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How a boy's death brought a West Bank cinema back to life
Posted: 1015 GMT
By Mark Tutton for CNN
(CNN) - A cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin will next week open for
business for the first time in 23 years, following a remarkable chain of events
that began with the death of a Palestinian boy.
In 2005, 11-year-old Ahmed Khatib was shot and killed in Jenin by Israeli
soldiers who mistook his toy gun for a real one.
The Israeli government apologized for the incident, and in an
extraordinary gesture, Ahmed's father, Ismael Khatib, decided to donate Ahmed's
organs to six Israelis, both Arabs and Jews.
Ismael and Ahmed's story is told in the 2008 documentary "Heart of
Jenin," made by Israeli director Leon Geller and German filmmaker Marcus
Vetter.
The film follows Ismael as he visits the families of children who
received Ahmed's organs, including an Orthodox Jewish family.
"Heart of Jenin" has won numerous awards, including the German Film Award
for Best Documentary, but Vetter realized there was nowhere to show the film in
Jenin itself, because the city's only cinema was closed in 1987 during the
first intifada.
Vetter and Khatib were inspired to set about renovating Jenin's
long-abandoned cinema.
"A city with 70,000 people without a cinema is sad - there's nothing you
can do and nowhere to go," Vetter told CNN.
"I decided to stop making documentaries for a year and try to establish
the cinema.
"We wanted to get the Jenin youth involved and give them a vision to
believe in, something to aim for."
Khatib said he hoped the cinema would help keep Jenin's youngsters off
the streets and out of danger. Read full story
Filed under: Culture •Israel •Palestinians •West Bank
Hope July 30th, 2010 4:55 pm ET
A great but heart-wrenching story...Since armed resistance is something of the past, why continue building a segregated apartheid wall..exasperating misery to the Palestinians, while enhancing a privileged lifestyle for the other side..
John A July 31st, 2010 11:34 am ET
Israel attempts to corner America into a new war.
Israeli talk of bombing Iran now coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack.
What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran.
That has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants to start.
Gerecht openly expresses the hope that any Iranian response to the Israeli attack would trigger full-scale U.S. war against Iran. "If Khamenei has a death-wish, he'll let the Revolutionary Guards mine the strait, the entrance to the Persian Gulf," writes Gerecht. "It might be the only thing that would push President Obama to strike Iran militarily…."
Gerecht suggest that the same logic would apply to any Iranian "terrorism against the United States after an Israeli strike," by which we really means any attack on a U.S. target in the Middle East. Gerecht writes that Obama might be "obliged" to threaten major retaliation "immediately after an Israeli surprise attack."
That's the key sentence in this very long Gerecht argument. Obama is not going to be "obliged" to joint an Israeli aggression against Iran unless he feels that domestic political pressures to do so are too strong to resist. That's why the Israelis are determined to line up a strong majority in Congress and public opinion for war to foreclose Obama's options.
In the absence of confidence that Obama would be ready to come into the war fully behind Israel, there cannot be an Israeli strike.
Gerecht's argument for war relies on a fanciful scenario of Iran doling out nuclear weapons to Islamic extremists all over the Middle East. But the real concern of the Israelis and their lobbyists, as Gerecht's past writing has explicitly stated, is to destroy Iran's Islamic regime in a paroxysm of U.S. military violence.
Gerecht first revealed this Israeli-neocon fantasy as early as 2000, before the Iranian nuclear program was even taken seriously, in an essay written for a book published by the Project for a New American Century. Gerecht argued that, if Iran could be caught in a "terrorist act," the U.S. Navy should "retaliate with fury". The purpose of such a military response, he wrote, should be to "strike with truly devastating effect against the ruling mullahs and the repressive institutions that maintain them."
And lest anyone fail to understand what he meant by that, Gerecht was more explicit: "That is, no cruise missiles at midnight to minimize the body count. The clerics will almost certainly strike back unless Washington uses overwhelming, paralyzing force."
In 2006-07, the Israeli war party had reason to believed that it could hijack U.S. policy long enough to get the war it wanted, because it had placed one of its most militant agents, David Wurmser, in a strategic position to influence that policy.
We now know that Wurmser, formerly a close adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu and during that period Vice President Dick Cheney's main adviser on the Middle East, urged a policy of overwhelming U.S. military force against Iran. After leaving the administration in 2007, Wurmser revealed that he had advocated a U.S. war on Iran, not to set back the nuclear program but to achieve regime change.
"Only if what we do is placed in the framework of a fundamental assault on the survival of the regime will it have a pick-up among ordinary Iranians," Wurmser told The Telegraph. The U.S. attack was not to be limited to nuclear targets but was to be quite thorough and massively destructive. "If we start shooting, we must be prepared to fire the last shot. Don't shoot a bear if you're not going to kill it."
Of course, that kind of war could not be launched out of the blue. It would have required a casus belli to justify a limited initial attack that would then allow a rapid escalation of U.S. military force. In 2007, Cheney acted on Wurmser's advice and tried to get Bush to provoke a war with Iran over Iraq, but it was foiled by the Pentagon.
As Wurmser was beginning to whisper that advice in Cheney's ear in 2006, Gerecht was making the same argument in The Weekly Standard:
"Bombing the nuclear facilities once would mean we were declaring war on the clerical regime. We shouldn't have any illusions about that. We could not stand idly by and watch the mullahs build other sites. If the ruling mullahs were to go forward with rebuilding what they'd lost–and it would be surprising to discover the clerical regime knuckling after an initial bombing run–we'd have to strike until they stopped. And if we had any doubt about where their new facilities were (and it's a good bet the clerical regime would try to bury new sites deep under heavily populated areas), and we were reasonably suspicious they were building again, we'd have to consider, at a minimum, using special-operations forces to penetrate suspected sites."
The idea of waging a U.S. war of destruction against Iran is obvious lunacy, which is why U.S. military leaders have strongly resisted it both during the Bush and Obama administrations. But Gerecht makes it clear that Israel believes it can use its control of Congress to pound Obama into submission. Democrats in Congress, he boasts, "are mentally in a different galaxy than they were under President Bush." Even though Israel has increasingly been regarded around the world as a rogue state after its Gaza atrocities and the commando killings of unarmed civilians on board the Mavi Marmara, its grip on the U.S. Congress appears as strong as ever.
Moreover, polling data for 2010 show that a majority of Americans have already been manipulated into supporting war against Iran – in large part because more than two-thirds of those polled have gotten the impression that Iran already has nuclear weapons. The Israelis are apparently hoping to exploit that advantage. "If the Israelis bomb now, American public opinion will probably be with them," writes Gerecht. "Perhaps decisively so."
Netanyahu must be feeling good about the prospects for pressuring Barack Obama to join an Israeli war of aggression against Iran. It was Netanyahu, after all, who declared in 2001, "I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way."
miriam August 1st, 2010 11:01 am ET
If only armed attacks on Israeli civilians were something of the past.
Although the security fence has achieved its objective and reduced the attacks on Israelis, unfortunately the incitement, false rhetoric and myths are still going strong.
Meanwhile, Israelis, whether through the government or independently, are continuing with projects that are improving the lives of Palestinians in the WB, too long left in misery by the actions of their own leaders.
John A aka Gareth P,
This cut and paste totally ignores the fact that the US itself has plenty of reasons why it would like to see, and has done so for over 30 years, a change in the Iranian regime.
Similarly, it ignores the fact that Gulf states are not just quietly wishing for Israeli or US action against Iran's nuclear programme but are now shouiting it out loud.
It is more likely that the enormously powerful Saudi oil lobby is influencing the US administration rather than an Israel lobby whose arguments and opinions have been known for years.
It also ignores the fact that Israel is the only country being specifically threatened by Iran, although the Iranian leadership's theocratic ideology foresees more than just Israel's destruction. Never the less, Israel's governments, whether center-left or the current left-center-right coalition have all prefered a diplomatic solution to the Iranian problem.
It is media speculation and anti-Israel commentators who have been whipping-up a frenzy over potential military action.
They ought to be spending their efforts on reporting on the human-rights abuses of the Iranian leadership and the dangerous ideology being preached which threatens not just the Jewish state but the entire ME and beyond.
Brian August 6th, 2010 5:39 pm ET
a war in Iran will ignite a regional conflict, which could lead to the annihilation of israel
whats so bad about that?if thats the out come of the war then i'm all for it.
wouldn't be nice if israel was completly gone.
israel is a very real danger to humanity.
they want the US to keep fighting their wars and the problem is that they find all the help they need every time….as long as they pay the treasonous congress.
the zionist jews in israel know that america will never win that war and that it may lead to americas financial collapse,but they dont care.for them the goal is not to win the war its more about destruction and blood shed.for some reason these cockroaches love the sight of blood.
let's be honest,do we think that the jews will ever forgive the white race for all the crimes they committed against them………never.
never forget……..never forgive..remember that.
its their way of revenge against the white race..to keep sucking us dry financialy and and keep us engaged in wars untill the west and muslim destroy each other………wicked people.
Samantha August 6th, 2010 5:42 pm ET
most israeli jews are zionist……………99% of them.most came from russia and poland and they all knew they were going to live on stolen land.they all knew they had to kill innocent people to get the land.
how long are going to blame the muslims for all our problems for?
most people know by now who the real enemy is.they just dont have the leadership needed to confront the real jewish enemy.
miriam August 8th, 2010 11:56 am ET
Samantha,
The majority of Israeli Jews are not Ashkenazi and have no ancestry in Europe.
The Jewish religion revolves round the Land of Israel, religiously, historically and culturally.
The revision of history for the purpose of denyng the indisputable Jewish connection to the land is deliberate deception and those who propagate such lies are to blame for their own problems and are their own enemy.
John A August 10th, 2010 2:51 pm ET
Samantha, obviously you are correct and Miriam attempts again to hide the truth again. The complete Jewish story about returning to their land after 2000 years absence is nothing less than the fraud of the century. We all know this, but if any country speaks up, Israels puppet state "the USA" will beat war drums and stand as the only protector of Israels giant fraud.
miriam August 12th, 2010 9:26 pm ET
John A,
Too bad that there is 2000 years worth of recorded and excavated proof.
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Thank you very much for using the WeOCR services for more than twelve years. As we can see a lot of nice online OCR systems today, I have decided to close our services. The servers will be shutdown gradually, although some will remain working only for demonstration purposes.
When I started developing "Online OCR service" in 2004, there were only a couple of experimental ones, which had been almost abandoned. Who at that time imagined that online version of OCR service would be practical enough despite the privacy concerns? Who would provide free OCR services when the OCR engines costed much? We can see the consequences today. There's a high demand. Some high-performance OCR engines are available for free.
I don't know if the WeOCR project had some contributions and/or impacts in the world of web service developments. But, it is obvious the services here are no longer attractive. So, it's time.
Thanks again to everyone who tried our services and programs, developed his/her own service, got some inspirations (if existed) for new online services.
Don't use bots (automated programs) regularly. The server performance is limited, and people suffer from high loads! You should use a local OCR engine if you need a regular processing since it is much more reliable and faster basically.
Due to the maintenance of our university's power facility, some WeOCR servers are due to be temporarily unavailable on Aug. 27, 2017. The services will resume soon after the maintenance work.
WeOCR is a platform for Web-enabled OCR (Optical Character Reader/Recognition) systems that enables people to use character recognition over networks. A WeOCR server receives document images from users, recognize texts in the images, and return recognition results to the users. WeOCR does not have its own character recognition engine. Instead, it is intended to accommodate various character recognition engines. WeOCR provides a simplified user interface so that more people can benefit from OCR easily.
Although some people would worry about the privacy of their documents, we think there are still a lot of applications of OCR in which privacy does not matter. We hope WeOCR will expand the range of OCR applications further.
Design the architecture of WeOCR.
Develop a toolkit that enables OCR developers and researchers build their own Web-based OCR sites easily.
Encourage people to develop OCRs for various languages and to open them to the public either as a Web service or as a Free Software.
Make some useful tools and libraries for Web-based OCR systems.
WeOCR-toolkit has the following features.
Receive a document image from each client computer, pass the image to the back-end OCR engine, generate HTML data from the result data, and send the data back to the client.
Uncompress the incoming image file if required.
Limit the size of the input data to protect the server from huge data.
Examine the integrity of image file headers.
Convert the input image into a common image format (PNM).
Limit the number of jobs to prevent the server from processing too many documents at once and to maintain acceptable server response.
Terminate the OCR engine after a specified time has passed, if the engine continues running (in vain) due to unexpected input data or bugs in the engine.
Support server search function using spec files in XML.
The license is the Apache License, Version 2.0.
You don't need to open the source codes of your OCR engine to the public, if you wish so.
WeOCR-toolkit ver.0.14 has been released.
WeOCR-toolkit ver.0.13 has been released.
A new server `` Japanese character recognition - beta'' has been opened. It is equipped with OCRopus and NHocr.
A new server `` Japanese text line recognition - beta'' has been opened.
WeOCR-toolkit ver.0.12 has been released.
WeOCR-toolkit ver.0.11 has been released.
A new server `` Scene text recognition - beta'' has been opened.
The server search CGI can now produce server lists in XML. This would be useful for various web applications using WeOCR. Pass parameter "fmt=xml" to the CGI.
An automatic spec collector is now up and running. Once your server is registered for the server list, your spec file will be examined periodically (twice a day) and used for updating the list.
WeOCR-toolkit ver.0.10 has been released.
Hebrew OCR (hocr) has been added (see here).
Server search function is now available at WeOCR Server List.
WeOCR-toolkit ver.0.10beta has been released.
The OCR engine at ocr1/e1 has been updated to ocrad-0.14.
WeOCR-toolkit has been released (at last).
The project has been renamed, since the previous name ocrweb was too popular in another community.
A new server with GOCR has been released.
The OCR engine at ocr1 has been updated to ocrad-0.13.
A filter for adaptive thresholding has been added.
JPEG (JFIF) support has been added.
The OCR engine used at ocr1 has been updated to ocrad-0.12, which runs much faster.
ocr1 now accepts gzipped image files as well as raw files.
Send feature requests, questions, bug reports, or other comments.
Note that no reply will be sent, basically. Answers to some common questions may appear on the website.


Studies have shown that owning a pet can be physically and mentally beneficial for people of all ages. In the case of senior citizens, "just 15 minutes bonding with an animal sets off a chemical chain reaction in the brain, lowering levels of the fight-or-flight hormone, cortisol, and increasing production of the feel-good hormone serotonin. The result: heart rate, blood pressure and stress levels immediately drop. Over the long term, pet and human interactions can lower cholesterol levels, fight depression and may even help protect against heart disease and stroke." (Byrne, 2015) Read the full article here.


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The Paleo-Indians were the earliest inhabitants of the area that developed to become the modern-day city of Evansville more than 10,000 years ago. Other Native American tribes which have been reported to have inhabited this area include the Shawnee, the Miami, the Delaware, the Wyandot and the Piankeshaw. Hugh McGary Jr. bought land in this area at around 1812 and named the emerging community McGary's Landing and renamed it to Evansville two years later. This city was named for Colonel Robert Morgan Evans and was incorporated in 1817.
Evansville is located in Vanderburgh County, where it serves as the county seat, in the southwestern part of the state of Indiana. It is estimated that about 130,000 people call this city home, making it the 3rd largest in the state of Indiana, and is part of the larger Evansville Metropolitan statistical region. This city is located on an oxbow in the famous Ohio River and is known by various nicknames such as the River City; the Ville; the Pocket City; the Stoplight City; the Eville or the Crescent City. This city covers an area of about 44.6 square miles.
This city features humid subtropical climate which is characterized by hot and humid summers while winters can either be cold or cool. About 45 inches of rainfall are received in this city every year. May is the wettest month of the year with about 5 inches of rainfall while August is the driest with about 3 inches. July is known to be the warmest month with average highs of about 89 degrees Fahrenheit. January registers the least temperatures with average lows of about 24 degrees Fahrenheit.
Those who live here have access to a variety of modern schools that cater for all their formal educational needs. The University of Southern Indiana is the largest public university near this city. A good number of residents also attend the Indiana University School of Medicine-Evansville.
Movement within this city is very swift as it boasts of a well-developed road network as well as airline services. The I-69 is the most notable highway that crosses this city while the I-64 just passes nearby. General aviation services can be accessed through the Evansville Regional Airport, which is owned and managed by the Evansville/ Vanderburg Airport Authority.
Several college level teams as well professional teams hail from this city. The Purple Aces, from the University of Evansville, competes in the NCAA Division I while the Screaming Eagles, from the University of Southern Indiana, play in NCAA Division II. The Evansville Otters are the most notable professional team that plays in the Frontier League, which is not affiliated with the major league.
This area hosts various events and festivals that draw many participants all year round. The Evansville's West Side Nut Club Fall Festival is an annual street fair that features free entertainment, various food vendors, carnival rides and games, a parade and competitions across various levels. The Germania Mannerchor Volksfest is an annual event that celebrates the culture and heritage of the Germans residing within this city marked with traditional foods, musical performances, and dances.
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One of the world's largest "contact center" companies, U.S.-based giant Alorica, has been expanding in the Philippines, where more than 1.3 million women and men work in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector. These workers and their allies came together through BIEN, the BPO Industry Employees Network, to defend workers' interests in this booming sector. Alorica, a global player in this industry, offers "customer experience" services to the U.S. market for clients like Comcast, AT&T, Citibank, Barclays and Caesars.
Since 2015, Unified Employees of Alorica (UEA) has been organizing to defend these workers' rights. At every step, Alorica has denied workers their right to form a union, broken laws and refused to recognize the union, retaliating against workers who unionize by firing them.
Just this week, Michael Concepcion, a regional organizer for BIEN who has worked directly with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), received a death threat by text message.
This and previous threats show a pattern of harassment, extra-judicial detentions and killings that have affected more and more union activists in the Philippines under the Duterte administration. Large corporations like Alorica and AT&T use this repressive climate to their own benefit.
Starting today, CWA and Filipino activist groups Migrante and Bayan are holding solidarity protests in San Francisco and Los Angeles, along with other local supporters in California.
On April 18, the United States International Trade Commission released its analysis of the likely economic impacts of the new NAFTA (also known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA). The report supports the AFL-CIO's position on the new NAFTA: Congress should not vote on it until it is fixed.
The usual Washington, D.C., pundits will talk a lot about how the report "proves" that the new NAFTA is good for the economy. But they probably won't talk very much about the most important thing: Does the report provide useful insight on what matters most to workers?
An important caveat: The USITC has a history of wrong predictions. Not just randomly wrong. The USITC has only erred in one direction: to overestimate how great trade deals will be.
For instance, the USITC predicted the original NAFTA would have small positive effects on wages in the United States and Canada and large positive effects on wages in Mexico. Instead, NAFTA suppressed wages in all three countries. Many U.S. union members saw their workplaces transfer production to Mexico, while others were forced to accept concessionary contracts to keep their jobs. In Mexico today, the minimum wage has less purchasing power than before NAFTA and there is a bigger gap between U.S. and Mexican manufacturing wages. This is because the original NAFTA puts the interests of global corporations ahead of the interests of working people.
Importantly, the new USITC report notes: "The agreement, if enforced, would strengthen labor standards and rights." In fact, it predicts that with enforcement, wages for union workers in Mexico would rise by 17.2%. This prediction may be another wild exaggeration (and even if it is not, a 17% raise on $2.00 per hour is still only $2.34 per hour). But it confirms what the AFL-CIO has been saying all along: A new NAFTA is useless to working people without swift and certain labor enforcement.
With or without NAFTA, America's working families live in a global economy. We are exposed to international competition no matter what. One great way to increase our leverage to negotiate better pay and benefits is to help workers in other countries—including Mexico—raise their wages and benefits, too. The USITC is right that Mexican wages will only rise if Mexico completes its labor law reform process and all three NAFTA parties work hard to monitor and enforce the labor provisions of the deal.
But enforcement can't happen unless the text is repaired to make sure that one party can't block enforcement, unless labor loopholes are eliminated, unless new swift and certain monitoring and enforcement tools are added, and unless adequate, long-term resources are devoted to enforcement. And those changes to the deal can't happen unless Congress tells the administration that it refuses to vote on the new NAFTA until it is fixed.
Please help us get this right. Call Congress today at 855-856-7545 and tell your representative: No vote until NAFTA is fixed!
In fact, the Postal Service receives zero tax dollars for its operations. Without taking a dime in taxes, the Postal Service maintains the lowest prices for mail services in the industrialized world and delivers to 159 million addresses, six—and now often seven—days a week—all funded by revenue from the sale of stamps and other postal products.
While private courier companies only deliver where a profit can be made, the public post office provides universal service to everyone, no matter age, wealth, race, who we are or where we live.
It is little wonder that the Postal Service, a public institution enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and the crucial anchor of the growing e-commerce revolution, remains the most trusted federal agency. A recent Pew Research Center survey revealed that 88% of the population has a favorable view of the Postal Service, with the highest favorability ratings coming from young adults. Whether sending or receiving medicine, packages, greeting cards, letters, periodicals, catalogs or ballots, every person, household and business in this country is a postal customer.
Still, that persistent myth—that the Postal Service is a burden to taxpayers—is precisely the false narrative that led Congress to pass the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. That act manufactured a financial crisis by compelling the Postal Service to pre-fund all retiree health care costs, 75 years into the future—for workers not even born yet. This mandate transferred postal revenues to the U.S. Treasury and robbed the Postal Service of $5.6 billion a year over a 10-year period. No other company or agency faces, or could be expected to survive, such an onerous financial burden.
Adding to the absurdity is the fact that, prior to the 2006 law, the Postal Service had been reliably paying its annual retirement health benefit premiums on time.
Fast forward from 2006 to last year. Exactly one year ago, in April 2018—again using the guise of taxpayer protection—President Donald Trump established a postal task force to study Postal Service finances. However, before the task force even published its findings, the White House Office of Management and Budget in a June 2018 report on reforming government laid bare their goal of selling the Postal Service to the highest corporate bidder.
Postal privatization, if allowed to move forward, would surely enrich some Wall Street investors and a few powerful corporations. For the rest of us, it would result in diminished postal services and higher prices. This is exactly what happened when other nations, such as the United Kingdom, went down this path. Evidence of this can be seen in both the OMB report and the task force report that followed in December, which called for higher rates, cuts to service and lower wages and benefits for postal workers, all as a first step toward total privatization.
Other task force "solutions" include eliminating delivery days, slowing service speed, allowing anyone who pays a fee access to your secure and private mailbox, reducing door delivery, undermining the universal service obligation and piecemeal privatization that will all undermine the future of a vibrant public postal service.
It doesn't have to be this way. Congress should simply fix the pre-funding fiasco they created in 2006. In addition, the Postal Service should provide an array of expanded services such as increased financial services and paycheck cashing, notary and various licensing services, internet access and electric automobile charging stations.
Everyone who sends and receives mail and packages has a stake in making sure that the U.S. Postal Service remains owned by, and in the service of, the people. Ask your member of Congress to co-sponsor House Resolution 33 and Senate Resolution 99. Both resolutions oppose privatizing the Postal Service.
Let's ensure that the postal eagle, symbolizing its public ownership, is never sacrificed on the altar of private profit and replaced by the vulture of corporate greed. The U.S. Postal Service operates without tax dollars and provides a necessary and popular public service. Keep it—it's yours.
This post originally appeared at The Cap Times.
Next up in our series that takes a deeper look at each of our affiliates is the Railroad Signalmen (BRS).
Mission: To represent the men and women who maintain railroad signal systems and highway-rail grade crossing warning devices across the nation. In addition, the BRS negotiates contracts and promotes safety in the industry for its members and the traveling public. Local lodges elect delegates to national conventions, which is the organization's supreme authority. Delegates set policy, review the general state of the union, establish collective bargaining goals and elect Grand Lodge officers, who direct the organization between conventions.
Current Leadership of Union: Jerry Boles was elected to serve as president of the BRS in 2019. Mike Baldwin serves as secretary-treasurer. The BRS also has six vice presidents who serve in various capacities: Joe Mattingly (Midwest), Kelly A. Haley (Headquarters), James Finnegan (Commuter/Passenger), Tim Tarrant (East), Cory Claypool (West) and Brandon Elvey (NRAB).
Current Number of Members: 10,000-plus.
Members Work At: various railroad and supplier locations installing, repairing and maintaining railroad signal systems and highway-rail grade crossing warning devices. The signal system is used to direct train movements and the crossing warning devices warn motorists when a train is approaching a crossing. These members have been installing positive train control (PTC) equipment since Congress mandated the railroads install PTC back in 2008. PTC is an advanced train control system designed to automatically stop a train before certain accidents occur. In particular, PTC is designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, over speed derailments, train movements over track switches not properly lined and train movements into roadway worker work zones.
Industries Represented: The railroad industry and suppliers in the United States.
History: At the turn of the century, railroad signaling became an emerging craft as railroads increasingly incorporated new technology. In 1901, the BRS was founded to improve the safety and efficiency of railroad operations, and to represent the men and women who install and maintain signal systems. Over the ensuing decades, the organization grew into a national union consisting of working people across the Unites States.
Community Efforts: The BRS maintains a regular schedule of training for members as well as ongoing membership on various committees including the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, which assist the Federal Railroad Administration in developing new regulatory standards to promote railroad safety. The BRS is actively engaged in Operation Lifesaver, a nonprofit public safety education and awareness organization dedicated to reducing collisions, fatalities and injuries at highway-rail crossings, and trespassing on or near railroad tracks.
The proposed deal will preserve health care and retirement benefits, provide wage increases and maintain time-and-a-half pay on Sundays for members of UFCW locals 328, 919, 1459, 1445 and 371.
Workers walked off the job on April 11 after management proposed cuts to their health care benefits and wages, despite the company receiving a $225 million tax break in 2017.
The entire labor movement stood behind the workers, with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler (IBEW) visiting picket lines last week.
We are incredibly grateful to our customers and everyone who proudly stood together with us every day for a contract that invests in the communities we serve, and makes Stop & Shop a better place to work and a better place to shop.
Under this proposed contract, our members will be able to focus on continuing to help customers in our communities enjoy the best shopping experience possible and to keep Stop & Shop the number one grocery store in New England. The agreement preserves health care and retirement benefits, provides wage increases, and maintains time-and-a-half pay on Sunday for current members.
Today is a powerful victory for the 31,000 hardworking men and women of Stop & Shop who courageously stood up to fight for what all New Englanders want—good jobs, affordable health care, a better wage, and to be treated right by the company they made a success.
Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.
Attention all brothers and sisters, AND Youth Members! Please find the application for the A. Philip Randolph Institute 2019 NEC here!! If you have any questions, please direct them to Jaida Curtis at jcurtis@apri.org. Looking forward to seeing you all!
Before the #GOPTaxScam passed, massive companies made promises that they'd use their tax breaks to create jobs & raise wages. That's not what happened.
Attention Chicago/Midwest AGMA members - On May 6th, The Actor's Fund (in partnership with SAG-AFTRA) will present a Myers-Briggs Career Development Workshop led by T.A.F. Career Counselor and Myers-Briggs Master Practitioner Maryellen Langhout.
Family-sustaining wages and ZERO college debt. Why NOT join a #BuildingTrades union?
"Anyone who qualifies for service under military standards should be allowed to serve.
Congrats to Union Veteran @pamforpa for flipping a red seat blue with the help of the Allegheny/Fayette Union Veterans Council.
We're demanding that Marriott disclose the total number of incidents of sexual harassment and assault in their hotels.
Although the reasons are complex, 2 leading factors of why black women have a higher risk of dying from pregnancy complications are b/c of lack of access & poor quality of care.
Next up in our series that takes a deeper look at each of our affiliates is the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM).
Industries Represented: The BCTGM represents working men and women at some of the most widely recognized companies in the baking, candy, snack food, dairy, tobacco and grain milling industries in North America.
Current Campaigns: The BCTGM's Check the Label campaign urges consumers to boycott Nabisco-Mondelēz products made in Mexico. The BCTGM also is leading the fight to find a legislative solution to America's growing pension crisis.
Community Efforts: The BCTGM partners with the United Way and provides scholarships for members and their children.
The U.S. economy gained 196,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.8%, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Continued lower levels of job growth provide good reason for the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee to express caution in considering any interest rate hikes.
Last month's biggest job gains were in health care (49,000), professional and technical services (34,000), food services and drinking places (27,000), and construction (16,000). Manufacturing employment declined in March (-6,000 jobs). Employment in other major industries, including mining, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, financial activities, and government, showed little change over the month.
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates fell for teenagers (12.8%) and blacks (6.7%). The jobless rate increased for Hispanics (4.7%). The jobless rate for adult men (3.6%), adult women (3.3%), whites (3.4%) and Asians (3.1%) showed little change in March.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) rose in March and accounted for 21.1% of the unemployed.
Just over 18 months ago, the leaders of Education Minnesota (an affiliate of both the AFT and the National Education Association) decided that something had to change. With the Janus v. AFSCME decision looming, and the 2018 midterm elections set to follow, the 90,000-member union knew that membership engagement had to be its top priority.
Education Minnesota President Denise Specht embarked on an ambitious internal organizing campaign, aiming to bolster members' commitment to the union. The campaign sought to reach 100% of members, reduce the number of fee payers before the Janus decision and minimize membership losses following the ruling.
At its core, that effort would be built on value-centered, one-on-one conversations with individual members. Rather than focusing on benefits or contract language, these discussions would center on the needs of each member and the full value of belonging to a union.
By tying the core principles of unionism—having power in the workplace and joining together in a common fight—to individual members' tangible experiences, organizers would build a foundational relationship with members that could weather both internal and external turbulence.
Specht knew that this would be no small task. With 460 locals across the state, varying priorities and internal politics threatened to derail the urgently needed program. While most local leaders embraced the opportunity, some initially resisted changes in how they communicated with their members. The program's effectiveness, however, quickly spoke for itself.
In one region, two locals fully implemented the approach using stories and conversations about the value of belonging to a union during new employee orientation, while one carried out old habits by selling the union as insurance.
In a stunning feat of organizing, the two reformers signed up 100% of new employees. Meanwhile, the other local struggled to sign up 40%.
Specht's vision for value-based conversations soon became a reality at union halls, worksites and orientations across the state. By the time the Janus decision was handed down, they were ready.
The union managed to recommit 95% of its members and, in the wake of the decision, limited membership losses to only 600. Far from receiving the gut punch pundits had expected, Education Minnesota came through stronger and better organized than ever.
But Specht wasn't finished, and she wasted no time in channeling that energy toward the midterm elections. After a year of building and cementing relationships, organizers were in a newly strengthened position to mobilize members to the ballot box.
Across the state, the union recruited and trained more than 1,500 worksite leaders, who applied the successes of membership engagement to their political program. Through one-on-one conversations about the issues that mattered to them, members felt invested in the upcoming election—and turned out in droves.
Capping off a year that was supposed to mark the death of labor, Education Minnesota proved that it wasn't going anywhere, showing its power on the campaign trail and catapulting one of its own members, Tim Walz, into the governor's mansion, and another, Julie Blaha, into the state auditor's office.
The labor movement helped elect a wave of union members and pro-worker allies across the country last night. We proved that if you support working people, we'll have your back. And we sent a resounding message to every candidate and elected official that if you seek to divide and destroy us, we'll fight back with everything we have.
The labor movement fought for our issues, union candidates and proven allies, and we filled the halls of power with our own.
Pam Iovino (USW) flipped Pennsylvania's 37th state Senate District.
Union members Eric Genrich (AFSCME) and Satya Rhodes-Conway (AFT) were elected as the mayors of Green Bay and Madison, Wisconsin, respectively.
A slate of union members (from the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association and AFSCME) and allies swept the Milwaukee School Board elections, and Danielle Shelton (AFT) won the election for a seat on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
In Missouri, Tommie Pierson Sr. (UAW) and Mike Corcoran (UA) won mayoral elections in Bellefontaine Neighbors and St. Ann, respectively. Meanwhile, Nick Trupiano (UFCW) was elected alderman in St. Peters and Orlando Smith (UA) won election as the Fire Protection District director for the city of Black Jack.
Working people win when working people run. In 2017, the AFL-CIO passed a powerful national resolution promising to train and campaign for union members to win public office through the Path to Power program.
In the latest episode of "State of the Unions," podcast co-host Tim Schlittner talks to Brian Renfroe, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) executive vice president, and Christina Vela Davidson, assistant to the president for community services, about #StampOutHunger, the annual one-day drive that has collected more than 1 billion pounds of food for the hungry.
A special Black History Month discussion with IUPAT General President Ken Rigmaiden.
Special #StopTheShutdown episode with AFGE President J. David Cox.


Just a quickie today! Of late I've been delving further into MAC's permanent line and getting acquainted with the hidden gems I've overlooked for many a year. Craving is one of my most recent finds, an impulse buy that quickly met with enthusiastic approval from my friend Laura, who says it is one of her favourite MAC lipsticks. I can see why - this creamy plum is gorgeous all year round, but particularly suited to the autumn season!
MAC describes Craving as a 'burst of plum', I think it's a very wearable, muted version of plum. It has a lot of depth without being bright - different for me, but in a good way! Craving has lovely, smooth colour pay off and wears for seven hours on my without drying out my lips. The only noticeable wear after many snacks and beverages was fading at the center of my mouth. Impressive!
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Opinion: It's time to blow up your owned media strategy
Brands are continuing to over-invest in content that almost nobody sees
By Jeff Rosenblum. Published on February 07, 2020.
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Organic reach died years ago. Marketers just forgot to bury it.
It all started when Mark Zuckerberg pulled one of the greatest bait-and-switches in business history. He promised brands and agencies freedom from the confines of paid media, then completely changed the rules of the game. It's why he's one of the wealthiest people in the world. It's also why you're not fully satisfied with your social media performance. You're probably still clinging to the notion that your brand or client can get something for nothing through so-called "owned" media. But that's always been a flawed mindset.
The switch was inevitable all along
It's important to understand the bait-and-switch so that you can take action. Zuckerberg's bait was simple. He created a platform with billions of users that brands could use to create their own audience, publish content and reap the rewards. Once upon a time, brands could reach millions of consumers organically without spending any money on paid media. All they needed were "friends" who would wait with bated breath for the latest branded content.
Once marketers were hooked, Zuckerberg pulled the switch. He shifted the algorithm so that brands no longer could reach millions of people for free. Right now, organic reach for many brands is about 1% for Facebook and about 2% for Instagram. Baited, then switched, the vast majority of content that brands develop is virtually invisible. All of the meetings, all of the strategic plans, all of the creativity are often for naught. Every day, brands invest hours, dollars and creativity to develop content that a negligible percentage of people actually see.
This doesn't mean that social media marketing doesn't work. It is still one of the most exciting and powerful channels in the history of marketing. There is no other arena where brands can leverage multimedia to create stories and conversations. It is a critical channel for virtually any brand in any industry. Perhaps even more important than the multimedia capabilities is the consumer mind-set. Social media is the new mall. It's where consumers go to hang out, window shop and spend their money. But great content is not enough to win in social. It requires paid media.
The time for wound-licking is over
With a simple shift in mind-set, marketers can recover and drive powerful results on social media. When we shift our focus from purely organic content and recognize that social media is a paid media channel, the ballgame changes. It becomes the most powerful paid media channel there is because of its superior targeting capabilities, AI-driven sequential messaging and the ability to serve the entire sales funnel.
This shift to a "pay-to-play" channel is sadly ironic since brands initially thought that social media would spell the death of paid media and that creative would rule the day. We need to get over that emotional hurdle. Content remains of paramount importance. It's not simply about buying media on social and re-hashing the antiquated reach and frequency model of yesteryear. Brands must invest heavily in creating compelling stories.
For most brands, the ratio of creative development to working media will be close to 50:50. This is much higher than traditional channels, but many brands now spend over 90 percent of their dollars on content creation, and that simply isn't working. Producing great creative without paid media behind it is like setting up a candy store in the desert.
It's not simply about creating a high volume of content. It's about recognizing that paid social media enables brands to tell full-funnel stories, and the assets created for social media must extend down the entire sales funnel and integrate with digital and traditional channels. This means that emotional and functional content must be developed to move audiences sequentially through awareness, consideration, conversion and evangelism, regardless of channel.
The data-fueled engines on social media enable brands to tell a story that grows chronologically on a one-to-one basis. This is probably the most compelling component of social media marketing because it enables brands to drive brand metrics and generate revenue simultaneously. It's no longer a choice between creating a branding campaign verse a direct-response campaign. Rather, it's about creating a cohesive story where the upper and lower funnel work in harmony.
Zuckerberg and the other social media founders have matured their business models. It's time for brands to make changes commensurate with the changes to the algorithms in the social platforms. Brands have unprecedented and unparalleled ability to leverage creativity, tell stories and build relationships. But these channels are not nearly as effective if brands don't pay to play.
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Jeff Rosenblum is a founding partner of Questus and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Friction and Exponential.
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Postoperative hypotension after carotid angioplasty and stenting: Report of three cases
Adnan I. Qureshi, Andreas R. Luft, Demetrius K. Lopes, Giuseppe Lanzino, Richard D. Fessler, Mudit Sharma, Lee R. Guterman, L. Nelson Hopkins
OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: Hemodynamic instability after carotid angioplasty and stenting is not well recognized. We report three patients who developed sustained hypotension in the postoperative period after successful carotid angioplasty and stent placement for internal carotid artery stenosis in the carotid sinus region. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: In two patients, hypotension was initially induced by inflation of the angioplasty balloon. The third patient developed hypotension after completion of the procedure. In all cases, the hypotension persisted for 18 to 33 hours after the procedure. During the postoperative period, two of these patients also developed sinus bradycardia, which, in one patient, was further complicated by a third- degree atrioventricular block. INTERVENTION: The hypotension was successfully treated by intravenous vasopressors or inotropic agents. No permanent neurological or cardiac sequelae were observed. CONCLUSION: Sustained hypotension with or without bradycardia may develop after carotid angioplasty and stent placement, presumably as a result of carotid sinus dysfunction. During the postoperative period, patients should be monitored in settings suited to expeditious management of cardiovascular emergencies.
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Qureshi, A. I., Luft, A. R., Lopes, D. K., Lanzino, G., Fessler, R. D., Sharma, M., Guterman, L. R., & Hopkins, L. N. (1999). Postoperative hypotension after carotid angioplasty and stenting: Report of three cases. Neurosurgery, 44(6), 1320-1324. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-199906000-00092
Postoperative hypotension after carotid angioplasty and stenting : Report of three cases. / Qureshi, Adnan I.; Luft, Andreas R.; Lopes, Demetrius K.; Lanzino, Giuseppe; Fessler, Richard D.; Sharma, Mudit; Guterman, Lee R.; Hopkins, L. Nelson.
In: Neurosurgery, Vol. 44, No. 6, 01.06.1999, p. 1320-1324.
Qureshi, AI, Luft, AR, Lopes, DK, Lanzino, G, Fessler, RD, Sharma, M, Guterman, LR & Hopkins, LN 1999, 'Postoperative hypotension after carotid angioplasty and stenting: Report of three cases', Neurosurgery, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1320-1324. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-199906000-00092
Qureshi AI, Luft AR, Lopes DK, Lanzino G, Fessler RD, Sharma M et al. Postoperative hypotension after carotid angioplasty and stenting: Report of three cases. Neurosurgery. 1999 Jun 1;44(6):1320-1324. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-199906000-00092
Qureshi, Adnan I. ; Luft, Andreas R. ; Lopes, Demetrius K. ; Lanzino, Giuseppe ; Fessler, Richard D. ; Sharma, Mudit ; Guterman, Lee R. ; Hopkins, L. Nelson. / Postoperative hypotension after carotid angioplasty and stenting : Report of three cases. In: Neurosurgery. 1999 ; Vol. 44, No. 6. pp. 1320-1324.
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Renishaw ranks high in graduate jobs poll
Renishaw was ranked in the top 3 best UK companies for engineering and manufacturing graduates to work for at an awards ceremony held recently in London.
Ranking higher than many household names in both the private and public sector, Renishaw was also named in the overall top 50 companies for graduates in the annual list produced by The JobCrowd.
The listings are the only results voted for by graduates themselves, and Peter Bowler, Group Human Resources Manager at Renishaw, said he was "very pleased" by the result. He added: "Renishaw takes its graduate recruitment programme very seriously and we are delighted that we have received this recommendation in this survey of the top 100 companies for graduates to work for."
This is the first year Renishaw has entered the rankings, making the company's immediate appearance in the top 50 even more impressive.
George Gibbons, a Sales Development Executive who recently completed the Renishaw graduate scheme, says, "The Renishaw grad scheme not only offers you challenging and enjoyable projects, but also provides a solid structure of support when you need advice or support. Graduates are tasked with 'real life' projects and are given a lot of freedom to go about completing them."
He added, "There are a number of factors which help the Renishaw graduate scheme stand out. The extensive training available to the graduates ensures you can increase your technical knowledge and your understanding of the whole range of products and solutions Renishaw offers. The projects given to the graduates are challenging and enable you to build links with the various product divisions or even subsidiaries. And finally the ability to rotate placements during the scheme gives you visibility into other areas of the company.
A company record of 68 graduates are being recruited in 2014, with over 100 summer, industrial and pre-university placements also being taken on throughout the Group.
The JobCrowd correlates anonymous reviews of jobs from graduates in order to create the annual list, and has been described as "Trip Advisor for jobs".
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Dear Helaine: When I was a teenager, my grandmother gave me about $20,000 in privately traded stock in a company founded by my great-grandfather. The value has grown considerably. What was initially a $125 annual dividend paid $14,000 last year.
My wife and I are diligent savers. Our house is paid off, and we currently have a mix of retirement savings and short-term assets valued at a little under $1 million. My shares from the family company make up the majority of that number.
Every year the family company sets aside a certain sum of money to buy back shares at a discount from the book value. Other family members have sold back some of their stock over the years, but I never have. Given that the stock has been valued higher every year, this has been a good investment decision. But with some key relatives in company management looking to retire, I feel like I should probably start selling shares and moving the money elsewhere.
But I am fighting a feeling of disloyalty at the thought of selling the shares. I never worked for the company, and neither did my parents. Also there's the thought that since I never did anything to earn this stock, it should be something that gets passed along to my kids instead of keeping it for myself.
Dear Fortunate: It must feel like that stock is a close relation. It's not just your own piece of a long-term family-owned business; it's like a fairy godmother, raining down financial benefits on you while you do nothing for it in return. Little wonder you would like to hold the stock close!
But wise money management isn't about sentiment and continuing to count on good fortune. It's about cold, hard facts and logic. So ask yourself this question: If this stock was that of any other company, would you ever have allowed it to become such a disproportionate part of your portfolio? The answer is almost certainly not. It's too risky. If something goes wrong, it will inflict severe -- and perhaps irreparable -- damage on your finances and on any future inheritance you might leave your children.
You need to diversify your holdings. Holding on to the stock because you fear a large capital gains bill could be the definition of being penny wise and pound foolish. I'd recommend taking advantage of the family buyback plan so you can bring your financial life into alignment. But you don't need to recalibrate in one fell swoop. You can parcel out the sales over a period of years, gradually weaning yourself off the family business.


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It's a sunny summer afternoon in the Coombes' family garden in Suffolk; Steffan and Rachel's two year old daughter Catrin, runs round her parents delightedly, and drags her father off to play on the slide.
The front line in Afghanistan feels unimaginably distant from here, and yet the conflict continues to dominate the Coombes family life.
Steffan joined the army at 16 and planned to serve his 22 year term. But in 2010 after eight years in the army, he was medically discharged with post traumatic stress disorder, brought on by his experiences fighting on the front line in Afghanistan.
It's an invisible injury but one that can tear your life apart. Terrifying flash backs, anxiety, anger and insomnia are just some of its symptoms. The charity Combat Stress is currently supporting over 400 veterans with the condition in the East of England.
Steffan now works on a farm near Eye and the family are rebuilding their lives. Some days are better than others; Steffan enjoys his job out in the open and finds his employers supportive, but he still has periods of deep depression. It's not easy for him to talk about, even to Rachel his wife.
He doesn't really like to talk to me about it which I understand. You know, what he saw out in Afghanistan, what he did out there, losing fellow soldiers.
"It was very difficult when we didn't know what he had and he didn't want to be here really, he didn't want to live. I think he still gets that now but thankfully now he's got the right medication to help him feel a bit more at ease."
Rachel was also in the army and served in Afghanistan, though unlike Steffan not on the front line. She left in 2008 after 6 years of service, and found the change to civilian life difficult. In particular finding work was a challenge; after two months of searching she got an admin job that was neither as well paid or as senior as her former military role.
Rachel's experience is shared by James Heenan, who left the army this April after 22 years of exemplary service. Since then he's done some shifts as a truck driver to pay the bills, but wants to find work at managerial level, equivalent to his military position and salary. To try and get help, he's gone to a recruitment agency for former forces personnel based in Cambridgeshire, which specialises in this area.
Even more worryingly, James also needs to find somewhere to live. Along with his wife Carolyn and four year old son, he's still living at Oakington baracks. Since his service has ended, the family have been served an eviction notice and need to move into a home of their own. But despite being on the council waiting list for some years, they've yet to find one.
People like myself that have served 22 years for Queen and county, have never asked for a single thing, I've never asked for any help from the government at all. And now I'm asking, I"m not getting anything and I think that's disgraceful."
South Cambridgeshire District Council say James and his family are in Band A on their housing list and one of their 'top priorities to find a home for.' The Council add that if the Heenans are made homeless they will supply them with temporary accommodation.
It's a far from ideal start to civilian life, but sadly not an uncommon one. Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, a psychologist with twenty years experience of working in the military, says civilians have little idea just how extraordinarily stressful leaving the forces can be.
When people leave the services, it's different to leaving a job. They're leaving employment, accommodation, they're leaving a large social network and they are leaving a way of life. So all those four things are things that most of us never really have to think about when we change from one job to another.
For Steffan and Rachel Coombes leaving the army isn't something that can be achieved in a day. The conflict in Afghanistan has irrevocably changed their lives, as it has for so many who fought in it. Life after Afghanistan is a work in progress.
For anyone who is affected by the issues raised in this report, the links below connect to organisations which may be able to provide support.


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Call to ban flag-burning
The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 November 2002, p.3.
The Federal Government should consider making it a crime to burn the Australian flag, the Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson, said yesterday.
A protest at Melbourne University last week during which the Australian and US flags were burned was an insult to Australian soldiers serving overseas and to those who had died for the country, he said, promising to take the matter up within the Government when parliament resumes next week.
But while Mr Anderson said a ban would not be an attack on free speech, he may not find it easy to rally support. Politicians generally condemn flag-burning, but in the past have baulked at outlawing it.


A rare blue lobster was caught off Castine in this September 2010 file photo. A Maine father-daughter team captured a blue lobster on Saturday.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — A Maine teenager and her father have landed a 1-in-2-million catch: a blue lobster.
Meghan LaPlante, 14, said she and her father pulled in the vivid blue crustacean from one of their traps on Saturday.
LaPlante helps her father run the family's Miss Meghan's Lobster Catch business in Old Orchard Beach.
The blue color is the result of a rare genetic mutation that causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein.
Most lobsters are dark bluish green to greenish brown. Scientists estimate the blue coloring occurs in only one out of 2 million lobsters.
LaPlante and her father have agreed to donate the lobster to the Maine State Aquarium.
LaPlante said she named the lobster "Skyler" for its blue color, and because it's one of her favorite names.


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The Fighting Heart is a 1919 American short silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason.

Cast
 Jack Perrin
 Hoot Gibson
 Josephine Hill
 William Pathe
 Magda Lane
 Laura Trainor
 Leo Pattee

See also
 List of American films of 1919
 Hoot Gibson filmography

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1919 films
1919 Western (genre) films
1919 short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by B. Reeves Eason
Silent American Western (genre) films
Universal Pictures short films
1910s American films
1910s English-language films

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


The Minion War is here and the demons seek to conquer Rifts Earth. They are bringing demonic armies by the tens of thousands across the dimensional divide, unleashing plagues, seeking out magic artifacts, recruiting monsters and mortal allies, and testing their strength against Earth's military powers. Worse, they are building Hell Pits so that they can unleash Hell on Earth! Not to be outdone, the Minions of Dyval are doing all the same things. Clashes between demons and Deevils are increasing every day and turn into titanic free-for-alls when Earth forces join the battle. As demonic supernatural forces ramp up, enslave people and wreak havoc across the globe, the question becomes: Is this the beginning of a new Dark Age?
Rifts® Cuba/Ciudad de Diablo, Harpies' Island and other notable Hell holes on Earth.
Written by Carl Gleba. A part of the Minion War™ "Crossover" series.
192 pages - Cat. No. 876.


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