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Five English teachers come together to show you how to discuss a topic in a group. You'll learn how to give your opinion, interrupt, contradict, and more. We'll teach you how to use expressions like "in a nutshell", "please let me finish", and "don't get me wrong". You can use these expressions confidently in personal, social, and professional situations. Make sure to test your understanding of the lesson at https://www.engvid.com/how-to-discuss-a-topic-in-a-group/ To improve your English, subscribe to each of the teachers who appear in this lesson: Ronnie - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=EnglishLessons4U James - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=JamesESL Alex - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AlexESLvid Adam - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=EnglishTeacherAdam Rebecca - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RebeccaESL TRANSCRIPT: Hi! My name is Rebecca, and in today's lesson you'll learn how to participate effectively in a discussion in English, something you may need to do in your personal, professional, or academic life, okay? Now, the topic we'll use as our sample is this one: Is it better to study online or in a regular classroom? Okay? You'll have a chance to hear a discussion by native English speakers on this topic. What I'd like you to do is listen for any special expressions and phrases that they use during the discussion. Afterwards, I'll review the expressions and phrases with you, okay? Now, today I have some special friends who have agreed to help me with this lesson, and they're waiting in the classroom next door, so let's go and say hello to them. -- Hello! -- Hello! -- Hi! -- Hi! -- Well, look who's here. It's -- -- Ronnie. -- Alex. -- James. -- Adam. -- Thank you for joining me, and thanks for helping with this lesson, guys. -- No problem. -- No problem. -- So you know we're talking about discussions, and the topic is: Is it better to study online or in a regular classroom? Okay, who wants to go first? -- Okay, so I'll start, and I think that it's actually very good to study online because it's very convenient because you can study whenever you want and at your own pace. For example, someone like me, I like to study at nighttime. So for me, online works better because it's quiet at night, no one disturbs me, and I can do what I need to do. -- Okay, that's true, but if you're going to study online -- -- Sorry, but -- -- Please let me finish. Let me finish. As I was saying, that's true, but if you're studying online you do need to motivate yourself, so I think it's better to be in a classroom where you have other students and a teacher who can motivate you. -- That's true, but some people can't afford to go to a classroom and don't have enough money or resources to actually go to a big school. So studying online, you can actually do it for free. -- Me? Well, I would like to add -- May I say something? -- Sure. -- Soft skills. That's not usually talked about in schools, but when we talk about "soft skills", it's actual interaction, utilizing your English when you're with other people, and that's hard to get online because you're watching a screen and not actually interacting with other people. -- You make a very good point but I would also like to add that sometimes having classmates takes you away from your focus because you have to maybe review things many times for other people to catch up, or you have to do topics that are interesting to other people, not to yourself. So it's a little distracting sometimes, too. -- However, focus is a good thing. I mean, it's not a bad thing to repeat something because sometimes people don't catch the material the first time. So that way, you go over the material, and they -- you know, you get depth. So you get to learn more, and people who don't understand get the opportunity to ask questions and learn from it again. -- Yeah, but sometimes the resources that you get in a classroom are boring, and online you can just look up whatever you need on the Internet, and you've got it right there. You don't have to rely on a textbook. Sometimes it can be a bad textbook.
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It has been a below average month. Since November 20th I have received mostly sub sales. Last weekend was extremely poor, but I guess that's because of Thanksgiving.
Luckily, one SD saved it, otherwise it would have been a Worst Month since July 2013.
About your question. I think most people would love to know the answer. As far as I can see, there is no way to see licenses and DLs by image. Just the total # of times downloaded and total dollars.
If the database doesn't save that, no matter how much SS improves things, it's not stored, it's invisible. They can't show us the daily stats, without that data being generated, but whether they store it in an archive is another different question?
Some smart programmer (for us not them and it's NOT me) could go day by day, for an individual account and read the daily reports and probably analyze by image, and create that report. Save it too, so it's not repeating all the searches to find that.
Example: Every DL shown on the earnings page for a specific date, has this. First is number of DLs, second box is amount (which I struck out), Image ID. Some software could read the ID and Amount, and correlate to the date, it's not going to tell you the license type.
So there's an opportunity for someone to write analysis software. But we'd have to run it ourselves because of the password and ID issues. I'd never do anything that had an auto login or stored IDs.
November was my WMY on SS but December has been good - my handful of new images are all selling, regular sales are rising to normal levels and ELs and a big SOD have made this a good month, without them it would be a decent average month. The number of DLs is back to normal, which is even more heartening than a few large sales since it bodes well for the future.
My large sales were typical travel images and not seasonal, though much of the volume in subs and smaller SODS, ODDs were seasonal images - mostly New Years - old ones from last year and some new ones uploaded in November and earlier this month - so after this week they're gone. January will be the real test. Hope sales keep rising. I shot a bunch of new stuff just for the micros so I'll see how it goes.
I understand the question, why upload to Alamy when SS does better? For me, the reason is that I license a lot of RM and some RF directly for $200-300 a use, so even if those would do well on SS and the other micros, I won't upload even the RF files there.
If someone looked at my iStock portfolio to gauge my sales on SS, it would be ludicrous since I have more sales in an average day on SS than I do in an entire month on iStock.
My port is small but sales are generally pretty consistent for me and I'm really encouraged by how well my new images did, even if they are just seasonal, they still had a lot of competition and my New Years stuff from last year did nicely too. (For me 20+DLs of new images in a month is good - - I know that's small potatoes to the big guys - my best of the seasonal bunch has 60+ DLs - 7-8 DLs in a day is a "good" one for me - just so you know what "good" means to me in the micro context).
When I started this thread, I experienced 2 Very solid Months. BME would have to be a LOT more on SS But I was very happy regardless and hoped it was a trend and helped my Motivation. Dec started and it went down 50% from Nov. So back to the stomach churning Roller coaster Ride.
I wouldn't judge any sales trends by December.
One of My BME was a dec.
The last month worse than this December at SS was Feb 2011. It was preceeded by 1 lackluster month and one better than this years average month... It looks like overall December will be my BMY - but Alamy was the only good performer (and they performed very well).
gathering the figures for december since this is the new year, to me, this is the SS I knew and loved so well from the old school, before all the approval inconsistency, flipping switches,etc started. nov dec reported like finally the big wigs of ss or mr. oringer took back the stern and cleaned house.
needless to say, my sales was a whopper for the past 3 months.
from the first time rinderart posted his thread on dissatisfaction with ss.
i like ss now, as i said, back to normal of what makes them #1.
has this anything to do with scott leaving, and having a structural re-organization ?
we won't know, but i like what is going on today.
let's hope this keep going good for us. good show ss.
BMY for me there in December - and a flurry of sales today - a holiday - hope this is a trend we'll see more of.
2014 ended up 23% over 2013 at SS and I only increased my portfolio by 17%; new stuff has been selling lately so hopeful this is a trend that will keep going.
Hmmmm. Never looked at it like that....You may be right. I think 2015 is going to be a very telling Year for Microstock.
Thanks for giving a thoughts to it, Rinderart!
The thing is, when they ask us to submit our hard work to their web sites, we give them a favor/chance to show off, to gather some investment, to improve ... but ask yourself what they actually gave us in return?
Don't forget guys, without our media files loads of agencies simply wouldn't exist.
Sometimes I do wonder when I read all the problems with uploads, what kind of hell buyers must be going through with search, downloads and bad quality files.
December 2014 ended up 70% over Dec 2013.
Substantial YOY growth but then again I finally decided to pull my finger out in mid 2013 and up the work rate/mix the content.
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A dozen Democratic protesters gathered Thursday outside a small congressional office in Douglaston, Queens, calling on embattled Rep.-elect George Santos to step aside or — at the very least face his constituents.
Holding signs calling Santos a liar, and a miniature Pinocchio doll, the protesters met near a green awning above the office's entrance that once belonged to his predecessor, Rep. Tom Suozzi.
The fact that the new representative had not set up his own district office they said was yet another sign that Santos was unresponsive to voters.
"We refuse to have an absentee member of Congress," said Joshua Lafazan, a Nassau County legislator who lost the Democratic primary against Santos last year. "You lied to get a job, show up and do the job."
Rep.-elect George Santos, R-New York, speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, in Las Vegas.
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In the past three weeks, countless revelations have emerged about a web of dubious claims Santos, a Republican, told on the campaign trail.
Among them was Santos' claim of being the Jewish grandson of Holocaust survivors (he later said he was "Jew-ish"). He also claimed to have employed four people killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting, which he's since said he has not but that they were "were going to be coming to work for the company that [he] was starting up in Orlando."
He's also admitted he made up where he worked and what schools he attended, though looming questions remain about where he suddenly made millions, and how he funded his congressional campaign.
Members of Congress are supposed to open offices in the districts they represent, unless they have specific permission to open them elsewhere.
Santos' was slated to be sworn in Tuesday, though that's been put on ice indefinitely, with Republicans unable to select a speaker, after several failed votes. A swarm of reporters greeted Santos upon his arrival in Washington earlier this week, though he reportedly dodged their questions.
Constituent Vicky Cosgrove said she was befuddled there wasn't more vetting required ahead of the election.
"I was an early childhood teacher. I had to get a masters degree in education," she said. "If you want to work at the [Department of Education], you have to take a test."
At a CVS across the street from the rally, April Nguyen said she voted for Santos after reading his biography online. "I thought, OK. Give him a chance," she said. "He's new."
When she learned Santos fabricated huge swaths of his supposed background, Nguyen, 50, said she was "so livid." She wants him to step down.
"If you cannot be true to yourself, you cannot have integrity for your own self – what makes you think you can stay and represent the people?" said Nguyen, who is a registered nurse.
Santos is facing the threat of multiple investigations; on the federal, state and local level. While some members of New York's Republican delegation have voiced concerns about Santos' fabrications, they've stopped short of calling for him to step down. The party holds a slim majority in the House, with 222 votes.
He hasn't returned various requests for comment over multiple days.
At the rally, Jody Kass Finkel — organizer of a "Resign George Santos" petition — said Santos should step down.
"Santos is a charlatan," she said. "He's a conman. He should not be a congressman."
Roberta Glick, another Santos constituent, said she was particularly troubled by Santos's apparent fabrications regarding his Jewish faith.
"It's disgusting, as someone who is Jewish and proud of my Judaism, to hear about the way he talks about being 'Jew-ish,'" she said. "I don't even know what that means."
Jon Campbell covers the New York State Capitol for WNYC and Gothamist. Prior to that, he covered the Capitol for more than a decade for the USA TODAY Network. He has twice earned the Walter T. Brown Memorial Award, an honor given annually by the Legislative Correspondents Association alumni for outstanding state government coverage. Jon grew up in the Buffalo area and graduated from the University at Albany.


My friends, have you ever heard the scripture which says, "the Lord gives and the Lord takes away, Blessed be the name of the Lord"?
This saying came from Job, a man who served God, before there was a Covenant with God.
His story doesn't end with everything being gone or taken away. No my friends, his story ends with the blessings of God overtaking his life.


TOGETHER WE FEEL THE CONNECTION TO ONE. WE ARE ONE.
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You see on the horizon a building a bright gold building. It beckons further investigation.
When you arrive at the entrance, a sign greets you and asks that you remove you shoes. A long hallway stretched out before you, deep red almost the color of blood. At the end of the hallway is a glowing golden triangle doorway. You take a deep breath and take your time walking down the hallway to the door. Like a moth to the light at the end of the tunnel. As you walk through the doorway your senses are awakened by sounds and scents of a mystical realm. The height of the room feels tall and you thing you could fit two of your apartments in this space. You look left and right and there is a small triangle window, it is opaque and you can't quit make out the scenery outside. On your other side there it another window. You can't help but notice the warmth of the earth beneath you as your bare feet touch the desert earth. You look up and you are greeted by the blue sky illuminated through another triangle window on the ceiling. The room is white and crisp. As you look down at your hands, you notice there are little rainbows on your body, in fact you slightly in awe turn around to realize there are rainbows all over you. The room is filled with prisms and rainbows. A sense of calm and wonder wash over you as you take a seat to sit and breath and witness the light dancing and color playing on the walls and on you. We're all made up of a spectrum of energy, the representation of this in the rainbow plays out over space and time.
Experiential Healing Art Sculpture - as the planet and its inhabitants become more removed from nature, exposed to intensifying stressors of modern living experiences like this will become crucial to support a re-connection to well being. Places where people can go to experience a EMF free earth resonance and nervous system calibration via the frequency of light. The artist will support this with the creation of a building a space that in and of itself promotes healing on a cellular level. Studying Color theory and utilizing the ancient system of chakra balancing this artistic experience that takes place in a resonance calibration chamber. A building used as an instrument to play with light and color to tune the human chakra system built to support chakra alignment, cellular regeneration and overall healing of the body, mind and spirit.


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FINRA — the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority — regulates one critical part of the securities industry — brokerage firms doing business with the public in the United States. FINRA processes and analyzes massive amounts of data, and one challenge is to protect that data against new and unexpected threats. FINRA's security information and event management (SIEM) solution, despite high costs, was providing limited functionality. Migrating to Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided FINRA with benefits including:
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Every day in the United States, as many as 100 billion securities market financial transactions take place, involving billions of investors' dollars. A Congressionally authorized not-for-profit organization, FINRA oversees market integrity.
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Searching for a better solution, FINRA considered several SIEMs. The products could generate alerts, but they didn't significantly improve data ingestion or analysis. Then Mikula attended SplunkLive! in Washington, D.C., and found what he was looking for — a means to capture, index and correlate big data from all of FINRA's desired sources in real time, and customize queries through flexible dashboards.
"The competitors were playing catch-up to the capabilities that were already in Splunk," Mikula says. "We didn't want to play that game."
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Gary Mikula
Senior Director, Cyber and Information Security, FINRA
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Already impressed by the capabilities of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), FINRA learned that Splunk Cloud had just come on the market and decided to become its first big customer. The pay-per-use cloud model lets FINRA match its computing costs to demand fluctuations. And instead of spending months building out an environment, FINRA leveraged the mature data-collection agents within Splunk to start consuming data within days of signing the contract. Today, Splunk ingests logs from 170 different applications and AWS Services, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail. "No SIEM could match this," Mikula says.
"When we looked at what other companies were providing, they were playing catch-up to the capabilities that were already in Splunk."
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Magnifying the power of FINRA's Splunk Cloud solution is integration with Amazon Web Services. AWS Lambda lets FINRA run code without provisioning or managing servers, paying only for the compute time consumed. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, a fully managed service, delivers real-time streaming data to Splunk. Mikula calls Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose an ideal solution for creating subscriptions filters to reliably, securely, quickly and cost-efficiently move AWS logs into the Splunk solution for analysis. This capability benefits developers and network staff as well as security specialists, bridging silos.
"It's made a partnership between our security and operations teams," Mikula says. "We have a common goal of wanting the same logs. Now we have a single place to ingest and consume them."
Such efficiencies keep FINRA ahead of evolving threats by enabling teams to analyze data flexibly. FINRA is one of the biggest users of Amazon's EMR Hadoop framework; deploying the Splunk agent onto this platform-as-a-service provides information that allows FINRA to optimize resource allocations. What's more, FINRA sunset a dedicated third-party billing tool and replaced it with its own process for ingesting the data into Splunk. With Splunk Cloud, FINRA has better analytics and reporting, which has led to better project tracking of AWS Services and reduced costs. "We are more effectively managing our cloud costs using our Splunk solution and at less than five percent of the dedicated tools price tag," Mikula adds. In addition to its commitment to cloud computing, FINRA embraces open source software development, sponsoring multiple open source projects in big data, DevOps and quality assurance. Mikula's team even built a tool to collect AWS CloudTrail logs and ingest them into Splunk.
Pursuing such innovations as serverless computing in the cloud, FINRA finds that it must track logs more than ever. "You can never know what the next threat will be and what questions we'll want to ask our data. Splunk allows us to easily collect all the data we want and query it ad hoc," Mikula says. "What's more, the insights from Splunk allow us to use more AWS services. We are putting our crown jewels — our ability to take every transaction every day on almost every U.S. stock and options market and analyze that data in the cloud — and we are using Splunk to assure that it is secure. Splunk and AWS together give us an unparalleled ability to protect investors."


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Terry used various decal bits in addition to paint to mark these Thunderbolts.
All Races Fighters I purchased the boxed set of B5 Wars, which includes 3 each of the Narn Frazi, Centauri Sentris, Minbari Nial and EA Starfury. These are packed loose in a bag with a separate bag full of sparkly plastic stands and pylons (quite attractive). The Narn and Centauri fighters are one piece, while the EA and Minbari are cast in two pieces.
Narn Frazi Heavy Fighter. The guns and fuselage can tend to be connected with a thin layer of flash. A hobby knife separates them easily enough. The aft stabilizers can be twisted too, but mine were not seriously miscast nor difficult to clean up. Flash removal and standard cleaning were sufficient.
After the white primer, I applied a coat of TMM Euro 1 Grey to the interior, lacquered, blackwashed and drybrushed with TMM Battleship Grey. Then Tamiya Green X-5 to the fore and aft quarterpanels, TMM Chrome Silver down the center and outer aft stabilizers, which received TMM Steel inside. I drybrushed the interior detailing with TMM Steel. I used a drafting pen to black in the windshields, draw panel lines and bands on the guns The whole fighter got a couple coats of TMM Semi-gloss lacquer to protect it.
Centauri. These were cast well, some pitting on the wing surface, which I polished smooth. I cleaned out the thruster unit with a moto-tool and small burr to improve appearance. Again, flash removal and standard cleaning were sufficient.
After priming, I painted the wing's leading edge and the engine with TMM Gunmetal. After glosscoat lacquer I handbrushed a handmixed silvery purple over the body. If I do this again, I will mix TMM Chrome Silver and Testor's Colors By Boyd (TCB) Grape Pearl to get a lightened metallic purple. This color was also applied to the leading edge separators. The fuselage and arc detail striping was painted with TMM Gold, and the canopy received TMM Chrome Silver.
All these metallic paints tend not to differentiate themselves well, so I penned in panel lines and framed the canopy as well with a my black drafting pen. The gun barrels received TMM Euro 1 Grey and rings drawn with the drafting pen. We have also seen these fighters a kind of dusky gold/brown or bronze color.
We have also seen a Frazi in silver and red in "Chrysilis" but watch closely, because it gets swatted by a Shadow vessel almost immediately.
Narn Gorith Medium Fighter. This attractive small fighter is produced on one sprue in three pieces, a fuselage and two wings. The sprue connects to the bottom of each piece, which is thoughtful for cleanup. I used a razorsaw to slice the runner off each piece, and the large file to remove the stub of metal. The wings connect to the body along the top, and connecting bumps with corresponding depressions. One side has a round bump while the other has a round bump with rectangular extension. This caused me problems, as it seemed the depression was not quite big enough. I filed the bumps off, and superglued the wings on without the locators.
After priming, I decided to paint 3 different schemes, red, blue and green; with Tamiya Flat Red, TMM Blue Angel Blue and Tamiya Green X-5, respectively. In each case I painted the body of the fighter TMM Gunship Grey, gave them a light wash, a quick drybrush with TMM Light Ghost Grey, some detailing with TMM Aluminum and Steel, and another coat of lacquer. The underside of each wing recieved TMM Aluminum.
I highlighted each fighter with its respective color, then painted the band along the wing with TMM Chrome Silver. The interior of the wing vents I painted TMM Gunmetal, including the parts which overlap the wing. On the silver band the Narn insignia can be placed quite nicely.
Minbari Nial Heavy Fighter. The top wing fit was not particularly good out-of-the-box, but a bit of bending and filing helped substantially. The casting on mine was fair, with some errors on one wing (all 3 examples) which I just had to live with filing flat, removing detail. I understand AOG has resculpted these fighters, as the first batch was undersized, and hopefully they cleaned up the moldings as well. It's tough to get the wing on exactly vertically, so take your time. Cleaning between the wing surfaces isn't easy - do as much as you can while it's dissembled.
The fighters were painted the same way the cruiser was. Look at that review for details of the blue washes and ghost striping. I used TMM Chrome Silver on the canopy (after the Dullcoat lacquer), and drafting pen to put black into the gun barrels and intakes. I think mine turned out a bit pale, I will darken any others I do to make them look better in scale.
Minbari Flyer Transport.The Minbari Flyer was similarly simple. It is a one-piece mini, so just clean it up and go. I used a pin-vise drill to open up the small tubes and vents. I painted stripes using the ghost stripe method with TMM Blue Angel Blue top layer thinned with mineral spirits; again, see the Sharlin Cruiser review for details.
Centauri Sentris Medium Fighter. After priming, I painted the wing's leading edge and the engine with TMM Gunmetal. After glosscoat lacquer I handbrushed a handmixed silvery purple over the body. [If I do this again, I will mix TMM Chrome Silver and Testor's Colors By Boyd (TCB) Grape Pearl to get a lightened metallic purple and airbrush it first.] This color was also applied to the leading edge separators. The fuselage and arc detail striping was painted with TMM Gold, and the canopy received TMM Chrome Silver.
All these metallic paints tend not to differentiate themselves well, so I penned in panel lines and framed the canopy as well with my black drafting pen. The gun barrels received TMM Euro 1 Grey and drafting pen rings. We have also seen these fighters a kind of dusky gold/brown or bronze color.
Centauri Rutarian Heavy Fighter. This design has enourmous potential for custom paint schemes. I airbrushed two coats of TCB Grape Pearl, clearcoated, and detailed. I decided to try three different schemes. Two were just gold trim, one was a top-view of a stylized raptor with forward-swept wings. I used TMM Gold as trim, or the bird shape and added Testor's copper details to the feathers. The drafting pen was invaluable for drawing the feather patterns on the wings. The other two I used the gold to highlight some panels. I used TMM Gunmetal around the engine area and guns, while chrome silver was used on the lower wing vents.
Earthforce Starfury Heavy Fighter. The definitive Earthforce fighter is cast in two pieces, top and bottom. The top has the canopy, which overlaps the bottom part. This was the toughest fighter to cleanup and assemble. The wings needed to be bent to the correct angle, the engines angled outward, the engine vanes needed some knife cleanup and repositioning, the joint between top and bottom needed cleanup and there was significant flash to correct. Having said all that, once finished I was satisfied with the results.
I primed the mini Tamiya Sky Grey, also the base color. After dullcoat lacquer, I gave them a substantial blackwash, which I wiped off with a cotton swab. This will let you put dark pigment into the wing vents and around the engine thrusters. I liked the appearance, so I did not drybrush these fighters, breaking from common practice. After another dullcoat application I painted the thrusters TMM Gunmetal and the vane interior TMM Steel. A bit of TMM Chrome Silver drybrushed on each thruster brings out the engine nozzles. I used the drafting pen to blacken the cockpit, and experimented with panel lines. They looked a bit dark, so I'll either use a pencil or find a grey pen in the future. Now you're ready for custom schemes. The first scheme I painted was, of course, Jeff Sinclair's. Tangents has produced several decal sheets for B5 minis, including one with Strafury markings too.


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Mythologie
 Persée, vainqueur de la Méduse et époux d'Andromède.

Antiquité
 Persée de Macédoine, roi de Macédoine.
 Persée, mathématicien grec (env. -150).

Astronomie
 Persée, constellation.

Musique
 Persée, tragédie lyrique de Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Arts plastiques
 Persée, assisté par Minerve, pétrifie Phinée, peinture de Jean-Marc Nattier ;
 Persée couronné, peinture de Rubens ;
 Persée délivrant Andromède, peinture de Rubens ;
 Persée délivrant Andromède, peinture de Piero di Cosimo ;
 Persée dérobant l'œil des Gréés, gravure de Georges Reverdy ;
 Persée et Andromède, peinture de François Lemoyne ;
 Persée et Andromède, peinture de Frederic Leighton ;
 Persée secourant Andromède, peinture de Joachim Wtewael ;
 Persée tenant la tête de Méduse, sculpture de Benvenuto Cellini (1554).

Marine de guerre
 Persée, sous-marin français de la classe 1 500 tonnes.
 Persée, chasseur de mines de la Marine nationale française.
 CVS401 Perseus, missile antinavire.

Édition
 Persée, portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales en libre accès.

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Shaenon: Okay, one more page from the book I made with Robin. This is a song he sang out of nowhere one day and never brought up again. Channing: This is actually strangely moving. Good poem, Robin!
March 2018 Wallpaper: Rain Puppies!
Shaenon: Hey! Puppy sketches! Channing: Once again I question why we didn't choose to spend ten years doing 100% Baby Sweetheart instead.


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Curriculum:Documents of FreedomArrow icon
Unit:Our Commercial RepublicArrow icon
Lesson:The Great Society and Beyond
Handout C: Documents
Key Question: Assess whether the Supreme Court ruled correctly in Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010), in light of constitutional principles including republican government, freedom of speech, and property rights.
A. Federalist No. 10 by James Madison (1787)
B. Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington (1787)
C. The First Amendment (1791)
D. Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
E. "The Bosses of the Senate," Joseph Keppler (1889)
F. New Nationalism Speech, Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
G. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
H. Citizens United Mission Statement (1988)
I. McConnell v. F.E.C. (2003)
J. Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010), Majority Opinion
K. Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010), Dissenting Opinion
L. Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010), Concurring Opinion
M. "Another Dam Breaks," Matt Wuerker (2010)
Document A
Federalist No. 10 by James Madison (1787)
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the
whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the
rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by
controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which
is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions,
and the same interests.
It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to
faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to
abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish
the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
[Because] the causes of faction cannot be removed… relief is only to be sought in the means of
controlling its effects…If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican
principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote.
(Italics are Madison's)
How does James Madison define a faction?
What does Madison argue serves as a "check" on the influence various factions may have on society?
Would the Federalist Papers have been legal under the BCRA?
Document B
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington (1787)
I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty…The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them…
If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves.
What does Jefferson believe is "the basis of our governments"?
What does Jefferson believe is "the only safeguard of the public liberty"?
What does Jefferson seem to believe is a possible disadvantage of press freedom? Why does he find it acceptable?
What does Jefferson predict will happen if the people become inattentive to public affairs?
Document C
The First Amendment (1791)
Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Why did the Founders deem speech and assembly so vital to self-government?
List a variety of ways you see Americans "speak" and "assemble" in political life.
Document D
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), Majority Opinion
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs and to hold property…It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and are in use.
The opinion of the Court, after mature deliberation, is that this is a contract the obligation of which cannot be impaired without violating the Constitution of the United States. This opinion appears to us to be equally supported by reason and by the former decisions of this Court.
According to this unanimous opinion by Chief Justice John Marshall, what properties does a corporation possess?
In what actions may a corporation engage?
How would you explain the reasoning behind the decision that a corporation has an enforceable right to enter into contracts?
Document E
"The Bosses of the Senate," Joseph Keppler (1889)
How does this cartoon express the concern of "quid pro quo" corruption?
What is the significance of the closed door with the sign above it in the upper left hand corner of the cartoon?
Did Madison's assertion in Federalist No. 10 (Document A)—that the republican principle will serve as a check on the influence of factions—apply in the cartoon's time period? Does it apply today?
Document F
New Nationalism Speech, Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
[O]ur government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics… [E]very special interest is entitled to justice, but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office. The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation.
What does Roosevelt mean by "special interests"?
Does this concept relate to Madison's definition of "faction"? If so, how?
Document G
Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Majority Opinion
Advocacy of the election or defeat of candidates for federal office is no less entitled to protection under the First Amendment than the discussion of political policy generally or advocacy of the passage or defeat of legislation…Discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates are integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. The First Amendment affords the broadest possible protection to such political expression in order to assure unfettered exchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people…A restriction on the amount of money a person or group can spend on political communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the quantity of expression by restricting the number of issues discussed, the depth of their exploration, and the size of the audience reached. This is because virtually every means of communicating ideas in today's mass society requires the expenditure of money.
Restate this excerpt from the Buckley ruling in your own words.
Document H
Citizens United Mission Statement (1988)
Citizens United is an organization dedicated to restoring our government to citizens' control. Through a combination of education, advocacy, and grass roots organization, Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security. Citizens United's goal is to restore the founding fathers' vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense, and good will of its citizens…Citizens United has a variety of different projects that help it uniquely and successfully fulfill its mission. Citizens United is well known for producing high-impact, sometimes controversial, but always fact-based documentaries filled with interviews of experts and leaders in their fields.
Do you believe James Madison would consider Citizens United a faction? Why or why not?
Is Citizens United an "assembly" of people seeking to engage in political "speech?" Why or why not?
Document I
McConnell v. F.E.C. (2003), Majority Opinion
Because corporations can still fund electioneering communications with PAC money, it is 'simply wrong' to view the [BCRA] provision as a 'complete ban' on expression…
We have repeatedly sustained legislation aimed at 'the corrosive effects of immense aggregations of wealth that are accumulated with the help of the corporate form…[T]he government has a compelling interest in regulating advertisements that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office…corporations and unions may finance genuine issue ads during those time frames by simply avoiding any specific reference to federal candidates, or…by paying for the ad from a segregated fund [PAC].
Restate the McConnell opinion in your own words.
In your opinion, is the McConnell ruling consistent with the ruling in Buckley (Document G) in its interpretation of the First Amendment?
Document J
Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010)
The F.E.C. has adopted 568 pages of regulations, 1,278 pages of explanations and justifications for those regulations, and 1,771 advisory opinions since 1975…[G]iven the complexity of the regulations and the deference courts show to administrative determinations, a speaker who wants to avoid threats of criminal liability and the heavy costs of defending against F.E.C. enforcement must ask a governmental agency for prior permission to speak.
If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech. All speakers, including individuals and the media, use money amassed from the economic marketplace to fund their speech. The First Amendment protects the resulting speech.
At the founding, speech was open, comprehensive, and vital to society's definition of itself; there were no limits on the sources of speech and knowledge…By suppressing the speech of manifold corporations, both for-profit and nonprofit, the Government prevents their voices and viewpoints from reaching the public and advising voters on which persons or entities are hostile to their interests.
Factions will necessarily form in our Republic, but the remedy of 'destroying the liberty' of some factions is 'worse than the disease' [Federalist 10]. Factions should be checked by permitting them all to speak, and by entrusting the people to judge what is true and what is false…
When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.
The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy. By definition, an independent expenditure is political speech presented to the electorate that is not coordinated with a candidate. The fact that a corporation, or any other speaker, is willing to spend money to try to persuade voters presupposes that the people have the ultimate influence over elected officials.
Rapid changes in technology—and the creative dynamic inherent in the concept of free expression — counsel against upholding a law that restricts political speech in certain media or by certain speakers. Today, 30-second television ads may be the most effective way to convey a political message. Soon, however, it may be that Internet sources…will provide citizens with significant information about political candidates and issues. Yet, [the BCRA] would seem to ban a blog post expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate if that blog were created with corporate funds. The First Amendment does not permit Congress to make these categorical distinctions based on the corporate identity of the speaker and the content of the political speech.
How would you summarize the Court's interpretation of the First Amendment?
How would you evaluate the Court's analysis of Federalist 10?
The Court reasoned, "The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy." Do you agree? What effect, if any, does this ruling have on the republican principle of the United States government?
Document K
Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010), Dissenting Opinion
[In] a variety of contexts, we have held that speech can be regulated differentially on account of the speaker's identity, when identity is understood in categorical or institutional terms. The Government routinely places special restrictions on the speech rights of students, prisoners, members of the Armed Forces, foreigners, and its own employees.
Unlike our colleagues, the Framers had little trouble distinguishing corporations from human beings, and when they constitutionalized the right to free speech in the First Amendment, it was the free speech of individual Americans that they had in mind…[M]embers of the founding generation held a cautious view of corporate power and a narrow view of corporate rights…[and] they conceptualized speech in individualistic terms. If no prominent Framer bothered to articulate that corporate speech would have lesser status than individual speech, that may well be because the contrary proposition—if not also the very notion of "corporate speech"—was inconceivable.
On numerous occasions we have recognized Congress's legitimate interest in preventing the money that is spent on elections from exerting an 'undue influence on an officeholder's judgment' and from creating 'the appearance of such influence.' Corruption operates along a spectrum, and the majority's apparent belief that quid pro quo arrangements can be neatly demarcated from other improper influences does not accord with the theory or reality of politics…A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
A regulation such as BCRA may affect the way in which individuals disseminate certain messages through the corporate form, but it does not prevent anyone from speaking in his or her own voice.
At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.
How does the reasoning in the dissenting opinion differ from that of the Majority (Document J)?
How would you evaluate the dissenters' statement, "A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."
Document L
Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010), Concurring Opinion
The Framers didn't like corporations, the dissent concludes, and therefore it follows (as night the day) that corporations had no rights of free speech.
The lack of a textual exception for speech by corporations cannot be explained on the ground that such organizations did not exist or did not speak. To the contrary…both corporations and voluntary associations actively petitioned the Government and expressed their views in newspapers and pamphlets. For example: An antislavery Quaker corporation petitioned the First Congress, distributed pamphlets, and communicated through the press in 1790. The New York Sons of Liberty sent a circular to colonies farther south in 1766. And the Society for the Relief and Instruction of Poor Germans circulated a biweekly paper from 1755 to 1757.
The dissent says that when the Framers "constitutionalized the right to free speech in the First Amendment, it was the free speech of individual Americans that they had in mind." That is no doubt true. All the provisions of the Bill of Rights set forth the rights of individual men and women—not, for example, of trees or polar bears. But the individual person's right to speak includes the right to speak in association with other individual persons. Surely the dissent does not believe that speech by the Republican Party or the Democratic Party can be censored because it is not the speech of "an individual American." It is the speech of many individual Americans, who have associated in a common cause, giving the leadership of the party the right to speak on their behalf. The association of individuals in a business corporation is no different—or at least it cannot be denied the right to speak on the simplistic ground that it is not "an individual American."
Why does this Justice argue that the original understanding of the First Amendment does not allow for limitations on the speech of associations such as corporations and unions? Do you agree?
Document M
"Another Dam Breaks," Matt Wuerker (2010)
What does the cartoonist predict will be the effect of the Citizens United ruling?
What assumptions does the cartoonist seem to make about voters? Are they valid assumptions? Explain.
Supreme Court, Freedom of Speech, Property Rights
Documents of Freedom|
Our Commercial Republic|
The Great Society and Beyond|


More squats on a Saturday. Look back to 2 Saturdays ago and aim to hit something around 90% of those doubles.
This one will get spicy but shouldn't be around long enough to slow you down. Keep pushing and work through each movement in big, challenging sets.


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Designed in keeping with the wood theme for the year's brochure, these custom awards for the Adventure Film Festival 2015 feature three types of wood delicately balanced to create unique awards for each of the events categories.
Local driftwood pieces were carefully selected to be placed within custom sized cutouts of engraved beetlekill pine panels. Made entirely from reclaimed materials and found objects, these awards were beautifully in keeping with the events' mission and themes.


Leggings, yoga pants, what ever you want to call them, I've got them! They are all designed by me (Deanna Wardin). They are brand new and ready to stretch. You can find them through my redbubble store! Thanks for looking!


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30 ILCS 500/10-20
(30 ILCS 500/10-20)
Sec. 10-20. Independent chief procurement officers.
(a) Appointment. Within 60 calendar days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the Executive Ethics Commission, with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint or approve 4 chief procurement officers, one for each of the following categories:
(1) for procurements for construction and
construction-related services committed by law to the jurisdiction or responsibility of the Capital Development Board;
(2) for procurements for all construction,
construction-related services, operation of any facility, and the provision of any service or activity committed by law to the jurisdiction or responsibility of the Illinois Department of Transportation, including the direct or reimbursable expenditure of all federal funds for which the Department of Transportation is responsible or accountable for the use thereof in accordance with federal law, regulation, or procedure, the chief procurement officer recommended for approval under this item appointed by the Secretary of Transportation after consent by the Executive Ethics Commission;
(3) for all procurements made by a public institution
of higher education; and
(4) for all other procurement needs of State
agencies.
A chief procurement officer shall be responsible to the Executive Ethics Commission but must be located within the agency that the officer provides with procurement services. The chief procurement officer for higher education shall have an office located within the Board of Higher Education, unless otherwise designated by the Executive Ethics Commission. The chief procurement officer for all other procurement needs of the State shall have an office located within the Department of Central Management Services, unless otherwise designated by the Executive Ethics Commission.
(b) Terms and independence. Each chief procurement officer appointed under this Section shall serve for a term of 5 years beginning on the date of the officer's appointment. The chief procurement officer may be removed for cause after a hearing by the Executive Ethics Commission. The Governor or the director of a State agency directly responsible to the Governor may institute a complaint against the officer by filing such complaint with the Commission. The Commission shall have a hearing based on the complaint. The officer and the complainant shall receive reasonable notice of the hearing and shall be permitted to present their respective arguments on the complaint. After the hearing, the Commission shall make a finding on the complaint and may take disciplinary action, including but not limited to removal of the officer.
The salary of a chief procurement officer shall be established by the Executive Ethics Commission and may not be diminished during the officer's term. The salary may not exceed the salary of the director of a State agency for which the officer serves as chief procurement officer.
(c) Qualifications. In addition to any other requirement or qualification required by State law, each chief procurement officer must within 12 months of employment be a Certified Professional Public Buyer or a Certified Public Purchasing Officer, pursuant to certification by the Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council, and must reside in Illinois.
(d) Fiduciary duty. Each chief procurement officer owes a fiduciary duty to the State.
(e) Vacancy. In case of a vacancy in one or more of the offices of a chief procurement officer under this Section during the recess of the Senate, the Executive Ethics Commission shall make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the Senate, when the Executive Ethics Commission shall nominate some person to fill the office, and any person so nominated who is confirmed by the Senate shall hold office during the remainder of the term and until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at the time this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly takes effect, the Executive Ethics Commission shall make a temporary appointment as in the case of a vacancy.
(f) (Blank).
(g) (Blank).


Description : It is a beverage easy to drink for people who start drinking wines. It is drunk in parties and special events. It has 5,5% volumen by alcohol and between 70 and 90 g/l of sugar. The silver effect is very attractive.
Serving : Shake before drinking. Serve well chilled from 5°C to 8°C (41°F to 57°F).
In the mouth, it is smooth with flavors of cherry, spice and dark berry fruit that all come linger on the well-balanced finish in this full-bodied wine.
Flavours with sweet tannins and delicate vanilla notes. Lingering on a seductive finish.
Intense, fresh and fruity taste with good permanence in the mouth.
Colour : Yellow of medium intensity. Clean and bright.
Sweet with soft tannins and berry-like flavours.
Grape Varietal : Bonarda, Barbera and Sangiovese.
Colour : Bright red colour.
Aroma : Remarkable fruity aromas.
It is sweet, suggestive, with tropical fruits appearance.
Aroma : It offers tropical aromas like banana and melon, in balance with notes of mature fruits.
Recommended Cuisine : Excellent as grill meat or barbecue; it is find, too, with a flavourful combination of bite-size chunks of pork spareribs braised with onions, garlic and fresh tomatoes.
Recommended Cuisine : Excellent as read meat or grilled chicken; fine with hamburgers made from local natural ground beef.
Colour : Very dark garner, reddish-violet glints.
Aroma : Its nose develops a pretty bouquet of blackberry notes and gingerbread.
Recommended Cuisine : It may be enjoyed now with grilled lamb, red meat and cheese.
Aroma : It reveals tremendous Syrah characteristics (especially for a southern Rhone) such as blackberries, acacia flowers, incense and camphor notes, a broad, expansive texture and superb intensity.
Recommended Cuisine : Suited to foods such as pork, including Chinese pork dishes, also couscous.


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Eco town report 'a victory for common sense', say campaigners
The planned 6,000-home development at Long Marston has attracted criticism from environmental campaigners, local authorities and home-owners since it was first suggested by the Government.
The planned 6,000-home Middle Quinton development at Long Marston has attracted criticism from environmental campaigners, local authorities and home-owners since it was first suggested by the Government.
Today the Planning Inspectors' Panel laid out in their report the reasons why they believed it would be unsustainable.
They said the key issue was whether it was connected to a "major centre", one of the main criteria set out by the Government.
The inspectors expressed concerns that the town would only be connected to Stratford-upon-Avon, which is 10km away, by a secondary road. They also said that a train line would not be viable as there would not be enough passengers to cover the costs.
Campaigners against the eco town claimed the recommendations were "a victory for common sense".
West Midlands Friends of the Earth campaigner Chris Crean said: "We have said all along that if we are going to have eco towns, then we should have them within existing developed areas.
"If you put a huge number of new houses in the middle of the countryside then you are obviously going to create a huge amount of transport needs and most of those will be met by the private car. That would ultimately mean that the location is unsustainable.
"We are very happy that the inspectors have seen sense and made the recommendations that they have."
Advantage West Midlands previously warned that the eco town could divert much-needed investment away from some areas of the region and pose a threat to urban renaissance.
Longbridge was favoured by many campaigners as a potential site for an eco town but the proposal has fallen on deaf ears.
Government criteria for eco-towns, which says they must be larger than 5,000 and free-standing, has also limited the options.
The inspectors' report recommended that 7,500 home should be built in the Stratford-upon-Avon area but they warned that it may not meet all the housing pressures over the next two decades. They advised that the provision of houses may need to be increased by up to 3,000 after 2021.
A Community and Local Government spokesman would not comment on specifics in the report, but said: "The Government is now considering the independent panel's report and will publish proposed changes for consultation before setting out the final plan.
"We have always said that any proposals for eco-towns will need to go through the local planning process and this continues to be the case."
In total, 43,500 new homes should be built in Warwickshire according to the panel of inspectors.


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