the wind. . At dawn I was awakened by a strange feeling of rain on my face. It was snow that the wind invited into my room and onto my bed, through the open window. I got up to close it and saw the result of the silent work accomplished in the night by the Great Painter. The landscape was majestic! I was so thrilled I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I thought. I must have looked funny, half sitting up in bed, staring out of the window, thinking of many different things, while the dim light of early morning filtered slowly into my room. Of course I was the first one dressed. But the snowstorm had been so violent that I didn’t go to Mass. Before Thorvald and Joaquinito left, we lighted the tree and sang “Venite Adoremus,” accompanied on the piano by Joaquinito. The packages were opened and immediately the cries of joy began. Breakfast was a little quieter, for Maman wasn’t feeling well. Afterward, while the boys went out, Maman and I dressed with great care. I had made a big tulle bow for my black velvet dress. Sometimes it amuses me to be a coquette…. The visitors arrived a little while before dinner. The dinner was a success, as almost all dinners are. It’s not very difficult to talk, eat; laugh, talk, eat, laugh until it’s over. Some people talk very little and eat a lot. Others only talk and laugh, but several eat well, talk delightfully and laugh at the same time. That must be a characteristic of a “woman of the world.” Doubtless it’s a good quality! By trying hard, I succeeded in talking a good deal in order to be pleasant. I am not unsociable any more! To avoid being unsociable, one must tell lies and act like a clown, which is very simple for liars (or flatterers–same thing) and for clowns! After dinner we talked. There must be a reason for this old custom. I think it’s because a starving man is not very pleasant, so after dinner everyone has an opportunity to be agreeable, in order to make up for past mistakes. To complete the celebration of this beautiful day, I went sledding with Thorvald and Joaquin after dinner. There are always many children and it’s a real party. Even now I can see the hill and the sleds going by, overflowing with children. I can hear the shouts clear into Maman’s room, where I am keeping her company, as she is in bed. They nicknamed me “White Cap” because of my white beret, and since J oaquinito answers all their questions every time I go, yesterday a few of the boys called “au revoir” and other words that they murdered with the worst American accent. I don’t know why, but the few girls who go there can’t stand me, and while I was wondering why all of them were giving me such unkind looks, I heard three girls talking near me as a sled full of boys went by, shouting (the boys, not the sled): “Hello, White Cap!” “Want to ride on our sled?” One girl said: “See that girl with the white tamo’-shanter? Well, she is the biggest flirt!” And the other one added: “Most of the boys behave like fools since she comes here.” Decidedly, I will have to change my hair style! (From Linotte, pp. 392-394) To read Anais Nin’s account of her first Christmas in New York, click here. December 24, 2010 \| Filed Under Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood \| 1 Comment Anaïs Nin’s Childhood Writings: 13th birthday On Feb. 22, 1916, the day after Anaïs Nin’s 13th birthday, she made this entry into her childhood diary, Linotte (translated from the French): 13 years old! An age when the world gives a glimpse of its abyss of pleasures. 13 years old! An age when the future, which yesterday seemed far away, comes to haunt one’s dreams. 13 years old! An age when a locked heart opens, when one that is open becomes locked. 13 years old! An age when a little girl breaks the frail cocoon and becomes a young lady. I am 13 years old! Anais Nin at 13 It seems to me that yesterday I am newborn or have just died. It seems to me the old Anaïs has nothing to do with the new one. A year ago, 2 years ago, I glimpsed what had just happened like an old remembered story, because memory is like a film, for when the foggy curtain rises, an entire life unrolls before one, all the ups and downs of that long, simple, moving story, “Life.” Nonetheless, yesterday is gone. Today I picked up with the same habits, the same routine, and, I confess, the same disposition. Oh, but it’s difficult to improve oneself. Yesterday when I did the same things, I scolded myself. I promised to stop. Then someone calls me, I turn around, and Plif! it all disappears and I begin again only the regret again later. Ah, how unthinking we are! And all-powerful God from His throne on high must certainly smile and say: I must make a soul of iron… I don’t think that it would be so frivolous, so forgetful. But then we would be completely useless and I suppose that it’s better to do something wrong that can be mended than nothing. But I criticize frivolous people and I am one myself. Here is a proof of that. The same evening, after the little party Maman gave for that marvelous 13th birthday, I wrote to Papa, and afterward, the next day, to my confidant. Those are the only two (including Maman) to whom I give my heart and my impressions immediately after the fact, for that is the single instant when they are perfect. To see posts on Anaïs Nin’s cultural heritage, parents, birthplace, and birth certificate, click here. February 20, 2010 \| Filed Under Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood, Anais Nin's birthday \| 3 Comments Anaïs Nin’s Childhood Writings: New Year’s Eve 1919 By December 1919, Anaïs Nin and her family had been in New York for more than five years. As 1920 approached, sixteen year old Anaïs recorded the following into her diary (Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 1914-1920 400-402): It is 11. Maman is in bed; so are Thorvald and Joaquinito. I am writing—the two of us are waiting for the New Year! How many things there are that no one can write, no one understand! Tonight I am troubled by many different feelings, for as I realize a New Year is about to begin, I have been going over the old one… Many people generally spend the few hours before midnight making resolutions and promises. I promise nothing; I have such a weak character that I can’t promise to be better, but God knows how much I want to be, with what enthusiasm and will power. I want what is best in me to live. But I know that I have very few things to ask for just now, compared to the infinite number of things for which I should give thanks. What do we lack? Anaïs Nin, December 1919 It’s about my gratitude that I can’t write; it’s too lofty, too strange, too vague. My feelings are too sincere to be expressed in mere words! I can confide my wishes to you—you know that I want to become better and better, you know that Maman’s happiness is above all else for me, you know that my little brothers’ happiness is as important to me as my own, you know my love for the perfection of our home, my search for the most beautiful books, everything from my tiniest whim, my ambitions, up to the tiniest, simplest prayer, and my regrets—you know all that…and more! The pettiest and most childish thing in other people’s opinion, but the thing I consider a real treasure, is the little bit of my heart and the sweep of my imagination which await the stranger… Will it be this year that I find the sweet light that people call—I am almost ashamed to name it, it’s my only secret—I am thinking about love… If I didn’t dream so much, I would never have thought of that, but everything beautiful appears in my dreams, and love is so beautiful! I haven’t told you anything about the dance… I met a boy there whose name I don’t know… I learned the last name of my little neighbor, Raymond McCormick, because he lends me books… But here I am, waiting for the New Year and talking about little boys, about children! I who am always to serious—no, not serious, I mean calm and indifferent about gentlemen. …It will soon be midnight. My little “Love” has been weeping at the door for a long time without being able to come in, and I look at the picture for a long time with a smile. If he doesn’t come in this year, I won’t be able to bear the sorrow and I’ll give the picture to someone else… What a quiet way to await the beginning of another year! There must be many other things to think about that are more important than the passage of time, since so many other things stir our enthusiasm and drive us to act. That proves that Time doesn’t rule through the power of the Inevitable, and that the Inevitable isn’t Life. There are the bells, the whistles. Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Anaïs Nin’s Childhood Writings: First Christmas in New York After Anaïs Nin’s father, Joaquín Nin, abandoned his family in Arachon, France in 1913, her mother took her daughter and two sons, Thorvald and Joaquinito, to New York to begin a new life. Ensconced in a house in Kew Gardens, outside of New York City, Anaïs marked her first Christmas outside of Europe, which was at the time embroiled in World War I. It was a bittersweet day, a mixture of joyous celebration with her extended family, and a mournful longing for the return of her father. The following comes from p. 37 of Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 1914-1920: “Merry Christmas!” That was the shout when we woke up. What a surprise, hanging near the bed…a stocking for each of the three of us. What a lovely Christmas. There was a top for Thorvald, caramels for Joaquinito, oranges, holly, snow (imitation), how beautiful! And that’s not all. Coquito led the way downstairs. New joy, new shouts. A beautiful Christmas tree, all lighted, and toys, it was wonderful. I was in the group of children too. Finally Uncle Gilbert calmed us down and it was with happy hearts and smiling faces that we sang “Adeste Fideles” all together. Then the blond heads and dark heads bent down to read the names and see a beautiful gun, skates, a box of chocolates for Coquito, a little car, a doll for Nuna, shiny proud soldiers for Thorvald, a little boat for Joaquinito, for Anaïs, a beautiful white bed from Aunt Edelmira, a book and a box of writing paper from Maman. Oh, I really don’t deserve it. The cries of joy ended and we had breakfast. The house is full of holly. Holly wreaths hang at the windows. The dining room lamp is ornamented with a beautiful white bell tied round with red ribbon, a charming effect. Afterward Uncle Gilbert, Thorvald and I went to take Communion. How sweet it is to be able to say, I belong to Jesus. The rest of the day was calm and happy. In spite of that, in spite of my happiness, I did not forget Papa. If he had been there, I could have shouted, I am in paradise. I have thought a lot about God’s goodness. I am here with my family, warm, needing nothing. How many children over there are dying of cold and hunger. Here I have Maman, I am happy and can feel her tender kiss. How many children over there weep for their mothers or weep for the father who will never return. I can console myself knowing that I have Papa, who is far away, it’s true, but he is there and I have the hope of receiving his kiss that I long for so much. It’s not right to be sad on such a happy day, and to avoid that I am going to bed and dream about Papa’s homecoming. One word more. Today I couldn’t help thinking of Christmas 1912, which I spent in Brussels in a sickbed, with an operation in prospect. I couldn’t help telling God, O Jesus, your kindness is infinite. Thanks to your mercy, I have been allowed to have a merry Christmas here in New York with my family. I shall stop. I feel like crying with I remember my dear Brussels. December 24, 2009 \| Filed Under Anais Nin, Anais Nin childhood, Joaquin Nin and Anais Nin, Nin Family \| 1 Comment	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line11
__label__cc	0.670189	0.329811	EO imposing cap on pay/perks of GOCC execs out next week MANILA, Sept. 3 – President Benigno S. Aquino III said on Friday the executive order imposing a cap on the salaries and perks of executives of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) will be issued next week and “would become part of the law of the land.” In an interview following the inauguration of the expanded facility of Convergys Philippines in Sta. Cruz, Manila, the President said he is waiting for the draft from the Department of Budget and Management “on how to tighten up” the existing Administrative Order No. 103 of 2001 adopting austerity measures in government. He said the draft EO “will prevent the excessive pay benefit packages that some GOCC executives have been basking in for such a long time.” The President said he expects resistance to this EO “from those who have gotten all of these fat pays, but we will insist that their positions and benefits are due the government and the people.” The government is making an inventory of all the GOCC executives, the pays and bonuses they have been getting and the legalities of how they managed to afford themselves all of these. He said the EO will be all-encompassing, and will rationalize, put a cut and limit the pay packages for government nominees. The President earlier this month told reporters that the draft EO will reiterate the cap that is already contained in an existing order of the previous administration but which was not enforced. (PNA) scs/PCOO/rdlc/utb	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line15
__label__wiki	0.871182	0.871182	BNP’s 35th founding anniversary Sunday The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will celebrate its 35th founding anniversary on Sunday through various programmes. On September 1, 1978, late President Ziaur Rahman founded the party with a 19-point programme to build a self-reliant Bangladesh. After the assassination of Zia on May 30, 1981 in Chittagong, his widow Khaleda Zia took lead of the party. Meanwhile, the party and its associated bodies have taken elaborate programmes to mark the founding anniversary. As part of the programmes, the party arranged a discussion at the Institution of Engineers on Saturday. Earlier, on August 21, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office announced a two-day programme, including the discussion, to mark the founding anniversary. Besides, the party and national flags will be hoisted atop all the offices of BNP across the country in the early morning on Sunday. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia along with the party leaders and activists will place wreaths and offer fateha at the mazar of its founder late president Ziaur Rahman at 10am on the day. Former President Zia through founding BNP added a new dimension to the country’s politics with the introduction of the ideology of ‘Bangladeshi Nationalism’ with the slogans of ‘politics of development and production’. BNP has ruled the country for several terms while the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia became the country’s first woman prime minister after winning the 1991 general election. Khaleda, now leader of the opposition in parliament, became the country’s premier in 1996 (for a short time) and 2001. The BNP restored the parliamentary system through the 12th amendment to the Constitution in 1991 and introduced the caretaker government system through the 13th amendment to the Constitution in 1996 paving the way for holding polls under non-party caretaker government which was annulled by the current regime. BNP has been on the movement since the government scrapped the system demanding its restoration. Meanwhile, party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has asked the party leaders and activists at all levels to observe the anniversary in a befitting manner. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and the acting secretary general congratulated the countrymen, party leaders, workers and activists and well-wishers on the occasion of the founding anniversary. In her message, Khaleda said, “Today, the country’s independence and sovereignty are at stake. The government has been ignoring the national interest through various activities and signing anti-state agreements.” “Under this suffocating situation, we can’t sit idle. BNP is continuing movement together with people to realise their rights, assuage their sorrows and pains and protect the country’s independence and sovereignty. Our main aim is to restore the caretaker government system in the constitution which the government cancelled by force,” she added. The BNP chief urged all, including the party leaders and activists, to take all-out preparation for a strong movement. Source3: UNBConnect bdchronicle সন্ত্রাসী বাহিনীর ভয়ে মানুষ গত নির্বাচনে ভোট দিতে পারেনি : মির্জা ফখরুল Nation facing worst time because of internal enemies: Fakhrul ‘Pro-Awami League’ officials given election duty, alleges BNP Khaleda to sit in emergency meeting tonight bdchronicle - December 30, 2015 Fakhrul elected vice-chairman of APDU The Bangladesh Chronicle - March 16, 2019 ‘Fresh poll will end agitation’ bdchronicle - January 6, 2014	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.514592	0.514592	Torna in home Furniture units MADRID FESTIVAL arflex il 14/02/2018 17:14 During the first edition of the design Madrid Festival, in the whole month of February, it is possible to visit at the cultural centre Fernán Gómez in Plaza de Colón 4, all the works designed by Jaime Hayon, and between them the last models designed for arflex the armchair Leafo, which special form is inspired by a leaf falling form a tree and becomes a symbol of comfort, and the sofa and small tables Arcolor, where the designer Jaime Hayon wants to create a modular system designed around the classical geometry of the arch, giving a strong coherence and rhythmic repetition of the form, to enhance their modularity in different configurations. 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If necessary, the data relating to the newsletter service may be processed by the Data Processor or by the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data pursuant to art. 4 n. 10 of Reg. (EU) 2016/679 for this purpose at the headquarter referred to in the preceding subparagraph. III – PROCESSED DATA 5 – Types of data processed and data processing methods 5.1. As all websites, also this website makes use of log files in which information collected in an automated form is stored during users visits. The gathered information is: 5.1.1. URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) Addresses of requested resources; 5.1.2. The request moment; 5.1.3. The method used to submit the request to the server; 5.1.4. The file size obtained in response; 5.1.5. The numeric code indicating the status of the response given by the server; 5.1.6. Other parameters concerning the operating system and the user’s IT infrastructure. 5.2. The information referred to in paragraph 5.1 are automatically processed and collected in an exclusively aggregate form in order to elaborate anonymous statistical information on the website use and to verify the correct website functioning, as well as for security reasons. This information will be processed on the basis of the Controller’s legitimate interests and deleted within 90 days. 5.3. In addition to the information referred to in paragraph 5.1., the following personal data may also be collected from this website: 5.3.1. E-mail address (in case of an information request e-mail sent by the user at the address info@arflex.it or in case of provision of this data made by the same user, to the Controller or qualified entities during contacts, Fairs or events on order to be included in the newsletter service); 5.3.2. Third parties e-mail address (in case of compilation of the website document sharing form through the inclusion of the address of a subject different from the user and the Controller; in this case the user declares that he has been expressly authorized by the person concerned to provide the Controller this personal data or, however, to be entitled pursuant under the existing regulations on the protection of personal data, declaring to indemnify Seven Salotti S.p.A. from any legal action and/or initiative to protect the interests that the person concerned -as a subject whose the e-mail address has been provided - could put in place in case of unlawful data processing due to lack of consent as well as for any further reason); 5.3.3. User’s Name and Surname (if such data is provided in case of an information request e-mail sent by the user at the address info@arflex.it or in case of provision of this data made by the same user, to the Controller or qualified entities during contacts, Fairs or events on order to be included in the newsletter service), even if it is contained in the company's name; 5.3.4. Telephone contact and further personal data provided by the user (if this data is provided by the user through an information request e-mail sent at the address info@arflex.it or in case of provision of this data made by the same user to the Controller or qualified entities during contacts, Fairs or events on order to be included in the newsletter service); 5.3.5. Residence/domicile/headquarter company address (iif such data is provided in case of an information request e-mail sent by the user at the address info@arflex.it or in case of provision of this data made by the same user, to the Controller or qualified entities during contacts, Fairs or events on order to be included in the newsletter service); 5.3.6. IP Address (Internet Protocol) exclusively for the purpose of the following art. 5.6.. 5.4. The personal data referred to in paragraph 5.3. will be processed by the operations indicated in art. 4 n. 2) GDPR, specifically: collection, registration, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of data. 5.5. The personal data referred to in paragraph 5.3, also of an identifying type, are collected and processed in an automated manner for the purposes set out in the following art. 6. 5.6. The information referred to in paragraph 5.1. may be used for the assessment of liability in case of cybercrimes against this website, as is the personal data referred to in paragraph 5.3.6. which are processed exclusively for this purpose. 5.7. For security purposes (anti-spam filters, firewalls, virus detection), information and automatically recorded data referred to in paragraph 5.1. may be used to block attempts of website damage or other harmful or crimes activities, according to the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller or and the current legislation. 5.8. In case of submission of a CV for a possible work opportunity, the data is considered voluntarily provided by the user at the time when the e-mail has been sent. The CV will be examined and, if it will be saved or otherwise stored for future working partnerships, a synthetic information document will be provided from Seven Salotti S.p.A. to the user according to the current legislation. 5.9. The information that website users will make public through the services and tools available are considered provided by the user knowingly and willingly, by exempting Seven Salotti S.p.A. from any responsibility according to the violation of the law. The user has the task of checking whether he has the permission to enter personal data of third parties obtained, published or shared through this website and guarantees to have the right to communicate or disseminate them; It is also up to the user to verify whether he has the permission to include any content protected by national and international rules. 5.10. The data referred to in art. 5.3. may be communicated by the Controller to its agents/retailers if this is requested by the user at the time he sends an e-mail to the address info@arflex.it requiring information about the resellers from which the goods produced by Seven Salotti S.p.A. can be bought and advertised through this website. 6 - Purpose of processing and data retention period 6.1. The personal data . 5.3. collected from the website are used for the following purposes: 6.1.1. Performance of a contract between the user and Seven Salotti S.p.A. or taking steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract; 6.1.2. Provision of services provided by the website; 6.1.3. Sending of newsletters to the user at the same address provided to Seven Salotti S.p.A. or qualified entities during contacts, Fairs or events on order to be included in the newsletter service; 6.1.4. Sending of advertising and commercial communications on products and services provided by Seven Salotti S.p.A.; 6.1.5. Performance of obligations for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject (accounting, tax, etc.). 6.2. The preservation of the information referred to in art. 5.1. will be carried out for the period strictly necessary to the attainment of the above-mentioned purposes and in any case not exceeding the termination of the same purposes, with cancellation thereof within 90 days of collection. 6.3. The preservation of the information referred to in art. 5.3 will be carried out for the period strictly necessary to the attainment of the above-mentioned purposes referred to in paragraph 1 and in any case not exceeding the termination of the same purposes except where it is necessary to store them by legal requirement. The data may also be storage for the time required by the Controller or by the Processor designated for establishing, exercising or defending their legal claims in judicial proceedings, within the prescription period of any civil or criminal action taken against them. 6.4. In case of personal data processing based on the user's consent referred to in art. 5.3., Seven Salotti S.p.A. may storage personal data until such consent will be revoked. 6.5. Data used for security purposes referred to in previous art. 5.7. are stored for the time strictly necessary to achieve this goal and in any case will be deleted within 60 days. 7 – Legal basis of processing operations 7.1. The legal basis for personal data processing referred to in art. 5.3. is the performance of a contract for the purpose indicated in art. 6.1.1. that is entered into under current legislation and in the manner envisaged by contractual terms and conditions of the Seven Salotti S.p.A. contract or the fulfilment of pre-contractual obligations, between Seven Salotti S.p.A. and the user as a result of contacts aimed to evaluate the possible conclusion of a contract between concerning the services provided by Seven Salotti S.p.A. 7.2. The legal basis for personal data processing referred to in art. 5.3. is the performance of a contract for the purpose indicated in art. 6.1.2. that is entered into under current legislation, including, where appropriate, in the manner envisaged by contractual terms and conditions of the Seven Salotti S.p.A. contract 7.3. The legal basis for personal data processing referred to in art. 5.3. for the purpose indicated in art 6.1.3. is the user’s consent (interested) that is expressed at the time of the supply of his contact to the owner or to persons authorized by it during contacts, fairs or events to be included in the newsletter service. 7.4. The legal basis for personal data processing referred to in art. 5.3. for the purpose indicated in art. 6.1.4. is the consent of the user (Subject) that is expressed when he provides his contact to the Controller or to qualified subjects during contacts, Fairs or events on order to be included in the newsletter service. 7.5. The legal basis for personal data processing referred to in art. 5.3. for the purpose indicated in art. 6.1.5. is the performance of a legal obligation to which the Controller is subject to. 8 - Social Network Plugin 8.1. On this website there are also plugins and/or sharing buttons for social networks, in order to allow easy sharing of content on the user's favorite social networks. These plugins are programmed in order not to set any cookies at the time when the user accesses the website www.arflex.it or individual pages thereof, with the aim of safeguarding the user’s privacy. If necessary cookies are set, insofar as required by social networks, only when the user makes actual and voluntary use of the sharing button or of the plugin. It is necessary to emphasize that if the user, accessing the social networks, browses the net having been previously logged in, will have already agreed to the use of the cookies channeled through these social networks as well as to the social networks personal data processing, to which Seven Salotti S.p.A. is completely cleared of any involvement and cannot be held accountable in any way. 8.2. The collection and use of the information obtained through the social network cookies are governed by the respective privacy policy: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170519-uso-dei-cookie-e-di-altre-tecnologie-simili-da-parte-di-twitter Google+: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies Pinterest: https://about.pinterest.com/it/privacy-policy AddThis: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy IV. USER RIGHTS 9 – Subject’s rights 9.1. The art. 13, par. 2 of the Reg. UE 2016/679 lists the user's rights. 9.2. The www.arflex.it website has the purpose to inform the user about the rights referred to in artt. 13, par. 2, b) and d), 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 21 GDPR, specifically the right to: 9.2.1. obtain from the Controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, even if not yet recorded, and their communication in intelligible form; 9.2.2. Get indication about: a) the data source; b) the processing purposes and modalities; c) the logic involved in processing carried out through electronic tools; d) the identity and the contact details of the Controller, of the Data Protection Officer, of the Processors and of the designated Representative referred to in art. 3, par. 1 GDPR; e) recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed or that can become aware of the data as a designated Representative in the territory of the State and as a Processor; 9.2.3. Obtaining: a) the updating, rectification or, if necessary, integration of data; b) the erasure, the anonymization or blocking of personal data processed in violation of law, including those for which the storage is not necessary referring to the purposes of the processing for which the personal data are collected or subsequently processed c) the confirmation that the operations referred to in a) and b) have been communicated, including their content, to those to whom the data have been transmitted or disseminated, except for such fulfilment appears impossible or requires means manifestly disproportionate to the subject's right; 9.2.4. Object completely or in part for legitimate reasons to the data processing even if related to the purpose of data collection; 9.2.5. If applicable, the user has also the rights referred to in arts. 16-21 GDPR (right of rectification, right “to be forgotten”, right of restriction of processing, right to data portability, right of object), and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; 9.2.6. Withdraw consent at any time. 9.3. Requests may be addressed to the data Controller, without formalities or, alternatively, using the model provided by the supervisory authority or by sending an e-mail to: info@arflex.it. 9.4. If the processing refers to art. 6, par. 1, a) GDPR – consent to the processing – or to art. 9, par. 2. a) GDPR – explicit consent to the processing of genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health, data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership – the user has the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. 9.5. Likewise, in the event of law infringement, the user has the right to the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, which in Italy is Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali. 9.6. For a better examination of the user’s (subject) rights, please refer to artt. 15 and following of Reg. (EU) 2016/679 and art. 7 of Italian D. Lgs. 196/2003. V – NATURE OF CONSENT 10 – Nature of consent 10.1. The provision of personal data referred to in art. 5.3. is mandatory for the fulfilment of the purposes set out in artt. 6.1.1. and 6.1.2.. Any refusal to provide such data causes the impossibility for the Controller to provide the services referred to in art. 6.1.1. and 6.1.2.. 10.2. The provision of personal data referred to in art. 5.3. for the fulfilment of the purposes set out in artt. 6.1.3. and 6.1.4. is optional. The subject may also decide not to provide any data or subsequently deny the data processing already provided for these purposes: in this case the Controller will not fulfil the purposes referred to in art. 6.1.3. and 6.1.4.. In this case, the user may continue to make use of the services referred to in the artt. 6.1.1. and 6.1.2.. 10.3. The provision of personal data referred to in art. 5.3. is mandatory for the fulfilment of the purposes set out in artt. 6.1.5.. Any refusal to provide such data causes the impossibility for the Controller to fulfil the legal obligations referred to in art 6.1.5. and, consequently, to provide the services referred to in artt. 6.1.1. and 6.1.2.. VI - DATA TRANSFER TO NON-EU COUNTRIES 11 – Subject’s data transfer to non-EU countries 11.1. This website may transmit some data to services located outside the European Union area, towards the US territory. The data transfer is authorized and strictly regulated by art. 45, par. 1 GDPR and by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of 12 July 2016, because the the companies to which the data may be transferred adhere to the Privacy Shield. 11.2. Data will be never transferred to third countries which do not comply with the rules referred to in art.. 45 and following of Reg. (EU) 2016/679. VII – PROVIDED DATA SECURITY 12 – Personal data security measures 12.1. This website processes users' data fairly and lawfully to GDPR as well to the current Italian legislation (D.Lgs. n. 196/2003 and subsequent amendments or additions), implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures suitable to risk mapped to avoid personal data breaches, leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data. The data processing is carried out by informatic tools and/or telematics, with organizational measures and according to logic strictly related to the purposes referred to in art. 6. 12.2. Other than the Controller, some categories of authorized people may have access to the data processing involved in the organization and management of the website (administrative staff, commercial staff, marketing staff, legal team, system administrators, etc.) or external entities in charge of outsourcing services on behalf of the Controller (such as technical service providers, hosting providers, IT companies, communication agencies) that are designated, if necessary or appropriate, as external data Processors. VIII - COOKIES 13 - Cookies’ types 13.1. Please refer to the website’s cookies policy. IX. COPYRIGHT 14 – Copyright 14.1. All texts, graphic components, sound files, videos, images, animation and more generally all the information hosted on this website are owned by Seven Salotti S.p.A. and protected by international Copyright law and by the other intellectual property law. 14.2. None of the contents referred to in the preceding subparagraph may be copied, modified or resold, in whole or in part, for profit. 14.3. Icons, logos and names of products displayed on the pages of this website are copyrighted by their respective owners or are anyway protected under trademark, patent and intellectual property laws. X. USERS’ BROWSING ON THE WEBSITE 15 – Content of the website and disclaimer 15.1. Seven Salotti S.p.A. does not assume any responsibility for malfunctioning of the site www.arflex.it nor for the damages - of any nature - which may be caused to users by the access to the website or in any case by any contact with it, nor for that demages that may derive from third-party websites linked by this website or linked by social networks plugins incorporated in this website. Seven Salotti S.p.A. has no responsibility because links and sharing buttons constitute a facilitation for users, who can easily share contents or make other operations on the website through this buttons or plugins. Anyway Seven Salotti S.p.A. rejects any responsbaility about quality, contents and graphics of the websites reachable by these links, social buttons or plugins. Seven Salotti S.p.A. is neither responsible for information obtained by the user through the access to the websites linked to www.arflex.it. Therefore, the responsibles for the completeness and accuracy of information are the respective websites’ owners. 15.2. Seven Salotti S.p.A. has as main goal the ensuring that all the website’s contents are properly assessed and analyzed, as well as elaborated with accurancy and, if necessary, updated. At the same time, however, errors or omissions may occur: Seven Salotti S.p.A. declines, therefore, any form of liability for damages that users may suffer due to eventual errors, inaccuracies and omissions in the website’s contents, as well as due to the use of it done by third parties. Furthermore, Seven Salotti S.p.A. declines any form of liability for damages that users may suffer due to errors, inaccuracies and omissions in third-party websites’ contents, reachable by links available on this website. 15.3. Any objects, products, software, etc., available on this website for download (e.g. technical files, commercial files, software, etc.), subject to laid down exceptions, are freely and free of charge available for the users under the conditions set out by Seven Salotti S.p.A., who reject any responsibility for the documents’ content, for the products’ characteristics nor for the functioning of software. 15.4. Seven Salotti S.p.A. reserves the right to modify the website’s contents in any moment, without notice, as well as to edit this Privacy policy as referred to in art. 16. XI. PRIVACY POLICY EDITS 16 – Edits to the website privacy policy 16.1. This privacy policy, published on http://www.arflex.it/privacy/, may be changed or updated by the Controller; major updates will be reported to the users by a message published on the website with proper visibility. 16.2. Privacy policy updated on 23.05.2018 in accordance with Reg. (EU) 2016/679.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line24
__label__cc	0.603254	0.396746	LEARNINGRx of VIENNA/RESTON, VA. LEADS 4th ANNUAL, AWARD-WINNING JOB SHADOW PROGRAM Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx of Vienna, Va., and Reston, Va. is leading the fourth annual Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce (TRCC) job shadow program for 60, 11th and 12th grade students of Oakton, James Madison and George C. Marshall high schools in Fairfax County, Va., where students will shadow professionals in various industries for one day in January or February. The program received a Blue Ribbon Award from Fairfax County Schools in 2014. Loftus is heading up the program as she is the chair of the TRCC’s Youth and Education Committee. For more information, go to www.learningrx.com. More than 30 local companies are hosting students, to include: 1st Stage, Earls, Fairfax Water, Intelsat, LearningRx, Sen. Mark Warner’s office, MITRE, Navy Federal Credit Union, Nordstrom, Sun Gazette, Our Daily Bread, Purple Onion and YEXT. MONZA DONATES MORE THAN 100 COATS to SERVE Thursday, January 14th, 2016, 10:48am Monza of Historic Manassas collected more than 100 gently used coats to donate to SERVE in exchange for a $10 Monza or Carmello’s gift card and free hot chocolate and coffee during the Greater Manassas Christmas Parade. For more information, go to www.eatmonza.com. “We appreciate all the support to help SERVE provide coats to those in need,” said Alice Pires, owner of Monza and Carmello’s in Historic Manassas, Va. ABOUT SERVE: SERVE of NVFS (Northern Virginia Family Services) offers a continuum of housing assistance programs, from homelessness to rental assistance to homeownership. Go to http://www.nvfs.org/housing. LEARNINGRx of RESTON, VA. EARNS NATIONAL COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD and CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD Friday, October 2nd, 2015, 1:29pm Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx brain training centers of Reston, Va. and Vienna, Va. received the national 2015 Community Impact Award for being one of the top 10 LearningRx brain centers in the United States and was recognized for the 2015 Outstanding Customer Service Award by LearningRx’s corporate offices in Colorado Springs, Colo. LearningRx of Vienna, Va. is also celebrating their five-year anniversary. For more information, go to www.learningrx.com. “As someone that has suffered a brain injury, I know that brain training can be life changing, whether you’re just looking for some improvement in school, or whether you’ve been affected by brain trauma,” said Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx of Reston, Va. and Vienna, Va. “We love being part of the Reston community and being part of our students’ achievements,” said Loftus. LEARNINGRx DONATES $300 SCHOOL SUPPLIES to SIX FAIRFAX Co., VA. SCHOOLS Wednesday, August 26th, 2015, 1:49pm LearningRx brain training centers of Reston, Va. and Vienna, Va. are helping schools this year by providing $300 in school supplies for six schools in Fairfax County, Va. The donation is to help offset the schools’ supply wish list for the 2015-2016 school year. For more information on how to help with teacher’s wish lists, go to www.teacherslists.com. LearningRx staff dropped off school supplies to Wolf Trap Elementary, Aldrin Elementary, Colvin Run Elementary, Lake Anne Elementary, Forest Edge Elementary and Clearview Elementary, all in Fairfax County, Va. Baskets include: glue sticks, notebooks, tissues, disinfectant wipes, folders, pencils, markers, crayons, dry erase markers and highlighters. LEARNINGRx HOSTS 21st ANNUAL TYSONS REGIONAL CHAMBER STARS EVENT; Awards 35 Local Students Thursday, May 7th, 2015, 10:34am Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx of Vienna and Reston, Va. hosted the 21st Annual Tysons Reginoal Chamber of Commerce Stars event which honored 35 students from 18 local schools for their positive achievements and significant improvements. For more information, go to www.learningrx.com. Loftus serves as the chair of the youth and education committee for the Tyson’s Chamber of Commerce, and along with Dr. Karen Garza, superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, awarded each student their certificate. “Each of the students here chose to work hard to overcome their own obstacles, rather than quitting,” said Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx of Reston, Va. and Vienna, Va. “It’s their perseverance and hard work that will empower these students to be shining stars for years to come,” said Loftus. CARMELLO’S to HOST FLYING DOG BEER DINNER, TH., MAR. 26; AND RUFFINO WINERY WINE DINNER, TH., APR. 2 Monday, March 9th, 2015, 11:30am Monza and Carmello’s of Old Town Manassas, Va. are featuring a Flying Dog Beer Dinner with a four-course dinner, featuring beers like Bloodline IPA, Single Hop Imperial IPA HBC 431, Earl Grey Black Wheat, Lucky SOB Irish Red Ale and Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout on Thurs., Mar. 26 at 6:30 p.m. for $70 inclusive per person; and the Ruffino Winery Wine Dinner on Thurs., Apr. 2 at 6:30 p.m. for $85 inclusive. For reservations, go to www.eatmonza.com. CITY of MANASSAS PUBLIC WORKS to UPGRADE to $20 MILLION WATER TRANSMISSION LINE As part of the City of Manassas Capital Improvement Program, Manassas’ water transmission main line has been slated for an upgrade, replacing the 24-inch water transmission main line with a 36-inch main line. The current, 45-year old water main line has served the City of Manassas well, but now that the line is approaching its useful life, it is being replaced with a water main line to supply the higher-demand for water, especially in the summer months, as well as improve overall system performance. The City of Manassas is currently working together with Prince William County, Va. along the Rollins Ford/Vint Hill Road/Route 28 road improvement areas, to replace the water transmission line, with project completion planned for 2020 at a total cost of more than $20 million.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line25
__label__cc	0.63793	0.36207	Cyprus (Si´pruhs) An island lying in the eastern Mediterranean about sixty miles west of the Syrian coast and about the same distance from the coast of Turkey. Approximately 140 miles long and 60 miles wide (about the same size as ancient Israel), the island was known as Elishah in the OT (Ezek 27:7; Gen 10:4; 1Chr 1:7). A Jew named Barnabas, an early convert to Christianity, was a native of Cyprus (Acts 4:36), as were some of the other early disciples (Acts 11:19-20; Acts 21:16). Acts reports that Paul and Barnabas traveled across the island, from Salamis to Paphos, on their first missionary journey (Acts 13:4-13). At Paphos they encountered the sorcerer Bar-Jesus and the proconsul Sergius Paulus. Barnabas and Mark later returned to Cyprus during Paul’s second missionary journey (Acts 15:39). Ezek 27:7 7Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your ensign; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning. Gen 10:4 4The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 1Chr 1:7 36There was a Levite, a native of Cyprus, Joseph, to whom the apostles gave the name Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”). The Church in Antioch 19Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, ... View more 16Some of the disciples from Caesarea also came along and brought us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to stay. The Apostles Preach in Cyprus 4So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.5When they arrived at Sal ... View more 39The disagreement became so sharp that they parted company; Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line30
__label__cc	0.537339	0.462661	Will Fincher's Remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Make Oscar History? Filed By Guest Blogger \| January 04, 2012 2:00 PM \| comments Follow bilericoproject Filed in: Entertainment Tags: bisexual characters Editors' Note: Guest blogger Jeremy Redlien is the author of the blog Queering the Closet and holds a bachelor degree in philosophy with a minor in mathematics from SUNY Oneonta. Usually, I have very little interest in the Oscars. Very rarely do films or directors that I like actually win and my general impression is that Hollywood politics, rather than cinematic quality, is the primary driving force behind who the Oscar goes to. There is also the issue of the allegedly liberal Hollywood - which if certain groups are to be believed, is one of the primary forcers of The Homoesexual Agenda down everyone's throats - almost never allowing films with genuine queer content to win. Given the subjectivity of art, one can certainly debate the very notion of placing the label "Best Picture of the Year" on any film. What qualities make a movie "the best" picture? Then there is the issue of the cultural significance of the Academy Awards themselves for there exists a long and storied history of the Academy choosing "Best Picture" films that lacked, shall we say, staying power. For example consider the story of Citizen Kane being booed at the Academy Awards thanks to William Hearst's campaign against the film, while How Green Was My Valley was the film that came out on top. After that, the reputation of Citizen Kane only increased over the years, eventually being given the #1 position on the AFI's list of the Top 100 Films. There are of course other examples that cast doubt on the Academy's ability to pick out the "Best Film", Do the Right Thing losing to Driving Miss Daisy, Taxi Driver being passed over for Rocky, Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan. I could go on but these are generally considered as cases where the Academy picked "safe" pictures over more daring films that had greater cultural influence. In any case, this year I might actually be paying a small amount of attention. Why? Because there are faint whispers that Fincher's remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has a shot at Oscar glory. What makes Fincher's remake interesting is that it belongs to the rather elite class of films that queered up their content, rather then straightened it out. In the original Sweedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander was shown in one brief scene, waking up naked next to another woman. In Fincher's remake, Lisbeth Salander is also shown actively seeking this female partner in a nightclub, plus we get a girl on girl kiss before she departs. I admit that this is not a lot, but it is significant given that Lisbeth Salander is also the rare film heroine who gets to save the straight male hero, not once but twice. Not only that but he never gets the opportunity to repay her the favor. In the one situation where she requires saving, she does the all the work herself before she even meets her male co-star. Too often when Hollywood adapts material featuring bisexual characters - or any queer content for that matter - what happens is what I call "straightening out". Same-sex lovers turn into friends, overt romance becomes subtext, or in the case of The Lost Weekend guilt over a same sex encounter turns into dealing with alcoholism. The topic of Hollywood's insistence upon straightening out queer characters - as well as queer historical figures - is one I have addressed before and unfortunately, one that I will probably have to again. Furthermore, films with genuine queer characters almost never win, while movies with straightened out characters have frequently taken home Oscar gold. For example, Shakespeare in Love and the aforementioned The Lost Weekend both straightened out bisexual individuals and were able to win the big prize. One could also make a case for A Beautiful Mind except John Nash, in spite of certain evidence to the contrary, has denied being bisexual. Also worth bringing up is the transphobic The Silence of the Lambs winning the "Best Picture" statue as well. While films with queer characters do often get nominated, they almost never win. For example, movies such as The Kids Are All Right, The Crying Game, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Cabaret,The Hours, The Full Monty, and Kiss of the Spider Woman have all been nominated but none of them were able to take home the statue. American Beauty is probably the most recent queer friendly film to win, but Wings - the first "Best Picture" winner (back when the honour was referred to as "Outstanding Picture") - was also the first picture to feature a full man on man kiss. However, if The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo wins, it will be the first motion picture with a genuine and openly queer protagonist to do so. One could make a case for Lawrence of Arabia but as I understand it, that was pretty much subtext. No other film, to my knowledge has featured a genuine LGBTQ character in a lead role and still pulled off an Oscar win. Of course, the chances of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo actually winning best picture could charitably be classified as comprable to the proverbial snowball in hell. If history is anything to go by, Mara Rooney at least stands a much better chance at winning best actress, as the Academy has never been shy about giving out top honours for portrayals of LGBTQ characters. However, even if Fincher's film does not take home a statue, it is still a significant film in terms of queer content. No matter what, my fingers will be crossed. Recent Entries Filed under Entertainment: MUST WATCH: John Oliver's Segment on Trans Rights Robin Williams Gay-Themed Movie to Be Released Caitlyn Jenner Scores Big Payout For Series Big Brother 17 To Feature First Transgender Housemate Chobani Debuts Sexy Lesbian-Themed Ad	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line31
__label__cc	0.695403	0.304597	Modality and the Third Way IV I have previously (I, II, III) looked from different directions at the sort of modality used in the Third Way; but in none of the cases do I think we are left with a particularly intuitive modality for us, although there is a significant place for it in Aristotelian philosophy. What we really need is an answer to the question, "Why call it necessity?" And there is an answer to this in Aquinas's commentary on Book 12 of the Metaphysics. In this context he is commenting on Aristotle's brief statements about the necessity of the first motion. There are three kinds of necessity, says Aquinas: First it means that which happens by force, i.e., what cannot fail to happen because of the power exerted by the thing applying force. Second, it means taht without which a thing does not fare well--either that without which a goal cannot be attained at all (as food is necessary for the life of an animal), or that without which something is not in a perfect state (as a horse is necessary for a journey in the sense that it is not easy to make a journey without one). Third, it means that which cannot be other than it is, but is necessary absolutely and essentially. (2532) The local motion of the sphere of the heavens is not necessary by force, because it is the natural motion of an imperishable thing. Likewise, it is not necessary absolutely and essentially. Therefore it must be necessary by the end, and thus, says Aquinas, "it is on this principle, i.e., the first mover as an end, that the heavens depend both for the eternality of their substance and the eternality of their motion" (2534). All three are ways in which something cannot be otherwise than it is; but they are very different senses. It's notable that of these senses of necessity we usually mean the third and occasionally the first, but the second only comes up colloquially. And yet it is precisely the second that is at stake when we are talking about the ingenerable and imperishable, which is perhaps why we don't find 'necessity' to be such an intuitive word in this context (and, indeed, as long as the Aristotelian thesis of the coextensiveness of ingenerable and the imperishable is kept in mind, it makes much more sense for us to talk about it in terms of what is imperishable). What is imperishable is such that it has no natural way to perish: its ends are such that it always tends to be, and therefore there is a sense in which it cannot be otherwise, i.e., is necessary. Incidentally, note two things: (1) because the heavens move all else, Aquinas in the commentary on the Metaphysics is again considering the world as a whole; and (2) that when we get to the second stage of the Third Way, Aquinas appeals not to moving causes but to efficient causes, even though he often (following Aristotle) appeals to moving causes elsewhere in similar contexts. And the reason, I think, is this: the Third Way is meant to be a fairly clean and neat summary, but the relation between the first mover and the imperishable is complicated by the fact that Aristotle thinks the world had no beginning, whereas Aquinas does. Aquinas thinks God could have created an eternally moved world, of course; but he thinks that in fact he didn't. And that this can rather considerably complicate things can be seen from the Summa Contra Gentiles, where he attempts to tackle this difference head-on in the course of the discussion of the first mover argument. But the Five Ways are all formulated so as to avoid any complication of that sort, in keeping with the goal of the Summa Theologiae. And thus the Third Way is formulated so as to avoid the question of eternal motion altogether. Posted by Brandon at 11:38 PM	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line34
__label__cc	0.578434	0.421566	The Roman Carnival A Typical Italian Carnival Mask "Carnival", today, means Rio or Venice, certainly not Rome. Though this celebration was born in the ancient Rome and the Roman Carnival was, until almost the end of the 19th century, one of the most spectacular events in the world. Using the word "event" is probably not the best way to talk about the Roman Carnival because, until the 17th century, it lasted for a long period that was extended, more or less, to the whole winter. Yes, during centuries of pope's reign, Carnival started already on the famous "twelfth night", the 6 of January, and ended on the night of the Fat Tuesday, just before the beginning of Lent, the period of 40 days of fasting and rigors before Easter. Rome Carnival Crowd The Carnival, which the name comes probably from Latin "carrum navalis" that means "float shaped like a ship", as they were used for this festival or, according to other opinions, from "carnem levare" ("take away the meat" that happens at the end of the festival), is the Christian version of a very old tradition, from an immemorial time: the humans were afraid to see the sun disappear a bit more every day until the winter's solstice and than, the frightening phenomena was inverted and the hope could come back. Roman Carnival Float That fear was also the origin of the old roman festival "Saturnalia" that was celebrated from the 17th to the 23d of December, the last month of the roman year, in honor of Saturn (Cronus for the Greeks). He was not only the terrifying pagan divinity who devoured his own children, but he was also the god of sowing, and the king of a mythic "golden age". The "Saturnalia" was a festival of light, in the middle of the winter. Exactly like, a few centuries later, when the "Carnevale" was celebrated all along the via del Corso, the urban stretch of the old roman Flaminia that ends in the hearth of Rome and that remains even now "the" central street of Rome. Via del Corso (called before "via Lata") was the theatre of battles between the "moccoletti ", the candles that everybody handled trying to blow out the other candles and maintain their owns lighted and battles of "confetti", little candies at the origin and, later, tiny chalk balls. Invaded by horse races and masquerade balls, with many masks from the Commedia dell'Arte, as Pulcinella or the more roman Meo Patacca or Rugantino. During the festival, the roles were reversed (like during the Saturnalia, where the slaves were served by their masters) and the rules didn’t exist, in a sort of copy of the old Roman's "libertas dicembri ". Moccoletti Battle These lasts years the old tradition is coming back. For the Roman Carnival 2017, via del Corso will be again, with the whole “centro storico” , from the Piazza del Popolo to Piazza di Spagna and Piazza Navona an opened air theater with clowns, float parade, music and confetti (no more chalk but paper!) during the whole month of February. And, as the majority of Romans live now in the suburbs and no more in the center of Rome, the biggest parades, on Sunday 26 February and on “Fat Tuesday” (28 February), will take place via Tiburtina, between Portanaccio and Casal Bruciato, in front of the famous cinema studios “De Paolis”. So, an old tradition that seemed forgotten, like nature, is reborn. Piazza Del Popolo Nowadays	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line39
__label__cc	0.653908	0.346092	Polarity Ensemble Theatre Blog In the Words of the Artists and the Audience In The Spotlight: Playwright, Aline Lathrop By Aaron Arbiter, Festival Assistant Playwright Aline Lathrop Aline Lathrop is busy these days as playwright in residence at 16th Street Theater. Her peers know her to be a writer who is always challenging herself, but perhaps a better testament to her success as a playwright is her unflinching desire to not only ask important questions but to reach truths that are sometimes uncomfortable. As Aline puts it, “I think that provides the audience with release, especially when their own fear or shame is voiced.” This of course also means that her play …And Eat It Too ventures into territory that she knows well, balancing work and family. For this profile, Aline offers thoughts on her artistic influences and process as well as a peak at family life in Hyde Park. AA: Where did you start out in theater? How did you come to be a writer? AL: I started as an actress. Actually, I first wanted to be a mime, which I took rather seriously for several years starting around the age of three. I realize now that mime just happened to be my first introduction to live dramatic performance. A few years later when I saw my first play, I wanted to be an actress, and I had the good fortune to work and train at Delaware Theatre Company, which is a LORT D regional theatre, as a child and through high school. By the time I arrived at Northwestern for Theatre, my craving for being under the lights was starting to fade. I took a playwriting class, and discovered the thrill of sitting in the back of a darkened theatre watching actors bring my words to life, and that is where I have remained. AA: Mime is certainly a unique starting point, what other styles or artists have influenced you? AL: Chekhov is a big influence for his stories of yearning and striving, and also for his character-driven humor. The first Mamet play I saw taught me how sparse and musical a play can be. My greatest influences are probably not playwrights, however. As a young actor, Michael Shurtleff’s “Audition,” was my bible, and I learned stakes and tactics from him. I think this is why most of my plays are ensemble-based. Georgia O’Keefe was also an early influence. When I was first writing plays, I fell in love with her paintings, and one day reading some biographical material, I came upon a description of a time when she made the decision to paint only in black until the painting demanded color. “I believe it was June before I needed blue,” she said, and I decided that I would write with that same discipline of economy. AA: What about when you aren’t writing? AL: I have a second career in new product development and management, which I think has honed my skills in building a story from the ground up. I’m also a mother, which means that I live with people who learn and grow so fast that they put me to shame, and inspire me to be more creative and productive. It also means that I spend a lot of time learning and creating beside them, as I facilitate the pursuit of their passions. I spent a large chunk of today, for instance, helping them troubleshoot the fretboard of a cigar box guitar they are building. AA: What was the genesis of …And Eat It Too? AL: I saw a BBC documentary on a jetlagged night in London about mothers who had decided to stay at home with their children, but whose husbands did not respect their choice. Their lives seemed to have turned into a 1950’s stereotype of gender roles that made both the husbands and wives unhappy. It made me think about how the choice to stay at home or go back to work, when one has that choice, is hard to predict, and hard to compromise on, and I wondered what happens in a relationship when a couple has a baby and discovers that their views are not aligned. AA: Has writing this play changed you in any way? AL: In most of my plays, I experiment with a theatrical device I haven’t played with before. With …And Eat It Too that device is a lot of overlapping scenes, and characters that share the same space while being in different scenes. I actually wrote the first draft of …And Eat It Too several years ago, so I’ve written more plays since then. This play freed me up to play with space and time in new ways, which I discovered I really enjoy, and I have taken this further in subsequent plays. I have also worked on this play longer, and rewritten it more times, than any other play. I hadn’t worked on it for several years until recently, but working on it again now I have the distance to be a script doctor for my own work. This has been a great learning experience, and it has helped me to create a similar distance for work that I have generated more recently. AA: What is the best advice you’ve ever been given as a writer or artist? AL: Write a lot of plays. 2015 marks the eighth time Polarity has produced a Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays. The Festival provides a six month development process for the selected playwrights and affords them a series of feedback encounters with a director and dramaturg selected for their experience with new plays, as well as with the play-going public. This year’s festival includes …And Eat It Too by Aline Lathrop, directed by Hutch Pimentel, Josh Altman, Dramaturg; Leavings by Gail Parrish, directed by Helen Young, Maggie Carlin, Dramaturg; Girl Found by Barbara Lhota, directed by Dan Foss, Sarah Laeuchli, Dramaturg; andThe Charisma of Flying Saucers by Mary Beth Hoerner, directed by Rachel Ramirez, JD Caudill, Dramaturg. The 2015 Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays runs July 9-19 at the Greenhouse Theater Center at 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue. Tickets are $10 per performance or $15 for a full festival pass. Seating is general admission. For tickets and information visit www.petheatre.com or call the box office at 773-404-7336. Posted in From the Ensemble \| Comments Off on In The Spotlight: Playwright, Aline Lathrop In the Spotlight: Playwright, Mary Beth Hoerner Playwright Mary Beth Hoerner As the youngest of five children, Mary Beth Hoerner knows what it’s like to watch and listen to the people around her. Her powers of observation are perhaps the key to understanding her as a prolific writer of plays, stories, memoirs and more. In The Charisma of Flying Saucers, Mary Beth offers us her take on one of the most widely speculated about questions in existence: are we alone? New Mexico, 1958 – there are lights in the sky and a mysterious women is found in a field with no memory. For science-fiction fans the scene may feel familiar, but Mary Beth draws from a multitude of influences to tell a story that feels fresh and relevant. Is the truth out there? We encourage you to seek out your own answers. In the meantime, Mary Beth tells us about her experiences as a playwright. AA: How did you find your path to becoming a playwright? MBH: In my high school French class, we were required to read Beckett, Moliere, and the absurdists—so that was fun. I was so sure that I was misreading Waiting for Godot, that I cheated and bought a copy in English, and read them side-by-side. I realized that 1) I was not misreading—that was just a very new and weird world I was being exposed to—and 2) part of the problem was that my all-girls, Catholic high school French book did not provide translations for words like erection. In any case, reading the above left a mark. In college I majored in English, writing, and political science, but one of my English teachers told the class that it was more likely that one of us would get struck by lightning than one of us would get a play produced. So I really never considered playwriting an option. I think I took every drama-based lit class there was though—some of them twice as the writers covered changed from time to time. Flash forward many years to when I went to Columbia for an MFA in writing. I took playwriting classes for fun, won a scholarship to have a play produced, loved the collaborative environment of putting on a play, and here I am. AA: Would you cite any specific writers who have had an impact on you? MBH: If Beckett were alive today, I’d be stalking him full-time. I couldn’t begin to list all of the authors I worship, and I don’t think anyone influences me on a conscious level, but I am drawn to the weird, quirky, sometimes dark, and goofy—so apart from any lit that falls into that category, think Cohn Bros., “Portlandia,” etc. AA: How do you spend your time when you aren’t writing? Do you think this influences your work? MBH: I do go to the theater a lot so of course this influences my work. In addition to assessing the overall story, which I am the most hungry for, I am always interested in how the playwright gets characters on and off stage, how the exposition is presented, and what the audience responds to. This latter element is a mystery to me as I almost never laugh at what the audience laughs at, and when I laugh the rest of the audience is silent. I think people desperately need and want to laugh—so in this play I employed the familiar setting of 1950s sci-fi that people can relate to but tried to put a spin on it so that it was—God willing—surprising, interesting, and fun. I read a fair amount about the brain and am fascinated by how little we still really understand it. I see that influence a lot in this story. AA: So what was the genesis of this play in particular? MBH: When I was doing research for my play Atomic Honeymoon, also set in the 1950s, I kept coming across all this UFO stuff, and I thought that would be fun to write about some time. Then when I found out that Carl Jung had written a book on flying saucers I started looking into the topic more seriously. Many of the characters are either based on real people or are conglomerates of people I read about who were prominent thinkers on UFOs at the time. I wish I could take credit for all of the crazy coming out of Professor Turnbull, but the strangest words coming out of his mouth were said by real people. Sheriff, D., and Reverend David are all out of my head. I think the genesis of David though came from an experience I had with a priest. I needed to make an appointment to talk to one, and the time he met me was 10:30 p.m. When I went to see him, he was incredibly ill—red, puffy nose, hoarse throat, drippy eyes—the whole bit, and I thought man, the buck stops with him. It occurred to me that he would have no one to turn to if he had a crisis of faith—no human person. AA: The Roswell incident has been heavily referenced in popular culture. Why write about it now? MBH: Charisma takes place actually a decade after the Roswell incident. In addition to what is explained in my previous answers, I do not think we have made much progress in explaining what so many people have seen and continue to see. I wanted to bring in the legitimate voice of Jung so these people might be taken more seriously. It was also fascinating to me to read about some religious visions and to see how similar some sounded to UFO experiences. Drawing comparisons between the two opened up some interesting questions. AA: Science fiction themes are historically underrepresented in theater. What is your perspective on the genre? MBH: I am not a huge science fiction fan—I think because it is often more about the situation and special effects and less about character and relationships. I think people have shied away from attempting sci-fi on stage because film is a better medium for pulling it off (and even film has had its troubles, esp. in the ‘50s!). Another reason is that it is not taken as seriously as other types of literature so it is especially difficult to take on those themes and not get dismissed as schlock or fluff. I can’t tell you how difficult it is to write a synopsis for this play, not only because it is an ensemble and doesn’t have one hero whose journey is easily summarized, but because so many eyes roll when they hear the term flying saucer. Sci-fi can also become dated quickly as the future keeps catching up with us. I think all those challenges are why we should be attempting sci-fi on stage. There is only so far you can take the effects. Trust the audience to fill in the gaps, and provide a good story. AA: I think you’ve addressed this pretty well, but were there any challenges you had that were unique to this project? MBH: In doing research I came across a ton of very scary material, including believable- sounding contactee experiences and terrifying unexplainable animal massacres on bizarrely large scales. But I want people to run to the theater not run from it so I chose to not go there. Making Carl Jung’s theories digestible in one- or two-sentence increments was a unique challenge I do not recommend. Tackling serious questions about existence while maintaining an element of fun is a very challenging endeavor. Some people want it to be one or the other—so striking that balance is tricky, and it is something I will always be working on. AA: What is the best advice you’ve gotten as a writer? As a beginning writer, the best advice was, “Don’t write something you want your mother to read.” We self-censor so much anyway, this was something I needed to hear early on. For playwriting, one that stands out is, “Tell the story you want to tell, and let the director worry about how to pull it off.” The only problem with that is I ended up co-directing Atomic Honeymoon—so it was left to me after all to figure out how to pull off an atomic test blast on stage. One of the things I love most about going to a Martin McDonagh play is to see how the director pulls off what he throws at them. Implying there’s a flying saucer in the sky is nothing compared to killing cats on stage. AA: I’ve been asking this question to each of this year’s playwrights, but do you think it is significant that this is the second year in a row where the Dionysus Cup has featured all female playwrights? My first class at Chicago Dramatists was a marketing class. We had to prepare a resume as a playwright, and I listed my name as M.B. Hoerner, thinking I had a better chance not being female. Imagine my surprise when I was told theaters want to produce female playwrights. That said, I think in order for the theater to survive and pull in new audiences the best stories have to be told—period. AA: Is there something that you hope audiences will take away from seeing your play? MBH: There is no moral or lesson to be learned here, but here are a few of my hopes: That people will think about some of the mysteries presented in the story That they think about how large a role the unseen plays in our lives—and that this will help people to observe, question, wonder, read . . . That people will think about how their weakness might actually be a strength That even when big questions about life are explored all it really comes down to is your relationships—so be present there That the government is very selective about what info it shares. What is it keeping from us now that we deserve to know? Who is making these decisions? What is the agenda of the person providing the statistic? The characters don’t notice what takes place at the end of the play. What in your own life is in plain sight that you do not see? That we still don’t know that much about what else is “out there” than we did in the fifties. The assumption is that religion and science are at odds. I hope the play blurs that distinction. Science and religion share the desire to explain our existence. Both tell imperfect stories, but both can provide (a bit) of solace. Posted in From the Ensemble \| Comments Off on In the Spotlight: Playwright, Mary Beth Hoerner You are currently browsing the Polarity Ensemble Theatre Blog blog archives for July, 2015. Fan/Audience Feedback (2) From the Ensemble (77) Polarity Ensemble Theatre Blog is proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line47
__label__wiki	0.540421	0.540421	‘Surrogacy is not just exploitation and commerce’ Sonata’s interest in surrogacy was awakened mainly by her personal situation, but she discovered in the course of her researches that the phenomenon goes much beyond the “exploitation of women’s bodies and their reproductive system” condemned by the European Parliament. A journalist by profession, Sonata is also an active member of a theater group from Berlin which goes by the name of Flinn Works. Their latest project, an experimental stage play, bears the title “Global Belly”. Sonata and other members of the group travelled to India and elsewhere to gather material on surrogacy: one surprising effect of the trip for Sonata being that she is now even less critical regarding a phenomenon that seems to have fallen into disfavor with almost everybody west and east, from the feminists right down to the human rights activists. The way it began From her early childhood, Sonata has dreamt of becoming a mother. She was around 10 when she asked herself some key questions, writing them down in her diary in capital letters. The answers were as follows:- WHO IS THE GREATEST ARTIST IN THE WORLD? NATURE WHAT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SIGHT? A SMILE ON A CHILD’S FACE WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? A MOTHER Sonata is 41 today. She is aware that motherhood is not crucial to womanhood, just as she is aware that motherhood is not every woman’s dream. As for herself, Sonata can claim in all honesty that she has never wanted to make a career –whether in journalism or in any other profession; she has not wanted to become a writer or an actress. All she has ever wanted has been a child of her own to hold in her arms, a child with a smile on its face which would light up her whole world. British parents William (R) and Alison Duffett (C) and their seven-day old son Oliver Robert, born to an Indian surrogate mother, are photographed with Dr. Naina Patel at Kaival Hospital in Anand, some 90 kms from Ahmedabad, on March 11, 2010. Commercial surrogacy, made legal in India in 2002 and popular among foreign couples who are unable to conceive, has provided a large source of income for some Indian women acting as surrogate mothers despite local stigmas and ethical debates. Despite three pregnancies, Sonata has not been able to become a mother. There is still no child to call her ‘Ma’. Despite numerous operations, three IVF procedures and thousands of euros in costs, a child has not been able to grow inside her. Even if one was conceived, it did not survive. After 15 years of different tests, Sonata found out that there was a genetic problem with her eggs. It was not easy to accept the truth. She’d stand in front of the mirror and puff out her belly and imagine herself to be pregnant. Ridiculous? Laughable? Not if you cried afterwards. It is illegal to conceive a child with someone else’s eggs. If she were to go to another country, the newborn baby would not be allowed to enter into Germany. What then? Should she try for adoption? She did. Not just the expenses of adopting a baby from South Asia if you were a resident of Germany, there was no guarantee that she’d see a healthy baby at the end it all, after years of waiting. Sonata’s husband is over 50 – apparently that too was an issue. Sonata gave up. She tried to drown herself in her work, spent an inordinate amount of time with her friends and her colleagues, the next door neighbor, whoever. She wanted to be near anyone who had had a baby – accompany them from the baby shower right through the birth to the first pampers. All her time outside office hours was spent with children: she kissed and cuddled them, bought them gifts, got them to call her Ma-Moni, Shona-Ma, Sonata Ammu, Mishti-Ma, every known and unknown Bengali and subcontinental euphemism for that one unuttered “Ma”. And then she stopped dreaming. It was at around this time that Sophia Stepf – her friend and the guiding spirit behind Flinn Works – rang up and said: “Sonata, they’re passing a new law against commercial surrogacy in India. The government has already prohibited it for foreigners. Get started, we’ll going to India in the next few months.” The author with surrogate mothers from Akansha, a clinic in Anand Crystal Travis, the head of the World Surrogacy Forum, put Sonata in touch with the ‘mother of Indian surrogacy’, Dr Naina Patel, who is based in the town of Anand in the western state of Gujarat. There are many types of treatment available at her clinic, which is called Akansha or ‘wish’, including IVF. There is a sperm bank, an egg bank and even a milk bank, which provides fresh milk from surrogate mothers to newborns. Sonata met 62 surrogate mothers at the clinic. One afternoon, while she was chatting informally with seven or eight of them, she forgot that she was a journalist and a theatre activist: she could remember how painful IVF could be, and here were Mayurika, Sheevani, Shabana, Daksha and the rest of them doing just that for money. Just for money? They were carrying a child for nine months in their bodies for someone else. They did their namaz, the regulation Muslim prayers, or did puja and chanted Hindu religious verses such as the gayatri mantra and the hanuman chalisa – all for the sake of unborn children not even their own. They’d carry that child for a full nine months and then give it away to an unknown woman. How could they do it? Sonata wondered. “We need money.” “Otherwise our own children will starve to death.” “I cannot give my children enough food. What will I give them to wear?” “But I’m not doing this only for money. If we give a child to a childless person, if we are able to give them a smile, is that not a lot?” These words were uttered by surrogate mothers in India. They were very poor. With her own eyes, Sonata had seen how they lived, she had seen their families and their homes. Later, much later, she’d be skyping with an American surrogate mother by the name of Melissa Hollmann and Melissa would tell her: “To be a surrogate mother is very tough; it is also very rewarding.” Was that the clue? Sonata felt a bond grow between her and these poor but strong women. She sang with them, went for walks with them, manicured their hands.”Didi, money isn’t everything,” they said. “We can give you a child whenever you want,” they told her. Yes, they could – but could she? Sonata could cry. She had taken the German citizenship a few years back, which made her a foreigner in her own country and eligible for surrogacy. But was India her only choice, her only chance? The debate regarding surrogacy often centers round its commercial aspects and rightly so. Not just in India but all over the world, every step involves a lot of money, starting from the agent who acts as the go-between to the big hospitals to the final handing over of the baby and the departure via the airport. Regulation is necessary within the existing legal framework to protect the surrogate mother’s rights. On the other hand, surrogacy is a legal source of income for women of meagre means with children of their own to feed. Their options are limited: otherwise they might have to turn to domestic or bonded labor or even to sex work just to earn their living and feed their families. Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua (L) holds her baby Gammy, born with Down Syndrome, at the Samitivej hospital, Sriracha district in Chonburi province on August 4, 2014. The surrogate mother of a baby reportedly abandoned by his Australian parents in Thailand because he has Down Syndrome was a “saint” and “absolute hero”, Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said. The arguments against surrogacy are well known: it is against nature and both the surrogate mother and the child risk their lives. According to a 2011 resolution by the European Parliament, surrogacy is the “exploitation of women’s bodies and their reproductive system”. Haven’t patriarchal societies been doing exactly that for centuries? And if it could help an economically destitute woman in India make her economically well-off but emotionally destitute counterpart in the West to be happy, why should it be wrong, how could it be wrong? In the final analysis, is it not a case of one woman helping another in a way that only women can – or perhaps even understand? Sonata, who has always considered herself to be a feminist, feels as if she has done a reality check and come up with some hard but beautiful answers. True feminists do not profess or preach, Sonata felt; they do things for other women, uncomfortable things, painful things, but they do them all the same, for the money which they need for their children at home. And was the world any the worse for it? Author: Debarati Guha The author also goes by the name Sonata. Europa Parliament, Global Belly, India, sex work, south asia, Surrogacy, womanhood, women's rights Rites of Womanhood February 14, 2019 Women in India’s Kerala fight taboos to climb mountains January 25, 2019 Legend has it that the world will come to an end if women scale the Agasthyarkoodam peak in India's southern state of Kerala. But these women want to take a chance and prove tradition wrong. In God’s name: Indian girls forced into sex work despite ritual ban January 22, 2019 Young girls in south India continue to be “dedicated” to village temples and then forced into prostitution despite laws banning the ancient ritual, researchers said. The devadasi system, which involves putting a beaded necklace around girls and often leads to a life of sex work and slavery, goes unchecked in Karnataka state, according to two reports released this month.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line48
__label__wiki	0.600295	0.600295	a community guest blog from nature.com Previous postReaching Out: So You Want To Communicate Science Online: The Flowchart Next postTuring : The Irruption of Materialism into thought Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science 13 Jun 2012 \| 09:00 GMT \| Posted by Soapbox Science Editor \| Category: Books, Featured Morton A. Meyers, MD is Distinguished University Professor and emeritus chair of the Department of Radiology in the School of Medicine SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of the seminal textbook on abdominal radiology (now in its sixth edition) that has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese editions. He is also the founding editor in chief of the international journal Abdominal Imaging. The author of award-winning Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs, he lives in Stonybrook, New York. Chapter 8 of Prize Fight by Morton Meyers MD: “This Shameful Wrong Must Be Righted!” On October 10, 2003, readers of the New York Times were startled to come across a full-page advertisement with this declaration trumpeted in big bold letters. As if any question of injustice remained, prominently pictured at the top of the advertisement was an upside-down prize medal with Alfred Nobel’s image. At issue was the announcement four days before by the Nobel Prize Academy that the award in physiology or medicine was going to Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham in Britain. The $1.3 million – dollar award was given for their work that “led to the applications of magnetic resonance in medical imaging.” MRI (magnetic imagining resonance) by this time had become a household phrase. However, it was Raymond Damadian who first envisioned NMR’s potential as an enormously valuable medical tool and attracted the attention of the medical community. Damadian’s claims are based on several of his seminal contributions: the original conception of using magnetic resonance (MR) for whole-body screenings of living humans; the fundamental discovery of MR differences among normal tissues and between normal and cancerous tissues, which provides the biological basis for MRI; and the construction of the first full-body human MRI machine, albeit using a crude scanning method. The thirty-year dispute between Damadian and Lauterbur illuminates two men who in their similarities, differences, and self-contradictions embody the conflicts inherent in scientific discovery. How is credit established? By what measure is priority determined? Is scientific research as driven by elements of human character, particularly ego, as many other endeavors? Does scientific rivalry drive the development of a life-saving technology? Written Out of History The long controversy regarding the development of MRI, some felt, kept the Nobel committee from acting earlier. Lauterbur, 74, was in declining health, however, and the Nobel Prize cannot be awarded posthumously. If the contribution of MRI was to be acknowledged, as Richard Ernst urged it must be, the time had come. For the past ten years, Damadian had been actively lobbying the Nobel committee, providing loose-leaf documents with letters of endorsement from eminent figures, including several Nobel laureates, and magazine articles and books detailing his contributions to the history of MRI. “Their decision,” he ruefully told me, “doesn’t occur accidentally at night. I heard they were thinking of giving the prize to the MRI and I wanted to be sure they understood that it was my idea.”[i] Most letters to the Nobel committee testified solely to Damadian’s discovery, but, interestingly, a few recommended that the prize should be shared by Damadian and Lauterbur and one went further to dispel any bias generated by Damadian’s conduct: “[Their] contributions are so interrelated that it would be an injustice to single one over the other. I also trust that Dr. Damadian’s . . . idiosyncrasies will not prove to be an obstacle, as many brilliant and productive scientists do sometimes exhibit unorthodox behavior.” As a major step in averting “being written out of history,” Damadian supported, if not commissioned, an impressive 838-page volume on the history of the discovery and the development of NMR and its modern applications in medicine.[ii] The act can be viewed as one of either forceful initiative and resourcefulness or shameless self-promotion. The book profiles nine pioneering scientists from the fields of physics, chemistry, and medicine, including such luminaries as I. I. Rabi, Edward Purcell, Felix Bloch, and Richard Ernst. Unsurprisingly, Damadian shares a place in this pantheon as does Lauterbur. In addition, during this time, two distinguished Swedish physicians involved with diagnostic imaging had visited Damadian separately: Hans Ringertz, a self-assured pediatric radiologist and scion of a distinguished family, and Bjorn Nordenstrom, a retired thoracic radiologist widely respected for his judgment. Were they on a mission from the Nobel committee? According to Damadian, they did not present themselves as the committee’s emissaries of the Nobel committee. But his hopes were dashed in the early morning of the sixth of October. Aware of international time differences, the Nobel committee informs the winners by telephone before announcing them to the media. At 3:30 a.m. CDT Lauterbur’s phone in Illinois rang and he was prodded awake by his wife from a deep slumber with the words every researcher dreams of: “It’s Stockholm calling.” Damadian got no such call. Two hours later, the Karolinska Institute announced to the world that Lauterbur and Mansfield had won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, deemed the most coveted and celebrated honor of human achievement, “for their [seminal] discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging.” The wording, with its emphasis on imaging, was carefully chosen. Alfred Nobel’s will allows up to three individuals to be honored and specifies only that the selection be for the discovery that has “conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” In the pre-dawn darkness in Long Island, Damadian logged on to the Internet, as he had done in recent years, and was, in his words, “in anguish. I thought: ‘No, I cannot live with this.’” It was like a knife in his heart to see not only that he had not been named but that the third position was simply left open. To Damadian as well as his supporters, the omission was clearly purposeful. [i] Author interview with Raymond Damadian, September 19, 2008. [ii] J. Mattson and M. Simon, The Pioneers of NMR and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: The Story ofMRI (Ramat Gan, Israel: bar-Ilan University Press. Published in the U.S.A. by (Dean Books Co., Jericho, NY University Press, 1996.) Soapbox Science is a guest blog hosted by Nature Publishing Group, providing a forum for the discussion of science news, the history of science, ethics, details of expeditions or outreach activities and book reviews. The views expressed in each blog post belong to the author(s) and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by Nature Publishing Group. We welcome contributions from scientists, science communicators, project coordinators or book authors. 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__label__wiki	0.762347	0.762347	McInnis Cement Names New CEO, COO The McInnis Cement board of directors announced the appointment of Baudouin Nizet to the position of president and chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately. Nizet succeeds Jean Moreau, who served as the interim president and CEO since August 2018. Nizet has a long track record in the cement industry, including working at CRH Canada/Holcim Canada as senior vice president for Quebec and the Atlantic Region from 2006 to 2013 in Montreal, then in Toronto as president and chief executive officer from 2013 to 2017. Until recently, he was senior vice president at Stuart Olson Building Group, a large construction company based in Calgary. In addition to serving as a director of the Cement Association of Canada for several years, he also served until 2017 as vice chair of the board of directors of the Canada Green Building Council. The McInnis Cement board of directors is convinced that Nizet will be able to lead McInnis through its next growth stages, while enhancing our corporate vision of “producing quality cements in a sustainable, profitable and responsible manner.” McInnis also confirmed the appointment of Alex Wojciechowski as chief operating officer. With more than 30 years of experience as a manager in the cement industry in Canada and in the United States, Wojciechowski has held various positions ranging from maintenance manager to plant manager to industrial manager. His expertise covers both cement operations and constructing and commissioning industrial equipment investment projects.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line51
__label__cc	0.586503	0.413497	Home Business Business Profiles Cheers for Brenda Lynn Martin’s Elite Beverage International Week 12/05 - 12/11 2019 Cheers for Brenda Lynn Martin’s Elite Beverage International By Crystal Harrell Making it big in any business is an accomplishment in itself, but taking the initiative to invest in an idea while wearing different hats brings it to the next level. Brenda Lynn Martin has done just that with her role in Elite Beverage International—a sales and importing company with a focus on the Spirits and Wine business. The company is based in the U.S.A. but has offices, personnel, and joint ventures in various countries worldwide. Martin was recruited to invest in the company on a local scale because of her status as a public figure in the desert. “I was introduced by a friend about investing in the company, so I became an investor as well as getting involved in sales because I know a lot of people in the Valley, so I said I would take over the whole Coachella Valley,” said Martin. Elite Beverage International’s flagship item, Comisario Tequila, is one of the highest-awarded tequilas, winning U.S.A. and international competitions, including being ranked #2 Blanco and #3 Añejo in the “World Spirits Competition.” “I love Elite Beverage International because the team is incredible. They are all very sweet. Steve Rice, Luis Cota, and Rick Darnell are the main guys and we have made so much progress in just eight months,” stated Martin. The Elite Beverage International portfolio also includes Sensi Italian Tuscany wines, DeRibas sparkling wines, and an association with Henebery Rye Whiskey, but Martin reveals that although it is a luxury boutique brand, the company is expanding with other alcohols. “We are present in 35 states, and we just did a deal with Sysco foods. There are a lot of locations in Las Vegas, including the T-Mobile arena, where we have representation, and I’m currently working on launching Elite Beverage International here in the Coachella Valley,” explained Martin. Despite her business savvy nature, Martin did not always come from such a background. She is originally from Sebastopol, California, having moved to the Coachella Valley only eight years ago. Martin practiced nursing for 20 years in Marin County, attributing it to her caring nature. Since then, Martin has worked as the Publicist for Rob Carter of “The Temptations Revue” and “The Lon Michaels Fine Art Gallery”. She has been involved in organizing special charity events for “Child Help” with John O Hurley and Cheryl Ladd, “Loving All Animals,” “Jam Session” and “Rafael’s Hair Salon.” Outside of charity work, Martin is also a three-time Cover Girl, having graced the issues of EMAGE Magazine and LIVE Magazine and is working on a third cover with Ochea Fashion. She is currently the Publicist for Unity Foundation and a Correspondent for the “Positive Spin” Television Program produced by the Unity Foundation, which focuses on promoting positive, innovative and solution-oriented news from around the world. “My role model is Pinki Kearbey, a friend of mine from Northern California, who is an outstanding businesswoman. I really don’t have much free time right now, but I love living in the Coachella Valley. The weather makes me feel like I’m on vacation every day,” said Martin. While Martin may be lacking in free time between her business ventures and charity work, she makes sure to spare some moments to bond with her four rescue dogs Bella, Ginger, Charlie, and Charlotte. Always ready to lend a helping hand, Martin currently volunteers her time at the American Cancer Society, Thermal Boxing Club, Childhelp, and Lee Espinoza Coachella Valley Boxing Club. She even received a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama in 2016. “I’m a very down-to-earth, hard-working, caring person. I wake up every day and see who I can help. I’m actually going to retire here soon due to tequila, and thank God for that, but I will continue to help people succeed!” exclaimed Martin. Previous articleA Stage Review of ‘The King and I’ Next articleINSTIGATOR // PESCATERRITORY // SILVER SKY	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line54
__label__wiki	0.612233	0.612233	Home » Solaris 9 rises to Linux challenge Solaris 9 rises to Linux challenge Langley, Nick Computer Weekly;2/10/2004, p46 Trade Publication Solaris is the best-selling implementation of Unix and holds about one third of the market. However, its share of the server business is threatened by Linux which, after initial hostility, Sun Microsystems Inc. now also supports. Solaris 9, released last year, is both an upgrade of the operating system and an attempt to challenge Linux on its own ground, with a lot of bundled software tools and add-ons, which include Sun's own products and other freeware and open source products. Solaris was designed from the outset for scalable, multi-user and multi-platform network computing. Solaris open source move opens up multi-platform opportunities. Langley, Nick // Computer Weekly;3/14/2006, p56 The article presents information about Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris Enterprise System. Early in 2005 Sun began to make core products such as server operating system Solaris and the Java Enterprise System, and associated developer and management tools, available in no-cost, open source form.... Sun expands menu of free software. Mears, Jennifer // Network World;12/5/2005, Vol. 22 Issue 48, p34 The article reports that the computer company Sun Microsystems Inc. will release its Java Enterprise System, which is a set of server middleware, and its Solaris Enterprise System to the open source community at no cost. The Solaris Enterprise system includes the Solaris, PostgreSQL database, N1... Java joins GPL family. Jason, Analyst // eWeek;5/21/2007, Vol. 24 Issue 18, p44 The author reflects on the entry of Java software as one of the General Public License software products in the U.S. Upon the announcement of Sun Microsystems Inc. to release its Java 2 Standard Edition for free as software, the author finds out that the java-GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME)... Sun to take on Linux with free and open Solaris. // MarketWatch: Technology;January 2005, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p27 Reports that the software firm Sun Microsystems has launched its Solaris 10 operating system at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. Decision to give Solaris to customers for free and to make it open source; Expected competition with the Linux system of Linus Torvalds;... UK govt rates Linux for desktop. // Computer Bulletin;Jan2005, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p14 The article focuses on a report by the British Office of Government Commerce that open source software is a viable desktop alternative for the majority of government users. The report is in response to trials with IBM and Sun Microsystems. It highlights issues surrounding a software switch that... Use Apache Struts skills to underpin Java web careers. Langley, Nick // Computer Weekly;4/10/2007, p36 The article presents information about Apache Struts, a free open source framework for creating Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) web applications, which uses and extends the Java Servlet application programming interface. Struts can be used in conjunction with development technologies such as... MARCIA WADE TALBERT'S TIP OF THE MONTH. WADE, MARCIA // Black Enterprise;Jul/Aug2013, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p29 The article suggests websites such as Opensource.com, Osalt.com, and OpenSource Windows.org to find free open source versions of Photoshop, AutoCAD, or Microsoft Office. Who doesn't like a good bargain? Reynolds, Veronica // EventDV;Dec2011, Vol. 24 Issue 10, p11 In the article, the author discusses the small-scale sale open source and freeware alternatives that she used while working as adult services librarian at New York City Library. She cites the Drupal 6 open source content management system (CMS) that they implemented in the library. She cites the... Sun and Java: new developments. // MarketWatch: Technology;Jun2006, Vol. 5 Issue 6, p24 The article examines the developments regarding Java and Sun Microsystems Inc. The company has open sourced Solaris and has made freeware offerings of Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Creator. The problem is that, by pushing Java as an open language and getting the support of a large...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line56
__label__wiki	0.86969	0.86969	1324 S. MacArthur Boulevard, 4 screens Previously operated by: Frisina Amusement Company, Kerasotes Theatres Architects: J. Fletcher Lankton Fox Town & Country Theater Roxy Theatre Senate Theater News About This Theater May 21, 2010 — Happy 30th, "Empire" Aug 21, 2009 — "Alien" 30th Anniversary The Esquire Theatre was opened December 16, 1937. It was last operated by Kerasotes Theatres until its closure in 2004. It was previously part of the Frisina Amusement Co. chain for many years. It was demolished in July 2016. Recent comments (view all 11 comments) Meredith Rhule on December 19, 2008 at 2:15 am When I worked here in 74 it was a “tri-plex.” Those were big names in those days. jackjs2swartz on June 1, 2011 at 7:06 pm I amsorry to hear of the demise of the esquire.I was the mgr of this fine theatre for 2 years from'75-‘77. there were a lot of fine shows exhibted during that time,but oddly my favorite is “Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I almost forgot,even ‘though I mentioned monty python,we also were showing about the same time One flew over the cookoos nestand did a sneak preview for the omen. bloosoda on December 12, 2014 at 12:48 pm In case OCRon’s link eventually goes bad, here is the meat and potatoes of what may soon be happening to the Esquire…from the State Journal-Register & reporter, Jamie Munks (as edited by me): The owners of the former Esquire Theatre property have told city officials they intend to raze the long-vacant building, which could make way for more development along MacArthur Boulevard. With the former Esquire — a large, nondescript gray building that sits just south of MacArthur Boulevard and South Grand Avenue — being demolished will fall in line with hopes for changes along the corridor. “There are always people looking at that property,” MacArthur Association President Ken Dillman said. “But there’s the expense of infrastructure upgrades, demolishing the building and then developing the property, so there are other places in town where it’s less expensive.” The former Esquire is a registered vacant building with the city, and the registration will come due after three years on Feb. 16. At that point, in order to comply with city code, the owners, AMC Theatres Inc., must either bring the building up to code or demolish it. AMC has indicated verbally that they plan to demolish. AMC acquired the property when they bought much of the Kerasotes Theatres circuit several years ago, and it’s been on the market since then. The listing price has been as high as $1.2 million for the AMC-owned properties on MacArthur Boulevard, though the price may be negotiable. AMC, incidentally, was bought out (over a year ago) by Beijing-based Dalian Wanda Group for $2.6 billion. Springfield area officials believe that historic restoration of the building is not a viable economic option. The former Esquire, which is the largest undeveloped property along MacArthur, has been vacant for about a decade. Joe Vogel on December 14, 2014 at 12:33 am The Esquire Theatre opened on December 12, 1937. This web page has the transcript of an oral history interview with Bond Tarr (opens in an embedded PDF format) who worked at the Esquire in the early to mid-1970s, and several passages deal with events at the theater during that period. Joe Vogel on February 5, 2015 at 1:05 pm The January 15, 1938, issue of The Film Daily notes that the Esquire Theatre was owned by the “Frisina Kerasotes Circuit,” so the two chains were partners in this theater from the beginning. The article also says that the Esquire, which cost &150,000, was designed by Peoria architect J. Fletcher Lankton. There is also this description of the original appearance of the theater: “The front of the house is built of Vitrolite glass bricks and ivory structural glass with chromium strips. The sidewalk is done in colored terrazo [sic] and the marquee embraces a combination of four colored neons and flashing lights.” Judging from that, the Streamline Modern Esquire might have resembled the Varsity Theatre in Peoria, which Lankton designed for Kerasotes Theatres in 1939. rivest266 on July 27, 2015 at 11:45 am December 16th, 1937 grand opening ad in photo section. rivest266 on July 28, 2015 at 9:02 am August 3rd, 1972 and August 18th, 1978 grand opening ads in photo section BillJunior on August 2, 2016 at 3:55 pm The Esquire was demolished in July 2015. See this historical perspective on the former movie house. http://sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/?p=7461 DavidZornig on August 25, 2017 at 9:44 am May 1974 photo added, credit Springfield Rewind facebook page.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line62
__label__wiki	0.916589	0.916589	About: Nate Oliver Nathaniel Oliver (born December 13, 1940 in St. Petersburg, Florida) had a seven-year major league career in the 1960s, mostly with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nate is the son of Jim Oliver, Sr., who had played in the Negro leagues. James Oliver Field in St. Petersburg, named after Nate's father, was the first field to be refurbished under the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Field Renovation Programs. Nate's brother, Jim, also played professional baseball. In 1967, his batting average improved to .237 in 77 games. In 2006, Nate was the bunting instructor for the Chicago White Sox organization. Nathaniel Oliver (born December 13, 1940 in St. Petersburg, Florida) had a seven-year major league career in the 1960s, mostly with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nate is the son of Jim Oliver, Sr., who had played in the Negro leagues. James Oliver Field in St. Petersburg, named after Nate's father, was the first field to be refurbished under the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Field Renovation Programs. Nate's brother, Jim, also played professional baseball. Nate was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1959. He hit just .224 for the Green Bay Blue Jays and Fox Cities Foxes that year. In 1960, he hit .329 for the Great Falls Electrics and appeared ever so briefly for the St. Paul Saints. He played in the minors for the Spokane Indians in 1961-65 and in 1967, topping .300 in '62-'63. He came up to the majors for the first time in 1963, a year the Dodgers won the World Series. He appeared in 65 games, playing primarily second base, and hitting .239. He did not play in the World Series. The next year, in 1964 at age 23, Nate had his most at-bats in the major leagues, getting 321 at-bats in 99 games. He hit .243 with 9 doubles and stole 7 bases. In 1965 he appeared in only 8 games with the Dodgers, but in 1966 he played in 80 games with a .193 average. He appeared in game 4 of the World Series as a pinch-runner. In 1967, his batting average improved to .237 in 77 games. In the off-season, he was traded to the San Francisco Giants in the deal involving Ron Hunt and Tom Haller. He appeared in only 36 games in 1968, hitting .178/.189/.205. In the off-season before 1969, he was traded to the Yankees, and played one game with them before they traded him to the Cubs, where he finished out his career in 44 games hitting .159. It was the Cubs team that everyone expected to win the division, but finished second instead. Glenn Beckert was the regular second baseman and played amongst infielders Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, and Don Kessinger. In 1989, Oliver managed the Arizona League Angels, and in 1990-91 he was at the helm of the Palm Springs Angels. In 1998, Oliver managed the Arizona League Cubs and in 1999 managed the Daytona Cubs, and in 2000 was a roving infield instructor in the Cubs organization. In 2003, he took over the managerial reins of the Saskatoon Legends of the Canadian Baseball League in mid-season from Ron LeFlore. In 2006, Nate was the bunting instructor for the Chicago White Sox organization. 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Nate is the son of Jim Oliver, Sr., who had played in the Negro leagues. James Oliver Field in St. Petersburg, named after Nate's father, was the first field to be refurbished under the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Field Renovation Programs. Nate's brother, Jim, also played professional baseball. In 1967, his batting average improved to .237 in 77 games. In 2006, Nate was the bunting instructor for the Chicago White Sox organization. (en) Nate Oliver (en) wikidata:Nate Oliver freebase:Nate Oliver dbpedia-wikidata:Nate Oliver yago-res:Nate Oliver wikipedia-en:Nate_Oliver?oldid=729004956 Nate (en) wikipedia-en:Nate_Oliver foaf:surname Oliver (en) is dbp:manager of dbr:1998_Chicago_Cubs_season dbr:1989_California_Angels_season	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line63
__label__cc	0.700378	0.299622	A Good-Bye To My Brother Yesterday I got the call that I had to say good-bye to someone I have been on this earth with for 51 years. My older brother,Daniel Robert Harold Saunders, born on March 3, 1957 fell from the roof of his house and crashed onto his fence. But that isn't what killed him. He spent the next forty hours in a room at the Invermere hospital and on the third day, after getting out of his bed for physio, he had pains in his chest. He returned to his bed and went into cardiac arrest. An autopsy will have to tell us if it was from a massive coronary or a blood clot from the damage his legs sustained. Either way, he is gone. While he was in hospital, the family luckily had a chance to talk to him. My Dad and sister and I called. My Dad from as far as Fredericton, New Brunswick, my sister from Ottawa, myself from 14 hours away in northern British Columbia. Dan's recently- estranged wife and two teen aged children were able to see him as well and express, as we did, their feelings and love. That is more than most people get when a loved one dies from an accident. At least we have that to cling to in this darkest hour. There is a movie playing in my head ,its the earliest memory I have and it begins with myself standing at the big picture window in our livingroom. I am 4 years old and I am waiting for my big brother to return from Kindergarten. He has only just left. Mom tries to distract me, wants me to play with my baby sister, but I won't be swayed. I stay by that window until he comes home hours later. I want to go to school too. In fact, I want to do anything and everything my brother does. I want to ski like him, to party like him, to get to know all of his friends.And I do.It takes me years but I catch up, never having been more than a heel behind his every step. He used to hate that. As the oldest of three siblings, he would rule the roost quite firmly, chasing my sister and I throughout the hallways of our house when the parents were out, forcing us to lock ourselves into the bathroom or our bedrooms so he couldn't get at us. If he did catch us, we would suffer an Indian burn on our wrists, or other just "punishments" that he deemed fit for annoying him. I used to hate that. Then we both graduated from high school and within a year of each other, moved from Fredericton NB out west, him to Calgary and myself to Vernon BC. In June 1984 I called Dan, now nicknamed Dano, when I went into labour with Karly, my first born. He showed up at the hospital two days later, shirt unbuttoned, sandals on and a pot of geraniums only to discover I was still in labour and all by myself. He stayed beside me and watched my daughter being born. He professed to be messed up for three days after, telling everyone "I would never ask a woman to go through that for me." And indeed it took eleven years before his wife Julie went through that and Dano's daughter Jayme was born. Two years later Zachery arrived, both children near- spitting images of their father. My brother settled into life as an upholsterer, being a master at the helm of an Industrial sewing machine. He was a hang glider pilot even after having trashed his body in a near-fatal ski accident while in his twenties. People used to turn their heads so not to see his launches, they were that scary. As were the landings, but he loved being up in the air. All that sense of freedom. He also loved doing things for other people. He was quick to open a door, to lend a hand, to invite you over, pour you a drink. He would make a car load of family wait in a sweltering truck while he helped someone with groceries, probably someone he didn't even know. He did everything he could for his family and they wanted for nothing. His daughter became a champion goalie, his son a champion at any sport he attempted like bicycling and snowboarding. Dan was always there for everyone. Not usually on time, but he was there. We got together when we could. A Christmas or two, a reunion, lately at our Mother's ash spreading last July and then when I was having my radiation treatments. He drove to Kelowna and made us dinner.The best guacamole appy I have ever tasted. He was so happy. After thirty years, he was finally pain-free from a new gadget he had found and bought with inheritance money from our mother. Sadly, he informed us he had moved out of his home and into his camperized bus, because something needed to change and he decided nothing would unless he made the move. He was trying to move forward with his life. Between raising a family and flying to and from New Brunswick twice for our mother's passing in 2009, Dano was quite strapped financially and felt the world was crashing in on him. He never knew how to say "no." He would try...no, no, no...and then he would give in and say "okay." His biggest downfall was his big heart, a heart that killed him in the end. I imagine he would laugh at how ironic that is. Everything demanded more from him and he would give. And give. And give until it became too much. He was put onto anti-depressants and seemed to be keeping his head above water. Unfortunately, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident a few weeks ago and got himself a DUI. He then crashed his bicycle and received three broken ribs. Things just continued to spiral downward. "Everything is such a mess," he told me. "I don't know what I'm doing anymore." He ended up on the roof of his house. There was an audience, the neighbours, the police, the ambulance attendants. The rest you know. At least now my brother doesn't have any more cares or problems. His head is high, his body unbroken, and he is on to the next phase in life after death. I have no doubt my mother and grandmother, both whom adored him his entire life, were there to greet him with open arms. As they will be there for my sister and I one day as well. It makes death seem a little more friendly, when you have someone you loved so much, being there waiting. You almost look forward to it. So once again I am at the picture window waiting for when I will see Danny again. Wanting to be where he is. Life has a funny way of coming around full circle. I miss you already Big Brother. May you rest in peace...until I get there! Posted by DebiLyn Smith at 8:33 AM 1 comment:	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line65
__label__cc	0.566262	0.433738	Tag: CBR The Recent “OGG Opus” Codec One of the uses which I’ve had for OGG Files has been, as a container-file for music, which has been compressed using the lossy “Vorbis” Codec. This has given me superior sound to what MP3 Files once delivered, assuming that I’ve set my Vorbis-encoded streams to a higher bit-rate than what most people set, that being 256kbps, or, Quality Level 8. But the same people who invented the Vorbis Codec, have embarked on a more recent project, which is called “OGG Opus”, which is a Codec that can switch back and forth seamlessly, between a lossy, Linear Predictive Coding mode (“SILK”), and a mode based on the Type 4 Discrete Cosine Transform (‘DCT’), the latter of which will dominate, when the Codec is used for high-fidelity music. This music-mode is defined by “The CELT Codec”, which has a detailed write-up dating in the year 2010 from its developers, that This Link points to. I have read the write-up and offer an interpretation of it, which does not require as much technical comprehension, as the technical write-up itself requires, to be understood. Essentially, the developers have made a radical departure from the approaches used previously, when compressing audio in the frequency domain. Only the least of the changes is, that shorter sampling windows are to be used, such as the 512-sample window which has been sketched, as well as a possible 256-sample window, which was mentioned as well. In return, both the even and odd coefficients of these sampling windows – aka Frames – are used, so that only very little overlap will exist between them. Hence, even though there will still be some overlap, these are mainly just Type 4 Discrete Cosine Transforms. The concept has been abandoned, that the Codec should reconstruct the spectral definition of the original sound as much as possible, minus the fact that it has to be simplified, in order to be represented with far fewer bits, than the original sound was defined as having. A 44.1kHz, 16-bit, stereo, uncompressed Wave-File consumes about 1.4Mbps, while compressed sampling rates as low as 64kbps are achievable, and music will still sound decently like music. The emphasis here seems to be, that only the subjective perception of the sound is supposed to remain accurate. (Updated 8/03/2019,16h00 … ) Continue reading The Recent “OGG Opus” Codec Posted on August 1, 2019 August 4, 2019 Tags Audio CODEC, CBR, Comb Filter, Data-Reduction, DCT, Hadamard Transform, MDCT, OGG Opus, Variable Sampling Window1 Comment Understanding ADPCM One concept which exists in Computing, is a primary representation of audio streams, as samples with a constant sampling-rate, which is also called ‘PCM’ – or, Pulse-Code Modulation. this is also the basis for .WAV-Files. But, everybody knows that the files needed to represent even the highest humanly-audible frequencies in this way, become large. And so means have been pursued over the decades to compress this format after it has been generated, or to decompress it before reading the stream. And as early as in the 1970s, a compression-technique existed, which is called ‘DPCM’ today: Differential Pulse-Code Modulation. Back then, it was just not referred to as DPCM, but rather as ‘Delta-Modulation’, and it first formed a basis for the voice-chips, in ‘talking dolls’ (toys). Later it became the basis for the first solid-state (telephone) answering machines. The way DPCM works, is that instead of each sample-value being stored or transmitted, only the exact difference between two consecutive sample-values is stored. And this subject is sometimes explained, as though software engineers had two ways to go about encoding it: Simply subtract the current sample-value from the previous one and output it, Create a local copy, of what the decoder would do, if the previous sample-differences had been decoded, and output the difference between the current sample-value, and what this local model regenerated. What happens when DPCM is used directly, is that a smaller field of bits can be used as data, let’s say ‘4’ instead of ‘8’. But then, a problem quickly becomes obvious: Unless the uncompressed signal was very low in higher-frequency components – frequencies above 1/3 the Nyquist-Frequency – a step in the 8-bit sample-values could take place, which is too large to represent as a 4-bit number. And given this possibility, it would seem that only approach (2) will give the correct result, which would be, that the decoded sample-values will slew, where the original values had a step, but slew back to an originally-correct, low-frequency value. But then we’d still be left with the advantage, of fixed field-widths, and thus, a truly Constant Bitrate (CBR). But because according to today’s customs, the signal is practically guaranteed to be rich in its higher-frequency components, a derivative of DPCM has been devised, which is called ‘ADPCM’ – Adaptive Differential Pulse-Code Modulation. When encoding ADPCM, each sample-difference is quantized, according to a quantization-step – aka scale-factor – that adapts to how high the successive differences are at any time. But again, as long as we include the scale-factor as part of (small) header-information for an audio-format, that’s organized into blocks, we can achieve fixed field-sizes and fixed block-sizes again, and thus also achieve true CBR. (Updated 03/07/2018 : ) Continue reading Understanding ADPCM Posted on March 6, 2018 March 7, 2018 Tags ADPCM, Audio CODEC, CBR, Computing History, DPCM, Encoding1 Comment About Constant Bitrate Encoding What most of us are used to when we encode an MP3 File, is that we can set a bitrate – such as 192kbps – and, the codec will produce an MP3 File with that bitrate. If that was all there is to it, we’d have Constant Bitrate encoding, aka ‘CBR’. But in many cases, the actual encoding scheme is Variable Bitrate (‘VBR’), which has been modified to be Adaptive Variable Bitrate (‘AVBR’). The way AVBR works, is that it nests the actual encoding algorithm inside a loop, with the premise that the user has nevertheless set a target bitrate. The loop then feeds the actual algorithm several quality-factors, to encode the same granule of sound, in multiple attempts, to find the maximum quality-factor, which does not cause the encoding to exceed the number of bits, which have been allocated for the algorithm to take up, in its encoding of 1 granule of sound. This quality-factor is then also used, to produce output. And, in case the actual number of bits output are less than the allocated number of bits, the difference is next added to the number of bits that act as a target, with which the next granule of sound is to be encoded. Encoding schemes that are truly CBR, are often ones which are not compressed, plus also perhaps ‘DPCM‘… Most of the other schemes, such as ‘MP3′ and ‘OGG’, are really AVBR or VBR. Continue reading About Constant Bitrate Encoding Posted on March 6, 2018 March 11, 2018 Tags Audio CODEC, AVBR, Bitrate, CBR, quality-factor, quality-level, VBR, Video CODEC1 Comment	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line67
__label__wiki	0.855462	0.855462	MV Berganger, sunk by U-578/Rehwinkel 2 June 1942 SE of Block Island, 42 men 1 girl rescued various boats January 2, 2017 March 7, 2017 Updated January 2, 2017 by Eric Wiberg U-Boats New England: Berganger Source: http://warsailors.com/singleships/berganger.htmland Bjørn Milde’s postcard collection. The Norwegian cargo ship Berganger was ordered in February 1931 for Westfal-Larsen and Company A/S of Bergen, Norway. She was built by the Netherlands Dock and Ship Building Company, or Nederlandsche Dok & Scheepsbouw Mij V o F in Amsterdam and completed in August 1932. Weighing 6,826 gross tons she could carry 9,824 deadweight tons of dry cargo. The steel ship was 456 feet long, 61 feet wide and 31.3 feet deep, and powered by an 8,200 ihp engine which propelled it at an impressive 15.5 knots. On her final voyage the ship was on charter to NotraShips, the Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission. According to the preeminent source on Norwegian ships in WWII, Dame Siri Holm Lawson at warsailors.com, the Berganger spent most of the war shuttling cargoes between the east coast of South America – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and the US east coast – Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York and Boston, then late in 1941 the ship switched to the west coast, from Vancouver and California to Chile and west coast of South America. By June 1942 she was back on the east coast run and under the command of Norwegian Captain Alm Normann Nymann. Berganger is unusual in that there was a girl on board: a young Argentinian saloon girl named Consuela Gonzales. There was also a Danish saloon boy, and an American and British galley boy each. There were 47 persons total on board who included nationals of the USA, Poland, Britain, Denmark, Sweden, and Argentina. At least two of the Norwegians – Johan Vidnes and Olav Brevik, doubled as gunners as well as able bodied seamen. Berganger originally loaded 5,320 tons of dry cargo in Buenos Aires and then sailed to Santos, Brazil, where she topped up on 3,623 tons of cargo which included 48,000 bags of coffee, 1,138 liters of sunflower seed oil, animal hides, 1,000 bales of lintners, which are malt extracts of brewing enzymes. The voyage northwards to Boston proceeded uneventfully until the night of Monday 1st June 1942, when the German submarine U-213 under Oberlieutnant Amelung von Varendorff sent five torpedoes streaking towards the ship and its unsuspecting crew. Amazingly none of them struck the target and the ship continued along, its officers, gunners and men and girl unaware of how close they had come to being sunk. The next day, however, they were not to be so fortunate. At roughly 2:30 pm the following day, Tuesday June 2 the Berganger was struck by a torpedo, this one fired by U-578 under Ernst-August Rehwinkel. The torpedo penetrated the port side ahead of the engine room and cargo hold number three. Either from impact or in the ensuring confusion four engineers were killed: Assistant Engineer Lennart Larsson of Sweden and Norwegians Einar Nilsen, Electrician Arne Bedringsås and Søren Schjelderup, both mechanics. Conditions at the time of attack were fairly mild, with a wind of roughly 15 knots from the northeast, good daylight visibility and no other ships on the horizon. For two weeks the ship had been zig zagging on the British plan #30 and there were five lookouts: two on the bridge, another pair at the gun aft, and a fifth in the crow’s nest equipped with binoculars. Seas were moderate as the Berganger headed northwest 283 degrees True at 15 knots, having reached a point roughly 130 miles southeast of Block Island. Immediately on being struck an emergency message was broadcast on the radio and the gun readied. The ship’s port motor lifeboat was smashed, she began to list to port, and swung to port as well. The engines stopped and lights went out, and the vessel began to sink. Efforts by Captain Nymann, after he raced from his cabin to the bridge, to bring his vessel back on course were fruitless. He was informed by surviving engine room staff that the engine room spaces were flooded or flooding. Just two minutes after the torpedo struck, a submarine surfaced 1.5 miles off the amidships of the port side, proving too tempting a target for gunners Vidnes and Bevik, who, under instructions from the master, managed to fire half a dozen rounds from their 4-inch gun aft, with a shot every five seconds. Though it could not be independently verified, subsequent investigations concluded that “it is believed that the second shot hit the aft jumping wire of the submarine which immediately crash-dived.” Holm Lawson’s account, based on Norwegian sources, states that the first two shots missed and the subsequent four shots were at the sea surface after the sub has submerged. Though Captain Nymann threw the confidential codes overboard in a weighted bag, he kept the routing instructions with him when he abandoned ship, which was a somewhat chaotic process. The remaining 43 mariners (there was one uncorroborated report of 3 passengers from Santos to Boston – Swedish mechanic Victor Johansson confirmed as much when he stated on 4 June that there were two passengers on board) abandoned ship roughly fifteen minutes after the attack, starting around 2:45 pm. There were three lifeboats, one of which capsized and was bailed out by two mariners who jumped into the sea and swam to it in order to do so. Three life rafts were also launched. Eighteen minutes after the first torpedo struck, the second plowed into the Berganger, and the impact overturned a lifeboat which had just been launched and flung the 21 occupants into the water. As a result, the men (and possibly the saloon girl) clambered aboard one life raft, though eight of these were subsequently moved to a boat, leaving 13 on the overcrowded raft. Most of the survivors climbed into the starboard amidships and aft port lifeboats, the latter of which was overturned when a torpedo struck the #2 hold. Four men managed to right this boat and whilst the 17 other hung to the side they set about bailing it. At that awkward time U-578 under Rehwinkel paid the lifeboat a visit to inquire about the tonnage of the ship, destination, cargo, flag, whether an SOS was sent, and so on. The Norwegians answered correctly except as regarded tonnage and SOS. They observed that Rehwinkel, who first asked in German whether anyone spoke that language, had a “movie type” beard. Berganger’s survivors observed the lack of uniforms, and that all the men seemed to wear caps of some sort. The Allied sailors also noticed a “Ferdinand the Bull” type insignia on the side of the conning tower and that a crew was repairing a jumping wire, used to hold up the radio antennae (they hoped this indicated a hit on the jumping wire by their shells). Indeed U-578 had the Snorting Bull emblem from U-47 in which Gunther Prien penetrated Scapa Flow Scotland earlier in the war. The conning tower also had a dent which was covered by red “lead” paint. The Germans photographed the desperate survivors. Then at about 3 pm the submarine headed off, still surfaced, to the northwest, towards New York. It turned out the boat which was overturned by the second torpedo explosion was too damaged and was abandoned after the 21 persons had been rescued. The starboard boat deposited some men into the boat which had been overturned and bailed out by two men, so that it would have enough men to row two hours back to the raft and overturned lifeboat and rescue the men there. Ultimately the Berganger sank, 13 men were distributed among three life rafts and tied to a badly damaged lifeboat, and the two useable lifeboats with 31 sailors in them set sail for land. Fortuitously, on Thursday the 4th of June all the men in various vessels were rescued, also by various vessels. The most vulnerable group of 13 men in rafts were picked up by USS Madison in league with USS Plunkett. These US Navy destroyers were in a group of ships named Destroyer Squadron Seven proceeding from Boston to Cape Henlopen, Delaware. At 12:55 pm they discovered wreckage from the Berganger and reduced speed from 22 knots. At 1 pm they saw two rafts and a boat with men on them. At 1:33 pm the Madison retrieved 13 men from the rafts, and the Plunkett discovered an empty and overturned lifeboat. The condition of the men was said to be good. At 2:45 they discovered the empty life boat of the rescued crew mates, with sails and the red and yellow bunting they had been instructed by Captain Nymann to fly. The first officer said the boat was “undoubtedly” from the Berganger. They were taken to Norfolk, where they were landed at 7 pm on Saturday the 6th. Second Mate Finn Jenssen’s boat with a total of 17 persons in it was rescued by a fellow Norwegian shop, the motor ship Bañaderos on Thursday the 4th of June and landed in New York harbor the following day, Friday the 5th. Their lifeboat must have been the one discovered left empty by USS Madison the same day. The fishing vessel Mary J. Landry in New Bedford. Built in 1928 she is believed still fishing today. Source: http://nefsc.noaa.gov/rcb/photogallery/brigham.html Captain Nymann’s lifeboat made it to within only 14 miles of Block Island, Rhode Island before the US fishing vessel Mary J. Landry rescued them on the evening of the 4th. The Landry was built in 1928 of wood in Plymouth, Massachusetts and was 71.5 feet long, 16.5 feet wide and 7.7 feet deep, of 45 gross tons. Her owner was Stephen F. Lozinak of New Bedford. The fishermen took the 13 survivors with them to New Bedford, Massachusetts the following day, Friday the 5th of June. By Monday the 8th of June all the 44 survivors, passengers and saloon girl were reunited in New York, where naval hearings were held. The Bañaderos survived the war and was broken up in La Spezia, Italy, in December 1965. U-578 was lost about two months later, on or about the 7th or 8th of August 1942. It left St. Nazaire France for a patrol in the North Atlantic and was posted missing on the 11th, having presumably not made it across the Bay of Biscay before it was sunk by Allied forces, precise fate unknown. Attack Narratives New England Buenos Aires Argentina Capt. Nymann F/V Mary J. Landry Finn Jenssen MV Banaderos MV Berganger New Bedford WWII Saloon Girl Consuela Gonzales Santos Brazil Stephen F. Lozinak U-578 Uncategorized USS Madison USS Plunkett Tanker Atlantic States struck by torpedo from U-879/Manchen on 5 April 1945 off Cape Cod, towed Boston SS Black Point sunk Point Judith RI last week of WWII vs. Germans by U-853 off Point Judith, Rhode Island May 5, 1945	cc/2020-05/en_head_0002.json.gz/line72

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