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'I Continue to Be a Cheerleader of Indie Bookstores'
"I continue to be a cheerleader of indie bookstores just because I love them. I feel like after the pandemic, I recognized even more how important they are as it's not just where you get your books. It's a place where you go when you connect, and you chat with people and you find new stuff that you wouldn't have found. That's my experience whenever I go to the bookstore, trying to get one book and end up with five because I'm talking to the booksellers and seeing what they put on the table. So that idea of, let's give more context--let's give more stories. Let's enrich the picture and give you more voices to listen to. I feel like it is so important, and it's part of why I'm really grateful for indie bookselling."
--Celeste Ng, author of Our Missing Hearts, the #1 October Indie Next List pick, in a q&a with Bookselling This Week
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Wins the Booker Prize
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka won the £50,000 (about $57,105) 2022 Booker Prize. Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan-born author to win, following Michael Ondaatje, who won in 1992 with The English Patient. Organizers said that Karunatilaka's second novel, which will be published in the U.S. by Norton on November 1, "is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."
Chair of judges Neil MacGregor said: "Any one of the six shortlisted books would have been a worthy winner. What the judges particularly admired and enjoyed in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was the ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques.
"This is a metaphysical thriller, an afterlife noir that dissolves the boundaries not just of different genres, but of life and death, body and spirit, east and west. It is an entirely serious philosophical romp that takes the reader to 'the world's dark heart'--the murderous horrors of civil war Sri Lanka. And once there, the reader also discovers the tenderness and beauty, the love and loyalty, and the pursuit of an ideal that justify every human life."
This year's Booker ceremony was fully in-person for the first time since 2019. Her Majesty the Queen Consort presented the trophy to the winner, in one of her first public engagements since the change in reign. The original 1969 Booker Prize trophy was reinstated in memory of its creator, the beloved children's author and illustrator Jan Pieńkowski, who died last February.
The Golden Notebook Launches Publishing Program
The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, N.Y., is launching a publishing program called Golden Notebook Press, Hudson Valley 1 reported. The imprint's debut title, Abigail Thomas's memoir Still Life at 80: The Next Interesting Thing, is scheduled for publication in January 2023, with Publishers Group West signed on to distribute.
Co-owner James Conrad explained that although Thomas has worked with Houghton Mifflin and Scribner in the past, she didn't want her memoir to be "one of hundreds" of titles at a big house that could get "lost in the shuffle." With Golden Notebook, he continued, "we know our customers, we know what sells and we can launch a book. It can grow from there."
In addition to Still Life at 80, Golden Notebook Press has four more titles in the works: a memoir by Mary Giuliani called How to Lose Friends and Influence No One; a new mystery series from writer Greg Herron; a book about a chapter in Woodstock's music history; and, planned for late 2023, a gift book focused on Woodstock locals.
Conrad and Golden Notebook co-owner Jackie Kellachan have been thinking about starting their own publisher for the past several years. It started with a local bestseller called Small Town Talk, about Woodstock's music scene in the 1950s and '60s. They worried about it going out of print, and have also been concerned about other local favorites such as guidebooks and books about the town's history.
"There is such great writing talent here," Conrad told Hudson Valley 1. "If a customer asks for a book that doesn't exist, we can ask, 'who in this area could write it?', and then we can develop it. And we can go at our own pace."
Black Garnet Books' Soft Opening for Physical Store in St. Paul
Black Garnet Books, a Black, woman-owned business that has been selling books online and through pop-up locations in the Twin Cities for the past two years, hosted a soft opening last weekend for its new physical bookstore at 1319 University Ave. W. in Saint Paul, Minn. Founder Dionne Sims had posted on Instagram Friday that "tomorrow is our first time doing this whole 'running a bookstore' thing!! the store itself may only be 60% finished due to delays (the powers that be will do as they please), but our attitudes are 100% you feel me?? 12pm-5pm or whenever we run out of books bc I'm a rookie and probably should've ordered more. be nice to me omg ok love you byeeeeee."
On the big day, Saint Paul City Councilmember Mitra Jalali, whose office last year awarded Sims and Black Garnet Books a $100,000 Neighborhood Sales Tax Revitalization (STAR) grant to renovate and open the physical store, posted on Facebook: "Congratulations Black Garnet Books on a successful soft open launch of the storefront today! I'm so proud to have gotten to play a role in helping bring this locally owned Black business to the Midway next to Ding Tea and Master Noodle. Dionne Sims is the true shero of this story though.... The whole team is working hard to bring a diverse curated collection of books as well as a community gathering space to the neighborhood. Visit this delightful space soon and let's show some love to Minnesota's newest Black-owned bookstore here in Saint Paul."
Earlier in the day, Jalali had tweeted from the bookstore that the "opening is wall to wall packed."
Marcia Howard shared a video filmed inside the store on Twitter, noting: "It started with a tweet and a dream during the heart of the Uprising. Today, Dionne Sims opened the @blkgarnetbooks brick-and-mortar store! So so so proud!" Sims retweeted, adding that "this means sooooooo much to me. just the absolute world. thank you for being a day one!!"
Reverie Books Hosts Grand Opening in Austin, Tex.
Reverie Books, a community-focused bookstore offering a selection of diverse and inclusive titles, held a grand opening celebration in Austin, Tex., on Saturday, the Austin Chronicle reported.
Owner Thais Perkins opened the store in South Austin last year. She envisioned the bookstore as a "meaningful place" to "help us heal," not only from the Covid-19 pandemic but also the deeply divided political environment. The store sells bestsellers along with literary fiction, small press titles, poetry and nonfiction about topics such as social justice, race and reproductive rights. There are books for young people as well as adults, and the store hosts a Young Adult Banned Book Club with the help of two interns who are students at nearby Crockett High School.
The store, Perkins continued, helps create a third place and sense of community for the teens who get involved. "I think the kind of kids that are drawn to doing something like a banned book club have a lot in common, and they're all wonderful young people."
Perkins worked for a nonprofit before starting Reverie Books last year. She told the Chronicle that the opportunity to open a bookstore of her own arose when a friend decided to close his bookstore, which was located in the same storefront.
She decided to take the plunge and put her nonprofit background to use when it came to community outreach and involvement. She acknowledged that she didn't really see opening the store as a "money-making enterprise." Instead "it was for community. It was for giving back. It was for creating these sorts of warm spaces for people."
Looking ahead, Perkins hopes to one day move to a larger space and also create a nonprofit for providing community services.
Amazon Introduces 'All-new' Kindle and Kindle Kids
Amazon has introduced "the next generation of Kindle--the lightest and smallest Kindle." Starting at $99.99, the new Kindle features a 300ppi high-resolution six-inch display, adjustable front light, dark mode, USB-C charging, battery life of up to six weeks and 16gb of storage. The same features are included with Kindle Kids, along with a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+. Shipping for Kindle and Kindle Kids began October 12.
Kevin Keith, v-p of Amazon devices and services, said the new Kindle "is the latest example of how we continue to bring premium features to our most affordable devices for even more customers to enjoy. And since we launched Kindle Kids three years ago, kids have logged nearly three billion minutes reading on Kindle devices."
Image of the Day: Barnett and Klassen and Four-legged Friends
Copperfield's Books in Petaluma, Calif., kicked off the book tour for Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen's The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Orchard Books) on Saturday with a few hundred fans and three baby goats. After meeting a lot of the crowd, the goats took up residence in the store's front window, offering perfectly timed bleats during the reading of the story, and then meeting with the authors and kids events director Patty Norman for a more in-depth conversation.
New Voices, New Rooms Reveals VIndie Awards Finalists
New Voices New Rooms, the programming partnership between the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, has revealed the finalists for the 2022 VIndie Awards, a celebration of "the best in bookstore video." Winners will be named November 16 at a ceremony emceed by Michael Triebwasser of Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C. Check out the VIndies finalists here.
This year's panel of judges were drawn from book industry partners in publishing, bookselling, and media. They reviewed 127 bookstore videos--triple the number from the prize's inaugural year--from nearly 70 independent bookstores, selecting 36 finalists in the categories of Animation, Around the Store, Comedy, Community Work, Drama, Staff Picks and Trending Sounds.
NVNR said the "expanded list of categories was created in recognition of the reasons independent bookstores are motivated to post video--to showcase their stores, inform their communities, and of course talk about their favorite books." Organizers attributed the increase to the rise in popularity of short animated and video "reels" on Instagram and TikTok, noting that TikTok is now the most popular social media platform.
"Short videos are a fun, casual, spontaneous way to get your message out on social media and our bookstores have really embraced that," said NVNR organizer Linda-Marie Barrett, executive director of SIBA. Eileen Dengler, executive director of NAIBA, added: "We are amazed at all the wonderful, creative ways they have found to use video on behalf of their stores."
Bookseller Moment: Main Street Books
Posted on Facebook yesterday by Main Street Books, Frostburg Md.: "The week begins!"
Personnel Changes at Little, Brown
Danielle Finnegan has joined Little, Brown as senior marketing manager, working across the Little, Brown and Mulholland lists.
Book Trailer of the Day: The Best American Series
The Best American Series of Books (Mariner Books).
Media and Movies
Media Heat: Hua Hsu on Fresh Air
Fresh Air: Hua Hsu, author of Stay True: A Memoir (Doubleday, $26, 9780385547772).
Tomorrow:
Today Show: Jon Meacham, author of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House, $40, 9780553393965).
Also on Today: Noor Murad and Yotam Ottolenghi, authors of Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things (Clarkson Potter, $32, 9780593234389).
Good Morning America: Dale Earnhardt Jr., author of Buster's Trip to Victory Lane (Thomas Nelson, $18.99, 9781400233342). He will also appear on Live with Kelly and Ryan.
The View: Amber Tamblyn, co-author of Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition (Park Row, $25.99, 9780778333333).
Late Night with Seth Meyers repeat: Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, authors of The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience (Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781501178412).
TV: The Book of Mycah
Lena Waithe's company Hillman Grad Productions will produce The Book of Myca, adapted from a speculative fiction story in Joshua Bennett's recently published poetry collection, The Study of Human Life, that explores an alternate reality where Malcolm X rose from the dead in 1965.
Waithe and Hillman Grad Productions CEO Rishi Rajani will serve as executive producers on the TV adaptation for Warner Bros. TV, while creative executive Sylvia Carrasco will oversee the production, Variety reported.
Awards: Gordon Burn Winner
Aftermath by Preti Taneja has won the Gordon Burn Prize, which honors books that show "an affinity with the spirit and sensibility of Gordon's literary methods: novels which dare to enter history and interrogate the past; writers of non-fiction brave enough to recast characters and historical events to create a new and vivid reality."
The winner receives £5,000 (about $5,590) and a writing retreat of up to three months at Gordon Burn's cottage in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders.
Organizers called Taneja "a writer whose unflinching work of narrative non-fiction blurs genres and form to understand terror, trauma and grief." Aftermath, they continued, "strives to make sense of the London Bridge terror attack in 2019. Usman Khan was a convicted terrorist who spent eight years in prison and went on to kill two people, Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, at an event marking the anniversary of a prison programme he had participated in. Preti Taneja had taught Kahn in prison and Jack Merritt was her colleague. Aftermath is a profound attempt to regain trust after violence and rebuild faith in human compassion: a powerful recommitment to activism and radical hope."
Review: She and Her Cat: Stories
She and Her Cat: Stories by Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Atria, $24 hardcover, 144p., 9781982165741, November 22, 2022)
She and Her Cat offers a quartet of imaginative, deeply affecting stories of magical realism written by Naruki Nagakawa and based on an original story by Japanese director, producer and manga artist Makoto Shinkai. The book is alternately narrated by multiple generations of isolated Japanese women who face loss and the feral neighborhood cats who come to love them--and vice versa.
In "Sea of Words," a male street cat is rescued by a single gal who works for an art and design college. The woman lives a quiet life and has romantic woes that lead to a falling out with her best friend. She names the cat Chobi, and the two offer each other comfort and solace. As Chobi patrols the neighborhood nightly, he meets a cast of eccentrics including Jon, a dog who is a sagacious philosopher; Mimi, a kitten; and Reina, a woman who lives nearby and feeds feral cats.
Mimi, the kitten now grown, anchors "First Blossoming," where she and Chobi meet up daily to enjoy food provided by Reina. A "gifted" young artist-painter, Reina couldn't get into university, but is offered an exciting internship at a film and manga design company by the narrator of the first story. Reina excels until exploitive corporate culture upsets her life. In the meantime, Mimi "[ties] the knot" with another feral cat and gives birth to kittens.
In "Slumber and Sky," Cookie, one of Mimi's offspring, is adopted by a mother who gives the cat to her young adult daughter, Aoi, whose severe depression keeps her housebound. A huge artistic rift between Aoi and her "soul sister" precipitated Aoi's paralysis of sadness, guilt and regret. When Cookie, normally a housecat, goes in search of her mother--Mimi, who is sick--Aoi is forced to confront her own limitations.
In the fourth story, "The Temperature of the World," a long-suffering and self-sacrificing divorcée takes in her rebellious, disillusioned nephew. His presence forces her to stand up to her domineering brother--with the help of a smart, feral, neighborhood boss cat who knows all.
Read on their own or taken as a whole, these heartfelt, insightful stories offer a thematic continuum about the quiet burdens people bear in the modern, often isolated world and how human-animal interactions enrich and embolden lives. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
Shelf Talker: In these insightful, interconnected stories, challenged Japanese women are empowered by feral cats who live in their neighborhood.
by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa
Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
The bestselling self-published books last week as compiled by IndieReader.com:
1. Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
2. Never Trust the Living (Battle Crows MC Book 7) by Lani Lynn Vale
3. Final Proposal by K. Bromberg
4. My Brother's Forbidden Friend (The Greene Family Book 9) by Piper Rayne
5. Realm of Darkness by Various
6. Holiday Heart-On by Various
7. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter
8. 7 Figure Flipping Underground by Bill Allen
9. A Little Too Late by Sarina Bowen
10. The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
[Many thanks to IndieReader.com!]
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (German: Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist) is the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his final years of insanity that lasted until his death in 1900. It was written in 1888 and was not published until 1908. According to one of Nietzsche's most prominent English translators, Walter Kaufmann, the book offers "Nietzsche's own interpretation of his development, his works, and his significance." The book contains several chapters with ironic self-laudatory titles, such as "Why I Am So Wise", "Why I Am So Clever", "Why I Write Such Good Books" and "Why I Am a Destiny". Walter Kaufmann, in his biography Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist noticed the internal parallels, in form and language, to Plato's Apology which documented the Trial of Socrates. In effect, Nietzsche was putting himself on trial with this work, and his sardonic judgments and chapter headings are mordant, mocking, self-deprecating, sly, and they turn this trial against his future accusers, distorters, and superficial judges. Within this work, Nietzsche is self-consciously striving to present a new image of the philosopher and of himself, for example, a philosopher "who is not an Alexandrian academic nor an Apollonian sage, but Dionysian." On these grounds, Kaufmann considers Ecce Homo a literary work comparable in its artistry to Vincent van Gogh's paintings. Just as Socrates was presented in Plato's Apology as the wisest of men precisely because he freely admitted to his own ignorance, Nietzsche argues that he himself is a great philosopher because of his withering assessment of the pious fraud of the entirety of Philosophy which he considered as a retreat from honesty when most necessary, and a cowardly failure to pursue its stated aim to its reasonable end. Nietzsche insists that his suffering is not noble but the expected result of hard inquiry into the deepest recesses of human self-deception, and that by overcoming one's agonies a person achieves more than any relaxation or accommodation to intellectual difficulties or literal threats. He proclaims the ultimate value of everything that has happened to him (including his father's early death and his near-blindness – an example of love of Fate or amor fati). In this regard, the wording of his title was not meant to draw parallels with Jesus, but to suggest a certain kind of contrast. Nietzsche is primarily saying that mythological figure of Jesus actually represents the mistake of failing to see that being a man is enough, that the important task of transcending the all-too-human requires nothing genuinely inhuman or supernatural, nothing inhabiting some inaccessible noumenal realms, nothing beyond the reach of flesh-and-blood humans. Nietzsche's primary point is that to be "a man" alone is to be actually more than "a Christ": his position is that the very idea of "a Christ" is in truth an empty impossibility, that it is nothing more than a dangerous creation of the human imagination. One of the main purposes of Ecce Homo was to offer Nietzsche's own perspective on his work as a philosopher and human being. He wrote: "Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits, even more the pride of my instincts, revolt at bottom – namely, to say: Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!" Throughout the course of the book, he expounds — in the characteristically hyperbolic style found in his later period (1886–1888) — upon his life as a child, his tastes as an individual, and his vision for humanity. He gives reviews and insights about his various works, including: The Birth of Tragedy, The Untimely Meditations, Human, All Too Human, The Dawn, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morality, Twilight of the Idols and The Case of Wagner. The last chapter of Ecce Homo, entitled "Why I Am a Destiny", is primarily concerned with reiterating Nietzsche's thoughts on Christianity, corroborating Christianity's decadence and his ideas as to uncovering Christian morality. He signs the book "Dionysus versus the Crucified."


Over 5 million passengers are expected to cruise the Baltic in 2018, following in the path of Viking explorers and Russian Tsars. Often overlooked by its glitzy Mediterranean neighbour, this fascinating region is brimming with history and culture: from onion-domed churches to Cold War relics, medieval villages and modern Nordic cuisine. Highlights include Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Gdansk, Berlin and St. Petersburg … all bathed in the long and lingering twilight of northern summers.
St. Petersburg is the jewel in the region's crown and the pinnacle of every Baltic cruise. Glittering palaces, eye-poppingly colourful churches and imperial monuments are all within reach, normally on planned excursions to comply with strict visitor visa rules, although independent travel is possible for those who are sufficiently organised and confident.
Copenhagen is the gateway to the Baltic and the birthplace of contemporary Nordic cuisine. Tivoli Gardens, the traditional amusement park famous for inspiring Walt Disney and Hans Christian Andersen, is within walking distance of the port and easily enjoyed as a day trip.
Most cruise ships weave through the stunning Stockholm archipelago as they enter and leave the Swedish capital, revealing this serene and magical place at a gentle pace. Many Swedes escape for the weekend to these 20,000 rocky islands, covered in pristine forest and dotted with idyllic summer cabins, to nurture their love of the outdoors.
Dating back to 1252, Gamla Stan, in central Stockholm, is one of Europe's largest and best-preserved medieval towns. The kaleidoscope of colourful old houses, narrow streets and quaint cafés provide the perfect backdrop to do Fika – delicious coffee and cake. Tallinn and Riga are beautiful UNESCO-listed old towns; with a maze of cobbled alleyways winding past immaculately conserved Hanseatic houses and market squares.
Europe has seen huge change since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. A Baltic cruise takes in many important aspects of this historical shift: from the deserted concrete buildings of Tallinn, reminiscent of a lost Soviet era, to the infamous landmarks of Berlin. To see the towering Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie, be prepared for a full day of travelling from the charming German town of Warnemunde.
The Baltic Sea is on the UK's geographical doorstep, connected by a narrow channel off the Danish coastline or through the busy Kiel Canal. Many cruises to the region depart from UK ports, with round-trip itineraries leaving from Southampton, Dover, Portsmouth, Tilbury, Newcastle and Harwich. For the traveller who doesn't like planes, a Baltic cruise is the perfect no-fly option.
Louise Farquhar is the founder of Water Earth Air – The Ultimate Cruise Guide for ocean, river, land and air adventures.
Please visit www.waterearthair.com to find out more about Louise.


Christians can feel suicidal. How might we help a brother or sister in those circumstances?
There is a wonderful exploration of this in John Bunyan's masterpiece, Pilgrim's Progress. Christian, the pilgrim in view, is imprisoned with his friend Hopeful in Doubting Castle – home of Giant Despair. The giant beats them senseless and throws them into a dark, stinking cell.
So when morning was come, Giant Despair goes to them in a surly manner as before, and perceiving them to be very sore with the stripes that he had given them the day before, he told them, that since they were never like to come out of that place, their only way would be forthwith to make an end of themselves, either with knife, noose or poison, for why, said he, should you chose life, seeing it is attended with such bitterness?
Brother, said Christian, what shall we do? The life that we now live is miserable. For my part I know not whether is best, to live thus, or to die out of hand. My soul chooseth strangling rather than life, and the grave is more easy for me than this dungeon.
At this moment Christian's friend, Hopeful, begins a conversation (healing always begins with a conversation). To be honest, he does not get off to a great start, he plays the guilt card; suggesting that suicide is self-murder and that God won't like it.
This was typical thinking for Bunyan's time - until 1961 suicide was a criminal offense in England and those who took their own lives were not buried in consecrated ground – but times have changed, and it is not recommended to use this kind of reasoning with a potential suicide.
My brother, said Hope, rememberest thou not how valiant thou hast been heretofore? Apollyon could not crush thee, nor could all that thou didst hear, see or feel in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. What hardship, terror and amazement thou hast already gone through!
Later, he reassures Christian that he is not alone, encouraging him to be patient, reassuring him that his mood will lift.
Thou seest that I am in the dungeon with thee, a far weaker man by nature than thou art; also, this Giant has wounded me as well as thee, and hath also cut off the bread and water from my mouth; and with thee I mourn without the light. But let us exercise a little more patience.
On Saturday, about midnight, they began to pray, and continued in prayer till almost break of day. Now, a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out in this passionate speech; What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
At first sight this looks contrived, "Dude, I just found a key!" But Bunyan is telling us that the key to a suicidal crisis in within ourselves all the time. John Bunyan knew from experience that the simple things – God's promises, hopeful waiting, prayer, trusting, reasons for living – are completely forgotten in a crisis. The job of those who support is to keep our friend alive until they find their keys and use them.
In summary, what does Hopeful do that we can emulate?
And one last thing, unavailable to Hopeful and Christian in their stinking dungeon, get help! Keep a note of the contact number of your local crisis support team on your phone, you never know when you may need it.


People often referred to Graham as the Pastor to the Presidents. This was because he interacted and counselled everyone from Harry Truman to our current president Trump. After the watergate scandal involving Nixon, Graham stepped away from his heavier involvement with Politics and continued to focus on his events and Crusades.


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by Terence Samuel
It was a day that produced endless sad narratives for Democrats. Still, watching Tom Daschle concede defeat had to be among the toughest moments.
Democrats, who'd watched their Senate leader stand up and poke his finger in the eye of the Bush White House time and time again, were suddenly forced to watch as he sank over the horizon. It was Daschle's willingness -- some would say belated willingness -- to confront the White House that had provided Democrats with their only real political leverage in Washington over the last four years. And it was Daschle who (with apologies to Howard Dean) began the broad critique of the president's handling of the Iraq War that dominated the presidential campaign. And that's why he was became the GOP's top target in this cycle of congressional elections.
Daschle will soon be gone, and Republicans will have padded their advantage by winning all five southern seats being vacated by Democrats in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida. With 55 Republican senators in the next Congress, the GOP edges closer to that 60-seat target that would allow them to end any threat of a filibuster, which Daschle used so artfully.
What lessons should Senate Democrats learn from the Daschle defeat?
They could either acknowledge the power of the White House to mobilize and take out anyone who gets in their way; so get out of their way, or they could continue in the spirit of Daschle, who had to know what he was up against and chose the fight anyway. He often won, and he drove the White House mad with frustration.
The first piece of business is choosing someone to replace Daschle. No one, apparently, can really challenge Nevada Senator Harry Reid's claim to the job. Yet the question remains: Is it wise to choose someone as your leader whose partisan duties make him vulnerable at home?
In 2000, South Dakota voted for George W. Bush by a bigger margin that Texas did. And by 2002, the Senate race in South Dakota was being billed as proxy fight between Daschle and Bush. Meanwhile, Daschle told anyone who would listen that his top priority in 2002 was to make sure that fellow Democrat Tim Johnson got re-elected. Daschle won that showdown when Johnson beat John Thune by 524 votes. But Daschle sowed the seeds of his own demise, for it was the same Thune who knocked Daschle this year off in what was one of the nastiest campaigns in the country.
Daschle watched a series of failures in 2002 -- Max Cleland in Georgia, Jean Carnahan in Missouri, and the Paul Wellstone seat in Minnesota -- and decided to stop playing nice.
In the spring of 2003, shortly before the United States invaded Iraq, Daschle went before a meeting of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and laid into Bush about his approach to the war and the world:
"I'm saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're forced to go to war," Daschle said. "I'm saddened … because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was critical for our country."
Republicans were apoplectic.
"Those comments may not undermine the president as he leads us into war, and they may not give comfort to our adversaries, but they come mighty close," House Speaker Dennis Hastert complained. "Senator Daschle has spent more time criticizing the leadership of President Bush than he has spent criticizing the tyranny of Saddam Hussein."
Ohio's Deborah Pryce, chair of the GOP House Conference, chimed in. "The entire country," she said, "should be saddened by such blatant political attacks at a time when America's sons and daughters are preparing for military action to rid the world of terrorism."
At the time, pundits decreed that Daschle was committing political suicide: Presidential scholar Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution, for example, said the minority leader would live to regret his remarks about the war. Hess was proved right this week.
So where does that leave Reid and his shrinking band of warriors? Do they play with the White House or off it? There are no obvious red-state targets among the 17 Democrats up for re-election in 2006; Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Ben Nelson of Nebraska are the two who come closest. So barring another round of retirements, Reid may not have anything to lose by playing Daschle ball when it comes to new cabinet confirmations, new judges, new tax cuts, and more spending for the war.
Terence Samuel is the chief congressional correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. His column about politics appears each week in the Prospect's online edition.
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Rubber bathing caps cut up, string,
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Replica of a work by Marcel Duchamp, dated 1917, made according to Richard Hamilton's 1966 version.
"...They were generally pieces of bathing caps, made out of rubber, that I cut up and glued together, that had no particular shape. After a few pieces there was a string that was attached to the four corners of the room; so when you entered the room, you couldn't move around because the strings would stop you. The length of string varied, the form was ad lib, that was what interested me. The game lasted three or four years, but the rubber vulcanized and disappeared."
Marcel Duchamp, interview with Pierre Cabanne, 1967
Exhibition view,
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On Saturday, September 19 the men's and women's cross country programs will compete in the Commodore Classic in Nashville, Tennesse hosted by Vanderbilt University. The men will run an 8K at 9:00 a.m., and the women will follow in a 5K at 10:00 a.m.
The field consists of 23 women's teams and 21 men's teams, including 18 teams that are ranked within their region. The Vanderbilt and Michigan women highlight the group as they rank 22 and 12 in the nation respectively.
Distance coach Michael Porter feels despite the team's training this year, they're fresh enough to compete in this weekend's race.
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In Sunday's Spanish general elections, a dangerous pattern seen time and again in Europe is repeating itself. As with the National Front in France, the Freedom Party in Austria, the Law and Justice Party in Poland, and the Alternative for Germany, extreme-right parties are emerging as the main beneficiary of the disintegration of discredited social-democratic parties.
In Spain the fascistic Vox party, which had less than 1 percent of the vote and no parliamentarians last year, has risen to 15 percent and doubled its number of legislators, to 52, since the last elections in April. Its officials openly hail the 1936 coup and the resulting civil war and mass murder carried out by fascist dictator Francisco Franco, whose regime held power from 1939 to 1978. Despite broad opposition in the working class to Francoism, however, it is surging. How is this to be explained?
The major factor in the growth of the extreme right in Europe, as in the United States, is the growth of malignant levels of social inequality. In Spain, after the 2008 Wall Street crash, unemployment surged to a quarter of the workforce and half the youth, even as Spain's 26 billionaires amassed vast wealth. Growing anger at social inequality is the basic motive force driving mass protests in dozens of countries, including mass protests at police state repression of the Catalan independence referendum. Masses of workers and youth are striving to find a socialist alternative to capitalism.
Even amid growing popular opposition to capitalism and support for socialism, however, parties claiming to be "left" do not oppose capitalism. The empty and demagogic promises these pseudo-left organizations make disillusion and anger working people. There can be no clearer illustration of this than the response of Spain's "left populist" Podemos ("We can") party to the recent election.
Less than 48 hours after the election, Podemos leapt into a "pre-accord" with the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) to form a coalition government. The PSOE and Podemos are seeking further coalition partners among Catalan or Basque nationalist parties, to form a parliamentary majority for what various media outlets call a "progressive" or even a "far left" government. However, the PSOE-Podemos "pre-accord" commits them to European Union (EU) austerity and continuing the PSOE's military spending increases and its police crackdown to impose "social peace" in Catalonia.
This morning, Podemos General Secretary Pablo Iglesias published an open letter, ostensibly addressed to the Podemos membership, announcing that Podemos will implement right-wing policies. He wrote, "The right-wing parties and media representatives of corporate power will hit us very hard, each step we take. We will be a minority in a government with the PSOE in which we will face many limits and contradictions, and we will have to give up on many things."
Podemos is thus creating conditions for Vox to continue to grow, by posturing as the only opposition to the anti-worker policies of the political establishment.
Podemos, like its first cousin the Syriza ("Coalition of the Radical Left") government in Greece, is based on fraudulent theories of "left populism" that reject the working class, class struggle, socialism, and revolutionary policies. Chantal Mouffe, the postmodernist writer and associate of leading members of the Syriza and Podemos parties, has laid these arguments out quite explicitly.
In her pamphlet For a Left Populism published last year, Mouffe declares: "What is urgently needed is a left populist strategy aimed at the construction of a 'people,' combining the variety of democratic resistances against post-democracy in order to establish a more democratic hegemonic formation. … I contend that it does not require a 'revolutionary' break with the liberal democratic regime."
Even as Mouffe's book appeared, her political charlatanry had been exposed by the Syriza government's record. While Syriza promised voters to end EU austerity, it rejected revolutionary measures and an appeal to European workers for support against the EU; its "more democratic hegemonic formation," was a government coalition formed in 2015 with the far-right Independent Greeks. In the end, Syriza utterly betrayed its election promises, imposing tens of billions in EU social cuts and imprisoning tens of thousands of refugees in detention camps in the Greek islands.
After the Syriza disaster, it is the turn of Podemos to help the PSOE assemble a "more democratic hegemonic formation." Such a coalition would prove as hostile to workers in Spain as in Greece. Since it negotiated with the fascist Francoite regime a Transition to parliamentary rule in 1978, the PSOE has been the bourgeoisie's principal instrument to impose EU austerity and wage imperialist wars, from Afghanistan to Libya. Podemos is now endorsing the reactionary policies the PSOE will pursue.
It would be worse than useless to appeal to the affluent university professors, state officials, army officers and union bureaucracy making up Podemos to pursue a less regressive policy. Podemos is opposed to any initiative by the working class that would in any way impinge on the wealth, property and material interests of its affluent middle class base. Mouffe's fraudulent theory of "left populism" seeks to provide theoretical legitimacy to the reactionary anti-socialist and pro-capitalist program of organizations like Podemos and Syriza.
Mouffe's "left-populism" reeks of intellectual charlatanry and political cynicism. She writes, "It is to be expected that this left populist strategy will be denounced by the sectors of the left who keep reducing politics to the contradiction of capital/labor and attribute an ontological privilege to the working class, presented as the vehicle for socialist revolution. They will of course see this as a capitulation to 'bourgeois ideology.' There is no point answering these criticisms, that proceed from the very conception of politics against which I have been arguing."
The fascist resurgence has exposed the bankruptcy of the pseudo-left. Its defense of capitalism and rejection of any policy that impinges the prerogatives of bourgeois property and wealth precludes any appeal to the working class. The role being played by Podemos essentially duplicates the treacherous role played by Stalinists and social democrats in the Spain of the 1930s. Their alliance with a section of the Spanish bourgeoisie in what was called a Popular Front ruled out revolutionary policies in the fight against General Franco and his fascist allies. The result was the crushing of the socialist revolution and Franco's victory.
The lessons of the 1930s must be learned. The fight against fascism today requires an assault by the working class on capitalist property, aimed at the expropriation of the financial aristocracy.
Alex Lantier
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The lid is artfully hand-engraved with the monogram "LMM" in a lovely, feminine stylized ribbon font. The lid fits tightly and is in excellent condition with just a few minute and shallow dents. The cut glass jar is a beauty in its own right - clear and free of chips or repairs. There are a few minor scattered nicks to the fan cuts in a few places around the jar. Wear on the jar bottom is representative of age and use.


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Mistakes not permitted – modern life influences football's intolerance
GRAEME Souness wasn't being deliberately dismissive of women's football, he's never been a man to shy away from a tough challenge and he's forthright, opinionated and knows the game inside out. His comment at the Chelsea versus Tottenham game was careless, no doubt about it, but it was blown up out of all proportion like so many comments and attitudes that get pulled apart on social media. Most abuse was, typically, made behind the shroud of anonymity, but as soon as Souness talked of "man's game" it was only a matter of seconds before the first reaction. He made a mistake, for sure.
Meanwhile, after that same game, Chelsea fans (of which I am one) were getting ready to demand referee Anthony Taylor never officiates another fixture involving their team. True, there were some suspect decisions, but these things level out over a season, don't they? A petition was created and thousands signed it. Taylor was as popular as a mass murderer among Chelsea's frustrated followers.
And then we have Martin Tyler, a veteran commentator, who inadvertently linked Hillsborough with the problem of hooliganism in talking about the changes in the game. This was a very unfortunate remark to make even though we all knew what Tyler was trying to say. Liverpool fans were outraged and insisted Tyler should never be allowed anywhere near Anfield. Tyler apologised for his mistake and was going to meet with Liverpool to explain himself. Still the abuse continued.
In each case, errors were made just as mistakes are made on the pitch and in every walk of life. Football's audience is unforgiving to the point where nobody seems to get a second chance, apart from the local hero who commits an offence on the pitch. Quite often the fans' favourite is a clenched-fist, sweat-soaked battler who might well be a persistent offender and a controversial character, but he's pardoned because "he's one of our own".
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People are passionate about football and frankly, they place too much importance on a single incident rather than look at a broader picture. Chelsea against Spurs was a cracking game with plenty of controversy, yet the worst thing that happened was the childish behaviour of two grown caught up in the heat of the moment. Martin Tyler and Graeme Souness have given so much to the game of football over the years, they really deserve the benefit of the doubt. Both should be more careful, but apologies and explanations should be accepted rather than continued drama, accusations and foul-mouthed abuse.
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Recent news that Pizza Express, is engaging in 'debt talks' has sparked fears that it could be the next company to disappear from the high street. Will it be possible to turn the company's fortunes around?
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Whilst each business operates differently, patterns are starting to emerge between struggling businesses within the sector. So, what can Pizza Express learn from the problems experienced by other restaurant chains and will spotting the warning signs be enough to prevent another retail casualty?
A lot can be learned from a close examination of the last set of statutory accounts for Jamie's Italian, which highlight a number of issues. For example, increases in national living wage; food cost inflation; menu complexities; increases in rent and rates; and the appointment of a new executive management team, all contributed to the demise of the business. And Jamie's is not alone – many other businesses in the sector are experiencing similar issues.
In a bid to improve its cash position, Jamie's Italian tried a number of different strategies, starting with a change of management team in 2017. Their plans also included the introduction of new menus, which were designed to reduce complexities in the kitchen and lower food and wage costs. In addition, the management team carried out a comprehensive review of supply contracts and procedures and took the decision to close unprofitable sites.
The 2017 accounts also shed light on a number of planned developments, which were intended to bring about improvements, but ultimately were not followed through. For example, these developments included plans to recruit sector and change management specialists; capital investment in the chain's remaining restaurants; devising a new menu and enhancing the restaurant experience.
There was also a focus on reviewing the supply chain, implementing a cost reduction programme and forging new commercial alliances with operators in order to drive top-line growth. These developments were scheduled to begin after September 2018, however, due to the financial results and position of the company, they never went ahead.
For business owners in the sector, it is vitally important to keep a firm grasp of financial performance. This will ensure that improvements in revenue translate into improvements in profits and increased business value. For restaurant owners, reviewing financial results regularly and benchmarking key performance indicators (KPIs) against industry standards is crucial to developing a sustainable and profitable business.
As well as focusing on KPIs, businesses in the sector should strive to maintain control of their gross profit margin and ensure that existing management accounting systems are capable of providing accurate and timely results. Typically, in the restaurant industry, the gross profit margin of a business would range from 60-70 percent, with the casual dining market sitting at the lower end of this range. If gross profit margins dip below these levels, managers need to know immediately so they can take remedial action.
If gross profit margins start to fall, this could be due to a number of factors. The cost base could be too high, sale prices may not be set at the right amount, and there could be overuse of sale discounts – the latter is a sales tactic that Pizza Express has used a lot over a number of years. At Jamie's Italian, the business' proposition centred on 'ethically and well-sourced produce, healthy eating and imaginative Italian food'. However, critically, the restaurant failed to ensure this focus on healthy eating delivered healthy profits.
In recent years, the industry has seen significant pressure on wage costs, which have affected the profitability of businesses. For example, increases in national living wage, national minimum wage, pension costs, and a general shortage of staff have all impacted the sector. In this challenging climate, business owners need to keep control of wages costs and prevent them from spiralling out of control.
Whilst Menzies' industry experts recommend that wage costs should not exceed 27-30 percent of turnover, the accounts for Jamie's Italian, for example, highlight that they had reached 38 percent of turnover by December 2017. If wage costs were kept within the recommended range through 2016-17, the business could have added about £10m to its profit and loss account.
Aside from wage costs, the other key cost in restaurant businesses relates to property. Menzies' industry experts recommend that these should represent about 10 percent of turnover. Whilst the level of property costs in the accounts for Jamie's Italian is not clear, lease documents suggest that total property rents amounted to £12.8m per annum, or 11.6 percent of the company's annual turnover, excluding any charge for rates.
Whilst hindsight is a wonderful thing, a detailed analysis of what went wrong at Jamie's Italian could help other businesses to avoid making the same mistakes. There may still be time for Pizza Express to learn from past mistakes and make the changes needed to secure its profitability and trim costs. Anything that can be done to keep pizza on the menu and on the High Street has to be worth the investment.
Dave Gosling is a partner and hospitality & leisure sector specialist at top 20 accountancy firm, Menzies LLP
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Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
Af James Sands Elliott
I WAS stimulated to write these Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by a recent sojourn in the south-eastern part of Europe. The name of the book defines, to some extent, its limitations, for my desire has been to give merely a general outline of the most important stages in the advancement of the healing art in the two Empires to which modern civilization is most deeply indebted. There are a few great works on the history of medicine by continental writers, such, for instance, as those by the German writers, Baas, Sprengel, and Puschmann, but, generally speaking, the subject has been much neglected.
I cherish the hope that this little work may appeal to doctors, to medical students, and to those of the public who are interested in a narration of the progress of knowledge, and who realize that the investigation of the body in health and disease has been one of the most important features of human endeavour.
The medical profession deserves censure for neglect of its own history, and pity 'tis that so many practitioners know nothing of the story of their art. For this reason many reputed discoveries are only re-discoveries; as Bacon wrote:
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"Medicine is a science which hath been, as we have said, more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, and small progression." Of late years, however, the History of Medicine has been coming into its kingdom. Universities are establishing courses of lectures on the subject, and the Royal Society of Medicine recently instituted a historical section.
The material I have used in this book has been gathered from many sources, and, as far as possible, references have been given, but I have sought for, and taken, information wherever it could best be found. As Montaigne wrote: "I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together."
I have to express my indebtedness to my friend, Mr. J. Scott Riddell, M.V.O., M.A., M.B., C.M., Senior Surgeon, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, for his great kindness in reading the proof-sheets, preparing the index and seeing this book through the press and so removing one of the difficulties which an author writing overseas has to encounter; also to my publishers for their courtesy and attention. JAMES SANDS ELLIOTT.
Wellington,
CHAPTER I.
EARLY ROMAN MEDICINE.
Origin of Healing-Temples-Lectisternium-Temple of
Esculapius - Archagathus-Domestic Medicine—
Greek Doctors-Cloaca Maxima-Aqueducts-State
of the early Empire
CHAPTER II.
EARLY GREEK MEDICINE.
Apollo Esculapius - Temples - Serpents - Gods of
Health-Melampus - Homer - Machaon - Poda-
larius-Temples of Esculapius-Methods of Treat-
ment Gymnasia - Classification of Renouard-
Pythagoras-Democedes-Greek Philosophers
CHAPTER III.
HIPPOCRATES.
His life and works-His influence on Medicine ...
CHAPTER IV.
PLATO, ARISTOTLE, THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA, AND
EMPIRICISM.
Plato-Aristotle-Alexandrian School-Its Origin-Its
Influence-Lithotomy-Herophilus-Erasistratus-
Cleombrotus-Chrysippos-Anatomy-Empiricism
-Serapion of Alexandria
CHAPTER V.
ROMAN MEDICINE AT THE END OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE
BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE.
Asclepiades of Prusa-Themison of Laodicea-Method-
ism-Wounds of Julius Cæsar-Systems of Philo-
State of the country - Roman quacks
sophy
Slaves and Freedmen-Lucius Horatillavus
CHAPTER VI.
IN THE REIGN OF THE CESARS TO THE DEATH OF NERO.
Augustus-His illnesses-Antonius Musa-Mæcenas-
Tiberius Caligula - Claudius-Nero - Seneca-
Astrology-Archiater-Women poisoners-Oculists
PHYSICIANS FROM THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS TO THE DEATH
OF NERO.
Celsus-His life and works-His influence on Medicine
-Meges of Sidon-Apollonius of Tyana-Alleged
miracles - Vettius Valleus - Scribonius Longus-
Andromachus-Thessalus of Tralles-Pliny
CHAPTER VIII.
THE FIRST AND SECOND CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
Athenæus-Pneumatism - Eclectics-Agathinus-Are-
tæus Archigenes - Dioscorides-Cassius Felix-
Pestilence in Rome-Ancient surgical instruments
- Herodotus - Heliodorus - Cælius Aurelianus -
Soranus-Rufus of Ephesus-Marinus-Quintus
CHAPTER IX.
GALEN.


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How I Won a Scholarship for WWDC 2016
By Sanaa Squalli
How I Won a Scholarship for WWDC 2016Sanaa SqualliJune 3, 2016 January 19, 2020
Originally posted on my blog: SanaaSqualli.com
Recently, I won a scholarship for WWDC 2016. Since being asked several times how I managed to get the scholarship, I decided to write a post to share my experience with other people that might be interested.
Before I go into details I'll start first with a short description of the conference.
What is WWDC?
WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) is an annual conference held by Apple Inc. at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco, California.
The conference is a one-week event, bringing together several thousand developers from around the world.
It starts with a keynote speech where Apple usually announces the future of their operating systems (OS X, iOS, watchOS and tvOS). During the week, developers can attend valuable workshops and software sessions to learn and practice how to use the latest Apple technologies. Also, there is a huge party to celebrate the end of the week with WWDC new friends and music.
How do you participate?
WWDC tickets are allocated through a random selection process due to limited availability.
Developers who want to attend must a member of Apple Developer Program before the announcement day, and submit their registration by a deadline set by Apple. If they win the lottery, they will be charged $1599 for the ticket.
What's a WWDC Scholarship?
Apple rewards 350 talented students and members of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) organizations–such as App Camp for Girls, Code.org, LaTechLa, Women Who Code, Blacks in Technology, etc.–with the opportunity to attend WWDC free of charge.
The winners are invited to an orientation day the Sunday prior the keynote event.
Are you eligible for WWDC Scholarship?
To be eligible for WWDC scholarship you have all of the following:
–You must be over 13 years old and a student or member of a STEM organization.
–Developers have to be registered either under a free developer account or a paid Apple developer program.
–They have to submit an application they have worked on that demonstrates a creative use of the latest Apple technologies.
–Applications will be judged on technical accomplishment in the submitted application, the creativity of ideas in the submitted application, and quality of written responses to the questions in the application form.
Results of the application status are communicated one week after the submission deadline.
How I Won a WWDC Scholarship
I was rejected from the random selection process to attend WWDC 2016 by Apple, but I knew there are other channels for getting a WWDC ticket. I believe life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Determined to earn a ticket, I did some research and realized that I was actually eligible for a WWDC scholarship as a member of Women Who Code group and as a Mac OS X developer.
For the WWDC scholarship, despite having a very short time (3 days) before the submission deadline, I decided to take the challenge and develop my first iOS app solely in Swift–a powerful and intuitive programming language for iOS, OS X, tvOS, and watchOS. My iOS app allows users to share their current location address with their friends.
It has a list and a map view history of all previously shared positions.
The user can also keep track of how many times he/she shared a given location, re-view the address on a map or re-share it using Force touch.
This app groups creative use of Apple technologies such as Swift, Social Sharing, Maps, 3D Touch, Auto Layout, Core Animation and Core Data.
As this was my first iOS app, there were some challenges such as:
–How to use Swift correctly
–How to send information via Message, Social app .. and receive feedback
–How to better use Auto Layout to support the different screens of iPhones
–How to store, edit and update data on an iPhone
–How to use 3D Touch features on iOS
–How to integrate Maps
Reading Apple documentation and tutorials, I managed to overcome these technical challenges.
Developing an iOS app was very interesting for me, I'm proud of what I delivered in a very short time. I'm motivated to continue developing and improving my app.
The application is available on the App Store, you can download it from here Hoona on the App Store.
My Advice for Winning a WWDC Scholarship
I continually push myself to learn the latest technologies to deliver innovative solutions.
I believe WWDC is an opportunity for a developer to stay up-to-date about iOS and Mac OS X technologies.
Getting a WWDC scholarship can be daunting for first-timers. Being proactive and focused is key.
I encourage students and women who want to attend to WWDC to believe in themselves. There are prerequisites for the selection process. To improve your chances of winning the scholarship, make sure you follow the eligibility requirements I described earlier.
Are you planning on applying for WWDC scholarship? Let me know if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
Please feel free to share your own experience in a comment, personal experience is always interesting to hear. ?
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Dayton Aviation Heritage
National Historical Park Ohio
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park is a
five-unit park located in and around Dayton, Ohio.
The Wright Cycle Company Complex
The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center
Aviation Trail, Inc. Visitor Center and Museum
The Wright Cycle Company building
16 South Williams Street, Dayton, OH 45402
Main phone #: (937) 225-7705
During inclement weather, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park follows the opening/closure decisions of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. For up to date operating status information during inclement weather, visit the WPAFB Operating Status page. This information is updated daily. You can also call (937) 225-7705 for more information.
Closed on the following holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
Seasonal Hours of Operation:
SUMMER SEASONAL HOURS:
March through October
Open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Every Day
WINTER SEASONAL HOURS:
November through February
CLOSED on Mondays and Tuesdays
Open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Wednesday through Sunday
Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center
2380 Memorial Road, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433
Dayton History at Carillon Historical Park
1000 Carillon Boulevard, Dayton, OH 45409
9:30 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Saturday
12:00 noon to 5:00 pm Sunday
Closed on the following days: Thanksgiving Day, December 24 & 25 and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site
219 North Paul Laurence Dunbar Street, Dayton, OH 45401
10:00 am to 4:00 pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Closed Monday through Thursday
Last tour begins at 3:30 pm
For more information call (937) 225-7005, ext. 224 or email the site.
Hawthorn Hill
For more information and tour reservations,
contact Dayton History at Carillon Historical Park at (937) 293-2874
Mansion tours and times:
10:00 am and 12:30 pm Wednesdays and Saturdays
16 South Williams Street


The Bayan Community night was a great success. Parents, Teachers, Board members, Students and Staff all came together and shared important information. A wonderful evening with wonderful people. Bayan is truly on a journey to excellence.


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    babel = require('gulp-babel'),
    buffer = require('vinyl-buffer'),
    sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'),
    uglify = require('gulp-uglify'),
    minify = require('gulp-minify'),
    imagemin = require('gulp-imagemin'),
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    notifier = require("node-notifier"),
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    ngAnnotate = require('gulp-ng-annotate'),
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Local Church to Distribute FREE Produce Today
A Tuscaloosa church will be handing out free boxes of produce and fresh fruit today thanks to the USDA Farmers to Family Food Box Program.
Saint John Baptist Church, located at 1709 Tenth Avenue, will be distributing the boxes to families from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. today. No ID is required to receive the boxes, and all are welcome to attend. The distribution will occur in the parking lot of the church.
The United States Department of Agriculture began the Farmers to Family Food Box Program to help Americans receive fresh food during the novel Coronavirus pandemic. The USDA is purchasing produce, fruit, meat, and dairy products from local farmers whose wares were originally intended to be sold to restaurants and bulk food distributors. Transportation agencies are then hired by the USDA to ship the food, and then it's given to those in need in our communities.
Nationwide, the USDA's Farmers to Families Food Box Program will begin to distribute over $1.2 billion in food products to those in need this week and is anticipated to spend $3 million weekly. The program is made possible by the Coronavirus Relief Act passed last month. Thank you to Congresswoman Terri Sewell, our 7th Congressional District United States Representative of for her work in getting this vital piece of legislation passed.
I think it's fantastic that this program has been started as a way to ensure that all our families have access to fresh and wholesome food during this difficult time. Read more about the Farmers to Families Food Box Program HERE.
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The Tuscan Leveling System is a three part system comprising: Cap, Strap and a Tool for setting.
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3. In some cases the Dashboard Utilization Display Type could not be set to "Bar Gauge".


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Mobile Editor
NBC News is looking for an experienced mobile editor to join its platforms team in New York City. The editor will curate the NBC News app, write breaking news alerts for app and email, and contribute to daily and long-term app curation and alert strategy. Although the editor will be focused on the NBC News app, they will be part of a larger platforms team and will also contribute to the curation of NBCNews.com and MSNBC.com.
The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in mobile trends, and have experience curating a mobile app and sending news alerts for a major news organization. The editor will be a talented headline writer, have a keen interest in analytics and SEO, and have a sharp eye for what resonates with a mobile audience. This position requires strong news judgment and an understanding of what drives audiences to click on stories and watch video on mobile. They need to be a breaking news junkie, and love getting enterprise journalism in front of as many eyes as possible.
This position requires the ability to make decisions under pressure and to change footing quickly and multitask when news breaks. The editor needs to show immaculate attention to detail, as well as a sense for the mix — balance, diversity and tone — of stories on our platforms. The candidate must also have the skill set of a frontline news editor: a breadth of knowledge about national and international stories, an ability to copy edit and experience with digital publishing in a content management system.
The candidate should have a minimum of four years' experience and will report to the senior editor of NBC News Digital's platforms team in New York.
The position is represented by the NewsGuild-CWA.
Curate NBC News Digital's app with a lively mix of breaking news, politics, enterprise reporting and video
Write and edit mobile alerts and breaking news emails
Write sharp, compelling headlines. A/B testing
Monitor real-time analytics to inform programming and alert strategy
Working with photo editors to art the app
Distribute and pitch stories to Apple New, Smartnews, Flipboard, etc.
• 4+ years' experience working for a major news organization.
• Prior experience editing a mobile app is a must.
• A flare for writing eye-catching headlines and knowledge of SEO best practices
• Proven experience displaying news judgment and finding the element of a story that will drive readers to click.
• A broad knowledge of current affairs, including politics, social justice, international affairs, pop culture and sports.
• Must be comfortable collaborating in a creative but demanding environment under tight deadlines
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY
At NBCUniversal, we believe in the talent of our people. It's our passion and commitment to excellence that drives NBCU's vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It's what makes us uniquely NBCU. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us.