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Is Life in Prison without Parole a Better Option Than the Death Penalty?
PRO (yes)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) stated the following in an article titled "The Truth About Life Without Parole: Condemned to Die in Prison," available on its website (accessed Apr. 13, 2015):
"The facts prove that life in prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is swift, severe, and certain punishment…
The death penalty costs more, delivers less, and puts innocent lives at risk. Life without parole provides swift, severe, and certain punishment. It provides justice to survivors of murder victims and allows more resources to be invested into solving other murders and preventing violence. Sentencing people to die in prison is the sensible alternative for public safety and murder victims' families."
Apr. 13, 2015 - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Donald McCartin, JD, former California Superior Court judge, stated the following in his Mar. 25, 2011 article titled "Second Thoughts of a 'Hanging Judge,'" published in the Los Angeles Times:
"I presided over 10 murder cases in which I sentenced the convicted men to die. As a result, I became known as 'the hanging judge of Orange County,' an appellation that, I will confess, I accepted with some pride.
I can live with it and, apparently, so can the men I condemned. The first one, Rodney James Alcala, whom I sentenced to die more than 30 years ago for kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, was, just last year, again sentenced to death for killing Samsoe and four other young women who, it has subsequently been determined, were his victims around the same time…
Had I known then what I know now, I would have given Alcala and the others the alternative sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Had I done that, Robin's mother, Marianne, would have been spared the pain of 30 appeals and writs and retrial. She could have dealt then and there with the fact that her daughter's killer would be shut away, never again to see a day of freedom, and gone on to put her life together. And the people of California would have not have had to pay many millions of tax dollars in this meaningless and ultimately fruitless pursuit of death.
It's time to stop playing the killing game. Let's use the hundreds of millions of dollars we'll save to protect some of those essential services [such as education] now threatened with death [from state budget cuts]. Let's stop asking people like me to lie to those victim's family members."
Mar. 25, 2011 - Donald McCartin, JD
Judy Kerr, victim liaison and spokesperson for California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and sister of a murder victim, stated the following in her Mar. 28, 2008 testimony to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, available at ccfaj.org:
"Life without the possibility of parole is an alternative to capital punishment that both addresses our need for public safety and allows us to redirect precious monies currently being used on capital trials to solving cold cases…
Testimony previously heard by this commission indicates that sentencing people to grow old and die naturally in prison costs far less than trying to execute them. Californians pay more than $117 million each year to maintain a death penalty system that is functionally equivalent to death in prison. Over 20 years, the state would save more than $2.34 billion if we actually sentenced everyone on death row to death in prison. These figures don't even include the costs of trials. Each death penalty trial costs a county three times more than a trial seeking death in prison."
Mar. 28, 2008 - Judy Kerr
Mario Cuomo, JD, Governor of New York at the time of the quote, in a June 17, 1989 article for the New York Times titled "New York State Shouldn't Kill People," wrote:
"What makes the risk of wrongful execution all the more unacceptable is that there is an effective alternative to burning the life out of human beings in the name of public safety. That alternative is just as permanent, at least as great a deterrent and – for those who are so inclined – far less expensive than the exhaustive legal appeals required in capital cases.
That alternative is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. No 'minimums' or 'maximums.' No time off for good behavior. No chance of release by a parole board, ever. Not even the possibility of clemency. It is, in practical effect, a sentence of death in incarceration.
Life without parole is achievable immediately. The Legislature could enact it Monday. I would sign the measure Tuesday. It would apply to crimes committed the next day. In fact, the only thing preventing the next cop killer from spending every day of the rest of his life in jail is the politics of death."
June 17, 1989 - Mario M. Cuomo, JD
Catherine Appleton, PhD, Research Officer at the Centre for Criminological Research, and Bent Grover, PhD, former Associate for Mitchell Madison Group/marchFIRST, in their Apr. 24, 2007 article for the British Journal of Criminology titled "The Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole," wrote:
"For those in favour of LWOP [life in prison without parole], another key benefit is its retributive power. It is argued that murderers deserve to be so punished because of the heinous nature of their crimes. If the death penalty is to be abolished, a replacement sanction of sufficient gravity needs to be provided by law. Proponents in the United States have emphasized that 'life without parole is certainly not a lenient sentence ' (Blair 1994:198). Sometimes referred to as 'death by incarceration ' , such sentences are undeniably tough, pleasing both politicians and prosecutors, but also satisfying some opponents of the death penalty…
Deterrence is seen to be another major strength of LWOP. Some abolitionists have put forward the argument that while reviewable life sentences offer little in the way of deterring those who might kill, LWOP is undeniably harsh and its deterrent effect should not be underestimated."
Apr. 24, 2007 - Bent Grøver, PhD Catherine Appleton, DPhil
CON (no)
David R. Dow, JD, Cullen Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, stated the following in his Oct. 26, 2012 article titled "Life Without Parole: A Different Death Penalty," available at thenation.com:
"As a death row lawyer who fights to keep his clients alive, I believe life without parole denies the possibility of redemption every bit as much as strapping a murderer to the gurney and filling him with poison…
I've had clients who want me to fight for them, and then when we win and get their death sentence converted into life, end up telling me I've betrayed them…
For California's 725 death row inmates, having their sentences commuted to life without parole would mean automatically losing their right to state-appointed lawyers to pursue their habeas corpus appeals. For a huge proportion, this would instantly rob them of every last ember of hope and increase by up to 20 percent the number of California inmates who will grow old and die behind bars."
Oct. 26, 2012 - David R. Dow, JD
Kenneth E. Hartman, prisoner serving a sentence of life in prison without parole for murder and Executive Director of The Other Death Penalty Project, stated the following in his 2008 essay titled "The Other Death Penalty," available at theotherdeathpenalty.org:
"I was sentenced to the quieter, less troublesome death penalty, the one too many of those well-meaning activists bandy about as the sensible alternative to state-sanctioned execution: life without the possibility of parole…
I have often wondered if that 15 or 20 minutes of terror found to be cruel and unusual wouldn't be a better option.
There is more to it than the mere physical act of imprisonment, much more. The more than 3,000 life without parole prisoners in this state [California] also enter a rough justice kind of limbo existence. We are condemned to serve out our lives in the worst (maximum security) prisons, which otherwise are specifically designed to be punitive. This means, in practice, rehabilitative and restorative type programs, the kind of programs that can bring healing and meaning to a prisoner's life, are generally not available to us. The thinking goes that since we will never get out of prison there is no point in expending scarce resources on dead men walking…
I agree that state-sanctioned execution is morally repugnant. I do not agree that a life devoid of any possibility of restoration is a reasonable or humane alternative. It simply is not. A death penalty by any other name is as cruel, as violent, and as wrong… Both forms of the death penalty need to be discarded in a truly just society."
2008 - Kenneth E. Hartman
James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, Co-Directors and Editors-in-Chief of Solitary Watch, an organization seeking to raise awareness about the impact of solitary confinement, stated the following in their Nov. 30, 2014 article titled "What Death Penalty Opponents Don't Get," available at themarshallproject.org:
"In many states, the expansion—and the very existence—of life without parole sentences can be directly linked to the struggle to end capital punishment. Death penalty opponents often accept—and even zealously promote–life without parole as a preferable option, in the process becoming champions of a punishment that is nearly unknown in the rest of the developing world…
Though the requirement that life/LWOP sentences be served in solitary confinement is codified into law only in Connecticut, it exists in practice throughout the nation…
Research has confirmed that even brief periods in solitary alter brain chemistry and produce psychiatric symptoms ranging from extreme depression to active psychosis. Some prisoners who have spent longer amounts of time in isolation describe it as a condition that slowly degrades both their humanity and sanity, turning them into blind animals given to interminable pacing, smearing their cells with feces, or engaging in self-mutilation."
Nov. 30, 2014 - James Ridgeway Jean Casella
Ronald Earle, JD, Travis County District Attorney, was quoted in a July 8, 2003 article for TIME magazine titled "Guarding Death's Door," discussing the conviction, death sentence, commutation to life imprisonment and subsequent release of murderer Kenneth McDuff who killed eight more people after being released:
"[Kenneth McDuff] was a clear and present danger I guess a true [death penalty] abolitionist would say, 'Put this guy in prison for life,' but he had already gotten that punishment, and he got out. Also, murderers can kill again in prison. It happens all the time. The death penalty is a necessity in these cases."
July 8, 2003 - Ronald Earle, JD
David Schaefer, PhD, Professor of Political Science at Holy Cross College, in his Dec. 2001 article for The American Enterprise titled "The Death Penalty and Its Alternatives," wrote:
"Death penalty opponents often argue that executing criminals is a needless act of inhumanity, since the threat of a sentence of life without parole is just as effective a deterrent to crime. Whatever one thinks of that claim in the abstract, the fact is that no jury has the legal authority to prevent government officials years or decades in the future from offering clemency or parole after all — or to prevent judges at some later date from finding grounds for a new trial…
Anti-death-penalty groups know, of course, that there is no guarantee that a sentence of life without parole will actually be followed. Potential killers likely know it too. Those of us who believe that the punishment should in some since fit the crime may doubt the prospect of spending two or even more decades behind bars, with the hope of ultimate emancipation… constitutes just retribution for an act of cold-blooded murder… And in a society that doubts its right to impose the ultimate penalty on individuals who have committed the most vicious crimes against their fellow citizens, the horror against committing murder will tend inevitably to erode."
Dec. 2001 - David Schaefer, PhD
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Akwasi Yeboah scored 24 points and his 3-pointer with 54 seconds left helped send Stony Brook to an 83-79 win over LIU Brooklyn on Wednesday night.
LIU Brooklyn's Raiquan Clark missed a layup with 27 seconds left and was fouled on his put-back attempt. But he missed the free throw, and Jordan McKenzie made a pair of free throws and the Seawolves led 81-77 with 22 seconds to go.
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Imagining a 5-inch iPhone 6
Rene Ritchie
Never mind rumors of an awkwardly named 4.8-inch "iPhone Math", the concept of a much larger iPhone has been floating about ever since the realities of early LTE chipsets -- and the batteries that came with them -- forced Android and Windows-based competitors to break the size barrier. Before the 16:9 iPhone 5 was announced, I examined some of the different ways Apple could go to 4-inches. More recently, following the launch of the iPad mini and the Droid DNA, I took a quick look at how Apple could achieve a 1080p+, 440ppi+ phone, one that would sit between 4-inches and 7.9-inches.
But it's worth a deeper look. Because, when you're dragging hundreds of millions of users, hundreds of thousands of developers, and hundreds of... hundreds of accessory makers behind your platform, it makes turning on a dime hugely problematic. Small, incremental steps, with adjustment periods after each, is the prudent way to go. And that's exactly how Apple has handled the iPhone so far.
Update: How Apple could scale iOS to 5-inches
Apple introduced the now-standard 1x pixel density, 3.5-inches at 480x320 and 163ppi, with the original iPhone in 2007. They introduced the Retina 2x density, 3.5 inches at 960x640 and 326ppi, with the iPhone 4 in 2010. They introduced the 16:9 aspect ratio, 4-inches at 1136x640 and 326ppi, with the iPhone 5 in 2012. If -- an it's a big if, no pun intended -- Apple intends to offer a larger screen alternative one day, it makes sense they'd do it in the same way. Let everyone get used to 16:9, let developers update their apps and accessory makers update their products, and then take the next step. Whether that's in 3 years like the switch to Retina, or 2 years like the switch to widescreen, or 1 year if acceleration continues, keeping things grounded as you push previous limits, and balancing stability with change, is how you move a platform forward.
I still believe 2013 needs to be more about iOS and iCloud than new hardware, but putting that aside, and asssuming we've not seen the last or the largest iPhone screen Apple ever makes, what steps could they take to get to 5-inches?
5-inches at 2x
The first way Apple could go to, or at least get closer to, 5-inches is simply by increasing the physical size of the current iPhone 5 display and keeping the 1136x640 pixel count the same. That would result in larger pixels, however, meaning lower pixel density.
At 4 inches, the the 1136x640 iPhone 5 has the same pixel density as the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, or 326ppi. What happens if you stretch that out close to 5-inches? Interestingly, it goes to 264ppi. That's the pixel density of the Retina iPad. It's a density Apple already manufacturers, much like the shrunken iPad mini display was also a density Apple already manufactured, the 163 ppi of the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS.
Retina is a function of pixel density at distance. That's why, from 10-feet away, a reasonably sized 1080p television looks "Retina", and why the 264ppi iPad 4 looks as good from your lap as the 326ppi iPhone 5 does from your hand. Similarly, a 5-inch phone wouldn't need to be held as closely as a 4-inch phone. So, while it would certainly lose sharpness, there'd be some mitigation.
Developers and designers wouldn't have to create any new graphical assets to support a 5-inch iPhone at 264ppi. However, it would increase the size of existing interface, text, and other pixel-based on-screen elements and touch-targets, which could make them overly, borderline comically, large. (Except for people with visual accessibility issues who currently find the iPhone's interface elements and text too small to read comfortably.)
For videos and games, a scaled up screen is a plus. You could even shrink down a website or photo smaller to see more if it at the same physical size. Unlike to switch to the iPhone 5's 16:9 screen, however, there aren't any additional pixels. You're getting bigger, not more.
Going to 5-inches while staying at 2x could work, especially considering the step-by-step approach Apple's taken so far, but it's not ideal
That's an example of, from left to right, of what happens when a display goes from standard, to Retina, has its size changed, or gets scaled by a non-integer amount (i.e. 1.5x). As you can see, it's fine in all cases but the last. That's the reason Apple went to 2x for Retina and not some arbitrary size -- it allowed them to maintain as much app compatibility as possible. When 1 standard size pixel becomes 4 Retina pixels (2x in each direction) everything still falls "on the grid" and stays nice and sharp.
Arguably, as densities get high enough, and displays far away enough, you no longer notice the blurring. But phones aren't held at arms length like a Retina MacBook Pro. If Apple wants to go closer to 5-inches, and add more pixels to do it, it makes sense they'd stick with multiples of the original screen size. So, after 2x, we have 3x. After 1136x640, we have 1704x960 which at roughly 5-inches is 391ppi. That's more pixels than 720p, and well past Retina.
Just like when Apple switched from 1x to 2x, a switch from 2x to 3x would mean developers and designers would need to create new @3x assets for their apps. Depending on how many graphics are in an app, that can be a lot of work.
The benefit is that you're not just getting bigger, you're getting more. Small text continues to look great, and when you zoom out, details on web pages or photos are still crisp.
On the downside, the more pixels you have, the more graphics power you need on the chipset to drive them, and the denser they get, the more LED you need to punch through and light them. That means more battery to drive them, and that's the reason the iPad mini isn't Retina.
Granted 1704x960 isn't 2048x1536 like the Retina iPad, but few people would want an iPhone anywhere nearly as thick and heavy as the Retina iPad either. (At least as it exists now...)
Going to 5-inches and increasing density to 3x feels like a double-step, but if the technology is in place to do it at the right lightness and thinness, it could also be the best compromise.
That's how the various 5-inch iPhone options look when you compare them both in terms of pixel count (top) and physical scale (bottom), with an iOS standard touch-target grid overlay (44px). From left to right, the iPhone 5 (black), theoretical iPhone @3x (purple), theoretical iPhone @4x (red), theoretical iPhone with iPad display @2x (blue), with the HTC Droid DNA 1080p (green) thrown in for good measure.
Yes, HTC has made 1080p (1920x1080) phones at 440ppi, which while positively pornographic, show what's already out and on the market. If Apple decides it wants to exceed that the way the original Retina display exceeded other panels at the time, they'd have to skip 3x and go straight to 4x -- 2272x1280 at 522ppi.
It would require even more graphics processing power, more light, and more battery, and it would be absolutely batshit insane, but hey, we're considering all options here.
Going to 5-inches at 4x probably isn't something within the current realms of technology, economics, or reason, however.
5-inches using the iPad mini display
While I won't call them phablets -- or tablones -- devices that blur the boundary between phone and tablet continue to be released. However, they're typically larger than 5-inches. 5.5-inches and now 6-inches are the norm. Also, unlike the iPhone 5, which has a 16:9 aspect ratio, and previous iPhones, which had 3:2 aspect ratios, the iPad has a 4:3 aspect ratio. In other words, it's wide. 1024x768 at 5-inches works out to 256ppi. If it were technologically possible cram a 2x iPad Retina display in there, 2048x1356 at 5-inches works out to 512ppi.
On the plus side, it would unify the app ecosystem and let the iPhone run iPad apps. On the minus side, if an iPhone interface starts to look ridiculously large at 5-inches, an iPad interface would be ridiculously, likely unusably, small at that same size. Existing iPhone apps, letterboxed, would probably be okay if they filled something close to their current 4-inch size. iPad apps would be another story entirely. The iPad mini is probably represents the bottom end of tap-target size, and shrinking from 7.9 to 5 would necessitate a stylus. The size of a toothpick.
Going to 5-inches by switching to an iPad display is a non-starter.
5-inches at some arbitrary or standardized pixel count
Other options include Apple switching from the traditional iPhone screen size, and its more modern multiples, to something arbitrary -- keeping the same 326ppi and just adding pixels to fill 5-inches -- or switching to a standard display size like 720p or 1080p.
To hit 5-inches at 326ppi, Apple would need to go to 1420x800 for the iPhone display size.
720p translates into 1280x720 and at 5-inches, that's 294ppi. 1080p translates into 1920x1080 and at 5 inches, that's 441ppi.
Neither approach seems to offer Apple any advantage over pixel trebling or even quadrupling, would result in scaled apps and interface elements falling off the grid and looking fuzzy, and create huge compatibility headaches in general for Apple, developers, and users.
Going to 5-inches at some arbitrary on standardized pixel gives you some of the benefits but all of the drawbacks and also seems like a non-starter.
4.5- or 4.8-inches
If Apple considers a screen size of 4.5- or 4.8- instead of 5-inches, the basic premises stay the same. Either way, if Apple stays at 2x, interface elements wouldn't be blown up as much at 4.5- or 4.8- as they would at 5-inches, nor would density decrease as much. At 4.5-inches the current 1136x640 display would be 290ppi, and at 4.8-inches it would be 272ppi. 3x would be 435ppi or 408ppi. 4x would be a silly 560ppi or 543ppi.
Given that, going to 4.5- or 4.8-inches could be a more reasonable alternative to 5-inches.
Yeahbuwhy?!
Apple has said as recently as the iPhone 5 introduction that they don't want to make a screen that the average person can't reach, corner-to-corner, with the thumb of one hand. And just like never making video iPods, or 7-inch tablets, Apple absolutely means that. Until they don't. That's why you can never say never with Apple.
For the sake of this discussion, lets assume there's a larger screen iPhone in the labs or sketched out on a napkin, or something. One handed ease of use is a feature that can be tackled in both hardware and software. Right now Apple's handling it in hardware. BlackBerry 10 will be tackling it in software, using corner gestures to allow for more navigation with less thumb travel. (Apologies for the gobsmacking cheesiness of this video, it's the only BlackBerry Flow example I could find.)
Apple's a really smart software company. If they ever go to 5-inches, they'll figure it out. (Hell, they'll invent it. But will they ever go to 5-inches? Not surprisingly, the go-to-market for a bigger iPhone echo and mirror those for a smaller iPad. From my previous post:
[For some customers, 4-inch iPhone] still isn't big enough.
For some of those, size sells. Imagine you walked into a Big Box retailer and all the television sets, from 32- to 70+-inches all cost pretty much the same thing. Imagine the 70+-inch television, or even the 102-inch television, cost less than the 32-inch one. Thanks to carrier subsidies and agendas, that's the current situation for the iPhone. Customers walk into carriers or retailers and see the $199 iPhone on the shelf alongside 4.5- to 5-inch or bigger Android phones and Windows Phones. Bigger equals better, so they buy bigger.
For the rest, size matters. Either their eyes require bigger interface elements to easily use, their motor skills appreciate more room to move around, or they simply want a bigger screen to do bigger things with. Bigger web. Bigger videos. Bigger games. They might even want something approaching mini-tablet size, and would rather have a big phone than a small phone and a tablet. Bigger is better, so they buy bigger.
For both, even if they'd prefer an iPhone in many ways, the screen size is what they see, or what's more important to them than anything else. And because of that, neither of those customers is choosing the iPhone.
Or more simply put, if people are buying massive amounts of premium large-sized handsets, Apple could one day decide they'd rather those people buy premium Apple-made large-sized handsets than competing brands. If Apple sees value in increasing the scope of their addressable market, and thinks it will help them make a better product and sell more units, then that's why Apple would add a bigger iPhone to the mix.
And that's when as well.
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Q: Using Github Action with Docker and '--privileged' As far as I have understood, there isn't a way to use the '--privileged' flag for a docker container. The problem is, that '--privileged' is needed in order to mount Fuse module. Adding '--cap-add SYS_ADMIN' doesn't do the trick. What can be done?

A: It's not available as a standard Github Actions container option, but you can run 'docker --privileged' yourself in a 'run' step.

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Kenny Tete plays the position Defence, is 23 years old and 180cm tall, weights 77kg.
In the current club Lyon played 2 seasons, during this time he played 86 matches and scored 1 goals.
How many goals has Kenny Tete scored this season?
In the current season Kenny Tete scored 0 goals.
In the club he scored 0 goals ( Ligue 1, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions Cup). Kenny Tete this seasons has also noted 3 assists, played 2283 minutes, with 19 times he played game in first line.
Kenny Tete shots an average of 0 goals per game in club competitions.
Last season his average was 0.02 goals per game, he scored 1 goals in 49 club matches.
In the current season for Lyon Kenny Tete gave a total of 7 shots, of which 2 were shots on goal. Passes completed Kenny Tete is 84 percent.


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Home › Updates › Fresh understanding of ice age frequency
Photo: Mike Scott/NZ Herald, 2020
Fresh understanding of ice age frequency
A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led University of Otago researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in Antarctica.
Lead author Dr Christian Ohneiser, of the Department of Geology, says it turns out they were much more frequent than previously assumed.
"Until this research, it was common knowledge that over the last million years global ice volume, which includes Antarctica's ice sheets, expanded and retreated every 100,000 years.
"However, this research shows they actually advanced and retreated much more often – every 41,000 years – until at least 400,000 years ago," he says.
The study, published in Nature Geosciences, came about after Dr Ohneiser sampled a sediment core from the Ross Sea for a different project which was designed to reconstruct the retreat of the Ross Ice Shelf after the last ice age.
"The 6.2 metre core was recovered in 2003 and placed in an archive in the US, but was not studied further. I sampled it because I was expecting the core to have a record spanning the last 10,000 or so years.
"I conducted a paleomagnetic analysis on the core, which reconstructs changes in the earth's magnetic field, and found a magnetic reversal showing it was much older and had a record spanning more than 1 million years."
Sedimentary and magnetic mineral indicators enabled Dr Ohneiser to reconstruct how big the Ross Ice Shelf, and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which feeds the shelf, were.
"Ice bergs, which come from the ice shelf, have sediment and rocks attached to their underside. When icebergs break off they float out to sea and drop the rocks and sediment as it melts, these rocks and sediments can also come directly from the ice shelf if the ice was over the core site.
"By figuring out how much of this debris is in the core through time we can build a picture of the changes in the size of the ice sheet," he says.
Previous understanding of ice age frequencies was based on assumptions and incomplete data sets, but knowledge of them is important as the world faces climate change.
"Antarctica's ice sheets have the capacity to increase sea-level significantly over the coming centuries. Paleoclimate reconstructions can give us clues on how the ice sheets might behave as atmospheric CO2 levels increase.
"Because the response of ice sheets to any change in climate occurs very slowly, reconstructions on past ice sheet behaviour provide constraints on how big or small the ice sheets were and how quickly they have retreated and regrown under different climate conditions. These reconstructions provide baseline information on natural behaviour of ice sheets in the past before humans started messing with the atmosphere."
Dr Ohneiser believes the study highlights how New Zealand is punching above its weight in terms of Antarctic research.
"New Zealand is a global leader in the field – the Antarctic Science Platform project team will soon drill for a sedimentary record near the west Antarctic ice sheet grounding line. This New Zealand-led expedition will be the world's most southern sediment drilling expedition ever." - Otago University media release
West Antarctic ice volume variability paced by obliquity until 400,000 years ago Christian Ohneiser, Christina L Hulbe, Catherine Beltran, Christina R Riesselman, Christopher M Moy, Donna B Condon, Rachel A Worthington
This project was funded by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute (NZARI, 2015-5) with additional support from a University of Otago Research Grant (2017) and the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment through the Antarctic Science Platform (ANTA1801).
See Project 1: Antarctic Ice Dynamics


Photos and Quotes from Today's press conference at the Marriot Hotel Bucharest.
About 100 media members (including 12 TV cameras) were able to squeeze into a packed Marriot Hotel Bucharest ballroom this afternoon for the final press conference before Saturday's event. Tickets are virtually sold out of the 6,100 seat facility.
"Thank you all for being here and supporting this event. This is a homecoming for me. As you may know, my father is ill with cancer. The opportunity to fight here in my home country is emotional for me already but the opportunity for him to be there in person to watch me perform is tremendous encouragement for me to do and be at my best. I have been back now for a month so I'm really ready for this fight.
"I have a lot respect for my opponent Chris Henry. Personally, he's a very likable guy. He has the confidence and courage to take this step up in his career and fight me. Something Chad Dawson wouldn't do.
Chris Henry#3 WBC Light Heavyweight Contender:"I wish to thank the fight fans here in Bucharest for really treating me well. I arrived here with my team early to getting acclimated to the time change and now I'm simply ready to fight.
Ronnie ShieldsTrainer for Chris Henry:"I've been doing this for a long time, my whole life. Chris Henry will be stepping out of the ring with the belt Saturday night. He's ready. He's percolating. He trained at his peak both mentally and physically and now he just needs to implement the game plan. Now, Diaconu can fight. But his biggest win was almost a year ago against Rico Hoye, who isn't special.


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I love a pretty dessert decoration. A few weeks ago I explored my garden and found a bunch of very lovely flowers and photographed them. I created a couple of printables to make some really sweet cupcake toppers and shared them on the HP Create blog. My garden flower cupcake toppers are perfect for your summer treats!
You can find the full tutorial and the flower printables over here. Just in case you're interested, here are some other favorite cupcake toppers I've made and you can download for free: Unicorn Cupcake Toppers, Rainbow Cupcakes, Pressed Flower Cake Decor, Berry Pie Decor, and Star and Banner Cake Topper.


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Arizona governor blasts Phoenix for park restrictions on Easter weekend
By Jonathan J. Cooper and Paul Davenport
|Associated Press
The Arizona state flag. (Credit: Pixabay.)
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey escalated a long-simmering fight with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego on Friday by demanding the city drop its plans to close parking lots and grills at city parks to limit the spread of COVID-19 on Easter weekend.
The Republican governor said making it harder for people to use public parks would drive family gatherings indoors, where the risk of coronavirus transmission is higher. He announced that all state parks would be open and free on Easter.
"For some unknown reason, our state's largest city doesn't want you in your own public parks … These parks belong to the taxpayers, not to politicians," Ducey said in a video on Twitter.
The governor's letter comes as Arizona reported its largest daily increase in confirmed COVID-19 infections in three weeks with 940 additional cases, along with 12 more deaths.
Gallego, a Democrat, has been one of Ducey's most pointed critics during the pandemic, saying he's done far too little to slow the spread of the virus while tying the hands of mayors who tried to do more. She was among the first to criticize his decision last week to end mask mandates imposed by cities and lift restrictions on bars, restaurants, gyms and other businesses.
On Friday, Ducey turned the tables, saying he'll blame Gallego if there's a rise in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks. Data show cases are already on the rise, and Ducey's own public health director, Dr. Cara Christ, has said there could be an increase after the governor eased restrictions that have tamped down the spread.
Ducey has defended his actions as a measured approach that balances public health and the economy. He said his recent actions ending mask mandates and business restrictions are justified because cases and hospitalizations were declining and vaccinations are increasing.
Gallego fired back at Ducey, saying the governor was claiming authority he doesn't have and selectively reading health recommendations. The Phoenix City Council approved the plan to limit park access in a unanimous, bipartisan vote more than two weeks ago, she added.
"Your letter this morning is not only surprising, but also legally wrong and scientifically unfounded," Gallego wrote.
City officials say parks will remain open but the parking lots will be closed except to people with accessible permits, and grilling will be prohibited on Saturday and Sunday. Those are typically the two busiest days at city parks, officials say, and the limits are meant to reduce the number of large group gatherings.
The move is illegal under an executive order issued by Ducey that blocks cities and counties from imposing public health restrictions more stringent than those imposed at the state level, Ducey said.
Meanwhile, state health officials are preparing to move the state's largest COVID-19 vaccination site indoors as temperatures rise and plan to cut the operation from 24 hours a day to 12, Ducey announced Friday.
Ducey said the site will move April 23 from the parking lot of the Arizona Cardinals stadium in Glendale to the air-conditioned interior of the nearby Coyotes arena. It will run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and will be capable of giving 1,000 shots per hour, according to the governor's office.
State officials have said for weeks they were looking to bring the operation indoors. Plans were announced last week to move a smaller site in the East Valley indoors.
In a news release, the governor offered effusive praise to the Cardinals and owner Michael Bidwell, who let the public use the publicly funded stadium.
Arizona has now seen a total of 843,132 confirmed cases and 16,989 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to the state's coronavirus dashboard.
The Department of Health Services said Friday's case tally included 120 newly reported from records that New Mexico provided on Arizona residents who were tested or treated in facilities in the neighboring state.
Even without those cases, Arizona's daily increase was the largest since March 12, when 1,367 new cases were reported.
The state's seven-day rolling average of new cases increased from 565 on March 17 to 601 on Wednesday, while the rolling average of daily deaths continued to drop, from 26 to 15 during the same period, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Ducey on Thursday cited vaccination efforts and recent smaller daily increases of COVID-19 cases as he eased restrictions on elective surgeries and long-term care facilities. Those restrictions were put into place to free up hospital capacity for treatment of COVID-19 patients and halt the spread of the coronavirus among residents and workers at care facilities.
For weeks, Ducey has been withdrawing the restrictions he imposed to contain the spread of the virus. He drew scorn from local officials and hospital executives for his decision last week to end capacity limits at restaurants, open bars and nightclubs.
In another development, Pima County announced Friday it will expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to anybody 16 and older starting Monday. The change from 55 or older matches age-based eligibility at the county's sites to that of state-run sites, including one on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson.


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Ібраімов Тімур Джевадович — актор театру та кіно кримськотатарського походження. Народився у Санкт-Петербурзі 5 листопада 1957 року. З 1962 року мешкає у Києві.

Освіта
Закінчив Київський державний інститут театрального мистецтва ім. І. К. Карпенко-Карого, за фахом «Актор драматичного театру і кіно», курс Миколи Рушковського.

Майстерності актора навчався у період 1979—1983 рр.  у Миколи Рушковського, Сергія Філімонова, Миколи Соколова (учень Всеволода Мейєрхольда).

Громадська позиція
Створив один з перших в країні громадський сайт — Громадський сайт Солом'янського району www.solomenka.org

Активний учасник громадянської ініціативи «Збережи старий Київ», діяльність якої зупинила забудову Пейзажної алеї та охоронної зони Софії Київської, а, в кінцевому результаті, призвела до можливості повернення у власність киян Гостинного двору, книгарні «Сяйво» та інших знакових об'єктів.

Неодноразово проводив і брав безпосередню участь в акціях на захист прав і свобод киян.

Організував «Марш безпартійних», який виявився ефективним способом залучення уваги керівництва країни до проблем Києва.

Під час Революції Гідності 2013—2014 рр., надавав медичну допомогу як волонтер і знімав репортажі Спільнобачення (www.spilno.tv) Був поранений.

Творчість
Автор п'єси «Евакуація», яка в1994 році отримала приз на міжнародному фестивалі драматургії, як найактуальніша комедія.

Читав лекцію «Що робити, якщо хочеться зніматися в кіно»? На платформі «Освітня асамблея».

За останні роки знявся в наступних фільмах і серіалах:

2018 Телесеріал «Схід-захід». Роль — Волкан;

2015—2018 Телесеріал «Реальна містика». Роль — Психолог Тимур;

2017—2018 Телесеріал «Речдок». Роль — Слідчий Степаненко; Решетило;

2016 Телесеріал «Співачка». Роль — Малицький, нотаріус;

2016 Художній фільм «8 кращих побачень», Роль — Ігор Сергійович Карпов, лікар-онколог;

2016 Телесеріал «Провідниця». Роль — Ігор;

2016 Телесеріал «Майор і Магія». Роль — Реквізитор;

2015 Телесеріал «Містичні історії», Роль — Сергєєв, режисер;

2014 Телесеріал «Лабораторія любові». Роль — Кузьма;

2014 Телесеріал «Гордіїв вузол». Роль — Кирило Юрійович;

2013 Телесеріал «Брат за брата» 3. Роль — Галеев;

2013 Телесеріал «Як гартувався стайл». 1 і 2 сезони. Роль — Віцер;

2013 Телесеріал «Чеське століття». Роль — Підгорний;

2012 Телесеріал «Телефон довіри». Роль — психолог Фомічов;

2011 Телесеріал «Нереальні предки». Роль — батько сімейства.

Одночасно з цим в театрі КХАТ грав в спектаклях «Єврейський годинник» і «Собака на сіні».

З 1976 року працював в Національному академічному театрі російської драми ім. Лесі Українки на різних посадах і одночасно з цим брав участь в спектаклях театру як актор.

Починаючи з 1987 року був одним з організаторів театрально-студійного руху в Україні, брав безпосередню участь у створенні ряду театральних колективів Києва, таких як «Експериментальний театр студія», театр «Колесо» та інших. Наприкінці вісімдесятих років створив один з перших продюсерських центрів, ТНПЦ «Арс», спектаклі якого багаторазово ставали лауреатами міжнародних театральних фестивалів.

На початку дев'яностих років виступив співорганізатором театральної премії «Київська пектораль».

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Кримськотатарські актори
Народились 5 листопада
Народились 1957
Випускники Київського національного університету театру, кіно і телебачення імені Івана Карпенка-Карого
Громадські діячі Києва
Учасники Євромайдану
Актори Національного академічного драматичного театру імені Лесі Українки

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SCCC Board Wraps up 2020, Looks Ahead to Spring Semester
Joe Denoyer - December 8, 2020 3:18 pm
LIBERAL — The Seward County Community College Board of Trustees ended the calendar year with a Zoom-only meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7. The board opted for a virtual meeting in light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the community, and provided log-in options to the public, along with a phone number. Chair Ron Oliver outlined the special steps required for compliance with the Kansas Open Meetings Act, which included each board member identifying him- or herself by name and title along with a roll call vote for each motion.
Director of Athletics Dan Artamenko outlined protocols established by the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference, which include:
Protocols to proceed with athletics. Includes game day screenings, travel screenings, and recommendations for testing and daily screening. "At SCCC we will be proactive with our screening, going above and beyond the minimum requirements," Artamenko added.
A mask policy was established for all sports. This policy will closely align with the SCCC policy already in place, which will help with inconsistencies that may arise.
The conference agreed to not have fans for the first part of the season (through February 5). At that time, Artamenko said, "We will re-evaluate on February 1 to decide the best course of action."
Chief Development Officer Kyle Woodrow reported on the annual drive and employee drive fundraisers currently underway. Because of the pandemic, the Holiday Hustle fundraiser event has been restructured as a virtual activity. A COVID-19 funding application submitted to Seward County was approved, granting the Foundation money to equip the Development Conference Room with technology for Zoom meetings.
The board unanimously approved the personnel report, which listed the arrival of assistant volleyball coach John M. Schmidt, as well as the resignation of Adult Basic Education instructor Amy Thompson. Open positions include director of human resources, KSBDC business advisor in the Dodge City office, nursing instructor/simulation facilitator, ABE/CTE instructor, ESL instructor, business administration instructor and business marketing/management instructor.
Looking ahead to summer, the board unanimously approved a modified schedule of operations designed to reduce utility costs. Administration proposed the campus close the majority of buildings on Fridays during the summer months, while having ten-hour workdays Mondays through Thursdays. Vice President of Finance and Operations Dennis Sander presented details of the cost-saving process.
This will include the Hobble Academic Building, the Shank Humanities Building, and the majority of the Student Activities Building, except as required for special events. The cafeteria and Wellness Center areas will continue to function with schedules as recommended for their operations. The dates proposed for building closure are Friday, May 14, 2021 through Friday, July 30, 2021, excluding the Industrial Technology Division buildings on May 14 which provides twelve Fridays of cost savings.
Sander also presented a resolution to the board to add President Brad Bennett and treasurer Randall Graver as signatories for the college's bank accounts in order to be in compliance with state statutes and bank regulatory agencies. The board voted unanimously to approve the change.
Board approves HR shift to outside payroll service; position in department preserved
As a part of the ongoing strengthening of the Human Resources organizational functions and re-design, administration is proposing the addition of selected payroll services to the CBIZ benefits administration agreement with SCCC. Among the advantages and opportunities that these services will bring to SCCC are:
Reduced risk of being unable to produce payroll due to having only one payroll clerk and stronger internal control measure for accounting and audit
Continuity and single point of contact to address questions and needs relative to benefit administration
Application for mobile technology use that the college currently does not have, thus creating an improved streamline of input for leave and hours
The $25,263 contract service will be offset by savings of $11,200 because the college will no longer need to purchase separate services for time clock management and 1095 processing.
President Bennett noted that within the community college system, about half the institutions have outsourced payroll duties, while others continue to handle those tasks internally. Trustee Dustin Ormiston added a comment of caution that administration should keep an eye on procedures in order to ensure accountability.
Early retirement policy will continue for now, subject to future review
The board reviewed the SCCC early retirement policy provided by Sander.
"There are four individuals who are receiving at least some type of benefit through the college's early retirement policy in FY2021," he told the board. The net benefits paid out in FY2021 will be approximately $30,128 less than what was paid in FY2020. Five individuals dropped off the plan and none were added. Thus the cost decrease is primarily due to a net change of five fewer individuals on the plan. The estimated fiscal impact of the participation for FY2021 is $41,778 (Specifically there is $13,877 in salary benefits, $1,062 in FICA payments, and $26,840 in health insurance)."
Sander went on to note that "the issue of anticipated employee retirements is a consideration for future discussion. There are three current employees who qualify for the college's early retirement benefits in FY2022, which projects at a current cost rate to $44,779. There are two individuals scheduled to come off at least a portion the benefit in FY2021, providing an estimated cost reduction of $9,393. While Administration recommends the continuation of the policy, it is always prudent for the Board to consider addressing the early retirement policy in contract discussions with PEA."
Ormiston noted that it might be wise for the board to re-examine the policy in light of recent retirements that left unfilled positions over a lengthy time. Bennett agreed that "the cost of talent continues to rise, so trading years of experience for qualified instructors does not always save money." In further discussion, both Bennett and Chance noted that any changes in the future would require discussion and negotiation with the college's PEA (Professional Employees Association).
Following the recommendation of administration, the board voted unanimously to approve the early retirement policy as presented.
First reading of policy for emergency leave with pay due to COVID-19
The board heard a first reading of a policy to provide for the establishment of paid emergency leave for employees who are either sick or in quarantine due to COVID-19.
"SCCC does not have a family sick bank, so this is an attempt to address that situation," said President Bennett.
Benefits provided under this policy are available to full-time and part-time employees, as the same are defined in Series No. 619. Eligibility extends only to those full-time and part-time employees who are sick or in quarantine, unable to work remotely and who have already exhausted the leave required under the Families First Coronavirus Recovery Act.
Whether or not said employee is able to work remotely is made at the sole discretion of the President and Director of Human Resources, or their designees. Employees seeking paid emergency leave under this policy must, first, exhaust all sick leave before any such application for paid emergency leave will be considered.
Paid emergency leave under this policy will be considered only for the employee's illness or quarantine and is not available for the care of family members or children who are unable to attend daycare or in-person schooling. In order to qualify for paid emergency leave under this policy, the employee must provide Seward County Community College with a doctor's note indicating the need for leave and the time period for which leave is required. The time period for which paid emergency leave will be granted shall be at the sole discretion of the President and Director of Human Resources.
Policy reviews, final draft under way for Strategic Plan, IT given purchasing power
President Bennett, with the assistance of legal counsel and the College Executive Team, presented the annual review of Board Policy Manual: Series 100: Institutional Policies. The following policies were submitted with no updates: 101 Mission, Values, and Vision Statement; 106 Public Records; and 109 Senior Citizens Courtesy Card. The board voted unanimously to approve the annual review as presented.
At the advice of legal counsel, Board Policies 102: Affirmative Action Program and 114: Policy on Nondiscrimination are being reviewed in more depth in order to determine whether they should be combined. After discussion between the College Executive Team and Human Resources, it was determined that Board Policy 111: Volunteer Workers also requires a more in-depth review. These policies will be presented to the Board at a later date.
The board also approved minor changes to Board Policy Manual: Series 800: Education Requirements – Policy 801: Degree Requirements. Luke Dowell, Vice President of Academic Affairs, with the assistance of Alaina Rice, Registrar, legal counsel, and the College Executive Team, conducted the annual review and noted several minor grammatical errors which needed to be corrected. Those corrections have been made and the corrected policy was attached for review and approval.
President Bennett provided an update about the college's current Strategic Plan. A final draft of the plan is in progress, utilizing the five strategic initiatives laid out by the executive team in 2020.
"We're adding outcomes to each of those directions, so we can make it an active, fluid document," he said. The plan is slated to be ready for the board to review in January 2021.
Chief Information Officer Louie Lemert requested authority to purchase computer equipment and installation services for the Colvin Adult Learning Center, not to exceed the amount of $70,000, in accordance with grant funds allocated.
"The Colvin Adult Learning Center has been awarded a grant to purchase computer equipment to increase the versatility of their operations. Below is a list of equipment to be purchased with prices based upon quotes received," he said. The authorization is necessary, Lemert noted, because of the challenges for purchasing the equipment due to the federal funding that disrupted supply in the market.
The board voted unanimously to grant Lemert authority for the purchases.
College reports highlight pandemic response, plans for spring semester
Chief Information Officer Lemert reported on improvements to the campus wifi access, completed with relief funds. The IT department also completed purchases of laptops for faculty who need flexibility to teach remotely. In another pandemic-funded project, fiber is being installed to improve connectivity between the agriculture building and the main campus.
Vice President of Student Services Celeste Donovan reported about COVID Team meetings, Cares Act money issued to students through the Financial Aid office, and student participation in the remote learning option offered after Thanksgiving. "We are going to keep the dorms open over the Christmas break because of the students that will have nowhere to go," she said. 'This will be the first time we have allowed this to happen but felt under these conditions it was something that needed to happen this year.
Donovan also updated the board about admissions and enrollment efforts. Admissions recruiters are currently going out to the high schools that are allowing us to visit, but many of the schools are limiting outside guests. "Eric Volden, Director of Admissions, is setting up a recording studio to create other ways to reach out to new incoming students," she stated. Instructors are working with students to get them enrolled for next semester, "but we are currently down at this point in time compared to last year."
Vice President of Academic Affairs Luke Dowell presented data from a student satisfaction survey. "In addition to traditional questions about the course and the instructor, questions were added to get student opinions about safety protocols, adjustments in instructional modalities, and student access to technology during the semester. Key results:
89% agreed or strongly agreed that they felt safe attending classes on campus due to safety protocols put in place due to Covid-19.
92% agreed or strongly agreed that they had access to the required technology needed for the course.
90% agreed or strongly agreed that they had access to reliable internet service to successfully complete the course.
Response rate 53%.
Dowell also reviewed plans for Spring Semester 2021. The first week of classes will be remote in the Spring Semester. The decision was made to reduce the number of students on campus at the start of the semester to prevent further spread of Covid-19 and allow faculty time to prepare students for the modalities used in the spring. Student services offices will be staffed minimally to ensure services can continue. "We plan for students to return on-campus Tuesday, January 19. The Covid Team and Executive Team will monitor numbers in January and may extend the remote instruction further if needed," Dowell said.
Vice President of Finance and Operations Dennis Sander updated the board about the completion of the circle drive sidewalk. He also provided information about air purifier units that have been put to use, with more en route.
President Brad Bennett reported about KACCT meeting he and Vice-Chair of the Board Marvin Chance attended via Zoom. He also summarized actions and discussions at the community college presidents' meeting on Monday, which raised questions about pass rates for nursing programs, which presidents felt had been adversely impacted by the pandemic. The council of presidents agreed to draft a letter of advocacy to the certifying boards, expressing support for community college programs across the state.
Bennett concluded with a statement of gratitude to college faculty, staff, and students. "I would like to say thank you to our campus," he said. "I am amazed that we are still open for classes, and that is because of everyone's efforts."


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Fiona Morrison, Operations Director at AGM Services has made it to the final 30 for the Bodyshop magazines 30 under 30 – The leading lights in the UK's collision repair industry. The 30 under 30 initiative is designed to recognise the outstanding achievers within the industry under the age of 30.
1. Briefly describe your career path to date?
My first job after University was as a Quality Auditor in food manufacturing. I went on to complete a Masters in Environmental Health, still working as a QA by day and studying evenings and weekends. When I graduated 2 years later, I accepted a role as Technical Manager. I then started with AGM as the Business Operations Manager, in addition to my role I did day release work experience with the Local Council in their Environmental Health Department. In early 2016 I was promoted to Operations Director.
My Father. I inherited my work ethic from him, he started a business at a young age whilst raising a family. At the beginning he was working 17 hours a day and often brought work home.
AGM take on apprentices and it's my role to mentor them. Watching them develop from shy young adults into fully fledged engineers is always rewarding, one of our most experienced engineers started as an apprentice.
playing in defence for my local hockey team and problem solving, I'm good at thinking on my feet.
pulling my weight on the brew run.
achieve the certificate of competence in control of LEV systems – there are currently only 2 people in the UK with this accolade. I think it's very important that spraybooth engineers are up to date with qualifications and industry standards so I also want to support the AGM engineering team in becoming P601 qualified.
AGM work with all of our apprentices and new recruits to provide them with skills and qualtities that not only give a great start to their career path, but also allows them to build a career within our continually growing company. For more information about AGM apprenticeships or job opportunities, you can contact us online or call us directly on 01706 363 585.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick . The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke , partly inspired by Clarke's short story " The Sentinel ". Clarke concurrently wrote the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , published soon after the film was released. The movie follows a trip to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL partner after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith Affecting human evolution. It deals with the themes of existentialism , human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence , and extraterrestrial life . It is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. It uses sound and minimal dialogue in place of traditional narrative techniques; The soundtrack consists of classical music as Zarathustra , The Blue Danube , and Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti .
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Widely considered to be one of the greatest films in cinema history , [5] it is the best-known and most commercially successful adaptation of Frank Baum's 1900 children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . [6] It stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale , Alongside Ray Bolger , Jack Haley , Bert Lahr , Frank Morgan , Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton, with Charley Grapewin , Pat Walshe and Clara Blandick , Terry (billed as Toto), and the Singer Midgets as the Munchkins . [7]
Notable for its use of Technicolor , fantasy storytelling, musical score, and memorable characters, it has become an icon of American popular culture. It was nominated for six Academy Awards , including Best Picture , but lost to Gone with the Wind . It Did win in two other categories, Including Best Original Song for " Over the Rainbow " and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart . While the movie was considered a success on August 1939, it failed to generate profit for MGM, earning only $ 3,017,000, it has $ 2,777,000 budget, which has made it the most expensive production to date. [3] [8][9]
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January 5, 2018 By hashlocker Genres or media, List of movies considered the best, Musical Blanche Sewell, Herbert Stothart, Loew's Inc., Mervyn LeRoy, Metro-Goldwyn-MayerLeave a Comment
Bowling for Columbine
Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 American documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore . The film explores what Moore suggests are the primary causes for the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, and other acts of violence with guns. Moore focuses on the massacre took place and some common public opinions and assumptions about related issues. The film also looks into the nature of violence in the United States.
A significant international success, the film brought to the international film festival, The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature , the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature , a special 55th Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival , [2] and the César Award for Best Foreign Film . [3] The film is considered one of the greatest documentary films of all time . [4] [5] [6] [7]
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Natalie Patterson and Kenny Gilliland, Directors of Mentor Upstate Spartanburg and Mentor Upstate Anderson respectively, talk about the importance of a sympathetic adult influence in children's lives and how Mentor Upstate works with local schools to ensure young people get the guidance they need.


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Sort, feed and insert plastic plugs into round, plastic containers.
feeder down a chute to a pick-off.
They are pulled out of the chute pick-off by the upper starwheel and supported on a dead plate. The dead plate ends and plugs drop into the containers positioned by the lower starwheel.
An overhead press-down belt assembly completes the process by exerting a downward force to snap the plug into position within the container.
Plug presence and depth is verified subsequent to the overhead belt. Rejected bottles are directed onto a collection tray.


Welcome to Donald Trump's banana republic.
This is the Trump-world version of a counterpunch. Lose in a delegate-selection process you've known about for a year but didn't prepare for. Respond with brutish threats of mayhem and personal harm.
Some presidential candidates tease out the latent idealism of their fellow citizens. Trump promises to pay the legal bills of followers who assault protesters. Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Those who believe that politics is a low and dirty business are often the ones who make it so. Trump has a genuine contempt for the profession he seeks to join, and he is doing his best to make it contemptible. He is featuring the kind of bullying vindictiveness that Richard Nixon took great pains to conceal. We don't need to subpoena the tapes; we have the tweets. Trump will clearly do anything to become president.
Except hire an adequate campaign team, open a briefing book or make any real preparations to govern.
This is, by far, the most confusing aspect of Trump's campaign. He may be ruthless, but it remains unclear what he actually wants. Three or four weeks ago, many in the Republican Party seemed prepared to accept his nomination, if he could pivot to a more presidential style.
So all Trump had to do was act briefly like a normal candidate. What followed was an attack on the wife of his main opponent, another obsessive swipe at Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, an answer on abortion that showed complete lack of preparation and then a full-scale assault on the credibility of the Republican primary process (which he calls 'absolutely rigged'). Hiding in a cave would have been a more effective political strategy.
The task required of Trump was not hard: Avoid being an insufferable, unstable, whiny buffoon for a few weeks. Why did he fail?
It is possible, of course, that Trump simply lacks impulse control. At this level of compulsion, we usually don't grant people the nuclear codes.
But there may be something different and deeper going on. In psychology, there is the concept called 'self-sabotage' — behavior that (consciously or unconsciously) undermines a long-term goal. For most people this might involve procrastination or substance abuse. For Trump, it seems to come in the form of rambling public monologues and a late-night Twitter addiction.
Trump's recent behavior provides enough evidence to raise some questions: Does he honestly want the nomination? What is his real endgame?
It is possible that Trump began his presidential race as a lark, found an unexpected momentum and now realizes that the enterprise involves skills he does not possess. Trump's actions (or lack of them) are consistent with this interpretation.
A candidate who really imagines himself in the Oval Office would put together a campaign capable of counting delegates when it was early enough to matter. He would gather a serious policy operation that could form the core of a governing team. He would study up on obvious issues in preparation for obvious questions. Trump has done none of these things.
Self-sabotage can take many forms. It may be that Trump is calculating that he only wants the nomination on his own terms — like a college student who desires a degree, but only if he is spared the indignities of opening a book or attending a lecture.
Trump may hope Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus brings him the nomination on a silver platter in the billionaire's Cleveland hotel suite. And if Priebus doesn't — if a serious, working campaign is an actual requirement to secure the Republican nomination — Trump is set to be a populist folk hero, energized by a 'stolen' election. Playing the victim is Trump's most comfortable pose. Maybe, deep down, it is the role he desires.
Desired or not, it is the role that Republicans should give him.


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Chaloner Chute (1632–1666) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1661.

Chute was the only surviving son of Chaloner Chute of Sutton Court, Chiswick, Middlesex and his first wife Anne Scory, daughter of Sir John Scory of Wormesley, Herefordshire. He was baptised on 15 December 1632. He entered Middle Temple in 1645 and was called to the bar in 1656.

In 1659, Chute was elected Member of Parliament for Devizes when his father was speaker. His father died in April 1659, and Chute succeeded to the estates including The Vyne. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire from 1659 to July 1660 and a commissioner for militia for Hampshire and Middlesex in 1659. He was a commissioner for assessment for Wiltshire in January 1660 and a commissioner for militia for Middlesex in March 1660. In 1661 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Haslemere in the Cavalier Parliament but his election was declared void on 20 May. He was a commissioner for assessment for Hampshire from 1665 until his death.

Chute died at the age of 34.

Chute married Catharine Lennard, a daughter of Richard Lennard, 13th Baron Dacre in 1654 and had three sons and a daughter.

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In this guide, I show you the main reasons why hackers love the fact that you're not using a VPN. I also show you why hackers love using a VPN!
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Read an excerpt from Blessed, a novel, by Sherry Robinson
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TYLER By the time I was in my senior year of high school, my dad and I were distant planets—in the same galaxy but light years apart. Or so it seemed at times. We had established an uneasy truce, erupting into battle
Readers' Guide: CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads
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Readers' Guide CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads by Richard H. Underwood CrimeSong reveals the historic stories of crimes that inspired twenty-four Southern murder ballads. Author Richard H. Underwood reveals the details of these stories in a
American Bar Foundation: "Professor Richard H. Underwood, Kentucky Fellow, Awarded Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Recent Book"
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April 24, 2017, Fellows in the news Professor Richard H. Underwood, Kentucky Fellow, has been awarded two Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for his book, CrimeSong: True Crime Stories From Southern Murder Ballads. The IPPY Awards, the world's largest international and regional
Kirkus Review: Julyan Davis's literary debut novel, A History of Saints, "…a story about a certain place at a certain time—an Asheville caught between its past and future—and it's a fine spot to visit for a while." October 1, 2021
The Small, Independent Press y la voz del pueblo by Jeremy Paden September 22, 2021
For Immediate Release – Artist Julyan Davis to Publish Debut Novel Set in Asheville, North Carolina August 6, 2021
An Excerpt from Chapter 6 of The Peacemakers by Rebecca Suter Lindsay December 16, 2020
Aunt Mag's Ginger Cakes and The Peacemakers December 15, 2020