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This is a list of visitor attractions and annual events in the Louisville metropolitan area.

Annual festivals and other events

Spring
 Abbey Road on the River, a salute to The Beatles with many bands, held Memorial Day weekend in Louisville 2005–2016, but moved across the river to Jeffersonville, Indiana in 2017
 Cherokee Triangle Art Fair, held the weekend before the Kentucky Derby
 ConGlomeration, a multigenre convention held in April
 Festival of Faiths, a five-day national interfaith gathering featuring music, poetry, film, art and dialogue with internationally renowned spiritual leaders, thinkers and practitioners, held at Actors Theatre of Louisville in May
 Highland Renaissance Festival in Eminence, festivities that reproduce aspects of Scottish life during the Renaissance period, along with highland games, held from late May through early July
 Hillbilly Outfield: Kentucky Derby party (Middletown), held in early May to coincide with the Kentucky Derby
 Humana Festival of New American Plays, held in the spring
 Kentucky Derby Festival, Kentucky's largest single annual event; includes Thunder Over Louisville, Great Steamboat Race, Great Balloon Race, Pegasus Parade and the Marathon/miniMarathon, and is held for two weeks from late April through early May, leading up to the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby thoroughbred races
 Kentucky Reggae Festival, held Memorial Day weekend
 Machine Gun Shoot, the first of two events for machine gun enthusiasts held at Knob Creek Gun Range in Bullitt County; usually on the second weekend of April
 Starlight Strawberry Festival (Starlight, Indiana), held during Memorial Day weekend
 VEX Robotics World Championships, held Wednesday through Saturday in the week of the Kentucky Derby (2015–17)
 WHAS Crusade for Children, fundraiser held over the first weekend in June

Summer

 Jane Austen Festival, a three-day event and the largest Jane Austen event in North America, held on the third weekend of July at Locust Grove
 Derby City Comic Con, held in late June
 Fandom Fest Comic Expo, held in mid-summer
 Forecastle Festival, a three-day nationally renowned music, art and environmental activism festival, held in July
 Fright Night Film Fest, typically held in July
 Jeffersontown Gaslight Festival (Jeffersontown), held in September
 Kentucky Art Car Weekend, held in August
 Kentucky Bourbon Festival (Bardstown), held in September
 Kentucky Shakespeare Festival (commonly called "Shakespeare in Central Park"), with the main productions being a series of plays presented free to the public at Central Park during the summer
 Kentucky State Fair, Kentucky's official state fair, which runs for 11 days at the Kentucky Exposition Center; includes amusements, exhibits, competitions, concerts and the World's Championship Horse Show, ends on the last Sunday of August
 Kentuckiana Pride Festival, series of events in June (around start of summer) in support of LGBT pride and rights
 Lebowski Fest, held in July
 Louisville Zombie Attack, where thousands of locals dressed and made up as zombies walk down Bardstown Road to a set location; annual event traditionally held on August 29 at 8:29 pm, but now held on the last Saturday in August at the same clock time
 Oktoberfest, held in September (late summer)
 St. Joseph Orphans Picnic, held the second Saturday in August
 Steamboat Days (Jeffersonville, Indiana), three-day festival held in early September
 Street Rod Nationals, held from Thursday to Sunday in the first full week of August
 WorldFest, a four-day international festival, held on Labor Day weekend

Fall
 Asylum Haunted Scream Park, the subject of the documentary Monsters Wanted, this is five haunted attractions in one location; held from mid-September through Halloween
 Cropped Out, a multi-venue music festival, held in early fall
 Danger Run, from the end of September through the end of October
 Farmington Harvest Festival, held the second Sunday in October at Farmington Historic Plantation
 Garvin Gate Blues Festival, held in Old Louisville in October
 IdeaFestival, a three-day conference that seeks to engage attendees with innovative thinking, held in early fall
 Light Up Louisville & 40 Nights of Lights, begins the day after Thanksgiving
 Machine Gun Shoot, Knob Creek Range's second machine gun-centric event of the year, typically held on the second weekend of October
 National FFA Organization Convention & Expo, previously held in Indianapolis, Indiana, was moved to Louisville again in 2013 after a 14-year absence, held in late October/early November
 North American International Livestock Exposition, held in November
 Spirit Ball, a Victorian-inspired masquerade ball held annually the Saturday before Halloween at the Conrad-Caldwell House on St. James Court
 St. James Court Art Show, one of the top-ranked shows of its kind in the country; held in Old Louisville the first weekend of October
 The World's Largest Halloween Party, Louisville Zoo, held 14 nights in October
Big Four Bridge Arts Festival, held on the first weekend after labor day.

Winter
 Carl Casper's Custom Auto Show, held in February at the Kentucky Exposition Center
 Kosair Shrine Circus, held in February
 Louisville Boat, RV & Sportshow, held in January
 National Farm Machinery Show, held in February

Distinctive locales

Louisville Metro
 East Market District (NuLu), featuring many art galleries and restaurants, prominently featured in the monthly First Friday Hop
 The Highlands area, which features:
 Distinctive shops, restaurants and nightlife along Baxter Avenue and Bardstown Road
 Cherokee Triangle and Original Highlands historic neighborhoods
 Frankfort Avenue, including the Clifton and Crescent Hill neighborhoods—another area with distinctive shops and restaurants
 Louisville Urban Bourbon Trail
 Old Louisville, the third largest historic preservation district in the U.S., which features:
 the highest number of buildings of Victorian architecture in a U.S. neighborhood
 Louisville's Central Park
 St. James Court, famous for the annual St. James Court Art Show
 The West Main District of downtown, including "Museum Row" and featuring some of the oldest structures in the city

Southern Indiana
 Corydon Historic District
 Mansion Row Historic District (New Albany)
 New Albany Downtown Historic District
 Old Jeffersonville Historic District

Historic properties

 Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral (Bardstown), the first Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Appalachian Mountains
 Belle of Louisville, the oldest Mississippi-style steamboat in operation on the inland waterways of the U.S. (built 1914–1915 in Pittsburgh for service in Memphis as the Idlewild, renamed Avalon in 1948, purchased by Jefferson County and renamed Belle of Louisville in 1962)
 Bray Place, the land and 1796 home, now called the Bashford Manor Bed and Breakfast, one of the oldest houses in Kentucky
 The Brennan House
 Brown Hotel, where the Hot Brown was invented
 Cathedral of the Assumption
 Colgate Clock (Clarksville, Indiana), the fourth largest clock in the United States
 Colonial Gardens, a local landmark in the Kenwood Hill neighborhood, now undergoing redevelopment
 Conrad-Caldwell House
 Crescent Hill Reservoir
 Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site (New Albany, Indiana), most noted for its annual haunted house located in the mansion's carriage barn
 Farmington Historic Plantation, including the Thomas Jefferson-designed home of the Speed family, visited by Abraham Lincoln
 The Filson Historical Society, a historical society and research library housed in the Ferguson Mansion, a Beaux-Arts style mansion built in 1906
 Fort Duffield, a Civil War fort
 Fort Knox, including the U.S. Bullion Depository and General George Patton Museum of Leadership (Bullitt, Hardin and Meade Counties)
 Fort Nelson Park, located in the same spot as the second on-shore fort in Kentucky
 Historic Locust Grove farm, home of George Rogers Clark and site of the homecoming of Lewis and Clark
 Hogan's Fountain Pavilion, a large gazebo and picnic shelter of mid-century modern architecture located in Cherokee Park
 Little Loomhouse
 Louisville Stoneware, making pottery since 1815
 My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown), featuring the Federal Hill mansion (inspiration for Stephen Foster's My Old Kentucky Home) and Stephen Foster - The Musical
 Peterson-Dumesnil House
 Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing
 Scribner House (New Albany, Indiana)
 Seelbach Hotel, the famous hotel written about by F. Scott Fitzgerald and frequently visited by Al Capone
 Spalding Hall (Bardstown)
 Thomas Edison House
 Union Station
 United States Marine Hospital of Louisville
 Vogue Theater, a movie theater in St. Matthews that closed in 1998, known for showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show for 25 years. Its sign is being refurbished as a historical landmark.
 Waverly Hills Sanatorium
 Whiskey Row, located in the first block of West Main Street, a collection of Revivalist and Chicago School-style buildings with cast-iron storefronts built between 1852 and 1905
 Whitehall House & Gardens
 Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum

National Register of Historic Places listings

Museums, galleries and interpretive centers

Art

 21c Museum Hotel
 Carnegie Center for Art & History (New Albany, Indiana)
 Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
 Speed Art Museum

Regional history

 Falls of the Ohio State Park interpretive center, a museum covering the natural history related to findings in the nearby exposed Devonian fossil beds as well as the human history of the Louisville area
 The Filson Historical Society, features a museum and extensive historical collections, currently undergoing major expansion
 Historic Locust Grove Visitors Center, which includes a museum
 Howard Steamboat Museum (Jeffersonville, Indiana)
 Kentucky Derby Museum
 Kentucky Railway Museum (New Haven)
 Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
 My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown)
 Portland Museum
 Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing Visitors Center, which includes a museum
 Thomas Edison House
 Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum

Bourbon

 Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, located on Louisville's Whiskey Row, featuring bourbon history and tastings, and interprets Louisville's wharf history in the 1790s
 Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center (Bardstown)
 Jim Beam American Stillhouse (Clermont)
 Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History (Bardstown)
 Stitzel-Weller Distillery (Shively)

Cities

 Bardstown Historical Museum (Bardstown)
 Corydon Capitol State Historic Site (Corydon, Indiana)
 Historic Middletown Museum
 Jeffersontown Historical Museum (Jeffersontown)

Counties

 The Bullitt County History Museum (Shepherdsville)
 Clark County Museum (Jeffersonville, Indiana)
 Henry County Historical Society (New Castle)
 Oldham County History Center (La Grange)

More regional historical collections can be found at the Louisville Free Public Library and the University of Louisville.

U.S. and world history

 Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
 Civil War Museum (Bardstown), including the Civil War Museum of the Western Theater, Pioneer Village, Women's Civil War Museum, War Memorial of Mid America and the Wildlife Museum
 Frazier History Museum, features war weaponry and related historical artifacts, especially focusing on British and U.S. conflicts
 John Hay Center
 Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, showcases the history of the Louisville Slugger and baseball in general
 National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, features a historical museum and a genealogical collection
 General George Patton Museum of Leadership (Fort Knox)

Other subjects

 Kentucky Science Center, hands-on science museum featuring a four-story digital theater
 Louisville WaterWorks Museum, located at the Louisville Water Tower
 Muhammad Ali Center
 Schimpff's Candy Museum (Jeffersonville)
 Thomas Merton Center

Parks and other outdoor attractions

Louisville is home to many spacious city parks, several designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as forested areas, trails and other outdoor attractions; distinctive examples include:

 Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve
 Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (Bullitt County)
 Big Four Bridge, a pedestrian and bicycle bridge connecting Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana
 Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead
 Bridges to the Past (Fort Knox), closed indefinitely due to work on railroad bridge
 Camp Carlson (Fort Knox)
 Cave Hill Cemetery
 Central Park
 Cherokee Park, includes the Hogan's Fountain Pavilion and Cherokee Golf Course, and many other landmarks and features
 Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area (Clarksville, Indiana), which includes Falls of the Ohio State Park and features the oldest exposed Devonian fossil beds in the United States
 Huber's Orchard, Winery and Vineyards (Starlight, Indiana)
 Indiana Caverns (near Corydon, Indiana)
 Iroquois Park, includes the locally popular Iroquois Amphitheater, scenic overlooks and the Iroquois Golf Course
 Jefferson Memorial Forest, in southwest Louisville, the largest municipal urban forest in the United States
 Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane Bay, previously known as Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, a  amusement park with 50 amusement rides and a water park. Named by MSN Travel as one of the top ten amusement parks in America for 2015.
 Louisville Clock, formerly at Theatre Square (dismantled in 2015)
 Louisville Loop, a partially completed  bike and pedestrian trail encircling Louisville, including:
 Riverwalk
 Levee Trail
 Mill Creek Trail
 Louisville Water Tower Park
 Louisville Waterfront Park, features annual Thunder Over Louisville fireworks and air show during the Kentucky Derby Festival
 Louisville Zoo
 McAlpine Locks and Dam
 Mega Cavern
 Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area (Meade County)
 The Parklands of Floyds Fork
 Patriots Peace Memorial
 Renaissance Fun Park (Middletown)
 Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, adjacent to Downtown Louisville and Louisville's wharf
 E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park
 Seneca Park, includes the Seneca Golf Course
 Shawnee Park, includes the Shawnee Golf Course
 Squire Boone Caverns (Mauckport, Indiana)
 Tioga Falls Hiking Trail (Fort Knox), closed indefinitely due to work on railroad bridge
 Waverly Park, includes the 9-hole Bobby Nichols Golf Course
 Zachary Taylor National Cemetery

Shows and performing arts

Venues

 Actors Theatre, producing the Humana Festival of New American Plays, among many other productions
 The Alley Theater
 Baxter Avenue Filmworks, with a monthly audience participation showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
 Horseshoe Southern Indiana (Elizabeth, Indiana)
 Derby Dinner Playhouse (Clarksville, Indiana)
 Fourth Street Live!, a downtown entertainment and retail complex
 Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium (University of Louisville)
 Headliners Music Hall
 IMAX theaters at the Kentucky Science Center and Showcase Stonybrook Cinemas
 Iroquois Amphitheater
 The Kentucky Center
 KFC Yum! Center
 The Laughing Derby at Comedy Caravan
 Louisville Gardens
 The Louisville Palace
 Mercury Ballroom

Performers
 Kentucky Shakespeare Festival
 Little Colonel Players (Pewee Valley)
 Louisville Chorus
 Louisville Orchestra
 Louisville Thoroughbreds
 Mind's Eye Theatre Company
 Pandora Productions
 Squallis Puppeteers
 StageOne Family Theatre
 Theatre [502]
 Voices of Kentuckiana
 Wayward Actors Company

Sports-related attractions and venues

 Alpine Ice Arena
 David Armstrong Extreme Park
 Churchill Downs thoroughbred racetrack and the Kentucky Derby Museum
 Freedom Hall
 KFC Yum! Center, home of University of Louisville basketball
 Kentucky International Convention Center
 Knob Creek Gun Range (in Bullitt County near West Point), famous for its twice-yearly machine gun shoot
 Lindsey Golf Course (Fort Knox)
 Louisville Champions Park, a park that "offers flexible space for a variety of field sports", including soccer
 Louisville Metro Parks public golf courses
Cherokee Park (9-hole)
Crescent Hill Park (9-hole)
Iroquois Park
Long Run Park
Seneca Park
Shawnee Park
Sun Valley Park
Charlie Vettiner Park
Waverly Park (Bobby Nichols) (9-hole)
 Louisville Slugger Field, a baseball park that is home to the Louisville Bats
 Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
 Lynn Stadium, home of University of Louisville soccer
 Lynn Family Stadium, not to be confused with the above; home of Louisville City FC (USL Championship) and Racing Louisville FC (NWSL)
 Muhammad Ali Center
 Owsley B. Frazier Stadium, home of several outdoor sports at Bellarmine University, most notably men's lacrosse
 Cardinal Stadium, home of University of Louisville football
 Jim Patterson Stadium, home of University of Louisville baseball
 Valhalla Golf Club, designed by professional golfer Jack Nicklaus

Miscellaneous
 Rooster Run (Nelson County), a general store well known for baseball caps featuring its logo and a -tall fiberglass rooster statue standing in front of the store. According to The Kentucky Encyclopedia, it is "one of the best-known general stores in the country and one of Kentucky's best-known unincorporated businesses".

See also

References

External links
 36 Hours in Louisville, Ky.—New York Times, March 31, 2011
 Bucket List: The top 50 things to do in Louisville—WLKY, August 18, 2013
 Greater Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau
 LouisvilleHotBytes restaurant reviews
 Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy

Louisville

 Attractions and events


He everyone, I hope all is well . Have a few updates and new projects I want to show soon. I got this privet from a friend that wants to redo his property . I got some nice mature plumerias and other cool stuff.
I had to cut quite a bit. Their was a few cuts made by my friend two years ago that are not pretty. He cut the bushes branches to nubs.
Those first pics were from a couple of months ago . It's growing well I didn't get branches in all the places I need them but it's doing good. I would appreciate any suggestions on care or design I don't know much about them.
Let it grow out and heal up, its got potential.
One of many options, the branch on the right, the trunk heads that way and tapers dramatically to that point. You could when you repot next tilt the tree up and make that your apex. Remove the second from the right and other branches that are thicker than the one on the right. It will probably leave you with a nice "Fat Trunk" shohin. But that is just one option. Let it grow out a year and then see what possibilities grab your attention.


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1.Well this could start off at your home which to decorate you could use plants to make it seem more like the woods, banners that say "Happy Hunger Games" with a mockingjay on it as well, or cut outs of the characters on the walls, ballons with thier faces on it etc.
2.You could also write a note on the invites (which could be a mockingjay pin cut out) that say to bring a change of clothes (you'll find out why later) and also dress up as either an assigned cheracter or let them choose and see who pulled their costume off the best and award a small prize.
3.When everyone gets there then you could play trivia. Have the host asking the questions. The trivia cards could say something like who said "You love me real or not real" or could ask something like what color was the moth that landed on Katnis's hand green and________ I would suggest having a 4 pockets 1 for each level and they can pick a difficulty level.
4.Another game is Kiss the poster a version of pin the tail on the donkey except you would buy a poster of a guy from the movie and then blind fold the person and put lipstick on them and see who could get the closest to the celebrities lips and whoever does this will win the poster.
7.You could play a version of the hunger games and use water guns with some kind of washable dye so that when someone is hit everyone else knows who hit them based on the colored dye. And there could be a cornocopia with better water guns and water bottles and whatever else they may need I would suggest a local park and that the districts pair up so no one is alone.
note use different colored dye's so you know who killed who and the winner is the last one standing and you could grade everyone else on how many people they killed.


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Pavilion Hotel on Northbourne to make way for 400-unit development
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The mixed-use development planned for the Pavilion on Northbourne Hotel site. Images from the DA.
Two more pieces of the Northbourne Avenue renewal jigsaw are coming into play with development applications lodged for the redevelopment of the Pavilion Hotel in Dickson into nearly 400 units and the construction of a 10-storey mixed-use tower on the Macarthur Avenue corner in Turner.
The Pavilion on Northbourne Hotel at 242 Northbourne Avenue will make way for four buildings that will house 394 one to three-bedroom units, home office suites, a gym and commercial spaces.
The $145 million development will consist of two parallel north-south buildings, a 'U' shaped building to the south of the site, all nine-storeys, plus a smaller three-storey building on the eastern edge of the site fronting Dooring Street.
It will be completed in two stages, the first being a 'U' shaped building, with the Pavilion continuing to operate while it is being constructed. The second stage will see the Pavilion demolished and the construction of the three other buildings.
A total of 880 parking spaces will be provided in the basement levels of the proposed buildings, above requirements.
The traffic report says the proposed development will generate a net total of 100 trips in the AM peak and 126 trips in the PM peak, once the traffic generated by the existing hotel use is omitted, but will only have a minimum impact on nearby intersections.
The internal courtyard and walkway of the Pavilion development.
The 12-hectare site is bound by Northbourne Avenue to the west, the proposed SOHO development to the north, Dooring Street to the east, and the ABC Studio building and Adina Serviced Apartments to the south.
The DA, prepared by Purdon Planning for Kappelle Pty Ltd, says the proposal is an exciting, innovative and efficient high-density mixed-use design on a prominent inner-city site adjacent to the new light rail and the proposed 'Macarthur Urban Village'.
"The site layout makes provision for deep-rooted planting along the Northbourne Avenue frontage and generous landscape areas within the site and on rooftops. The shared laneway design will add a fine-grained interest to the development in a safe and secure landscaped setting," it says.
A walkway connection from Northbourne Avenue to Dooring Street will be activated through small-scale commercial uses and areas of open space.
The DA says the location will support a high level of active travel because of its proximity to job centres, shopping, entertainment, open spaces and community facilities. The site is also immediately adjacent to a light rail station.
It will make an important contribution to the broader ACT Government vision for an attractive and active Northbourne Avenue corridor, the DA says.
A rendering from the DA of the proposed Midtown tower.
Meanwhile, HTI Group Pty Ltd has lodged a development application for the third stage of its Midtown mixed-use precinct, which has seen the Northbourne House office tower transformed into the Mantra MacArthur Hotel and the construction of the Edgeworth Apartments fronting David Street.
The nearly $10 million development will consist of a three-level basement car park, six commercial ground floor tenancies on the ground floor with structured car parking at the rear of the building, and nine storeys of 81 two and three-bedroom apartments crowned by a rooftop garden.
The DA, prepared by Canberra Town Planning, says the proposed development will be a landmark building on the corner of Northbourne and McArthur Avenues with a strong architectural design and style.
"The landscaped forecourt to the building along the streets will provide opportunities for active commercial uses to 'spill' into the streetscape and present activity to the adjoining public realm", it says.
The development will mean the loss of one regulated tree.
Both developments will require changes to the Crown lease to add residential use.
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Swansea manager Roberto Martinez decided to make six changes with goalkeeper David Knight handed his debut having arrived from Middlesbrough in the summer.
Billericay boss Matt Jones had a full squad to choose from and was boosted by the return of defender Dave McSweeney following a dead leg. Joe Flack was back in the starting line-up after being rested in midweek.
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FUTURE SHOCK! The Story of 2000AD
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Posted by Paul July 18, 2014
The Long Walk (erm, drive)
@andydiggle @grantmorrison.
Our epic journey through the creators past & present continued a couple of weeks ago with a 1000 mile road trip, headed north. After a too-early start we headed up to Lancaster to visit Andy Diggle who is probably best known as the creator of The Losers and Snapshot, and for writing such cool titles as; Swamp Thing, Daredevil, Batman, Green Arrow and Action Comics.
Of course before all of that he was known as the 8th incarnation of Tharg the Mighty...
Andy kindly agreed to an interview when we met in Glasgow last year during a traditional post-con heroic drinking session. His role as Editor from 2000-2002 offers a unique perspective of the goings on behind-the-scenes at the Nerve Centre itself. We chatted about the history & impact of the comic, the seemingly endless editorial challenges, the bold new direction that the Rebellion takeover heralded and much more juicy stuff besides. It's a fascinating and candid interview!
Massive thanks to Andy and his family for having us!
So cracking on, we headed further north to Glasgow for an interview with comics legend Grant Morrison. A short period after Grant's first Futureshock his Zenith strip debuted, co-created with Steve Yeowell and Brendan McCarthy. Zenith quickly became regarded as a classic, and to me it represents the era where I was personally ramping up my comics interest to an 'unhealthy' level.
I remember watching a rare interview with Grant and Dave McKean on a daytime chat show (Pebble Mill or some such crap) discussing their book Arkham Asylum. I was thrilled as the presenters reeled in horror when Dave unveiled his shocking rendition of the Joker while Grant smiled mischievously in the background! A beautiful moment.
His subsequent work for DC had an instrumental role in paving the way for Vertigo, a chapter we'll be discussing in the doc, and having written for most of comics' top titles we have seen him rise to become one of the major forces in the industry. So we were bloody delighted that Grant was happy to take part in the film and unsurprisingly the interview is spellbinding stuff! Just you wait...
Cheers to Grant and Kristan for having us around!
So with 2 more seminal additions to the doc in the can, we headed home - 400 much shorter miles.
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National Hire an Intern Day
Reflections on "The Internship of a Lifetime" by
Caelia Chung
2022 US CEO for One Month
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jul. 28, 2022 – July 28th is National Hire an Intern Day in the US. The special occasion was created as a way to recognize and celebrate future leaders of the world. In the spirit of the holiday, I would like to reflect on my experiences from the internship of a lifetime: The Adecco Group's CEO for One Month Program.
Launched in 2015, this internship was designed to help develop future leaders and show them what it takes to lead a Fortune 500 company. What makes this experience so special is that I didn't just "shadow" a CEO, but actually "acted" as one. Within the span of one month, I traveled to five cities, interacted with senior leaders and C-Suite executives, delivered project proposals that will help transform the future of work, participated in global challenges, and made some friends along the way.
My time at The Adecco Group has been emotional, challenging, educational, and fulfilling all at once. While shadowing staffing industry leaders like Joyce Russell, Eileen Sweeney, Mike Small, and Laurie Chamberlin, I observed uniquely different leadership styles that were just as effective. So naturally, the most valuable lesson I learned is the importance of leading with authenticity and bringing your best self to work every day.
The Adecco Group Senior Leadership
For example, Joyce Russell lives by the concept of, "Put a Cherry on Top," otherwise known as generosity in life and leadership. She genuinely loves taking care of clients, colleagues, and candidates (the three C's) through special experiences. The sky's the limit for Joyce, whether it's a handwritten birthday card to a colleague's child or our extravagant pedicab ride to a Broadway show in New York City.
Meanwhile, I discovered that Eileen is very gifted as a musician – but not in the way you would think. She uses her talents to orchestrate her business like a symphony, conducting the different instrumental melodies to come together while being careful not to allow one section play over the others. Her ability to stay on track leading calls across three verticals in six short hours, then compile the outcomes and end the day with an All Hands Call for 900 colleagues is a testament to her natural organizational and leadership skills.
Mike has an innate gift for leadership courage. It takes great spirit to join a company during an acquisition and transformation, but it takes true courage to lead with transparency knowing you don't have all the answers yet. Mike does just that – he operates with a refreshing openness while expressing care for his colleagues. This was especially evident during our meeting where he helped familiarize me with P&L terminology, but asked how my family was doing to conclude. Our conversation went from, "CAGR and EBITA," to, "My brother is going into the fourth grade!"
Laurie embodies the 4 H's of helpfulness, honesty, human connection, and hopefulness at LHH to achieve a uniquely rich and intimate level of company-wide inclusivity. During the week I spent with Laurie, she showcased her 4H spirit by hosting a "President's Welcome" for new hires and an all-colleague "Ask Me Anything" session, where she answered questions ranging from her stances on political controversies to inquiries about salary raises and beyond.
Seeing these leaders uniquely and authentically lead their businesses and, at the same time, foster a people-first culture left me with a lot to think about as an emerging leader. What impression do I want to leave on people? What do I want them to say about me when I am not in the room? What kind of legacy do I want to leave?
I can say with confidence that this internship has revealed to me the value I place on diversity, well-being, and a culture where people move heaven and earth for each other. During my time at The Adecco Group, I was able to contribute in ways that matter to me. I was able to bring diversity of thought to the leadership team through my age and ethnic identity, promote physical and mental welfare in the workplace with T-Talks and #WorkOutWednesdays, and participate in experiences that promote inclusivity. I am forever indebted to Adecco and the CEO for One Month Program for helping me start my journey, but it doesn't end here! I have much left to learn about myself, business, and leadership.
In the meantime, I would like to leave you with my top 5 takeaways from this unique program:
Leadership comes in many shapes and styles. The best one is what is authentic to you and similarly allows others to express their true selves.
Being a CEO entails amazing and demanding work. However, you'll never be successful unless you ruthlessly prioritize to achieve a healthy balance between professional and personal life.
When it comes to strategic leadership, you need to discern when to be laser-focused versus radar-focused. For example, be laser-focused and direct when presenting a business proposal, and radar-focused making sure to gather multiple perspectives when considering a company's future during transformation.
Listening is one of the most valuable skills a leader can have. Listening (over talking) deepens your emotional intelligence and allows you to understand and unite people more effectively, and anticipate and plan for the future of your business.
Take risks early. With only a year of college under my belt, I took a risk by applying to this program and an even bigger risk by outright asking for the internship during my final presentation at bootcamp. Rather than contemplating what you have to lose, consider what you have to gain from the opportunity.
Thank you, again, to The Adecco Group for the invaluable experience of CEO for One Month. It will forever standout as a defining moment in my career development.
To see the 5 cities I visited and all of the amazing people I met, check out the video below!
About the Adecco Group
The Adecco Group is the world's leading HR solutions company. We believe in making the future work for everyone, and every day enable more than 3.5 million careers.
We skill, develop, and hire talent in 60 countries, enabling organisations to embrace the future of work. As a Fortune Global 500 company, we lead by example, creating shared value that fuels economies and builds better societies.
Our culture of inclusivity, entrepreneurship and teamwork empowers our 35,000 employees. We are proud to have been consistently ranked one of the 'World's Best Workplaces' by Great Place to Work®.
The Adecco Group AG is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland (ISIN: CH0012138605) and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ADEN). The Group is powered by three global business units: Adecco, Talent Solutions and Modis.
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Ivan D. Piedrahita graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire with a Bachelor's Degree in History and Romance Languages. During this period, he studied at the University of Lyon and the University of Toulouse in France. He also did an internship at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Thereafter, he attended American University in Washington, D.C., and studied law, graduating with honors. While studying in Washington, D.C., he did a legal internship in the legal department of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. Since 1997, he has exclusively practiced immigration law in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a member of the Florida Bar and belongs to the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, and French.
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Dondi Hopkins,Sales ExecutiveWe are a mother/daughter team having sold more than $750,000,000 over a combined 45 year career. Even though we have sold numerous properties throughout Broward County, our areas of specialization continue to include Plantation, Davie, Weston and Fort Lauderdale. We are proud to continue to recommend American Heritage.
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Serving the entire Broward/Dade counties with over 10 years of real estate expertise and 25 years of marketing expertise, I understand the need for a quality neighborhood and lifestyle for your family. It is my promise to provide prompt, courteous and accurate service when you choose to buy, sell or rent a residence. Inquire today about my rebate program!
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The idiomatic expression to have "skin in the game" means to have incurred monetary risk by being involved in achieving a goal.
Despite its relatively recent usage as shown in Ngram, its origin is still unclear.
The expression has been attributed to Warren Buffett since in Buffett's first fund he raised $105,000 from 11 doctors, himself placing a token sum of $100.00 as his "skin in the game"
The best executive sponsors are people who have "skin in the game."
Who actually coined this now commonly used expression?
What is the earliest usage available?
Perhaps significantly, Perot got his start as one of those high stress, high pay IBM salespeople, and went on to make his fortune in the computing industry (Wikipedia).
From there, usage takes off quickly, as attested in the Ngram cited in the question.
fig. U.S. slang. A dollar; = frogskin n. (a) at frog *n.*1 and adj. Compounds 2a. ("skin, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2017. Definition 6).
Thus if a player hasn't anted up—bet a "skin"—in the golf game, he or she may not be as concerned about playing their very best.
One more circumstantial piece of evidence: Golf was at one time part of the insular IBM culture described in that first article.
So, not a definitive answer, but a conjecture: once upon a time, somewhere between the 1960s and 1980s, IBM employees regularly played a form of gambling golf. Having money on a hole, called "skin" in the game, was known to make that hole's play matter more to the player. Thus having skin in the game became an IBM corporate catchphrase for being personally invested in an endeavor. The phrase gradually leaked out into associated industries, and eventually caught on with the general public (and maybe especially those finance execs and politicians who might be expected to still play "skins" golf today).
1Unfortunately, nearly all of these sources are behind pay-walls; hopefully, the citations are full enough that folks can find them (perhaps through their local library) if desired.
''As much as I.B.M.'s planning is defensive as it is offensive, they had a lot of interest in preventing Steve Chen's technology from falling into foreign hands,'' said Jeffrey Canin, an analyst with Hambrecht & Quist. Although I.B.M. has research projects in parallel processing under way at several universities and company sites, today's agreement is ''putting a little more I.B.M. skin in the game, a commitment of technology, funding and personnel,'' he added.
Not an answer, really, but too long for a comment.
There are 2 kinds of gambling in the city, one known as the square game, which is played only by gentlemen, and in first-class houses; the other, the skin game, which is played in all the dens and chambers, and in the thousand low hells of New York. In the square game nobody is solicited, nor obliged to play, though they visit the rooms. In low-gaming houses it is not safe for anyone to enter unless he plays. Persons are not only solicited, but bullied into hazarding something.
As with Skin in the game, the inference is not only that financial/gambling risk is taken on, but also that there is substantial pressure to participate. Observers will not be tolerated. If you don't have skin in the game, you haven't earned the right to comment, criticize or benefit.
What is the origin of "man on the spot"?
What is the origin of the expression 'A Mexican standoff'?
Origin of "On your own head be it"?
What is the origin of the term, "to 86 someone"?


It's not about the car. It's about the principle. For many years I have used every platform and every tool at my disposal to fight against the terrorists who leave their shopping carts chaotically strewn about the surface of the Earth. Every time I drive into a supermarket parking lot these days it looks like 9,000 people were raptured into heaven right as they put their last grocery bag in the trunk. Or maybe they're all bomb technicians and they suddenly had to go diffuse explosives about to blow up a stadium full of children and puppies. Or maybe they're Batman. Yes, maybe they saw the Bat Signal and had to track down the Penguin and foil another of his dastardly plots. They must be SOMETHING important if they couldn't carve out the requisite half-minute to shuttle those carts back from whence they came.
Or, you know, maybe they're just lazy.
That's called a "cart corral." That's where people put their carts. You see the bars? Those bars are designed to contain said carts and stop them from causing damage to somebody else's property. Most parking lots have dozens of these strategically positioned throughout the premises so as to assure that nobody ever has to walk more than 27 feet to return their carts.
27 feet to save your neighbor's vehicle from sure destruction. Well, maybe not destruction, but real damage that can be measured in hundreds of dollars.
Yet this small sacrifice for the sake of your fellow man is too cumbersome for many of us. The average American watches 30 hours of TV a week, and he can't shave about .00001 percent off of that and allocate it towards returning a shopping cart to a structure specifically constructed to hold shopping carts.
It's the principle. I don't care that a cart flew into my car; I care that it offended my principles, and the principles upon which this country is built. This is more than just shopping carts and scratched panels, people. How can we ever expect to survive an apocalyptic disaster — when civilization is brought to its knees, the power grid fails, our infrastructure crumbles, and governmental institutions are disbanded — if we can't even figure out how to work harmoniously with one another IN A PARKING LOT?


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Empress Xiao (蕭皇后, personal name unknown; – 17 April 648), formally Empress Min, was an empress of the Chinese Sui Dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Yang of Sui.

Background
The future Empress Xiao was born into the imperial house of the Western Liang dynasty – as a daughter of Emperor Ming of Western Liang, who claimed the Liang throne as a vassal of Northern Zhou and then Sui.  She was born in the second month of the lunar calendar, and at that time, the superstitious Emperor Ming believed birth in that month to be an indicator of ill fortune.  She was therefore given to her uncle Xiao Ji () the Prince of Dongping to be raised, but Xiao Ji and his wife both soon died. She was instead raised by her maternal uncle Zhang Ke (). As Zhang was poor, she had to participate in labor, and she willingly did so. In 582, Emperor Wen of Sui, because Emperor Ming had supported him during Northern Zhou's civil war in 580 against the general Yuchi Jiong, wanted to take one of Emperor Ming's daughters to be the wife of his son Yang Guang, the Prince of Jin.  Emperor Ming had fortunetellers discern whether any of his daughters was suitable, but the fortunetellers ruled that none was suitable.  Emperor Ming then welcomed her back from Zhang's house, and the fortunetellers found her to be suitable, and so she was given to Yang Guang in marriage.  She thereafter carried the title of Princess of Jin.

As princess and crown princess
Princess Xiao was said to be meek and intelligent, and she was talented both in reading text and in fortunetelling.  Emperor Wen was pleased with her, and Yang Guang favored and respected her.  Further, in order to please his mother Empress Dugu, who disfavored men who had concubines, Yang Guang, while having some concubines, pretended to have none beside Princess Xiao, and as part of his elaborate attempt to appear both filially pious and frugal, when Empress Dugu's servant girls arrived at Yang Guang's defense post at Yang Province (揚州, roughly modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu) to deliver messages to and from Empress Dugu, Yang Guang would have the servant girls stay with Princess Xiao despite their inferior status.  Eventually, Emperor Wen deposed Yang Guang's older brother Yang Yong (whose faults, in his parents' eyes, were wastefulness (which displeased Emperor Wen) and having many concubines (which displeased Empress Dugu)) from his position as crown prince in 600 and created Yang Guang crown prince to replace him.  Thereafter, Princess Xiao carried the title of crown princess.  She and Yang Guang had two sons together – Yang Zhao and Yang Jian (note different character than Emperor Wen, whose name is also rendered "Yang Jian" in pinyin); it is likely that Yang Guang's only known daughter, the later Princess Nanyang, was also her daughter.  (Yang Guang's third and final son, Yang Gao, was born of a Consort Xiao, who might have been a sister of hers.)

As empress consort
Emperor Wen died in 604—a death that traditional historians generally believe was a murder ordered by Yang Guang, although they admit a lack of direct evidence—and Yang Guang took the throne as Emperor Yang.  In 605, he created Crown Princess Xiao empress.  He soon turned away from the virtuous living style he engaged in to please his parents, and he lived luxuriously, with tens of thousands of women filling his palaces.  He still maintained respect for Empress Xiao, and he made many of her relatives, including her older brother Xiao Cong the Duke of Liang (Western Liang's final emperor), officials in his government.  However, Yang Zhao, who became crown prince, died in 606, and Yang Jian lost Emperor Yang's favor in 608 over his use of witchcraft against Yang Zhao's sons.  Empress Xiao often accompanied Emperor Yang on his tours around the empire, and she saw that he had lost his virtues.  She wrote a circumspect poem to try to get Emperor Yang to change his ways, but he either did not realize that was her intent, or simply ignored the poem.

In 607, when Emperor Yang visited the submissive Qimin Khan of the Eastern Turkish Khaganate (Tujue), Empress Xiao accompanied him and she personally visited the tent of the khan's wife Princess Yicheng, who was a daughter of a Yang clansman. In 615, when Emperor Yang and Empress Xiao were touring the northern frontier, Qimin Khan's son and successor Shibi Khan launched a surprise attack against Yanmen Commandery in reprisal against various offenses by the emperor. Princess Yicheng sent the imperial couple advanced warning of her new husband's plans, and they were able to reach the well-fortified commandery seat at present-day Daixian in Shanxi. When Shibi Khan besieged them there on 11 September, Empress Xiao's younger brother Xiao Yu suggested seeking further assistance from Princess Yicheng, who—pursuant to Turkish custom—was entrusted with overseeing military affairs at home in her husband's absence. She sent the khan a false report of a northern attack on the khaganate; between this and reports of numerous Chinese reinforcements rushing to answer the emperor's call for help and extravagant promises of reward and promotion, the khan decided to lift the siege and return north. (Subsequently, though, rather than listening to Xiao Yu's advice to end his campaigns against Goguryeo, Emperor Yang expelled the minister from his court.)

By 618, with virtually entire empire engulfed in warfare from the rebellions against her husband's rule, Empress Xiao was with her husband at Jiangdu (), the capital of Yang Province. They were protected (as he believed) by the elite Xiaoguo Army ().  However, by this point, even the Xiaoguo soldiers were plotting rebellion, as they missed their families in the north.  When a lady in waiting reported the plot to Empress Xiao, she told the lady in waiting, "I will let you report it to the emperor."  Emperor Yang, not willing to hear any bad news, however, instead executed the lady in waiting. Later, when other ladies in waiting wanted to report on the plot, Empress Xiao advised them against it, reasoning that there was nothing left that could save the dynasty. Soon, a plot led by the general Yuwen Huaji came to fruition, and Emperor Yang, along with his sons Yang Jian and Yang Gao and grandson Yang Tan the Prince of Yan were killed. Empress Xiao and her ladies in waiting wrapped him in a mat and made caskets for both Emperor Yang and Yang Gao.

After Emperor Yang's death
Yuwen Huaji declared Emperor Yang's nephew Yang Hao the Prince of Qin emperor, then abandoned Jiangdu and headed back north, taking Empress Xiao and her ladies in waiting north. He was not a good commander or governor, however, and his campaign north suffered constant defections and defeats. By fall 618, he was in a desperate situation, and deciding to become emperor before final defeat, he poisoned Yang Hao and declared a new state of Xu with himself as emperor.

In 619, Yuwen Huaji was captured and executed by one of the rebel leaders, Dou Jiande the Prince of Xia. Dou treated Empress Xiao with kindness and respect while giving a proper mourning for Emperor Yang. Subsequently, the Princess Yicheng requested that Dou send Empress Xiao to her, and Dou did so, along with Emperor Yang's daughter Princess Nanyang and the head of Yuwen Huaji. An emissary was sent to welcome her and the former Empress traveled to Tujue, North of the Great Wall. While she was in Tujue, one of Yang Jian's consorts gave birth to a posthumous son, Yang Zhengdao, whom she raised, and whom Ashina Duojishi subsequently created the Prince of Sui, assigning to him as his subjects the refugees from Sui. She went to live in Dingxiang. During the years, Tujue's khans continued to use Yang Zhengdao as a magnet to attract the people to surrender, in competition to Tang Dynasty, established by the Sui general Li Yuan (Emperor Gaozu).

In 630, when Emperor Gaozu's son Emperor Taizong of Tang sent the general Li Jing to attack Tujue's Jiali Khan Ashina Duobi, Ashina Duobi's associate Kangsumi () surrendered to Li Jing, taking Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao with him. Emperor Taizong's official Yang Wenguan () wanted to have Empress Xiao interrogated as to whether any Tang officials had been secretly in communication with her, but Emperor Taizong refused and instead treated her with respect. Yang Zhengdao was given an honorific official post. As Empress Xiao's brother Xiao Yu was an important official under both Emperors Gaozu and Taizong, she maintained some degree of honor at the Tang capital Chang'an, and she was subsequently in charge of Emperor Yang's reburial with honor. She died on 17 April 648 in Chang'an and was buried with honors due an empress, at Jiangdu with Emperor Yang.

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Hey James, hope you'll continuing to post the next motu-comic soon.
Really amazing, I've never heard of these UK ones before?!
A cool share, but I cannot fathom the need to label such scans, i.e. 'watermarking' them. The edits spoil the originals. The scanner owns his/her scans, but why share them in the first place, then?
I do this becuase it took A LOT of time to scan all these up... And I have been the victim before of folks taking my scans and using them on other websites without my permission... Websites that get money through advertising dollars (which I do not). So basically they take all the work I did, post in on their site as their own, and then make money off of it.
So thus... I have to watermark. I hate it as much as you do, but is the only way to make these guys stop.


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Film and TV production, music, game and fashion design, marketing and PR – the creative industries – are changing. It's a gig economy, where creative people are responsible for their own training and organizing their own projects. Georgia State researchers are studying these changes, tracking the economic implications for Atlanta and the state, and analyzing how new models for content creation are changing entertainment.
The state of Georgia provides significant and growing tax incentives to support production work in film, television, music and digital entertainment. These incentives have sparked explosive growth in production work and the development of statewide infrastructure and workforce. Filmmaking and TV work in Georgia generates a $9 billion annual economic impact.
The state legislature, in recent years, has convened study groups to explore whether the benefits of production activity are reaching all Georgians, especially minority media makers and others from backgrounds of economic disadvantage, and to develop metrics to capture the economic benefits.
The central educational mission of Georgia State and other partner institutions in the University System of Georgia and Technical and Community College System has faculty statewide focused on workforce development and the work of connecting liberal arts educational training with advanced technology and creative industries careers.
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The first High Demand Career Initiative summit convened by Governor Nathan Deal was held at Georgia State, and focused on the media and entertainment industries. The most common view articulated there by industry partners was the need to build technology training platforms able to support work in the state animation and game design industry. Georgia State responded by introducing a game design and development program.
Kay Beck, founding director of the university's Digital Arts Entertainment Lab (the CMII precursor), and an architect of its thriving film program, worked with the Board of Regents to undertake a workforce study that helped lay the foundation for the start of the Georgia Film Academy. The study detailed the most urgent areas for curricular development and made a case for the internship and experiential educational model implemented today by Georgia Film Academy programs.
Researchers connected with the university's Fiscal Research Center regularly perform economic assessments that relate to the creative industries. A recent example of their work is an informational overview (PDF) of the state production tax credits.
What are the geographical implications of growing work in the state creative industries? Ethan Tussey and Amelia Arsenault, assistant professors in film and media, have started an Atlanta Media Mapping Project that tracks hiring and infrastructure data points to literally map the growth of the state's media industries.
CMII is organizing a wider group of interested faculty who work on the economics of creative industry production, either formulated around workforce issues or economic impact.


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UT study determines cheapest electricity for the future
by: Natalie Ferrari
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Have you already paid your electric bill for the month? A group of researchers at the University of Texas are helping to make things easier when exploring options in the future.
A recent study at UT discovered just what type of electricity is the cheapest to generate, depending where you live. The Energy Institute at the University of Texas developed a new online calculator that simplifies determining the cheapest electricity to generate and distribute, while incorporating a variety of factors.
"It's really a decision analysis tool that allows people to test different assumptions like the cost of a new technology or the cost of fuel," says Joshua Rhodes, a postdoctoral research fellow with the Energy Institute at the University of Texas.
This calculator is just one piece of a 15-part study pulled from all across various schools at the University of Texas, also known as the "Full Cost of Electricity" study.
"It would really allow someone to kind of test their hypothesis, if they think a certain technology is the best," Rhodes tell us. "We're striving to provide a consistent framework for people to compare options."
With this unique tool, you can zoom-in to your location, even county, to experiment with different values and potential costs of a certain technology, such as natural gas, wind and solar. Once you plug in and adjust those values, the calculator updates in real time.
SEE: Austin's largest solar rooftop
Rhodes says that if someone at home wanted to experiment or see what was happening in their area, "whether some types of plants were going to be closed down or if certain types of new generation were going to be built, they can kind of test that to see if that's economical or if that falls within where they'd like to see things go."
It's not just the cost of transporting or building a type of power plant that is taken into consideration. This calculator can also include indirect costs, such as impacts on our health and the environment due to air pollution, over time.
"Different technologies produce those pollutants at different rates," Rhodes explains. "And so if you put a high price on something it may change which technology is the cheapest if you're going to internalize the cost associated with human health impacts — people having to go to the hospital for asthma attacks, things like that."
Rhodes tells KXAN that researchers in this study received some feedback from the Department of Energy and EPA, saying that, "they think it's a great decision support tool, a great stakeholder outreach tool. It would allow them to kind of backup some of their assumptions, some of the policy levers they're possibly using."
Researchers with this University are hoping this unique power planning tool will become the "energy infrastructure of the future."You can read more on the "Full Cost of Electricity" study and access their online calculators.


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er: What is the term used when union workers refuse to work due to contractual disagreements? A. Resignation B. Insubordination C. Strike D. Labor law violation.
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Group organization is argued to be the major determinant of mobilization potential and patterns. The article examines the World Social Forum as a new kind of public space, 'placed' but transnational, and giving rise to a transnational subaltern counterpublic. A conflict-centered model of the world polity is developed here that explains world political participation as a function of material and symbolic conflict. And the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (especially economists) worry about whether markets and deregulation produce greater wealth at the price of increased inequality. The following interview focuses on the relationship between democratic theory and practice, the difference between social movement actors and democratic professionals, and the challenges of bringing democratic change and sustaining it in existing institutions, organizations and work places. Historians, ever worried about the problem of the new, real- ize that globalization may not be a member of the familiar archive of large-scale historical shifts. explores the controversies generated by the strategy of market mainstreaming in the sector, and focuses on five key issues With that point established, this project will make a further study of how the coca economy simultaneously threatens to undermine the progress it has made in these areas as progress is made toward the international goal of bringing the drug trade to an end in Bolivia. Yet for global governance to succeed, governments will also have to enlist the active cooperation The article suggests a typology of responses by social movement actors of nonstate actors' (Reinicke, 1998, 219). Unlimited viewing of the article PDF and any associated supplements and figures. I also argue that the stigmas that set cannabis apart from other (more legal sectors) and present challenges to ethical consumerism in cannabis are directly related to the War on Drugs. In December 2001, green coffee commodity prices hit a 30-year low. The NGO-based initiatives are diverse; they may focus on improving the lot of small farmers via Fair Trade, emphasize environmental protection, provide technical and/or business assistance to producers, or offer differentiating certifications based how producers score on a long list of social and environmental indicators. Similarly, our universities were not outsiders to the wave of protests and radicalization of the sixties. This collaborative endeavour proposes to advance a convergence, already underway, across a theoretically and empirically rich existing scholarship, distinguished by a concern for the complexity of global public policy delivery. to this increased corporate participation, and assesses the relevance of the U.S. case for the future prospects of fair trade, This trend is similar, in a number of ways, to the "double movement" described by Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformation. Although remittances from migrants help finance coffee production, increased migration drains human capital out of the region, which raises the opportunity cost of labor and hence local wages. Powerful states dominate IGOs less now than they did in 1960, but rich, core, Western societies have grown more dominant in the INGO field. 9.Polity in Institutional Context. In some instances, these arrangements complement existing interstate regimes, in other cases, they substitute for or are opposed to such institutions. Contributes to a better understanding of the need for multilateral economic cooperation and global governance of national economic policies for sustainable development. Fair Labor and Environmentally Sound Practices in the Specialty Coffee Industry, The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy, Private international regimes and interfirm cooperation, New Politics Emerging at the US Social Forum1, Are Sustainable Coffee Certifications Enough to Secure Farmer Livelihoods? Equally, however, the term points to other complex linkages, not only. Fairtrade is a transnational voluntary labelling initiative that aims to upgrade the social, economic, and environmental conditions of producers in developing countries. Political scientists worry that their field might vanish along with their favorite object, the nation-state, if globaliza- tion truly creates a "world without borders." KIM YOUNG S. 6. Outside the academy there are quite different worries about globalization that include such questions as: What does globalization mean for labor markets and. Findings suggest that households connected to Fair Trade cooperatives experienced several positive impacts in education, infrastructure investment, and monetary savings. Fair trade: Institutions and balance of power. While this mainstreaming has supported a booming Fairtrade market, which reached €8.5bn in global sales in 2017 (Fairtrade International, 2018a), the formalisation, standardisation and professionalisation that has accompanied this has significant implications for whose ideas of trade justice are implemented and who benefits, ... Business interests are becoming increasingly active in the governance of global multistakeholder sustainability standards more broadly, particularly in policy framing and standards design (Jaffee, 2012;Utting, 2015). Working off-campus? (Boli and Thomas, 1999; Florini, 2000; Held et al., 1999), while others denounce an increasing transnational capitalist hegemony The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. He has been awarded many fellowships and research grants and has lectured throughout the world; he often appears on radio and television and is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement. Of particular importance is the growing influence of food retailers as they rapidly become more global and oligopolistic. Mexican coffee growers have been negatively affected by low world coffee prices coupled with reduced government support. 11.Law in Institutional Context. 7.Religion in Institutional Context. Deepening interdependence of cross‐border activity belies the relative absence of governance mechanisms capable of effectively tackling major global policy challenges. uphold current standards. The movement to certify and promote fairly traded coffee is one of many efforts aimed at linking social responsibility and free market capitalism. Combined with issues around how to include producers in governance, this has led to feelings of disconnection and disenfranchisement for the latter, which are impacting on Fairtrade's effectiveness and legitimacy. We argue that, while Fair Traders have achieved some laudable goals, they must now address the limits to supply-driven marketing efforts. They describe a spiral of capitalism and socialism - of economic expansion and social progress - that creates repeated opportunities for positive transformation at the global level. The author argues that transnational feminisms have been among the significant forces constituting the WSF, although this has been uneven across different time-spaces and scales of the WSF. Scholars of Spain's democratic transition vary considerably in the role they attribute to movements. For others it is a case of social movement activism creating problems those elites were able to solve through a shrewdly designed democratizing process. Since 2001 the WSF has brought together hundreds of thousands of activists from all parts of the world. engendered a contentious movement sector. The findings raise doubts about the sustainability of the Fair Trade-organic coffee model in the face of migration opportunities.A Chinese version of this article's abstract is available online at: www.informaworld.com/rglo, lobalization is certainly a source of anxiety in the U.S. academic world. The aim is to identify conditions of success and failure. The first is known in continental history as the early 20th century University Reform, an event that laid the foundations for the democratization of Latin American universities, Social movements not only challenge political institutions, but also interact with them in diverse arenas.
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An examination of foreign capital flow into Israel since 2005, when the Palestinians initiated the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, indicates a near tripling of foreign investments in Israeli assets to a record $285.12 billion.
Early this morning I found my first occasion to utilize Facebook's new "sad" emoji, reacting to the announcement that author Pat Conroy died at the age of 70.
Bahrain's king holds Hanukkah candle-lighting for first time since 1948.
Texas Monthly discusses Houston's transformation from concrete to grass.
Even as late as this past June and despite awareness that the lineman was facing up to 20 years imprisonment, Baylor's Defensive Coordinator Phil Bennett fired up the Bear's fan base by proclaiming Ukwuachu's presence as expected on the field this fall.
At present, Gluten's an elaborate scapegoat on which we can pile on our personal traumas and hope for the best.


These things we do… That others may live.
This is our motto at The Relief Bus. We have it written on the wall in the kitchen, our business cards, and this is our battle cry that we scream at the top of our lungs to start each and every outreach.
Our hopes, my hopes, are that from the most mundane "things we do", from sitting in our meeting on a Tuesday afternoon to prepare for the week's outreaches, to the most core thing, like getting someone into detox, would lead to a chance at life for our friends on the street.
To this point, I have not understood the true feelings behind these words. Sadly, now I do. Yesterday, a good friend of mine on the streets was found dead.
I know the right words to say to myself and how I am suppose to feel. I hear you when you say, "you did all you could have done", but that doesn't completely hush the back of my mind saying, "did I really???".
The worst part was we were so, so, so, close to getting her off the street. After spending time with her for the past 6 months on friday nights, having her to my house for Thanksgiving, and from getting reports to how she was doing from you brother on the street who cared for her, I JUST found and had the opportunity to speak with her sister last Friday, and was in the works to get her down to Trenton to live with her sister.
We planned out and I scheduled to pick her up on Monday, at 1pm. But shortly before I was suppose to leave, I received a call that said because of her extreme mental illness, she no longer wanted to go with me. I was sad, but said it was ok and that we would try again on Thursday morning.
Sadly, she didn't make it to Thursday morning.
Heartbreak, utter heartbreak. That's all I could muster. We were so close.
Life on the streets is hard. Really hard. You never know for sure where your next meal is going to come from or where you are going to lay your head. You have plans, but those plans can change so fluidly from day to day based on whether you had the opportunity to make some money, or depending on how the police are feeling in that area of town on that particular day. And that's only the 1/1 millionth of it that I have been able to understand through conversations with friends and daily observations.
I become more and more thankful each day that I was born where I was born and to whom I was born to. I also become increasingly thankful for the soft heart and compassion that I was created with, despite not being raised with such pain as many of my friends did, I still care for and deeply love those who have such rough circumstances.
When it comes down to it, I don't know why Caroline had to die. I never will. But, I do know that for the last 6 months of her life, she was loved and she felt love - And I had the privilege to be a part of that love.
I also know that my job is not completed, but that it has just began.


Then again, not everyone is as irritable and irrational as me first thing in the morning.
Secondly, the suggestion that the security of the examination could be compromised is also irrational as clearly an adjusted paper would only be kept by examination invigilators.
It would be irrational for Russia to use intercontinental ballistic missiles against the ISIL militant group, SMF Commander Col.
Bridger, a consultant to marketers, outlines different neuromarketing research tools, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to use them to understand consumers as they make decisions that seem irrational and non-conscious.
He uses this word to describe irrational people, those who might say nonsensical things and make decisions or take actions not in their best interest, or who become hostile when you try to reason with them.
You can call a belief irrational if it doesn't follow classical rules of logic, but, as a few readers pointed out, the key issue is really whether that belief was evolutionarily advantageous.
But the bases of the decision need to be carefully analysed to understand how this irrational decision was arrived at.
Paul says, "When someone is being irrational, they have blinders on and they block out the world around them.
Am I irrational for finding that advert a little bit anxiety-inducing?
Bernard evaluates reliability of irrational beliefs test as very desirable and confirms its validity.


[MILAN] Stock in Monte dei Paschi di Siena tumbled Wednesday as investors feared that the troubled Italian bank's efforts to find billions of euros quickly are all but doomed.
BMPS, the world's oldest bank and Italy's third-biggest, is racing against the clock to raise five billion euros (S$7.49 billion) by the end of next week or face a government bailout.
It is due to release the result of a debt-for-equity swap offer open to small bondholders later Wednesday, but analysts already warned the take-up at 500 million euros so far was too small for comfort.
"The weak appetite rings the alarm bell as the year-end deadline approaches at a threatening speed," said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior market analyst at LCG.
"Failure to save the bank could aggressively shake up the Italian and the European banking sector."
Investors duly dumped the stock, which fell more than 12 per cent to 16.30 euros in morning Milan trading.
"Markets wait with bated breath the latest on Monte dei Paschi's struggling recapitalisation efforts to avoid collapse. Speculation suggests it has only four months of liquidity remaining," said Michael van Dulken at Accendo Markets.
If the bond conversion plan falls short, "an official bailout request for the bank is likely", Mr Van Dulken said.
The results of an ongoing capital increase, meanwhile, are to be released Thursday.
BMPS is at the heart of an Italian banking crisis which has cost it over 85 per cent of its market capitalisation in the past year, and it posted the worst results in a stress test this July by the European Banking Authority.
It last week launched a last-ditch attempt to find, through private investors, the funds the ailing lender needs to shore up its balance sheet and stave off a government intervention.
The plan entails selling off 27.6 billion euros in bad loans.
A first debt swap offer raised over one billion euros.
Monte dei Paschi needs to complete the five-billion-euro funding drive by the end of December after the European Central Bank refused to grant its request to extend the deadline to mid-January.
New Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni confirmed last week that the government was prepared to come to its aid if the private rescue fails.
If it came to that, it would use a move known as "precautionary recapitalisation", meaning shareholders and holders of junior bonds, a risky class of debt, must contribute to saving the bank.
Mr Gentiloni has asked parliament to approve setting aside 20 billion euros to help Italy's ailing banking sector which is buckling under bad loans estimated at a combined 360 billion euros, around a third of the eurozone's total.
But analysts said the sum set aside is not enough to sort of Italy's banking problems.
"Whatever happens in the next few days, whatever plan is implemented won't resolve the underlying problem in Italy, which is it has too many banks and too much bad debt, across the entire sector," said Michael Hewson at CMC Markets.
Data compiled by Bloomberg suggest that Italian banks need at least 52 billion euros to clean up their balance sheets.


Let me tell y'all something. WANT is exactly the right word to use in this situation.
Let's just start with the obvious. These visuals! Whomever at SM Entertainment had the brilliant idea to bathe Taemin in harsh red lights needs a raise … stat! The coloring, of course, suggests danger, a common theme in much of Taemin's solo work since the single of the same name. Perhaps more enticing are the subtle hints to something a bit more, shall we say, passionate. Quite frankly, the use of reds, animal prints, pulsating background music gives viewers a peek into something quite more mature, even more so than anything he's done thus far. It's not a stretch to imagine this sort of imagery in some European Red Light District if I can be so bold. Though Taemin himself doesn't do much more than give us sharp cuts of his profile, there's something slightly … risqué about the nature of the imagery.
Then, of course, there's the implication inherent in his releasing this teaser in the first place. It won't be long before these young men start enlisting. (I know, I know. It seems almost cruel to mention the "E" word around K-pop fans, but it's a fact of life we just have to accept.) With first-time solos from Key and Onew and Minho's acting career flourishing, there's an obvious flurry of activity before the boys start fulfilling their military duties (with Onew having already enlisted in December of last year, and both Key and Minho confirming they'll be enlisting this spring). Taemin releasing work now seems bittersweet. On the one hand, this is a whole new set of songs, new music from an artist who continues to evolve musically and as a man. On the other hand, this deluge of work from the members points aggressively to a theory I've had for the past eight months or so: Our boys are working up to saying their goodbye as a group. While I have my reasons for believing this, the fact remains there's a deep wound in SHINee, one that even their love of music won't be able to heal over. They'll continue to release music, I think, in 2019, both solo and as a unit. However, once Key and Minho enlist, Taemin won't be far behind. Just in terms of K-pop's history, it's not necessarily easy to come back as a group, especially if the members go in separately. Again, this is all my opinion and conjecture based on observation.
All that being said, Taemin's third solo EP will be a gift for every Shawol, and no doubt to fans of K-pop in general. With his continued artistic growth and his willingness to explore deeper, more sensual aspects of his personality, "WANT" is sure to be something truly special. Let me tell you, I'm all a-quiver with anticipation.
The mini album is set for release on February 11 at 6PM KST.
I agree that this teaser video is beautifully styled, filmed, and edit. I can't wait to see what SHINee's talented maknae releases this time. Also, not to be annoying but I thought I should let you know one piece of inaccurate information in your article is the statement that Onew will follow Key and Minho to enlist in the military. He has already begun his enlistment so he was the first member of the group to enter the military. Hope this info helps and keep being awesome!
Thank you for that correction. I'll put it in right away. Thank you for reading!
It would take about 2 years or more to be able to release music as SHINee but the boys promised that. It's the reason why they renewed their contracts with SM Entertainment – so that they could still continue as SHINee. Key revealed this in their Radio Star TV interview during the TSOL promotions. Fans are guessing they could do that before TaeMin enlists and the 3 have come out from the military.


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