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Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church's Appeal to Reopen Like Casinos
Conservative justices say 50-person limit for houses of worship is "obvious discrimination."
Scott Sonner – Associated Press| July 24, 2020 10:26 PM
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A sharply divided US Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church's request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a 50-person cap on worship services as part of the state's ongoing response to the coronavirus.
In a 5-4 decision, the high court refused to grant the request from the Christian church east of Reno to be subjected to the same COVID-19 restrictions in Nevada that allow casinos, restaurants, and other businesses to operate at 50 percent of capacity with proper social distancing.
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley argued that the hard cap on religious gatherings was an unconstitutional violation of its parishioners' First Amendment rights to express and exercise their beliefs.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberal majority in denying the request without explanation.
Three justices wrote strongly worded dissenting opinions on behalf of the four conservatives who said they would have granted the injunctive relief while the court fully considers the merits of the case.
"That Nevada would discriminate in favor of the powerful gaming industry and its employees may not come as a surprise, but this Court's willingness to allow such discrimination is disappointing," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a dissent joined by Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.
"We have a duty to defend the Constitution, and even a public health emergency does not absolve us of that responsibility," Alito said. "The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion. It says nothing about freedom to play craps or blackjack, to feed tokens into a slot machine or to engage in any other game of chance."
Kavanaugh also wrote his own dissent, as did Justice Neil Gorsuch, who said:
In Nevada, it seems, it is better to be in entertainment than religion. Maybe that is nothing new. But the First Amendment prohibits such obvious discrimination against the exercise of religion.
The world we inhabit today, with a pandemic upon us, poses unusual challenges. But there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel.
David Cortman, senior counsel for Georgia-based Alliance Defending Freedom representing the church, said in an email sent to the Associated Press late Friday that they were disappointed in the ruling but will continue to work to protect Calvary Chapel and others "from discriminatory policies that put religious groups at the back of the line for reopening."
"When the government treats churches worse than casinos, gyms, and indoor amusement parks in its COVID-19 response, it clearly violates the Constitution," he said.
The group of Nevada churches challenging the policy included Southern Baptist congregations, and leaders of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission were also disappointed in the decision.
"Nevada from the start should have relied on pastors and religious leaders to be partners in combating Covid-19 as they have apparently done with casino magnates," said ERLC president Russell Moore. "As virtually every court and almost every religious organization has affirmed: the state has legitimate rights and obligations to protect public health in an emergency such as this. Every restriction, though, must be both rooted in compelling interest and be consistently applied."
The governor's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley appealed to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals last month after a US judge in Nevada upheld the state's policy that allows casinos and other businesses to operate at 50 percent of normal capacity.
The appellate court in San Francisco is still considering the appeal, but it has denied the church's request for an emergency injunction in the meantime. Its ruling July 2 pointed to the Supreme Court's refusal in May to strike down California's limit on the size of religious gatherings.
The church in Nevada's Lyon County appealed to the Supreme Court six days later, asking for an emergency injunction prohibiting the state from enforcing the cap on religious gatherings at least temporarily while the justices consider the merits of the case.
"The governor allows hundreds to thousands to assemble in pursuit of financial fortunes but only 50 to gather in pursuit of spiritual ones. That is unconstitutional," its lawyers wrote in their most recent filing to the high court last week.
The church wants to allow as many as 90 people to attend services at the same time — with masks required, sitting 6-feet apart — at the sanctuary with a capacity of 200. Other secular businesses in the state that are allowed to operate at half capacity include gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys and water parks.
Nevada's lawyers said last week several courts nationwide have followed the Supreme Court's lead in upholding state authority to impose emergency restrictions in response to COVID-19.
"Temporarily narrowing restrictions on the size of mass gatherings, including for religious services, protects the health and well-being of Nevada citizens during a global pandemic," they wrote.
Alito said in the lead dissent that by allowing thousands to gather in casinos, the state cannot claim to have a compelling interest in limiting religious gatherings to 50 people — regardless of the size of the facility and the measures adopted to prevent the spread of the virus.
"The idea that allowing Calvary Chapel to admit 90 worshipers present a greater public health risk than allowing casinos to operate at 50% capacity is hard to swallow," he wrote.
Kavanaugh said he agreed that courts should be "very differential to the states' line-drawing in opening businesses and allowing certain activities during the pandemic."
"But COVID-19 is not a blank check for a state to discriminate against religious people, religious organizations, and religious services," he wrote in his own dissent. "Nevada is discriminating against religion."
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'Three Essays' by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw will receive its U.S. premiere at the Sept. 28 Calidore String Quartet concert. Photo by Kait Moreno.
When Calidore String Quartet returns to the University of Delaware this month, the musicians are bringing some of their most talented friends with them.
The quartet will open its season with a concert at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts on the Newark campus.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw will be joining the quartet on campus for the U.S. premiere of her piece Three Essays. Calidore performed the premiere of "First Essay, Nimrod" in 2016, and the world premiere in London this summer added "Second Essay, Echo." "Third Essay, Ruby" completes the piece.
Shaw and Calidore cellist Estelle Choi have known each other since graduate school, and for the quartet, working with a living composer, and a friend, allows for more collaboration.
Shaw adds that the "stamp of the first performance and first performers" is always on the piece when she writes for someone she knows. The resulting collaboration in Three Essays highlights both Shaw's voice as a composer and Calidore's strengths as performers.
In addition to being the U.S. premiere of Three Essays, the Sept. 28 concert is significant because Shaw will be in attendance (she was unable to be in London for the world premiere). Composer and quartet will have rehearsal time together and may even refine sections of the piece.
"A second performance allows us to be more expressive because we've had time to live with the piece, and the music is in our blood. We don't have to think so much about correct notes," Meehan adds.
Shaw won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Composition for her vocal piece Partita for 8 Voices, an a cappella work built on baroque dance forms that Shaw twists to create new sounds and effects. Shaw generally describes her work as a mix of old and new, "giving different frames, different edges, to harmonies that I love." In writing Three Essays, Shaw says she was thinking about music like a language. "Nimrod" explores the textual rhythms of one Shaw's favorite authors, Marilynne Robinson. The other two movements, Echo and Ruby, are inspired by two computer-programming languages.
The second half of the concert features Ernest Chausson's Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, a beautiful piece that is rarely performed due to its difficulty.
Violinist Arnaud Sussmann will join the quartet for a concerto by Chausson.
Pianist Michael Brown will join the quartet for a concerto by Chausson.
Calidore welcomes two distinguished guest artists to play the Chausson, violinist Arnaud Sussmann and composer/pianist Michael Brown. The Juilliard graduates are both recipients of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and hold membership in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
"We're excited to bring so many of our talented friends to UD to meet the wonderful audiences here," Meehan says, and Sept. 28 promises to be an exciting event for contemporary classical music.
Tickets for the Sept. 28 concert are $15 for adults; $10 for UD faculty, staff, alumni and seniors; and $5 for students. Advance tickets are available through the Roselle Center for the Arts box office, which is open from noon-5 p.m., Monday through Friday, telephone, 302-831-2204, or online. At-the-door tickets, if available, are cash or check only.


It was over how to stack the dishwasher.
And I am seething, and hurt. And he is stewing and hurt. And I don't even know what triggered it.
So I am breathing deep breaths, and feeling the pain in the pit of my stomach. And I know we need to resolve it. I know we need to apologise and make peace.
But right now, I'm not even sure where this pain came from. It is roiling inside and making me sick.
Because it wasn't about the dishes, really.
It wasn't about the words spoken or the topic at hand. It was about something deeper. Something un-named.
Brené Brown in her book Rising Strong talks about getting curious about emotions. She talks about how I need to reflect on the story I am telling myself.
So I follow that strand and see where it takes me.
It starts with getting inquisitive about how I am feeling. This involves naming my emotions: 'I am hurt, I am overwhelmed, I am tired, I am hungry'.
It involves letting the emotion flow over me. When I would rather brush it off. Or even hide it, under a little more chocolate or another glass of wine.
Why am I feeling overwhelmed? What is objectively on my plate at the moment? What can I let slide because, in fact, it's not that important? What needs to stay and be managed better? What do I need to ask for help with? What can I say no too?
I need to get curious about my feelings, about the story, I am telling myself and then get honest about what is really going on. With this information I can go back to him, apologise, talk about what the real cause of the argument was, and work on a strategy that helps me feel less overwhelmed.
'We can't chart a brave new course until we recognise exactly where we are, get curious about how we got there, and decide where we want to go'.


All who were present in attendance by 6:50 p.m.
Motion requested by President to appoint a Legal Emeritus position for WYSA for 2014. Scott Garrant requested. Motion by Snider, 2nd by Elliott to appoint Scott Garrant as WYSA Legal Emeritus for 2014. Motion passes, 13-0-0.
Motion discussed and raised by VP of Development to comprise 2014 Player / Coach / Development (PCD) committee. Committee would be comprised of Mike Fischer (VP Development), Tom Geis (MA Youth Soccer), Joe Haddad, Tom Genthner (Travel Refs representation), Rob Elliott (Intown representation), Bob Regan (Travel representation), Jill Murphy. Technical Director would also meet with PCD committee as he is charged with carrying out PCD initiatives. Primary goal of 2014 PCD committee is to further parent / membership education specific to the sport of Soccer and current issues thereto.
For current 'non-members' of WYSA (no children in WYSA program), motion to recognize the following as WYSA members: Geis, Haddad, Holliday (Technical Director). Motion by Fischer, 2nd by Elliott to approve Geis, Haddad, Holliday as WYSA members. Motion passes 11-0-2.
Subsequent motion by Fischer, 2nd by Elliott to approve 2014 PCD committee members (aforementioned). Motion passes, 12-0-1.
6:08 p.m. Discussion by Travel Chair, Bob Regan, for motion to approve 2014 Travel Subcommittee (TSC). TSC would be comprised of the following individuals: Mike Fischer (PCD / VP Development), Rob Elliott (Intown chair), Joe Haddad, Andrew Lavigne, Jill Murphy, Bob Regan / Eric Flynn / Dave Foresyth (Travel Coordinators).
Goal to have 9 TSC members, but motioning 8 at this time to get things moving. Travel will look to add another TSC member in the next month or so. Motion by Regan, 2nd by Foresyth to approve TSC with noted members. Motion passes, 13-0-1.
Review of Calendar and future WYSA events / deliverables. Updates made.
Motion by Snider, 2nd by Elliott to approve December 2013 Board of Director meeting minutes. Motion passes, 12-0-2.
Due to conflicts with school programs and other town sports programs, WYSA cannot obtain gym space to sponsor MA Youth License courses for WYSA coaches. WYSA may not end up having any courses for the Winter offseason.
In the event this does not change, WYSA may promote other towns' offerings if we cannot host.
Discussion and review of 2013 'revised' financials. Discussion had where books and bank statements did not match in certain instances. Motion by Lovine to approve 2013 revised financials; 2nd by Fischer. Motion passes 12-0-3.
GNO dates pending, perhaps March 2nd @ Villanova Hall. We will know in next month.
VP wish to have WYSA re-establish its relationship with the Wilmington High School program in some way specific to possible WYSA business needs (e.g. – running of volunteer events, snack shack, etc.). Will investigate, more to come.
Citing past history of WYSA Boards, looking to establish a parent –feedback and development "Member Advisory Committee" (MAC) to work with WYSA. VP looking for the WYSA BOD's assent to go-forward with this initiative.
Discussion of running snack shack and paid help. Ask for immediate contacts / referrals from BOD members for any prospective candidates (hires). Overall discussion regarding how to leverage volunteer help relative to paid resources (which at this point are proving difficult to find to meet WYSA's needs for the Spring 2014 season).
The WYSA is dedicated to the use of single age teams to foster and encourage long term player and team development in the U9 through U14 age groups. In these age groups single age teams will be established and maintained unless not enough players exist in a particular age group. In those instances, the Board of Directors (BOD) can approve a mixed team.
b. The WYSA will establish teams for boys and girls, interest permitting, in single age groups for 6 v 6 U9/U10; 8 v 8 U11/U12 and 11v11 in U13 and U14. Should it be necessary, due to the number of players trying out, combined teams may be established (e.g., a Ul2 team consisting of Ul1 and Ul2 players, or U-12 Co-ed Teams).
b1. The WYSA will establish teams for boys and girls, interest permitting, in single age groups for 6 v 6 U9/U10 and 8 v 8 U11/U12. Should it be necessary, due to the number of players trying out, combined teams may be established (e.g., a U12 team consisting of U11 and U12 players, or U-12 Co-ed Teams).
Motion by Regan, 2nd by Genthner to approve proposed new (Travel Policy) language. Motion passes, 14-0-1.
FYI item to Board's attention regarding inquiries from other towns concerning Inter-town play amongst Intown teams. In the past, and being proposed (possibly) in the future for WYSA and other participating towns - - varying towns at TBD age groups play one another during course of a season. Format, particulars – TBD. Regan brought this to BOD's attention to see if they wished to have him pursue further discussions on this. Proposed ideas included jamboree play (limited to 1 date or just a few dates) in a season.
Genthner has been reminding all in the Travel ref pool to get their re-certifications done prior to end of March so they can continue to work as referees. Major off-season focus for Travel Refs at this point.
An administrative review of Intown policy changes, and a discussion around ratifying them for posting (anew) to the current WYSA site location. Most changes administrative in nature. Discussion followed.
Motion by Rob Elliott, 2nd by Mike Fischer to approve Intown Policy changes effective as of 1.5.2014. Motion passes 12-0-4.
Power to the field house is still non-existent, the power source(wiring) is now buried under mounds of snow at the plowed Shawsheen parking lot / field complex. In short, the problem is that a pole came down on the current wiring – which is now compromised. F&B (Almeida) is working through the maze of logistic and bureaucratic issues with the town, power company, etc. – to determine liability, action steps, ownership for fixes.
Possible concerns relating to loss of power include loss of stored beverages and food items in the event they cannot be kept in an environmentally controlled atmosphere.
Where it is offseason and the turn of the year after the Holidays, it is a slow build to forming 2014 fund-raising committees, e.g. – for WYSA Field Day. However, it has begun, some preliminary names have been proffered to serve on committees and / or as volunteers.
Additionally, fund-raising is currently investigating local grants from businesses, for example – local banks, business chains.
Merchandise discussion on switching to new Travel uniform vendor. Considerations and focus points include additional costs of uniforms versus the quality of current uniforms in use, and costs to WYSA and membership if there was a switch made. There are concerns with the quality of the current uniforms and whether it makes sense to have a single vendor that can provide all the services needed to our players – specifically getting all uniform items (shorts, socks, jerseys) from one source and having all numbering & stitching done by one source. Regardless of any switch the WYSA BOD would make with vendors, there will still be a need to have WYSA BOD members and volunteers assemble team uniform kits, reconcile orders, reconcile sizes, uniform jersey numbers, etc.
After extensive discussion, a motion by Doherty and 2nd by Snider to change to a new vendor effective immediately, for go-forward orders occurring for Fall 2014 and beyond. Motion passes, 14-0-2.
General discussion around whether WYSA should use varying forms of social media to either 'promote' WYSA or communicate information on WYSA initiatives. Examples include use of Facebook, and a proposal to implement our presence via that SM tool. A more detailed discussion commenced on whether (and how much) WYSA should move to supplement the ways in which it currently communicates with and to membership. There was also discussion and a tentative proposal to set up a WYSA twitter account as well.
Motion by Doherty, 2nd by Fitzler for WYSA to use social media (any / all types) as another form of communication for WYSA.
General discussion around the types, currently FB & Twitter only, and responsibilities for who owns (on BOD) the postings, setting up the account, who would be the AM & monitor the site(s), and the types of messaging & content we would promote (educational initiatives, primarily).
After clarying discussion, motion voted. Motion passes, 10-1-5.
10 minute discussion initiated by Dave Foresyth regarding U8 (2nd grader) tournament play and whether or not WYSA should endorse it or 'regulate' it in some way. Historically, if kids of this age wished to play in Winter leagues or in-season tournaments, it was spearheaded by WYSA parents / coaches who would formulate their own teams. General concern around 'inclusiveness' and kids' parents who wished their children to play – being able to participate. After discussion, a decision was made to have further go-forward discussions at the WYSA BOD level in the future on this subject. No immediate proposals or new positions on this subject were adopted.


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By Janice Wildflower Gemini. In book three, adult married man Robin's feminization continues as he is forced to enroll in an LGBT high school as a transgender teenage boy who will be attending as a girl; the purpose of which is to learn everything a transgender girl needs to know and to learn how to pass as a girl. Then after an accident, his face and voice are surgically feminized and he is made to look younger. Finally, he finds himself with an after school job as a female secretary.
Robin's wife, sister and therapist continue to support the fantasy that Robin wants to be a teenage girl. Robyn is trapped and begins to accept his new status as well as his wifely duties. To his horror, he is turned-on by his new life and clothes – and is finding that he wants to continue his crossdressed life as a girl.
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V.23 No.5 | 1/30/2014
Rooster Roundabout: This week's music highlights
By Mark Lopez [ Fri Jan 31 2014 4:42 PM ]
Folk master Pete Seeger passed away this past Monday at the age of 94. Sources say it was due to natural causes. This is a sad loss for music, but Seeger's legacy will for sure live on … and his songs will always retain the zeal and prosperity he showed while playing. From creating an anthem for civil rights to performing an inaugural show for President Barack Obama, this man was a legacy in his own. And Pete, this one's for you …
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti was introduced by a friend while driving in his car and smoking a joint as the Corpus Christi heat beat down on our bodies from outside half-tinted windows. Those were the days. I immediately liked his lo-fi basement recordings, but never kept up with his later pursuits. And now Pink is teaming up with producer Justin Raisen, and together they are production duo Raw Deal. They've been working with a band called the Garden, based out of California. You can read more about that collaboration at Pitchfork.
Former Burqueño Willis Earl Beal released his second album (Nobody knows.) last year, and while it wasn't a stellar release, it had some good moments. (See "Coming Through," which features Cat Power.) And now Beal has recorded a third album, titled A Place That Doesn't Exist. It contains more of the lo-fi intonations of his first record, but his voice is always front and center. And what a voice it is. He announced that he'd like to "give it away for free," but the album hasn't come out. However, you can stream it below!
I'm sure some people are about to shit themselves … or at least fart from excitement. Singer-songwriter Mike Doughty posted some tracks that feature Elliott Smith's vocals (deeming them "new" tracks.) He went on to specify that they are new (or at least unreleased) in that Smith recorded the vocals in 1998, to be "sliced/diced over beats." You can read more about that and hear the tracks over at A.V. Club.
I'm sure most Burqueños know about Deerhoof, what with band member John Dieterich calling this burg home now. And considering they've been making music since the '90s, it's no wonder they've gained a massive following, if not an adoring fanbase. And after coming out with their 11th record in 2012, the band seems to be riding that engine with some lasting intent, seeing as how they've come out with a music video for album-cut "Flowers." You can watch that below.
'Til this day, the cover of Eels' Beautiful Freak haunts me. I never bought the album, but seeing it on the shelves at Best Buy when I was in my formative years (you know … between six and nine years old), I always stopped to pick it up. And I always wondered if I'd get the courage to ask my mom to buy it for me. I never did. Instead I saved that courage for Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals when I was 10. That was a doozy. I digress … Mark Oliver Everett (the main man behind Eels) has come out with a new track, off The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett (which hits stores on April 22). The song ("Agatha Chang") is a sentimental yet somber tune that I'll gladly add to my collection. You can hear that at Consequence of Sound.
Pixies recently released a brand new collection of material in the form of EP2. And as Alibi writer August March pointed out, the release was kind of underwhelming. But seriously … what can you expect? Kim Deal's not in the band anymore. And you know home-gurl added the most fire to the festivities. But now the band has come out with a video for their track "Magdalena." You can view that below.
It's no secret that the Russian government has treated the LGBTQ community with the upmost disrespect, if not outright hate. And to bring attention to Russian activists fighting the good fight in support of gay rights, Melissa Etheridge formed a coalition to support them. She also wrote a song, "Uprising of Love," to coincide with the movement. You can hear that below.
I mentioned a while back that Strokes guitar player Albert Hammond Jr. was coming out with a solo EP (AHJ). Well that collection is out and about, but now Hammond has shared a visual representation for one of the tracks from said release ("Strange Tidings"). You can view that below.
Karen O, frontwoman of art-rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs, is no stranger to covers. She's tackled "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," made famous by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. She's taken on Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." And now, she's covering Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff." She recorded the song with Sam Spiegel (of N.A.S.A.), and it's here for your listening pleasure.
You 'member Sarah McLachlan? You know … the one that founded Lilith Fair and was on that really sad dog commercial that made me cry every time it aired on public access? No? Oh, she's also a singer. Yeah, if you were around in the '90s, you remember her. I had an older sister who had her album Surfacing, so let's just say I remember her well. Aside from that, McLachlan has just signed with Verve and is coming out with a new record (Shine On) on May 6. You can read more about that over at Billboard.
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Alibi Group Hug Presents Rockabilly Blow-Out, Hot Rod Hop
By Devin D. O'Leary [ Sat Jul 7 2012 10:00 AM ]
Alibi is in a group hugging mood again. That means it's time for a major party. This Saturday, July 7, head on downtown for some fine, post-Independence Day fun. Starting at 2 p.m., hot rod owners are invited to park their jalopies on Central in front of the KiMo Theatre. Parking spaces are limited, so it's first-come, first-served. If you don't own a classic car, just come ogle the awesome rides maintained by several of Albuquerque's finest car clubs. At 6 p.m., KiMo Theatre will screen the hard-rockin', clutch-poppin' 1958 drive-in movie Hot Rod Gang. Tickets are $7 adults and $5 kids/seniors. At 9 p.m., everything moves down the street to the Launchpad for the Rockabilly Blow-Out. Local favorites The Hi-Lo Tones will be rockin' out alongside El Paso legends Raw Deal. D.J. Lucky will spin tunes between sets and Burque Burlesque will be bringing some of New Mexico's finest bump-and-grind practitioners to do their thing on stage. Tickets to the concert are $10. Cars, bands, drinks and scantily clad ladies? How can you go wrong?
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V.21 No.27 | 7/5/2012
Music to Your Ears
By Jessica Cassyle Carr
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It's the child of country and Western and rhythm and blues, the hell-raising brother of rock and roll. Rockabilly roared into its own in the mid-'50s. Its rise was propelled by Sun Records owner Sam Phillips and his work with Elvis, which essentially repackaged a black sound for a white audience. Sixty years later, outfits here in Albuquerque keep that music alive—the acoustic slap bass, the electric guitar twang and the big, jumping beat.
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Missing the Fox News-hosted, Megyn Kelly-moderated Republican presidential debate might have cost Donald Trump victory in Iowa.
But at least one political expert, and a few critics on the left, predicted that the move would give him a way to save face in case he lost Iowa.
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Pi Chapter Awards of Excellence Program
Pi Chapter has in its membership numerous Brothers who have achieved high distinction.
The Awards of Excellence Program includes:
Presidents Award for Professional Achievement
Virgil Stratton Outstanding Alumni
Leo Strickland Outstanding Alumni
Here we recognize those Brothers with the Awards of Excellence Program.
Please use the Pi Chapter Award of Excellence Nomination Form to nominate a deserving Brother today by completing the online application.
Presidential Award for Professional Achievement
Pi Chapter has in its membership many persons who have achieved outstanding success in their professional careers. These young, emerging leaders will serve as role models for our undergraduate members and those just starting their professional careers. A secondary goal is to firmly establish the breadth of professional careers available to graduates of today's colleges of agriculture. This award will serve as a catalyst for nomination to the Grand Presidents Award for Professional Achievement.
The award will be presented at the annual awards presentation. The Board of Directors will serve as the selection committee and will administer the selection and nomination process. Nominees may either be self nominated or nominated by another.
The Awardee will be expected to attend the Pi Chapter Career Day and make presentation about their career and the ways that Alpha Gamma Rho helped him in his career.
Any Pi Chapter alumnus age 40 or less is eligible for the award. A broad definition of professions is to be encouraged. An identifiable career linkage to the food and agriculture system is desirable, but not required. Awardee must be able to attend the Pi Chapter Career Day.
Virgil Stratton Outstanding Alumni Award
In honor of Virgil S Stratton and his dedication to the success of numerous Brothers of Pi Chapter, the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Alumni Association of Alpha Gamma Rho will annually award the Virgil S Stratton Award in recognition of deserving Brothers.
Alpha Gamma Rho has in its membership many persons who have contributed and continue to contribute to the success of the Undergraduate Chapter and Alumni Association. The award will be presented at the annual awards presentation. The Board of Directors will serve as the selection committee and will administer the selection and nomination process. Nominees may either be self nominated or nominated by another.
Nominee may be an alumnus of Pi Chapter or actively involved with Pi Chapter.
The Leo Strickland Award recognizes an alumni who has made outstanding contributions to Pi Chapter.
National Alpha Gamma Rho Hall of Fame
1980 - W. Elmo Baumann
2002 - Charles L. Thompson
National Grand President Award
1996 - James Bode
1997 - Paul Schulte
2012 - Sean Kouplen
2017 - Jeremy Zweiacker


In keeping with the fur sector's commitment to the sustainability of our sector and biodiversity generally, IFF is a full and voting member of the IUCN (IUCN, the main group for experts in conservation. The membership of IFF also interacts with IUCN on an individual basis, with the Fur Institute of Canada (www.fur.ca) also being an independent member.
IUCN are the most respected and most proactive body in the world for better understanding the natural world and using their gold-standard research to better adjust global policies and planning so that our natural resources are maintained for everyone in perpetuity.
As well as IFF's membership IFF has also supported individual IUCN projects in the past including research on the endangered Red Panda of Taiwan. Currently IFF is supporting work done to make sure that the vital research done by IUCN is being put to its fullest use by CITES (Read More on CITES) and by TRAFFIC.
TRAFFIC is an organisation born out of a strategic alliance between the IUCN and the World Wildlife Federation intended to ensure that the trade in wild plants and animals is not a danger to the conservation of nature.
From IFFs interactions and support for IUCN as well as the work done in maintaining and following CITES requirements, we show how these agreements and the sustainability they promote are part and parcel of IFFs responsibility for maintaining biodiversity and healthy furbearer populations for generations to come.


Once, there was a valley, nestled between the tallest mountains that were deep in the darkest jungle and surrounded by the most treacherous river. But even though the lands that surrounded the valley were more fearsome and more dangerous than any other in the world, the valley itself was the most beautiful land in the world, a land that the gods themselves had surely set aside for those few men who could reach it. In the valley, the heat of the jungle faded away, and the sky was always cool and clear, and the flowers bloomed bright and the ground was so fertile that all a farmer had to do to grow food was drop the seeds onto the ground.
But no one lived in the valley. No man lived in the valley, at least. Because this place was a gift from the gods to men, there were those who sought to take it away. There would always be those who hated both gods and men, and would seek to sow strife between the two. And of all these beasts—Heart-ripper and Eye-gouger, First Death and Knife-in-back—none hated men and gods as much as Bleached Bone Woman.
She had counted herself among their number once, in the time before creation was made; before Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent and Tezcatlipoca, the Enemy of Both Sides had destroyed it and created it again. But for whatever reason, they no longer counted her among their number, and she no longer counted herself as one of them. No one recalls exactly what happened, or even what kind of goddess she was before. She may have been a Tzitzimime, the demon-gods that counted the stars as their number and tried eternally to murder the son. She may have been a daughter of Mictlan, the lord of the dead. I don't know, and she doesn't know, and the gods don't know. When the world is destroyed, this sort of minor detail tends to be forgotten. But what everyone knew was that she was no longer a goddess, and when she had fallen from Acopa, the Thirteenth Heaven, she had claimed for herself the most beautiful spot of land on the planet, the only place in the world where the Feathered Serpent and the Enemy of Both Sides had ever truly worked together.
Now, the gods had told men about this special valley that had been made just for them, and had told them of the monstrous woman who now dwelled there. And naturally, as what happens when stories like this are told to men, heroes attempted to free the valley. Tecolotl and Ocelotl tried.
And at first they succeeded. Though they did not journey through the jungle together, each journey was much like the other. Their journeys were filled with the sort of heroics that rival the legends of even the gods.
On his journey, Ocelotl wrestled with the great snake that carved the river in the earth, whose shaking caused the treachery of the river. This snake had been born from the sea demon whose body had made the world, and from his tongue to his tail he was miles long. But Ocelotl had wrestled the serpent to the ground, and strangled him, and from his body had formed the longest river in the world.
Tecolotl had found, deep in the jungle, the Woman With the Jaguar's Tongue, who controlled the jungle's flora and fauna with her foul tongue. She had sworn that she would never know the touch of men, and that any man who came into her abode would be murdered. And Tecolotl seduced the demoness, before he slit her throat.
One by one they faced the obstacles that had been placed before them, and one by one the obstacles were overcome. Their feats were so incredible that any who heard of them were sure they would succeed. Their feats were so mighty that the birds themselves could not help themselves but to fly to the civilized lands and tell the people of each brother's journey. They flattened mountains, changed the course of rivers, and tore down the mighty jungles that choked the land around the valley. And so they came to the valley, first Ocelotl, and then Tecolotl, each thinking that he would be the one to kill Bleached Bone Woman and give paradise to mankind.
They did not succeed. Ocelotl was strong, and he had thought to either intimidate Bleached Bone Woman with his strength, or failing that to slay her with his obsidian weapons, of which he was quite skilled. Bleached Bone Woman had laughed as his obsidian sword shattered on her leg, and his spear lodged itself in her ribs, doing her no harm. Ocelotl was made into a shawl, of which Bleached Bone Woman would often adorn herself with when she climbed to the tops of the mountain in the valley in order to mock the gods. Such weak heroes they sent her, after all, and they deserved to be mocked.
Tecolotl was sneaky, being able to creep in the darkness unseen even by the predators of the jungle who saw all that went on in the night. He often would creep into the huts of pretty girls, for he was as handsome as he was stealthy, and he thought that he would defeat Bleached Bone Woman by sneaking up on her when she was sleeping, or failing that seduce her and then kill her. He had pretty teeth, and Bleached Bone woman made them into the finest jewelry that ever could be made out of the human body.
And as these two heroes failed, both gods and men resigned themselves to the fact that this valley would go unclaimed.
But not everyone agrees with the gods, as Bleached Bone Woman herself had proven. There was a girl, little Nicualli. Tecolotl and Ocelotl had been her brothers, and she had expected them to kill Bleached Bone Woman and claim the valley for men and gods. She had expected this, and when it did not come to pass, she went to Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, who had created the valley in the only moment were they had not quarreled with one another. Now Quetzalcoatl, who is called the Feathered Serpent, and Tezcatlipoca, who is called the Enemy of Both Sides, were fighting when Nicualli came to see them, and they did not stop fighting even when they granted her audience.
But Nicualli insisted. The two gods argued, as they argued about everything. The Feathered Serpent, who despised violence and prized peace, did not want her to go, for he did not want to see any more blood wasted on the lost paradise. But the Enemy of Both Sides, who loved violence and demanded that blood be spilled in his name, wished to see her go, if only so she could join her brothers. Eventually, the Feathered Serpent relented, and she was told the way to paradise.
Before she left, the two gods each spoke to her alone.
Nicualli's journey was not the hero's journey that her brothers had endured. The rivers had been calmed, for Tecolotl had soothed the spirits that dwelled within them. The jungle was not so treacherous, for Ocelotl had torn away every tree that slowed his walk by even a second. All the challenges that a hero would have been expected to face were gone. And Nicualli was glad at this, for she had feared the journey through the jungle more than she feared the challenged that lay in the valley.
So Nicualli went to the valley, armed with all the gifts of the gods. She found Bleached Bone Woman there, digging flowers out of the ground and burying them deep in the earth. Her name, Nicualli found was apt as it sounded. She was nothing but bones, a skeleton too big for any body, wearing a shawl made from one brother's skin and a necklace made from the other's brother's teeth. And on her head was a headdress made from the whitest of cotton, interwoven with more skill than Nicualli had ever seen. The headdress must have been from when Bleached Bone Woman had been a goddess, Nicualli thought. So she swallowed her fear, and approached the demoness.
"But are not the flowers beautiful, for do not the gods create beautiful things?" asked Nicualli, who sat down by Bleached Bone Woman.
This was a lie. Nicualli knew it, and Bleached Bone Woman knew it, and anyone who had heard it that day would have known it.
"True. You should be able to shape your valley as you wish," said Nicualli. And she rose to her feet, and began to pluck flowers from the ground and bury them in the earth.
"What are you doing?" asked Bleached Bone Woman, who stopped in her task and stared out at Nicualli from her empty eye sockets.
"It is your valley, and I wish to help you make it the way you see fit," answered Nicualli, who continued with her task uninterrupted. Bleached Bone Woman continued to stare at her, and then returned to her task.
And so they spent the day plucking the petals off of flowers, and taking the juiciest, ripest fruits from the trees, and smashing them on the ground, and damming the streams as best they could. And as they did so, Bleached Bone Woman had Nicualli do less and less, and she herself did less and less. She left a few flowers unplucked, and fruits unsmashed, and streams undammed. She told Nicualli about the time when she had been a goddess, before the world had been destroyed and created again. She showed her where the tastiest fruits grew, and let her eat a few, and she made a garland of flowers for her hair.
And at last Bleached Bone Woman took little Nicualli to the place she most treasured in the valley. This was a lake, she said, deeper and cooler than any other lake in all of creation. No one knew what was at the bottom of the lake, even she herself, for she could not swim. But still the lake was beautiful, more beautiful than anything in the valley, and the water was fresher than any in the world, so much so that a single drop could satisfy any thirst.
She took Nicualli to the valley, and she let her frolic on the shore, while she found a rock to lay down her head upon and rest. And as she did so, Nicualli thought. Bleached Bone Woman had killed her brothers, and the gods expected her to kill her. And she wanted to, not for her brothers, but for all men, for this valley was meant to know the tread of men's feet. And, more than even this selfless desire, she wanted this valley for herself, for she had known the pain of loss. She did not want to lose this most precious of places, no matter what action she had to take. So she hardened her heart, and so she resolved herself for what she must do, and she pushed Bleached Bone Woman into the lake.
As the water touched her bones, she screamed, cursing at Nicualli for her treachery. But even as her bones sank, she knew that Nicualli would not have what she wanted. For Bleached Bone Woman had lied; she did know what was at the bottom of the lake. It was a great wellspring, from which all the waters in the world had once been brought forth, and though it did not have as much water as it had once, there was still a flood there, only held back by a single rock. That the waters of creation dwelled here was the reason that such a place could come to be in the first place. So Bleached Bone Woman pulled out the rock, and the waters of creation flowed forth, drowning the valley and Nicualli in but a moment. And Bleached Bone Woman still lives in the lake, with Ocelotl's skin and Tecolotl's teeth and Nicualli's corpse, and she rages against the day that Nicualli chose to betray her.
And that is why we will never know paradise.
Chris Pearce is an aspiring writer; this is his first published work of fiction. A poem he wrote has appeared in Sanitarium Magazine. His current whereabouts are unknown.
I think the core of the fantasy genre is hope. Fantasy is stereotyped as a backwards looking genre, and while it isn't geared to the future the way scifi is, the sense of a light holding back darkness, no matter how small the light or how terrible the darkness, has always been central to the appeal of fantasy, at least to me.


Stevens sustainability and resilience researchers are utilizing natural grasses and nanotech to remove contaminants from soil and water. Here's how.
Some neighborhoods in the New York metro area will begin flooding once or twice every month as soon as the next few decades. A few could even go permanently underwater. Here's how Stevens researchers - and the Davidson Laboratory - are fighting to stop it.
"We aim to future-proof the department, and do what we do best," says new CEOE department chair and director of the Davidson Laboratory Dr. Muhammad Hajj. Here's his plan to do that.
CEOE associate professor Elizabeth Fassman-Beck is a globally recognized expert on green roofs that minimize water runoff. She's using that expertise to create green infrastructure solutions for Hoboken -- and already has promising results.
CEOE assistant professor Valentina Prigiobbe spoke with WPIX 11 about how Hoboken's infrastructure makes it prone to flooding.
Stevens Maritime Security Center works on projects tailored to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This year's Summer Research Institute projects were particularly inventive -- including its first invention disclosure and potential provisional patent filing.
4th Best Civil Engineering Program in the U.S.
Stevens civil engineering program was named 4th Best in the U.S. by Interesting Engineering magazine.
The Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering (CEOE) offers undergraduate and graduate programs, in addition to a variety of graduate certificates and minors that prepare students to succeed in a variety of fields. These programs all share the core principals of engineering, and are embedded in the infrastructure that directly affects the economy and society. At Stevens, civil engineering has been an important discipline since the founding of the university, and CEOE has expanded to include offerings in environmental and oceanographic engineering as a response to ongoing developments in the field.
Engineering with a concentration in Naval Engineering, B.E.
Construction Engineering & Management, M.Eng.
In addition to robust research in construction management and ocean engineering, the CEOE includes two National Centers of Excellence: the Maritime Security Center (MSC) and the Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships (ACCeSS), as well as the Davidson Laboratory.
The structural engineering group focuses its research on multiscale modeling and reliability/uncertainty/risk assessment of complex/material systems.
This research explores material surface properties, energetic compounds deactivation and various aspects of soil properties.
This area includes the New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System (NYHOPS) that provides real-time data about the waters of NY/NJ.
Research centered on the study and application of the nonlinear interaction of acoustic and vibrational energy in various media and materials.


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Play chess against the computer from beginner to grandmaster
By Mark Jones, Komando.com
Have you ever been interested in playing chess? It's an entertaining game, but full of complicated rules and techniques. That can be intimidating for first-timers and can even scare them away from trying to play altogether.
But that doesn't have to be the case. This cool site allows you to learn chess at your own pace by challenging the computer on different levels. From super easy all the way to grandmaster.
Chess.com is one of the most user-friendly chess sites on the web and the best part is it's free.
Try playing chess against a top chess engine. You can set the level from 1 to 10, from easy to grandmaster. If you get stuck, use a hint or take-back the move.
When you are ready to play games with human players, register for a free Chess.com account and voila, you'll be playing head-to-head in no time. The site lets you choose to play against the computer, play online with other users, or join a tournament.
If you've never played before, the site also has a learning section that teaches you how to play. It goes over things like:
First steps – This section is a collection of numerous articles dealing with chess.
Tactics to become a better player.
Video lessons that will show you moves by masters.
Drills that show key positions versus the computer, tactical decisions and how to improve positional play.
Chess openings – Search through over 3,000 opening lines to find the perfect chess opening for you. Explore openings variations and find matching master chess games to study.
Games – You can look through millions of top games played by the strongest chess players of the past and present. From world chess champions to FIDE masters, you will find an enormous collection of games that you can search, sort and download.
If you're ready to jump right in and play a game versus the computer, click the link we've provided below inside the blue box. If you're reading this article using the Komando.com app, click here to start playing on Chess.com.
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Areopagus Residence in Atenas, Costa Rica by Paravant Architects
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Los Angeles based Paravant Architects completed the Areopagus Residence in 2011. This 8,072 square foot contemporary home is located in Atenas, the capital city of the canton of Atenas in the province of Alajuela, Costa Rica.
Areopagus Residence by Paravant Architects:
"The Areopagus Residence, designed by Paravant Architects in Atenas, Costa Rica, is custom designed to be as intimately connected to the natural landscape around it as possible. By exploiting passive heating and cooling strategies, the architects were able to design a home that does not require mechanical air conditioning systems. This also allows for uninterrupted south-facing views that open out into the landscape.
Villa Areopagus sits modestly on the site, shrouded in the surrounding vegetation. The street facing facade is largely opaque – a massive concrete wall with selective punctures that only provide a glimpse of the interior. The openings are strategically placed to provide the house with cross ventilation and natural cooling. This is also supplemented by the backyard pool, which acts as a cooling pond, reducing the temperature of the air as it is pulled through the house.
The private facade faces south and features transparent glazing which allows for complete views of the valley towards San Jose. In order to protect the house from direct sunlight and heat gain the south facade also has a deep roof overhang which provides shade. The exterior wall of the living room is a 16 meter retractable corner glass sliding wall. Connection to the landscape was very important to both the client and the architects. The retractable wall creates a truly complete experience of the indoors and outdoors simultaneously. The living can function as both a den and a patio. It can be both inviting and private.
In addition to the passive methods implemented into the design of the house, the architects were also sensitive to using renewable sources of energy to provide for additional technical systems. Solar and photovoltaic systems are installed on the roof to provide hot water and electricity. An onsite micro waste-water-treatment plant provides rain water collection for yard irrigation."
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The Artist may not have been the best film at this year's Oscars but its success makes perfect sense.
With a cracking line-up, Robert De Niro at the head of the jury and a flurry of stars expected on the red carpet – the 64th Cannes film festival has left us all with some pretty high expectations.
You probably know Michel Gondry best for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and "Be Kind, Rewind". His latest directorial offering is the superhero movie "The Green Hornet" - we caught up with him on his recent trip to Paris.


During this traineeship, motivated people with a numerical background and a minimum of programming experience can assist in (e.g.) creating new models for our capital protected and structured funds, develop and program scenario analyses for various product lines, assess and validate existing business models, improve our existing risk infrastructure and make it future proof.
we do checks on major derivative contracts, calculations of our Middle and Back Office.
You are currently an actuarial science master student or a student master in insurances.
You are a team player, but can focus on individual assignments independently when necessary.
You are dynamic, creative and show initiative.
You like working in an international context.
You have strong analytical skills allowing you to dig into a lot of information quickly and formulate relevant messages in an easy-to-understand, structured way.


This SSW Book Club meeting has been rescheduled from Wed Feb 20.
We will discuss Kevin Boyle's book Arc of Justice; A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. This book tells the "electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle." It won the 2004 National Book Award for nonfiction.
On Nov 7, 2018, Jamon Jordan of the Black Scroll Network spoke at SSW. He provided an excellent overview of history and of structural racism, and then told the story of Ossian and Gladys Sweet. His presentation inspired our choice of this book.
You are welcome to join us whether or not you have attended before, and whether or not you have finished the book.
All members of the SSW community are invited. Feel free to bring your lunch.


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Home Unlicensed Operations and Emerging Technologies The Fourth Law of Robotics: Don't Miss That Spot Over There
The Fourth Law of Robotics: Don't Miss That Spot Over There
By Mitchell Lazarus on August 16, 2015 Posted in Unlicensed Operations and Emerging Technologies
Waiver permits Roomba manufacturer to market new self-guided lawn mower for residential use.
The kid down the street who mows your lawn may have to change her business model. Automation is coming. The Roomba automatic floor cleaner, a favorite of cats everywhere, is heading outdoors.
iRobot Corporation, maker of the Roomba (and the best name of any tech company), has plans for an automatic, self-guided lawn mower. The problem is to keep it on the grass, away from the pool and the crabby neighbor's flower beds. The owner will do this by driving stakes into the ground that mark the borders of the mowing area. These will transmit low-power, wideband radio signals that enable the mower to locate itself relative to the stakes, and thus to stay in the specified area.
iRobot cites several advantages over the conventional mower. One is safety; iRobot cites frightening statistics for accidents caused by walk-behind mowers, including amputations and deaths. Another is the environment: ordinary gas-powered mowers, it says, emit as much pollution per hour as 11 cars, and their owners spill 17 millions of gasoline each year, while the iRobot unit relies on rechargeable batteries . iRobot claims its device will also be quieter than gas-powered mowers and will benefit elderly and disabled consumers – not to mention those of us who just hate mowing the lawn.
There must be a catch, though, or you wouldn't be reading about this in CommLawBlog.
iRobot wants the radio-emitting stakes to operate in the 6240-6740 MHz frequency range. The good news: this is part of a larger band whose rules permit the kind of low-power, wideband signals iRobot needs. The bad news: those rules prohibit "the use of a fixed outdoor infrastructure." iRobot's guidance stakes are unquestionably fixed in the ground (during mowing season) and outdoors.
iRobot accordingly asked for a waiver of this rule. It noted that the FCC originally adopted the rule to prevent devices in this band from working as fixed networks over wide areas. iRobot explained that its product can't do this because the stakes communicate with each other only during set-up, otherwise only with the mower – and never with anything else.
The sole opposition to the waiver came from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) on behalf of radio astronomers who use the 6650-6675.2 MHz segment to observe chemical events in star-forming regions of the Universe. NRAO calculated that its radio-telescopes would receive interference from a lawn mower over a line-of-sight distance of 89 km (55.3 miles). It asked that the FCC require iRobot either to avoid the radio astronomy frequencies or else to install geolocation technology that would prevent operation close to radio astronomy facilities.
The FCC granted the waiver. In its view, NRAO had overestimated the risk of interference. Moreover, radio astronomy does not have an allocation at 6650-6675.2 MHz, only a footnote in the allocation table providing that "all practicable steps shall be taken to protect the radio astronomy service from harmful interference." The FCC ruled that iRobot's design, including low-to-the-ground transmitters pointing horizontally and a focus on residential marketing, incorporates the "practicable steps" referenced in the footnote. But it imposed conditions on the waiver:
iRobot can market the device only for residential use, and must warn purchasers (by labeling and in the instruction manual) that usage is limited to residences.
The radio-transmitting stakes may be no higher than 24 inches above the ground.
Neither the mower nor the stakes may communicate with other devices.
We look forward to seeing these on the shelf at Home Depot, and a few days after that, to sitting back with a cold drink and watching the lawn get mowed. The kid down the street is welcome to come and watch with us.
[Blogmeister Disclosure: Laura Stefani of FHH represented iRobot Corporation in this proceeding. The results in any particular case do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future case.]
Tags: 6240-6740 MHz, iRobot, Robotic lawn mower, Roomba


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Genre: Music
Requiem For The Big East
Documentary about the Big East. 30 for 30 Present: Requiem For The Big East chronicles the meteoric ascension of the Big East conference, and how in...
Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try...
For NYC
Noel Ashman and Damon Dash direct a collection of favorite quotes from high profile artists, recorded on their smart phones, in their homes during...
Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt creates elaborately staged films that investigate the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an...
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a...
Cast: Tim Robbins
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with...
Cast: Sean Nelson
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Cast: Laurence Fishburne
Reggae music is featured in this romantic thriller set in Jamaica. Stoney (Giancarlo Esposito), a photojournalist, is assigned by a U.S. music...
Cast: Jasmine Guy
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is...
Cast: Benjamin Bratt
Trouble on the Corner
Jeff Steward, a psychologist, takes good care of his patients mostly living in the same apartment. One day a piece of the bathroom ceiling collapses...
Cast: Charles Busch
Five Desperate Hours
Joseph Grange (Giancarlo Esposito), an unstable fugitive from the law, bursts into the home of suburban housewife Claire Ballard (Sharon Lawrence),...
Cast: Sharon Lawrence
A scientist finds his newest invention; a microchip that infuses inanimate objects with human qualities co-opted by the company he works for, which...
Cast: Amanda Donohoe
On Meditation
Peter Matthiessen, David Lynch, and Russell Simmons see among the many celebrity devotees interviewed in this case of Zen Buddhist meditation.
Cast: David Lynch
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a...
Cast: Julian Sands
Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.
Cast: Maria Schrader
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
A documentary short taking a look at the popular independent Enzian movie theater in Maitland, Florida.
Cast: Cloris Leachman
PAYDAY THE MOVIE
Payday the web series, e3 trailers, dlc trailers and crime fest trailers edited into a movie
Cast: Derek Ray
Mylène Farmer: California
Short film release
Cast: Mylène Farmer
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Cast: Winona Ryder
They Die by Dawn
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and...
Cast: Rosario Dawson
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Cast: Mumia Abu-Jamal
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the...
Cast: Adam Arkin
Ash Tuesday
After September 11th, six Lower Manhattan residents must deal with pain on their own. Yet in doing so, they find that their lives are inexplicably...
Cast: Jennifer Carpenter
When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best...
Cast: Beau Mirchoff
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey...
Cast: Scott Glenn
A surrealistic journey into the experiences and reflections of a documentary filmmaker as he evaluates the people and places that have made up his...
Genre: War
Cast: Don Johnson
Big City Blues
Two hit men, a call girl, and a gay couple become entangled in a web of violence. In the course of one night, they just narrowly miss each other.
Cast: Burt Reynolds
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
Cast: Josh Duhamel
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
Cast: Patrick Stewart
The Nagano Tapes
Five Rings Films presents the inspiring story of how Czech Republic won gold at the first Olympics to feature professionals from the NHL.
Cast: Dominik Hašek
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl
Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally...
Cast: Tim Matheson
Gospel Hill
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a...
Cast: Angela Bassett
Feel The Noise
After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy...
Cast: Rosa Arredondo
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose...
Cast: Martin Lawrence
Chupacabra Terror
Cryptozoologist Doctor Peña traps the legendary Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean Island to make his name in the scientific community. When he...
Cast: John Rhys-Davies
Sherrybaby
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising...
Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he...
Cast: Denzel Washington
A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking...
Cast: Yul Vazquez
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officer, Lt. Paul Cutler, is sent to train the Detroit S.W.A.T. team on new anti-terrorism and homeland security techniques....
Cast: Gabriel Macht
In the big city, a loving young couple Deb and Dom planning to get ready to marry seek guidance from the Catholic Church, which only brings out the...
Cast: Tom Lipinski
Rain, a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her...
Cast: Faye Dunaway
Unpregnant
A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League...
Cast: Haley Lu Richardson
Doing Hard Time
A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
Cast: Boris Kodjoe
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.
Cast: Gracie Marie Bradley
Series Adjourned: Saying Goodbye To Saul
A bonus feature from the final season of Better Call Saul
Cast: Bob Odenkirk
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...
Cast: Danny Aiello
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on...
Cast: Mickey Rourke
A Killer Within
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is...
Cast: C. Thomas Howell
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a...
Cast: Brendan Fraser
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their...
Cast: Jennifer Aniston
Last Holiday
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been...
Cast: Queen Latifah
Cast: Steven Pasquale
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Cast: Maureen Stapleton
The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare
Three life-long friends struggle with an early middle-age crisis as they start to try to get a job for the first time. An ironic quest to avoid...
Cast: Mattia Coluccia
Son of Batman
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group known as The League of Assassins.
Cast: Jason O'Mara
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul...
Cast: Harvey Keitel
Blue in the Face
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During...
Homicide: The Movie
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present,...
Cast: Daniel Baldwin
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping...
Cast: Jay Hernandez
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
Cast: Joe Morton
Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff), a young divorced woman and recovering alcoholic, moves into a Manhattan apartment that seems a bit too secluded to be...
Cast: Julia Barnett
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary...
Cast: Dylan O'Brien
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Cast: George Clooney
Timms Valley
A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and livelihoods of its citizens are intertwined with the fate...
Cast: Hank Azaria
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
Leo Borlock is an average student at Mica High School. He gets decent grades, is a member of the school's marching band and has always been content...
Cast: Grace VanderWaal
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...
Cast: Ruby Dee
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Cast: Paul Newman
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Cast: Nicole Kidman
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their...
Cast: Ray Liotta
The Long Home
Rural Tennessee in the 1940's: a young man unwittingly goes to work building a honky-tonk for the charismatically diabolical bootlegger who murdered...
Cast: James Franco
Blind Horizon
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash...
Cast: Val Kilmer
Finnegan Begin Again
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.
Cast: Pharoah Sanders
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
Cast: Bonnie Timmermann
Cast: Adam Driver
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also...
Cast: Gabriel Byrne
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and...
Cast: Christopher Walken
After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she...
Cast: Tyler Perry
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...
Cast: Paul Winfield
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a...
Cast: Neel Sethi
The Electric State
In a retro-futuristic past, orphaned teenager Michelle traverses the American West with an eccentric drifter and a sweet but mysterious robot in...
Cast: Millie Bobby Brown
Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a...
Cast: Seth Peterson
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD....
Maximum Overdrive
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck...
Cast: Emilio Estevez
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
The Black Audio Film Collective's seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in...
Cast: Darrick Harris
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
Cast: George C. Scott
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and...
Cast: Kevin Conroy
Brother Nature
Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his...
Cast: Taran Killam
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the...
Cast: Madonna
Chelsea on the Rocks
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once...
Cast: Ethan Hawke
Roanoak
The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North...
Cast: Victor Garber
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Cast: Ahn Seo-hyun
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Cast: Mia Farrow
Rockabye
A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the...
Cast: Valerie Bertinelli
PoliWood
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
Cast: Richard Abramowitz
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
Cast: Trudy Young
Tutti a squola
The upright prof. Filippo Bottini Said Pippo is an "old-fashioned" teacher in a Roman school. He would like a Heart book-style school but clashes...
Cast: Pippo Franco
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an...
Cast: Will Smith
Amos & Andrew
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After...
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar...
Cast: Whitney Houston
The Gentleman Bandit
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Cast: Ralph Waite
DuckTales: The Last Adventure!
The future of adventuring hangs in the balance as the Duck family uncovers earth-shattering secrets in a final standoff with the Fiendish...
Cast: David Tennant
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three...
Cast: Maria Tucci
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Cast: Richard Gere
The Brother from Another Planet
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth...
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Cast: Dan Aykroyd
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.
Cast: Bryan Cranston


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Clean Energy Fuels Opens Newest Public CNG Station at JFK International Airport
Clean Energy Fuels Corp., today announced fueling has begun at its newest public access CNG station in New York, which is located at JFK International Airport within the newly-opened JFK multi-fuel travel plaza, the only travel plaza in New York City available to motorists. Clean Energy will be fueling many types of fleets including refuse trucks, heavy and medium duty trucks, ready-mix concrete trucks, as well as shuttles and taxis that directly serve JFK travelers.
"CNG is an important fueling option for New York businesses and has proven to be a reliable fuel for the people of New York during times of natural disaster," said Peter Grace, senior vice president of sales and finance at Clean Energy. "We congratulate Airport Plaza for today's grand opening and are proud to be the CNG provider at this innovative alternative fueling station."
The new public CNG station is open 24/7 and accepts credit cards and fleet fuel cards. In addition to CNG, the JFK travel plaza also features other alternative fuels, such as E-85, electric vehicle charging stations, as well as conventional gasoline and diesel. However, CNG is the only alternative fuel which can meet the fueling needs of vehicles ranging from taxis to heavy-duty trucks which will be fueling at this station.
"As one of the first ready-mix companies in the United States to utilize natural gas in our ready-mix concrete mixers, we're excited about fueling with Clean Energy," said Bob Gartman, vice president of operations, Ferrara Brothers Building Materials Corp. "As a local Queens company based in Flushing, our CNG fueling will not only positively impact the surrounding community and environment, limiting the need for foreign oil, but will also positively impact our bottom line."
Clean Energy is now successfully operating at every international airport in the Northeast and currently operates over thirty public stations in the Tri-State area.
"The New York Department of Sanitation's municipal refuse fleet is the largest in the nation and requires a fueling partner who can meet the demands of our fleet," said Rocco DiRico, deputy commissioner, New York City Department of Sanitation. "The new JFK CNG station makes fueling even easier for our department."
Natural gas fuel costs up to $1.50 less per gallon than gasoline or diesel, depending on local market conditions. The use of natural gas fuel not only reduces operating costs for vehicles, but also reduces greenhouse gas emissions up to 30% in light-duty vehicles and 23% in medium to heavy-duty vehicles. In addition, nearly all natural gas consumed in North America is produced domestically.
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If approved by the Planning & Zoning Commission and City Council in February, the City of Springfield will start work on 126 capital improvement projects and programs during the 2019 fiscal year. Twenty-eight projects and programs were completed in 2018 as promised at a cost of $43 million.
can include comprehensive programs which consolidate many smaller individual improvements that do not individually meet the $100,000 threshold. Examples are sidewalks, stormwater and sewer repair, signal enhancement and neighborhood improvement programs.
can include acquisition of property, land, right of way or easements, but should not include the purchase of equipment or services. The only exception to this is when the purchase of equipment is part of the initial startup of a project that involves a new service. For example, if a new fire station is proposed for funding, the fire trucks (and other equipment meeting the criteria listed above) should be included.
City of Springfield capital improvement projects are prioritized based on their relationship to the following City Council adopted priorities: Public Safety, Legislative Engagement, Fiscal Sustainability and Economic Vitality.
The planned 2019 projects include ones that are city-wide and in each of the four City Council zones.
"The Capital Improvements Program is a schedule and strategy for funding and planning the construction, maintenance and replacement of the infrastructure and public facilities for a six-year planning window," said Principal City Planner Randall Whitman.
The program identifies capital projects and programs that will be funded in 2019 and those projects and programs potentially funded between 2020 and 2024.
Whitman said the CIP is updated on an annual basis, creating an opportunity for new projects or programs to be added and existing projects to be amended, as construction schedules and funding demands. This annual review allows projects and programs to receive consideration for funding and inclusion in the annual budget, as well as provide an opportunity for the public to review and comment on anticipated capital improvements projects planned across the city.
"The CIP also strives to align anticipated capital improvements with adopted plans, studies and related programs the City and its various departments are charged with following," Whitman said.
The primary funding source for Capital Improvement Projects is the 1/4-cent Capital Improvement Project Sales Tax, which has been renewed every three years by Springfield voters since its inception in 1989 and will appear on the April 2 ballot.
Other funding sources include the 1/8-cent Transportation Sales Tax, the Level Property Tax, the 1/4-cent Parks Sales Tax, and state and federal funding.
City-wide projects include a reforestation and landscaping program, school sidewalks, sidewalk/curb/gutter and ramp construction, floodplain acquisition and stormwater improvement, bicycle routes signs and markings, neighborhood improvements, Neighborhood Initiatives Program and the Neighborhood Works program.
Whitman added that the development of the 2019 Capital Improvements Program represents a collaboration between multiple City departments, resulting in a comprehensive database of all public improvement needs planned everywhere in the City, from the airport to the zoo.
For more information, contact Principal Planner Randall Whitman at 417-864-2027 or Director of Public Information & Civic Engagement Cora Scott at 417-380-3352.