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Gary Goodyear and the Harper Government's Attack on Science
In 1995 Ontarians elected their first neoconservative premier, Mike Harris. It was an experiment that failed badly due in large part to the fact that many candidates who rode the wave of the movement into power, had no government experience.
Many were from rural areas and lacked higher education.
On the surface this is not a problem. Rural communities need a voice and who best to speak for them, than one of them.
However, the difficulty was in choosing a cabinet, because ministers not only speak for their constituents but for their 'clients' who fall within their mandate.
Now Harris had people in his caucus who could have represented the interests of these groups. Who had enough (and often more than enough) expertise to understand the needs of schools, farmers, etc. But that is not how neoconservatism works.
Harris wanted to tear down government departments, so he needed ministers who would become the nemesis of their 'clients'. Ministers who were 'movement' oriented and knew what had to be done. If they felt any empathy or concern for the problems facing these 'clients', that would run contra to the neoconservative agenda.
Political scientist and author Brooke Jeffrey explains how Harris chose his cabinet:
First and foremost, Mike Harris chose people like himself. That meant white, middle-aged men. It also meant self-made men were in and well-educated
upper-middle-class ones, for the most part, were out. In addition, Harris picked a third of his cabinet from rookie MPPs with no experience in the legislature, let alone the cabinet. The advantage, for Harris, was that they would always perceive themselves to be in his debt. After all, they had been elected on his coat-tails ... The combination of these two selection criteria alone was likely to cause serious problems for the government, but Harris did not stop there. Ignoring conventional wisdom once more, he deliberately (and some would say perversely) placed individuals in portfolios for which they had no relevant experience or training.
His theory was unique, but understandable if one considers his neoconservative perspective. (1)
So in Harris's world the Minster of Agriculture did not speak for the farmer, but promoted fewer farmers and lower prices, which meant more imports. The Minister of Education did not speak to the quality of education but only to reducing the number of schools and teachers, promoting private education.
In her new book, The Armageddon Factor, Marci McDonald discusses the appointment of Gary Goodyear to the Science portfolio. Goodyear was an obscure backbencher who had dropped out of university and instead chose a career as a chiropractor. This doesn't mean that his chosen path was not in the scientific field. Far from it.
However, McDonald suggests that Stephen Harper chose Goodyear in part to exact revenge on academics and climate scientists. (2) After all, their demands stood in the way of big business.
But she also draws on the fact that Gary Goodyear is a devout Baptist who 'embraced a personal belief in creationism' and 'regarded evolution as a theory concocted by scheming humanists in academia to undercut the very foundations of Christian doctrine.' (2)
So to Goodyear he would be the foe of the science community because they threatened his beliefs. Ignoring the fact that scientists could use their "God given" talents for the betterment of mankind, he was only concerned that their 'theories' violated the Old Testament.
So though I'm sure to some degree Harper liked sticking it to the academics, who are often viewed as the enemy of the movement, I think his choice of Goodyear was to appease the Christian fundamentalists who represent his base. This was a clear message that with Goodyear at the helm, funding to scientific research would become a thing of the past.
Unless that research was to prove their theory, that mankind evolved from one man and one woman, Adam and Eve. The fact that if this were true, early generations came about as a result of incest, did not factor in.
Courting the Theocons
In 2003, Stephen Harper gave a speech to the secretive Civitas Society, of which Jason Kenney is a founding member. Donald Gutstein, author of the book Not a Conspiracy Theory* (another must read), covered the meeting and reported on Harper's views:
The state should take a more activist role in policing social norms and values, Harper told the assembled conservatives. To achieve this goal, social and economic conservatives must reunite as they have in the U.S., where evangelical Christians and business rule in an unholy alliance. Red Tories must be jettisoned from the party, he said, and alliances forged with ethnic and immigrant communities who currently vote Liberal but espouse traditional family values. This was the successful strategy counselled by the neocons under Ronald Reagan to pull conservative Democrats into the Republican tent. Movement towards the goal must be "incremental," he said, so the public won't be spooked. (3)
Marci McDonald also mentions that meeting:
The only route, he [Harper] argued, was to focus not on the tired wish list of economic conservatives or "neo-cons," as they'd become known, but on what he called "theo-cons"—those social conservatives who care passionately about hot-button issues that turn on family, crime, and defence. Even foreign policy had become a theo-con issue, he pointed out, driven by moral and religious convictions. "The truth of the matter is that the real agenda and the defining issues have shifted from economic issues to social values," he said, "so conservatives must do the same."
Arguing that the party had to come up with tough, principled stands on everything from parents' right to spank their children to putting "hard power" behind the country's foreign-policy commitments, he cautioned that it also had to choose its battlefronts with care. The social-conservative issues we choose should not be denominational," he said, "but should unite social conservatives of different denominations and even different faiths." (4)
Exploiting religious beliefs is unconscionable, but just how far is he willing to take this? One of his mentors, through Charles McVety, is John Hagee who believes in "God's Foreign Policy". And what this means is that Israel should be left alone to do their job, which he explains is to launch a nuclear attack in the Middle East. Are those the foreign-policy commitments of the "theocons" that he's willing to endorse?
Goodyear Does not Disappoint
Carolyn Abraham wrote a comprehensive piece for the Globe and Mail, concerning the attack of Gary Goodyear on Canada's scientists. Mike Harris himself couldn't have selected a better soldier for the mission.
The screaming erupted last Wednesday afternoon, just down the street from Parliament Hill, in the offices of a Conservative cabinet minister. Two officials with Canadian Association of University Teachers sat on one side of a boardroom table and on the other sat Gary Goodyear, Minister of Science and Technology, his policy adviser Wesley Moore and a civil servant ready to take notes.
CAUT, a lobby group that represents 65,000 staff at 121 colleges and universities, had planned to raise concerns over the government's handling of research funding. But within moments, it became clear they wouldn't get very far. "The minister was very angry," said David Robinson, associate executive director of CAUT. "He was raising his voice and pointing his finger … He said everyone loves their [federal budget] and we said, 'A lot of our members don't love it'… and he said, 'That's because you're lying to them, misleading them.'" The talks, Mr. Robinson said, went from bad to worse. In 15 years on the job, he "never had a meeting like that." (5)
The battle lines were clearly drawn and this was going to be war.
James Turk, CAUT executive director, said the meeting with the minister typifies the chill many scientists feel coming from the government, calling the reception "nasty pit-bull" behaviour.
... The most common complaint since the Conservatives came to power in 2006 is the lack of support for the three arm's-length agencies that finance basic research: the National Science and Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
After years of double-digit budget increases in the early 2000s, government contributions in recent years to NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR have barely kept pace with inflation – and last year they underwent a government-mandated strategic review to reduce their spending. (5)
And while the government claims to be investing in 'science', and have indeed poured millions into the ministry, much of it has gone into the repair of buildings which should have fallen under a different mandate.
The Only Adversary in a Culture War is Secrecy
The media has recently begun talking about a culture war, between the Reform-Conservative Movement and the opposition parties. No doubt Harper will try to paint this as an assault on Christianity. He is already suggesting that his caucus is under attack because they go to church.
But it's not as simple as that.
This is not about their religious beliefs but the secrecy. If they really believe that this is what Canadians want, why not lay it out there. Tell us that they think that homosexuals should be "cured". Or that they not only oppose abortion but contraception and any form of family planning, that goes against "God's plan", which is for women to keep popping out babies until their uterus explodes.
And they don't just want the Canadian government to only consist of Christians, but they have to be "Born again" Christians. Lay that out there.
And if the reason why the Religious Right in Canada is accepting millions of dollars from the Religious Right in the United States, is because they believe that we are Narnia of the C.S. Lewis novel and that Canada will play a significant role in the end times, lay it out there. Shouldn't we get to decide whether or not we want to host this little shindig? I may be busy that weekend.
But the one I have the most trouble with is that they don't believe there is a place in the world for Muslims.
Link Byfield was an early Reform party supporter. He is also a member of the Civitas Society, and his father was a founder. Several years ago he and Stephen Harper helped to found the Northern Foundation (6) which was to be a vanguard group for the Far-Right. He is also on the executive of the new Wildrose Alliance Party in Alberta.
He spoke at a REAL Women's** conference about three possible outcomes to our future.
Scene I. If Islam Prevails ... "An invasion by Islam will not be by force of arms, as they do not have the technology for that. The power of Islam is in its birth rate. Islam cannot be removed or replaced, and it grows by way of its large families ...
Scene II. If Materialism (Secular Humanism) Prevails ... To populate the nation, society has implemented the ideas set out in Aldous Huxley's book, "Brave New World." For example, we are increasingly playing with providing babies in nurseries without mothers and fathers and families, just as predicted by Mr. Huxley ...
Scene III. If Christianity Prevails ... Christianity is about God saving man from himself. God saves us out of an unfathomable love. He saves us from idolatry. He saves us from our enemies. Will we win? Who knows? Looking at the Christian case, it seems to be the weakest. But Mr. Byfield believes Christianity will prevail.
And yet there is no 'Scene' where harmony will prevail. Where Christianity and Islam can both survive. And what about Judaism? Buddhism? Hinduism? What they see is a final, no holds barred, contest between Islam and Christianity. A fight to the finish.
I'm revisiting some of my old postings on the threat of the Religious Right, because it appears that we may finally be debating this issue in Canada, and that's a good thing.
Because all Canadians have the right to believe what they want. It's the beauty of a free society. But they don't have the right to force those beliefs on the rest of us, and by cutting funding to areas that are important to all Canadians, their "forced beliefs" could have devastating results.
So I just want some honesty. Is that too much to ask?
* Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy, By Donald Gutstein, Key Porter Books, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-55470-191-9
*REAL women were also under the Northern Foundation's umbrella.
1. Hard Right Turn: The New Face of neo-Conservatism in Canada, Brooke Jeffrey, Harper-Collins, 1999, ISBN: 0-00 255762-2, Pg. 174-175
2. The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, By: Marci McDonald, Random House Canada, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-307-35646-8
3. Harper, Bush Share Roots in Controversial Philosophy: Close advisers schooled in 'the noble lie' and 'regime change', By Donald Gutstein, The Tyee, November 29, 2005
4. Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons: The rising clout of Canada's religious right, By Marci McDonald, The Walrus, October 2006, Pg. 2
5. Researchers fear 'stagnation' under Tories, By: Carolyn Abraham, Globe and Mail, March 2, 2009
6. Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper demonstrates continued ultra right wing affiliations by blocking pro social justice Toronto candidate, By Dr. Debra Chin, The Canadian
7. REAL Women of Canada 2002 Conference, "The Impact of Feminism on Society".
Labels: Christian Fundamentalism, Creationism, Friends of Science, Gary Goodyear, Mike Harris, Stephen Harper


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«Maxx» — німецька євроденс-група.

Біографія
Біля витоків групи стояли продюсери David Brunner (The Hitman) і Juergen Wind (George Torpey).

Maxx почали виступати на Eurodance сцені в 1994 році. Виконуючи свої найвідоміші хіти «Get-A-Way» і «No More (I can't Stand It)».

Чоловічі вокальні реп партії виконував Gary Bokoe. Жіночі вокальні партії для «Get-A-Way» записала Samira Besic, а ось уже на сцені і в кліпі співала під фонограму Alice Montana. Незабаром Alice Montana покинула групу, а на заміну їй прийшла нова солістка — Linda Meek.

Назва групи Maxx розшифровується як «максимум екстазу». Протягом одного року, Maxx стали одним з найбільш успішних колективів в Німеччині.

Сингл «Get-A-Way» тільки в Німеччині було продано у кількості понад 400,000 копій, і він досяг золотого статусу. У всій Європі було продано більше, ніж 1,100,000 одиниць.

Після видатних 1994/1995 років цей багатообіцяючий музичний проект став згасати і в кінцевому підсумку зник з танцювальної музичної сцени.

Відродження групи
15 березня 2014 року, вокаліст «Maxx» Gary Bokoe виступив у фінському клубі Onniteekki.

У 2017 році група «Maxx» відновила концертну діяльність. До складу групи увійшли Linda Meek (Elyse) і новий репер.

Дискографія

Альбоми

Сингли

Кліпи

 1994 — No More (I can't Stand It)
 1994 — Get-A-Way
 1994 — You Can Get It
 1995 — Move Your Body

Примітки

Музичні колективи, що розпались 1995
Музичні колективи, що з'явились 1994
Євроденс-гурти
Німецькі музичні гурти
Вікіпедія:Статті з іншим значенням на Вікіданих
Сторінки з неперевіреними перекладами
Засновані в Німеччині 1994

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The German language edition of HATER – IM WAHN – is now available.
, the French edition of the book. You can pre-order it here from Amazon.fr.
Then, on 1st August, Goldmann releases IM WAHN, the German language edition (which can be pre-ordered here).
Finally, also on 1st August, an unabridged (9 hour!) audio book will be available from Blackstone Audio. More details as they become available!


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Claire C. Smith
Claire Chapman Smith was destined to be called to the barns of harness racing, a sport he watched grow from a leisurely pastime at Ottawa Valley fairs to a multi-billion dollar industry. He played a significant role in its development, making him a harness racing pioneer. His great-grandfather was involved with racetracks after immigrating to Canada from England while his great-grandmother was around horses as a lady-in-waiting to royalty. With his father running horses at local fairs and Smith's great-grandfather owning a racetrack in the community of Harlem near Portland, Ont., it was not hard for Smith to become involved.
By the time he was a teenager Smith was driving at Ottawa Valley meets. He campaigned across the valley in the 1930s and 1940s, buying, trading and racing horses as a part-time profession. At one time he operated a gas service station before taking on a job at a car dealership. He owned and was involved with many good horses. Champ Volo, Canada's two-year-old pacer of the year in 1956, was a Smith protégé. While a noted horseman in his own right, it was as an official of the sport that he left an indelible mark. How he became one of the top harness racing judges was accidental. In 1952 Smith was asked by T.P. Gorman to chart races at Connaught Park. The following year he started judging races on a part-time basis. In 1961 the Canadian Trotting Association asked him to be its acting head judge. Although he said he wasn't interested, Smith filled in for two weeks. He remained a full-time judge for the next 24 years. He left the judges' stand in 1985 but continued training horses into his 90s.
Smith presided at meets all across the country. In a 1962 column, Toronto Star racing writer Frank Armstrong wrote, "This past meeting at Old Woodbine was in our books the best supervised meeting in local history and we're inclined to credit presiding judge Claire Smith". During his tenure, he served on the CTA rules committee and virtually rewrote the rule book. He was later brought out of retirement by the CTA to co-ordinate its cross-Canada judges pool. Integrity was his goal and the penalties he imposed were used, in his opinion, to protect the $2 bettor. "Never has there been any judge as fair to the public, the track, and horseman", said a columnist of his work. "Never has the sport been so appreciating". Smith, who was born in Frankville, Ont., was also a member of the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame. He died in Ottawa in January, 2005, at the age of 96.
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Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti's detention under PSA extended by three months
Having spent over eight months in detention at two government facilities that were designated as sub-jails, Mufti was shifted to her home on April 7 as a partial relief to her
New Delhi Tuesday, 5 May 2020 10:59 PM
The detention of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti under the Public Safety Act has been extended by three months, news agency PTI reported.
The Srinagar District Magistrate reportedly extended the continuation of Mehbooba's custody at her residence just hours before her present term under the PSA was to expire.
Mehbooba was initially detained on August 5 last year when the Centre abrogated special status of the erstwhile state and bifurcated it into two union territories — Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir.
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Having spent over eight months in detention at two government facilities that were designated as sub-jails, Mufti was shifted to her home on April 7 as a partial relief to her.
Mufti heads the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which was in power in Jammu and Kashmir in alliance with the BJP till June 2018.
Initially, she was taken into preventive custody. Later on February 5 this year, she was slapped with the PSA along with Omar Abdullah, who was released in March. Farooq Abdullah had been released early last month.
Earlier, Mufti was lodged at a government guesthouse in Chashma Shahi and a bungalow on Maulana Azad Road near Lal Chowk.
Daughter of Mehbooba, Iltija has moved a habeas corpus petition before the Supreme Court in February challenging her mother's detention.
A three-judge bench had issued a notice to the Jammu and Kashmir administration seeking its response on the plea and posted the matter for a hearing on March 18. However, the petition was not taken up for hearing due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Habeas corpus is a writ seeking production of a person supposed to be in illegal detention before a court.
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'All you need is that one person': Shikhar Dhawan pens down heartwarming post for wifey


Welcome to the Honey Bee Stamps Brie Mine Blog Hop!
If you're just stopping by you're starting at the end haha. Make sure you head over to the fantastic Brenda Novel Noelke to start at the very beginning.
Well in addition to not missing out on any of the fun inspiration being provided by these amazing artists you also don't want to miss out on your chance to win!
Honey Bee Stamps is generously giving away a $30 gift card to the store but you must comment on every blog to win! The winner will be announced on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog on February 1st.
I created a one layer scene card. You're surprised I know.
I stamped and masked the stands and then did the same with the sweet treats.
I love how this set has different options for what goes on the cute little stand.
Since I have no self control and I can't stop myself from making a scene. I decided to create a little bakery scene. I used a T square ruler to create the checkerboard pattern on the counter top. This is a super simple way to add a little extra to your scene.
I went chocolate because well I love chocolate haha. When it came to picking the color scheme I thought the rich brown color would be super pretty with bright purple. After that it was easy to pick the bright yellow for the bakery "walls" because it's purple's complimentary color.
I used the same ruler to sketch in a really quick window. I used light blue markers at an angle to create a "shiny" window service. I used a silver pen to add in the window letters. It's hard to see in most of the photos but this one shows it best.
I'm the last stop on the hop today!
The cupcake and cake look good enough to eat! The card is very cool!
I adore your project Kelly! So perfect!
I love the checkered counter top!
Wow! Your cupcake frosting and cake look good enough to EAT! This is just beautiful! Love the bright purple color and the shine and dimension to the frosting! Big wows!
Blog hops are so much fun because I get inspired to create--thank you. I love what you created!
This is really pretty! :) Love your coloring.
Something like this, but it's nice to pretend someday i might! :) thanks for the inspiration!
Your card is amazing! I'm so impressed with your ability to draw the scene. And I totally want to eat that cake!
I always love your cards and your you tube videos when you introduce the release!
Oh, my! That is amazing! Way beyond stamping! Your vision and creativity is one of the best I've seen!
Oh Kelly what a fabulous fun card. Great to make your scene a bakers & not just a table like id have come up with. Thank you for inspiring me as always.
Your coloring is so yummy!
Very cute card, making me hungry! Fabulous coloring as always Kelly, love your videos too!
I wanted to eat your card!! Well done and very cute.
Mmmmm, your yummy card is making me hungry! Such pretty coloring and adorable card!
Amazing as usual, love the colors and the scene and I mean what's not to love when it comes to cake and cupcakes! Great card!
stunning card - LOVE your attention to detail in the backward wording on the 'window"!!
Stunning coloring! I just love the way you shade and highlight!
Wow, beautiful job! I love the retro diner feel!
What a fantastic card, down to the lettering you did on the window!
I love your card Kelly, your coloring skills are just amazing!!
Wonderful bakery scene and fabulous coloring.
Your card is beautiful! You're a VERY talented artist!
I'll take one of the giant cupcakes, please! Great idea creating the bakery scene. Fantastic coloring!
whoa! This is amazing! You can elevate a simple set like no other! And you can write backwards! WOW!!
Beautiful...love how you always make a scene and the card truly comes alive!
I purchased this set after watching you color the shiny frosting!! I love it!
This is amazing coloring! Thanks for sharing!
Chocolate cake scene...mmmmmmmmm. Great card!
This bakery scene is awesome! Love the fun colors you chose to showcase your amazing coloring skills!
Love the bakery scene, your coloring is always on point!!
Your card was harder to create than it looks huh? Love everything about it!
What a great card! I love how you did the window of the shop.
Your coloring is amazing as usual!!
LOVE your bakery scene! And your coloring is amazing as always!
Your card is a masterpiece, Kelly! Love the coloring and your choice of colors is superb!
Your one layer cards are so wonderful and you make them look so easy!! Great job!!
Awesome card with fabulous coloring! Love the stands and the cupcake and cake slice! Looks awesome with the b&w floor... great scene!
Jelly, you colored this up beautifully!!
Awesome! This card is making me hungry!
Beautiful card. Your coloring is awesome.
As always Kelly, your card is amazingly well done. If I didn't know better, I would say this set was made for you! LOL It is perfect for one layer cards and there are so many options int his set for different scenes. (Gotta love THAT!) TFS!
So much detail on a one-layer card.
I'd eat that piece of cake right now.
Thanks for the 1-scene layer card! It is so pretty!
WOWZERS! this takes me back in time to an old SWEET SHOP!
Great palette and thanks for sharing the colouring tips in your video.
Wow Kelly! What a gorgeous card! I love the checkerboard table they are sitting on and the window is just over the top to finish this scene! Thanks for the fantastic inspiration!
Fantastic card! Love the checkerboard!
As always, Kelly, your cards are spectacular. I love your coloring on this one so much...looks good enough to eat! TFS!
This card is wonderful! So dynamic! THank you for the inspiration!
What a fun card! I love how you coloured the cake - looks good enough to eat :) And the scene is just fabulous - love the "bakery" in the window!
What a fabulous scene, Kelly! I want a piece of that cake.
Your cake is so realistic, I almost take a bite LOL. Thank you so much for showing this awesome card Kelly.
Wow, this card - and your coloring - is amazing, stunning, incredible! I can't believe (actually I can) that you created your own checker-board floor - so creative!
I love the scene you made and your window in the background just sets off the whole thing.
I'm really enjoying watching the different ways you're coloring this set. Cake never gets old (thought it does make me really hungry). Thanks for sharing and being awesome you!
You made the frosting look so real - good enough to eat! Such a cute scene you created and I especially love the window and the writing in the window.


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Congress to Consider Forest Management Act
MISSOULA, Mont. – On Thursday, June 11, a U.S. House of Representatives committee will vote on a bill that would clear the way for professional foresters to do their jobs, and the Boone and Crockett Club is urging sportsmen to support the measure.
H.R. 2647, the "Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015," would help the U.S. Forest Service more actively manage forests to improve habitat for game species, birds and other wildlife--while at the same time deterring catastrophic wildfire.
The bill is sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.).
"This bill contains many of the best forest management ideas to come before Congress in recent memory," said Morrie Stevens, Boone and Crockett Club president. "Among those ideas is removing administrative obstacles that handcuff forestry professionals."
Stevens said research supported by Boone and Crockett shows that overgrown forests are starving grounds for elk even in the summer when growth is greatest. Similar problems affect deer, game birds, and other wildlife. The portion of forests in this condition has been expanding for years, requiring a faster pace of restoration. A fact the Obama Administration itself has pointed out.
Part of the problem is the incentive to file lawsuits to stop projects is greater than the legal requirement to complete projects that restore forests. The forestry bill would give more weight to collaborative agreements. Failure to complete projects is fueling more overgrowth which, particularly in prevailing drought conditions, weakens trees, encourages insects like pine beetles to infest on a landscape scale, and builds forest fuels--all contributing to catastrophic wildfire seasons.
H.R. 2647 would, among other things, enable the Forest Service to carry out multiple forest health projects of the same kind based on a single environmental analysis, instead of having to repeat that process each time an action is proposed. The agency would also be able to rely more heavily on collaboration in developing projects, which would result in less legal gridlock before and after every decision.
In turn, more active forest management would supply funds for rural schools and for a revolving fund that helps speed faster planning of restoration.
"Sportsmen, with their boots on the ground, observation-based input have been at the forefront of natural resource conservation in the country for over a century," said Stevens. "Our national forests and wildlife need this one."
Stevens asked sportsmen to call their representatives, especially if they serve on the Natural Resources Committee, and ask them to vote yes on this bill on Thursday. Click here for a list of committee members.
Boone and Crockett is joining more than 30 other conservation and sporting organizations in supporting H.R. 2647.
The Club also is distributing an op-ed to newspapers across the country.
About the Boone and Crockett Club
North America's first hunting and conservation organization, the Boone and Crockett Club was founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1887. Its mission is to promote the conservation and management of wildlife, especially big game and its habitat, to preserve and encourage hunting and to maintain the highest ethical standards of fair chase and sportsmanship. Join us at www.boone-crockett.org.


appointment of Roland Bürli, Ph.D. as Vice President of Drug Discovery.
directing target validation, lead generation and optimization.
Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland.
life-changing therapeutics for patients who have brain-related disorders.


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Q: Store array in Realm object I'm new to Realm in Swift. Is there any way to store an array of strings in Realm Object?
I have a JSON Object like:
"firstName": "John",
"imgName": "e9a07f7d919299c8fe89a30022151135cd63773f.jpg",
"lastName": "Wood",
"permissions": {
    "messages": ["test", "check", "available"]
},

How can I store messages array in permissions key?

A: Here's one simple technique that doesn't require List<T> if you're sure your strings can be safely tokenized.
class Person: Object {
    private let SEPARATOR = "||"

    dynamic var permissionsString: String? = nil
    var permissions: [String] {
        get {
            guard let perms = self.permissionsString else { return [] }
            return perms.componentsSeparatedByString(SEPARATOR)
        }
        set {
            permissionsString = newValue.count > 0 ? newValue.joinWithSeparator(SEPARATOR) : nil
        }
    }

    override static func ignoredProperties() -> [String] {
        return ["permissions"]
    }
}

A: You could something like:
class Messages: Object {
    dynamic var message = ""
}

class Permission: Object {
    let messages = List<Messages>()
}

class Person: Object {
    dynamic var firstName = ""
    dynamic var imgName = ""
    dynamic var lastName = ""
    var permissions : Permission = Permission()
}

Anyways, I think now is well documented in Realm Swift Documentation

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ICYMI: August 22, 2015
By Seth Brodeur
A lot can happen in a week. Seven days might not seem like much, but it can be an eternity in the tech news cycle.
Between Windows news, hardware and software developments and Microsoft's fast-paced movements throughout the technology landscape, it's never easy to keep your hand on the pulse of technology. Not to mention everything that's going on right here at Windows Central!
Every week we're going to compile the biggest stories into one post, so you never fall behind – In Case You Missed It (ICYMI).
Early in the week, word started spreading that Microsoft could disable pirated games on Windows 10 . The theory stemmed from an excerpt from Microsoft's Services EULA that stated they may automatically install updates or make configuration changes to prevent users from "playing counterfeit games."
But what looked like a huge story turned out to be a false alarm. The Microsoft Services EULA is different than the Microsoft Software License Terms that governs Windows, and refers to counterfeiting Xbox Live and Windows Store content, rather than software installed on Windows devices.
However, Windows 10 users will have trouble playing some games, though. Microsoft said that the new OS won't run games with SafeDisc or Securom DRM, due to security concerns. The technology is outdated and no longer supported by the companies that made them.
The real news this week came with Windows 10 preview build 10525, the first since the operating system's official launch.
We've put together a rundown of what's new in the build, and what the known issues are.
We also gave you an in-depth look at the most prominent new feature, the updated color option. There are lots of good reasons to upgrade to Windows 10, but some people aren't ready for the change.
For those of you who want to go back to your old version of Windows, here's how to go back to Windows 8.1 and/or Windows 7.
Other notable items:
Windows 10 has reportedly exceeded 53 million PC installs
Groove Music and Movies & TV updated on Windows 10
All Windows 10 users can use the Windows Feedback app, Windows Insiders get extra features
Microsoft issues IE security update for Windows 10 and all other versions of the OS
Windows Hello can tell twins apart and keep accounts secure from identical siblings
Microsoft will list Windows 10 update details just for 'significant' improvements
On the Microsoft front, the company confirmed the closing of its phone manufacturing plant in Salo, Finland, along with the layoffs of 2,300 employees.
Although the loss of jobs is never a good thing overall, for Microsoft, it isn't the doom and gloom that many people interpret it to be. Our own Jason Ward thinks that the writing was on the wall all along, and that this is all part of [CEO Satya Nadella's master plan.
The Surface Pro 2 and 3 both received firmware updates. The patch is aimed at improving graphics performance on Windows 10.
The Microsoft Band and Health app will also be getting updated to help golf players. Microsoft's partnership with TaylorMade is bringing their myRoundPro feature to the Band and app, which will allow golf players to track a number of different statistics.
Microsoft opened up their Bing knowledge and action graph API to third-party developers. The API allows developers to leverage Bing's knowledge base from within the apps that they create.
And get ready for big announcements. Unconfirmed rumors are circulating that Microsoft has a big launch event planned for October. The event, which will take place in New York City, could very well be when Redmond announces its two new Lumia flagship phones with Windows 10 Mobile, along with the Surface Pro 4 tablet, the Microsoft Band 2 fitness device.
You know if it happens, Windows Central will bring you all the news from it.
Microsoft Edge team celebrates the 20th anniversary of Internet Explorer 1.0
OneNote, PowerPoint and Excel Previews score updates on Windows 10
The new strategy title "Ashes of Singularity" released new graphics benchmarking software that tested the effects of DirectX (DX) 11 and 12 on both AMD and Nvidia hardware. The results of tests run by PC Perspective using the tool show AMD graphics cards seeing huge gains with DX12, while Nvidia's appeared to be slightly hampered by it. Nvidia has since dismissed the tests as inaccurate.
Intel detailed some of the new features in its Skylake processors, including better performance and their new Speed Shift technology, which allows the CPU to change its power state. Their new "Wake-on-voice" technology that was demoed at the company's annual Intel Developer Forum could let Windows 10 owners use their voice to wake up a PC simply by saying "Hey, Cortana."
VAIO, the personal computer company that was once a division of Sony, will be bringing PCs back to the US later this year. VAIO Z Canvas PC, their 12.2-inch VAIO Z Canvas PC is due to hit the States this fall, with others to follow.
Samsung is also rumored to be planning to launch a 12-inch Windows 10 tablet sometime soon.
Parallels 11 is out and fully supports Windows 10. The new version brings Microsoft's Cortana to the Mac.
And finally, after a bug was found that crashes Google Chrome's 64-bit version on Windows 10 build 10525, Google took measures to fix the issue.
Comcast's Xfinity app for Xbox 360 to shut down on September 1
Razer's Intel RealSense 3D camera could track player motion in games
Windows Central's back to school guide
Review: The wireless Turtle Beach Stealth 420X brings crystalline Xbox One audio without breaking the bank
Share your thoughts on this past week of news! And we'll be back again next week to do it all over again.
Seth Brodeur
What does it mean by " Our very own Jason...thinks this all a part of Nadellas master plan." I don't get it. :/


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"How long has your family lived here?" she asked as they walked down the hall.
He furrowed his brow. "Five years? I think it's been five years. Maybe a little longer. My father didn't want to move for a long time. Now he has to drive to work, which annoys him, I think. But it's much easier for Chiara to get to school, and it's a nicer neighborhood." They passed a small dining room, a bath, and then came to three doors at the end of the hall. "Chiara's room, Papa's room, our room," he said, pointing at each in a counter-clockwise arc. He opened the door to the room that was theirs. Inside, she saw a double bed, a chest of drawers, and a bookcase of trophies. Medals hung from ribbons nailed to the wall. Silver bowls, framed photos, his entire career of accolades crammed into this dark little bedroom.
She began studying them, exhibits in the museum of Paolo.
"These are recent," she remarked.
"Some," he said. "There's some old ones, too." He pulled some pieces off a shelf and took out a small plaque, the size of a paperback book. It was wood laminate and brass-faced, engraved with his name, a club name, and the year 1994. "This was my first golden boot award." He grinned and handed it to her.
"I think this was the moment I realized it was possible. This was the last time I played just for fun." He took the plaque from her and placed it back on the shelf. "The bathroom is just right here," he said, changing his wistful tone and walking out of the room, pointing at a narrow door in the hallway.
She turned back and looked around the room. Of course she had never noticed a single award in his flat, no sign of the fifteen years he had dedicated to the sport. She wondered, briefly, if the picture she'd given him for Christmas would end up here as well. On the edge of the dresser was a framed snapshot of a young Paolo in jeans and a replica Napoli jersey, Lucia holding a chubby, toddler Chiara, and Amedeo looking dapper and proud, his hand on Paolo's head, smiling into the sun; Francesca picked it up. They looked to be on holiday, Lucia and Chiara were wearing pretty dresses, Amedeo reminded her of an actor in his sunglasses, and Paolo's jersey looked new, it looked like he refused to take it off. He seemed, if she had to guess, to be the same age as she was when her father died. She replaced the photo on the dresser.


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Q: Include Image in an email without attachments using java I want to add an image to an email along with some text without having to attach the image in the email. Would this be possible ?
I have managed to do the following so far but it is sent with an attachment and also the image in the mail. I want it without an attachment but as a part of the mail
 `Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(username));
        message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
                InternetAddress.parse(emailID));
        message.setSubject("Password Reset");

                    Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart("related");

                    BodyPart htmlPart = new MimeBodyPart();
    htmlPart.setContent("Hi", "text/html");

    multipart.addBodyPart(htmlPart);

    BodyPart imgPart=new MimeBodyPart();

    // Loading the image
    DataSource ds=new FileDataSource("C:\\Users\\XYZ\\Desktop\\images.jpg");
    imgPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(ds));

    //Setting the header
    imgPart.setHeader("Content-ID","the-img-1");

    multipart.addBodyPart(imgPart);

    // attaching the multi-part to the message

    message.setContent(multipart);

        Transport.send(message);`

A: You will be need to construct an html based e-mail for that purpose.
There are plenty of examples that you can get on google for that.
One example is look at here.
Note that image you want to send should be accessible over http to recipient. May be you can upload it on google drive or some image server

A: You need to construct a multipart/related message.


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954 Robbie Brady
Brady joined Hull City on loan for the 2011-12 season and played regularly in the first team. His array of dazzling skills were certainly on show, too often immediately prior to him making a silly blunder or coughing up possession. Brady was again loaned to City in November 2012, a move that was made permanent in January 2013. He returned a changed player, more mature in outlook, improved defensive capabilities and a better team player. His form contributed greatly to City's promotion in May 2013. Brady started the 2013-14 season like a train, scoring the winner in City's opening fixture against Norwich and contributing more important goals before a serious groin injury ended his season prematurely. He returned in 2014 and scored important European goals, but his influence had waned and he left the newly relegated Tigers in July 2015.
Dublin-born Brady signed for Manchester United in 2008 at the age of 16, quickly establishing himself at under-18 and reserve team levels. He made his solitary first team appearance for the Red Devils in the League Cup in 2012, between his two loan spells at Hull City.
Brady left for Norwich City in 2015, who were newly promoted to the Premier League. He played well for the Canaries but was unable to steer them away from relegation back to the Championship, where Robbie spent a further half a season before signing for Burnley in January 2017. Brady was an important part of Burnley's Premier League rise to midtable obscurity under Sean Dyche, before spending most of 2017-18 season out of the side through injury. His return to the first team was slow and sure, but he was restored as an important Premier League squad player for the Clarets by 2019.
Brady played at every youth level for the Republic of Ireland, becoming the record goalscorer at under-21 level. He made his debut in the senior team in September 2012, while still playing for the under-21s, and has been a first team regular since then.
Nationality: Ireland
Date/Place of Birth: 14 January 1992, Dublin
Hull City First Game: 5 August 2011, Blackpool H (Championship), 19 years, 203 days old
Hull City Final Game: 24 May 2015, Manchester United H (Premier League), 23 years, 130 days old
Manchester United (2008-2013), Hull City (2011-2012, loan), Hull City (2012-2013, loan), Hull City (2013-2015), Norwich City (2015-2017), Burnley (2017-current)
Career: 124 apps, 14 goals
2011/12 24 (15) 3 2 (0) 0 - - - - - -
2013/14 11 (5) 3 0 (1) 0 0 (1) 1 - - - -
2014/15 17 (10) 0 1 (0) 0 1 (0) 1 3 (0) 2 - -


Last year, the board received a proposal for a solar panel project, but the supplier was unable to meet the board's requirements for an American-made panel. The supplier ultimately went out of business.
Jenkins used his contacts at RER Energy to resurrect the proposal. The Reading-based company has a good reputation and produced a proposal that would offset 60 percent of the power consumption at the pump station.
Elizabeth Gehring, a lively centenarian, celebrated her milestone event with 200 of her friends at Fellowship Community, Whitehall, June 12.
Elizabeth first came to everyone's attention when her fifth-grade class, now in their 70s, sought her out. They have semi-annual meetings to relive old adventures.
To celebrate, Elizabeth had every guest bring nonperishables for Whitehall Food Bank. Shari Noctor, who chairs Whitehall-Coplay Hunger Initiative, was impressed with the haul. The donation table was filled to overflowing and had to be emptied several times.
As expected, Coplay Borough Council approved a new apartment complex at its meeting June 12.
The project is sponsored by DVS Enterprises and consists of multiple apartment buildings near the Ironton Rail Trail and the new Saylor Park. The new project mimics a similar-styled project across the street.
Council's main concerns were with stormwater runoff. Ultimately, council agreed the protections and safeguards offered by the developer were adequate.
At the Whitehall-Coplay School Board meeting June 11, the board adopted the 2018-19 budget. The new budget is $70,386,888 and is an increase of 4.05 percent from the previous year.
The budget increases taxes by 0.6181 mill, bringing the total property tax rate for school taxes to 17.2108 mills. The increase is 3.73 percent and will cost the average homeowner an additional $106.53 annually.
The school budget has a provision that any savings during the year in excess of 7.5 percent is used to fund teacher pension commitments.
At its workshop meeting June 5, Coplay Borough Council reviewed revisions to a proposal by DVS Enterprises for an apartment complex along the Ironton Rail Trail and across from an existing complex on Coplay Road and gave tentative approval.
Because the development is so close to the IRT, council expressed concern over a concrete bulkhead on the property and maintenance problems it may cause. A survey showed the bulkhead is borough property, but council was assured that DVS would make every effort to ensure the swale in the area would be properly maintained.
Plant Manager David Harleman outlined the Coplay Whitehall Sewer Authority's 2018 program for relining sewer mains and manholes.
The contract to rework sewer mains was let to Insiteform, which will reline 2,000 feet of sewer main lines.
Relining the sewer mains will postpone the need to dig up the lines and replace them.
Coplay Borough is assessing a bid from Land-Tech Enterprises Inc. for work on Saylor Park. The bid — $827,000-plus — is in line with expectations.
Borough Engineer Daniel Witczak will review the application and ensure it meets specifications.
The competing bid was more than $1,000,000.
At Coplay Borough Council's meeting May 1, Councilwoman Janet Eisenhauer acknowledged receipt of a $25,000 grant from the Trexler Foundation.
"Trexler has been good to Coplay. The only stipulation we have on the grant is to spend it on Saylor Park. They want a report to show how the money was spent by the end of November," she said.
Trexler also gave $1,800 to the library. Those funds will be used for a new computer.
Eisenhauer announced the borough signed a contract with Paychex to do payroll.
At CWSA's regular meeting April 19, Attorney John Stover announced a settlement over the Allentown Waterfront project.
"This has been a long two-year battle, but we have a resolution that meets the needs of both organizations," he said.
Disagreement centered on a 36-inch interceptor line owned by CWSA that delivers sewage to the Allentown Wastewater Treatment Plant. Plans for the waterfront called for the interceptor to be moved. CWSA objected if the costs were to be incurred by ratepayers. The waterfront partners did not want to pay the costs involved.
Each year, the Lehigh Valley chapter of the West Point Society presents the Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Character Award to an outstanding junior at Whitehall High School.
For 2018, the award goes to Aziz Atiyeh.
Mike Tauber, a Whitehall and West Point graduate, presented the certificate on behalf of the West Point Society.
"This certificate recognizes high school juniors who demonstrated the leadership and character that comes with individual achievement while helping others attain their goals," Tauber said.


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Project Runway: Good news and bad news
Brooke Shields was a guest judge on Project Runway Aug. 13, picking out an outfit for her show, Lipstick Jungle. With her is regular judge Nina Garcia. Below: Model Shannone in Keith's winning design. Farther below: Polina in Blayne's miss. Copyrighted photos by Barbara Nitke for NBC.
If you are among the competitors stuck on the runway representing, "the highest scores and the lowest scores," as Frau Heidi tells us each week on Project Runway, you want to hear the judges praise your work as simultaneously unique and well made. That's usually a win, which it was for Keith tonight.
What you don't want to hear is Nina or Michael questioning something as fundamental as your taste, which usually means goodbye. This week it was goodbye Kelli, though you could easily argue that Blayne failed more decisively and Daniel is cashing in lives quicker than a curious cat. Oh, well. It will probably be interesting to see what drama emerges after Kenley openly laughed at Daniel on the runway as he declared he had impeccable taste -- well, he was as declarative as one could be mumbling through their nostrils.
The challenge was to design an outfit for Brooke Shields to wear on the NBC series Sex in the . . . uh . . . Lipstick Jungle. Brooke picked six of the 12 designers' ideas to be executed, and then the designers were paired up to build the outfits.
She's supposed to be a business woman by day hanging with her musician husband by night, with a little bohemian flair. OK, you didn't have to look hard to figure out which contestant would have no concept of how anyone dresses in an office. The closest Blayne appears to have been to an office would be the office in the back of his favorite tanning salon. So, he offered up a completely inappropriate shorts thing that looked more tailored for rock climbing or wading into the ocean up to your knees than an office or a boho bash. But, Brooke did select it to be made, and the minute Michael Kors declared Kelli's outfit, "slut-tee," you knew it was over for her or partner Daniel. In what they showed us, Daniel seemed to be a pretty indifferent collaborator, but in these team efforts, the leader usually takes the fall. Bye, Kelli. Keep eating the 9 Lives, Daniel.
Also in contention for the top were Stella and Jerrel, who came up with a very cool, funky, adult outfit. They really seemed to compliment one another. But Keith's sculpted, high dress really was head turning, and apparently it will actually be worn on Lipstick Jungle. He just needs to hope it's not paired with a line like, "What is that?!" But it will probably be A HIT! -- whoops, wrong reality show.
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Battle of the 757
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Nazim Trammell-Wells | Contributing Writer
With schools that are only 14 miles apart, comparisons are inevitable. Here in Virginia, with no professional sports, it is a big deal when two local universities meet—especially schools in the Hampton Roads area, one of Virginia's athletic hotbeds.
Old Dominion University, a big-time university in the area, is a member of Conference USA. Hampton University is a current member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, but will soon enter the Big South Conference following this July.
Being in different conferences, the teams only compete against each other once a year. Last year, the Lady Pirates fell short, with the final score being 58-61 at ODU. This year, they made sure that they wouldn't make the same mistakes as before.
Recently, on January 20th, Hampton's Lady Pirates defeated the Old Dominion Monarchs, 50-42. This is the first time in all seven meetings between the two teams that Hampton has emerged victorious.
For much of the game, the Lady Pirates were plagued by an 8-point deficit and were struggling to beat Old Dominion's effective 2-3 zone. With the deficit stretching as far as 15 in ODU's favor, Hampton got it back under control thanks to guard Dejane James and forward Jephany Brown. Brown, who led the team in scoring with 12 points, kept the team a float, showing off her aggressive scoring mentality after making two three-point shots. Brown's three-pointers were the Lady Pirates' only three's of the first half.
James also outdid herself in this game. The 5'3 guard put up 11 points and displayed her crafty ball-handling and knack to get into the lane.
After three quarters passed, Hampton had a 4th quarter explosion. K'lynn Willis started the comeback after burying a pair of well needed triples. Those triples were surely confidence boosters, as Hampton turned up their defensive pressure.
"The feeling on the floor was amazing," Willis said, "I feel like our energy picked up, which then led to big key defensive stops. The team flipped the switch to make the run with confidence and defensive pressure."
That defensive pressure ultimately resulted in a 25-4 run in favor of the Lady Pirates. This win is a new addition to the long list of quality wins for the Lady Pirates, including Columbia, San Jose State and most notably, UNC Chapel Hill.
Quality wins like this have become a standard for the Lady Pirates this year, building much excitement for this year's team.
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Joanna Cresswell
Photographs Courtesy of Vincent Ferrane.
Ancient Greek mythology has it that the Milky Way was formed when the divine hero Heracles was a baby. Legend goes that his father, Zeus, god of the sky, allowed him to breastfeed from his divine wife, Hera, while she slept. Heracles was not Hera's son, but the son of a mere mortal named Alcmene, and so when Hera awoke she pushed the unknown child away from her, and the milk left streaming from her breast became the Milky Way.
Referencing this myth, French photographer Vincent Ferrane's recent personal project, Milky Way deals with the colliding of inside and outside worlds as he and his wife navigate the first stretch of new parenthood and in particular, the ritual of breastfeeding. The intimate, immersive world inside their family home is juxtaposed with the surrounding landscapes, seen mostly from windows and forming a gentle backdrop to this phase in their life as a new family. Sleepy winter scenes give way to spring, and time quietly continues passing outside of their private bubble. "The whole series assumes this balance between everyday reality and poetic symbols and myths," Ferrane says.
The images in Milky Way are spread over several months from the very first days of his child's life. Aptly milky-hued, they follow a gentle, unwavering repetition of the act of breastfeeding – rhythmic and consistent throughout the project, Ferrane describes it as a "pulse that gradually takes its place among the other cycles of life" and time and again, mother and child are connected together. As the portrait wears on, we see Ferrane's wife rehearsing positions and angles, limbs and skin slotting together almost like choreography.
"I tried to let the aesthetics follow the act of feeding, which imposes its geometry on bodies and the space they occupy. In other words, my partner and our baby had to learn from each other at the beginning. The way in which these two bodies approach one another is determined by food, and they express themselves only through gestures and postures. I tried to compose my images focusing on all these little adjustments: the way my wife was sitting, holding and giving her breast to the baby, or the way the baby grabbed the breast and seemed to fuse with his mother."
Ferrane says that the project grew organically, as a visual diary. "I'm constantly taking pictures of my partner anyway, but when I started the breastfeeding pictures, it rapidly appeared that it could be a series living by itself. I did not want to do any sort of 'report' on breastfeeding but rather to focus on feelings and atmospheres. I think I was struck beyond words by the beauty of these moments."
While there is a personal, poetic tenderness to the images, Ferrane is keen to point out that he did not want to romanticise them – there are moments of severe tiredness and signifiers of the harsh realities of being a new mother and the strain of that on the body and the mind. He said it was incredibly important for him to give an honest portrait of it, in all its complexity. "That's why I also included still-life images of breastfeeding paraphernalia too – the breast pumps, the bathrooms and so on," he says. "I wanted to take that classical idea of the 'noble' image of a breastfeeding mother and replace it with images of the everyday experience of it. As parents, you naturally and immediately incorporate these elements into your life and you find them beautiful, so I tried to do the same as a photographer, finding an aesthetic language that does not stop at what is normally considered 'beautiful' or worthy of interest."
As a result, Ferrane hopes that people will get a moving, but not idealised, chronicle of these universal moments – an honest and tender portrayal of the prosaic reality of breastfeeding. The project includes stark images of nudity and lactating breasts that were agreed with his partner, and which make for powerful images. "Of course making this series doesn't make me an expert in any way," he says, when asked if he hopes the images will contribute in some small way towards normalising the image of breastfeeding more, "but for me it should undoubtedly be seen as an act of life and love that is not always an easy task. It deserves encouragement in all its dimensions – psychological, physical and social. In modern iconography, it's obvious to say that the female body is often eroticised. In this series, the idea is not so much to try to desexualise the body, but rather to render its function, and to show the beauty and poetry inherent in that."
A mother and her child are physically connected through the act of breastfeeding. In some ways, Ferrane says, this project involved him as a part of the ritual too, as an active spectator. "The position you have, and the distance from which you take the picture is a fundamental aspect in photography. I started this candid series as a moved father – a father-photographer, you could say. During breastfeeding moments, as a father you are emotionally involved but already at a distance physically. Yes, Milky Way serially concentrated on breastfeeding moments, but there was ample space for me to express my role as a father, my love and my parenthood without trying to find a way to participate more or to interfere with those moments between mother and child. Taking the pictures was simply an act of love. Having a baby is a little revolution in parents' lives and in the end those moments are rapidly passing. Taking photographs is a way to enjoy them for a little longer."
Milky Way can be bought from Vincent here and from the publisher, Libraryman, here.
Honest Photographs About Breastfeeding (NSFW)
written by Joanna Cresswell
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It was a date that would live in infamy — at least in Pat Kehde's mind.
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"Well, it was the best day we ever had," Kehde says, referring to the opening of the now-shuttered Borders at 700 New Hampshire St.
The books that have meant the most to Pat Kehde
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Pat says: "Elegant language, witty dialogue, delightful characters and plot, great insights into human nature. It is the best."
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Pat says: "I picked up the second volume when I was a teenager and was blown away by the use of the English language, so rich and so vivid and so clear. It started a lifelong interest in World War II."
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Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Pat says: "I re-read this recently and I was surprised by how absolutely brilliant it is. The characters of Huck and Jim are without equal. The last chapter is problematic, but you can just stop reading before Tom enters the story."
Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Little House in the Big Woods"
Pat says: "The whole series of 'Little House' books is enthralling to me. She creates such a complete world and one that I still like to visit."
Journal-World archives indicate that Kehde was actually about five years off — the store opened to much fanfare on Dec. 6, 1997, which she correctly remembers as a Saturday — but it's still pretty impressive.
Prior to the big day, Kehde had launched a massive campaign to halt the superstore's arrival in historic downtown Lawrence. Thousands of postcards printed and distributed by Kehde and her volunteers, inscribed with messages from concerned citizens, were sent to the city commission in protest. Their efforts, of course, weren't entirely successful, but did boost awareness — and sales.
"People came in by the droves to buy a book. They didn't have to buy a book or want a book — they were going to buy a book" regardless, Kehde says of that blessed day in December 1997. "It was really, really an amazing thing."
After nearly 28 years in business, the "little bookstore that could," as one Journal-World article described the Raven on its 25th anniversary, is still going strong.
Defying expectations — lasting longer than the estimated five-year lifespan, surviving and ultimately triumphing over the big-box rival, maintaining a fiercely loyal clientele in the age of Amazon and ebooks — has been Kehde's modus operandi for a long time now. It's also her proudest achievement of a career that will end, officially this time, by the end of this month.
An open house with cake and beverages is on the books (pun intended) for 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday. The celebration will take place during Kehde's last three-hour shift at the store, where she has worked part-time since handing the keys over to current owner Heidi Raak in 2008.
Kehde had planned to retire when she and co-founder Mary Lou Wright sold the place, but stayed on to help with Raak's transition and then some.
"She doesn't stop," Wright says of her old friend (the two met more than 50 years ago as students at Scripps College) and business partner. "I don't know if that's a sign of brilliance, but it's certainly something that I admire — people that keep going like that."
At seventysomething, the former librarian (Kehde prefers not to reveal her age, citing concerns about competition on her tennis circuit) with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mystery novels isn't slowing down much, if at all. With her Saturdays suddenly free, Kehde plans on keeping busy with volunteer work at her church, knitting, tennis (naturally) and research for a rather ambitious chronicle of the history of downtown Lawrence businesses.
Kehde believes the hippies who cultivated the area's first funky boutiques in the 1970s fundamentally changed the nature of downtown, which she says resembled a "typical Kansas" main street before emerging as the dynamic city center it is today. "I like to think that we're kind of in the tradition of that even though we came 10 years after that," Kehde says of the Raven, which she opened with Wright in September 1987.
At the time, she recalls, the 600-block of nearby Massachusetts Street wasn't much. But in the 16-month period surrounding the Raven's arrival, Free State Brewing Co. had also opened for business. So too, had Liberty Hall's video store and its renovated theater, which had previously been a "trash heap." That stretch of downtown was dead, she recalls, and "now everything's happening here."
Kelly Barth, who has sold books at the Raven since 1997, credits Kehde.
"It's kind of a salon in that way, because of the kind of person Pat is," Barth says of the shop. "She's created this meeting place for people to talk about arts and culture and current events, which is what books are all about. It really is kind of a cultural hub for the town, and she's largely responsible for that."
For many Lawrence readers, "Pat really is the Raven," says Heidi Raak, who admits to "being scared for like, three years straight" after purchasing the shop. Luckily, she had an experienced teacher in Kehde.
Throughout her 28 years at the Raven, Kehde experienced the phenomenon of "Harry Potter" (she remembers a "line all the way down the street" for one book's midnight release — "thank you, J.K. Rowling"), the arrival of the Raven's first computerized inventory system, the establishment of the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards (Kehde, along with Wright and former Lawrence Arts Center executive director Ann Evans, helped found the Lawrence literary honors in the late 1990s) and the advent of ebooks. Amazon and similar retailers were and are a concern, says Raak, but she's confident in the steadfastness of Kehde's regulars.
A lot of those people, "life being what is," have since passed on, Kehde acknowledges. Recently, she was flipping through a photo album of the store's 20th anniversary celebration when Wright told her to stop and spare herself the heartache. Too many familiar faces, now dead and gone.
"And that's the way it is in life. They get older and they die," Kehde admits. "So it's good to have Heidi getting new, young people in."
Still, there's been more joy than tragedy in Kehde's tenure. In a couple more years, the Raven will turn 30, and she plans on being there. "I think we should have another big party," she says to Raak, though it is more an instruction than a suggestion.
"I told Heidi when she first bought the store, 'Heidi, I love to come to work every day.' And I think that's very true," Kehde says. "When you own your own small business, you do everything from cleaning the toilet to cleaning the cat box to ordering the books to talking to New York publishers. You can't imagine how much work it is, but it's a lot of fun, too."
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