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Eight Courses - 40 Hours of study. Select Eight of the following texts or DVDs. Newburgh Theological Seminary, Newburgh College of the Bible.
Read the selected text or view the selected DVD. Write a 10 to 20 page summary paper.
Note: No Travel Seminars are emailed to you via Internet/computer. We do not mail out DVDS. No Travel Seminars are never required and are optional studies.
The summary paper is a review of the material you read or watched via DVD.
Simply include in the summary review what you read and learned in your reading or viewing. Please include in your paper the following: Five to ten principles, truths or themes covered in the text or DVD. You may write one page of summary per chapter reviewing the chapter. Please do not write more than 20 pages of summary review notes per text. Email your assignment to schoolassignment@aol.com.
******The Christian Apologetics MA requires a 15 to 20 page theme paper.
This paper is a defense of a Christian doctrine or belief. Utilize the Dissertation Title submission tab on this website to submit your theme idea. We will email with approval or suggestions.
No Travel Seminars or Accelerated Seminars: Up to three seminars are allowed for the Masters degree and and up to three for the doctoral degree. A seminar will count as one textbook. Five core courses are required for this degree.
A core is one of the following courses or a seminar that is counted as as Apologetics seminar. Three electives are allowed for this program. An elective text or seminar may be from any of the other degree programs.
CAPO 600 Creation, Evolution and Deception DVD will phase this one out this semester.
CAPO 640 Creation: Science Confirms the Bible is True (DVD) Soon to be phased out.
The Ph.D. is a 50 hour program that focuses primarily on the dissertation. The dissertation must be from 60 to 120 pages. Please include a minimum of 20 references in your Bibliography.
Follow Turabian's guide to term papers and dissertations. A recognized, collegiate dissertation guide may be used. Turabian is normally easily obtainable by most of our students.
Six textbooks may be chosen from the following list. Please write 10 to 20 pages of summary review notes on each textbook. A good guide is to write about one page of review summary on each chapter. Please include in each paper five to ten themes that are covered in the text.
No Travel Seminars: You may substitute up to three seminars for three textbooks. A seminar counts for one textbook. Seminars are always optional and not required.
A Wonderful program of study! Why not start today?


The Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve is the first one designated in Paraguay. It corresponds to a hotspot of biodiversity in the continental part of the Mata Atlántica's biologic corridor.
It is a tropical humid forest ecosystem type, which includes low altitude, medium altitude and inundated Atlantic semi-deciduous forests and savannas with palm trees, dry forests, tropical savannah and pasturelands.
More than 16,000 people (2000), including indigenous and local peasants, live in the buffer zone, engaged in agriculture, hunting, logging and fishing, tourism and commerce activities. Only 6% of the population has access to potable water services.
In the transition area more than 96,800 inhabitants live in urban and industrial areas and develop forest exploitation of native forest, regulated by the provincial authorities.
The management and administration of the biosphere reserve is undertaken by a private foundation. The GEF-World Bank project for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in Mbaracayú is being developed in the Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve since February 2003.
Local populations have been involved in the biosphere reserve project from the start and they are also involved in interdisciplinary research projects on the conservation of natural areas and resources.
Local awareness programs have also been developed to promote management practices for sustainable use of natural resources such as agro-forestry, enrichment of degraded forests, establishment of subsistence cultivation, capacity building, etc.


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Contemporary furniture producer TON is the long-living Czech incarnation of the legendary Thonet company—the oldest surviving furniture manufacturer in the world—founded by German-Austrian cabinetmaker and entrepreneur Michael Thonet in the late 19th century. An acronym for "Továrna ohýbaného nábytku" (in Czech, "Factory for bentwood furniture"), TON nominally refers to the Bystřice pod Hostýnem-based factory that Thonet himself established in 1861.
Bystřice pod Hostýnem was chosen as the site for TON thanks to its abundance of skilled labor and beech wood, the crucial raw material for Thonet's signature steam-bent wood furniture. The factory quickly blossomed into the primary manufacturing base (out of, eventually, seven) for the greater Thonet. By 1912, the company there employed 2000 workers, who yielded, annually, a range both prolific and pioneering—about 445,000 total pieces of Thonet's tables, storage pieces, and, most iconically, chairs.
Like all iteration of Thonet's designs, TON's bentwood forms are characterized by clean lines, reduced ornamentation, and an emphasis on functionalist principles. Specific standouts from this collection—so revered, actually, that TON still produces them today—include: Rocking Chair No. 1 (1860); No. 14 Café Chair (ca. 1859); Adolf Loos Café Museum Chair (1899); No. 209 Armchair (ca. 1900); No. 30 Armchair (ca. 1903, and a particular favorite of Le Corbusier); Otto Wagner No. 247 Postal Savings Bank Chair (1904); and Josef Hoffmann No. 811 (1925).
World Wars I and II—and the attendant wide-ranging socio-political impacts—fractured the Thonet empire. In 1923, amid diminishing profits, Thonet was forced to merge with Austro-Hungarian furniture manufacturer Kohn-Mundus, forming Thonet-Mundus, who, among other things, purchased the license to produce the bent tubular steel designs of Bauhaus masters such as Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Mart Stam. Amid the Nazi rise to power, the company waded through years of upheaval, undergoing a series of headquarter relocations (to Switzerland; to the US) and changes to its ownership structure, before splintering in the postwar period. In 1946, the factory in Bystřice pod Hostýnem became a national enterprise and in 1953 was officially named TON, to distinguish itself against surviving Thonet constitutents (e.g., Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH ).
Active since it's renaming, TON established itself as a design brand as part of the company's restructuring at the end of the Cold War, when it became a state-owned enterprise. Using some of the factory's original machines and molds—and collaborating with modern talents that span from Arik Levy to Alex Gufler and Lucie Koldová—today's TON produces a range of furniture, tables, and accessories that marries the company's time-honored methods with the principles and forms of contemporary design.
Since 2011, their portfolio has garnered heaps of international decoration, including the Red Dot Design Award (2011, for their plywood-molded Merano Armchair; 2016, for their -designed Split loungechair); the Good Design award (2011, for Merano; 2013, for their Thomas Feichtner-designed Tram chair and cantilevered Mojo armchair, designed by Michael Riabič); and the iF Design Award (2015, for their bent-plywood Merano Chair; 2017, for their Leaf Chair, designed by Italian designers E-ggs), among others.
Rectangular Vintage Hammered Copper Table
Mid-Century French Togo Sofa by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset
Vintage Art Deco White Sheepskin & Bentwood Armchair
Vintage Chaise Lounge from Cinna
Vintage Brown Sheepskin Armchair
Round Vintage Hammered Copper Table
Mid-Century Art Deco Velvet Armchair, 1960s
Vintage DS11 Modular 2-Seater Sofa with Ottoman in Black Leather from de Sede
Vintage Grey Sheepskin Armchair
Velvet 2-Seat Sofa by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset, 1980s
Mid-Century White Sheepskin Armchair
Togo Sofa by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset, 1990s
Vintage Lounge Chair and Ottoman Set by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset, 1980s
2-Seater Sofa by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset, 1980s
Vintage Sheepskin and Teak Saddle Armchair from G-Plan
Vintage Bentwood & Grey Sheepskin Armchair from TON, 1960s
Vintage Bentwood and Sheepskin Rocking Chair from TON, 1960s
Large Le Bambole Armchairs by Mario Bellini for Cassina, 1970s, Set of 2
Sheepskin Bentwood Lounge Chair by Jindřich Halabala, 1950s
Function and Form in Harmony
New York to host first US retrospective of the Aaltos' pioneering work for Artek
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TON Seating
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Mengchu Zhou (; born 31 October 1963) is a Chinese Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and at Macau University of Science and Technology. He is the Chairman of IKAS Industries of Shenzhen in China and a Board Member of OneSmart Education Group headquartered in China.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). Zhou is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/Wiley Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. In 2015, he received the Norbert Wiener Award for "fundamental contributions to the area of Petri net theory and applications to discrete event systems," from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society which also awarded him the Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award for Best Paper award in 2010. In 2000, Zhou received the Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.  In 1994,  he received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing UNIVERSITY-LEAD Award (Leadership and Excellence in the Application and Development of integrated manufacturing). The number of his publications receiving 200 or more citations is 24 according to Google Scholar. He is one of the world's Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science and has a total of more than 34,000 citations with an h- index of 89.

Education

Zhou earned his Ph.D. in Computer & Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1990.  He completed his M. S. in Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, 1986 following the completion of his B. S. in Control Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, China, 1983.

Career
In 2000, Zhou joined the faculty of New Jersey Institute of Technology where in 2013, Zhou became a Distinguished Professor at The Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. There, he serves as researcher of Petri Nets and their applications, Director of the M.S. Program in Power and Energy Systems, Director of the M.S. Program in Computer Engineering, Director of Discrete Event Systems Laboratory, Director of CRRC-ZIC Laboratory for Rail System Network and Information Technologies, and Area Coordinator of Intelligent Systems. Previous to his career as professor, Zhou worked at Beijing Institute of Computer Applications, where he was an assistant engineer responsible for the development of CAD/CAM for vehicles.

Significant contributions
Petri nets are a modeling tool playing the same role in event- driven systems as the differential/difference equations in continuous dynamic systems. As the size and complexity of automated systems increase, ad hoc methods lose their effectiveness, and a strong need arises for systematic methods of analysis and design. Zhou's work is about such methods - including their modeling, analysis, and synthesis of various automated systems.

In 1991, Zhou provided the theoretical basis for Petri net synthesis methods that model systems with shared resources. He formulated two new resource- sharing concepts: parallel mutual exclusion (PME) and sequential mutual exclusion (SME). PME models a resource shared by distinct independent processes. SME is a sequential composition of PMEs, modeling a resource shared by sequentially related processes. Zhou derived the conditions under which a net containing such structures will not have a total system shut down (deadlock). His approach enabled flexible design of systems that met constraints, and optimized performance. The synthesized models could be converted to supervisory controllers for automated systems. To simplify the optimal control design for any given automated system, his work invented the elementary and dependent siphons of Petri nets - important structural objects for characterizing deadlocks. He also invented several deadlock control methods for automated systems. Their use reduced the structural complexity of supervisory controllers - - they became linear with respect to system size. For certain systems, optimal controllers were developed with polynomially complex algorithms, thereby allowing for the first time, on- line deployment of optimal control methods. Thousands of researchers and engineers use his methods in various applications for automated system design, analysis, and control. Factories which use Zhou's methods are thereby able to both prevent deadlock and simultaneously operate at maximum productivity - a rare combination in complex automated systems.

Zhou was among the pioneers of Petri net- based methods for semiconductor manufacturing, in particular, robotic cells called cluster tools, widely used in today's semiconductor wafer fabrication plants. His survey- type papers popularized and greatly increased acceptance of Petri nets in system designs and applications (e.g., work published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Magaz ine). Several of his patents have been licensed to dozens of industrial firms and put into industrial use, generating significant economic outcomes. Helping substantially improve the productivity of manufacturing semiconductor wafers and chips, this has a direct impact on lowering manufacturing costs and significantly increasing bottom line profitability in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.

Zhou has made contributions to the advancement of Petri net theory and their applications in automated systems. He has published over 400 papers in IEEE Transactions and Journals (majority being regular papers) and over 100 in other journals. He has authored/coathored 12 patents, 12 books, 29 book chapters and over 300 conference- proceeding papers. He is the world's most cited researcher on Petri nets, and one of the overall leading researchers in automated manufacturing systems (Scopus). Web of Science ranked Zhou in 2012 as the number one most highly cited scholar in engineering worldwide and has listed him as a "highly cited scholar" in engineering since then. His recognition includes four Fellow designations - by IEEE for contributions to Petri nets and their applications; by AAAS for distinguished contributions to Petri nets, discrete event systems, and their applications to manufacturing, transportation, workflow, disassembly, web services, and software design; by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for seminal contributions to the theory of Petri nets and their application in manufacturing, transportation, and web services; and by Chinese Association of Automation for contributions to the field of automation.

Honors and awards

 2019: Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal, New Jersey Institute of Technology
 2018: Outstanding Researcher Award, Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
 2018: M. Ghahramani, M. C. Zhou (advisor) and C. T. Hon, "Spatio-temporal analysis of mobile phone data for interaction recognition," in Proc. of 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), Zhuhai, China, March 27–29, 2018 (Best Student Paper Award)
 2017: Fellow, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)
 2016: Highly cited scholar in engineering by Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics
 2016: Best Paper Award, J. Q. Zhang, S. W. Zhu, D. Zang and M. C. Zhou "A Sliding Window Method for Online Tracking of Spatiotemporal Event Patterns" In the 9th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2016), September 28–30, 2016, Wuhan, China.
 2016: Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section Award (For outstanding contributions to the IEEE North Jersey Section and its SMC Chapter)
 2016: Third Prize of the 12th Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award of Shaanxi Province, China, "ε-Constraint and fuzzy logic-based optimization of hazardous material transportation via lane reservation," by Z. Zhou, F. Chu, A. Che, M. Zhou, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2013, 14(2): 847-857.
 2015: Highly cited scholar in engineering by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters
 2015: Norbert Wiener Award for "fundamental contributions to the area of Petri net theory and applications to discrete event systems," IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
 2015: Best Conference Paper Award, J. Li, X. Meng and M. C. Zhou, "Job Scheduling and Collision Resolution of Multi-Bridge Processing Systems," in Proc. 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Taipei, Taiwan, April 9–11, 2015
 2014: Highly cited scholar in engineering by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters
 2014: Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (For seminal contributions to the theory of Petri nets and their application in manufacturing, transportation, and web services).
 2013: Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, May 2013.
 2012: Top one of 2012 most highly cited scholars in engineering globally by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters
 2012: Lifetime Contribution and Leadership Award, Chinese Association for Science & Technology – USA, 2012
 2012: Saul K. Fenster Innovation in Engineering Education Award, Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
 2012: Best Student Paper Award, "Real-Time Control Policy for Single-Arm Cluster Tools with Residency Time Constraints and Activity Time Variation by Using Petri Net," by Y. Qiao, N. Wu (Faculty Advisor) and M. C. Zhou (Faculty Co-Advisor) in Proc. 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, pp. 34–39, Beijing, China, April 11–14, 2012.
 2011: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of Petri nets, discrete event systems, and their applications to manufacturing, transportation, workflow, disassembly, web services, and software design.
 2011: QSI Best Application Paper Award Finalist, for the paper "Modeling and Analysis of Dual-Arm Cluster Tools for Wafer Fabrication with Revisiting," by Y. Qiao, N. Wu, and M. C. Zhou, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pp. 90–95, Trieste, Italy, August 24–27, 2011.
 2010: Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
 2009: The third top recruiter of IEEE members in the Northeastern USA Region
 2008: Faculty advisor of the 1st Prize of IEEE North Jersey Section Graduate Student Contest, "Automatic Tracing of Blood Flow Velocity in Ultrasound Doppler Images" by Zhe Wang (Doctoral student), April 2008.
 2007: Chang Jiang Scholars Program Award, PRC Ministry of Education.
 2006: Marquis Who's Who in American Education, 2006-2007 Edition
 2006: Faculty Advisor of Best Poster Presentation, "Ad Hoc Networking and its security applications" by Raul Garcia, XVII Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by NSF and Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 15–16, 2006.
 2006: Outstanding Contribution Award, WOCC (Wireless and Optical Communication Conference) Inc., Oct. 2006.
 2005: Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
 2005: Who's Who in Science and Engineering (Marquis Who's Who), 8th Edition
 2005: Faculty Advisor of The Best Student Poster Award, The 13th Wireless and Optical Communication Conference, Newark, NJ, "Hybrid Networks: Cellular-Relay Architecture" by Zhigang Wang (doctoral student), April 22–23, 2005.
 2005: Faculty Advisor of The Best Student Poster Award, 2005 CAST-GNY Annual Convention, New York City, "Optimal Tracking Interval for Predictive Tracking in Wireless Sensor Network " by Zhen Guo (doctoral student), June 18, 2005.
 2005-2011: Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society.
 2005: "Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation" - Most Active Technical Committee Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
 2004: Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
 2004: Faculty advisor of the 1st Place of Doctoral Student Paper Competition, "Cluster Water and Biosignal Networks," by Jingong Pan (Doctoral student), Annual Convention of Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA, Newark, NJ, September 2004.
 2003: Overseas Expert Panelist, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
 2003: Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (for contributions to Petri nets and their applications)
 2003: Faculty advisor of Best Student Technical Paper Award, "Product Sustainability Improvement Based on Performance of Product Components," by M. Gao, and M. C. Zhou, Proceeding of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment & the IAER Electronics Recycling Summit, Boston, MA, May 2003.
 2002: Faculty advisor of the 3rd Prize of IEEE North Jersey Section Graduate Student Contest, "3D Warping in Plastic Surgery Planning," by Congzhe Zhang (Doctoral student), April 2002.
 2002: Faculty advisor of the 1st Prize of Student Paper Presentation Contest sponsored by Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA/Greater New York Chapter, "Securing Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol," by Congzhe Zhang (Doctoral student), August 2002.
 2001: Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century, 1st Ed., International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK.
 2001: Faculty advisor of the 1st Prize of IEEE North Jersey Section Graduate Student Contest, "A systematic approach for disassembly line design," by Ying Tang (Doctoral student); and the 3rd Prize "Fuzzy Reasoning Petri Nets," by Meimei Gao (Doctoral student).
 2001: Asian American Achievement Award in the category of Professional and Academic Achievements, Asian American Heritage Council of New Jersey.
 2001: Academic Achievement Award, Chinese Association for Science & Technology – USA.
 2000: Who's Who in Science and Engineering (Marquis Who's Who), 5th Edition
 2000: The Kayamori Best Paper Award Finalist, 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
 2000: The Best Student Paper Award for the paper "A fuzzy logic-based lifecycle comparison of digital and film cameras" by B. Yang (Student), Y. Luo (Student), and M. C. Zhou (Faculty Advisor), 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, San Francisco, CA, May 8–10, 2000.
 2000: The Best Student Paper Award for the paper Design of virtual production lines in back-end semiconductor manufacturing systems" by Tang, Y. (Student), M. C. Zhou (Faculty Advisor), and R. Qiu, Proc. 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, pp. 1733–1738, Oct. 8-11, 2000.
 2000 Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
 2000: Leadership Award, Chinese Association for Science & Technology - USA
 1999: Franklin V. Taylor Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
 1998: National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Nominee
 1997: Honorary Research Professor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
 1996: Harlan J. Perlis Award for Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology
 1994: National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award
 1994: Computer-Integrated Manufacturing UNIVERSITY-LEAD Award by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (LEAD=Leadership and Excellence in the Application and Development of integrated manufacturing)
 1994: Outstanding Service Award by Chinese Association for Science & Technology - USA
 1993 & 1994: National Science Foundation Young Investigator Nominee
 1991: Engineering Foundation Research Initiation Award

References

1963 births
Living people
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Scientists from Jinhua
People from Dongyang
Chinese electrical engineers
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Nanjing University of Science and Technology alumni
Beijing Institute of Technology alumni
Engineers from Zhejiang
Educators from Jinhua

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Lucio Crasicio Pansa (Lucius Crassicius Pansa: Tarento, ca. 70 a. C. - Roma, después del año 10) fue un gramático, mitógrafo y preceptor romano que vivió en la época de Augusto.

Biografía
Nativo de Tarento, Crasicio fue un liberto como otros gramáticos, con el nombre de Pasicle, que luego podría haber tomado el nombre de su patrón y se convirtió en el cognomen más romano de Pansa.

Su primera actividad fue la de mimógrafo pero, más tarde, se entregó a la gramática, a su enseñanza, como era habitual en los maestros de escuela, al aire libre, bajo una pérgola y mostrando una considerable erudición. Luego se convirtió en preceptor en familias de alto rango, y tuvo entre sus discípulos a Julo Antonio, hijo del triunviro Marco Antonio y su fama alcanzó la de Verrio Flaco, preceptor de los nietos de Augusto.

En los últimos años de su vida se dedicó a la filosofía siguiendo la escuela de los sextios, y por lo tanto, con una connotación pitagórica bastante extendida en la época de Augusto (como en el libro VI de la Eneida de Virgilio).

Obras

De Crasicio solo tenemos los comentarios sobre la leyenda chipriota del amor incestuoso de Esmirna a su padre, Cíniras, narrado en un epilio de Cayo Helvio Cinna que tuvo un gran éxito por los datos y la erudición.

Bibliografía

 Grammaticae Romanae Fragmenta, ed. Gino Funaioli, Lipsiae 1907, pp. 509–523.
 Gino Funaioli (1878 - 1958): filólogo clásico y latinista italiano.

 SUETONIO: De grammaticis et rhetoribus, ed. R. A. Kaster, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 190–196.
 Clarendon Press: en un tiempo, parte de Oxford University Press.
 R. A. Kaster o Robert A. Kaster (Robert Andrew Kaster, n. 1948): filólogo clásico estadounidense, catedrático de la Universidad de Princeton.

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Gramáticos de la Antigua Roma
Mimos
Mitógrafos
Nacidos en Tarento
Fallecidos en Roma


"To be, or not to be," is the famous opening phrase of the soliloquy in William Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1). Early in the scene, Hamlet questions the meaning of life, and whether or not it is worthwhile to stay alive when life contains so many hardships.
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This means a relatively healthy small group with favorable demographics (younger population) may benefit from an early renewal strategy, while a less healthy and/or older population may be better served to wait until their 2014 renewal when rate compression occurs.
The consulting firm, Milliman, has projected health insurance premiums to rise by 40 percent under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Small business owners that work with a trusted advisor will have a firm perspective on best approach for their bottom line and the welfare of their workforce.
To early renew, or not early renew: that is the question.


After only two months since their last national tour, Sticky Fingers were back in Perth this past Monday night with an all-ages show at the Astor Theatre. After spending the last month or so recording in Thailand, the Sydney band were back promoting their upcoming third album Outcast at Last, the title track of which was only just released last week.
Again touring with support from close friends Bootleg Rascal, a band very similar in style and feel, the night began early with an inspired mix of reggae and hip-hop. The five-piece fellow Sydney band have a soulful charm undeniably reminiscent of Sticky Fingers, and the creative comradery between the two bands is always felt in their music. The Triple J-Unearthed outfit, led by vocalist Carlos 'Q-Dome' Lara, amped the crowd with their high energy rhythmic tunes like the super catchy Oh I Know and Asleep in the Machine, the title track of their recent debut album. Rascal has only just wrapped up their own national headline tour, so it was great to see them so quickly supporting Sticky Fingers on theirs. They always make for such a fitting accompaniment and lead-in when these two play together.
As the Sti-Fi set time approached, chanting and applause filled the theatre as we eagerly waited what everyone (at this point in the band's career) knows is an amazing live show. A droning "STII-CCKY" rang out, and when the lights finally dropped, the theatre erupted in applause. When the iconic opening electronic notes of title track Land of Pleasure were heard (the band's trademark set-opener) the crowd immediately fell into the rhythm of Sticky Finger's infectious vibes. What continued was a set of non-stop crowd-stoppers, including hits Gold Snafu, Bootleg Rascal and Just For You, which got the crowd super active on this Easter Monday. The new single Outcast at Last, out for less than a week, was also a huge hit, with the crowd already singing along to its ultra-catchy chorus. A great addition to the band's live set, the track is also a great representation of the band's signature reggae-roots-rock hybrid.
The high energy and soaring choruses of these tracks were balanced well with a few slow tunes like crowd-favourites These Girls from debut album Caress Your Soul, and the intimate, dreamy Rum Rage. Frost stayed characteristically quiet between songs, letting bassist Paddy address the crowd and do most of the talking, and all band members – Beaker on drums, Seamus on guitar and Freddy Crabs on keyboard – were giving it their all.
Standouts from the set would have to be the stripped-down, indie-ballad Liquorlip Loaded Gun, with Frost alternating between his bare, vulnerable vocals and letting the crowd sing a few lines (at times the crowd's singing even drowning him out; a testament to how big this band has gotten). The performance was mesmerising, accompanied by an incredible, ambient light display that flowed with the song's highs and lows. This specific track and Frost's live delivery really reflects the dynamic artistry and depth that this band achieves in their creative niche.
With the end of the main set, the band responded to cries, stamping and chanting from an adrenaline-filled theatre with a final encore. After playing crowd-favourite How to Fly, the band ended with usual set-closer and personal favourite Australia Street, the true anthem of this Sydney outfit. No track better encapsulates the band's eclectic soul, and their gigs truly peak with the energy of the song's final chorus in a way no other song does.
The night was incredible from the opening notes of Land of Pleasure to the closing, swirling guitar riffs of Australia Street. Sticky Fingers tapped into a transfixing energy of soulful, funked-up reggae psychedelia that didn't let up for a moment. I will say though that if you're familiar with the band's live shows and their usual on-stage antics, this was a noticeably quieter night for the group – surely due to the gig being all-ages. At times this more subdued attitude was slightly disappointing, only because Sticky Fingers – and specifically front man Frost – are known for their energetic, frenzied and infectiously chaotic stage presence. But even with that considered, the intensity and passion that these guys project blows me away every time I see them, and even on their quieter nights, they remain one of the most formidable live acts in Australian music today.
Sticky Fingers are one of the hottest Aussie bands right now with a truly original sound. An inventive mix of psychedelia, reggae and indie rock, bolstered by distinctly soulful and earthy vocals from lead singer Dylan Frost, the band's creative confidence and energetic intensity translates so well to their live show. Lead man Frost has a presence like no other, and the rich acoustics of Astor Theatre made for a perfect venue to showcase the band's mesmerising vibes. With two incredible albums and countless international tours under their belt (as well as an ever-growing fan base) the band are at a career-high heading into the release of their upcoming album. Monday night reminded me why Sticky Fingers is my favourite band, and I can't wait to see where Outcast at Last will take them next.


On Sunday 5th July and day three of the Fine & Country Big Weekend, we welcomed nearly 4,000 attendees to watch 14 teams compete for the seventh Fine & Country Gold Cup, at Dallas Burston Polo Club.
In typical British style, attendees snacked on picnics and sipped Pimms as they watched Rigby & Rigby claim the winning title.
Starting just seven years ago, with Fine & Country Newmans hosting a small barbecue at the Polo grounds, the event has grown vastly and has established itself to be a distinguished date in the F&C calendar.
Not only was this one of the largest Fine & Country polo events, but the shopping village welcomed back loyal exhibitors Graypaul Birmingham, Jacuzzi and The Little Posh Dress Company to name a few, as well as new exhibitors Quantock Clothing. Dallas Burston Polo Club also showcased the new Champagne Laurent-Perrier bar, situated on the Clubhouse terrace, which was popular amongst guests.
The event raised more more than &5,600 for the Fine & Country Foundation, with all proceeds going towards fighting homelessness.
David Lindley, Operations Manager, said, "The day was undoubtedly our best polo event yet. Guests sat on the side of the polo field enjoying homemade picnics whilst children were able to enjoy the dedicated kid's area featuring rides and games. The Honesberie Shooting School welcomed attendees to have a go at shooting and archery and the clubhouse's Laurent-Perrier bar served Fine & Country Guests well. Thank you to all of those who attended and we look forward to seeing you again next year."


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About CSF
Reflections on a year of Making for Change: Waltham Forest
Posted on January 8, 2020 by Francesco Mazzarella
Image: Adam Razvi
As we look back on 2019, a year which saw Waltham Forest being the first London Borough of Culture, it seems a timely opportunity for me to reflect on what we have achieved throughout the year-long Making for Change: Waltham Forest project.
As a research fellow at Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), I've been exploring ways in which design activism can create counter-narratives towards sustainability in fashion. As part of my role, I also represent CSF within the Change Network, a committee established at London College of Fashion (LCF) as we plan the College's move to Stratford in 2022.
I have always adopted a participatory design approach to all my projects, working across multiple stakeholders to activate social innovations; hence, when Laura Gander-Howe (Director of Public Engagement & Culture at LCF) offered for me to take on this project, I felt this was a great opportunity to make connections with organisations across East London. I thought this would have given us a chance to build relationships – instead of 'parachuting' into Stratford (where the new LCF Campus will be) in three years' time without any relevance for, or engagement with, the local community. This project provided an interesting challenge to undertake fashion activism within local government, an opportunity to activate change from within the system. I then decided to adopt a 'quiet' form of activism, an embedded and situated approach to co-designing meaningful social innovations within the local community.
Furthermore, the themes in which Waltham Forest's bid for the London Borough of Culture was grounded – makers, fellows and radicals – were in line with my own experiences and research interests. Straight away I felt this project was close to my heart, as I previously lived in Walthamstow; I was somehow immersed in the context and I could relate to its cultural heritage, whilst also being somehow an insider/outsider of the local community – a position which can be beneficiary when you want to activate change. Located in the heart of Walthamstow, the William Morris Gallery has long been a source of inspiration for me since I started studying design, and the issues of cultural sustainability have since then driven my work.
From proposal to live project
After an initial approval of my project proposal, I was awarded a small grant from the London Borough of Culture team to undertake a two-month residency from Waltham Forest Town Hall. This way, I could scope the project in consultation with many different departments – Culture, Education, Business Growth and Regeneration. After presenting my proposal at the Town Hall in January 2019 I was given the go ahead, alongside substantial funding, to undertake this project from March 2019 to January 2020.
I cannot quite believe how fast time has passed and that we have now reached the end of this project, including the 'Making for Change: Waltham Forest' showcase, a three-week-long exhibition of the projects' outcomes. The showcase, supported by the Sheepdrove Trust, took place in a newly developed fashion hub, Arbeit Studios Leyton Green. Until recently, this was a derelict supermarket and now provides affordable workspace and support for local businesses, flexible gallery space and delivers shared services for the borough.
Comprising of three main areas – Education, Manufacturing and Community Engagement
GenGreen workshop at Buxton School
Photo by Curtis Gibson
Research Residency at Cactus Leather
Photo by Julia Sabiniarz
Making for Change: Waltham Forest explored how fashion and making can lead to positive change and activate legacies within the local community. The project comprised of a range of activities, in relation to three main areas – education, manufacturing, and community engagement.
With the aim of ensuring a pipeline of skills training and acquisition, we have collaborated with three schools and further education institutions (Waltham Forest College, Belmont Park School and Buxton School) through five programmes: a Collaborative Unit on "Activating Change", Fashion District's Innovation Challenge themed around "A Store of the Future", Fashion Futures 2030, Fashion Club and Fashion Unit. Through teaching in local schools (using resources developed by LCF staff members), we have contributed to embedding sustainability and future thinking into educating the youth.
Three LCF researchers have undertaken residencies in – micro, medium and large – fashion design and manufacturing businesses based in Waltham Forest (Cactus Leather, Blackhorse Lane Ateliers, and Wagland Textiles) addressing issues of economic, environmental, social and cultural sustainability. Through collaboration with such businesses, we have contributed to communicating their unique stories of craftsmanship and heritage, but also fostering sustainability and innovation. One residency aimed at raising awareness of heritage craft skills and preserving them by training other people, whilst also contributing further income to the business. Another researcher experimented with innovative laundry practices and laser-based finishing on jeans to reduce consumption of water and chemical emissions and developed four possible scenarios for a Smart Wash Lab in East London. The third researcher in residence developed different policy recommendations for sustainable manufacturing of fabrics, specifically recycled polyester.
We have also worked and engaged with the local community – especially young people and hard to reach groups – in a range of participatory making activities, using fashion as catalyst for social change. We have organised I WANNA BE ME, I WANNA BE (E)U, a series of six co-making workshops, Fashion Now/Fashion Futures 2030 exhibition, Forest Fashion Stories, Art for the Environment residency, Forest Coats, two Better Lives symposiums and we brought all the work together for our Making for Change: Waltham Forest showcase. Through participation in these activities, the local community has gained creative skills and enhanced their social agency.
Overall, the project has contributed to develop makers' skills and career pathways, nurturing a culture of fellowship, and activating radical change locally.
Watch the 'Making for Change: Waltham Forest' films
Given the complexity of this project, we worked with Short Form to design and produce a film of the project to evidence what we have done and its impact. We have also produced a series of films, focused on the research residencies undertaken in different fashion manufacturing businesses.
The films give an overview of the contributions made by those involved in the project (over 1500 people), allowing you to make sense of the complexity of this project being undertaken across different departments at LCF and at the Council. The project activities were held across the borough throughout the year – in local schools, businesses, community centres and in a range of public spaces.
Cactus Leather
Wagland Textiles
With thanks to…
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Sheepdrove Trust who have kindly sponsored my research post at CSF and the Making for Change: Waltham Forest showcase. My special thanks go to Waltham Forest Council, London Borough of Culture and Great Place: Creative Connections, a programme supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. I hope there will be on-going support in the years to come, even beyond the timeframe of London Borough of Culture in order to sustain the legacies activated through this project. The aim of the Great Place scheme is to put arts, culture and heritage at the heart of the local community, and I hope that together we have achieved all of this. Beyond the funding, I am grateful for the opportunity I have had to work with a great number of people (especially Laura Gander-Howe and Mina Jugovic at LCF, as well as Pam Rene, Carolyn Roche, Sandra Sabunaite, Abigail Viner, Annette Russell, and Pawel Pietraszek at Waltham Forest Council) and activate partnerships and networks. They are grounded on shared values, strategic visions, supported by creative skills, and powered by continued engagement. It is thanks to these ingredients that we have been able to activate positive change.
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If you're celebrating Valentine's Day (February 14) check out these cool off the beaten path gifts and experiences from Hong Kong's small businesses.
"I Do" customizable heart prints from lovemydesigns.org, $700 HKD.
Nothing says I love you like a gift certificate to a spa! BloomMe is an app that allows free instant bookings at Hong Kong's top spas, salons and hairdressers from the comfort of your phone.
Experiences make great gifts! Take your mom, girlfriend/boyfriend, spouse for a Valentine's Day Baking Class at TheMixingBowl. Their Valentine's Day classes run on February 13 + 14 and you'll be making Strawberry Dacquoise.
We met Angee's founder at a MakerHive event last year and absolutely fell in love with her clutch bags personalized with a photo inside. Personalization is absolutely key for Valentine's Day or as a feature in whatever business you are running.
Recreate your wedding day bouquet! This artist makes stunning flowers out of paper, and she is just getting started. Check out Julie's Instagram for past projects.
F*CK relationships…get yourself a pet on Valentine's Day. They won't judge you or your bad habits and will shower you with unconditional love. This little guy is available for adoption on Hong Kong Dog Rescue.
Another "oops I forgot Valentine's Day" idea or perhaps things are going so well you need wine delivered to your place and FAST. Bottlesxo is an app that promises to deliver wine within 60 minutes. Cheers to that!
Here's another idea that's off the beaten path (literally!) RUN for romance on Valentine's weekend. Organized by Lantau Base Camp (sports shop), The Ultimate Direction Valentines Race, is a 13 km team trail race taking place on Saturday, February 13th, 2016 (9:30 am start) on South Lantau Island, Hong Kong. The race is short enough for beginners and covers enough tough terrain and elevation for anyone looking for a challenge (about 850m elevation gain). Entry is completed online and costs $360 per team.
Book a photoshoot with one of Hong Kong's many talented photographers with your family…or do a special one for yourself. juredondo.com will do BOUDOIR photography in the privacy of your home.
This list wouldn't be complete without some bling. Create your own Love Letter Locket in sterling silver in a single, masterclass session at Hatton Studios in Sheung Wan. $1980 per student.
We love these Valentine-themed cupcake cases, home decor and vintage greeting cards from swoonxoxo.com.


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Linda Curtis
lcurtis@gibsondunn.com
TEL:+1 213.229.7582
FAX:+1 213.229.6582
333 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197 USA
Global Finance Business Restructuring and Reorganization Capital Markets Financial Institutions Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Real Estate Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance
Linda L. Curtis is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office and a Co-Chair of the firm's Global Finance Practice Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, including leveraged financings, with a specific focus in recent years on acquisition financings. She also represents clients in debt capital markets transactions and other secured and unsecured senior, mezzanine and subordinated financings, and has experience in real estate financings and debt restructurings. Ms. Curtis' clients include private equity firms, commercial lending institutions and public and private companies in a variety of industries.
Representative recent transactions include the representation of:
a private company in the packaging business in connection with a $1.5 billion bank and $4.6 billion note acquisition financing and several subsequent add on acquisition financings;
a public apparel company with respect to the issuance of $250 million in notes and a refinancing of its approximately $1 billion senior term loan and revolving credit facility;
a public engineering services company in over $6 billion in bank and bond financing for its acquisition of another engineering company, creating the largest public company based in Los Angeles;
a major public transportation and logistics company with respect to the acquisition financing for a $610 million purchase of a highly leveraged company in the same industry pursuant to a complex carveout transaction;
a private equity firm in connection with successive senior secured and mezzanine financings for several portfolio companies, including acquisition financings and dividend recapitalizations, with transaction size ranging from $20 million to $200 million;
a private real estate joint venture in the gaming industry in connection with a refinancing transaction involving a $1.775 billion senior secured term and revolving credit facility.
Ms. Curtis has for a number of years been ranked by Chambers and Partners as a Tier 1 Banking and Finance lawyer in California and recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© in the category of Banking and Finance Law. Chambers describes her as having "incredible knowledge on the state of the debt financing market" and notes that market sources commend her "exceptional" representation of borrowers in sophisticated transactions. IFLR1000 named her to its "2018 Women Leaders" list which recognizes 300 female lawyers considered to be among the best transactional specialists in their markets and practice areas. The Los Angeles Daily Journal named Linda to its 2015 list of Top Women Lawyers and for many years she has been named by Law and Politics and Los Angeles magazines as one of Southern California's "Super Lawyers." She also was named to the 2014 BTI Client Service All-Stars list, which features an "elite group of standout attorneys" identified by corporate counsel as those who provide "the absolute best client service." In October 2011, Ms. Curtis was named by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of Los Angeles' top corporate attorneys on its annual list of Who's Who in Law.
Ms. Curtis was the 2014 – 2015 President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), which is one of the nation's largest local bar associations. She served previously as chair of LACBA's Business and Corporations Law Section Executive Committee and LACBA's Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Executive Committee. Recent publications include Financing Provisions in Acquisition Agreements, California Business Law Practitioner, Summer 2011 (with Melissa Barshop).
Ms. Curtis received in 1987 her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School and her Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Business School. At Stanford Law School, she was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. Prior to her graduate work at Stanford, Ms. Curtis received a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar, and an A.B. in public affairs/economics from Princeton University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After graduating from Stanford, Ms. Curtis clerked for one year for the Honorable Robert F. Peckham, who was then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Stanford University - 1987 Juris Doctor
Stanford University - 1987 MBA
University of Oxford - 1984 Bachelor of Arts
Princeton University - 1982 Bachelor of Arts
Firm News - June 24, 2020 | Barbara Becker and Linda Curtis Named IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2020
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by Darryl — Saturday, 8/23/14 , 12:30 am
Young Turks: Will the NRA support this gun club?
Paul Ryan refuses to answer a question on his tax break for millionaires.
Ann Telnaes: Time for equality, SCOTUS.
Thom: Documented cases of deported refugee children being murdered.
Mental Floss: 26 amusing facts about amusement parks.
Liberal Viewer: FAUX News attacks atheists fighting tax-exempt churches acting like super PACs.
Brown and White and Blood-Red all over:
Joy-Ann Reid: Man killed by police for carrying a BB gun in an Ohio Walmart
Sam Seder: Right wing reaction to Ferguson is all the proof needed to demonstrate they are race driven
Young Turks: Eric Holder delivers a message to Ferguson.
Chis Hayes: Growing up Black and hunted in Ferguson
Mark Fiore: Post racial America alert.
Maddow: County prosecutor (Republican) Bob McCulloch has no credibility!
Young Turks: Racists gang up on Captain Ron Johnson over college fraternity signs.
Peace through pizza
Freedom is messy: Jimmy Dore rants about Ferguson
Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Ferguson and America's endless race crisis
Young Turk: FAUX News' report of fractured eye socket is debunked.
CNN: FAUX News report about broken eye socket is false (surprise, surprise).
WaPo: Ferguson is…
Thom: When will the demilitarization of America begin?
Sam Seder: Cop caught on camera threatening to shoot and kill protesters
Young Turks: Officer 'Go F*ck Yourself' threatens to kill Ferguson protestor
NRA versus cops
Puppet Nation: Fear of a black planet
Thom: Time for Bill-O-the-Clown to get real about White privilege
Sam Seder: Kajieme Powell shot and killed by St. Louis police seconds after arriving at scene
Young Turks: Kajieme Powell shooting video disturbs for so many reasons
Alex Wagner with Michael Steele: Political representation of African Americans in Ferguson.
Pap: McDonnell trial highlights GOP's corrupt nature.
Bringing affordable health care to Alaska Natives.
Ed: The disconnect between Republican Christian ideals and helping the poor.
ONN: U.S. Forest Service kills off Smokey Bear to get people serious about fire safety.
Ann Telnaes: Down the Iraq rabbit hole.
Eric Schwartz: STFU Rush Limbaugh.
Setting the record strait on voter ID laws.
Oops…A Felony Indictment for the Guy with Smart Glasses:
Tamron Hall: Gov. Rick Perry defiant after felony indictment.
Liberal Viewer: FAUX News lists Rick Perry indictment third…hoping you'll forget it like Rick Perry?
Sharpton: Perry blames Democrats for a grand jury felony indictment.
Sam Seder: Rick's mug shot…all smirks and no "smart glasses"
Indicted Gov. Rick Perry fears an ISIS invasion across the border (with zero evidence).
Jimmy Dore: John Boehner's legal team speaks out.
Honest Political Ads: An Unprovoked Attack:
Maddow: Former VA Gov. McDonnell corruption trial—Pat Robertson blames Obama?!?
Farron Cousins: Has Louie Gohmert completely lost his mind?
Mitt Romney ALS Ice bucket challenge.
Pap: The Tea Party charity swindle.
Thom corrects Karl Rove and the fact free zombies of FAUX News.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
Saturday, 8/23/14 at 2:15 am
Pat Robertson blaming the President for the McConnell Corruption Trial? If that is the case, wouldn't it have been better if the indictment had happened in 2012?
Commenting on video of the Kajieme Powell shooting, Sam Seder agrees with me that "this is very bad [police] training."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojcsxe3Cps&feature=youtu.be
William Racecardington spews:
Everything that happens on planet Earth is…racist!!!!!!
Saturday, 8/23/14 at 11:34 am
@3 No, but some is, and those too stupid to sort it out usually are the same ones who don't grasp that they are.
zzippy spews:
Saturday, 8/23/14 at 12:44 pm
I watched the first quarter of the Seahawks game while cooking dinner on Friday night, and my ears perked up when I heard the announcers say that it was going to be a "mostly commercial free first quarter". Alas, I quickly became disgusted by the fact that it was actually fully sponsored by Boeing.
Among the tripe in the first-quarter advertisements were appearances by Boeing's CEO, who told us in those ads that Boeing is "partners" with Washington State, and they have given "five million dollars to local charities". At the same time, this is a corporation obviously trying to move jobs out of WA to lower-paying areas, and $5 million is the equivalent of about $5 to the rest of us. It was pure propaganda.
The game was meaningless, so Boeing probably didn't have to pay a lot to sponsor a whole quarter, but it still left me with a sour taste in my mouth. Good thing the dinner tasted good!
Saturday, 8/23/14 at 2:04 pm
@5 Did he mention that Washington taxpayers have donated billions to his favorite charity, Boeing?
While most of the attention here has focused on the twin police shootings of black men in St. Louis County, let's not forget we have our own racist-cop/security guard issue here in Seattle. The Stranger is doing a good job of covering the "what are we gonna do about it" angle.
http://slog.thestranger.com/sl.....-black-man
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Sue, for one thing. That security guard won't work there anymore if Westlake Mall and the security company have to pay a big legal judgment to the innocent black bystander who was pepper sprayed, cuffed, manhandled, falsely imprisoned, and publicly humiliated in front of dozens of witnesses. Given the racial profiling component of this incident, the tort case should be worth at least $100,000 although I'd ask for a million if I were him.
Lawyers have always played an important role in giving meaning to "civil rights." It was a lawsuit that dismembered the Hayden Lake, Idaho, neo-Nazi group and turned their compound into a peace park. Having to pay big bucks to a wrongfully assaulted and arrested black man to settle a discrimination lawsuit will give the Westlake Mall honchos and Valor Security a valuable education in race relations and how to treat people.
SPD should made be a defendant in this lawsuit, too, because one of their uniformed cops was just as guilty of racial profiling as the private security guard — and did lousy police work because he made no effort to find out what was going on (even though numerous witnesses tried repeatedly to tell him) and simply assumed the black guy was a perp.
Well lookee here, another GOP silver spooner who rode a famous family name to a nomination for a House seat is trying to erase his racist, misogynistic, and homophobic past. You know, the stupid shit he said that may make Minnesota voters think he's a nutjob.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....g-tim-walz
Deathfrogg spews:
Whelp. thjåt Volcånō in Icelåand that ęrŭpŧėd is ėäpparently cälled "Bárðarbunga".
Heres now you pronounce it.
Icelandic volcanoes that look pronouncable but really aren't:
Askja, Eldfell, Grensdalur, Hekla, Hengill, Jólnir, Katla, Kolbeinsey Ridge, Krafla, Krakatindur, Laki, Surtsey, Reykjanes
Those that aren't at all:
Bárðarbunga, Brennisteinsfjöll, Eldgjá, Esjufjöll, Eyjafjallajökull, Fremrinámur, Grímsnes, Grímsvötn, Herðubreið, Hofsjökull, Hrómundartindur, Hverfjall, Hveravellir, Kerlingarfjöll, Kollóttadyngja, Krýsuvík, Kverkfjöll, Loki-Fögrufjöll, Ljósufjöll, Lýsuhóll, Öræfajökull, Prestahnúkur, Reykjaneshryggur, Snæfellsjökull, Theistareykjarbunga, Thordarhyrna, Thórólfsfell, Tindfjallajökull, Torfajökull, Tungnafellsjökull, Vatnafjöll
Christ. No wonder Danes drink so much.
Of course Da Perfessa doesn't bring up the racist Harry Reid and his "jokes" against Asians http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ha.....ut-asians/
BTW the Asians decided to back the other guy!
When a DUMMOCRETIN opens their mouth racist commentary is always heard!
Sunday, 8/24/14 at 12:12 am
@10 What "other guy" are you talking about?
Well, in Texas at least, the cops are colorblind. Er, wait a minute, that's a problem. In Texas, the cops can't tell the difference between a "tan car" with "four black males" and a red car with one black female and four kids.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/......wfaa.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: In this video, you hear a cop telling the terrified woman that "we got a complaint [about] a vehicle matching your description and license plate pointing a gun out the window." Come again? Really? Well, I have some advice for the police: Don't try to justify this kind of stupid. Please, just don't. Use that energy to do something constructive instead, such as sending these cops for vision and hearing tests. Oh yeah, and you're gonna have to compensate that woman and her kids for their psychological injuries.
Sadly, a small-town Texas police chief has been gunned down during a traffic stop by a fugitive who had a misdemeanor arrest warrant for grafitti. A suspect is in custody.
Sunday, 8/24/14 at 1:06 am
"Hodgin … filed an ethics complaint last year saying state lawmakers are taking too many free meals from lobbyists. … One, Rep. Brandon Vick, R-Felida in Clark County, actually argued that doing away with free food could have a chilling effect on constituent outreach. 'I mean, do you meet with Constituent X if you know you're going to have to pay?' he asked during a hearing. "
http://seattletimes.com/html/l.....24xml.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I guess this means if you live in his district and want to talk with him about something you have to feed him or he won't listen. Why does anyone vote for people like him? I guess that's their business. When you vote Republican, you get what you deserve, and you deserve what you get.
Puddybud - The ONE and Only spews:
Clueless as always the old senile NoBalls IDIOT Wabbit… Information NoBalls the IDIOT will not find on NoBall's favorite left wrong sites… http://dailycaller.com/2014/08.....ans-video/ Somehow stoooooooooooooooopidity and NoBalls IDIOT Wabbit are being found as matched set on HA DUMMOCRETINS…
Reid's humor was not enough to sway the group to back his choice for lieutenant governor, Democrat Lucy Flores. The group voted to endorse her Republican opponent, Mark Hutchison.
This joke was better though!
Reid has now turned around and apologized for the jokes in a statement to TIME. "My comments were in extremely poor taste and I apologize," Reid said. "Sometimes I say the wrong thing." Or perhaps he meant to say the "wong" thing?
So Puddy asks that UNCLE TOM inner city children hating ruPRICK,
why do you jock strap jackboot goosestep to morons like Harry Reid? Reid must make you proud when he demonstrates his racist bona fides!
What? NOBalls IDIOT Wabbit now taking the side of the police@13?
Puddy wonders why Da Perfessa used Farron Cousins and not these three left wong morons from the RingofFire another left wrong comedy site Kennedy
Papantonio
Oh wait Da Perfessa uses Sam 4th Tier Toilet Seder. And Papantonio is a left wrong lawyer of the Roger NOBalls IDIOT Wabbit ilk, while the silver spooner (you see an entry every day from NOBalls IDIOT Wabbit) Kennedy needs his private jets to visit those green energy conferences, because as a silver spoon Kennedy you can't be seen with the common folk!
Meanwhile a big earthquake hits SF this morning!
When Maureen DOwd makes jokes about you… http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08......html?_r=0 the NY Slimes is having enough? Naaaaaah! They still slobber all over Obummer!
@15 Who, besides you, gives a flying fuck about the Lieutenant Governor race in Nevada?
@16 And who, besides you, makes cracks about the murder of a police chief?
@18 Did you fart at 3:20 AM? C'mon, fess up …
(Note: I'm sticking three replies into one post to economize pixels, because I'm sure there'll be more puddy spew coming before this thread is over …)
Capitalism Giveth, Divorce Taketh Away
Looks like America's largest personal oil fortune is about to get split up by divorce. Harold Hamm, 69, the Bakken fracking king, is gonna suck in his gut when his soon-to-be-ex wife walks out of an Oklahoma courtroom with billions. The only question is how many billions. Probably somewhere between five and ten.
Back in '88, the sharecropper's son->wildcatter->fracker->oil billionaire ditched his wife and three kids for a doe-eyed lawyer 11 years his junior. She was 32 then. Now that she's acquired some crow's feet, he's ditching her, or maybe she's ditching him (who knows? who cares?), and the property settlement will be bigger this time because Hamm didn't own half the Bakken back then. (And the Bakken was nothing but farm pasture then.)
Hamm doesn't have a lot of education, only a high school diploma, and it shows. His 2012 presidential candidate lost, his domicile is in a state that treats premarital property like community property, he married a lawyer — and there's no pre-nup.
Thanks to the confluence of these factors, America's wealth will soon be less concentrated.
Many of America's billionaires are clever at amassing lucre, but stupid about nearly everything else. (Being Republicans for starters.) It's amazing how many big fortunes don't survive the first generation, let alone the second or third generations; all it takes to dissipate them is a financial crash (which happens all the time) or a doe-eyed, sloe-eyed, or moe-eyed honeybun (that happens all the time, too; see, e.g., Harold Hamm, the latest casualty of community property). What capitalism creates, the ex and her lawyers take, you know how that works. And most of the time, the poor shmuck doesn't even see it coming, because he's too busy making money to notice he's neglecting his family. And so it goes.
I'm not sure why the IRS doesn't collect capital gains taxes from these property settlements. They should. After all, what these situations are is a property transfer between two legal strangers. If someone I don't sleep with gives me money for formerly worthless stock, I have to pay taxes. If someone Mrs. Hamm doesn't sleep with gives her a shitload of formerly worthless stock, somebody should pay taxes, too. This looks like a taxable event to me, just like when I get money or stock from someone I don't like. It would be different if I were sleeping with them, but I'm only in it for the loot, so it should be taxable. When people go into marriage for the loot, that should be taxable, too. And anyway, Uncle Sam needs the money, and they don't, so they should give it to Uncle Sam.
@ 22 RR
most of the time, the poor shmuck doesn't even see it coming, because he's too busy making money to notice he's neglecting his family.
That isn't totally accurate. An awful lot of those folks don't care enough about their families to actually spend any real time with them. They sincerely believe that bringing home the bacon is enough. That any wealth they bring into the house is theirs to give, or take away. The kid needs a new car for his 16th birthday or to go to spring break in Aruba with her friends.
It is all about power and control. Not love or compassion.
Parents who actually care for the health and well-being of their children don't do that shit. They spend time with their children. If time is money, then the inverse must also be true. I knew a few people in High School (in Palo Alto back in the early 80s) who never saw their parents much. Often for weeks at a time. Their parents were always off somewhere, one girl was from South Africa and her Pop owned a big company that made valves for big ships and power plants and refineries. I don't think I met Nikki's parents until I'd known her for several months. Another one had his parents living in New York and their house in Los Altos was super pretty with every luxury you could think of. Butlers, nannies and maids took care of everything and all the kids had to do was keep their grades up and not complain. And they always had plenty of cash to spend.
On another note, the Officer of the Law that shot that kid in Ferguson had been hired from another department that had been shut down over rampant excessive force and corruption.
Sigh. Beat a man to death or shoot a kid and you can just walk up to the next shop and get a job.
Sunday, 8/24/14 at 1:17 pm
Dynamite As Art
On a lighter note, someone has finally realized the entertainment value of building implosions. This one pioneers the use of fireworks and colored smoke, but that's only the beginning, building implosions are bound to get more sophisticated with advertising, music, singers and dancers, and tickets to prime seats part of the mix. And, of course, prime time scheduling (e.g., building implosions could be integrated into 4th of July celebrations). And, no doubt, tailgating and drunken parties will become an essential part of the rituals associated with blowing up old useless buildings, too. Only in America!
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/......wrgb.html
What developers and contractors, working with promoters, really need to do is commercialize building implosions, so that instead of being an expense they're a profit center. That is, make money from them by turning them into shows. It's all about marketing and showmanship, and there are people who can do that for them. They need to get Hollywood involved in dynamiting buildings. Maybe demolition contractors will have their own reality shows. (If Duck Dynasty can, why not?). I see an untapped business opportunity here.
The more I think about it, the more potential I see! Building implosions are a new entertainment frontier. This could become a very big deal. Plus, we have a nearly endless supply of sports stadiums tenanted by loser teams and other useless buildings that would benefit from being blown up. The opportunity is nearly infinite.
@23 "On another note, the Officer of the Law that shot that kid in Ferguson had been hired from another department that had been shut down over rampant excessive force and corruption."
On a smaller scale and closer to home, that's also pretty much the backstory of the Westlake Mall security guard who pepper sprayed, handcuffed, and kidnapped an innocent black bystander (who apparently was on a public sidewalk) over the objections of witnesses while ignoring a shirtless white guy who was trying to pick fistfights with pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
The Stranger (unlike the self-appointed "paper of record") has been following up on that story, and their reporting indicates this security guard lasted only a week as a fledgling corrections officer at Monroe, and the security company had shunted him from an assignment in Everett to Westlake Mall because the guy may have had issues there, too.
It's the same thing we've seen in schools (both public and parochial) and Catholic churches. Bad teachers aren't fired, they're shunted to another school. Abusive priests aren't defrocked, they're shuffled to another unsuspecting parish, where they create another set of victims.
The same thing goes on in police departments (is fired King County deputy sheriff Patrick Saulet still working as a cop somewhere else now?), except in St. Louis County the situation is exacerbated by that jurisdiction's extreme balkanization into dozens of little Jim Crow municipalities designed to ensure there are no black mayors, no black city council members, no black cops, and preferably no black voters even in the minority neighborhoods. With at least 55 police departments in St. Louis County, poor training and musical chairs are practical givens. It goes without saying the poorest (i.e. blackest) municipalities get the worst cops.
It's a pernicious system that's very hard to correct because it involves overthrowing over a century of embedded boundaries and traditions, and requires that someone have overriding authority to consolidate the existing municipal fiefdoms into far fewer entities. It probably can't be done, and certainly not in any reasonable amount of time. If any city ever needed federal supervision of its policing, it's St. Louis and its environs. Eric Holder should send an army of federal agents and lawyers to keep an eye on that place.
Aaaannd another story of a heroic Ferguson PD officer of the Law.
@28 Sure sounds like that department needs a housecleaning.
It also looks like Ferguson cops are in the habit of assaulting kids:
"Eddie Boyd III, an officer who faced allegations of hitting children while serving under the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, quietly resigned and sought employment with the Ferguson Police Department. Boyd faced three complaints of physical abuse against children between 2004 and 2006, two of which were dropped. Internal affairs sustained the third complaint against Boyd, saying there was sufficient evidence to support the allegation that he struck a 12-year-old girl in the head with a pistol, and recommended Boyd be fired. The St. Louis police chose to demote him. Less than a year later, a teenage boy alleged that Boyd hit him in the nose with a gun, and the officer quietly resigned … [but] his license was not revoked … [and] Boyd was hired by the Ferguson Police Department sometime between July 2009 and December 2010."
http://gawker.com/ferguson-pol.....socialflow
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Either the Ferguson PD doesn't check out job applicants, or doesn't care what's in their record. My guess is doesn't care.
My guess is they actively recruit guys like that.
@31 I doubt it, beyond preferring applicants with experience. Lack of money is behind it. A journalist's plausible explanation was low-budget departments hire other departments' rejects because it saves money on training. This often matters more to departments serving poor and minority neighborhoods than previous performance or disciplinary problems. They get the bottom of the barrel, and I'm sure they know that, but beggars can't be choosers.
For a cop, being "demoted" from a big department to a small one is a slap in the face, and he probably resents it enough to enter his new gig with a built-in chip on his shoulder. Add that all his new buddies are losers like him and you've got a bunch of guys with lousy morale whose negative behavior is mutually reinforcing. Thus, bad cops tend to run in packs, which is part of why they lie to cover for each other. And, a cop demoted to a "bad" neighborhood probably thinks of the citizens there as trash.
Sunday, 8/24/14 at 10:58 pm
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet today. Today was the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Bladensburg. The burning of Washington followed, and next month around September 12th, is Defender's Day, honoring the Battle of Fort McHenry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Monday, 8/25/14 at 2:02 am
Another Nut With A Gun Goes On A Rampage
Los Angeles police have detained a "person of interest" who shot 7 people, apparently randomly, in 1 hour early Sunday morning. Three of the victims died.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/su.....ft-3-dead/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Obviously easy access to guns enables people like this, but an additional unintended consequence of our national policy of easy access to guns is that it makes police more prone to see every citizen as a potential threat and encourages police to shoot first and do risk assessment later. After all, the next traffic stop they make might be the nut who just popped 7 randomly chosen civilians, who won't hesitate to make the officer #8. In that kind of environment — the environment we have today — with crazy people running around with guns, nobody is safe, because we're not alone in danger for the psychos but also from trigger-happy police. The way you solve this is by making guns less accessible and available.
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Gospel Community Loses Music Icon in Mull
Area folks were saddened recently to hear about the passing of Knoxville's blind gospel music icon, J. Bazzel Mull (1914-2006).
About 1957, I routinely tuned my radio to the "Mull Singing convention of the Air" over WLAC in Nashville. The program regularly featured my favorite gospel group, the Chuck Wagon Gang. Preacher Mull, a grandson of circuit-riding preacher, Wallace B. Mull, opened his program with these memorable words, spoken in his distinctively gravely voice: "Howdy neighbor. This is your old friend J. Bazzel Mull," to which his wife, Elizabeth, would reply "and Mrs. Mull."
Mull would often say something over the air and solicit confirmation from his wife by asking her, "Ain't that right, Lady Mull?" Her response was always, "That's right." Pastor Mull's signature signoff to conclude his program was "Thanks for your time, at this time, until next time." Mull's blindness resulted from a fall into an open fireplace at age 11. Lady Mull assisted her husband in the studio by announcing song selections and cueing records.
The preacher's affiliation with Johnson City began in early 1940 when he came here to conduct a revival at a Baptist church in the vicinity of Fall Street. The evangelist and his younger brother, Romulus, a talented singer, guitar player and pianist, soon took up residence in the city, moving from Burke County, NC.
The Elbert and Gladys Bowman family became acquainted with the Mull brothers after inviting them to have supper with them at their E. Unaka home. Mull then extended an invitation to the three oldest Bowman brothers – Weldon, Jake and Buddy, all accomplished vocalists – to sing at his evangelistic meetings.
Weldon recalled his joyful association with the famed preacher: "I was only about 18 years old when the three of us began singing at his gospel music crusades. I often became his 'eyes' by reading the Bible to him. He amazed me with how much scripture he could remember. He later gave me a Bible for assisting him in his ministry. I kept in touch with Pastor Mull over the years, usually calling him on his birthday and during the Christmas holidays. He did so much good for people during his lifetime."
By about 1941, Mull moved to Knoxville where his ministry was aided by successful grocer and politician, Cas Walker. Romulus joined the Air Force and died in a prisoner of war camp in 1944. During his lifetime, Mull owned four Tennessee radio stations and was heard over numerous radio and TV facilities. During one radio broadcast, some pranksters rigged the studio sound system to trick Mull into believing that a popular song being heard in the booth was accidentally being broadcast over the air.
The Reverend organized several churches in North Carolina and Tennessee, including being pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church in the Boones Creek community for a few months in 1947.
Today, the Bowman Family's four younger brothers – Jim, Ray, Tony and Robert – occasionally dress up and perform a hilarious "musicomedy" imitation of the Mulls, followed by their robust singing of the Chuck Wagon Gang's "Higher We Climb Every Day."
On behalf of all East Tennesseans, let me offer heartfelt thanks to our old friends … "J. Bazzel Mull" … "and Mrs. Mull" … for your time, at this time, until next time. And thats right, Lady Mull"
Raucous Pranks at Service Clubs Once Common at the Windsor
Rita Garst wrote me a note commenting on the Hotel Windsor and other former hotels in downtown Johnson City. She shared some humorous stories.
"As a kid, she said, "I thought those buildings were skyscrapers; they looked awfully big back then. The last time I went to Asheville on the old highway, I noticed that the old barn that had Windsor Hotel painted on its roof was still there."
My column in early May offered an epigrammatic history of this long-standing hotel (1909-1961), known briefly as Hotel Pardue before permanently becoming Hotel Windsor. I mentioned that the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs once held their meetings there. However, I didn't mention the fact that, according to former club member, Allen Harris, Sr., William Jennings Bryan once dined there with the Rotarians. I also didn't elaborate on just how rowdy these all-male early meetings could become. Horseplay was often the order of the day. The club dining room was then located on the street floor.
The Rotary Club assigned members a seat and charged a quarter to those who were late to the meeting. Paul Smith, former Johnson City Press-Chronicle writer, in an article written just prior to the razing of the old hostelry, offered some humorous examples of the variety of pranks that occurred back then. At one Rotary meeting, members were aghast when one of the hotel waitresses boldly stepped forward and announced to the club president that one of the club members present was the father of her unborn child.
The club leader, playing along with the impromptu gag, asked for the guilt party to stand up like a man and identify himself. Unknown to the group, one chair had been wired to produce a mild electrical shock. At that precise time, a switch was flipped, sending a shock wave to the man sitting in that particular chair. The "guilty" club member immediately sprang to his feet, bringing a spontaneous roar of laughter from those present.
On another occasion, a fake holdup was staged with masked robbers running in brandishing guns, creating bedlam for the frightened onlookers. Some clubbers dove out windows to escape being pilfered or injured. One poor soul was last seen running well past the Lady of the Fountain statue in Fountain Square Park across the street.
Such rambunctious carryings-on were not confined to Rotarians. Lonnie McCown, a longtime secretary of the Kiwanis Club, recalled an amusing event. Members were seated for what they thought was a normal meeting – discussing the issues of the day and enjoying a deliciously cooked meal. Suddenly, two "clumsy" waiters, carrying full loads of dishes on their trays, collided in the meeting room. The impact produced massive quantities of broken chinaware and initiated harsh words between the two servers.
In the "scuffle" that ensued, the "irate" workers drew pistols and began firing at each other. Those present dived under tables and sought whatever shelter they could find to prevent being hit by the barrage of "gunfire." To the relief of everyone, it soon became apparent that the whole thing was a carefully orchestrated hoax and that the tricksters were in reality using blank cartridges to carry out their foolery.
Perhaps because of these pranks, the Kiwanis Club moved its meetings from Hotel Windsor to the Avalon Dining Room at 309 E. Main Street, later becoming the site of Penney's Department Store.
A History Mystery: Were There Two West Side Schools?
I received a handwritten letter from Geneva Feathers, offering some largely forgotten memories of West Side School in 1930.
In her letter, she mentioned two West Side Schools, one having been located at 812 W. Market Street and the other at 349 W. Main Street, the one she attended. Why would Johnson City have two grammar schools with identical names? Let me present some facts in the form of five exhibits to help clarify this enigma.
Exhibit 1 is a large metal plate mounted on the west side of the front doors to the old Henry Johnson School on W. Market Street school that reads: "West Side School – Erected 1930."
Exhibit 2 is likewise a plate attached to the east side of the same entrance: "Renamed Henry Johnson 1934 – Erected AD 1930." The school was indeed known as West Side School for those four years.
Exhibit 3 is a photograph from The Overmountain Press publication, Johnson City – The Way We Were, a reprint of a 1909 compilation by J.O. Lewis, identifying the Main Street school as West End School. This building was most likely situated near what was the west end of town around the turn of the century.
Exhibit 4 is a quote from Mary Nell Rader, a local resident who once attended the Main Street school: "I remember when both schools were called West Side School until one was renamed Henry Johnson School."
Finally, Exhibit 5 is the interesting letter I received from Mrs. Feathers:
"Your previous column brought back memories for me. My family moved from Erwin to Johnson City in June 1930 and I started at Old West Side School that fall. The school we later knew as Henry Johnson had just been completed and was being used for the first time – it was known then as New West Side. Mrs. W.B. Ellisor, whose husband was mayor of Johnson City, served as principal of both schools. Miss (Mildred) Taylor was teaching at Old West Side even then, but I did not have her for any classes. Miss Ruth Massengill was my homeroom teacher (fifth grade) and I had Miss Bethea for Music. My homeroom teacher in the sixth grade was Miss Mildred Adams. Miss Cora Mae Crockett taught Geography. I had never heard of Davy Crockett then, but I remember her telling us about her ancestor who had gone to Texas to fight (at the Alamo).
"Mr. Judson Carter taught Arithmetic and, although I never knew why, he always had a wooden yardstick with him, which he used as though it were a cane. Miss Frances Long was the music teacher that year. Most of us who lived close enough – for me four blocks – to walk home for lunch did so and we could easily get back within the allotted hour. The school had no lunch room facilities. Students were permitted to go across the street to a mini-grocery run by a Mrs. Laws. She sliced meat from her refrigerated meat case and made sandwiches for the kids. My favorite was boiled ham on a bun for a a nickel and a penny red licorice stick for 'dessert.'"
I believe we can accurately conclude that there were indeed two grammar schools sharing the same designation between 1930 and 1934.
Why did the second school not receive a different name at the onset, instead of four years later? When did West End School become West Side School? Perhaps other Press readers will respond to those two questions.