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__label__cc	0.519102	0.480898	Besides beautiful Cycladic architecture and cubic-shaped houses, Santorini has a well-kept secret. Once lost under tons of volcanic ash, the ancient settlement of Akrotiri was a thriving town with riches and a civilization so advanced that can only inspire awe even to modern-day people. Once a small farming and fishing village, Akrotiri, Santorini has taken a special place in the pantheon of regions with particular historical significance. Here are some impressive details about the popular Santorini attraction you probably did not know! Is it Akrotiri or something else? Heading south of famous Fira and luxury Oia Santorini hotels like Thirea Suites, the landscape changes. From whitewashed-filled villages and imposing caldera views, you get the ancient ruins of a Greek settlement. Also known as Greece’s Pompeii, the original name of the village now referred to as Akrotiri remains an unsolved mystery. Home to the ancient Minoans – The start of an era of money and prosperity Life started in Akrotiri, Santorini, around 1500 BC, when historians have the first instances of its existence. Founded by the then thriving Minoans, whose civilization flourished from around 3000 BC to almost 1450 BC, Akrotiri was a humble village that grew grains and olives. Despite the fairly barren land and limited resources, Akrotiri became one of the most prosperous Santorini villages due to its strategic location. You see, it was situated in the trade route between the Middle East and Europe. This means that there was continuous (and significant) cash flow in the area, enabling it to grow into a wealthy port town. Akrotiri Bourgeons at Bullet Speed Historical references to Akrotiri, Santorini speak of a city with a huge display of its riches. There are mentions of elaborate two- or three-storey Minoan houses with beautifully painted frescoes, underfloor heating, balconies, and running water (both cold and hot). Some homes even had their own indoor toilet and stone bathtubs, as well as hand-crafted furniture, sculptures, and pots. To get an idea of how advanced the Minoan civilisation was, they had constructed three-floor houses at a time when other people lived in huts. Chances are a modern Santorini apartment at Thirea Suites would look primitive to the Minoans! As for the Minoan people, they were very hard working and, and at the same time, celebrating life whenever possible. Winemaking was a tradition for them, while their accomplishments are believed to have inspired Plato when speaking about the city of Atlantis. Finally, being a democratic place, Akrotiri, Santorini had no palaces. Instead, it had a parliament and encouraged equal distribution of wealth. The sweeping volcanic eruption Somewhere around the 1600s, the Santorini volcano erupted, covering everything with lava and volcanic ash. It is said that the eruption created a 4-mile-wide Santorini Caldera and was one of the largest ones ever recorded, sending an ash cloud as high as 32 kilometres! As expected, a massive tsunami followed (reported to send 100-metre-high waves) that whipped mercilessly the entire southern Mediterranean as far as Egypt. The end of all this catastrophic chain of activities found Akrotiri, Santorini buried below about 60 metres of volcanic ash and debris. As you can imagine, the island became uninhabitable as it was completely covered with piles of ash and hot lava. For centuries, it stood abandoned until the Greeks, Byzantines, and Romans created new settlements on the island many years later. Long forgotten and eventually unearthed For several centuries, the buried Akrotiri, Santorini village, was sent into oblivion and remained there until the 1860s, when workers accidentally discovered artifacts from the ancient city. Eventually, excavations to the site begun in 1967 and resurfaced historic buildings, pieces of furniture, and more items after painstaking digging to remove the massive amounts of ash on top of the site. What is also noteworthy is the fact that no animal or human remains have been found so far at Akrotiri, Santorini. This is speculated to have happened because people had a lot of time to pack their valuables and livestock and leave the city before the big eruption. And, let’s not forget that Akrotiri was a prosperous city by the sea, enabling easy access to boats. Akrotiri Today & Speculations About the Lost Atlantis The archeological site of Akrotiri is now a much-visited Santorini attraction that offers not only significant archeological findings but also breathtaking Santorini sunset views. It also provides heart-stopping panoramas over the caldera and the vastness of the Aegean Sea. The ancient settlement is around 40 minutes from Oia Santorini, and about 20 minutes from Fira (by car). Now, whether Akrotiri is the lost Atlantis, as many people claim, it may as well be. Scientists and historians assessing Plato’s references to an unbelievably advanced and wealthy civilization that vanished due to floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions in one night believe he was talking about the island of Santorini. Today, most Santorini tours take visitors to key landmarks of Santorini, including Akrotiri, as part of a historical tour or a guided Santorini tour to major attractions of all sorts. A stop worth making in your Santorini itinerary Whether you are spending your new life as bridegroom at Thirea Suites, one of the best-rated Santorini honeymoon hotels, or enjoying a fun time with friends or family, a visit to Akrotiri is definitely a rewarding experience. Even if you are not a history fan, you will still be amazed by the findings on the site and the staggering views of the shimmering Aegean Sea! Must-experience activities in Santorini – 20 Top things to do in Santorini (Part I) The Santorini Caldera - The Deepest Affection of a Lifetime	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745362
__label__wiki	0.96442	0.96442	NCAA: Auburn basketball faces 4-year probation, Bruce Pearl suspension but no postseason ban Bennett Durando AUBURN — Auburn men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl is suspended two games as the program immediately begins a four-year probation period during which two scholarships will be reduced from the program's allotment, among other minor penalties, the NCAA Committee on Infractions determined Friday at the end of its multi-year investigation of Auburn. The team avoided a 2021-22 postseason ban by self-imposing one the previous year, the NCAA determined in its findings. Auburn will face a $5,000 fine plus 3% of the men's basketball budget — and a number of show cause penalties were handed to Pearl's former assistant coaches — but the culmination of a four-year cloud hanging over Auburn comes off as a slap on the wrist relative to other recent NCAA sanctions. The university will not appeal the committee's decision. In an unattributed statement, Auburn said, "We are pleased that a conclusion has been reached in this case. For the last four years, Auburn has been proactive and cooperative with the NCAA enforcement staff and Committee on Infractions. We have been and will continue to be committed to NCAA rules compliance. As such, we accept all penalties and are ready to move forward." The investigation stemmed from former assistant coach Chuck Person's September 2017 arrest and eventual conviction for accepting bribes to steer pro prospects to an agent and financial adviser. It was part of a wide-reaching FBI investigation into corruption throughout college basketball. As part of the NCAA sanctions released Friday, Person faces a 10-year show cause penalty, which means, according to the report: "During that period, any NCAA member school employing him must restrict him from any athletically related duties unless it shows cause why the restrictions should not apply." Auburn fired Person in November 2017. In 2019, he was sentenced to community service and two years of probation. Person accepted $91,500 in bribe payments from a financial advisor in exchange for arranging meetings with two players and their parents, the report found. "In doing so, (Person) violated the trust of his student-athletes and their families," it says. "Rather than protect them, he intentionally brought opportunists into the Auburn men's basketball program and, using his influence, introduced them to the student-athletes and their families." In explaining Pearl's two-game suspension, the committee's report says that Pearl "violated head coach responsibility rules because he did not adequately monitor the associate head coach and failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance." In a news conference explaining the findings, committee chief hearing officer Vince Nicastro said Pearl's history of NCAA rule violations did factor into the investigation and sanctioning process. When Pearl was the head coach at Tennessee, he faced a three-year show cause penalty. He was fired from Tennessee in 2011. Another former Auburn assistant, Harris Adler, received a one-year show cause penalty because he refused to participate in an in-person or virtual follow-up interview during the investigation process. According to the NCAA's report, Adler had given two interviews but was asked to participate in a third in September 2020 after new information was uncovered. He refused to do the interview over the course of two months, citing family health issues. There was another potential violation discovered and then disproven during the investigation, in which Adler was thought to have paid the tuition of a walk-on athlete. The investigation found this "violation was not demonstrated," according to the report. The NCAA accepted a number of Auburn's self-imposed recruiting restrictions from the last four years, and most notably, the report stated that the Tigers' self-imposed postseason ban for 2020-21 was enough to avoid facing that punishment this year. Although the approach was successful in this case — Auburn wouldn't have made the NCAA Tournament last season regardless, and the program minimized its official consequences — self-imposed sanctions do not automatically mitigate punishment handed down by the NCAA, which took 1,536 days after Person was charged to determine Auburn's penalty. "These cases take a little longer than people think they should," Nicastro said. "I think part of that is the thoroughness of the investigation." Nicastro also said the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the timeline of infractions investigations. FOOTBALL NEWS:After injuring ankle, Auburn football QB TJ Finley will play in Birmingham Bowl BRYAN HARSIN:'The first one changes you': As Harsin joins Iron Bowl canon, Auburn, Alabama football coaches recall their debuts in a game that dictates longevity This is Pearl's eighth season at Auburn, a tenure that includes a 145-93 record and a trip to the Final Four in 2019. "I’m appreciative of Auburn University, our leadership, the AU family and our current and former student-athletes as we navigated through the challenges of the last four years," Pearl said in a statement Friday. "... It is time to put this behind us. As part of our penalty, I will begin my two-game suspension (Saturday) against Nebraska." Auburn (7-1) is scheduled to play Nebraska (5-5) at 10:30 a.m. CT in Atlanta. The Tigers host North Alabama on Tuesday, setting up Pearl to return for the team's trip to St. Louis on Dec. 18. NEXT GAME:As Auburn basketball, Nebraska handle flu, Bruce Pearl turns focus to Cornhuskers' point guard The two players involved in the FBI investigation were Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy. On Nov. 2, 2017, Auburn announced Wiley and Purifoy would sit out indefinitely from game action, identifying them as the previously unnamed "Player 1" and "Player 2" in the federal complaint against Person. The assistant coach was indicted by a federal grand jury and fired by Auburn five days later. In January 2018, the NCAA announced Wiley would not be eligible to play the remainder of the season, a ruling that was upheld after Auburn appealed. Purifoy was ruled to be ineligible for the first 30% of the next season. Auburn's final penalty states that all records in which Wiley and Purifoy competed while ineligible will be vacated. It remains unclear which games that entails, but Auburn's media relations staff is required to contact the NCAA and conference officials within 14 days to identify the appropriate timeline for vacated wins.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745365
__label__cc	0.597123	0.402877	You are using an outdated browser and your browsing experience will not be optimal. Please update to the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Install Microsoft Edge Competition and Trade Compliance and Investigations Operations Professionals All Job Opportunities Museum of Counterfeit Goods Cambodia – Implementing Guidelines Provide New Details on Labor Law Amendments Cambodia’s Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (MLVT) has introduced two new Prakas (implementing guidelines), one of which seeks to clarify recent amendments to the country’s Labor Law pertaining to seniority payments, and the other establishes a new requirement to make salary payments twice per month. Below we set out full details of the changes. Prakas No. 443 on Seniority Payments On September 21, 2018, the MLVT issued Prakas No. 443 on Seniority Payments, which provides implementing guidelines for the recent amendment to the Labor Law. To recap, the amendment to the Labor Law eliminated the “indemnity for dismissal” on termination of undetermined duration contracts and replaced it with an ongoing requirement for employers to pay a new “seniority payment.” Please refer to our client alert dated August 6, 2018, for more information on the amendment to the Labor Law. The new Prakas No. 443 provides the following implementing guidelines: Applicability of Seniority Payments to Employees with Undetermined Duration Contracts and Fixed-Term Contracts Seniority payments only apply to an employee with an undetermined duration contract. An employee with a fixed-term contract is not entitled to a seniority payment, but is entitled to a severance payment at the end of the employee’s contract pursuant to Article 73 of the Labor Law. Article 73 provides that the severance payments must be in accordance with a collective bargaining agreement, if any, and must be at least 5 percent of all wages that the employee received during his/her employment period. Timing and Amount of Seniority Payments As mentioned in our previous alert, an employee is entitled to an annual seniority payment of 15 days of wages and other fringe benefits. Starting in 2019, an employer must pay each annual seniority payment in two installments, with half of the seniority payment being paid in June and the remaining half being paid in December of each year. For a new employee, an employee is entitled to a full installment of the seniority payment (being equal to 7.5 days of wages and benefits) if the employee worked for at least one month in the applicable period (being from January to June, or July to December). Lastly, as stated in the amendment to the Labor Law, if an employee is terminated for any reason other than the employee’s own serious misconduct, and at least one month has passed since the last seniority payment without the subsequent seniority payment being paid, then the employee is entitled to a seniority payment equal to seven days of wages and fringe benefits. Back Payments for Seniority Incurred Before 2019 An employee is entitled to seniority payments for each year worked with an existing employer for time worked before 2019 (i.e., seniority back payments). The seniority back payments equal 15 days of wages and fringe benefits for each year worked (however, there is some ambiguity in the drafting of the Prakas, which may lead to an interpretation that employees in the textile, garment, and footwear industries are entitled to a seniority back payment based on 30 days, as opposed to 15 days). These seniority back payments are subject to a payment cap that equals six months of the employee’s average actual salary. For an employee who worked for less than a full year or for a partial portion of a year, an employee is entitled to a full installment of the seniority payment (being equal to 7.5 days of wages and benefits) if the employee worked for at least one month in the applicable period (being from January to June, or July to December). Back payments of the seniority payment will be paid in annual installments starting from 2019 as follows: For workers in the textile, garment and footwear industries, they will be entitled to have settled 30 days of seniority back payments per year; and For workers in all other industries, they will be entitled to have settled 15 days of seniority back payments per year. Seniority back payments must be paid in the same months as the ongoing seniority payments with half of the seniority back payment being paid in June and the remaining half being paid in December. An employee is entitled to both the seniority back payment and the ongoing seniority payment. By way of example, if an employee has worked for a bank for five years before 2019, the employee will be entitled to 75 days of seniority back payments (5 years x 15 days). In addition, the employee will also be entitled to the ongoing seniority payment from 2019 onwards. Therefore, for the first five years, the employer will be obliged to pay the employee a seniority back payment of 15 days and an ongoing seniority payment of 15 days (for a total back and ongoing seniority payment of 30 days) each year. Half of the payment will be made in June and the remaining half will be paid in December. Once the employer has cleared the seniority back payments, the employer will only be obliged to pay the employee the ongoing seniority payment of 15 days per year. Likewise, if an employee has worked for a garment factory for six years before 2019, the employee will be entitled to 90 days of seniority back payments (6 years x 15 days). In addition, the employee will also be entitled to the ongoing seniority payment from 2019 onwards. Therefore, for the first three years, the employer will be obliged to pay the employee a seniority back payment of 30 days and an ongoing seniority payment of 15 days (for a total back and ongoing seniority payment of 45 days) each year. Half of the payment will be made in June and the remaining half will be paid in December. Once the employer has cleared the seniority back payments, the employer will only be obliged to pay the employee the ongoing seniority payment of 15 days per year. If an employee resigns, the employee is not entitled to any seniority back payments that remain unpaid. Remaining Ambiguities While Prakas No. 443 has addressed many ambiguities in the Labor Law, certain ambiguities remain in the Prakas, including: whether an employee who is terminated on or after January 1, 2019, is entitled to any unpaid seniority back payments; the exact formula for calculating a seniority back payment, in particular whether the seniority back payment is based current or past wages; the exact formula for calculating the payment cap of six months of the employee’s salary, in particular how to calculate the average actual salary. We hope the MLVT will further address these issues before employers have an obligation to make seniority back payments in June 2019. Prakas No. 442 on Payment of Wages Under Prakas No. 442 on the Payment of Wages, all employers are required to pay salaries to all employees twice per month starting from January 2019. The first half of the salary payment must be made in the second week of the month, and the second half of the salary payment must be made in the fourth week of the month. Any remaining amounts and other benefits owed to employees (such as overtime) should be paid at the time of the second half of the salary payment. Jay Cohen Partner and Director, Cambodia Pichrotanak Bunthan RELATED INSIGHTS Practical Law: Doing Business in Thailand 2021 Attorneys from Tilleke & Gibbins have provided the latest update to the Thailand contribution to Doing Business in…, a Q&A-style guide published by Thomson Reuters Practical Law that presents an overview of the legal framework for doing business in 63 jurisdictions worldwide. The Thailand chapter of the guide outlines Thailand’s legal system and key laws applicable to foreign companies doing business in the country. The chapter specifically covers the following main topics: Legal system: Thailand’s court system and codified legal system. Foreign investment: Lists of reserved business activities, restrictions on doing business with certain jurisdictions, exchange controls and currency regulations, and grants and incentives available to investors. Business vehicles: Ordinary partnerships, registered ordinary partnerships, limited partnerships, private limited companies, and public companies. Environment: Main laws and regulations, factory operation. Employment: Laws, employment contract requirements, work permits, and termination and redundancy. Tax: Taxes on employment, tax and nontax resident employees and businesses, corporate income tax, value added tax, special business tax, municipal tax, stamp duty, dividends, interest, intellectual property royalties. Competition: Important aspects of Thailand’s regulatory regime surrounding competition, centered around the updated Trade Competition Act. Antibribery and corruption: Laws, compliance requirements, regulatory authority. Intellectual property: Patents, trademarks, registered and unregistered designs, and copyright. Marketing agreements and advertising: Regulation of marketing agreements, Thailand’s Consumer Protection Act, direct marketing, role of the Consumer Protection Board and Food and Drug Administration. E-commerce: E-commerce laws and regulations, marketing and sales via online platforms. Data protection: An outline of Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act. Product liability: Procedures and regulations for product liability and product safety, including the Unsafe Goods Liability Act and the Consumer Case Procedure Act. Product liability: Key regulatory authorities for trade competition, environmental issues, and financial services. To browse, download, or print the Thailand chapter, please visit the Practical Law website. Lex Mundi Global Attorney-Client Privilege Guide 2021 – Thailand Chapter Michael Ramirez, a counsel in Tilleke & Gibbins’ dispute resolution group in Bangkok, has updated the firm’s contribution to the Global Attorney-Client Privilege Guide, published by Lex Mundi. The newly expanded guide provides information on what constitutes attorney-client privilege in over 70 countries around the world. The Thailand section of the guide contains in-depth information on the function and applications of attorney-client privilege in Thailand (or, as explained in the guide, an equivalent concept enshrined in Thai law), including coverage of the following topics: Privilege in corporations Common interest doctrine Litigation funding Crime-fraud exception Work product doctrine/litigation privilege Other privileges including mediation, accountant-client and settlement negotiation The interactive guide features expert contributions by Lex Mundi member firms from jurisdictions worldwide. Readers can browse the contributions, generate country-specific reports, and compare attorney-client privilege in multiple jurisdictions. For more information, please visit the Lex Mundi website. Lex Mundi Guide to Doing Business in Thailand 2021 As part of its membership in Lex Mundi, Tilleke & Gibbins has published an updated edition of its Guide to Doing Business in Thailand for 2021. This guide outlines all of the key factors for starting and operating a business in the Thai market. Issues covered include: Investment incentives Financial facilities Exchange controls Import and export regulations Structures for doing business Requirements for the Establishment of a Business Operation of the Business Cessation or Termination of the Business Labor legislation, relations, and supply Tax Immigration requirements This publication is part of Lex Mundi’s Guides to Doing Business series prepared by member firms in more than 100 jurisdictions worldwide. The guides serve as a useful resource when planning an international business strategy or researching a new market. Tips for Employers on Employee Vaccinations in Vietnam Businesses in Vietnam recognize the need to vaccinate their workers in order to keep their factories and workplaces open. In this article, we explore whether employers may require their employees to be vaccinated, as well as associated disclosure and privacy issues under Vietnamese law. We have seven offices in six countries across Southeast Asia. We are always seeking great people to grow our amazing team. © 2021 Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd. All rights reserved. \| Legal Notice	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745366
__label__wiki	0.948092	0.948092	As coronavirus surges in Republican territory, so does rage over masks Gus Garcia-Roberts After waiting hours for his turn to speak to the Montgomery City Council on June 16, pulmonologist Dr. William Saliski spoke slowly and in basic terms about what he had seen on the novel coronavirus front lines in his hospital in an area hit harder than any other in Alabama. He described emergency units overrun with COVID-19 patients, roughly 90-percent of whom were Black, and warned that if the spread continued, “we will be overrun.” He offered a simple partial solution: the council should pass the ordinance it was considering to require people to wear masks in public. “This mask slows that down,” Saliski said while waving a piece of fabric. “Ninety-five percent protection. Something as easy as this cloth.” But the doctor was met with skepticism, including from a councilman who suggested that to order Montgomery residents to wear masks would be to “throw our constitutional rights out the window.” Saliski and other doctors stormed out of the meeting in disgust after the council members voted mostly along racial lines—Black members for the mandate and white members against it—and the ordinance failed. Such combative scenes have increasingly become the norm in parts of the United States, especially as the virus has taken hold in more conservative regions in the South and West. Face masks or coverings of the sort recommended by top health officials to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus have become an unlikely focus of partisanship and racial division, leading to mass refusals to wear them or mandate their use even as government leaders have pushed to reopen the economy. Local officials voting to require face masks in public have faced lawsuits and have been shouted down by their constituents. Law enforcement leaders have refused to enforce face mask mandates. There have been mask burnings and protests, including one demonstration in which an Arizona council member mimicked victims of police abuse by declaring: “I can’t breathe.” And as some right-leaning Americans have called masks a tool of oppression, Democratic conspiracy, and even sacrilege, a new genre of viral cell phone video has popped up, featuring verbal or physical scuffles centering on people refusing to cover their faces in Costco, Trader Joe’s, or other public places. Shoppers irate about masks have vandalized a store display and spat on a 7-11 counter upon being asked to put on one, and one man pulled a gun because a fellow shopper refused to wear one. For public health experts, the fissure over masks is yet another unwelcome headache in a battle against the novel coronavirus. With more than 3 million confirmed cases of the virus and upwards of 134,000 deaths, the United States has been by far the world’s hardest-hit nation. “If we’re going to move on we’ve got to get everybody on the same page,” said Dr. Glen Nowak, a University of Georgia professor who previously ran media relations and communications at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ”Because if we don’t, we’re going to be dealing with this divisiveness for a long time.” According to Dr. Michael Baker, a professor of public health at the University of Otago in New Zealand, many western nations that do not have a history of mask-wearing during virus outbreaks have experienced some doubt about the practice’s efficacy. But Baker said that no other country’s citizens have taken such a willful stance against masks, and that international health officials have been particularly stunned that American leaders at the highest levels have done relatively little to urge mask-wearing, and at times have even seemed to belittle it. “This idea that you’re going to make a political statement by infecting people around you just seems absolutely outrageous to me and I think to most people who think about it,” Baker said. “Why would you do that? Why would you encourage that behavior?” Baker said the dissent against masks has coupled dangerously with the American rush to reopen businesses even as infection cases reach record levels. “Not endorsing mask use and also encouraging the country to get back to work just seems like a terrible contradiction because, actually, mass masking would be one of the best tools for helping a country get back to work and it’s cheap and effective,” Baker said. “You’re just creating this perfect storm for yourselves in the U.S. by doing that.” Nowak said that American distrust of masks was partly the fault of poor messaging by his former agency, the CDC. The agency initially discouraged healthy Americans from wearing masks, in part to prevent hoarding that could’ve deprived medical professionals of personal protective equipment. When further research prompted the CDC in April to recommend that nearly every American wear a face covering outside when around other people, Nowak said, the agency billed it as a way of keeping others safe. That was the wrong message for a portion of the population, Nowak said. He said officials would have had more success with “messages that resonated with other parts of the population, such as, ‘If you wear a mask it gives you the freedom to do other things because we’re reducing the spread of COVID-19.’” The CDC did not respond to a request for comment for this article. The experts interviewed by USA TODAY said that despite early misgivings by the CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) about the protection offered by wearing masks, there is now significant evidence that the practice slows the spread of the virus. Though there has been speculation that mask-wearing during widespread police brutality protests prevented novel coronavirus numbers from spiking in those cities, Nowak cautioned that it’s “probably impossible to take public events and draw inferences in terms of masks” and the resulting infection numbers. President Trump has been the country’s most visible waffler on the societal value of wearing a mask. Trump has said “I’m all for masks,” and favorably compared his appearance in one to that of the Lone Ranger. But he’s shown disdain for them at other times, mocking rival presidential candidate Joe Biden for appearing publicly in a mask and saying that he declined to wear one because he didn’t want to give members of the media “the pleasure” of seeing it on him. There were few masks worn among supporters packed closely together at Trump’s recent large gatherings in Tulsa, Oklahoma—which was followed by a rise in novel coronavirus cases there that the city’s health director said were “more than likely” a result of the rally—and in front of Mount Rushmore. Trump also yanked his Republican convention speech from Charlotte, North Carolina, reportedly after officials there wouldn’t budge on requiring masks and social distancing, choosing to accept his party’s nomination in an arena in Jacksonville, Florida, instead. Before Trump’s upcoming rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-- which was planned for Saturday but has been postponed due to a tropical storm-- residents have called for Republican Gov. Chris Sununu or Mayor Rick Becksted to mandate mask-wearing, but both have resisted. In a statement, Becksted suggested that to mandate masks would be to “politicize this important health issue.” Only a few months ago, it would have been difficult to conceive of a thin layer of protective fabric across one’s nose and mouth as a partisan or racially-divided accessory. But in recent weeks there has been no stronger symbol of American in-fighting in the path of the novel coronavirus than the face mask. When commissioners in Palm Beach County, Florida, mandated face masks in public, an irate crowd of constituents—who weren’t wearing masks—jeered them for trampling the U.S. Constitution. “Residents do not take it lightly when arbitrary and capricious rules are forced down their throats for the greater good,” declared one constituent, who collected 900 signatures against the mandate. In Wisconsin, a surge of novel coronavirus cases has prompted Gov. Tony Evers to reverse his previous position and consider implementing a statewide mask mandate. But Evers seemed to consider it a futile gesture, saying that he expected the mandate to be challenged, and defeated, in court. Josh Guillory, the mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana, said that he found the high novel coronavirus numbers “alarming” but refused to join other major cities in the state by requiring masks. “I’m not a king, and I’m definitely not a wizard where I can just press a button and say, ‘Masks!’ And everybody’s cured,” Guillory said. Other officials have taken an even more aggressive stance against protective face coverings. Ohio State Rep. Nino Vitale, who has declared that masks obscure “the image and likeness of God,” has attempted in vain to stymie Gov. Mike DeWine’s mask requirement in several counties in the state. On Tuesday, DeWine’s mandate prompted Vitale to advise his constituents against an even more basic health measure, writing on Facebook: "Are you tired of living in a dictatorship yet? This is what happens when people go crazy and get tested. STOP GETTING TESTED!" In the same state, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said that Ohioans were sick of the government telling them what to do and that he would not enforce DeWine’s mandate. “I’ve got a lot of important things to do and being the mask police is not one of them,” Jones said. Saliski, the pulmonologist who argued in favor of a mask ordinance in Montgomery last month, later said he had thought that his plea was a “slam dunk” and a “no-brainer.” Among residents who spoke in favor of the Montgomery ordinance was William Boyd, who said he had lost six family members to COVID-19. Noting the virus’s prevalence among the Black population, Boyd said: "The question on the table is whether Black lives matter," But successful opposition to the proposal was led by councilman Brantley Lyons, who called it a constitutional breach and said that “to make somebody do something or require somebody to wear something is an overreach.” On Tuesday, Saliski—wearing his white lab coat and a facial expression of masked wrath—tried again at another meeting. "You guys were voted in to protect your constituents," he told the Montgomery council members. "Damn it, protect them!" This time, the council was apparently swayed, voting 7-0 to pass a mask mandate in the city. Councilman Lyons, after parrying with Saliski over “literature” he said he read that called into question the efficacy of masks, abstained from voting. Cincinnati Enquirer reporters Hannah K. Sparling and Jessie Balmert, Lafayette Daily Advertiser reporter Andrew Capps, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Molly Beck and Mary Spicuzza contributed.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745367
__label__wiki	0.871978	0.871978	Merrick Garland says he has 'great' concern about federal use of the death penalty, which surged under Trump WASHINGTON - Merrick Garland told a Senate committee weighing his confirmation as attorney general that he expected that a new moratorium would be declared on federal executions. Garland said he harbored “great” concern about the application of the death penalty by the federal government, which dramatically resumed executions during the Trump administration. Thirteen federal inmates were executed during the last months of Trump’s administration. More:Even as COVID-19 slows justice system, federal executions outnumber all states combined for the first time Garland said continuing exonerations of the wrongly convicted have given him “pause,” and he cited President Joe Biden’s strong opposition to capital punishment. “A most terrible thing happens when someone is executed for a crime that they did not commit,” Garland said. More:Trump's execution spree reflects death penalty system 'shaped by racial bias,' critics say Dramatic resumption of federal executions The federal government executed 10 people last year and three more in January, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than in the previous 56 years combined, reducing the number of prisoners on federal death row by nearly a quarter. It’s likely none of the around 50 remaining men will be executed anytime soon, with Biden signaling he’ll end federal executions. Not since the waning days of Grover Cleveland’s presidency in the late 1800s has the U.S. government executed federal inmates during a presidential transition, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Cleveland’s was also the last presidency during which the number of civilians executed federally was in the double digits in one year, 1896, during Cleveland’s second term. The annual report issued by the center in December 2020 found that the federal government dramatically revived its use of the death penalty after a 17-year hiatus. Among those executed was Lisa Montgomery, the first woman to be put to death by the U.S. in 67 years. She died on Jan. 13, and two others were executed within days of Biden's inauguration. The Trump administration’s escalation of executions highlights longstanding inequalities in a criminal justice system that continues to disproportionately treat Black prisoners as the worst of the worst criminals, death penalty experts and advocates say. As the nation reckons with the issue of race and criminal justice following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of police, the Trump administration executed Black prisoners who alleged that their death sentences were made possible by racial bias and prosecutorial wrongdoing – issues that their attorneys said were never meaningfully explored before they received the ultimate punishment. "Carrying out death sentences that are so clearly shaped by racial bias really ignores, and in some ways, offends the growing recognition on the part of the people in this country that the legal system has not been fair to people of minority race," said Robert Owen, who represented Brandon Bernard, executed on Dec. 10, 2020. Contributing: Kristine Phillips, Associated Press	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745368
__label__cc	0.741318	0.258682	About UnityPoint Health UnityPoint Health Media Center The UnityPoint Health Media Center is a place for journalists, bloggers and media outlets. Browse our media contacts, helpful brand information and the latest news and press releases here. Social Channels & Latest Videos Stay informed with UnityPoint Health through our social media channels below. Join our community to receive the most up-to-date health and wellness news, patient stories, interviews with our medical experts and system updates delivered right in your newsfeed. Visit our YouTube channel to find videos covering a wide variety of health topics including mental health, COVID-19 and vaccines, childbirth and parenting, heart care and more. Click below to connect with us. For best editorial use, when referring to UnityPoint Health, we recommend all verbal and written references be "UnityPoint Health." In written references, the "UnityPoint" should always be treated as one word, not two. Please refrain from placing a space between "Unity" and "Point". Abbreviations such as or "UPH" or "UP" or "UH" should not be used. Please do not place an 's at the end of UnityPoint Health. We appreciate your attention to these usage guidelines. If you have questions regarding proper formatting of any our brand names, please contact the appropriate media contact. The Government & External Affairs team at UnityPoint Health supports the efforts of our health system in the areas of public policy, regulatory affairs, state and federal government relations and community benefit and economic impact. Our team helps elected officials, government agencies, health and advocacy organizations, media outlets and communities have a clear understanding of UnityPoint Health, our mission and the full spectrum of services we provide, as well as our economic impact on the communities we serve. Click below to learn more. Government Affairs website UnityPoint Health is one of the nation's most integrated health systems, providing care to both metropolitan and rural communities across Iowa, western Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, UnityPoint Health has relationships with more than 400 physician clinics, 20 regional and 19 community network hospitals, 7 community mental health centers, 4 accredited colleges and home care services throughout its 9 regions. UnityPoint Health entities employ more than 32,000 employees who are dedicated to making it easier for people to live well. More at unitypoint.org. UnityPoint Health System Profile About UnityPoint Clinic UnityPoint Clinic is an integrated network of primary care and specialty physicians, advanced practitioners and clinics providing quality health care services to patients and communities in Iowa, western Illinois and southern Wisconsin. With more than 1,100 providers at more than 400 clinic locations, UnityPoint Clinic provides services in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, surgery, cardiology and a wide variety of other specialty services. Part of UnityPoint Health, one of the nation's most integrated health systems, UnityPoint Clinic works with hospitals and home health agencies to provide patient-centered, coordinated care. More at unitypoint.org/unitypoint-clinic. About UnityPoint at Home Dedicated to making it easier for people to live well, UnityPoint at Home provides home health care services in communities across Iowa and western Illinois. Part ofUnityPoint Health, one of the nation's most integrated health systems, UnityPoint at Home works together with its physicians and hospitals to coordinate the services, support and education necessary for individuals to continue their care at home. Services include adult and pediatric nursing, rehabilitation therapy, personal care and home support, infusion therapy, palliative care, hospice and home medical equipment. More at unitypoint.org/homecare.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745374
__label__wiki	0.704638	0.704638	Record numbers of 18-year-olds and applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds accepted into university Last updated on Friday 13 Aug 2021 on 7:36pm Universities UK has today (Thursday 13 August) commented on the news that more 18-year-olds and students from disadvantaged backgrounds have been accepted to go to university. Following the release of today's A-level results, Alistair Jarvis, Chief Executive of Universities UK, said: "Students receiving their results today can be incredibly proud of their work and achievements in circumstances no-one could have imagined. It is fantastic to see that in the face of these challenges, record numbers of 18-year-olds have been accepted onto their university course – despite the dip in the 18 year-old population. It is particularly encouraging that more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds than ever have a confirmed university place, and welcome to see that recent events have inspired a wave of interest from the next generation of nursing students. In particularly uncertain economic times, the notable increase in places confirmed by mature students is testament to the important role universities can play in supporting the wider economy through reskilling and retraining. "To those who may not have got quite the grades they hoped, our message is please do not panic. University teams are ready and waiting to support you and talk through the many opportunities still available for you in the days and weeks ahead. "All students about to take this next step in their education can be confident that universities are ready to welcome them, with detailed plans in place to ensure they benefit from a safe, high quality and positive experience this year, learning new skills and working towards a degree they can be proud of." Universities UK released a set of high-level principles for universities to consider to ensure they prioritise the safety of staff, students and the wider community post-lockdown, including a framework for universities to adapt to their own settings and contexts. Universities UK (UUK) is the collective voice of 137 universities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Its mission is to create the conditions for UK universities to be the best in the world; maximising their positive impact locally, nationally and globally. Universities UK acts on behalf of universities, represented by their heads of institution. Visit: www.universitiesuk.ac.uk	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745375
__label__wiki	0.698683	0.698683	https://www.universitypressscholarship.com/search?f_0=keywords&q_0=Leaves%20of%20Grass You are looking at 1-20 of 23 items Keywords: Leaves of Grass x Edinburgh University Press (2) Liverpool University Press (1) Open Section Literature (19) American, 18th Century and Early American Literature (1) American, 19th Century Literature (10) American, 20th Century Literature (3) 20th-century and Contemporary Literature (2) 20th-century Literature and Modernism (1) 19th-century Literature and Romanticism (1) Organization Studies (1) Open Section Religion (2) Religion and Society (2) Walt Whitman: An American, One of the Roughs, a Kosmos Edward Whitley in American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet 10.5149/9780807899427_whitley.10 Literature, American, 20th Century Literature This chapter examines how Walt Whitman fulfilled the duties of the American bard right after giving the title to himself. It begins by considering “A Broadway Pageant,” a poem written by Whitman in ... More This chapter examines how Walt Whitman fulfilled the duties of the American bard right after giving the title to himself. It begins by considering “A Broadway Pageant,” a poem written by Whitman in the summer of 1860, and situating it within his antebellum career, and goes on to discuss Whitman's association with New York City's working-class “roughs” and his insistence that his poetry is explicitly cosmopolitan in nature. After outlining Whitman's struggles to resolve the tension between his patriotism and his cosmopolitanism, the chapter explains how “A Broadway Pageant” enabled him to articulate his antebellum identity as “Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.” It then offers a reading of Calamus, a collection of forty-five poems that first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, and, finally, analyzes how Whitman turned the social stigma of his homosexuality into a template for national unity.Less Walt Whitman : An American, One of the Roughs, a Kosmos This chapter examines how Walt Whitman fulfilled the duties of the American bard right after giving the title to himself. It begins by considering “A Broadway Pageant,” a poem written by Whitman in the summer of 1860, and situating it within his antebellum career, and goes on to discuss Whitman's association with New York City's working-class “roughs” and his insistence that his poetry is explicitly cosmopolitan in nature. After outlining Whitman's struggles to resolve the tension between his patriotism and his cosmopolitanism, the chapter explains how “A Broadway Pageant” enabled him to articulate his antebellum identity as “Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.” It then offers a reading of Calamus, a collection of forty-five poems that first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, and, finally, analyzes how Whitman turned the social stigma of his homosexuality into a template for national unity. Keywords: poetry, Walt Whitman, American bard, New York City, roughs, patriotism, cosmopolitanism, Calamus, Leaves of Grass, homosexuality The Free State of Whitman: John Brown, the Civil War, and the Dis-memberment of Enthusiasm in the 1860 John Mac Kilgore in Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War Literature, American, 18th Century and Early American Literature This chapter examines Walt Whitman’s poetics of enthusiasm in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, specifically in relationship to John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry and the politics of the Civil War. The ... More This chapter examines Walt Whitman’s poetics of enthusiasm in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, specifically in relationship to John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry and the politics of the Civil War. The author makes a case for Whitman, not as the national bard of American Unionism and integralism who speaks for all and heals the nation’s fragmentation, but as the bard of American civil war and international sectarianism who speaks only for the enthusiast of justice in a global context and calls for political dismemberment of the Union. First, in an analysis of Civil War rhetoric and responses to John Brown, the chapter demonstrates that enthusiasm enacts a “fractured state,” a will to political dismemberment (civil disunion) in the name of justice towards the slave. Second, the chapter shows how Whitman’s composition of a dismembered self and poetry in the 1860 Leaves is meant to enact an insurrectionary form of democratic camaraderie and love. Next, the author does a close reading of Whitman’s cluster of poems, “Songs of Insurrection,” in order to tease out Whitman’s enthusiastic politics in detail, before turning to Whitman’s application of that enthusiasm while working in Civil War hospitals.Less The Free State of Whitman : John Brown, the Civil War, and the Dis-memberment of Enthusiasm in the 1860 This chapter examines Walt Whitman’s poetics of enthusiasm in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, specifically in relationship to John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry and the politics of the Civil War. The author makes a case for Whitman, not as the national bard of American Unionism and integralism who speaks for all and heals the nation’s fragmentation, but as the bard of American civil war and international sectarianism who speaks only for the enthusiast of justice in a global context and calls for political dismemberment of the Union. First, in an analysis of Civil War rhetoric and responses to John Brown, the chapter demonstrates that enthusiasm enacts a “fractured state,” a will to political dismemberment (civil disunion) in the name of justice towards the slave. Second, the chapter shows how Whitman’s composition of a dismembered self and poetry in the 1860 Leaves is meant to enact an insurrectionary form of democratic camaraderie and love. Next, the author does a close reading of Whitman’s cluster of poems, “Songs of Insurrection,” in order to tease out Whitman’s enthusiastic politics in detail, before turning to Whitman’s application of that enthusiasm while working in Civil War hospitals. Keywords: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, John Brown, Civil War, Songs of Insurrection Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost Michelle C. Neely in Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism Chapter one takes up the paradigm of recycling in Walt Whitman’s first two editions of Leaves of Grass (1855 and 1856). While scarcity of materials meant scavenging and reuse were common practices in ... More Chapter one takes up the paradigm of recycling in Walt Whitman’s first two editions of Leaves of Grass (1855 and 1856). While scarcity of materials meant scavenging and reuse were common practices in the nineteenth century, organic material recycling first emerged as a scientific principle during the antebellum period. Whitman’s documented journalistic and poetic interest in “compost” has led scholars to elevate the once-overlooked Whitman into the ecopoetic pantheon. Chapter one challenges this increasingly standard reading by placing Whitman’s interest in compost and organic recycling alongside his even more famous poetic investment in an indiscriminate, “omnivorous” consumption. Compost emerges as the twin of appetite in Whitman’s poetic environment, which reveals how recycling authorizes consumption without limits and yields a fundamentally static, and therefore nonegalitarian and anti-ecological vision of community. The last part of the chapter explores resistance to this paradigm in the poetry of Lucille Clifton, a twentieth-century African American poet self-consciously rewriting Whitman’s vision of democratic and environmental community. Ultimately, chapter one suggests that while Clifton resists the dream of cyclical, effortless material recycling and consequence-free consumption, it is nineteenth-century Whitman’s fantasy of the earth endlessly recycling and renewing human waste that remains more characteristic of contemporary U.S. life.Less Chapter one takes up the paradigm of recycling in Walt Whitman’s first two editions of Leaves of Grass (1855 and 1856). While scarcity of materials meant scavenging and reuse were common practices in the nineteenth century, organic material recycling first emerged as a scientific principle during the antebellum period. Whitman’s documented journalistic and poetic interest in “compost” has led scholars to elevate the once-overlooked Whitman into the ecopoetic pantheon. Chapter one challenges this increasingly standard reading by placing Whitman’s interest in compost and organic recycling alongside his even more famous poetic investment in an indiscriminate, “omnivorous” consumption. Compost emerges as the twin of appetite in Whitman’s poetic environment, which reveals how recycling authorizes consumption without limits and yields a fundamentally static, and therefore nonegalitarian and anti-ecological vision of community. The last part of the chapter explores resistance to this paradigm in the poetry of Lucille Clifton, a twentieth-century African American poet self-consciously rewriting Whitman’s vision of democratic and environmental community. Ultimately, chapter one suggests that while Clifton resists the dream of cyclical, effortless material recycling and consequence-free consumption, it is nineteenth-century Whitman’s fantasy of the earth endlessly recycling and renewing human waste that remains more characteristic of contemporary U.S. life. Keywords: appetite, Lucille Clifton, compost, consumption, environmental, Leaves of Grass, race, recycling, slavery, Walt Whitman Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity David Blake 10.12987/yale/9780300110173.001.0001 Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, ... More What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, the book provides a history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. It sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself.Less What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, the book provides a history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. It sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Keywords: poetry, fame, popularity, advertising, Walt Whitman, celebrity, Leaves of Grass, publicity Eliza R. Snow: Poet of a New American Religion 10.5149/9780807899427_whitley.8 This chapter examines Walt Whitman's collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass, focusing on his claim that it was an American sacred text, the “Bible of the New Religion.” It compares Whitman's ambition ... More This chapter examines Walt Whitman's collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass, focusing on his claim that it was an American sacred text, the “Bible of the New Religion.” It compares Whitman's ambition to be the poet of a new American religion with that of Eliza R. Snow, the recognized poet laureate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was regarded by the Mormons not only as a poetess but also a “priestess” and a “prophetess.” The chapter considers how Snow used her poetry to depict the recovery of such ancient practices as polygamy and theocracy as an essential precondition for an American millennium, rather than as a historical aberration. It also offers a close reading of “Time and Change,” the major poem of Snow's 1856 collection, before concluding with an analysis of the issue of gender, particularly with respect to Snow's efforts to have her female voice heard by an androcentric nation.Less Eliza R. Snow : Poet of a New American Religion This chapter examines Walt Whitman's collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass, focusing on his claim that it was an American sacred text, the “Bible of the New Religion.” It compares Whitman's ambition to be the poet of a new American religion with that of Eliza R. Snow, the recognized poet laureate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was regarded by the Mormons not only as a poetess but also a “priestess” and a “prophetess.” The chapter considers how Snow used her poetry to depict the recovery of such ancient practices as polygamy and theocracy as an essential precondition for an American millennium, rather than as a historical aberration. It also offers a close reading of “Time and Change,” the major poem of Snow's 1856 collection, before concluding with an analysis of the issue of gender, particularly with respect to Snow's efforts to have her female voice heard by an androcentric nation. Keywords: gender, Walt Whitman, poetry, Leaves of Grass, religion, Eliza R. Snow, Latter-day Saints, Mormons, polygamy, theocracy The New Bible In Hebrew: Whitman and Simon Halkin Jeffrey Einboden in Nineteenth-Century US Literature in Middle Eastern Languages The first of twin treatments of Whitman’s Middle Eastern afterlives, Chapter 5 addresses Leaves of Grass in Hebrew, reading Simon Halkin’s influential translation, his 1952 ‘Alē ‘Ēsev. Poised between ... More The first of twin treatments of Whitman’s Middle Eastern afterlives, Chapter 5 addresses Leaves of Grass in Hebrew, reading Simon Halkin’s influential translation, his 1952 ‘Alē ‘Ēsev. Poised between antique biblical idioms and contemporary Israeli expression, Halkin’s rendition amplifies tensions original to Whitman’s own verse, replicating his fusion of psalmic form and modernist content. Reaching back to biblical precedents even while promoting experimental innovations, Chapter 5 explores Halkin’s complex attraction to Whitman’s poetic and political ‘pioneering’, rendering a Hebrew Leaves during this crucial period of personal and national self-definition.Less The first of twin treatments of Whitman’s Middle Eastern afterlives, Chapter 5 addresses Leaves of Grass in Hebrew, reading Simon Halkin’s influential translation, his 1952 ‘Alē ‘Ēsev. Poised between antique biblical idioms and contemporary Israeli expression, Halkin’s rendition amplifies tensions original to Whitman’s own verse, replicating his fusion of psalmic form and modernist content. Reaching back to biblical precedents even while promoting experimental innovations, Chapter 5 explores Halkin’s complex attraction to Whitman’s poetic and political ‘pioneering’, rendering a Hebrew Leaves during this crucial period of personal and national self-definition. Keywords: Walt Whitman, Simon Halkin, Leaves of Grass, Hebrew American ‘Song’ of Iraqi Exile: Whitman and Saadi Youssef Concluding the study is the book’s second treatment of Whitman in Middle Eastern language, reading Leaves of Grass as translated by a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry, Saadi Youssef. Published amid ... More Concluding the study is the book’s second treatment of Whitman in Middle Eastern language, reading Leaves of Grass as translated by a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry, Saadi Youssef. Published amid successive exiles from Iraq, Chapter 6 explores Youssef’s 1976 Awrāq al-‘Ushb, situating this selected Leaves rendition within a broader genealogy of Arabic appeal, reaching to Whitman as a precedent for aesthetic and political liberation. Mirroring the translator’s own physical displacements, Whitman’s verse is displaced from its American specificity within Youssef’s Awrāq, voicing an exilic critique of homelands and home cultures through his refashioned Arabic. Concluding with consideration of Leaves‘ Arabic afterlives in more recent poetry, the study itself ends with a circular inversion, discovering Whitman speaking Arabic in urban America with the 2008 appearance of Youssef’s New York Qaṣīdas.Less Concluding the study is the book’s second treatment of Whitman in Middle Eastern language, reading Leaves of Grass as translated by a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry, Saadi Youssef. Published amid successive exiles from Iraq, Chapter 6 explores Youssef’s 1976 Awrāq al-‘Ushb, situating this selected Leaves rendition within a broader genealogy of Arabic appeal, reaching to Whitman as a precedent for aesthetic and political liberation. Mirroring the translator’s own physical displacements, Whitman’s verse is displaced from its American specificity within Youssef’s Awrāq, voicing an exilic critique of homelands and home cultures through his refashioned Arabic. Concluding with consideration of Leaves‘ Arabic afterlives in more recent poetry, the study itself ends with a circular inversion, discovering Whitman speaking Arabic in urban America with the 2008 appearance of Youssef’s New York Qaṣīdas. Keywords: Walt Whitman, Saadi Youssef, Leaves of Grass, Arabic Whitman: From Sayer-Doer to Sayer-Copyist Michael T. Gilmore in The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature Free soil, free speech, free verse: though Leaves of Grass appeared under the shadow of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it was the legislation that returned Lincoln to politics and Thoreau to public ... More Free soil, free speech, free verse: though Leaves of Grass appeared under the shadow of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it was the legislation that returned Lincoln to politics and Thoreau to public polemic. This chapter reviews Walt Whitman's poetic masterpiece and the battle over free speech, which was a key ingredient in the making of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. A reawakened belief in the might of words informs Whitman's outpouring, which simultaneously prophesies and brings into textual being its vision of an egalitarian republic. But despite the imaginative inclusiveness of 1855, Whitman, no abolitionist, harbored misgivings about agitation that ultimately resurfaced, and his conception of song as action did not outlast the Civil War. His ideological retreat—he evolved into a foe of black rights and a supporter of Andrew Johnson—played itself out on the level of language, subtly in Leaves of Grass, more obviously in prose pieces written during and after Reconstruction.Less Free soil, free speech, free verse: though Leaves of Grass appeared under the shadow of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it was the legislation that returned Lincoln to politics and Thoreau to public polemic. This chapter reviews Walt Whitman's poetic masterpiece and the battle over free speech, which was a key ingredient in the making of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. A reawakened belief in the might of words informs Whitman's outpouring, which simultaneously prophesies and brings into textual being its vision of an egalitarian republic. But despite the imaginative inclusiveness of 1855, Whitman, no abolitionist, harbored misgivings about agitation that ultimately resurfaced, and his conception of song as action did not outlast the Civil War. His ideological retreat—he evolved into a foe of black rights and a supporter of Andrew Johnson—played itself out on the level of language, subtly in Leaves of Grass, more obviously in prose pieces written during and after Reconstruction. Keywords: Walt Whitman, Free soil, free speech, free verse, Leaves of Grass, Kansas-Nebraska Act, black rights The Protestant Establishment in Action P. C. Kemeny in The New England Watch and Ward Society Religion, Religion and Society, History of Christianity The Watch and Ward Society was very effective at enforcing Protestant mores, especially through lobbying efforts and work as an extralegal police force that strove to enforce the state’s ... More The Watch and Ward Society was very effective at enforcing Protestant mores, especially through lobbying efforts and work as an extralegal police force that strove to enforce the state’s anti-obscenity laws. The anti-vice society employed three closely related strategies to combat the arguments of free love and free speech activists and to suppress the sale of obscene material. First, reformers lobbied state legislatures to pass more effective anti-obscenity statutes. Second, they demanded that the police enforce the laws, and they investigated book and magazine vendors to aid the police in their work. Finally, they pressured publishers and bookstore owners to refrain from selling objectionable materials. Examining the controversy over the publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1882–83 illustrates the organization’s effectiveness.Less The Watch and Ward Society was very effective at enforcing Protestant mores, especially through lobbying efforts and work as an extralegal police force that strove to enforce the state’s anti-obscenity laws. The anti-vice society employed three closely related strategies to combat the arguments of free love and free speech activists and to suppress the sale of obscene material. First, reformers lobbied state legislatures to pass more effective anti-obscenity statutes. Second, they demanded that the police enforce the laws, and they investigated book and magazine vendors to aid the police in their work. Finally, they pressured publishers and bookstore owners to refrain from selling objectionable materials. Examining the controversy over the publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1882–83 illustrates the organization’s effectiveness. Keywords: suppression of literature, censorship, obscene literature, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Ezra Heywood, free love movement, free speech movement Introduction: Frontispiece David Haven Blake in Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity. This volume explores how Whitman who was better known for political ... More This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity. This volume explores how Whitman who was better known for political journalism than verse immersed himself in the culture of celebrity and highlights Whitman's penchant for self-advertisement. It highlights the role of the novel Leaves of Grass in seamlessly meshing language of poetry and publicity and discusses Whitman's view that the story of celebrity would be the story of democracy.Less This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity. This volume explores how Whitman who was better known for political journalism than verse immersed himself in the culture of celebrity and highlights Whitman's penchant for self-advertisement. It highlights the role of the novel Leaves of Grass in seamlessly meshing language of poetry and publicity and discusses Whitman's view that the story of celebrity would be the story of democracy. Keywords: Walt Whitman, American celebrity, culture of celebrity, self-advertisement, Leaves of Grass, poetry, publicity, democracy Leaves of Grass and Real Estate Peter Riley in Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation Literature, American, 19th Century Literature, Poetry This chapter focuses on the period leading up to the publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, revealing how Whitman financed his poetic output by successfully negotiating the unstable Brooklyn real ... More This chapter focuses on the period leading up to the publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, revealing how Whitman financed his poetic output by successfully negotiating the unstable Brooklyn real estate market. He bought and sold several properties, moving from house to house as he went along. In the years up to 1855, Whitman forged an adaptable marketplace persona, deploying it repeatedly while composing receipts, contracts, and house-plans. Whitman’s worldly experiences of moneymaking inform his narratives of transcendence and organic wholeness. In the attempt to transcend the particularities of his urban activity, he ends up building his poetic vision out of the rhythms and inflections of the real estate market. This has significant implications for the way we read his later works: for the rest of his career, Whitman concentrated on tearing down, annexing, and building over again his subsequent poetic projects.Less This chapter focuses on the period leading up to the publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, revealing how Whitman financed his poetic output by successfully negotiating the unstable Brooklyn real estate market. He bought and sold several properties, moving from house to house as he went along. In the years up to 1855, Whitman forged an adaptable marketplace persona, deploying it repeatedly while composing receipts, contracts, and house-plans. Whitman’s worldly experiences of moneymaking inform his narratives of transcendence and organic wholeness. In the attempt to transcend the particularities of his urban activity, he ends up building his poetic vision out of the rhythms and inflections of the real estate market. This has significant implications for the way we read his later works: for the rest of his career, Whitman concentrated on tearing down, annexing, and building over again his subsequent poetic projects. Keywords: real estate, Leaves of Grass, Walter Whitman Jnr, Poetic form, Marketplace, Houses, Archives, Receipts, Labor, Class Denis Donoghue in The American Classics: A Personal Essay This chapter offers a reading of Walt Whitman's novel Leaves of Grass. It highlights the difficulty of interpreting this novel without first taking a position on several other issues that demand ... More This chapter offers a reading of Walt Whitman's novel Leaves of Grass. It highlights the difficulty of interpreting this novel without first taking a position on several other issues that demand one's attention for extraneous reasons and in coming to terms with Whitman not merely as the author of certain poems, but as a phenomenon of American culture. It also discusses arguments about Whitman's sensitivity and the view that he ignored the fatal antiquity of human nature in this novel.Less This chapter offers a reading of Walt Whitman's novel Leaves of Grass. It highlights the difficulty of interpreting this novel without first taking a position on several other issues that demand one's attention for extraneous reasons and in coming to terms with Whitman not merely as the author of certain poems, but as a phenomenon of American culture. It also discusses arguments about Whitman's sensitivity and the view that he ignored the fatal antiquity of human nature in this novel. Keywords: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, American culture, sensitivity, human nature Walt Whitman: Song and the Making of Poems Daniel Karlin in The Figure of the Singer 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199213986.003.0008 Literature, Poetry, Criticism/Theory This chapter examines the figure of the singer and the significance of the metaphor of song in Walt Whitman’s poetry. It considers the way Whitman explored the gift, which is also a predicament, of ... More This chapter examines the figure of the singer and the significance of the metaphor of song in Walt Whitman’s poetry. It considers the way Whitman explored the gift, which is also a predicament, of ‘song’ in his poems such as ‘As I Ponder’d in Silence’ and ‘Song of the Exposition’. It also analyses the poem ‘Song of Myself’, the first long poem of Whitman’s collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass (1855). Finally, it discusses Whitman’s use of ‘sing’ as a transitive verb in his poems.Less Walt Whitman : Song and the Making of Poems This chapter examines the figure of the singer and the significance of the metaphor of song in Walt Whitman’s poetry. It considers the way Whitman explored the gift, which is also a predicament, of ‘song’ in his poems such as ‘As I Ponder’d in Silence’ and ‘Song of the Exposition’. It also analyses the poem ‘Song of Myself’, the first long poem of Whitman’s collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass (1855). Finally, it discusses Whitman’s use of ‘sing’ as a transitive verb in his poems. Keywords: figure of the singer, metaphor, song, Walt Whitman, poems, As I Ponder’d in Silence, Song of the Exposition, Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass Whitman: “Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next” Robert E. Belknap in The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing This chapter examines lists in the works of Whitman. It discusses how no writer has made the practice of listing as integral to his or her creative work as Whitman did in the poetry of Leaves of ... More This chapter examines lists in the works of Whitman. It discusses how no writer has made the practice of listing as integral to his or her creative work as Whitman did in the poetry of Leaves of Grass. Indeed, no one has experimented so much with the form as Whitman; no one has even approximated his efforts to create a poetics of listing.Less Whitman : “Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next” This chapter examines lists in the works of Whitman. It discusses how no writer has made the practice of listing as integral to his or her creative work as Whitman did in the poetry of Leaves of Grass. Indeed, no one has experimented so much with the form as Whitman; no one has even approximated his efforts to create a poetics of listing. Keywords: lists, listing, poetry, poems, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass A Sea Symphony in Vaughan Williams on Music Music, History, Western The first sketches for A Sea Symphony were made in 1903, and it was gradually worked out during the next seven years. It was first produced at the Leeds Festival in 1910, and has since been performed ... More The first sketches for A Sea Symphony were made in 1903, and it was gradually worked out during the next seven years. It was first produced at the Leeds Festival in 1910, and has since been performed at Oxford, Cambridge, and Bristol. The plan of the work is symphonic rather than narrative or dramatic, and this may be held to justify the frequent repetition of important words and phrases that occur in the poem. The words as well as the music are thus treated symphonically. The Symphony is written for soprano and baritone soli, chorus, and orchestra. The words are selected from various poems of Walt Whitman to be found in Leaves of Grass: “Sea Drift,” “Song of the Exposition,” and “Passage to India.”Less The first sketches for A Sea Symphony were made in 1903, and it was gradually worked out during the next seven years. It was first produced at the Leeds Festival in 1910, and has since been performed at Oxford, Cambridge, and Bristol. The plan of the work is symphonic rather than narrative or dramatic, and this may be held to justify the frequent repetition of important words and phrases that occur in the poem. The words as well as the music are thus treated symphonically. The Symphony is written for soprano and baritone soli, chorus, and orchestra. The words are selected from various poems of Walt Whitman to be found in Leaves of Grass: “Sea Drift,” “Song of the Exposition,” and “Passage to India.” Keywords: Sea Symphony, Leeds Festival, soprano, baritone soli, chorus, orchestra, poem, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Sea Drift Virginia Woolf’s Appreciation for Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: Book Making/Reading, Intimacy, Collectivity Joyce E. Kelley in Virginia Woolf and the World of Books Liverpool University Press 10.3828/liverpool/9781942954569.003.0031 Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism This chapter assesses the impact of Walt Whitman on Virginia Woolf. Kelley examines Woolf's admiration of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and argues that the two authors champion similar ideas concerning ... More This chapter assesses the impact of Walt Whitman on Virginia Woolf. Kelley examines Woolf's admiration of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and argues that the two authors champion similar ideas concerning printing, reading and sense of collective identity.Less This chapter assesses the impact of Walt Whitman on Virginia Woolf. Kelley examines Woolf's admiration of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and argues that the two authors champion similar ideas concerning printing, reading and sense of collective identity. Keywords: Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Modernist literature, The Waves, Collective identity The American Classics: A Personal Essay How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? This book ... More How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? This book presents a short list of “relative” classics—works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of time—neglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise and hyperbole. The book bestows the term classic on just five American works: Melville's Moby-Dick, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau's Walden, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Examining each separately, each chapter discusses how the writings have been received and interpreted, and offers contemporary readings, suggesting, for example, that in the post-9/11 era, Moby-Dick may be rewardingly read as a revenge tragedy. The book extends an irresistible invitation to open the pages of these American classics again, demonstrating with wit and acuity how very much they have to say to us now.Less The American Classics : A Personal Essay How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? This book presents a short list of “relative” classics—works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of time—neglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise and hyperbole. The book bestows the term classic on just five American works: Melville's Moby-Dick, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau's Walden, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Examining each separately, each chapter discusses how the writings have been received and interpreted, and offers contemporary readings, suggesting, for example, that in the post-9/11 era, Moby-Dick may be rewardingly read as a revenge tragedy. The book extends an irresistible invitation to open the pages of these American classics again, demonstrating with wit and acuity how very much they have to say to us now. Keywords: classics, American literature, Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, American culture Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition Gary Schmidgall This study explores Walt Whitman’s contradictory response to and embrace of several great prior British poets: Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Blake, and Wordworth (with shorter essays on Scott, Carlyle, ... More This study explores Walt Whitman’s contradictory response to and embrace of several great prior British poets: Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Blake, and Wordworth (with shorter essays on Scott, Carlyle, Tennyson, Wilde, and Swinburne). Through reference to his entire oeuvre, his published literary criticism, and his private conversations, letters, and manuscripts, this book seeks to understand the extent to which Whitman experienced the anxiety of influence as he sought to establish himself as America’s poet-prophet or bard (and the extent to which he sought to conceal such influence). An attempt is also made to lay out the often profound aesthetic, cultural, political, and philosophical affinities Whitman shared with these predecessors. In addition, this analysis focuses on all of Whitman’s extant comments on these iconic authors. Because Whitman was a deeply autobiographical writer, attention is also paid to how his comments on other poets reflect on his image of himself and on the ways he shaped his public image. Finally, there is contemplation as to how Whitman’s attitudes toward his British forerunners changed over the nearly fifty years of his active career.Less Containing Multitudes : Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition This study explores Walt Whitman’s contradictory response to and embrace of several great prior British poets: Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Blake, and Wordworth (with shorter essays on Scott, Carlyle, Tennyson, Wilde, and Swinburne). Through reference to his entire oeuvre, his published literary criticism, and his private conversations, letters, and manuscripts, this book seeks to understand the extent to which Whitman experienced the anxiety of influence as he sought to establish himself as America’s poet-prophet or bard (and the extent to which he sought to conceal such influence). An attempt is also made to lay out the often profound aesthetic, cultural, political, and philosophical affinities Whitman shared with these predecessors. In addition, this analysis focuses on all of Whitman’s extant comments on these iconic authors. Because Whitman was a deeply autobiographical writer, attention is also paid to how his comments on other poets reflect on his image of himself and on the ways he shaped his public image. Finally, there is contemplation as to how Whitman’s attitudes toward his British forerunners changed over the nearly fifty years of his active career. Keywords: Walt Whitman, British poets, literary influences, transatlantic literature, Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s literary criticism, British Poetry, history of American Poetry, Whitman’s Public Image Introduction: After Emerson This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the books that are considered American classics. This volume analyzes Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Herman ... More This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the books that are considered American classics. This volume analyzes Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. It investigates what it meant for these books to be accepted by American culture as the cardinal books and how American readers use them for different causes.Less This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the books that are considered American classics. This volume analyzes Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. It investigates what it meant for these books to be accepted by American culture as the cardinal books and how American readers use them for different causes. Keywords: American classics, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Leaves of Grass, Walden, Huckleberry Finn, American culture, cardinal books “The Wolf, the Snake, the Hog, Not Wanting in Me”: Poetry and Resistance Peter Campion in Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry This chapter proposes a new way of considering the relation of poetry and political resistance: the interior tensions within the work of major poets (Walt Whitman and Tom Sleigh) are shown to have ... More This chapter proposes a new way of considering the relation of poetry and political resistance: the interior tensions within the work of major poets (Walt Whitman and Tom Sleigh) are shown to have their own political force, one more vital than those of most typical "political poetry," too often diminished by the positioning of party politics and by cant.Less This chapter proposes a new way of considering the relation of poetry and political resistance: the interior tensions within the work of major poets (Walt Whitman and Tom Sleigh) are shown to have their own political force, one more vital than those of most typical "political poetry," too often diminished by the positioning of party politics and by cant. Keywords: resistance, Walt Whitman, Tom Sleigh, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Leaves of Grass, Democratic Vistas, Discipline	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745376
__label__wiki	0.922784	0.922784	North Korea Says It's Not Interested in Another Trump-Kim Summit William Gallo People watch a TV screen showing a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, left, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 31, 2019. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea says the chances are low for another summit with the United States, after President Donald Trump this week said he is open to meeting again with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, said another summit would "not be useful to us" unless the U.S. changes its approach to stalled nuclear talks, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday. "It is my personal opinion, but a summit between the U.S. and North Korea will not take place this year," she said. However, she said the relationship between Trump and Kim Jong Un remains strong and has likely prevented "extreme provocations." Earlier this week, Trump said he was open to meeting again with Kim Jong Un. "I understand they want to meet, and we would certainly do that," Trump said Tuesday in an interview with Gray TV. The comments were puzzling, because North Korea has said for months that it has no interest in resuming dialogue with the United States. North Korea is upset at the U.S. refusal to relax sanctions and provide security guarantees in exchange for limited steps to dismantle its nuclear program. "We are not saying we are not going to denuclearize, but we cannot denuclearize now," Kim Yo Jong said, stressing any North Korean steps must be matched by corresponding U.S. ones. Trump and Kim have met three times, including in June 2018 in Singapore, where they signed a short statement agreeing to "work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." But the talks began to break down in February 2019 after the two sides failed to reach an agreement at a second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam. At the Hanoi summit, Trump rejected North Korea's offer to dismantle its prominent Yongbyon nuclear facility in exchange for the lifting of sanctions imposed on North Korea since 2016. In June 2019, Trump and Kim met briefly at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. The two sides also held working-level talks in Stockholm in 2019, but those negotiations quickly broke down. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. continues "to work to establish dialogue and have substantive conversations" with North Korea. "We're very hopeful that we can continue to have this conversation, whether that's at the levels beneath the summit, or if it's appropriate and there is a useful activity to take place, to have senior leaders get back together as well," Pompeo said. "As for who and how and timing, I just don't want to talk about that today," he added. Earlier this month, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he would like to see Trump and Kim hold another meeting before the U.S. presidential election in November. Some analysts have questioned whether Trump has other priorities; with just four months to go until the election, Trump is trailing Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the polls. North Korea is not seen as a major issue in the U.S. election. However, if Trump could revive the North Korea talks, it could help highlight what White House officials had once heralded as a signature Trump foreign policy achievement. How Japan’s Throwaway Bicycles Became a Booming Cambodian Industry Jailed, Sick, Still Struggling: A Brother’s Plea to Quit Politics Goes Ignored Cambodia Activist Briefly Detained After Protest in Shackles Coastal Reclamation Closes In On Kep's Famous Crab Market: "We Can't Resist It" Cambodia’s Grassroots Opposition Activists Wait for ‘Right Time’ to Re-emerge Cambodian Spolight VOA Interview: Australia’s Former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans Urges Cambodians to Remain Optimistic Cambodia Backs Vaccinations as COVID-19 Case Load Soars Cambodia Launches 4th Round of COVID-19 Vaccinations Concern in ASEAN Over Cambodia PM's Myanmar Visit, Malaysia Minister Says	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745378
__label__wiki	0.99413	0.99413	Autonomous Weapons Would Take Warfare To A New Domain, Without Humans By Ari Shapiro Published April 23, 2018 at 6:07 PM MDT The U.S. Army's Autonomous Remote Engagement System is mounted on the Picatinny Lightweight Remote Weapon System and coupled with an M240B machine gun. It's part of a program that reduces the time to identify targets using automatic target detection and user-specified target selection. Killer robots have been a staple of TV and movies for decades, from Westworld to The Terminator series. But in the real world, killer robots are officially known as "autonomous weapons." At the Pentagon, Paul Scharre helped create the U.S. policy for such weapons. In his new book, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, Scharre discusses the state of these weapons today. "Killer robots" might be a bit sensational, he says, but what he's talking about is a weapon that could "go out on its own and make its own decisions about who to kill on the battlefield." At least 30 countries have autonomous weapons that are supervised by humans for defensive purposes, Scharre says. "[These are] things that would target incoming missiles and shoot them down entirely on their own," he says. "Humans are sitting there at the console that could turn it off if they need to. But in a simple way, those are autonomous weapons." Scharre says while the current weapons are not like those seen in the movies, the technology is advancing, whether people like it or not. "Things like more advanced hobby drones, the same technology that will go into self-driving cars, all of those sensors and intelligence will make autonomous weapons also possible," he says. In his book, Scharre looks at the question: "How hard would it be for someone to build a simple, autonomous weapon in their garage?" And while that's a scary scenario, he says that it's already happening on some levels as students today are learning programming skills, with free and readily available online resources. "These tools are available for free download. You can download them online," he says. "[It] took me about three minutes online to find all of the free tools you would need to download this technology and make it happen." And while high school students aren't creating these autonomous weapons, the ability to do so is a real possibility. Because of that, Scharre says the debate isn't so much about if this type of technology should be created, but more so what should be done about it. "What do we do with this? Do we build weaponized versions of them? Do you build them en masse? Do militaries invest in this?" are all questions being asked as this technology would drastically change warfare. "[It would create] a domain of warfare where humans have less control over what happens on the battlefield — where humans are no longer deciding who lives and who dies, and machines are making those decisions," Scharre says. Debates like this are happening in countries all around the world, including those that have repeatedly violated international rules. In Russia, the military is working to create a fleet of armed ground robots. "They're building large, ground combat vehicles that have anti-tank missiles on them," Scharre says. "Russian generals have talked about a vision in the future of fully robotized units that are independently conducting operations, so other countries are leaning hard into this technology." Scharre says that one of the fears of this technology advancing is that "flash wars" could occur. Much like a "flash crash" in the stock market, a "flash war" would occur at such as fast pace that humans would not be involved. "The worry is that you get an equivalent — a flash war, where algorithms interact in some way and the robots start shooting each other and running amuck, and then humans are scrambling to put a lid back on it," Scharre says. But, though some scenarios are terrifying, other people argue that autonomous weapons could save lives, by making fewer mistakes than might result from human error. "Just like self-driving cars could someday make the roads much safer, some people have argued, 'Well, maybe autonomous weapons could be more precise and more humane. By avoiding civilian casualties in war and only killing the enemy,' " Scharre says. From his own experience in the military serving as a special operations agent, Scharre says he has been in a situation in which an autonomous weapon would have killed a girl that the Taliban was using as a scout, but that soldiers did not target. He says it's situations like that which highlight differences between what is legal in the laws of war and what is morally right — something that autonomous weapons might not distinguish. "That is one of the concerns that people raise about autonomous weapons is a lack of an ability to feel empathy and to engage in mercy in war," Scharre says. "And that if we built these weapons, they would take away a powerful restraint in warfare that humans have." There's still a lot to consider and discuss when it comes to autonomous weapons and the increasing technology, Scharre says. But as for whether humans are doomed, he says there is not a clear answer. "We do have the opportunity to shape how we use technology. We're not at the mercy of it," Schare says. "The problem at the end of the day isn't the technology. It's getting humans to cooperate together on how we use the technology and make sure that we're using it for good and not for harm." Noah Caldwell and Emily Kopp produced and edited the audio for this story. Wynne Davis adapted it for Web.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745379
__label__cc	0.600683	0.399317	Digital Data from Mineral Investigation of Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado, USA View Data Release This Data Release provides tabular and geospatial data digitized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from a U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBoM) report titled Mineral Investigation of Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado. The original preliminary paper report, numbered Mineral Land Assessment 65-83 (MLA 65-83; Ellis and others, 1983), presented the results of a mineral resource potential survey of areas in and around the Sangre de Cristo Range flanking the northeastern extent of San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado. Included in this Data Release are georeferenced scans of the regional plate maps, digitized sample site locations, analytical chemistry, and structural geologic data from MLA 65-83 in a modern and searchable geospatial database. In addition to the maps and associated point locations, the dataset contains 1,262 rows and 58 columns of contextual and numeric information in the main data table, as well as a table describing 97 samples excluded from the MLA report, a table of summary deposit information, a table of USBoM inventory data for the prepared and stored rock samples, and geospatial boundary data of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, Wilderness Study Area (WSA), and mineralized sampling areas. Prospecting, claiming, and some mining of largely polymetallic precious- and base-metal veins occurred in the Sangre de Cristo Range from the late 1800s through the early 1930s, with sporadic prospecting and some mining through the late 1980s (Ellis and others, 1983). Many of the vein networks are found along the western side of the mountains that are bounded by the Sangre de Cristo normal fault, a principal structure delineating a major segment of the Rio Grande rift. There also are mines along the crest and the northeast side of the range such as the Rita Alta copper mine. However, the locations of many claims, prospects, and mines were hand located on topographic and mine maps without modern spatial coordinate data and there were few analytical chemistry data available with properly associated geologic context. As a mandated component of the 1964 Wilderness Act, the USGS and USBoM were charged with identifying and assessing mineral resources in Federal lands known as Wilderness Study Areas (WSA; for example, Johnson and others, 1984). The Sangre de Cristo WSA included the mountainous areas from Poncha Pass in the north to the Blanca Peak area in the south. Approximately 75 to 85 percent of the study area was covered by aerial photographic inspection and sites were visited by Ellis and others (1983) as access allowed. One thousand three hundred and ten samples were fire assayed for gold and silver and spectrographically analyzed for 40 other elements including copper, lead, molybdenum, tungsten, and uranium. Select samples were also analyzed for specific elements by various other state-of-the-art analytic methods of the time: copper, lead, and molybdenum by atomic absorption, tungsten by colorimetry, and uranium by fluorimetry. Integration of mapping, field characterization, mineralogical, and chemical data resulted in the identification of 18 more or less distinct mineralized areas. Sample locations and a variety of site and mine maps were compiled and integrated into the MLA 65-83 report along with extensive tabulation on paper with all data organized by mineralized area. Most of the study area was ultimately designated as Wilderness in 1980 and the unique sand dunes and associated watersheds on the western side of the central portion of the range, originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument in 1932, were redesignated as a National Park and Preserve in 2004. During the late 1990's and 2000's the USGS completed extensive research in the Rio Grande Rift (for example, Hudson and Grauch, 2013) including the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and adjacent San Luis Valley. Much of the work focused on interpretation of new geophysical data and new geologic mapping as well as new analyses of mineralized areas and associated geologic structures. Overall, the absolute age, petrogenetic, and metallogenic affinities of the mineralized areas are poorly understood. However, some combination of magmatic, hydrothermal, structural, chemical, and fluid-related processes all contributed to the formation of the Sangre de Cristo mineral system. The digital data and information provided in this Data Release allows for public access to the information contained in the archived paper data record, report, and plates. This publication is useful in developing a better understanding of the geologic and tectonic framework, occurrences and controls on mineralization, and other Earth resources such as groundwater. References Cited Above Ellis, C.E., Hannigan, B.J., and Thomson, J.R., 1983, Mineral Investigation of Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment preliminary report MLA 65-83, 190 p., 2 plates. Hudson, M.R., and Grauch, V.J.S., 2013, Introduction, in Hudson, M.R., and Grauch, V.J.S., eds., New Perspectives on Rio Grande Rift Basins: From Tectonics to Groundwater: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 494, p. v-xii, https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE494. Johnson, B.R., Lindsey, D.A., Ellis, C.E., Hannigan, B.J., and Thompson, J.R., 1984, Mineral Resource Potential of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, South-central Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1635-A and Pamphlet, 13 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/mf1635A. Jonathan Caine Research Geologist Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center jscaine@usgs.gov Stuart A Giles sgiles@usgs.gov Geospatial Analysis and Mapping Geospatial (GIS) Data GIS and Data Mineral Resource Assessments	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745385
__label__wiki	0.840043	0.840043	House of (Counting) Cards Ben Affleck Will Never Be Able to Play Blackjack at the Hard Rock Again By Josh Duboff by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images In a series of events that sound pulled right out of a Ben Affleck movie, the real-life Ben Affleck was reportedly banned for life from playing blackjack at the Hard Rock casino, in Las Vegas, after he was deemed “too good at the game,” while playing on Tuesday night. Security “swarmed” when they observed that Affleck was counting cards at a high rollers’ table, according to TMZ (other sources have said it is unclear whether he was specifically accused of card counting); Affleck was then reportedly escorted via car service back to his hotel. Counting cards is not illegal, but, if discovered by a casino, it’s grounds for a lifetime ban (Affleck will be able to keep playing other games at the Hard Rock, if he wishes, CNN reports). Affleck was in Vegas with wife Jennifer Garner, reportedly for a short vacation, before he heads to Detroit to begin filming Batman vs. Superman. Many questions remain: Was this all some kind of nostalgia-induced reverie (perhaps spurred by a dealer with a passing resemblance to Justin Timberlake?) where Affleck momentarily forgot he wasn’t still filming Runner Runner? Would you set the over/under for “number of ribbing text messages Matt Damon sent to Ben Affleck over the weekend” at 20, or does that seem too low? And who would play all of these roles in the movie?! We’re thinking Casey Affleck for Ben Affleck, Dianna Agron for Jennifer Garner, Jesse Plemons for Matt Damon, Louis C.K. for the affable-but-stern security guard, and Robin Wright for the head of the casino.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745388
__label__wiki	0.607455	0.607455	27 Streaming Horror Movies That Are Even Scarier Than 2017 There’s something for every mood. From Warner Bros./Everett Collection. Friends, countrymen, horror fans: it’s been a hell of a year. But with each passing day, we get one step closer to kissing 2017 goodbye. And perhaps even more important, we’ve arrived at the time when there’s no shortage of colorful rites and holidays to lift spirits. The first of those is just a week away: Halloween. To celebrate this ritual, we’ve compiled a list of spooky favorites both new and old—all of which are available for you to stream for free right now, give or take the right membership. Trust us, even in these scary times, they’re still good for at least a jolt or two—and we’ve got something here for every mood. NEW(-ISH) RELEASES Trying to catch up on all those movies you missed while they were in theaters? A lot of them have already hit the World Wide Web. (If you’re really behind, yes, The Babadook, Let the Right One In, Green Room, The Invitation, The Witch, Baskin, and It Follows are all available to stream as well.) Raw (2017): Beware: this one is not for the squeamish. Things build slowly, but they get very gnarly by the end of this cannibalistic coming-of-age tale. (Netflix) XX (2017): Remember how Annie Clark was going to direct one part of a four-part horror anthology series, all helmed by women? This is it! Like all anthologies, your mileage may vary across each installment, but it’s worth the watch—particularly if you worship at the altar of St. Vincent. (Netflix) Train to Busan (2016): Still jonesing for some zombie action even after The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead? Try out this zombie-centric apocalypse flick from South Korea. As the title suggests, the action kicks off . . . on a train to the city of Busan. (Netflix) Under the Shadow (2016): If you like your horror a little highbrow, this Sundance hit could be your perfect fix. Set in Tehran during the final stretch of the Iran-Iraq war, this film blends tradition thriller elements with the real-life horrors of oppression and war. COMEDIES TO CACKLE AT Sure, _Scary Movie_s 2 and 3 are available on Netflix, and Shaun of the Dead is on Hulu, but let’s branch out a bit, shall we? Young Frankenstein (1974): Possibly Mel Brooks’s best collaboration with Gene Wilder. If you haven’t seen this one yet, you owe it to yourself to knock it out this year. After all, before we had Netflix and chill, we had “roll in ze hay.” (Netflix) An American Werewolf in London (1981): We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Best. Transformation scene. Of all. Time. (Hulu, Amazon) The Monster Squad (1987): __In the age of Stranger Things and an It reboot, now is the perfect time to fire this one up: it’s all about a group of loser kids who team up to defeat seemingly insurmountable evil. (In this case, a group of Universal’s classic monsters.) Sound familiar? (Hulu) Arachnophobia (1990): As the title indicates, this one should be avoided by anyone who gets antsy around spiders. (Hulu) Teeth (2007): High-schoolers of a certain age all cackled at the premise for this one, but the real surprise is that it’s way better than it had to be. (Netflix) CURL UP WITH SOME CLASSICS From Oscar-winning thrillers to a seminal slasher. Nosferatu (1922): You’re not likely to jump much during this silent film, but the ominous tone and needle-like teeth on the titular vampire are certainly hard to forget. Lovers of vampire flicks owe it to themselves to see where it all began. (Amazon) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978): We prefer to remain agnostic regarding which version of this film is best—they’re both great in their own ways—but we will say this: the 1978 version features Jeff Goldblum. (Hulu) House on Haunted Hill (1959): Technically we suppose this could have gone in the “cult classics” section, but given Vincent Price’s legacy, as well as his impeccable gift for comedy, we figure it deserves a little more dignity. (Amazon) Night of the Living Dead (1968): Braaaaaaaains. Sadly, we lost George Romero this year, but his legacy will live forever through zombie movies and TV. (Amazon) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): Old man still sends shivers down our spines. (Amazon) The Thing (1982): “You gotta be fucking kidding!” (Hulu) The Amityville Horror (1979): Three decades later, and people in horror movies are still buying haunted houses. What gives? (Hulu) The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Recommended dinner menu: (animal) liver, fava beans, and a nice Chianti. (Hulu) It’s been a big year for Stephen King, so perhaps now is the time to sit down with one of the older adaptations you might have missed. Carrie (1976): This film has left its mark on horror—and pop culture more broadly—for decades now. Ever seen a bucket of liquid fall on a girl’s head at prom, or a hand shoot out of a grave? It’s probably a Carrie homage. (Hulu) The Shining (1980): The “here” in “heeeeeeere’s Johnny!” now refers to Netflix. The Dead Zone (1983): David Cronenberg, Christopher Walken, and Martin Sheen. Honestly, what else do you need? (Amazon) Children of the Corn (1984): Come for the creepy drawings and brittle corn husks; stay for Isaac’s preacher voice. (Hulu, Netflix) Gerald’s Game (2017): In case you’ve seen all the old ones, here’s one that was quietly released this year—and better yet, it’s actually a good adaptation! King himself even complimented it, and he is not one to praise adaptations he doesn’t like. (Netflix) JOIN THE CULT Get in on the joke. The Prowler (1981): It’s understandable why this one will never stand alongside the greats of the slasher boom, but this story about a teen-murdering stalker is worth the watch, if for no other reason than the astounding effects by horror makeup guru Tom Savini. (Hulu) Fright Night (1985): The trailer for this flick promised, “If you love being scared, this could be the night of your life.” That promise might not actually hold up, but the laughs certainly do. (Hulu) Ghoulies (1985): Nothing like a horror movie about monsters that come straight out of the toilet. (Hulu) The Blob (1988): This is not Gwyneth Paltrow’s kind of goop. (Hulu) The Craft (1996): “We are the weirdos, mister.” (Netflix) When Stephen King Reviews Stephen King Movies "Of the smaller pictures, the best one is probably Cujo, with Dee Wallace." he told Deadline. The Horror, The Horror! American Horror Story: Cheyenne Jackson Breaks Down Cult’s Biggest Twist Yet The actor chatted with Vanity Fair about his ever-expanding roles in Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology. American Horror Story: Will Meadow and Kai’s Mass-Shooting Plan Work? The episode was edited to tone down the violence, but Kai’s plan is just as horrifying as ever. American Horror Story Edits Mass Shooting Scene After Las Vegas Massacre The changes to the episode that will air Tuesday were “substantial.”	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745389
__label__cc	0.739202	0.260798	United States Wyoming The Best Time to Visit Yellowstone National Park Wendy Altschuler Wendy Altschuler is a Chicago-based travel and lifestyle writer who covers adventures across the globe. TripSavvy / Brianna Gilmartin The best time to visit Yellowstone National Park, America’s first national park, is in the fall and spring when crowds have thinned out and the weather is still relatively nice. Summer, particularly July and August, has the warmest and most desirable weather, but the high number of tourists and vehicles can make exploring the park a challenge, especially if you’re hoping to see wildlife (though herds of bison can be seen year-round). Whenever you decide to go, use this guide to help plan your trip to this popular national park, known for its geysers (Old Faithful is the most well-known), hot springs, waterfalls, mud pots, and wildlife—you can see grizzly bears, wolves, elk, bison, and moose. The Peak Tourist Season in Yellowstone National Park Located in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, this park attracts more than 4 million visitors each year, with July and August welcoming the highest number of tourists. November through April receives the lowest number of travelers. Exploring the park’s natural attractions and getting the chance to spot wildlife is more enjoyable outside of the overcrowded summer months. Flights to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or to Bozeman, Montana—the closest international airports to Yellowstone National Park—are typically less expensive outside of the summer months. Hotel prices are, in general, lower during the off season after Labor Day, when children have returned back to school and summer crowds have dissipated. Keep in mind, the park does have road closures due to weather, so plan accordingly. How to be Safe in Yellowstone National Park Dangers exist throughout the park, most of which are avoidable. The best place to view animals is inside of your car. Stay at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves and 25 years from bison, elk, and other animals in the park. Never feed wildlife. The boardwalks and trails in the park’s thermal areas are there for your protection. Stay on the designated paths to avoid injury or death. Keep children close to you and never let them run on the boardwalks. Don’t stop in the middle of road to view wildlife. Use the pull-outs to avoid car accidents and to allow other drivers to pass. If you encounter a wildlife traffic jam, which does frequently happen, stay inside your vehicle and be patient for the animals to pass. The Weather in Yellowstone National Park In the spring and fall seasons, the weather during the daytime is typically between 30 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit, with nighttime temperatures below freezing in the teens and single digits. The summer season experiences the warmest weather (usually between 70 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit), however, thunderstorms can happen, and nighttime temperatures can be quite cool, necessitating warm layers and rain gear. The winter season brings cold weather, settling between 0 and 20 degrees Fahrenheit, but don’t count this season out. The wildlife viewing is incredible, there are hardly any visitors in the park, and the natural landscapes look stunning under a blanket of snow. Most of the park sits at 6,000 feet above sea level, or more, so the weather can be unpredictable even in the summer months. It’s best to be prepared for the weather with lots of inner and outer layers. Also, when driving in the winter months, or when roads are snow-covered, be sure to have a vehicle equipped with proper tires. Daniel Osterkamp / Getty Images While the weather can be quite chilly (low 30s to low 60s Fahrenheit), it’s not unbearable. There are many perks for visiting the park this season. Crowds will have scattered, but wildlife will still be active—keep an eye out for bears, elk, and raptors, and lodging and camping will be more affordable and available. Not only will you see colorful foliage, but also, many of the park's animals will migrate to lower elevations due to the weather. Dawn and dusk are excellent times for wildlife viewing and the good news is that sunlight hours dwindle this season so you won't have to rise too early. Bears will be preparing for hibernation, so you may see them as they forage for food. Elk mate during the fall and you can see these creatures around Mammoth Hot Springs—or hear their bugle throughout the park. Fall is also the migration season for hawks and other raptors—don't forget to look up! Event to check out: Free to the public, the Bridger Raptor Festival celebrates birds of prey in and around Bozeman, Montana, at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area and the Gallatin National Forest. Learn about impressive wildlife through the Wildlife Film Festival, live raptor talks and programming, and nature walks and hikes. There’s no doubt about it, the winter season is freezing. Exploring nature, seeing wildlife—wolves and bighorn sheep can be spotted—and experiencing the park when there are very few other tourists is the magic of this season. You’ll need to cross-country ski, snowshoe, drive a snowmobile, or ride inside of a snow coach as many of the roads will be closed. There are many winter touring companies that can provide an otherworldly, yet safe, experience. Rivers and lakes will be frozen, and the landscape will be covered in a layer of snow and ice. Driving the road from Mammoth Hot Springs to the northeast entrance is a sure bet as it’s open to traffic year-round. Events to check out: Experience the Yellowstone Ski Festival each November, a cross-country skiing adventure on the Rendezvous Ski Trails. Highlights include skiing clinics, competitive races, biathlon races, gear demos, and an indoor ski show. The Bozeman Ice Festival is designed for winter climbers—beginner level through advanced—in Montana. The Cody Cowboy Christmas Stroll is a fun Wyoming community event, featuring a parade, ice carving, shopping, live music and caroling, and roasting marshmallows. While the weather can be quite unpredictable, spring is a wonderful time to visit the park, before the substantial number of tourists arrive for summer. Be sure to check the park’s website for current conditions, road closures, construction, and openings days, which are weather-dependent. Late spring is also a neat time to view wildlife as you’ll see baby animals emerge. Every April, National Park Week, a presidential declaration, celebrates America’s best idea through special programming, digital experiences, and events. MSU Foundation Wine & Food Festival is a large social event held each spring in Billings, Montana. The summer months experience the best weather in the park, drawing visitors from all over the world. You can expect hotel, cabin, and camping accommodation prices inside the park to be at a high. Old Faithful Inn, for example, is quite popular and you’ll have to book well in advance to stay during their opening season of May through October. If traveling in the summer, plan your vacation well ahead of your visit to make the most out of your visit. The Cody Stampede Rodeo, held outdoors in Cody, Wyoming, is a fun family-friendly summer event, held every year on the fourth of July weekend, since 1919. Yellowstone Beer Fest, also held annually in Cody, Wyoming, highlights breweries from across the country. The Lewis & Clark County Fairgrounds and Exhibit Hall hosts the Last Stampede and Fair. Think: rodeos, parades, live music, a carnival, 4-H events, and street food. Learn about Native American culture by attending the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival, held in August each year on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, featuring Powwows, drumming circles, traditional dancing, and The Indian Relay Races. When is the best time to visit Yellowstone National Park? The best time to visit Yellowstone is in either the fall or spring, when the crowds are not too big and the weather is still nice. What is the best time of year to see wildlife in Yellowstone National Park? Spring is a great time to see wildlife in Yellowstone, as this is when animals like bison, bears, and wolves have recently given birth and it's possible to spot baby animals. When is peak season in Yellowstone National Park? The park tends to be the most crowded in July and August when many families are taking advantage of summer vacation and the nice weather. 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__label__cc	0.533633	0.466367	iPhone 5 dropped as iPhone 4S lives on By Sam Loveridge September 10, 2013 10:33 pm BST Apple has announced that the iPhone 5 will be discontinued to make way for the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, the iPhone 4S will live on though. The introduction of the iPhone 5C has scuppered Apple’s usual plan of moving the old flagship into the position of the cheaper model. See also: iPhone 5S vs Samsung Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5S vs iPhone 5C Now, the iPhone 5 will be scrapped altogether in favour of the iPhone 5C, while the iPhone 4S will occupy the base price point with the 8GB model now offered for free on all contracts. You can wave goodbye to the iPhone 4 as well, because that model’s getting the heave-ho too. Unfortunately, this means that the iPhone 5 probably has the shortest shelf life of any iPhone to date, but you can blame the colourful iPhone 5C for that. The plastic polycarbonate body smartphone does offer very similar specs to the iPhone 5, with the same 1.3GHz A6 processor and 8-megapixel rear camera. It does give the front-facing camera a minor spec bump to 1.9-megapixels, and Apple has introduced a new Live Camera app, new Live filters and 3x video zoom. The hard-coated polycarbonate body comes in five colours – red, blue, green, yellow and white – with the 16GB model available for £469, while the 32GB model is £549. As Apple’s new flagship smartphone, the iPhone 5S offers a raft of new features for consumers to enjoy. The processor has been updated to the new A7 CPU, over 50 per cent faster than the A6 chip of the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5. Integrated into the new home button of the iPhone 5S is the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, which offers increased security for iPhones and the mobile payments made on them. Both models run the new iOS 7 mobile OS and will be available to purchase from September 20. Next read our iPhone 6 rumours and get ahead of the game.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745392
__label__wiki	0.896806	0.896806	Shannon Dang Althea Shen Althea Shen in “Kung Fu” Shannon Dang stars as Althea Shen, Nicky’s (Olivia Liang) larger-than-life and newly engaged older sister, on The CW’s series “Kung Fu.” Dang was born and raised in Pasadena, California where she discovered her love of dance at an early age. By the age of 13, she was dancing for the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks and later went on to spend three seasons dancing for the Los Angeles Clippers and three seasons with the Los Angeles Rams. Dang can be seen opposite Romany Malco in his comedic film “Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison.” She also appeared opposite Diane Lane in Amazon’s “The Romanoffs.” In 2018, Dang performed in the ABC Discovers Talent Showcase and has numerous television credits, which include recurring on Facebook Watch’s “Sorry For Your Loss” and Netflix’s “American Vandal.” Other television credits include “Doubt,” “The Off Season,” “Major Crimes” and “East Los High.” Dang’s film credits include supporting roles in Marshall Cook’s “Film Fest,” which premiered at the 2020 Austin Film Festival. She also appeared as the young version of actress Bai Ling in “The Gene Generation.” Dang attributes much of her success to her parents who nurtured her love for the performing arts through various dance and musical theatre programs. She graduated with a Business degree from the University of California Riverside. In her free time, she loves to travel, take trips to Disneyland and is still a big LA Rams fan.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745393
__label__wiki	0.606621	0.606621	A judge halts the deportation of a mother and daughter — and threatens Jeff Sessions with contempt of court The government reportedly tried to deport a woman and her daughter while their case was still being heard in court. By Tara Golshan Aug 9, 2018, 4:20pm EDT Share All sharing options for: A judge halts the deportation of a mother and daughter — and threatens Jeff Sessions with contempt of court A federal judge had some choice words for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Win McNamee/Getty Images A federal judge in Washington, DC, threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of court after learning that the Trump administration was in the process of deporting a woman and her daughter in the midst of their asylum case being heard in court, the Washington Post reported. US District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan halted the deportation Thursday, calling it “outrageous” that “someone seeking justice in U.S. court is spirited away while her attorneys are arguing for justice for her.” The judge was reportedly furious when American Civil Liberties Union lawyers were informed that their plaintiff — a woman identified in court papers as Carmen — and her daughters had been taken out of family detention in Texas and were possibly being taken to the airport to be flown out of the country. The Department of Justice had agreed to delay deportation hearings for Carmen until midnight on Thursday so her lawyers could appeal her removal orders in court. Carmen is a plaintiff in an ACLU lawsuit filed earlier this week challenging the Trump administration’s new rules around asylum seekers; the rules, announced in June, disqualify victims of gang violence and domestic abuse from seeking asylum on those grounds alone. The ACLU lawsuit claims their “plaintiffs and thousands of other immigrants like them desperately seeking safety will be unlawfully deported to places where they fear they will be raped, kidnapped, beaten, and killed.” The lawsuit is on behalf of 12 migrants from Central America. The Trump administration has repeatedly shown it’s willing to go to great lengths to implement a harsh immigration agenda that clamps down on asylum seekers coming to the United States. President Donald Trump has even suggested throwing out due process for immigrants who cross the border illegally. This appears to be yet another case of the administration disregarding the judicial process. The Trump administration’s anti-asylum agenda is robust As Vox’s Dara Lind explained, Sessions’s rules about domestic and gang violence claims didn’t just raise the standard for who can be granted asylum but also made it harder for immigrants to pass the initial screening at the border to apply for asylum, testing whether they have “credible fear” of returning home. Lind writes: In other words, any Central American migrants who are currently en route to the US are going to be met with a higher bar to entry than the one they thought was in place when they left. Thousands of people who already arrived in the US but have been sent to criminal court to be convicted of illegal entry before they can make an asylum claim may now find themselves unable to pass a screening they would have passed when they arrived. That includes hundreds if not thousands of parents whose children have been separated from them. Making it harder for immigrants to seek asylum has been one of the core tenets of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. The administration has baselessly claimed that the asylum process is overrun with criminals and frauds and touted aggressive deportation goals. But these policies have repeatedly overstepped American bounds, most recently with an administration policy that separated more than 2,000 migrant children from their families at the border. Now, in reportedly trying to deport a woman while her lawyers appealed her immigration case in court, a federal judge made clear that Sessions had overstepped again. “I’m not happy about this at all,” Judge Sullivan said. “This is not acceptable.”	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745397
__label__wiki	0.618329	0.618329	Unleashed Technologies Michael Spinosa, CEO Michael Spinosa is the CEO of Unleashed Technologies, an enterprise web and hosting—what the company calls “Wosting”—firm headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. Unleashed Technologies offers a comprehensive array of hosting, development, and design services that span ecommerce, mobile, and cloud technologies. The company specializes in serving publications, franchises, and private and military nonprofits, among other clients. Unleashed Technologies made the Inc. 5000 list in 2013 and 2014, and this year, SmartCEO named the organization one of its 2015 Future 50 award winners. Michael Spinosa spoke with citybizlist founder Edwin Warfield for this interview. EDWIN WARFIELD: When did you start Unleashed Technologies? Was it a success initially? MICHAEL SPINOSA: Unleashed Technologies was founded in 2007. During that time—we came to about 2009—and what we had realized as an organization, just a very small tight-knit group of individuals at that time, was that we were average. We were very vanilla. We were a 6/10—we rated ourselves on what we are. We made a decision at that point—Drupal had just been very popular with its sixth version—and we said, “How can we actually just create a product that’s so fantastic for people that they feel like that there’s no replacing, that this is the way to go?” We looked at open source [technologies], and we said, “Drupal is so flexible and has so many integration capabilities it can serve a midsize and an enterprise market—let’s take a look at that.” I’d say about a month later we made the definitive decision to switch 100% to open source and, particularly, to Drupal at that time. Making that decision has been one of the best decisions that we have ever made as an organization. It’s fueled unbelievable growth for our clients, and I think that’s what really matters. Has that vision evolved over time? One of the interesting parts about Unleashed Technologies is once we figured out the direction that we wanted to go, we said we’re going to stay in that direction, and we’re going to really hold true to it. Over the course of the year, we won [Drupal’s] Website of the Year. One year I believe we won four or five Blue Drop Awards—I think we had actually won six, but they told us that we couldn’t have all six, because if we had all six, the award ceremony would like it was fixed. I’ll never forget that discussion, because we had legitimately won all of the awards. In the following years, we won Best Association Website. We’ve won Website of the Year two years in a row, and that has been an amazing honor and a testament to the staff on picking this direction and going forward with it. And it’s expanded. It’s really grown from there. Can you describe how your technology works for a client? What platforms do you use, and how do they set the company apart? From a Drupal perspective, using those PHP platforms, Drupal 8 will be on a new platform called Symphony 2, where they’ll use the toolset. So, now, we do Symphony 2, Magento, WordPress, and Drupal. All these combined are what we call PHP derivatives. They’re all built on the same programming language and share a common thread. We’re able to go a mile deep where most people can only go an inch deep. One of the big challenges in web today is before, it only took a web designer and a web developer to put something up, and you met the expectations of the world. Well, now, every time a large corporation releases the next best greatest thing, every website across the country— across the world—is expected to meet that new level, that new standard. Consumer demand and expectation is only rising. So, what does that mean to people? Well, instead of having a designer and developer now, you have a front-end developer, you have a web designer, you have a back-end developer, you have a solutions architect, an engineer; you have all these people that have to come together to create a special or something engaging for your particular organization. The growth package allows you to have access to all those people in the amount of time that you need without hiring six or seven people and having a budget of half a million dollars. Can you tell us more about the growth package? A lot of people, when they think about web, they think about projects; they think about small scopes of work, time and materials, different ways to do those things. We said, “Where can we make a real change?” Because the first part you do is you put a pin in a map and you draw a five-mile radius and you say, “There’s 30 competitors that are doing something very similar.” There’s tons of options out there. So, how do you truly differentiate something besides saying, “Oh, you know, we get to know your business?” Well, it’s nothing more to this point. The way we decided to do it is in the way that it’s delivered. Our growth package is focused on how fluid the web is. The web is always in motion, it’s always changing. And what we realized for people to have successful web presence is they needed to be constantly maintaining them, constantly enhancing them, new features, just keeping it up to date and making that a sustainable annuity. So, on growth packages, you basically work with us, month in, month out for a said amount of time—whether it’s 20 hours, 40 hours, 80 hours, 160 hours—and it also comes with a service level agreement. Another big failure of web firms out there is they’re inconsistent with their deliverables, the timing of their deliverables. We said, “We’re going to deliver to you every time, on time, in a service level agreement that says these are the hours that you have for a month, and we’re going to get things done for you.” That’s been very successful, and that is what the growth package is. What makes a website great, in your opinion? What really makes a website great is understanding the best practices aren’t defined as some general blanket that falls across everything. What makes a really tremendous web presence is that you’re able to identify each company in its own vertical and make it completely custom to what that target audience is seeking. That is really what makes it special. We use best practices or A-plus like some kind of standard that everyone needs to meet, and, at the same time, we don’t really know what that is. We know what we mean by “W3C compliance” by different compliancies out there about development practices, but we don’t know what it means to an individual company until we are able to define the metrics of success. So, you say A-plus. I say, “Show me the client and let me get involved,” because then we have to decide what A-plus really is. Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law is a dynamic legal services provider assisting clients throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Our firm is well positioned to meet the legal needs of dynamic businesses and the people who own and operate them. Philadelphia Business Journal Ranks Offit Kurman on 2017 List of Largest Philadelphia Law Firms Offit Kurman Partners with GovCon Teaming Platform, govmates LawMatters-December 2016 Theodore Offit Chairman, CEO, & CFO toffit@offitkurman.com \| 301.575.0304	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745398
__label__wiki	0.972594	0.972594	Kidnapped teen swims across lake to escape captors after 29 days Updated: 9:31 AM EDT Sep 8, 2017 In the video above, the teen and her mother recount the horrific month she spent in captivity and her daring escape A 15-year-old Minnesota girl who thought she was helping a friend’s dad was instead kidnapped and held captive for 29 days during which she was repeatedly raped, tied up with zip ties and locked in a closet before escaping and swimming across a lake to safety, prosecutors said Thursday in announcing charges against three men.Court documents detail instances in which the girl said she believed that the men were trying to kill her, including when she fought back as one of them tried to push her underwater in a bathtub, and another when a cord or rope was placed around her neck and she was forced to hang until she couldn’t breathe.Weeks into her ordeal, police knocked on the door of the mobile home where she was being held to investigate a report of stolen property, but no one answered. After that, the men told the girl to get into a duffel bag, loaded her in the back of a truck, and moved her to an abandoned home.The girl escaped from that home in rural, western Minnesota on Tuesday when the men left her alone for the first time in nearly a month as they went to get pizza. She knocked on nearby doors, then swam across part of a lake — losing her pants and shoes in the water — and flagged down a farmer for help.Three men were charged Thursday with multiple counts. Thomas Barker, 32, of Carlos, Minnesota, and Steven Powers, 20, of Benson, were charged with kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct and false imprisonment. Joshua Holby, 31, of Carlos was charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.According to the criminal complaint, Barker kidnapped the girl from her home in Alexandria, about 133 miles (214 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis, on Aug. 8 by tricking her into thinking he needed her to talk to his son, who was misbehaving. Barker was her friend’s dad, so she agreed to help, leaving her phone behind.Prosecutors say Barker drove the girl to his mobile home in Carlos, about 9 miles away, restrained her and sexually assaulted her, brandishing a firearm and threatening to kill her.The girl told police that shortly after her abduction, Barker, who has cerebral palsy and is physically-impaired, put her in a bathtub while she was restrained with zip ties “and she believes that he tried to drown her” but she fought back. In a second incident, the girl told police, she was put in a duffel bag that Holby and Barker put in the bathtub, but she stuck her head out of a hole in the bag. She told police that in another incident, a rope or cord was placed around her neck and she was required to stand on a bucket, the complaint said.“She stated that Holby then forced her off of the bucket and she described a period in which she could not breathe,” the complaint said. She said Powers also forced her to snort a line of “white powder.”“Powers did not free (her), nor did he contact law enforcement,” the complaint said.The complaint says the girl had a television set and fan in the closet, and food and water were brought to her.The farmer who found told police he saw something moving in a field of tall grass about 300 yards away from him, then realized it was a female running toward him — wet and wearing no pants or shoes.When she got closer, the farmer recognized her as the girl pictured in missing-person fliers in the area. The girl said she needed the cops “now” and he called 911 while she got into his truck and hid, the complaint said.A message left with an attorney for Barker and Holby was not immediately returned. The name of Powers’ attorney was not immediately available.According to the complaint, Barker told police that he had used methamphetamine and alcohol, but he denied knowing the girl or picking her up. Barker also said that Powers had been with the girl, but that he had not and he declined to answer more questions, the complaint said. Alexandria, MN — In the video above, the teen and her mother recount the horrific month she spent in captivity and her daring escape A 15-year-old Minnesota girl who thought she was helping a friend’s dad was instead kidnapped and held captive for 29 days during which she was repeatedly raped, tied up with zip ties and locked in a closet before escaping and swimming across a lake to safety, prosecutors said Thursday in announcing charges against three men. Court documents detail instances in which the girl said she believed that the men were trying to kill her, including when she fought back as one of them tried to push her underwater in a bathtub, and another when a cord or rope was placed around her neck and she was forced to hang until she couldn’t breathe. Weeks into her ordeal, police knocked on the door of the mobile home where she was being held to investigate a report of stolen property, but no one answered. After that, the men told the girl to get into a duffel bag, loaded her in the back of a truck, and moved her to an abandoned home. The girl escaped from that home in rural, western Minnesota on Tuesday when the men left her alone for the first time in nearly a month as they went to get pizza. She knocked on nearby doors, then swam across part of a lake — losing her pants and shoes in the water — and flagged down a farmer for help. Three men were charged Thursday with multiple counts. Thomas Barker, 32, of Carlos, Minnesota, and Steven Powers, 20, of Benson, were charged with kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct and false imprisonment. Joshua Holby, 31, of Carlos was charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment. According to the criminal complaint, Barker kidnapped the girl from her home in Alexandria, about 133 miles (214 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis, on Aug. 8 by tricking her into thinking he needed her to talk to his son, who was misbehaving. Barker was her friend’s dad, so she agreed to help, leaving her phone behind. Prosecutors say Barker drove the girl to his mobile home in Carlos, about 9 miles away, restrained her and sexually assaulted her, brandishing a firearm and threatening to kill her. The girl told police that shortly after her abduction, Barker, who has cerebral palsy and is physically-impaired, put her in a bathtub while she was restrained with zip ties “and she believes that he tried to drown her” but she fought back. In a second incident, the girl told police, she was put in a duffel bag that Holby and Barker put in the bathtub, but she stuck her head out of a hole in the bag. She told police that in another incident, a rope or cord was placed around her neck and she was required to stand on a bucket, the complaint said. “She stated that Holby then forced her off of the bucket and she described a period in which she could not breathe,” the complaint said. She said Powers also forced her to snort a line of “white powder.” “Powers did not free (her), nor did he contact law enforcement,” the complaint said. The complaint says the girl had a television set and fan in the closet, and food and water were brought to her. The farmer who found told police he saw something moving in a field of tall grass about 300 yards away from him, then realized it was a female running toward him — wet and wearing no pants or shoes. When she got closer, the farmer recognized her as the girl pictured in missing-person fliers in the area. The girl said she needed the cops “now” and he called 911 while she got into his truck and hid, the complaint said. A message left with an attorney for Barker and Holby was not immediately returned. The name of Powers’ attorney was not immediately available. According to the complaint, Barker told police that he had used methamphetamine and alcohol, but he denied knowing the girl or picking her up. Barker also said that Powers had been with the girl, but that he had not and he declined to answer more questions, the complaint said.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745399
__label__cc	0.541039	0.458961	Chinese Motorcycle Brands Our ever-expanding collection of motorcycle brands and logos Every Chinese Motorcycle Brand, Manufacturer, & Aftermarket Tuner We Could Find While not nearly as popular in North America, many Asian and Indo-Asian countries are a huge market for Chinese motorcycles and scooters. Zongshen Motors, for example, produces nearly 1,000,000 motorbikes and scooters YEARLY and has a full range of classes from Adventure to Supersport. We consider this list “complete for now”, but it will never be finished. If you are or know of a Chinese motorcycle brand – whether that’s manufacturer or significant tuner – please get in touch so we can add you to this list. Please let us know if we have missed anything or if any information is incorrect – we want our motorcycle brand section to be a rich resource of information for enthusiasts everywhere! China's Most Popular / Last Updated July, 2020 Popular Chinese Motorcycle Brands Benelli is currently China’s premiere mid-size motorcycle manufacturer. With such popularity of sub-250cc motorcycles and mopeds that take up most of the market in China, Benelli has carved their own path in providing larger bikes to both china and a global market since 2005. Originally the company was fully Italian owned and operated (founded in 1911) before being acquired by Qianjiang who shifted their focus from high displacement bikes to mid-rage cheaper bikes for newer riders. Currently, the company’s headquarters are still located in Italy, but they are fully controlled by their Chinese parent company. Lifan Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. is a civilian owned Chinese motorcycle and automobile manufacturer headquartered in Chongqing, China. It was founded in 1992 and began to manufacture automobiles in 2005, with license-built microvans and a small sedan developed by Lifan. Lifan’s vehicle products include passenger cars, microvans, dirt bike engines, entry-level motorcycles, mini-vehicles, and commercial trucks. Zongshen is a Chinese company claiming to produce over one million motorcycles annually. Originally founded in 1992, the brand quickly grew into one of China’s biggest manufacturing companies with 18,000 employees and 52 subsidiary companies. The brand doesn’t manufacture a motorcycle over 250cc’s making them China’s leader in accessible, low-displacement motorcycles. Organized Alphabetically, A-Z All Chinese Motorcycle Brands & Tuners Baotian Motorcycle Company Baotian Motorcycle Industrial Co. Ltd, or Jiangmen Sino-HongKong Baotian Motorcycle Industrial Co. Ltd., established in 1994, is a Chinese manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters. Baotian tuning is very popular in Finland. Baotian UK has been operating since 2005 and has consistently topped the 50cc scooter sales chart. Benelli is currently China’s premiere mid-size motorcycle manufacturer. With such popularity of sub-250cc motorcycles and mopeds that take up most of the market in China, Benelli has carved their own path into providing larger bikes to both china and a global market since 2005. Originally the company was fully Italian owned and operated (founded in 1911) before being acquired by Qianjiang who shifted their focus from high displacement bikes to mid-rage cheaper bikes for newer riders. Currently, the company’s headquarters are still located in Italy, but they are fully controlled by their Chinese parent company. Chang Jiang Chang Jiang is the brand name of motorcycles that were once manufactured by the China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Company. The company is best known for their CJ750 motorcycle which was based on the original 1956 Soviet IMZ M-72 which itself was derived from the earlier German 1938 BMW R71. Nearly all of them have sidecars. They are often erroneously referred to as BMW “replicas” when in fact, they are derivatives of the IMZ M-72. Evoke Motorcycles Evoke Motorcycles is a Beijing-based manufacturer of smart electric motorcycles. Founded in 2014 by Nathan Siy and Chris Riether, the company has been developing electric motorcycles since 2012. The first ever Evoke motorcycle mass produced by the company is the Urban S, an Italian-inspired naked electric street bike. Jinan Qingqi Jinan Qingqi Motorcycle Co., Ltd is a Chinese manufacturer of mopeds, quadbikes and other small engined & electric motorcycles that was founded in 1956. The company headquarters is located in Jinan, Shandong Province. Qingqi is probably the best known moped brand in modern China and the company is one of the larger manufacturers of small engine motorcycles in the world, but is almost completely unknown outside its domestic market, it is however a large original equipment manufacturer provider to companies such as Cycle Union, Suzuki and Peugeot. Jincheng Suzuki Jincheng Suzuki is a joint Sino-Japanese producer of motorcycles and scooters founded in 1994 and headquartered in Nanjing. It is a joint venture between Suzuki and Nanjing Jincheng Machinery. The company claims output of 3,000 units per month, making it the first-place exporter and foreign-currency earner in the Chinese motorcycle industry. Loncin Holdings Loncin Holdings, Ltd is a large company in Chongqing, China that distributes throughout the world. It is best known for its Loncin brand of motorcycle and ATVs produced by its subsidiary Longxin Motorcycle Industry Co., Ltd. and for the UAVs produced by its Loncin UAV subsidiary. In Italy, its motorcycles are sold under the Italika brand name in Mexico, AKT in Colombia, Viper Motorcycles in Ukraine, Minsk in Russia and Belarus, and Zanella in Argentina. Qianjiang Motorcycle Zhejiang Qianjiang Motorcycle Group Co., usually known as Qianjiang Motorcycle, is a Chinese motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1985 with a registered office in Winling (Zhejiang province). It is now one of the largest manufacturers of 2 wheelers in China. QJ is a $460 Million USD state holding enterprise with 5 domestic subsidiaries, 10 branches, 1 overseas subsidiary and over 10,000 employees. The company owns Italian motorcycle brand Benelli Yinxiang Motorcycle Yinxiang Motorcycle, founded in 1997, is a motorcycle brand of Yinxiang Group, an industrial company based in Chongqing, China, specializing in real estate and research, development, manufacturing and sales of motorcycles, gasoline engines and general-purpose engines and equipment. Znen Znen was founded by Chen Huaneng in 1986, in Taizhou, Zhejiang. It was not until 1996 that Znen manufactured its first gasoline scooters. After 20 years in the motor vehicle industry, Zhongneng Industry Group develops three main products: gasoline scooters, electric scooters, motorcycles. One of the scooters made by Znen is the Znen C Artemis, which is sold around the world under many different names.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745400
__label__cc	0.642916	0.357084	State Rep Posts Impassioned Plea Against Butt Sex, Wants Doctors to Oppose Gay Marriage for Medical Reasons Josh Wolford The great state of South Dakota, which has had a legal ban on same-sex marriage since 1996 and a constitutional amendment against it since 2006, is about to face its first legal challenge. And before the case hits the court, one state rep is urging the medical community to speak out against the dangers of… Anal sex? Yes, Pastor and State Legislator Steve Hickey from Sioux Falls District 9 has posted an impassioned argument on Facebook. He’s also sent it in as a letter to the editor of the Argus Leader, but doesn’t know if they’ll print it. I guess that’s why he also took to his Facebook page. In a letter titled ‘A One Way Alley for the Garbage Truck,’ (!!!) Hickey argues that anti-gay marriage activists have been going about this all wrong. You see, if only medical and psychological professionals didn’t feel intimidated to the point of silence, then they could speak out about the real reason that man on man marriage is so wrong. You know, butt sex. Ew. Not only gross, but just as dangerous as that Big Mac you just stuffed in your face. Here’s the relevant chunk: Consider this an open letter to the medical and psychological communities in South Dakota. The subject is homosexuality, which is about to be a front-page topic for the next few years in our state. I’m asking the doctors who practice in our state, is the science really settled on this issue or is it more the case that you feel silenced and intimidated? Certainly there are board-certified doctors in our state who will attest to what seems self-evident to so many: gay sex is not good for the body or mind. Pardon a crude comparison but regarding men with men, we are talking about a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down. Frankly, I’d question the judgment of doctor who says it’s all fine. South Dakota docs, it’s time for you to come out of the closet and give your professional opinion on this matter like you capably and responsibly do on all the others. Somehow the message we are presently getting from the medical community is that eating at McDonalds will kill us but the gay lifestyle has no side effects. Truth be told it seems self-evident the list of side effects would read far longer than anything we hear on a Cialis commercial. If many are indeed wearying of our religious community leading on these morality issues, and believe also those of us in the legislature should butt out too, it’s time for the medical community in our state to be honest with us. If you don’t speak up, this issue will be decided by five unelected judges on the Supreme Court regardless of what states like ours have decided by public vote. This indeed is a matter of being on the wrong side of history considering that historically, homosexuality has been a notable marker of the downfall of past civilizations, not their rise. It’s not hate for a physician to speak up about something that is harmful to human health. It is not unloving to tell people you don’t have to have sex with and marry someone to love and be loved by them. As one who performs marriages and counsels couples as part of my professional life, marriage is the last thing I’d recommend to someone who simply wants to be loved and legitimized. What do other health care and mental health professionals in our state really think? Post by Steve Hickey. It’s clear that Mr. Hickey has given this a lot of thought. A lot of thought. The rest of Hickey’s open letter (which I urge you to read) talks about transgender kids, suicide rates, and sports. I won’t spoil it for you. South Dakota, one of only four states with bans on same-sex marriage but no pending lawsuits, will soon have one on the books. According to the AP, a same sex couple plans to marry on Saturday in Minnesota, come back to South Dakota, and sue when the county clerk denies them a name change. Apparently, they would then have legal grounds to challenge both the original ban and the fact that their state would be denying a legally-performed marriage in another state. For Rep. Hickey’s sake, let’s hope that the doctors speak out before it’s too late. We wouldn’t want a traffic jam on the garbage truck alley. Tags butt sex dude you're obsessing gay laws LGBT South Dakota steve hickey Jennifer Esposito: New Husband And New Show? Jennifer Lawrence: Gorgeous And Deadly As Mystique	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745401
__label__cc	0.530498	0.469502	The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 1: Behind The Scenes If you’re here, you’re probably aware that The Walking Dead Season 3 is now underway. The first episode of the season premiered on Sunday. If you haven’t seen it yet, AMC is showing it on its website for a limited time. You should have a chance to get caught up before next Sunday. If you have seen it, you might be interested in a behind-the-scenes look at the episode. AMC has uploaded a six and a half minute look at it to its YouTube channel. In other The Walking Dead news, AMC also just updated The Walking Dead Facebook game with a new chapter and some new features. More The Walking Dead fun here. Tags AMC Television The Walking Dead TV Zombies Emoticons Begin Popping Up on Facebook Comments Hulk Hogan Suing Bubba The Love Sponge Over Sex Tape	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745402
__label__wiki	0.627042	0.627042	Proposed New Interface to Bring Next-Generation Connectivity to PC Monitors and CE Devices WEBWIRE – Tuesday, December 20, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, December 20, 2005 – Leading PC and consumer electronics companies today announced that they are working to develop a specification, referred to as the unified display interface (UDI), that is intended to serve as the next-generation digital display interface standard for PCs and provide compatibility with Consumer Electronics (CE) devices. UDI is targeted to become the new display interface for desktop PCs, workstations, notebook PCs and PC monitors, replacing the aging VGA analog standard and providing guidelines to ensure compatibility with today’s DVI standard. Further, as planned, the UDI specification will be fully compatible with HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), the standard digital interface for High Definition TVs (HDTVs) and advanced CE displays. UDI will be able to use High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) technology widely deployed in HDMI-compatible products today. As a result, host platforms with UDI connectors will be able to plug into monitors and HDMI-equipped display devices including HDTVs with full content-use rights management and high-definition video compatibility. For end users, UDI will provide a universal video connection from the computer host to the display, including PC and notebook monitors, HDTVs and projectors. For PC and monitor makers, UDI is intended to enable easy integration with both discrete and integrated graphics controllers, letting OEMs build computer platforms and all-digital LCD monitors that are lower in cost, easier to use and higher in bandwidth. A Special Interest Group (SIG) of industry leaders has been formed to develop and continue revising the UDI specification. Principal members of the SIG include Apple, Intel Corp., LG Electronics, National Semiconductor Corp., Samsung Electronics and Silicon Image Inc. Joining the SIG as contributors are graphics chip maker NVIDIA Corp., semiconductor manufacturer THine Electronics Inc., and cable and connector makers FCI, Foxconn Electronics Inc. and JAE Electronics Inc. UDI SIG members are seeking more industry participants to help validate and refine the display interface specification, which is currently in revision 0.8. The UDI SIG expects to have the specification completed (version 1.0) in the second quarter of 2006. Interoperable Connection to HDMI Devices The governing body for HDMI, the HDMI Founders, supports the goal of keeping HDMI and UDI aligned for long-term compatibility. Because the two specifications share many elements, semiconductor and component makers will have the flexibility to design products supporting both HDMI and UDI for little extra cost. “The HDMI Founders support the development of PC products that are compatible with HDMI,” said Les Chard, President of HDMI Licensing LLC. “We are cooperating with the UDI Promoters to ensure compatibility between HDMI and UDI devices in the CE and PC industries.” UDI is one of three platforms (including DVI and HDMI) enabled to use High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), which is the most widely-deployed content protection technology for displaying premium high-definition content and is supported by major motion picture studios. This will allow UDI-compatible PCs, notebooks and workstations the ability to display the latest digital content in various high-definition modes, including those meeting new high-definition optical disc standards. “We welcome this new secure digital interface with even higher image quality. Technologies like HDCP allow exciting new consumer opportunities by assuring that a diverse range of choices can be offered. We support the UDI specification initiative,” said Chris Cookson, President, Warner Bros. Technical Operations Inc. and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Bros. Studios “Next-generation content will drive new and exciting consumer experiences, and UDI can reduce the technical complexity associated with this shift,” said Eric Schmidt, group product manager of Windows Digital Media at Microsoft Corp. “With HDMI compatibility, UDI gives Windows-based PCs the flexibility to be used in commercial or consumer applications by interfacing with both PC and TV displays. We plan to support UDI in our operating system platforms.” UDI offers a number of performance and cost improvements over existing display standards. It also will maintain backward compatibility with DVI displays to pave the way toward completely replacing analog VGA as the PC display interface. These improvements include the added flexibility of accommodating proven high-bandwidth technology based on PCI Express and HDMI’s Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS); use of a small, lower cost connector with optional locking retention; and, ongoing oversight of a working group that will actively administer and revise the UDI specification to meet changing market needs. The UDI SIG is consistent with other standard PC industry initiatives with all adopters agreeing to license their essential IP on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. In addition, core protocol and interface IP (TMDS) is available on a reciprocal, royalty-free basis. About the UDI Special Interest Group For more information on UDI or to join the UDI Special Interest Group, please visit www.udisigwebsite.com Silicon Image, Inc. UDI Special Interest Group Kasey Holman	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745403
__label__wiki	0.93806	0.93806	Playground Case Could Breach Barrier Between Tax Coffers, Religious Schools By Nina Totenberg Children play on the playground at the Trinity Lutheran Child Learning Center in Columbia, Mo. The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in a Missouri case with the potential to open grant programs to parochial schools. Wednesday's showdown pitting school choice and religious liberty advocates against taxpayer groups and civil libertarians has been long in coming. The Supreme Court had agreed to hear the case of Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley — Pauley being the director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources at the time — in January 2016. A month later, Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, leaving an eight-justice court that was deeply divided on questions concerning the separation of church and state. For nearly a year and a half, the justices punted, declining to hear oral arguments in the case until the court was back up to full strength. Now that day has come — sort of. A funny thing happened on the way to the Supreme Court that's explained in detail below. "Children should not be treated as second-class citizens" First, the case: Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Mo., operates a preschool and day care learning center as part of its church ministry. Ninety children, ages 2 to 5, attend the school and play on its playground. In 2012 the church applied for a grant from the state to essentially rubberize the playground surface, using old and discarded tires. Trinity Lutheran sought the funds despite regulations barring state grants to religious institutions. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources, which administers the scrap tire program, had enough money to fund playground resurfacing for 14 of the 44 applicants. Although Trinity Lutheran would have qualified otherwise, the state turned it down, citing a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that bars giving state aid to a school that is owned or controlled by a church, sect or denomination and where the applicant's mission is spiritual in nature. There is no doubt that the learning center's mission is spiritual in nature, even if the playground surface is not. Trinity Lutheran went to court, claiming that the grant denial interfered with its free exercise of religion and amounted to unconstitutional discrimination, based on religion, against the school. Gail Schuster, director of the Trinity Lutheran Child Learning Center, said in a YouTube video about the case that the school applied to the program to provide a safe playground for the preschoolers. "The issue here is that children are children, and their safety is important to us, and the children should not be treated as second-class citizens," Schuster said. The grant program was open to all nonprofit schools except religious ones, notes David Cortman of the Christian religious liberty group Alliance Defending Freedom. Excluding parochial schools takes the constitutional mandate of separation of church and state "too far," he says. "Now you're treating a religious organization worse than everybody else," he says. "The government is not funding a religious activity; it's funding the playground where children play." Not so, says the state of Missouri in its brief to the court. The "free exercise" clause of the U.S. Constitution, in its own words, forbids only government action that "prohibits" the free exercise of religion; it does not require the government to subsidize churches or provide equal funding opportunities for religious and nonreligious groups alike. Trinity Lutheran's insistence that its playground resurfacing project is secular does not solve the problem, adds the state, because money is fungible, and because the church's religious intent is stated specifically in the Learning Center's mission. Keeping the government out of churches The ACLU, which filed a brief supporting the state's position, points to the Constitution's other religion clause, which bars any state establishment of religion. The Founding Fathers included that provision because they understood the problems that arise when government and religion become entangled, according to the ACLU's Daniel Mach. "When you have the government providing direct cash to houses of worship, you threaten church autonomy and independence," he says. "You can pit denomination against denomination, sect against sect." Even neutral criteria can functionally favor, for example, big churches or denominations over smaller ones, Mach says. He argues that we as a society have given religious institutions many special benefits and exemptions from laws that apply to everyone else to prevent the government from interfering with religion. Religious institutions not only have tax-exempt status, but general civil rights laws do not apply to them. Five years ago, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that teachers at a Lutheran school could not sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act, because the church said it considers teachers to be ministers of the church. The ACLU's Mach argues that now these religious schools are trying to "have their cake and eat it too." "It wants to keep those benefits and also get handouts from the government," he says. Making this case yet more interesting is a provision in the Missouri Constitution — and similar language in 36 other state constitutions — that bars direct or indirect aid to parochial schools. In recent years, as the U.S. Supreme Court has become increasingly willing to lower the wall separating church and state, these state provisions have presented bigger and bigger obstacles to advocates of religious liberty and school choice. Those activists have gone to court, rather than seeking to strike the state constitutional provisions through the democratic process. "There is a movement to undermine public schools and to funnel taxpayer dollars to religious schools," Mach says. "Depending on how this case goes, this could greatly affect how that movement operates." Bait-and-switch by the Missouri government Well, maybe. To reiterate, a funny thing happened on the way to the Supreme Court. Last week the newly elected Republican governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens, decided to change the state's long-standing policy on aid programs like this one — blaming "government bureaucrats" for the previous policy. "You sent me here to fight for all Missourians, and that includes fighting for and defending people of faith who are too often under attack," he said in a Facebook video ordering the Department of Natural Resources to lift its ban on state grants for religious organizations. Making such a grand stand may be good politics, but it is lousy legal strategy. Gov. Greitens' new position could moot the case before the Supreme Court Wednesday. Upon seeing the governor's press release, the Supreme Court last Friday asked both sides to submit their views on whether there is still a live dispute, since the state of Missouri now agrees with the position taken by Trinity Lutheran. Both sides said on Tuesday that the case should go forward. Trinity Lutheran, for instance, contends that another governor sometime in the future could change the policy back. And Missouri says there's a "reasonable possibility" that the state courts, relying on the state Constitution, could prevent Gov. Greitens' policy from going into effect. In addition, the Missouri attorney general's office took itself out of the case, delegating the litigation to the former state solicitor general to defend the office's previous position. In short, a case that a week ago looked like the showdown at the O.K. Corral on aid to parochial schools now looks considerably more uncertain. Intern Lauren Russell contributed to this report. Corrected: April 19, 2017 at 12:00 AM EDT A previous Web version of this story incorrectly said the arguments for this case would be heard Monday. They are Wednesday. In that same version, David Cortman's first name was incorrectly given as Dan. Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. See stories by Nina Totenberg	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745404
__label__wiki	0.967989	0.967989	Army Names Independent Panel In Fort Hood Review, Following Vanessa Guillen Killing By Alana Wise, President Trump meets with the family of slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen on Thursday. The U.S. Army on Thursday named its five-person civilian panel that will conduct a review of the culture at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, following the death and dismemberment of a 20-year-old soldier who had been stationed at the base. "The Army is committed to taking care of our Soldiers, civilians, families, and Soldiers for life, and this independent review will explore the current command climate and culture at Fort Hood," Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy said in a statement. The members of the panel are: Chris Swecker, Jonathan Harmon, Carrie Ricci, Queta Rodriguez and Jack White. Their findings will be submitted to Under Secretary of the Army James McPherson and Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Martin, who will review the results and decide what, if any, changes to implement. The panel is convening in response to the killing of 20-year-old soldier Vanessa Guillen, whose remains were found in June. Her family, who on Thursday met with President Trump, said that she had complained that she was being sexually harassed by a fellow service member. One suspect in the case, 20-year-old Aaron David Robinson, who was also stationed at Fort Hood, killed himself earlier this month. Another suspect, 22-year-old Cecily Aguilar, has been arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to tamper with evidence. In a press release, the Army said the purpose of the review would be to "determine whether the command climate and culture at Fort Hood, and the surrounding military community, reflects the Army's values, including safety, respect, inclusiveness, and a commitment to diversity, and workplaces and communities free from sexual harassment." "The panel will review historical data and conduct interviews with military members, civilians and members of the local community." In a Thursday meeting between Trump and Guillen's family, the president said the killing would be investigated "very powerfully" and offered to help the family pay for her funeral. Trump said the investigation will "get to the bottom of it. Maybe things can come out that will help other people in a situation like Vanessa." Alana Wise joined WAMU in September 2018 as the 2018-2020 Audion Reporting Fellow for Guns & America. Selected as one of 10 recipients nationwide of the Audion Reporting Fellowship, Alana works in the WAMU newsroom as part of a national reporting project and is spending two years focusing on the impact of guns in the Washington region. See stories by Alana Wise	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745405
__label__wiki	0.942986	0.942986	The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics. It could be a hard sell By Jason Beaubien On November 29, the World Health Organization will convene a virtual summit for its member states to consider the handling of future outbreaks. Pictured above: WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization is convening a special session of its governing body, the World Health Assembly, to start talks on a new global treaty covering pandemics. Representatives of WHO's 194 member states will meet virtually for three days starting on Monday to consider new international rules for handling future outbreaks. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the world has not worked well together to confront the current COVID-19 pandemic. "Everybody has seen to what extent we were really disorganized and all have seen the failures of the global system," Tedros says. COVID-19 pandemic shows "we don't have rules of the game" Those failures during the current pandemic have been many, says Tedros. The first was the slow response to containing the initial outbreak, say public health specialists. They also point to conflicts over the lack of transparency and information sharing, particularly by China. Some countries were accused of hoarding of medical supplies. Then when vaccines were finally developed, poorer nations have complained that they weren't shared equitably. A final concern, the experts say: The global response to the crisis is led by an underfunded World Health Organization that has no power to force any nation to do anything. The idea behind this upcoming session of the World Health Assembly, Tedros says, is to start sketching out a new world order to handle future health crises. "We don't have rules of the game," Tedros says of the current situation. "To manage shared problems, like pandemics, you need laws and rules that bring obligations to countries. That's what we miss. And I hope countries will agree to a binding pact so that pandemics can be managed better." The nearly 200 nations and territories that are members of the World Health Organization will have a chance to weigh in on what should or shouldn't be in such a binding pact. Many low-income countries are stressing "equity" in the talks and want wealthy nations to commit to making new vaccines, diagnostic tests, drugs and other resources universally available. Wealthy nations want increased international access to information and the areas where outbreaks originate. But some governments, particularly China's, view this as a violation of their sovereignty. New pandemic treaty could be a hard sell A new set of international pandemic rules might mean the next outbreak is contained more quickly. Nonetheless, asking political leaders to commit to being good global citizens in the midst of a deadly crisis rather than looking out for their own national interests is a hard sell. Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, says COVID has demonstrated that the world desperately needs a new international framework to deal with 21st century pandemics and the massive damage they can cause. She says the upcoming negotiations at the World Health Assembly are a litmus test for world leaders. "After arguably the greatest shared global catastrophe since the Second World War," she asks, "are our leaders going to show even a fraction of the ambition, a fraction of the vision that we saw back in 1945?" This special session of the World Health Assembly aims simply to start negotiations for a new pandemic treaty. The group may also decide to revamp existing international health regulations — or choose to do nothing at all. And if a new international treaty is proposed, it could still take years to ratify if history is any guide, says Moon. Different versions of the proposal will likely be argued over and renegotiated. And each country would need to sign on and push the deal through their domestic treaty ratification process. "We'll have to see how this plays out in the coming two, three or four years," she says. "I hope it doesn't last longer than that, but certainly it's not realistic that this would be done in a year." The World Health Assembly runs through Wednesday. By the end of the three-day meeting, Moon says, it should be clear whether there's the political will to craft new international rules on how to handle the next global health crisis. Jason Beaubien Jason Beaubien is NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk. See stories by Jason Beaubien	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745406
__label__cc	0.726118	0.273882	Ivona W. Duke November 30, 1932 - July 29, 2021 Ivona W. Duke, age 88, passed away on Thursday, July 29th, 2021 in Columbia, Tennessee. Ivona was born on November 30th, 1932 to the late John L. Woody and Grace Hornbuckle Woody in Madison County, Alabama. Ivona is one of her eight brothers and sisters. At a young age, she very quickly learned how to speak her mind and “tell it how it is”. She was a long-time member of Northside Baptist Church. She had a very spunky personality that drew so many near and dear to her, something that her family will miss the most. Ivona loved to garden in her yard, always caring for her hydrangeas and enjoying the fruits of her labor. She had a natural talent for cooking, she could open any cabinet or pantry and make something absolutely delicious, especially her famous chocolate pie. She adored her family and will be so deeply missed. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law: Tracy (Christine) Duke; three grandchildren: Tyler, Lauren, and Wyatt; two great-grandchildren: Emery and Charlotte; and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held for Ms. Ivona on Friday, August 6th, 2021 at 6:00 PM, with one hour of visitation prior. Williams Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements. Condolences can be given to the family by visiting www.williamsfh.com. Ivona W. Duke, age 88, passed away on Thursday, July 29th, 2021 in Columbia, Tennessee. Ivona was born on November 30th, 1932 to the late John L. Woody and Grace Hornbuckle Woody in Madison County, Alabama. Ivona is one of her eight brothers... View Obituary & Service Information The family of Ivona W. Duke created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories. Ivona W. Duke, age 88, passed away on Thursday, July 29th, 2021... Send flowers to the Duke family.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745411
__label__wiki	0.982856	0.982856	Alyn Williams threatens legal action over Westbury dismissal Alyn Williams, the chef behind Michelin-starred Alyn Williams at The Westbury, is threatening the London hotel with legal action after he was accused of “gross misconduct” and dismissed from his position. In a statement, Williams said he was sacked after hosting a party for his friends at the restaurant on a Sunday, when it was closed to the public. He noted that he had supplied all of the food and drink used at the event, and no damage or loss was suffered by the restaurant. He was dismissed for gross misconduct without notice or compensation after his appeal against the decision was rejected. He claims to have used the restaurant for similar such events before with approval from the management. He added: “I am understandably very upset and disappointed with the dismissal under these circumstances, particularly since I have been employed by the hotel for the past eight years. I have had an exemplary employment record and was responsible, through the restaurant, for bringing prestige to the hotel, achieving a Michelin star, which we maintained for eight successive years, and four AA rosettes for five successive years.” Williams has asked the hotel to remove all references to his name, both at the restaurant and on the hotel’s website. He does not feel that the business is currently complying fully with his wishes and is thus taking legal advice regarding the removal of his name from the business. The interior of the former Alyn Williams at The Westbury. Williams opened his restaurant in the Mayfair hotel in 2011, gaining a Michelin star 10 months later. From a first job as a trainee hairdresser, Williams has worked stints at The Greenhouse, Zafferano, Chez Bruce, Pétrus and Claridge’s, working under the likes of Michel Perraud, Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing. He was was head chef for Wareing at Pétrus when it won its second Michelin star in 2007. Having opened gastro pub The Wild Rabbit in Kingham in Oxfordshire in 2018, Williams stepped down from his position as chef patron in May this year to focus on his restaurant in Mayfair. Following his dismissal from The Westbury, he now hopes to open his own restaurant. The Westbury Mayfair, now operated by Marriott, was opened in 1955 and was the first luxury American-built hotel to grace the capital. In a statement, Andrew Henning, general manager of The Westbury Mayfair, said: We are very grateful to Alyn for the hard work he has put in whilst at The Westbury. His talent in the kitchen is evident and he’s been a real asset to the team. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours and look forward to seeing what he does next.” the drinks business has contacted The Westbury Mayfair for further comment.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745413
__label__wiki	0.983785	0.983785	Former Marine Who Shot At The Pentagon Sentenced To 25 Years Yonathan Melaku, the former Marine who admitting to shooting at several U.S. military buildings in the Washington, D.C., area in 2010, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, in a plea deal that makes his sentence non-negotiable. After his arrest, Melaku was diagnosed with schizophrenia. "At Friday's sentencing hearing, Melaku confirmed that he wanted to go forward with the plea deal, even though he was aware of a potential insanity defense," the AP reports. "He risked an 85-year sentence if he passed on the plea deal." As Mark reported last summer, Melaku was arrested after he was found wandering around in Arlington National Cemetery in the pre-dawn darkness of a work day. He had apparently intended to spray-paint phrases onto veterans' grave markers. One week after his arrest, investigators said that ballistics evidence led them to link Melaku with gunfire that was directed at U.S. military buildings during the summer of 2010. In those incidents, he "appeared to target the buildings themselves," NPR's Carrie Johnson reported. Carrie added, "The gunfire erupted at night, when buildings were empty. The Marine Corps Museum was targeted twice. Two windows were shot out at the Pentagon. A Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly, Va., outside Washington was also targeted." Melaku, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Ethiopia, had enlisted in the Marine Reserves in 2007. He was never deployed overseas. At the time of his arrest, Melaku claimed that he was carrying explosives. FBI tests revealed that statement as a falsehood. But his backpack did contain spent bullet casings, which evidently led investigators to the earlier attacks. As The Washington Post reported last January, Melaku admitted using his 9mm pistol to fire at the buildings — as a video he filmed in his car during one attack seemed to prove. In addition to harming U.S. property, Melaku pleaded guilty to using a firearm during a crime, and attempting to injure U.S. veterans' memorials.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745416
__label__wiki	0.929191	0.929191	Snip Decision: Africa's Campaign To Circumcise Its Men Published May 7, 2014 at 5:20 PM CDT If you turn on a radio in Zimbabwe these days, it won't be long before you hear a public service spot featuring the voice of a deejay who goes by the name "Napster the Radio Master." Napster tells his audience that just before he got married he decided to get circumcised "so that my wife would find me clean and desirable." He also notes that he later found out that circumcision helps protect women from contracting cervical cancer — adding, "Well, that was just the cherry on top!" The ad is a centerpiece of an unprecedented campaign in Africa over the past several years to promote circumcision as a way to prevent HIV. This week researchers announced that the program has reached a remarkable milestone: Six million men and teenagers were convinced. But the goal is to get 14 million more to sign up by 2016, and even at the current pace, public health officials are not on track to achieve that number. So they believe they need to change their message. That's why Napster doesn't mention the words HIV or AIDS in his radio spot. The drive to circumcise men kicked off in 14 African countries after studies demonstrated that getting circumcised reduces a man's chances of contracting HIV by 60 percent. (Removing the foreskin creates a less hospitable environment for the virus.) Health officials then ran the numbers. They determined that if 80 percent of teenage and adult men in 14 countries in Southern and Eastern Africa — where circumcision is not commonly practiced — were to get "the cut" by 2016, there would be 3.4 million fewer new infections through 2025. At first just stating the purpose of the campaign seemed sufficient. But for a lot of men, the downsides of going under the knife just don't seem worth the benefit. "It's not an easy sell, you know? It's probably the greatest marketing challenge of all times," says Dino Rech, head of the Centre for HIV and AIDS Studies Prevention, who has helped lead the effort to circumcise men in South Africa. Rech says men fear circumcision will be painful. They're also deterred by the prospect of having to wait six weeks before they can have sex again. Men in Zimbabwe had similar complaints, says Webster Mahvu, a researcher who interviewed men there. Some men also worried about the HIV test that everyone must take before the operation, Mahvu notes. Others told him their wife objected — asking their husband why he would worry about HIV unless he were planning to cheat. Then there were the rumors that the circumcision drive was a plot to sterilize men. Or that the foreskins could be used for witchcraft. But Mahvu's research also pointed to a way forward. He asked those men who did volunteer why they signed up. While a lot of them talked about HIV, they also gave reasons that had nothing to do with the disease: Being circumcised is more hygienic, they said. They also believed women would find them more attractive and that they would last longer during sex. That's essentially the message Zimbabwe's campaign is now focusing on. Over the past five months officials have enlisted a who's who of celebrities to spread the word that circumcision is cool. Along with Napster, there's a famous footballer, a major gospel singer, an eminent poet and Mukudzei "Jah Prayzah" Mukombe, who is perhaps Zimbabwe's most famous musician. He produced a pro-circumcision song that became an instant hit. On top of their radio and television spots, the celebrities are appearing at concerts and touring clinics. It's working. Zimbabwe's men are showing up in droves — 20,000 a month. All of which raises a question: Is it fair to promote an operation for reasons different from the true motives behind the campaign? "It's not lying to people. We have to promote getting circumcised," says Karin Hatzold, a public health physician with Population Services International who helped shape Zimbabwe's marketing campaign. She points out that HIV rates there have fallen significantly over the past decade. So while it's still a problem, HIV may not be the most pressing concern on people's minds. And for a circumcision campaign to work, Hatzold concludes, you have to talk to people about what worries them — not what you think they should worry about.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745417
__label__wiki	0.974335	0.974335	Climate Change May Already Be Shifting Clouds Toward The Poles By Nell Greenfieldboyce Published July 11, 2016 at 10:01 AM CDT The way clouds cover the Earth may be changing because of global warming, according to a study published Monday that used satellite data to track cloud patterns across about two decades, starting in the 1980s. Clouds in the mid-latitudes shifted toward the poles during that period, as the subtropical dry zones expanded and the highest cloud-tops got higher. These changes are predicted by most climate models of global warming, even though those models disagree on a lot of other things related to clouds, says Joel Norris, a climate scientist at the University of California, San Diego. "I guess what was surprising is that a lot of times we think of climate change as something that's going to occur in the future," says Norris. "This is happening right now. It's happened during my lifetime — it was a bit startling." About 70 percent of our planet is covered by clouds, at any given moment. These constantly moving shape-shifters aren't exactly easy for scientists to study. Clouds aren't as simple as their fluffy nature might suggest. To understand them, scientists have to track the behavior of tiny water droplets, as well as huge masses of clouds that might be hundreds of miles wide. And climate modelers also have to take into account the fact that clouds can have two different effects on temperatures. "During daytime, if there are a lot of clouds present, thick clouds, then that will keep the temperature cooler," says Norris, because clouds reflect incoming sunlight back to space. But thick clouds can also act like a blanket that keeps the Earth's warmth in, he says, "which is the reason why a cloudy night won't be as cold at the surface as a clear night." Clouds have been called the wild card of climate science. Researchers argue over how exactly global warming will affect clouds and vice versa. While weather satellites can give you tons of cloud pictures, Norris says these satellites aren't that great for trying to figure out long-term trends. "The difficulties we have is that every few years a new satellite is put up with a different instrument, the orbits change, and this all changes how much cloud the satellite measures," Norris explains. So he and his colleagues recently did a bunch of corrections that would make it possible to compare cloud measurements over a couple of decades, starting in the 1980s. In this week's issue of the journal Nature, the researchers explain how their findings match what scientists would expect to see, based on climate models. Norris says it's probably happening primarily because of two influences — human-produced global warming, and also the recovery from the cooling effect of two volcanic eruptions during that time frame. So will other climate researchers buy this new history of clouds? Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado isn't so sure. "This is a very good attempt to try and get a handle on this, but I don't think it's the final answer," says Trenberth, who notes that the time frame studied was pretty short and included a period often described as the global warming hiatus, from 1999 to 2013. Climate researchers still have a lot of work to do when it comes to understanding clouds, says Trenberth, who believes the state of the science is still like that old Joni Mitchell song Both Sides Now, in which she sings, "I really don't know clouds at all." Nell Greenfieldboyce Nell Greenfieldboyce is a NPR science correspondent. See stories by Nell Greenfieldboyce	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745418
__label__wiki	0.807905	0.807905	Betsy DeVos Confirmed As Education Secretary Published February 7, 2017 at 11:31 AM CST Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is one of the most controversial Cabinet picks in recent memory. Today the Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as President Trump's education secretary, 51-50. Vice President Pence had to cast an unprecedented tie-breaking vote, after hearings that became fodder for Saturday Night Live; after angry constituents swamped Senate offices with 1.5 million calls a day; after two Republican senators defected; and Democrats held the floor overnight in protest. The 59-year-old philanthropist and activist from Michigan takes over the leadership and management of a federal bureaucracy with 4,400 employees and a $68 billion annual budget. Now, the question is: How much will actually change for the nation's 50 million public school students and 20 million college students? Perhaps her opponents should take a deep breath. The federal role in education policy is limited. Less than 10 percent of funding for K-12 schools comes from the feds, for example. That said, here's what we'll be watching in the coming weeks and months. On the higher ed side The Higher Education Act is up for reauthorization. Three issues that may come up early in a DeVos Education Department: the role of for-profits, college costs and enforcement of Title IX (which governs sex discrimination, including sexual assault cases). On Title IX: DeVos said in her hearing that it would be "premature" to say she would uphold department guidance that asks colleges to take an active role against sexual assault. On college costs: "Free tuition" proposals drew a lot of Democratic fans during the presidential campaign. DeVos was dismissive of the idea in her hearing: "There's nothing in life that's truly free." On for-profit colleges: During the Obama administration, the department, along with the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went after many for-profit colleges, with allegations of fraud and predatory lending. Two were forced to shut down: Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute. Meanwhile, the gainful employment rule required colleges to demonstrate that they were preparing a significant percentage of their students for the job market. When questioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., DeVos said she would "review" rather than uphold that rule. On the K-12 side The headline here is: More state decision-making power. Regular readers of our NPR Ed blog know that the main K-12 education law was reauthorized last year as the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA, which covers annual testing, among other things. The new law gave more authority to the states, at the expense of the federal government, to identify and remedy failing schools. The Trump administration has already paused the process of ESSA implementation. Republicans in Congress have moved to use a little-known law called the Congressional Review Act to throw out the new accountability rules altogether. That leaves states in a situation that some Democrats and advocates have dubbed "chaos and delay." Other groups, including the National Governors Association, have said they welcome having still more authority at the state level. Some civil rights advocates have raised concerns that, in the absence of a strong federal hand, some states will be less vigilant than others in identifying and correcting historic educational inequities of race and class. DeVos' responses to Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in her controversial written questionnaire, indicate that she comes down on the side of states' rights: "It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools." DeVos' department may take a leaf from Arne Duncan's book and set up a competitive grant program that encourages states to expand school choice. If so, we'll likely be hearing more about the benefits of private, virtual, religious and for-profit schools. The school reforms DeVos backed in Michigan have favored for-profit charter school operators. And her husband previously held financial stakes in the for-profit and online K12 Inc., whose numbers she (erroneously) cited in defending virtual schools in her written answers to the Senate. The organization she chaired, the American Federation for Children, favors both vouchers and a device called "tax credit scholarships," which allows companies to offset tax liability by funding students to attend private schools. In Florida, which the AFC has called out as a model program, 70 percent of these scholarships go to religiously affiliated schools.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745419
__label__wiki	0.886645	0.886645	Investigators Still Looking For A Motive Behind Thousand Oaks Shooting By Martin Kaste Investigators probing this week's shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., still haven't found signs of a motive. The shooter was a 28-year-old former Marine who had a reputation for angry outbursts. NPR's Martin Kaste has this look at the inevitable question of whether he could have been stopped. MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: On Wednesday night, law enforcement responded quickly to the first reports of trouble at the Borderline Bar and Grill. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Unintelligible) shots fired. One person in (unintelligible). There's a suspect inside shooting. KASTE: The first officers were at the door within minutes. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: One suspect inside - didn't see him come out. We're making entry. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We're making entry. KASTE: Ventura County Sheriff's Sergeant Ron Helus was shot and killed in that initial encounter. But the speed of the response may well have interrupted and limited the killer's shooting spree. Now, the inevitable question becomes could something have been done even earlier - that is before the shooting ever started. Evie Cluke wonders that. EVIE CLUKE: He had outbursts. KASTE: She knew the shooter about a decade ago when she helped to coach his high school track team. CLUKE: He would get mad. He would storm off. Sometimes he would come to practice high. KASTE: At one point, she says she saw him grappling with another woman coach - an assault, she says, but one that wasn't taken seriously enough at the time. Ten years later, when she heard that he'd committed a mass shooting, she says she was angry. CLUKE: Because had he gotten help back in high school, maybe that wouldn't have happened. KASTE: Maybe, but Cluke also acknowledges that there were other boys with anger problems in the school, others who came to track practice high. GAREN WINTEMUTE: We're having this conversation with the benefit of hindsight. We know what happened. KASTE: Garen Wintemute is an ER doctor who runs a violence prevention program at the University of California Davis. He's one of the country's leading experts in policies and laws that are designed to reduce gun violence. And he's a proponent of laws that allow courts to remove guns temporarily from people who are deemed a threat to themselves or others. California has such a law, which took effect in 2016. So why didn't that law stop this shooting? WINTEMUTE: Well, the simplest answer is that a gun violence restraining order, to our knowledge, wasn't petitioned for. KASTE: A gun removal order can be asked for by a person's close relatives or the police. And law enforcement did visit the shooter's home this past spring after he was reported to be acting irrationally. According to the sheriff's department, mental health workers involved in that visit decided that the man was not an imminent threat to himself or others. But that decision was about whether to take him in for an involuntary psychological observation. They may not have considered whether to apply the state's relatively new law allowing them to take away his guns. WINTEMUTE: This is a problem in California. It might be that the people involved did not know that gun violence restraining orders were an option. We have not done a good job in California in educating people in law enforcement and mental health professions to the mere existence of gun violence restraining orders. That effort is still underway. KASTE: Wintemute says California's gun removal law has been used about 300 times in its first two years. But he says the numbers are very uneven, varying by jurisdiction. He says other states that have passed similar gun laws more recently, Maryland and Florida, are applying their laws at a faster rate maybe because of recent shootings there which have increased a sense of urgency. As to whether applying the gun removal law in California has actually reduced the number of shootings, he says it's too soon to say anything scientific. The data are still being collected. Martin Kaste, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. Martin Kaste Martin Kaste is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. He covers law enforcement and privacy. He has been focused on police and use of force since before the 2014 protests in Ferguson, and that coverage led to the creation of NPR's Criminal Justice Collaborative. See stories by Martin Kaste	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745420
__label__wiki	0.55411	0.55411	PETER E. VON GEIS EXPORT, PA 15632 Robert Lloyd, Sr. Export Robert Edwin Lloyd, Sr., age 87 of Export, passed away Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at Excela Health, Westmoreland Hospital. He was born Sunday, February 11, 1934 the son of the late Clarence V. and Mabel A. (Hird) Lloyd. Before his retirement, he was employed as a truck driver for several dairies, Nolls Dairy in Trafford, Valley Dairy in East Pittsburgh, Menzie Dairy in McKeesport and Otto Milk Co. in Pittsburgh. Most recently Robert was employed by CTI Redi Mix in North Apollo. Robert... Robert Edwin Lloyd, Sr., age 87 of Export, passed away Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at Excela Health, Westmoreland Hospital. He was born Sunday, February 11, 1934 the son of the late Clarence V.... Lydia Cline Export Lydia L. (Pomposelli) Cline age 74 of Export, died peacefully at home on Monday, December 13, 2021. 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Tom was an avid train enthusiast who enjoyed photography, traveling, spending time with his grandchildren and he had a tremendous sense of humor.... Thomas G. Shontz age 74 of Penn Hills, died Monday, December 6, 2021. He was born May 10, 1947 in Pittsburgh a son of the late William and Blanche (McKecknie) Shontz. Tom was a retired... Evelyn Long Export Evelyn E. (Evans) Long age 91 of Export, died Saturday, November 20, 2021 at Redstone Highlands in Greensburg. She was born January 31, 1930 in Export, a daughter of the late Adam and Florence Evans. Evelyn graduated as valedictorian of the Export High School class of 1947. She then went on to attend Secretarial school. Evelyn enjoyed volunteering at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, but most of all she enjoyed spending time with her family. Her interests included floral and interior design,... Evelyn E. (Evans) Long age 91 of Export, died Saturday, November 20, 2021 at Redstone Highlands in Greensburg. She was born January 31, 1930 in Export, a daughter of the late Adam and Florence... Carolyn Shaffer Hempfield Township Carolyn M. “Carrie” (Cook) Shaffer age 64 of Hempfield Township, died peacefully on November 8, 2021 in UPMC East, Monroeville. She was born February 1, 1957 in Greensburg, a daughter of the late Clifford and Anna (Rubbo) Cook. Surviving is her loving husband, Randy Shaffer; siblings, Charles (Gladys) Cook, Clifford (Janet) Cook, and Cheryl (Tim) Maier; nieces and nephews, Cassandra (Jason) Fetty, Callie (Irvin) Krueger, Kayla (Robert) Thompson, Gina Maier and Rick (Melissa)... Carolyn M. “Carrie” (Cook) Shaffer age 64 of Hempfield Township, died peacefully on November 8, 2021 in UPMC East, Monroeville. She was born February 1, 1957 in Greensburg, a daughter... Melanie Broome Export Melanie Kay “Lanie” (Warner) Broome age 71 of Export, was called to heaven on Sunday, October 24, 2021, at home surrounded by her loving family. In the arms of the Angels, grant us to accept the things we cannot change. She was born September 18, 1950 in Elyria, Ohio a daughter of the late Leo and Genevieve (Arnold) Warner. Lanie was a caregiver for many years. She served as a union worker for SEIU and was a very empathetic and selfless person who made people feel at ease and... Melanie Kay “Lanie” (Warner) Broome age 71 of Export, was called to heaven on Sunday, October 24, 2021, at home surrounded by her loving family. In the arms of the Angels, grant us to... Robert Strapple Monroeville Robert J. "Bob" Strapple age 58 of Monroeville, died at home, unexpectedly on Monday, October 4, 2021. He was born December 4, 1962, a son of the late Donald J. and Madeline C. (Urda) Strapple. Bob enjoyed hunting, Harley's and classic cars. He was an avid Pittsburgh Sports fan who enjoyed coin collecting and adored his two cats. Surviving is his daughter Rachel L. Strapple; siblings, Donald (Cindy) Strapple, Jr., James Strapple, Donna (Frank) Gardone,... Robert J. "Bob" Strapple age 58 of Monroeville, died at home, unexpectedly on Monday, October 4, 2021. He was born December 4, 1962, a son of the late Donald J. and Madeline C. (Urda)... Dorothy Galet Export Dorothy (née Karp) Galet age 93 of Export, passed away on Sept 29, 2021. She was born June 30, 1928 in Export PA a daughter of the late Nellie and Sylvester Karp, Dorothy was the youngest of 9 children. She was a proud lifelong resident of her hometown and she and her siblings were a close loving family throughout their lives. She graduated from Export High School where she was captain of the women’s basketball... Dorothy (née Karp) Galet age 93 of Export, passed away on Sept 29, 2021. She was born June 30, 1928 in Export PA a daughter of the late Nellie... Curtis Zucco Salem Township Peggy Lorence Export Our Mom, Peggy Jo (Peabody) Lorence of Export, left this world on Saturday, September 25, 2021 on her terms. Always a strong fiercely independent woman who didn’t want to live any other way. She worked on Wednesday, September 15, then the hospital on the 16th and died on the 25th, never having to live one day depending on anyone but herself. Our Mom loved life, her friends, relatives, everyone she met and all animals with all of her being. She especially loved her husband, Andy... Our Mom, Peggy Jo (Peabody) Lorence of Export, left this world on Saturday, September 25, 2021 on her terms. Always a strong fiercely independent woman who didn’t want to live any other way.... Wolfe-von Geis Funeral Home \| 5701 Lincoln Avenue \| Export, PA 15632 © 2022 Wolfe-von Geis Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved. Funeral Home website by CFS & TA \| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745421
__label__wiki	0.870707	0.870707	Fact check: Trump's tweets distort truth on his role in National Guard deployments Gov. Tony Evers has written a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to reconsider his visit to Kenosha on Tuesday. WASHINGTON — It's become a pattern when unrest flares in a city: President Donald Trump suggests he has National Guard troops ready to send to the scene and takes credit for dispatching them and restoring calm while he accuses Democrats of being squishy on law and order. That's a distortion. Trump omits the fact that he is largely a bystander in National Guard deployments. While presidents can tap rarely used powers to use federal officers for local law enforcement, there is no National Guard with national reach for Trump to send around the country. And when violence broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a week ago, Trump's demand that National Guard troops be used came a day after the Democratic governor had already activated them. National Guard units in each state answer to the governor and sometimes state legislatures, not to the president. When National Guard forces from outside Wisconsin came in to help, it was because the governor has asked for that help from fellow governors, not the White House. You would know none of this from Trump's Twitter account and much of his other rhetoric in recent weeks as he has assailed Democratic officials in Minnesota, Oregon and Wisconsin for not doing enough quickly enough to stem violence.. Here's how Trump's words played against reality after a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot Jacob Blake, sparking protests and yet more violence over police actions and racism: TRUMP, TUESDAY, AUG. 25: “Governor should call in the National Guard in Wisconsin. It is ready, willing, and more than able. End problem FAST! ” THE FACTS: Although Trump was within his right to urge use of the National Guard, he did not seem up to speed on the fact it had already happened. On Monday, Aug. 24 — the day after Blake's shooting — Gov. Tony Evers issued a statement saying that at the request of local officials, he had “authorized the Wisconsin National Guard to support local law enforcement in Kenosha County to help protect critical infrastructure and assist in maintaining public safety and the ability of individuals to peacefully protest.” On that Tuesday night, when police say a 17-year-old armed civilian shot and killed two protesters, Wisconsin National Guard troops were on the ground. TRUMP, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26: “TODAY, I will be sending federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, WI to restore LAW and ORDER!” THE FACTS: The statement that he was sending the National Guard is false. The statement that he would send federal law enforcement is true. The federal government sent deputy marshals from the U.S. Marshals Service and agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, about 200 in all. Meantime the governor declared a state of emergency and kept increasing the numbers of deployed Wisconsin National Guard troops while saying he was working with other states to get “additional National Guard and state patrol support.” The next day, Thursday, Evers announced that National Guard troops from Arizona, Michigan and Alabama were coming and would operate under the control of those states and Wisconsin, “not in a federal status.” TRUMP, FRIDAY, AUG. 28: “Success: Since the National Guard moved into Kenosha, Wisconsin, two days ago, there has been NO FURTHER VIOLENCE, not even a small problem. When legally asked to help by local authorities, the Federal Government will act and quickly succeed. Are you listening Portland?" THE FACTS: This statement falsely insinuates that the federal government sent the National Guard and took care of the problem. He also implies that Portland, Oregon, was dragging its feet in having federal authorities do the same there. In Wisconsin, officials said the ranks of the Guard had swollen to 1,000 in Kenosha and more were coming from the three states tapped to help. TRUMP, SATURDAY, AUG. 29: “Kenosha has been very quiet for the third night in a row or, since the National Guard has shown up. That’s the way it works, it’s all very simple. Portland, with a very ungifted mayor, should request help from the Federal Government. If lives are endangered, we’re going in! ” THE FACTS: Another boast based on the falsehood that Trump sent in the Guard to Kenosha. That night, in Portland, a skirmish broke out between Trump supporters and counterprotesters, and afterward a right-wing Trump supporter was fatally shot. TRUMP, AUG. 30, referring to Portland: “The National Guard is Ready, Willing and Able. All the Governor has to do is call!” THE FACTS: No, calling the White House is not what governors do when they want National Guard help. They call other governors. In earlier protests in Portland, Seattle and Washington, D.C., Trump sent security teams from federal agencies over the objections of local leaders. TRUMP, MONDAY: “If I didn’t INSIST on having the National Guard activate and go into Kenosha, Wisconsin, there would be no Kenosha right now. Also, there would have been great death and injury. I want to thank Law Enforcement and the National Guard.” THE FACTS: He insisted on action that the governor had already taken and claims a success he did not earn.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745424
__label__cc	0.513045	0.486955	York Water Co. made $3.4M in Q4, company reports The York Water Co. on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter profit of $3.4 million. The York City-based company said it had net income of 26 cents per share. The purifying and distribution company posted revenue of $13 million in the period. More:York City offering one-time amnesty on back sewer, refuse payments For the year, the company reported profit of $14.4 million, or $1.11 per share. Revenue was reported as $51.6 million. York Water shares have declined slightly since the beginning of the year. The stock has risen 34% in the last 12 months.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745428
__label__cc	0.662212	0.337788	Meet Your Neighbor: Nobody’s Perfect helps those with disabilities take part in the Queen Creek community Founded as an independent nonprofit agency in 2006, Nobody’s Perfect Inc. was established to support the choices of people with developmental disabilities and their families. … Arianna Grainey/Independent Newsmedia Nobody's Perfect operates three thrift stores in Queen Creek manned by disabled workers. Philip Pajak is the executive director of Nobody's Perfect. Our people who work in our thrift stores are the biggest inspiration. A willingness to overcome a disability and show up for a regular work shift is all they need. And they have those 100 times over.” Philip Pajak, executive director, Nobody's Perfect Founded as an independent nonprofit agency in 2006, Nobody’s Perfect Inc. was established to support the choices of people with developmental disabilities and their families. Recognizing people’s strengths, promoting self-reliance, enhancing confidence and building on community resources are the building blocks that Nobody’s Perfect uses to establish individuals with special needs as successful employees and entrepreneurs. To that end, Nobody’s Perfect operates three thrift stores in the same business plaza as the organization’s day program at 18911 E. San Tan Blvd. in Queen Creek. The clerks assisting shoppers have been or are being trained to make customers’ visits both pleasant and professional. Philip Pajak is executive director of the organization and touts how Nobody’s Perfect is a perfect neighbor to have. Name: Philip Pajak, executive director of Nobody’s Perfect Inc., established in January 2006 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We will be celebrated our 15-year anniversary on Jan. 9. Town/neighborhood: Queen Creek between Power and Sossaman roads. What I do: Our goal is to provide vocationally based support for adults with developmental disabilities. In 2010, we proceeded with plans to extend farther out into the community. That is how we landed our Day Training Program and Work Center in Queen Creek in September of that year. We leased three suites and with 100% of our own funds, completed the build out of our current home at 18911 E. San Tan Blvd. Our thrift store was established at the same location later in 2011 as a response to the decision not to do any more yearly rummage sales as a fundraiser. We still had many of our supporters who wanted to continue to donate items, so the thrift store gave us a venue to sell them and again “put more people to work.” We added additional space to the thrift store in 2012. Today, in three separate suites, our thrift stores in Queen Creek employ 12 Group Supported Employment workers daily with a support staff of six. The community response has been wonderful. We have regular customers who purchase and donate items and appreciate exactly what our purpose is because they are telling their friends. What I like most about what I do: Speaking for our constituents, I know they enjoy having purpose and the opportunity to do real work for real pay. They also enjoy the fellowship of their peers along with our regular customers who not just purchase and donate items but visit and have conversations. We have had regular customers visiting us since we moved in. Changes I'd like to see in this area: The changes I would like to see are already taking place in the area with the widening and modernization of Riggs Road, Chandler Heights Road and Power Road. Hopefully San Tan Boulevard with get some TLC soon, too. There is a lot a water that collects on the road when there is a heavy rain. Favorite community cause & why: Of course, our favorite cause is our own. We are a qualified charitable organization, which means cash donations to Nobody’s Perfect qualify for the Arizona Tax Credit allowing you a credit on your Arizona income tax. Our hope is that this organization can carry on into the future and give others with the same special needs an opportunity to succeed and gain personal independence as several who have left the program have done Our family: Our family here is huge. As executive director, I feel like all these folks are my sons and daughters and sisters and brothers. I know they all feel the same way about each other. It’s only for eight hours a day, but we work together, eat together, laugh and learn together. Our interests and hobbies: We share a lot of interests and hobbies with each other such as sports, movies, music, arts and crafts and trips to various places in the community like the parks and the Queen Creek Library. A few enjoy taking care of their pets, carpentry, collecting coins, cooking and camping. The trait(s) I admire in others: Showing up, working hard and having fun. People who inspired us (and how): Our people who work in our thrift stores are the biggest inspiration. A willingness to overcome a disability and show up for a regular work shift is all they need. And they have those 100 times over. Our guiding philosophy: Recognizing people’s strengths, promoting self-reliance, enhancing confidence, and building on community resources are the building blocks that Nobody’s Perfect Inc. utilizes to establish individuals with special needs as successful employees and entrepreneurs. Queen Creek, Neighbors, disabilities, Nobody's Perfect Queen Creek family welcomes town’s first baby of 2022 Former Queen Creek Town Council member dies Queen Creek Hometown Hero: Eric Ehmann, Spiritual Leader	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745429
__label__wiki	0.907749	0.907749	“My Face for the World to See”: Representing Candy Darling – Sarah Hollyer-Carney February 17, 2020 by yiaramagazineFeatured essays Associated Press, Candy Darling and Andy Warhol at the Premier of Midnight Cowboy, 25 May 1961 Cw: sexual assault, transphobia Candy Darling is almost always spoken about in relation to well-known male artists. As an actress, model and muse working in New York City’s downtown arts scene in the 1960s and 70s, Darling starred in one of Tennessee Williams’ final plays, and was depicted on her deathbed by photographer Peter Hujar. She is the subject of The Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says,” as well as one of the subjects of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” But it is for her role as one of Andy Warhol’s “superstars” that she is primarily remembered today. Darling grew up in Long Island, watching the growing queer trans community in New York from a distance. She was relentlessly bullied in high school for her gender expression, which culminated in her attempted murder and subsequent drop out. Darling idolized the glamorous femininity of old Hollywood movie stars such as Kim Novak, Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner throughout her childhood, and she eventually left home for the city in order to transition and become a movie star herself. In the 2010 documentary Beautiful Darling, George Abagnalo, one of Darling’s co-stars in Women in Revolt, says that “to be considered a beautiful woman –– a beautiful movie star –– was the most important thing in Candy’s life.” Darling’s connection with Andy Warhol and her appearances in his films did a great deal to help her achieve that dream. In the small world of Warhol’s Factory scene, she was able to become the kind of movie star she had always longed to be. Darling remains among the most well-known historical trans people today. Warhol and Darling were interviewed together before the premiere of the film that would eventually become Women in Revolt. As Darling describes the film, an interviewer narrates –– over her –– that “Candy is a man.” Despite this, the narrator admits, “in Warhol’s phrase, she is a real lady.” The interviewer considers Darling’s legitimacy as a “real lady” to be entirely contingent on how Warhol perceives her. And in a sense, he is correct; Darling’s appearances in Warhol’s films gave her fame, but it also brought her significantly wider acceptance as a woman. Critics writing about Darling would frequently compare her to her primary idols, glamorous movie stars like Kim Novak. Warhol’s films gave Darling the stage upon which she could enter into this cultural role, at a time when there was essentially no precedent for a trans woman to do so. But none of this changes the manner in which Warhol depicted Darling. Though he did not direct his films, he was the producer, and he would have most likely been responsible for casting and creating the roles she played. Warhol’s anti-feminist satire Women in Revolt features Darling, along with Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn –– two other trans Warhol superstars –– as radical feminists. The film’s main characters are misogynistic caricatures of feminists in the 1970s women’s liberation movement. They are based on Warhol’s perception of extremist figures like Valerie Solanas. The decision to cast trans women to play these radical feminists is its own provocation, as transphobic rhetoric characterized much of second-wave feminism. Germaine Greer’s book The Female Eunuch, published a year before Women in Revolt was released, is a popular trans-exclusionary radical feminist text. In a 1989 interview with Independent Magazine, Greer describes an encounter with a trans woman to whom she refers as “it.” She describes the trans woman’s face, which was “thickly coated with pancake make-up through which the stubble was already burgeoning,” and she mocks her “enormous, knuckly, hairy, be-ringed paw.” For Warhol to play on this bigotry by casting trans women, whose supposedly regressive gender performance outraged transphobic feminists is –– perhaps unintentionally –– subversive. Women in Revolt is hardly a revolutionary film, but this indicates that Darling’s involvement in the project was not a matter of promoting Warhol’s ideology. Screenshots of Darling in the final scene of Women in Revolt (1971) In Women in Revolt, Warhol’s contempt for the women is palpable: five minutes into the film, Holly Woodlawn’s character semi-coherently rants about feminist principles. Then, she is choked, slapped, and raped by her boyfriend. Darling is beaten and sexually assaulted in the film’s concluding scene as well. In Women in Revolt and in Warhol’s other projects, trans women are depicted solely as victims of male violence. What kind of femininity, then, did Candy Darling have the opportunity to achieve? Warhol gave her a platform where she could become a glamorous icon, but he also maintained the authority to define what kind of woman she would be in the public imagination. As Darling recounts the plot in the Women in Revolt interview, she adds that “at the end of the film I’m murdered, I think.” Warhol corrects her, dryly: “no, raped.” “I call myself Candy Warhol now,” Darling jokes in the Women in Revolt interview. “I’m cashing in.” Despite the fame that came along with Warhol’s films, Darling lived in poverty for most of her life. She could not afford housing, and she regularly went hungry, even after the films had been released. Warhol is often praised for being “generous” with his acceptance of cultural outsiders. The narrator of the Women in Revolt interview claims that “Warhol is the salvation of his superstars” over an image of Warhol in a Christ-like position, and that Warhol “almost died, so that [his stars] might almost live.” But Warhol famously paid his actors very little, claiming that exposure and access to the Factory were compensation enough. Darling’s case is particularly striking, because she was more than just an actor to Warhol. She was one of the most significant muses to Warhol’s collaborators and friends, and was a widely admired figure in the downtown arts scene. She would regularly appear with Warhol at events and in interviews. Darling leant Warhol and his associates a form of underground credibility: he was able to benefit from his association with Darling in social capital, the accumulation of which was arguably the main goal of his career. Darling lived the life of the “street queen:” glamorous and impoverished, and she embodied the type of “authenticity” that Warhol has been accused of lacking. Warhol exploited her transness –– and her uniqueness –– to make himself appear more interesting. While Darling would also gain social capital from her appearances with Warhol, the admiration she received from artists did not help her make ends meet; admiration only means so much when one cannot afford to eat. At the time of his death, Andy Warhol’s net worth was $220 million. Darling is often remembered as a tragic figure, but she was known during her life for possessing a profound optimism and wonder towards femininity and the world around her. As artist Greer Lankton observes, speaking about Darling’s personal diaries in an interview at the 1995 Whitney Biennial: “all [Darling] talks about is her makeup.” Darling’s writings confirm this; she almost never discusses her traumatic childhood, nor her poverty, nor her experience with dysphoria, nor the weight of the intolerance she experienced as a trans woman. Instead, Darling writes about what makes her happy. She refers to her mother’s modest house in Long Island as her “country home” –– she would frequently use expressions like this. Darling’s mother did not approve of her daughter’s feminine gender expression at first. She was later quoted as saying that upon seeing Darling standing before her one day as a woman, she simply could not argue anymore. Her daughter was “just too beautiful and talented.” Darling had never witnessed a trans woman achieve the type of glamorous fame that she desired, yet she still believed that she would succeed. Darling’s optimism has made her performances compelling, and has allowed her to become a significant figure in popular culture. Peter Hujar, Candy Darling on her Deathbed, 1973 Candy Darling died at the age of 29 from leukemia. She has become an iconic figure in trans history in the decades since. On her deathbed, Darling wrote a letter explaining that she had fallen into a deep depression in the months leading up to her illness, and said that she believed the depression had actually caused her leukemia. She died surrounded by her friends and admirers. At the end of her letter, Darling writes: “Before my death I had no desire left for life…did you know I couldn’t last? I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again.” Previous Previous post: Untitled (Mommy) – Aaliyah Crawford Next Next post: Leda Relaxes after a Hectic Week – Nora de Mariaffi	cc/2022-05/en_head_0004.json.gz/line1745436

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