Just one of the gorgeous views you will come across on your sea kayak excursion.
Wildlife are common on this exciting excursion, this is Wild Alaska after all.
Golden eagles are also common animals along this tour.
Be prepared for the majestic Alaskan wildlife you will encounter along your tour, including bald eagles.
Say Cheese! This tour offers many great photo opportunities for you and your kayaking partner.
Your paddle will take you along the shore line of Juneau and the Tongass Coast.
As you paddle along the Juneau coast, you will have views of the famous Mendenhall Glacier.
And don't worry, if you get hungry, snacks are provided on this tour.
This spectacular small group tour features approximately 2 hours of kayaking.
Your guides will do their best to lead you to wildlife and get you as safe as is possible during your tours.
Bald eagles are a common site in Juneau; keep an eye out throughout your tour for these patriotic birds.
The views of the Mendenhall Glacier are spectacular from your kayaks.
Juneau is surrounded by gorgeous peaks. Don't forget to look up as you continue on your journey.
Your peaceful paddle will give you and your kayaking partner time to rest and enjoy the sites.
Explore Juneau by sea and get views of the Mendenhall Glacier that you can't find anywhere else on this exciting new tour! The Glacier View Sea Kayak takes you out of Juneau to North Douglas Island, where you will be able to see more of the famous Mendenhall Glacier than on any other tour, as it winds it's way up the mountains into the Juneau Ice Field. With abundant wildlife opportunities, stunning views, and a peaceful paddle, this is among the premier Juneau kayaking tours you will find. Don't forget your camera or binoculars, there will be beauty everywhere you look!
As with most Juneau kayaking tours, your Glacier View Sea Kayak will begin with pickup by your cruise docks, however, it will soon diverge from the pack. This tour takes you away from Juneau to the North end of Douglas Island, for spectacular views and a serene setting you won't find on any other tours. After gear up, your guide will help you launch your tandem kayaks to begin your easy paddle through the Mendenhall Wetlands. Though spectacular views have surrounded you on your journey out to the paddle, this is when your 360 degree views of Juneau, its mountains, and the famous Mendenhall Glacier truly begin.
Look to the West and you will see your unique view of the Mendenhall Glacier sneaking its way through the icy peaks that surround it, but bring your eyes closer and you may be able to spot a bit livelier of a scene. Seals, sea lions, porpoises, bald eagles, herons, and even whales have been known to peak in on the Glacier View Sea Kayak. Throughout the tour, keep your ears open for the unique perspective your guide has to offer on the area and it's flora and fauna; they may even share their take on the story of Smuggler's cove. When you return to shore, a delicious snack will be waiting to warm you up before you travel back to the cruise docks, with beautiful views still surrounding you all the while!
Continue your Inside Passage active adventures with the White Pass Train & Bike in Skagway & Ketchikan's Backcountry Zodiac Expedition!
Restrictions: There is not minimum age for this tour, however children must weigh at least 40lbs to fit in the required life jackets.
Accessibility: Must be fit enough to paddle and sit in a kayak for up to 1.75 hours. The kayaks can accommodate a maximum torso (waist-chest) diameter of 52 inches (132cm). Maximum weight limits including gear are 300lbs (660kg) for single kayaks and 600lbs (1320kg) for double kayaks. People taller than 6'2″ (198cm) have a hard time operating the rudder because the pedals only adjust to a certain maximum distance. However, people as tall as 6'6″ have been able to paddle in our kayaks.
Because much of SE Alaska is a rainforest, these trips do operate rain or shine. Rain jackets are provided on this trip. If weather conditions are unsafe, the trip will be canceled and we will provide a full refund. This can happen on kayaking trips from time to time and will be typically related to sea or lake conditions, not rain.
There can be up to 12 passengers on this trip, and there is a minimum of 2 guests for the trip to operate.
Nope! This trip is rated as 'Easy' or 'Moderate' and we can accommodate even beginner kayakers. There is a recommended fitness level with the ability to paddle and sit in a kayak for up to 1.75 hours.


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Undefeated 49ers go all-in with deal for Emmanuel Sanders
By JOSH DUBOW - Oct. 23, 2019 08:26 PM EDT
Denver Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders (10) takes a break in an NFL game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Denver. The Chiefs defeated the Broncos 30-6. (Margaret Bowles via AP)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have raced out to six straight wins to open the season despite lacking a dynamic receiver who could change a game in a single play.
So when the opportunity to acquire a player like Emmanuel Sanders presented itself, the Niners didn't hesitate to make a move, giving up a pair of draft picks for a 32-year-old receiver in the final year of his contract.
"It always gives you pause when it comes to draft picks and everything," coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday. "But, we feel he's a guy who can come in and help us a lot this year and we'll see where it goes for him after that. We're very well aware that he'll be a free agent at the end of this year and we'll see how this year goes and hopefully we'll be able to keep him here. Risks always go into that, but you can get guys hurt on your roster and be out of luck."
The 49ers (6-0) made an aggressive move Tuesday, trading 2020 third- and fourth-round picks to the Broncos for Sanders a fifth-rounder, giving Shanahan a player he has coveted for years.
The move takes the previously disgruntled Sanders from a team near the bottom of the standings in Denver to one of the league's two remaining undefeated teams in San Francisco.
"I needed a change of scenery, and it feels good to have a change of scenery," Sanders said. "What a great locker room the 49ers have here. I'm just trying to come and bring even more positive energy and bring another spark to this offense."
Sanders is undergoing a crash course to learn the offense in time to play Sunday against Carolina. He arrived at his hotel around 9 p.m. Tuesday and spent a couple of hours with position coach and former Denver teammate Wes Welker learning the playbook.
He spent Wednesday in meetings and a walkthrough before taking part in his first practice. He also is building a rapport with quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, a process he doesn't believe will be too difficult, especially because Denver's offense is similar to San Francisco's because Broncos coordinator Rich Scangarello spent the past two years as quarterbacks coach for the 49ers.
"It shouldn't take too long for it to happen," Sanders said. "I've been talking to Jimmy. Based off this system with Kyle, I feel like if we work at it, we can be successful in this system together."
Sanders has been successful for most of his career, starting off in Pittsburgh with Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback and then in Denver with Peyton Manning. He had three straight 1,000-yard seasons from 2014-16 and has bounced back this year after undergoing season ending surgery on his Achilles' tendon and ankle in 2018.
Sanders had 30 catches for 367 yards and two TDs in seven games with Denver, and has the versatility to play both outside and inside in San Francisco's offense.
"He's a playmaker," Garoppolo said. "If you give him a chance on the ball, he'll make you look good. Just getting him in space, giving him opportunities to showcase his talents. He's fast, gets out and cuts quickly, runs good routes and so all those things. It's exciting."
San Francisco had previously used second- and third-round picks to trade up to draft Dante Pettis in 2018 and used a second-round pick on Deebo Samuel and a third-rounder on Jalen Hurd this past year.
But none of those selections have turned into big-time playmakers yet with Pettis struggling with consistency and recording only nine catches for 83 yards, Samuel having 15 catches for 168 yards and Hurd spending all season so far on injured reserve with a back injury.
That led to the need to add Samuel to upgrade a receiver group that ranks last in the NFL with just 49 catches so far and second worst with 679 yards receiving.
The Niners had looked into trading for Odell Beckham Jr. in the offseason before he was dealt to Cleveland by the New York Giants.
But they were able to get Sanders, sending a message to the players that management believes this team has the ability to compete for a title.
"It energizes it, not that we really needed to be energized," fullback Kyle Juszczyk said of the message to the locker room. "Everyone is feeling really good right now. I'm excited to have Emmanuel here. Absoulte playmaker and something I think will definitely help our offense."
NOTES: LT Joe Staley (leg) took part in individual drills for the first time since breaking his leg in Week 2 and has an outside chance to play this week. ... DE Dee Ford (quadriceps), DL D.J. Jones (hamstring), TE George Kittle (groin), (groin) and RB Raheem Mostert (knee) were limited.

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"Fallen Kingdom" is a fitting subtitle for the latest instalment in the Jurassic Park series, and one that I imagine will be referenced as such in thousands of reviews throughout the world. This being the case because JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM is undoubtedly the low point for the franchise, ie awful.
Picking up 3-years after the events of Jurassic World, which saw hundreds of theme park visitors ripped to shreds by a menagerie of prehistoric creatures, Fallen Kingdom depicts a society where dinosaurs and humans co-exist (separated by an ocean) and follows a growing social movement to save the creatures from a second-extinction when their island home is threatened by an active volcano. Of course the logical conclusion is simple... no good can come from saving them, let them die.
Much (exactly) like the events of the second instalment, The Lost World, a group of specialists are sent in to examine the creatures, and in this case relocate them to a new sanctuary. Their mission is commissioned by Sir Benjamin Lockwood (John Hammond's former research and business partner) and when they arrive on the island they are beaten to the punch by mercenaries, funded by Lockwood's scheming personal executor, Eli Mills. Cut to the volcano erupting in glorious fashion, dinosaurs freaking out and rampaging, humans running and screaming, and a handful of creatures being shipped to the mainland as live stock for a black market auction (in a top secret bunker beneath the Lockwood estate).
And so there we have it. A stupid and incoherent creature feature that attempts to recalibrate the ongoing narrative by showcasing weaponised cloning (I realised that was a component of the previous film), hybrid oddities and a perplexing private estate setting.
I am an unabashed fan of the series and have seen all of the previous instalments more times than I care to remember, and yet despite my affection for the franchise I cannot comprehend what it has become. That's not to say that I don't understand the storyline, but rather I don't see the progression as being logical, beneficial or integral to Micheal Crichton's original vision, or Steven Spielberg's flawless adaptation. I regarded 2015's Jurassic World with fondness and considered it to be a well measured and respectable revival of the series, and so it is all the more disappointing that they would carry on in such a mundane way.
Perhaps the studio misunderstands the fanbase and they assume that movie-goers simply want maximum dino carnage. Sure, that may have been the case while the concept was still novel, but now that we're up to the fifth instalment I think it's safer to assume that the audience wants a reasonable amount of pseudo science and logic to usher the narrative along. And what is most frustrating of all is that the story provides endless opportunities to explore deeper themes and concepts (such as deep sea exploration) but opts for the simplistic approach... roar, chomp, kill... and repeat.
With a fantastic production design, a marvellous marriage of practical and digital effects, and a strong performance from lead actor Chris Pratt, the film has its strengths. Yet all of the merits are stomped into mud by a sloppy sense of chaos and schizophrenic direction. That once believable universe created over 20 years ago on the basis of an "it could happen" concept, has descended into an unimaginable fantasy with zero realism and a dumb crossing of genres. Suffice to say it is a truly awful film... just awful.
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM is the second instalment in the revival trilogy, and with the finale revealing the concept for the next chapter, there remains a slither of hope yet. But that hope should not be taken for granted, and should the studio fuck up they will risk killing the franchise entirely and losing a legion of loyal fans. This is it Universal... your final chance!


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'Tower Attacks Leave 1800 Sites Down'
7:22 pm June 2, 2015
KL Report
At least 1800 sites of different telecommunication companies are non-functional all across Kashmir resulting in communication breakdown. Sources told CNS that out of 1400 sites, 650 sites of Bharti Airtel are not in operation while out of 1100 sites, 619 Aircel sites are non-functional. There are 486 2G sites of BSNL in Kashmir Valley out of which 129 sites are down while out of 207 3G BSNL sites 70 are non-operational due to recent attacks and threats on people associated with telecommunication business directly or indirectly.
Official sources admitted that more than 200 BTSs went out of service in Srinagar city in just hours after the blast at Habbakadal.
"On Tuesday security was beefed up in sensitive parts of Srinagar city. We have deployed policemen in and around mobile towers in Hyderpora, Jahangir Chowk, Habbakadal and other parts of the city," a police official said.
Reports said that security personnel were seen on the roof tops of the elevated buildings keeping vigil on the suspects. Pertinently, all the BSNL franchises have closed their outlets in all the ten districts of Kashmir valley from Monday morning as a result subscribers are unable to recharge their cell phones. BSNL internet service has also affected in a big way.
A top police official said that police would restore operation on all the non-functional towers "within three days" with the deployment of armed guards. "We will relocate and set up some of the towers at protected premises", he said.
According to the Telecom sources, currently there were around 9,000 BTSs in the Valley. As two or three companies share a tower and install their BTSs on a tower, the number of the BTSs of BSNL, Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, Reliance and Idea Cellular closed down in Kashmir in the last seven days was estimated to be over 3,000.
Meanwhile, the BSNL mobile phone Tower Owners Association in Kashmir on Tuesday said that they have decided to close mobile phone towers till June 10 and they will not operate before this date. "We want to give time to the government to take steps for our safety. We will restart service after we are sure of our safety," said a spokesperson of the Association.
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The word 'Sublime' is a pretty awesome word. Take a moment and say the word outloud. Sublime. Ahh. Don't you just feel awesome now that you said it? Aside from the fact that Sublime is one of my all time favorite musical groups, it is also the name of a candy bar. A candy bar that was unknown to me until a mere week ago. Could this really be? A candy bar worthy of the name Sublime? While the bar may have been quite small, it was indeed Simply Sublime.
After getting a nice run in, I met Mommy back at the gym in our neighborhood. The gym is pretty small and is located within the clubhouse. Also located there, is a refrigerator. From time to time, people will leave food in the refrigerator after a party and, of course, I always take a look to see what is available. On this day, I found a silver package with that amazing word, 'Sublime' written on the front of it. Totally curious, I removed it from the refrigerator to have a better look.
Right away, I knew this bar was from a different country. It had the Nestle logo on it and on the back, stated 'Chocolate con leche.' After further review, I found it to be from Bolivia. The size of this was indeed pretty small. I guess I am so used to the King Size varieties sold in the US, that small candy bars seem obscenely small to me. I debated if I wanted to try it right then or wait until later in the day. In the end, I simply could not wait.
I opened the gorgeous silver packaging (it was indeed really pretty) and found one bar with four segments. Each segment was stamped with that lovely word 'Sublime' and was the same size. I saw right away that the bar also contained some peanuts. I wonder why this was not included in the 'Chocolate con leche' label on the outside? Ohh well…I didn't care…it was time to eat.
I broke off a piece and placed it in my mouth. Since this came right out of the refrigerator, I decided to chew right in rather than let it melt into my mouth. I found this chocolate to be the most un-sugared piece of chocolate I have ever had. It wasn't sweet…like not at all. And you know what, it was really good. The flavor was so basic which allowed the cocoa itself to be the key component rather than the sugar. This cocoa mixed with the extra-crunchy peanut, resulted in a satisfying piece of chocolate.
I continued to eat the Sublime pieces and found every single one to be just as good. The same non-sugary chocolate continued as did the extra-crunchy peanuts. Even though this candy bar was small, it was the perfect size for me. I never eat a normal sized candy bar at one time so this, just hit the spot. And the fact that it was so not sugary, made it great.
After I finished this bar, I debated grabbing another from the refrigerator to take home. In the end, I did not and regret it. I have checked in the Ethnic Food isle at the grocery and have yet to find this bar. But, trust me, once I find it, I will be purchasing another. If this super silver package crosses your view, give it a try. The natural cocoa mixed with crunchy peanuts, can only be described one way – Simply Sublime.


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Desidae é uma família de aranhas araneomorfas que habitam a zona entremarés com distribuição natural centrada no hemisfério sul.

Géneros
A família Desidae inclui 38 géneros, com cerca de 180 espécies descritas:
 Badumna Thorell, 1890 (Australásia, América do Norte, Paraguai)
 Canala Gray, 1992 (Nova Caledónia)
 Cicirra Simon, 1886 (Tasmânia)
 Colcarteria Gray, 1992 (Austrália)
 Desis Walckenaer, 1837 (África, Oceânia, Australásia, Galápagos)
 Epimecinus Simon, 1908 (Austrália, Nova Caledónia)
 Forsterina Lehtinen, 1967 (Austrália, Nova Caledónia)
 Gasparia Marples, 1956 (Nova Zelândia)
 Gohia Dalmas, 1917 (Nova Zelândia)
 Goyenia Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Hapona Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Helsonia Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Hulua Forster & Wilton, 1973 (Nova Zelândia)
 Laestrygones Urquhart, 1894 (Nova Zelândia, Tasmânia)
 Lamina Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Lathyarcha Simon, 1908 (Austrália)
 Mangareia Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Matachia Dalmas, 1917 (Nova Zelândia)
 Mesudus Özdikmen, 2007 (Nova Zelândia) - anteriormente Manawa Forster, 1970)
 Myro O. P-Cambridge, 1876 (Tasmânia, (Nova Zelândia)
 Namandia Lehtinen, 1967 (Tasmânia)
 Neomyro Forster & Wilton, 1973 (Nova Zelândia)
 Notomatachia Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Nuisiana Forster & Wilton, 1973 (Nova Zelândia)
 Ommatauxesis Simon, 1903 (Tasmânia)
 Otagoa Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Panoa Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Paramatachia Dalmas, 1918 (Austrália)
 Paratheuma Bryant, 1940 (Estados Unidos, Oceânia, Coreia, Japão)
 Phryganoporus Simon, 1908 (Austrália)
 Pitonga Davies, 1984 (Austrália)
 Porteria Simon, 1904 (Chile)
 Rapua Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)
 Syrorisa Simon, 1908 (Nova Caledónia, Austrália)
 Taurongia Hogg, 1901 (Austrália)
 Toxops Hickman, 1940 (Tasmânia)
 Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973 (Nova Zelândia)
 Tuakana Forster, 1970 (Nova Zelândia)

Ver também
 Aranha
 Taxonomia das aranhas

Ligações externas

Platnick, N.I. 2003. World Spider Catalog

Aranhas

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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 6th Essex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers the city of Beverly in Essex County. Democrat Jerry Parisella of Beverly has represented the district since 2011.

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Essex district.

Representatives
 Mark F. Edmonds, circa 1858
 Edwin B. George, circa 1859
 Albert S. Manning, circa 1888
 Michael F. Sullivan, circa 1888
 Michael H. Jordan, circa 1920
 John Cornelius Bresnahan, circa 1951
 Joseph T. Conley, circa 1951
 John E. Murphy Jr., circa 1975
 F. John Monahan
 Frances Alexander
 James R. Henry
 Michael P. Cahill
 Mary E. Grant, 2003-2011
 Jerald A. Parisella, 2011-current

Former locales
The district previously covered:
 Newbury, circa 1872
 Newburyport, circa 1872

See also
 List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
 Other Essex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th
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Covid: WHO chief calls on governments to vaccinate at-risk groups in next 100 days
·January 12, 2021
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called for a "collective commitment" to get vaccinations underway worldwide for health workers and others who are at high risk of contracting Covid-19, in the next 100 days.
The UN health agency chief said this while briefing journalists in Geneva on Monday, a year on from the first-ever recorded Covid death. The death toll stood at 1,943,943, as of Tuesday morning.
"Governments, manufacturers, civil society, religious and community leaders, must come together to create the greatest mass mobilisation in history for equitable vaccination," said Tedros, noting that he was pleased a WHO team was in China to assess the compliance of Sinovac and Sinopharm ahead of their potential emergency-use listing.
This is separate from another "WHO origins" mission team, whose access to Wuhan to study how the pandemic began was delayed last week. "That international team consisting of distinguished experts from 10 institutions and countries has begun its trip, in collaboration with colleagues in China," the UNB News quoted Tedros as saying.
"Studies will begin in Wuhan to identify the potential source of infection of the early cases. Scientific evidence will drive hypotheses, which will then be the basis for further, longer-term studies," he added.
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The WHO chief said yet another new variant or mutation of the virus had emerged in Japan over the weekend, while transmissibility "appears to be increasing". Although the increased infectiousness can drive more cases, hospitalisations and deaths, "at present, the variants do not seem to show increased severity of disease", he added, offering some reassurance.
"With new treatments coming down the pipeline, we are hopeful that more lives of those with serious cases of Covid can be saved. But we need to follow the public health basics, now more than ever."
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Most critical, said Tedros, is to effectively sequence the DNA and composition of the virus, "so we know how it's changing and how to respond". There may be a need to "tweak" both diagnostics and vaccines in order to keep pace with the mutations, he said.
"We call on all countries to increase the sequencing of the virus, to supplement ongoing surveillance, monitoring and test efforts," the WHO head said, adding that he looked ahead to a key meeting on Tuesday of the health agency's R&D Blueprint group, "which convenes scientists from around the world to set global research priorities for the year ahead, including on virus variants and sequencing."
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Charges Against Hunter Biden Could Be Imminent: Report
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Hunter Biden could reportedly soon face charges concerning alleged illegal tax deductions as Republicans continue to investigate President Joe Biden's son and whether the president himself engaged in illegal efforts to profit from his position and protect his son.
The New York Times reports David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware and a 2017 nomination by then-President Donald Trump, is closing in on deciding whether to prosecute Hunter on charges relating to his late filing of tax returns in 2016 and 2017 and possible false claiming of at least $30,000 in deductions for business expenses.
BIDEN AIDES DISCOVER SECOND TROVE OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: REPORT
The report delves deep into the improper activity and allegations of illegality surrounding the president's son and how leading conservatives are trying to tie the president to his son's alleged illicit activity. However, while investigations have uncovered contact between Joe Biden and his son over the latter's business activities, including when the president found out about his son's board seat at Burisma and called to say, "I hope you know what you are doing," the report says the full scope of investigations have yet to offer Republicans the smoking gun they are looking for.
Take, for example, how Weiss is reportedly also considering charging Hunter with lying on a U.S. government form that he filled out to purchase a handgun in 2018. His answer that he was not using drugs could be challenged based on possible witnesses, but such a charge is rarely prosecuted unless added as part of a larger investigation. According to the New York Times, Hunter's lawyers have given the Justice Department evidence of how the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware has never brought a stand-alone gun charge for lying about drug use.
Drug addiction also plays a role in the other possible charges against the president's controversial son. On Oct. 12, 2018, Hunter was reportedly reminded by his accountant, Bill Morgan, that he needed to file his 2017 personal and business tax returns, of which he owed more than $800,000. It was this same day that Hunter bought the gun.
The next month, having been ignored, Morgan tried to get Hunter's attention again, pointing out that he also needed to file his 2016 tax returns. Morgan told Hunter that the IRS had instructed the State Department not to renew his passport because of his outstanding tax liens. Yet, the newspaper says that Weiss's ability to charge Hunter for not paying his taxes was made difficult when Hunter borrowed the necessary $2 million and paid the IRS the full amount he owed.
While certain charges may be hard to prosecute, it does not mean that the new reporting doesn't offer Republicans additional firepower in their pursuit to incriminate and impeach the president. Details of Hunter's relations with Ukraine and China are abundant, with his role on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma and previous stake in a Chinese government-linked company serving as two examples. But such encounters with the president himself had been harder to prove.
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Hunter's point of contact at Burisma, Vadym Pozharskyi, reportedly wrote a letter in 2015 to the younger Biden, thanking him, in broken English, for "giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some time together." Republicans have also tried to draw a line between the president and a Chinese energy tycoon (whom Hunter was involved in a failed business venture with). In the negotiations of the business venture, a participant reportedly suggested that a 10% stake in their prospective company be set aside for the "big guy."
The new details into Weiss's investigation of Hunter came just hours after the Republican chairman of the newly named House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), demanded that the Treasury Department hand over all suspicious activity reports linked to the president's son.
Whether or not the newly uncovered circumstances surrounding Hunter's story of abuse, loss, and failure lead to prosecution is, right now, only for the U.S. Attorney's Office to know. What is apparent, though, is that the ever-stronger magnifying glass on top of Hunter's head is inauspicious for the president as he mulls a reelection bid and faces severe scrutiny for his handling of classified documents.
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Ad Locum: Reinhardt's Negative Politics of Place
by Sarah K. Rich
Ad Reinhardt's proposed leaflet for an art-strike in 1961 showcases the painter's Rabelaisian affection for lists, as well as a vivid sample of the artist's disaffection with the art world. The leaflet, which ventriloquizes commands offered by a fictional "International Truck(l)er's Union," is exhaustive in its inventory of art world villains, hailing them with a string of categorical vocatives: Fauve-finks and Futurist scabs are beckoned, as well as turncoats and loan-sharks, fences and curator-pushers, not to mention critic-boosters, arsonists, art history hustlers, moonlighters, informers, parrots, toadies, tax evaders, axe grinders, landlord-lovers, ward heelers, politicos, romantics, architects, speculators, and sponges. All are encouraged to break the strike by crossing picket lines, going to museums, buying art. All are dared to join the growing Liberalist propaganda wing of New York's museums by, among other things, entering the Steichenesque "New-Images-of-Man-Civil-Defense-Shelter-Mural-Prize-Competition" and contributing money to "nature-in-abstraction-fall-out-experiments" (the latter referring to the Whitney's 1958 Nature in Abstraction exhibition, which ethos of pastoral contentment Reinhardt likened to Cold War complicity).
Reinhardt papers. Archives of American Art. Image courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
This bit of negative interpellation (to invert Althusser's term) is a neat trick. It's funny, but it's also instrumental. Reinhardt's leaflet lures the attention and allegiance of readers by dangling in front of them those categories with which they would not wish to identify (call it Category A: sell-outs, knuckleheads) in order to ensure that they will also want to avoid identification with other, less intuitively suspect folks (Category B: architects, speculators—more on those in a minute) and opt instead for an unspecified political position discernible primarily by virtue of its negative relation to the other categories (Category C: that which is not equal to options A and B). This last option thus assumes that within the heart of the reader is a moral core that, in its purity, shrinks from direct view and works primarily by not being The Wrong. Such a core needs no instruction other than the presentation of negative examples that it should reliably decline. Upon this regimen of dis-identification the leaflet then layers another negation, as its reverse psychology instructs the moral reader on the importance of non-action. For, in the estimation Reinhardt and many others, it was through the not-doing of things—not selling, not buying, not looking at art—that one could best help artists at that moment.
Remarkably, of all those listed on the leaflet, it was the landlords, architects, speculators, politicians, and ward-heelers that were the biggest culprits of the day, and it was because of them that the strike was looming. Since the 1950s, many artists had been subjected to all manner of real estate shenanigans, with developers and zoning officials kicking them out of their Greenwich Village studios so as to clear the way for more profitable alternatives. But in 1960, after three firemen died in a blaze at Broadway and Grand, the fire commissioner initiated "the most intensive and active fire inspection ever conducted in any part of the country," which entailed rousting those living illegally in the loft district of southwest Manhattan—that area which would soon be named SoHo.1 Many of those evicted were artists, who objected that the zoning laws they ostensibly violated had originally been written to prevent crowded sweatshops, not the occupancy of vast, high ceilinged places by an artist or two and their canvases.2 As the schedule of evictions intensified, it began to look less like a safety policy and more like a concerted plan among city planners to raze, modernize, and gentrify yet another zone of the city. Hence Reinhardt's inclusion of "arsonists" among the categorical ad hominems of his leaflet, by which he was suggesting that the "danger of fire" as a motivating force for the evictions was in itself verging on a criminal act by which the city planned to burn the art world to the ground.
In protest, Reinhardt joined scores (possibly hundreds) of artists who would fortify the ranks of a preexisting downtown organization known as the Artist Tenants Association.3 Some of the protesters were famous as well as vocal: both Reinhardt and Willem de Kooning appeared on every list of those associated with the movement, the latter suggesting in Newsweek that the evictions were part of the city's years-long plan to root out bohemian culture through repressive ordinances: "First, people couldn't [sing in the park], then no coffee houses. Now this. I think I smell a rat!"4 As the resistance movement solidified over the summer, Reinhardt would put his name first on a list of 70 names circulated to news sources as a "random choice of names from among the hundreds of artists who are participating in the boycott of September 11, 1961." The roster included a motley team of artists unlikely to be unified under any other circumstances. Along with Reinhardt and de Kooning, Richard Stankiewicz, James Gahagan, Sidney Geist, Israel Levitan, Jasper Johns, Philip Pearlstein, Robert Gwathmey, Boris Lurie, Alex Katz, George L. K. Morris, Fairfield Porter, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark di Suvero, and others, all declaring that if the city did not stop the evictions and declare an official policy in support of artists' rights as renters and residents of Manhattan, they would boycott every public iteration of art in the public sphere.5 They would neither show their work in galleries nor would they lend works to museums for exhibition. They would give no interviews or lectures, nor would they appear at gallery openings.6 They would, in the wording of one report, affect a "total withdrawal from community life by artists."7
That Reinhardt should have supported the strike should come as no surprise. Reinhardt was famously progressive in his politics, of course. Indeed, he was so active in political causes that one might have worried that he was too busy with other things in the spring of 1961 to worry about lofts (at the same time that he was advocating the strike, he was agitating for the release of David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as joining forces with the Civil Defense Protest Committee).8
Adding his name to those of other famous artists downtown, Reinhardt helped generate a buzz that would provoke substantial press coverage, with dozens of stories on pages both glossy and newsprint across the country, including an article on the front page of the New York Times.9 Eleanor Roosevelt was rumored to support the artists' cause.10 James Michener penned an essay of unequivocal support in the Saturday Review, in which he shamed the city government by contrasting the woeful real estate predicament of New York artists (to whom the United States then owed its newly central location on the world's cultural map) to the ways in which France lavished appreciation upon artists like Picasso in the form of gifted castles.11 (Michener's essay makes explicit reference to the "wild and witty" Ad Reinhardt in his shortlist of most notable agitators for the cause.) Mayor Robert Wagner was especially vulnerable to this bad press since it was an election year, and his opponent was using the issue as a wedge into Wagner's claim that he supported the arts.12 Scrambling for a solution, the mayor seemed ready to offer relocation as an appeasement when he supported a massive West Side middle-income housing project in which 200 apartments with northern exposure would be reserved for artists displaced from their lofts—"but not Greenwich Village beatniks," a spokesman assured reporters.13 Neither the housing project nor the relocation plan survived the year.14
One of the strategic advantages of Reinhardt's rhetoric of negation on his leaflet was that it saved him from having to claim any kind of monolithic consensus among artists during this crisis—which became especially necessary as differences of opinion among the artists about the boycott's necessity and potential payoff began leaking to the press. The Village Voice published some embarrassing remarks from a letter by Elaine de Kooning in which she suspected that the renters' situation was not as severe as some claimed; she also anticipated that the strike would have little consequence other than "harassing" their allies at museums and galleries.15 (In spite of her reservations, however, Elaine De Kooning signed the public commitment to strike in a letter published in the September issue of ARTnews.)16 Meanwhile, several founding members of the ATA, including its first chairman Dan Koener, preferred cordial negotiations with city officials to the spectacle of a strike; they resigned from organization and declared the boycott to be the work of opportunistic grandstanders (this would be Reinhardt, et al.) jockeying for publicity.17 "These people act upon the assumption that their withdrawal would be earth-shaking news, exposing before the world a Philistine city," Koener said, "They fail to see the other side of the artist as Don Quixote. If one wants to follow their kind of logic to the ultimate, the artists, in their last desperate resolve, would gather around the Museum of Modern Art and there commit collective suicide."18
And yet, despite such predictions of failure, the most remarkable thing happened: Artists won the fight. Just the threat of the strike by those loudmouth Don Quixotes won a four-point compromise from Mayor Wagner allowing artists to stay in their lofts. Years later, Reinhardt would still point to this victory as a defining moment in the history of art and political resistance. In a statement for ARTnews in early 1964, Reinhardt recalled,
For one moment in the early sixties, a group of young artists calling themselves the Artist Tenants Association struck terror into the heart of the art world by proposing an artists' boycott of New York City's galleries and museums. The artists were fighting for freedom from harassment by the fire department in their lofts merely, but the threat of an artists' strike, even by artists who were not in galleries or museums, showed how the foundations could be shaken. The most barefaced, half-assed sham battle in the market place in recent years was the 'Action Painters' Protest against the Critic of The New York Times, with the artists listing themselves shamelessly with their customers, mouthpieces, devotees, and agents. […] showed how the foundations could not be shaken.19
The victory was sweet, and it has a great deal to teach us still about the capacity of unified protest to affect change, even in the face of cynical disdain. But in addition, it was an episode that has something to teach us about Reinhardt's understanding of context for art making. Implicit in Reinhardt's adamant support for this protest was the artist's belief about the ways in which the world was allowed to imprint itself upon the work of art. Just note the ways in which Reinhardt's approach to loft spaces differed from that of other artists in the same movement: in a lengthy article that the New York Times Magazine published about loft culture a year after the ATA strike was cancelled, an unnamed sculptor who worked "with a scraps of metal and an acetylene torch" claimed that lofts were responsible for the look of the art he created there:
Who was it who said "First we shape the building and then the building shapes us?" My loft has turned out the best sculpture I've ever done. It's demanded more of me.20
This artist's statement is no doubt an exaggeration, but his approach is understandable. Indeed, an artist-activist movement claiming that artists deserve special access to loft spaces might have good, instrumental cause to make such a claim. It flatters fellow citizens (your city's unique architecture helped make the art that made America famous), just as it ratifies a plan that might reserve loft spaces for artists alone. It also makes it seem as if artists working in industrial materials somehow preserve the history of buildings originally made to house factories and sweatshops. But compare the above statement to one from Ad Reinhardt just a few years later; speaking about the architecture of art schools, Reinhardt said:
The architects who design art schools now tell you how to paint. The way they design an art school is a way of telling you what should go on there. Most students if they get a chance move into old buildings. That's the loft idea. The artist can move into a loft and then the place becomes what goes on there, or something like that.
In other words, it was not necessarily the case that Reinhardt endorsed loft studios for artists because they promoted the production of big works, or native works, or industrial-looking works. Rather, it was because the boundaries of such open spaces were far enough away from the art proper that they seemed able to withdraw their imprint from the artist's work. The loft was the space that let art be something else, something other than what the architecture determined. It was the not-space that was not-context and not-art. It was the perfect place, in other words, for an art like Reinhardt's, for whom artistic purity was a precious singularity always beyond possession, for whom art was approached primarily through the whittling away of everything that art is not (not textured or brushy, not drawn, not containing forms, not designed, not colorful, not reproducible), for whom beauty consisted in the retreat from corruption of the world ("art confused with life, nature, society, politics, religion is ugly," Reinhardt wrote for an audience of architects a few months after the threatened boycott).21
The loft was that space by which the artist might seek (though not necessarily find) a center away from the institutional moat that surrounds art making. And at the same time, if anything, Reinhardt's leaflet dramatizes the extent to which the artist understood that there was no crossing over to art except by way of this moat. Reinhardt understood that there is no making art or seeing art without the landlord or the curator, the truck(l)ers, critic-boosters, or art history hustlers. The very category of art as something which is autonomous (such as Reinhardt wanted art to be and knew it could never be except as an asymptote)—this very notion appears as such only through institutional and disciplinary frames. The challenge in 1961, then, was to fight for the idea (this time an architectural one) of something that might open around this yearning for autonomy and against the contamination of context. It was a yearning for a frame. And the only way to make this clear, of course, is through the thoroughly institutionalized and supplementary discourses of manifestos, statements, of course, leaflets—leaflets that would stake the terms of this fight only by challenging the reader to not-fight.
1. The fire was on November 18, 1960. "Firemen to Close Dangerous Lofts," The New York Times (21 November 1960): 31.
2. NY Post. Aug 1. "the artists point out that the fire and building codes being enforced are designed to protest workers from sweatshop conditions and make no sense when applied to artists' uncrowded work areas" p. 10.
3. The papers of the ATA, including clippings, correspondence, and financial records, are preserved in the Smithsonian, Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
4. Willem De Kooning quoted in "The Angry Dwellers," Newsweek, Vol. 54 (29 May 1961): 102.
5. Publicity Release, Artist Tenants Association, Administrative Records and Memorandum, 1961 – 1968: Box 1, Folder 18. The tally of votes to strike took place the night of July 31, 1961. Among "exhibiting artists whose work is shown in the active galleries," the vote was 6 to 1 in favor of the strike. [Sally Hammond], "Artists Will Boycott Galleries Here Sept. 11," New York Post (1 August 1961): 10.
6. Relatively little has been written about this particular moment in artist activism. Alexandra Lange, however, has recently included a description of the Artist Tenants Association (ATA) in her splendid summary of several different phases of city activism among artists in postwar New York: "Romantic Icons and Urban Pioneers: Artists, Activism and Lower Manhattan in the 1960s," in Pepe Kermel, ed., New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection (New York: Grey Art Gallery, 2008): 67 – 84. Lange's remarks about the ATA appear on pages 72 – 73. Publications that discuss different artistic engagements with the changing development of New York City include Sarah K. Rich, "Bridging the Generation Gaps in Barnett Newman's Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue Paintings," American Art 19 (Fall 2005): 17 – 39, and Joshua Shannon's splendid book The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
7. The quotation comes from coverage that appeared in the Art Students League News, Vol. 14, no. 6 (Summer 1961), contained in the Artist Tenants Association, scrapbook, 1959 – 1967, Archives of American Art, Box 2, Folder 21.
8. Reinhardt's name appeared with several dozen others on an advertisement in the New York Times demanding the Mexican artist's release. New York Times (9 August 1961): 31. It was a busy time for the artist: he was in the process of protesting the imprisonment of muralist Siquieros as well as joining forces with the Civil Defense Protest Committee: (CDPC) a group of peace activists including artists, writers, intellectuals, and other public figures, all of whom argued that the rhetoric of fallout shelters mollified the true destructive power of nuclear war and damaging to society because it favored attention to individual survival rather than the survival of humanity. Reinhardt's personal papers contain many of the CDPC's publications, and his calendar suggests that he attended the CDPC's public protest at City Hall on April 28, 1961. See the Reinhardt papers at the AAA, Box 2, folder 31.
9. McCandlish Phillips, "Artists may Strike to Save Lofts: 1,000 Polled in City to Fight," New York Times (3 July 1961): 1, 31.
10. Joe Alex Morris Jr., "Cavanagh to Artists: Don't Rabble Rouse," newspaper clipping in the Artist Tenants Association, scrapbook, 1959 – 1967, Archives of American Art, Box 2, Folder 21.
11. James Michener, "Should Artists Boycott New York?" The Saturday Review (26 August 1961): pp. 12, 48.
12. State Controller Arthur Levitt, a rival for Wagner's democratic nomination, said in a public statement that "he would do everything in his power to see that regulations on the occupancy of buildings were changed to permit artists 'to live and work in any appropriate place.'" See "Lehman Assails Bosses in City / Levitt Urges Establishment of Inspections Department," The New York Times (11 Aug 1961): 11.
13. Dennis Duggan, New York Herald Tribune (18 August 1961). The spokesperson was Edward Swayduck, who spoke at a press conference in the presence of Mayor Wagner.
14. "West Side Housing to Straddle Central Tracks," New York Times (18 August 1961): 49. The mayor wasn't the only one looking for ways to satisfy disgruntled artists. Gallerists noticed the struggle too—after all they were the ones to be most directly effects were the strike to go into effect. Betty Parsons, perhaps in an effort to keep Reinhardt, one of the stallions in her stable, from withdrawing from her gallery entirely, hosted a forum on the subject of "What Will Help the Artist Today." Oddly, the forum may have angered the artist as much as it was meant to appease him: announced in the thick of the loft-crisis, on August 18, 1961, the forum was scheduled for September 27, which might have forced artists to break the strike in order to attend, depending upon the strike's duration. See the letter from Betty Parsons to Ad Reinhardt, dated August 18, 1961, Correspondence files of the Ad Reinhardt Papers, Archives of American Art.
15. The Village Voice, Aug 3, 1961, world has seen harder times than this, Mrs. De Kooning wrote. Clipping included in the PAPERS,
16. "Artists and New York Settle Housing Dispute," ARTnews, Vol. 60, no. 5 (September 1961): 8, 63.
17. McCandlish Phillips, "Artists may Strike to Save Lofts," op. cit., p. 31. Similar remarks were published again in the Times in an article by "J.C.", "Artists' Boycott," New York Times (6 August 1961): 6.
18. Koener wrote a long letter to the editor arguing that his less public approach had already won attention from the fire commissioner, who had agreed to meet with representatives of the ATA in the late spring; that meeting brought no resolution to the situation, and the strike plan was continued. Koener and his colleagues had wanted to wait for more meetings. Dan Koener, "Letter to the Editor: Artists Boycott," Manhattan East (July 6, 1961): 2.
19. Ad Reinhardt, "The Next Revolution in Art (Art-as-Art Dogma, Part II)," ARTnews, (February 1964), reprinted in Rose, pp. 60 – 61. The latter part of Reinhardt's statement was referring to letters of protest, signed by Barnett Newman, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas Hess, Ben Heller and many others, regarding the conservative art criticism of Times critic John Canaday. Because the public declarations of protest included artists, collectors, and critics who cosigned joint statements, Reinhardt considered the protest simply an opportunistic networking opportunity, rather than a protest movement that entailed any true risk on the part of the participants.
20. Gilbert Millstein, "Portrait of the Loft Generation," New York Times Magazine (7 January 1962): 24; quoted in Lange, op. cit.
21. Ad Reinhardt, "Twelve Rules for a New Academy," ARTnews, May 1957, and Ad Reinhardt, contribution to the Round Table "Who is Responsible for Ugliness," Journal of the American Institute of Architects 37 (June 1962): 61.
Sarah K. Rich
SARAH K. RICH is an Associate Professor of Art History at Penn State.


When he's not fighting insider trading charges, Leon Cooperman has become a scholar of sorts on government corruption.
Last month the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Cooperman, 73, and his fund with insider trading, alleging that in July 2010, the hedgie illegally traded on information obtained from executives of Atlas Pipeline.
Cooperman has maintained his innocence and is dedicating what he called "astronomical" resources to clearing his name.
Cooperman said he could have settled the charges for $8 million but said that only people who have done something wrong should pony up settlement fees.
He recalled Ken Langone telling him that the best money he ever spent was the $30 million outlay to defend himself against former New York Gov. and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Assets in Cooperman's funds have fallen to $4 billion due in part to institutional investors, such as Goldman Sachs, pulling funds amid the scandal. The firm's website listed assets under management of $5.4 billon as of Aug. 31.
"Institutional investors hide behind fiduciaries," Cooperman said, later adding that some private investors actually recently increased their investment in Omega funds.


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A few months ago, I had mentioned that I was planning to learn a Functional Programming language. In that blog post I listed out the different functional languages I was looking at and outlined my thought process for picking one of them. I picked Clojure.
I have learned more while programming in Clojure than while programming in any other language since I first learned C some 12 years ago. Alan Perlis once said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing". Amen.
Over the last decade, I have dabbled in several programming languages including C, C++, VB, C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby… Now, these are all more similar than they are different. I know, you won't truly believe that statement unless you've some experience with a language which is drastically different from them; ignorance is bliss. Clojure is different. Very Different. Very.
So different indeed that I have taken more time to become sort-of-comfortable with Clojure than I have ever taken to reach the same state for any other language I've learned. Being homoiconic, Clojure actually has very little syntax. But the problem lied in retraining my OOP-corrupted brain to think functionally and in getting comfortable working with immutable data structures.
Now I've reached a stage where, when I'm programming in any other language — even Ruby, the most beautiful of all the other languages I know — I feel as if I'm doing it wrong. All wrong. I've slowly but surely started to apply some of the concepts I've learned while programming Clojure when programming in other languages too. See Alan Perlis' quote above.
I'm working on a couple of open source libraries in Clojure, which I hope to announce soon. Almost all of the weekend hacks I do these days are also in Clojure. I'm addicted!
I'm planning to blog some adventures and neat tricks I'm conjuring up using Clojure. If you are interested, you can subscribe to all my Clojure posts.
A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences.
These are the first three paragraphs of chapter 1. What a cool metaphor! Sadly, the use of this metaphor is limited to these paragraphs.
Alan Perlis isn't kidding (does he, ever?) — programming is fun again. Thank you, Clojure.
I've been wanting to learn a functional programming (FP) language for quite a while now.
Ruby being my current fav programming language while also being malleable to FP, I thought I will dabble with some FP in Ruby. But that was not to be. While Ruby does have some basic features like closures that are necessary for FP (although it does not boast of a a lot of clarity), one has to go through a lot of hooplas to achieve immutability — the language offers no assistance here. The following video provides a good overview of what it takes to do FP using Ruby: Better Ruby through Functional Programming by Dean Wampler.
With Ruby out, I now needed a language that embraced FP wholeheartedly. And there is no dearth of choices here; see the Functional Languages category on Wikipedia. I decided to narrow down the list by picking up the more popular and/or adopted languages. This left me with Clojure, Common Lisp, Erlang, F Sharp, Haskell and Scala (but many don't seem to consider Scala to be truly functional). That's still too many languages. But the list is small enough that I could learn enough about each of these languages to be able to pick one that I want to learn right now.
Clojure: Lisp dialect, dynamically typed, runs on JVM (and embraces it; implying that any Java library can be used with Clojure with little extra effort), great community. Moreover, it is embraced by my company (one of our very important backend platforms is written mostly in Clojure). More on Clojure later.
Common Lisp: The oldest of them all, dynamically typed, really cool. But too many parens for my liking!
Meanwhile, back at Ericsson, some Erlang-based products that were already in progress when the "ban" went into effect came to market, including the AXD 301, an ATM switch with 99.9999999 percent reliability (9 nines, or 31 ms. downtime a year!), which has captured 11% of the world market. The AXD 301 system includes 1.7 million lines of Erlang: This isn't just some academic language.
F Sharp: Runs on the CLR (.NET Framework).
Haskell: Pure FP language, static typing.
Scala: Runs on JVM, static typing. Very complicated type system, from what I hear.
The above is obviously not a very thorough overview of the languages. It was not my intention to develop an overview at all; I just gathered enough information to be able to make a decision.
I like dynamic typing, working on Linux. My company's main platform is the JVM. I mostly write Information Retrieval (IR) software and a lot of IR libraries are in Java. Clojure!
But I also like Erlang. I'll get to it after I have tamed Clojure. And I also want to learn R programming language so that I can implement statistical algorithms with ease.
But what's the point of this blog post? Nothing. I plan to blog a bit about FP in general and Clojure in particular and thought that it would be nice to provide some context. Also, I wanted to document at least part of the decision making process I have been through for picking up Clojure.


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Q: Checking Evaluated grid value in ascx file I'm trying to modify text in an ASCX file based on the value chosen in a grid. This syntax doesn't work.

 The letter should be <%#If(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Code") == "A" Then A Else B)%>

This should render as "The letter should be A" or "The letter should be B".  Can this be done dynamically? The grid is on the same ascx page.

A: Well, if that markup is to be inside of a grid view?
Then you still have to template that column.
So, say this:
          <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="test column">
              <ItemTemplate>

                      <%# IIf(Eval("City") = "Edmonton", "E", Eval("City")) %>

              </ItemTemplate>
          </asp:TemplateField>

So, if the data (city column) = "Edmonton", then we show "E", else we show the value.
And that's not code - but has to be a legal single VB expression.
So, if() or iif() is a vb.net function - they are both the same - and there is no "then" or "else" when you use that function.

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Birkbeck Perspectives
Birkbeck experts and students share their opinions on a diverse range of thought-provoking topics.
Queer studies at Birkbeck
Where are all the grandparents in contemporary fiction?
Transparency, what transparency?
Patrick Modiano, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, is a paradox
Can creative writing be taught?
Why Rupert Murdoch's plan to rule the media world still needs newspapers more than TV
Twitterfiction can work, but David Mitchell's story is a bit of a flop
Why remember Shoulder to Shoulder?
Michael Gove should not kill the mockingbird
London Diarists
Twitter trolls – it's nothing personal…
Should we prize literary prizes?
World Poetry Day 2013
Media coverage of the Iraq invasion
Building a Media Reform Coalition: Real change for real journalism
European Poll Shows Democracy Still Needs a Bit of Work
Homophobia in English Football
The Coach on the Couch
A dance of death
Skills are a risky investment
Free China?
Beyond Bad Apples: Bullying at the BBC
The Gender Agenda in the Business Agenda
Let's join the fashion club; or how 'Rihanna's horror show' may represent retail avant-garde
Defence policy for an independent Scotland
A Time for Entrepreneurs
ICC drops its Kenyatta case, leaving culture of impunity intact
Business and Corporate Responsibility in Russia
Human rights plan will please eurosceptics but what's in it for the rest of us?
French burqa ban upheld: a victory for democracy and a setback for human rights
Flight MH370's disappearance does not demand a xenophobic response
Latin America is being transformed by a vision of post-human rights
Trenton Oldfield's win is a defeat for Theresa May's deportation policy
Chile election: young Chileans have voted for a radical change of direction
Commonwealth hamstrung to fight abuse in Sri Lanka
Torture prevention in Uzbekistan
Colombia's lawyers under attack
YouTube justice UK style
Hugo Chávez kept his promise to the people of Venezuela
Australia is playing a dangerous game with Sri Lanka
Does the jury system work?
Reflections On Gay Marriage
The Justice and Security Bill – a threat to open justice
A 21st century Berlin Conference on Africa
Beat Blue Monday
The tricky task of achieving life/work balance
The scientific legacy of the Apollo Moon landings and the case for a return to the Moon
SSHP
Bilingualism in Malta
Sherlock Holmes: the man who never lived and will never die
'Cash for access' scandal: What impact will Miliband's proposals have on MPs and the public?
Call me Madame
Languages….what for?
Language, identity and a political hot potato
Need for public enquiry into the death of Peter Connolly
If history repeats itself, it's time for the battle stations
What the **** is linguistics?
Used or abused? 11 serious issues raised by FOI requests
World Bank watch out – the BRICS Bank is a game-changer
The British jihadis in Syria might be driven by more than just religion
The Fox in the Hen House? Ukip and the 2015 General Elections
India fights for a pension: a campaigning success story
British universities need black studies
Who can control the post-superpower capitalist world order?
Today is happiness day, but could greater happiness be a permanent reality?
Putin needs to show more restraint than hero to avoid a new Crimean war
Teaching American History in Michael Gove's Britain
E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class and the Future of History from Below
Women on screen aren't allowed to grow old erotically
Obituary: Post-Feminism
UN General Assembly another venue for Obama's inaction
Slow-thinking the Revolution: Sound Diary from Brazil
Notes from Brazil, June 2013
UN World Environment Day
Lobbying: why is it so difficult to reform?
Margaret Thatcher is dead but I don't feel like dancin'
Beyond Citizenship? International Women's Day: the gender agenda
Britain in the EU
Austerity under Thatcher and the Coalition: the second time as tragedy
Tag Archives: employees
Emotional rescue: how to stop your employees burning out
This article was contributed by Dr Andreas Liefooghe, Reader in Organizational Psychology, and Dan Vacassin, an alumnus of Birkbeck's MSc Organizational Behaviour and Director of Indigo Gold.
Sometimes it seems as though it's no longer enough for employees just to turn up for work and do their jobs as well as they can. Today, many organisations demand varying amounts of what is known as emotional labour, a phenomenon that sits apart from actually doing the job. Emotional labour manifests itself in a number of ways, but here we are referring to a perceived need to 'Live the brand' – to strain every sinew in a bid to achieve the cultural utopia envisioned by the leadership team.
This is not healthy. At best, it can leave employees so exhausted by the energy they put into 'getting their game face on' that they have little left to do their jobs properly. At worst, we've seen it lead to cases of burnout, where the emotional demands placed on individuals have left them no longer able to function.
While many of society's ills seem nowadays to be subjected to inflated terminology (for instance we no longer seem to have heavy colds, it is always flu) burnout is very real and its effects can be shocking to witness. In our experience, burnout tends to happen not because individuals work hard, but more because they become emotionally immersed in their work, to the detriment of everything else.
This is not to suggest that presenting a strong brand to the customer is a bad thing. Equally, customer-facing employees have a certain responsibility to embody that brand. We are talking instead about a deeper emotional contract demanded of employees, playing to a need to 'fit in' which may be a unique human condition.
Alleviating the burden of emotional labour, as with other culture-related issues, must start at the top. Very often, investigating a case of burnout uncovers insecurities among the leadership team, with senior managers finding it hard to judge when an organisation is working at or close to its optimal level and so continue to push relentlessly towards their version of utopia.
As well as the emotional fatigue it causes, the emotional labour around being constantly 'on message' can also stifle fresh ideas and creativity, while negating attempts to promote the diversity of the workplace in terms of personality types and behaviours. The whole point of creativity and diversity is that they involve breaking away from perceived notions of the norm; if people feel they must always behave in a certain way in order to get on, then the norm becomes all-pervasive.
We all have a responsibility to learn, to improve and to better ourselves in whatever career we have chosen. So why not let people get on with doing precisely that, instead of focusing on whether they're sufficiently on message? You might just keep them burning brightly, instead of burning out.
This entry was posted in Business Economics and Informatics and tagged burnout, employees, organizational psychology, work-life balance on April 1, 2015 by Bryony.
Why the government's ban on single-use items hasn't gone far enough
"Working whilst studying has helped me financially as well as boosted my career"
Lillian Penson – scholar and university administrator
Isaac Rosenberg – artist and poet
George Birkbeck – physician, philanthropist, founder of the London Mechanics Institute
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Politics society and law
Work and the economy


Another weekend = another project checked off the list. However this weekends' projects will be coming soon, this is what we did a few weekends ago + a little work last weekend.
You all know the story about the striped walls. Well, we finally finished painting the walls after doing all sorts of stuff to them including re-mudding, sanding and texturing. I also began the not-so-fun task of painting baseboards, window frames and trim in that room, which will eventually carry through-out the whole house.
I also hung these cork circles I got from Ikea – their main purpose is a hot pad for the counter, but I liked the shape of them and will use them as an inspiration board for when I work up there doing some freelance. I also started hanging some of the paper lanterns and flowers that tie in with the room, however since I've taken the photo, I've finished hanging them, and some have fallen. I obviously need to figure out a better way to hang them.
There is still a lot of organizing that needs to be done in this room, but at least it is in an ok state right now! More photos and progress to come!


Cosmetics giant L'Oréal Paris has announced that Women of Worth, its grant award program conducted in partnership with volunteer service organization Points of Light, is coming to Canada this fall.
Actress and L'Oréal Paris ambassador Naomi Watts presented the philanthropic initiative at a media event today in Toronto, on the second day of the glitzy annual Toronto International Film Festival (the beauty brand is a major sponsor). Watts, who co-stars in the TIFF flick The Bleeder, is noted for her charitable work, including serving as a goodwill ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
The Women of Worth program honours individuals who are making a difference in their communities through volunteer work, and in the U.S. has recognized 100 women over the past decade. The public is encouraged to make nominations.
"If you know a woman fearlessly pursuing her passion to bring about change in Canada, I hope you will take the time to acknowledge her impact, and nominate her as a Woman of Worth," said Watts at today's launch event.
Similar to the U.S. initiative, in Canada each of the 10 women selected will receive a $10,000 grant toward the non-profit cause of her choice. A panel of judges will then pick one particularly stand-out National Honouree, who will receive an additional $10,000 grant. All of the award recipients will be celebrated at a L'Oréal Paris gala next year, to be held in Toronto on International Women's Day (March 8).
Beyond awarding grants, Women of Worth will offer marketing support, tools and training, and facilitate networking to help all the honourees.
Nominations will be accepted from September 20 to November 28 at womenofworth.ca.


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Before taking out a loan, give yourself ten minutes to think about it. Payday loans can come in handy when an unexpected expense arises that can not be put off. Be sure you are considering the situation rationally rather than reacting to the shock of the unexpected event.
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Rapporto Rasmussen
(Norman C. Rasmussen)
WASH-1400, Reactor Safety Study
Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents

Ufficialmente noto come "WASH-1400", è un rapporto pubblicato nel 1975 dalla Nuclear Regulatory Commission (autorità di controllo nucleare statunitense) e redatto da una commissione di esperti presieduta dal prof. Norman Rasmussen; è pertanto noto come Rapporto Rasmussen.

Esso si compone da un'analisi delle varie possibilità di incidente e delle conseguenze che ne scaturiscono in reattori ad acqua leggera.

L'analisi in questione si pronuncia sulla probabilità che avvenga un incidente nucleare. In particolare viene esplicitata la probabilità che si abbia la fusione del nocciolo (il più grave tipo di incidente che si può verificare in una centrale elettronucleare). Tale probabilità è indicata come 1/20000 per reattore all'anno. Anche in verificarsi di un tale incidente, la probabilità che ci siano rilasci significativi di materiale radioattivo nell'ambiente esterno è di 1/100. Per cui in totale la probabilità di un meltdown nucleare con contaminazione esterna, per questo tipo di reattori, sarebbe di 1/1000000 cioè l'evento dovrebbe verificarsi solo una volta in un milione di anni.

Le conclusioni del rapporto precedono di soli pochi anni Three Mile Island, che ne ha rappresentato la prima falsificazione.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Energia nucleare