Jefferson's Philosophy

Jeffersonian or Hamiltonian? Every college student, indeed every literate person, is expected to choose up sides and pin a label on himself in the Great Debate. Most people today consider themselves as Jeffersonians. Groups as diverse as the States' Rights (or Dixiecrat) movement and the Communists consider themselves heirs to the Jeffersonian mantle. At one and the same time, conservative southerners refer to themselves as "Jeffersonian Democrats," while the leading revolutionary Marxist school in the country is called the "Jefferson School of Social Science." Amidst this welter of confusion, to find the true picture of Jefferson the man and political philosopher is an extraordinarily difficult task.

A Bewildering Mosaic

Analysis of Jefferson is made far more difficult by the complex nature of Jefferson's personality and career. A man ofbrilliant intellect; keenly interested in the whole range of human thought, from economics to architecture to scientific farming; active, dynamic, and spirited in an amazing multitude of enterprises, and moreover a political leader the greater part of his life, necessarily presents to posterity a bewildering mosaic. Politics itself is a day-to-day affair, imposing by its very nature on the politician a series of shifts and compromises. Thomas Jefferson combined within himself the qualities of a soaring intellectual spirit, searching for political principle, busy man of affairs, and political boss. When it is further remembered that Jefferson dominated the stage during the most vital years of the Republic (Revolution Independence, Constitution, Growth, War, etc.), it becomes more understandable that so many contrasting groups can pick out of his immense


record of writings and actions support for their own ideologies.

A Mere Scribbler?

But to an unbiased observer who explores Thomas Jefferson, his principles stand out indelible and crystal clear. His political philosophy has been imbedded deep into the very soul of America, and has imprinted itself on the minds of innumerable Americans of later generations. His achievement has been sneered at by Hamiltonians of our day as well as his. Hamilton, they claim, was a constructive and practical man of action. He funded the national debt, reformed the administration of government, established a national bank, etc. Jefferson was a mere phrase-maker and scribbler. These "practical men" fail to grasp that the forces which generate the actions of men, and therefore human history, are, for good or bad, the ideaswhen government becomes destructive of that end, the people have the right to change the form of government accordingly. Thus Jefferson, as John Locke had done a century before, drastically shifted the moral emphasis from the State to the individual. In the absolutist and feudal era from which the world was beginning to emerge, divine right settled only on the kings, the nobility; in short, the State and its rulers. To Jefferson, the divine rights were conferred on each and every individual, not on rulers of government.

The Great Jeffersonian Lesson

What were these natural rights? The fundamental right, from which all others are deduced, is the right to life. Each individual has the moral right to live without coercive interference by others. To live, he must be free to


begin to learn again.

From this basic cornerstone, the rest of the Jeffersonian edifice is easily deduced. It explains his passionate, lifelong adherence to States' Rights, his determined opposition to John Marshall in the latter's successful campaign to make the Constitution more elastic so as to permit wider extension of federal power, his very distrust of the Constitution itself and insistence upon incorporating a Bill of Rights.

Jefferson's position on foreign policy stemmed from the same source. He did not believe that our government, or any government, is equipped to remake the world by force to our own liking. He was frankly a whole-hearted patriot, whose natural love of the soil and his country was reinforced by the fact that America constituted the Great Experiment in Liberty. His foreign policywas expressed in this classic phrase: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none." Particularly marked was his perceptive distrust of the wily imperialism of Great Britain.

The Fundamental Cleavage

In the economic sphere, Jefferson was not anti-capitalist, as his enemies charged. He believed in genuine freedom of enterprise, unencumbered by government regulation or grants of monopoly privilege. His opposition to paper money and a central bank were based on profound insight into the then new science of economics. Jefferson's almost unknown writings on banking, money, and depressions demonstrate that he was head and shoulders over the allegedly "practical men" who opposed him. What has since been interpreted as anti-capitalist rhetoric, was simply expression on Jefferson's part of a personal preference for the soil and a distaste


for the life of the cities.

The importance of the Jefferson-Hamilton struggle has been unfortunately obscured. It is a struggle which, in one form or another, has continued to mark our country since its inception. Hamilton and the Federalists believed in ever-expanding power of the federal government, a myriad of governmental regulations, controls, and special privileges in economic life, the crushing of the states, and limiting the rights of the individual. Their ideal was the British model — a strong monarch ruling the country in behalf of the "general welfare"; failing the adoption of a monarch, a strong President to act as benevolent despot. In foreign affairs, the Federalists looked to the British Empire as friend and ally. Hamiltonian Federalism was, in the profoundest sense, un-American; it represented aconscious harking back to the imperial British mode, a retention of the typically European forms of strong central government and semi-socialist "planned economy." Our Constitution was forged as a compromise between the Jefferson and Hamilton forces, with James Madison acting as the eternal tightrope-walker and fence-straddler between the two camps. The trappings, the rhetoric, the specific issues have changed, but the fundamental cleavage remains, unresolved, on the American scene.

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Our "operamentary" Magicarena has been finally broadcasted for the Italian audience on Sky Arte HD, at prime time on Saturday February 4th, 2017. It is a great achievement for us, the lucky outcome of a troubled path. The feature has been re-scheduled on February 8th and it is available on demand on Sky platform during over one year.

06 Feb Prime time Sky broadcasting on Saturday for Magicarena

After 2 years hitting the road at international film festivals – from the premiere at Cairo International film festival on November 2014 to the presentation at the Beijing International Film Festival on April 2016 – our “operamentary” Magicarena has been finally broadcasted for the Italian audience on Sky Arte HD, at prime time on Saturday February 4th, 2017. It is a greatachievement for us, the lucky outcome of a troubled path. The feature has been re-scheduled on February 8th and it is available on demand on Sky platform (link) during over one year.

I especially thank our distributor Stefano Mutolo, his staff of Berta Film and the press agent Lionella Bianca Fiorillo of Story Finders. And of course, all the amazing main characters of the film: Marja, Marjolaine, Nadine, Filippo, Federico, Marco and Massimo.

Skilfully balanced between on-stage and off-stage, private life and public exhibition, and between sacred representation and profane entertainment, MAGICARENA reveals the Opera secrets, as you have never seen before.

Magicarena is an Italian co-production between Le Talee, Fondazione Arena di Verona and K+. The film has been supported by the Italian culture ministry MIBAC, by Verona Film Commission


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Star Wars franchise creator George Lucas sat down for a nearly hour-long interview with Charlie Rose, and during the exchange, he compares Disney to "white slavers" when talking about his intended legacy and how he was developing a new Star Wars film of his own before he sold Lucasfilm. Earlier this month, he shared his opinion about Star Wars: The Force Awakens , but in this interview, he also elaborated his thoughts about the film.

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About Patti LuPone

Patti LuPone is one of the biggest names in international theater. A regular on Broadway and other New York stages, LuPone has not only performed on the biggest stages in theater, her creations of roles have set the template for every other production of the shows she is in. Winner of two Tony awards and a number of other honors, she is best known for her performance as Eva Peron in Evita, Fantine in the original London cast of Les Miserables, and Mama Rose in Gypsy.

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After completing her training with the first class of the Drama Division of New York’s Juilliard School, she began her career as a founding member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company playing a variety of leading roles, both on and off-Broadway and on tour throughout the United States. Her subsequent New York dramatic credits include Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist; David Mamet’s TheWater Engine, Edmond, and The Woods and Israel Horovitz’ Stage Directions. Miss LuPone’s memorable performances on the New York musical stage include Vera Simpson in the Encores! production of Pal Joey, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, (1988 Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination, Best Actress in a Musical), The Cradle Will Rock, Nancy in Oliver!, Evita (1980 Tony and Drama Desk Awards- Best Actress in a Musical), Working and Rosamund in The Robber Bridegroom (1976 Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Best Featured Actress in a Musical).

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Chant these words.
The name of the hideous demon that lurks in the land.
The hideous demon, whose eyelids droop to the ground.
VIY.
--Inferno Cavern (F-2) Mantra Tablet

A demon that sleeps within the earth. So unwieldy huge that it has trouble moving properly. Its massive eyelid droops closed, so until its familiars help open it up, it cannot see anything.
--Vita version bestiary

Viy is the Guardian of Inferno Cavern. It is a giant so large that Lemeza's battle is mostly with its eye and eyelashes. Winged demons fly in to assist Viy, helping Lemeza access Viy's weak point in the process. Viy indiscriminately attacks the demons, Lemeza, and its own tentacle-lashes with its giant laser. It appears at the bottom of the screen and advances upward during the battle. Lemeza must continuously


period after the tentacles first retract and Viy shows off its eye stalk. It is easy to hit at this time because the platforms are still intact.

Viy will also go down with a full round of ammo (6 shots) from the Pistol.

Viy can be semi-safely damaged by jumping straight at the fully extended eye and attacking it. The (minimal) damage from the eye will knock Lemeza backward onto a platform, if the original jump starts high enough.

Viy is the "king of the gnomes" from the short horror story / fairy tale of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. In the story, too, Viy has enormous drooping eyelids which must be raised by other demons. -WikipediaFatherland is a novel, written in 1994 by novelist Robert Harris. It is set in an alternate 1964, where the Cold War between the United States and NaziGermany is starting to thaw. The plot follows a Kriminalpolizei Sturmbannführer, Xavier March, investigating the murder of Josef Bühler in the days leading up to President Joseph P. Kennedy's visit and Adolf Hitler's birthday. Gradually, March uncovers a conspiracy to hide the mass murder of eleven million European Jews during the war.

The Second World War

World War Two progresses very differently in the fictional history of the novel. In 1942, Soviet forces manage to halt the German advance towards Moscow. The German forces then try to cut off oil supplies to the Red Army by launching a new attack into the Caucasus.


The offensive is highly succesful, and Soviet forces surrender in 1942. In 1944, the Royal Navy is lured by false intelligence to its destruction, and German U-Boats begin to cut off food supplies to Britain. In 1944, Britain signs an armistice with Germany; Churchill and King George VI are forced into exile in Canada, and instead, Edward, Duke of Windsor, is crowned as king. This leaves the United States as the only power still at war with Germany, and with no way to reach it. (An operation along the lines of D-Day is, by this point, impossible, as all of Europe is occupied, and Britain is no longer fighting the Germans.)
In 1945, much as in original history, the United States obliterate two Japanese cities with atomic weapons, andJapan surrenders unconditional. In 1946, a V-3 missile is sent to explode above New York City as a demonstration to the US. Unwilling to enter a long range war that would likely kill many civilians, the US and the German Reich sign a peace treaty. The Holocaust happens just as in original history, but its existence is only speculated by the Allies, and no solid evidence ever surfaces.

The World of 1964

In 1964, a puppet European Union, controlled by Germany dominates Europe, and a Cold War as developed between Germany and its satellites and the US and its allies. Joseph Kennedy, an appeaser, and anti-semite, is elected President, leading to a thawing of relations between Washington and Berlin. The USA continues to fund Soviet guerilla fighting on the Eastern


Front, causing a huge death toll amongst Wehrmacht soldiers. This has caused Adolf Hitler to try and ease relations; Germany can no longer sustain the massive losses to Soviet forces, despite Hitler's comments some years earlier about "welcoming" twenty years of war. In prepartion for the birthday of Adolf Hitler (the "Führertag") and President Kennedy's visit, the Gestapo have become a campaign to elimate those with knowledge of the Holocaust.

Characters

Xavier March: Xavier "Zavi" March served during the Second World War as a U-Boat captain, and later joined the Kriminalpolizei ("Kripo") in Berlin as a homicide detective. He was at one point married to a woman called Klara, but is now divorced. Zavi has a son, Paul "Pili" March; a fanatical young Nazi who lives with his mother andher boyfriend. Zavi stops meeting him near to the beginning of the book.

Max Jaeger: Max Jaeger is an obsese detective working alongside March in Berlin. He is told by the Gestapo to not investigate the death of Buhler too thoroughly, to "lose the file for a few days", as March puts it. However, he misses his shift, and instead, March gets the Buhler case, leading to the events of the novel.

Charlotte Maguire: An American journalist who becomes involved with March, and helps to uncover the conspiracy to hide the Holocaust.


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The series details the lives of the Crawleys and the people who serve them in an upstairs-downstairs examination of social class in the first half of the 20th century. The world the Crawleys have always known is fast becoming anachronistic.

By the time Fellowes, who also wrote the screenplay for Robert Altman's 2001 film Gosford Park, was growing up as a boy in the


'50s, the bulk of the social upheaval dramatized in the series had already happened. This is one of the reasons he says his title does not necessarily indicate the grandness of his lifestyle. That said, much of what he knows of that life he learned from relatives who both lived it and lived through the world events that changed it. His oldest great aunt, for example, is the model for Violet Grantham, played by Maggie Smith.

"[My aunt] was born in 1880, you know," he tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies, "and she was presented in 1898 and married before the first war and all of that, and I knew her perfectly well. She only died when I was 21, so I was able to hear a lot of thisstuff firsthand."

It's the juxtaposition of the lives of the aristocratic family against the lives of the servants that defines Fellowes' work. Class is a defining and longstanding fascination for him. It began, he says, with his mother and father.

"My parents came from different backgrounds," he tells Davies. "My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had ... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations. And ... I saw it as a child when I didn't really understand what was going on, and I saw it later as an adult when I did. ... From that grew a kind of interest, in a way, of the unfairness of class, the fact that it is so arbitrary in its selection ... and yet it shapes


know, the English, the upper class, whatever you call them, and the servants and so on — was not his natural terrain. Nevertheless, the style of the film, the way it was constructed, the multiplot thing, interlocking one scene which promotes maybe three or four stories and so on, that was all designed so that he would feel at home in this script."

On the first time he became aware of the upstairs-downstairs dynamic

"I remember one time when I was quite young ... I was staying in a house and I got lost and I went through the wrong door, and I was standing at the top of the staircase that led down into the kitchens and everything. And there was a tremendous row going on between what soundedlike four or five, six people shouting. ... And I suddenly had such a powerful sense of the lives that were being lived by the people who worked there. Not, you know, only the family who lived there, but people who worked there were also, you know, enjoying life or hating each other or loving each other or whatever."

DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. The masterpiece series "Downton Abbey" began its fourth season Sunday, and even if you haven't caught the "Downton Abbey" bug, we think you'll find its creator and writer Julian Fellowes an insightful observer of social class in 20th-century England.

Fellowes grew up the son of a diplomat, with an aristocratic background, and he has a title himself, Lord Fellowes


of West Stafford. Fellowes is an actor as well as a writer, and much of his writing has dealt with class distinctions and how they affect human relationships. His screenplay for the 2001Robert Altman film "Gosford Park" won an Oscar.

"Downton Abbey," which has won a host of awards, focuses on an aristocratic English family and their servants in the early 20th century, when sweeping changes were breaking down old social barriers. Season 3 ended with the unexpected death of Lady Mary's husband Matthew Crawley in an auto accident. Season 4 began with the surprise departure of the scheming ladies' maid O'Brien, who left Downton to work with another family.

I spoke with Julian Fellowes last January, before the start of Season 3. Julian Fellowes, Lord Fellowes, welcome to FRESHAIR.

JULIAN FELLOWES: Well, it's very nice to be here.

DAVIES: I wanted to play a clip from Season 1. This is a moment at a table in the kitchen downstairs, where the servants are all having tea. And we hear - one of them is O'Brien, who's played by Siobhan Finneran, disparaging Matthew Crawley, he's a cousin of the master of the house, who's arrived on the scene and may inherit Downton, the whole place.

We'll hear a shuffling of furniture as the servants spring to their feet because Lady Grantham, who's played by Elizabeth McGovern, has suddenly showed up in the kitchen and has overheard Ms. O'Brien, her own ladies maid, talking down Matthew Crawley. She rebukes Ms. O'Brien, and this leads to an interesting exchange after that among


life before the First World War. I mean, my eldest great-aunt, who is really the model for Violet Grantham, was born in 1880, you know, and she was presented in 1898 and married before the first war and all of that.

And I knew her perfectly well. She only died when I was 21. So I was able to hear a lot of this stuff firsthand. Where I was tremendously lucky is I was interested when I was young. One of the problems, you know, when you don't get interested in things until you're much older is a lot of people are dead.

And because I was interested as a teenager, there were still many members of the family who could talk about what life had been before the firstand second wars, you know, and I was very glad to hear it.

DAVIES: Julian Fellowes is the creator and writer of "Downton Abbey." More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.

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DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're listening to my interview with "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes. We spoke last January.

The Maggie Smith character in "Downton Abbey" is just such a delight. Tell us who she is, how she fits into the family.

FELLOWES: Well, she really, as I've said, she's really based on my eldest great-aunt, who was quite a tough character, but she was no tougher on anyone else than she was on herself. In fact in real life she had quite a tragic life. Her husband died of wounds at the end of the


of finding a suitable husband for Lady Mary, the oldest of the Crawley daughters.

(SOUNDBITE OF TELEVISION PROGRAM, "DOWNTON ABBEY")

MAGGIE SMITH: (As Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham) How about some house parties?

MCGOVERN: (As Lady Grantham) She's been asked to one next month by Lady Anne McNair.

MCGOVERN: (As Lady Grantham) I might send her over to visit my aunt. She could get to know New York.

SMITH(As Lady Grantham) Oh, I don't think things are quite that desperate. Poor Mary, she's been terribly down in the mouth lately.

MCGOVERN: (As Lady Grantham) She was very upset by the death of poor Mr. Pamuk.

SMITH(As Lady Grantham) Why? She didn't know him. One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a state of collapse whenever weopened a newspaper.

DAVIES: Can't get enough of Maggie Smith. That's her and Elizabeth McGovern in "Downton Abbey," created and written by our guest Julian Fellowes. Dinners are really something at the Crawleys. Lord Grantham dresses basically like an orchestra conductor. Was this done every night? I mean, didn't they ever just want to just dress down and eat leftover turkey sandwiches?

FELLOWES: It was pretty well done every night. I mean I - there's a wonderful quote when Duff-Cooper asked his brother-in-law, the Duke of Rutland, he said - when black tie was just beginning to come in, in the '20s, but still white tie was normal in the sort of great houses, and he said to the duke: Don't you ever wear black tie? And the duke thought


last very long because it wasn't suited for getting into on your own.

DAVIES: In Season 3, an American arrives on the scene, a real American here. I mean Cora, Lady Grantham, is an American but who has spent a long time in England as the wife of Lord Grantham. But her mother, who is played by Shirley MacLaine, arrives. Tell us a little bit about her and the role that she plays.

FELLOWES: Well, what I really wanted the audience to be reminded of, really, by Martha Levinson, played by Shirley MacLaine, is that Cora is not some ancient American aristocrat. She's not a Winthrop, you know, or a Stuyvesant or one of those founding-father families. She is the product of new money, quite a lot of it, butin the third series. The future doesn't frighten her. And so we have that kind of exemplified by Martha because we've got the two grandmothers now, Violet played by Maggie Smith and Martha played by Shirley MacLaine, but they're totally different.

Violet is nostalgic for the past. She thinks everything was better in 1870. Her clothes reflect this, her manners and so on, whereas Martha believes in the modern world. She likes the way it's going. She wants to wear modern clothes and modern makeup and fly on a plane and just get on with the future.

DAVIES: You know, I thought we would hear just a moment of their interaction. This is Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine, the two grandmothers, in a moment from season three.

(SOUNDBITE OF TELEVISION PROGRAM,


see him again tonight. The groom never sees the bride the night before the wedding.

MACLAINE: (As Martha) Nothing ever alters for you people, does it? Revolutions erupt, and monarchies crash to the ground, and the groom still cannot see the bride before the wedding.

SMITH(As Lady Grantham) You Americans never understand the importance of tradition.

MACLAINE: (As Martha) Yes we do. We just don't give it power over us. History and tradition took Europe into a world war. Maybe you should think about letting go of its hand.

DAVIES: That's from Season 3 of "Downton Abbey," written and created by our guest Julian Fellowes. Of course one of the changes that comes to the Crawley family, the shocking development of one of the daughters, Lady Sybil, marrying the family chauffer, TomToday the Pentagon announced the official name for the air campaign against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria- Inherent Resolve. According to a story on the Army Times website, the name Inherent Resolve was chosen by the staff of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The story states that "Military operations are routinely given official names, in part for administrative reasons. They usually are meant also to bolster public support and international credibility." But here at the Palmer's Almanac we believe that international credibility and public support could be bolstered best by using some of the anagrams for Inherent Resolve, such as: herein resolvent, rhinestone lever, eviler enthrones, henneries revolt, enthrones veiler, or hole interveners. And as a note veiler is not an


Pakistan agrees to sharia law to end Swat fighting

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Pakistan has agreed to introduce sharia law in the Swat valley and neighbouring areas of the north-west in a peace deal with Taliban militants. Religious conservatives in Swat have long fought for sharia to replace Pakistan’s secular laws, which came into force after the former princely state was absorbed into the Pakistani federation in 1969. The government apparently hopes that by signing a peace deal in Swat it can drive a wedge between conservative hardliners and Islamist militants whose influence has been spreading from the tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan into Pakistan proper.

Critics are already saying the deal will encourage Taliban militants fighting elsewhere in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and could threaten the integrity of the country itself.Chemaudin et Vaux

Chemaudin et Vaux is a commune in the department of Doubs, eastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Chemaudin (the seat) and Vaux-les-Prés.

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Ben Stiller Directs

December 06, 2013
– December 08, 2013

One of the biggest movie stars on the planet, Ben Stiller is also an inventive, risk-taking filmmaker who has repeatedly demonstrated his versatility and ambition behind the camera. Following the world premiere of his new film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, at the 51st New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates Stiller’s body of work as a director—one that happens also to include several of his greatest performances. Read more »

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse film going audience. Become aKathleen Cummings

Cummings is running against Richard Durbin because “in 2002 he knew Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. He kept that information from the public. He allowed Bush to fool the American people into starting an unjustified war. You can see Durbin confess to this on YouTube. See his ‘Bombshell announcement’ on my website. He kept quiet for five years because he claims he was sworn to secrecy by the Senate Intelligence Committee! By doing so, he showed his loyalty was with a dishonest regime and not with the People.” Cummings is a Peace candidate who supports the oath of office to uphold the constitution, provide health care to all people and create an ecologically sustainable country.

Kennedy is a lawyer who has proudly worked in the areas


of civil rights and on behalf of victims of workplace discrimination. She previously ran for the office of Arkansas Attorney General and received 4.67% of the vote. She is motivated by the fact that not one Democrat or Republican was willing to run against an incumbent in federal races. Kennedy is challenging Mark Pryor, motivated to run due to Pryor’s many votes in opposition to the people of Arkansas. She currently serves as Elections Co-chair for the Green Party of Arkansas, a position she also held from 2002-2007. Fromm 2007-08 Kennedy served as Public Relations Co-chair. Her reasons for running include challenging Pryor’s votes to continue support for the occupation of Iraq and the Military Commissions Act. Kennedy calls for the U.S. to take the lead in stoppingwhat Jesus called ‘the Kingdom of God.'”

Larrick is running against Ben Nelson, considered the most conservative Democrat in the Senate. On his website, Larrick discusseshis policies for ending the occupation of Iraq, providing health care to all Americans, solving America’s economic problems, reducing dependence on foreign oil and protecting civil liberties.

Lugo is running against Republican Lamar Alexander. For the past five years he has worked as a peace activist with state wide coalitions to end the war in Iraq. This activism will be helpful in getting out the anti-war message, which is at the core of his campaign. Having worked for the past ten years with a range of progressive coalitions in Nashville and across the country has given Lugo a sense of what issues are important at


the Federal level. Lugo entered the U.S. Senate race “to be a voice for the progressive issues that need to be discussed in Tennessee – ending the war, bringing health care to every citizen, abolishing our nuclear weapons stockpile, addressing issues of racial justice in the South, media democracy, election reform, international peace, and publicly funded campaigns.”

Mikkelson is a Vietnam veteran, a union member and an active Green Party member since 2002. He ran for Congress in 2002 opposed to starting a war in Iraq. In 2004 he ran calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. He has been in the Peace Movement since becoming active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War in 1968. His campaign focus is to bring U.S. troops home immediately. InWashingtonians.”

In 1992, Linda Martin and Mary Jordan became the first Green Party candidates for U.S. Senate.

Mary Jordan ran for U.S. Senate in Alaska, receiving over 20,000 votes, 8.37% of the total vote in a three way race against the infamous Frank Murkowski. Linda Martin ran for U.S. Senate in Hawai’i against an entrenched Democratic Party in 1992 against Daniel Inouye, who had been in the Senate since 1962, and who handedly defeated his opponents winning over 70% of the vote in every re-election – that is until 1992. Linda Martin earned 49,921 votes, 13.73%, holding Inouye to 57.3%, while the Republican picked up 26.9%. Her race changed Hawai’i politics, and Green Party politics, setting records for both total votes and percent of votes by a Green in a


India to create new southern state of Telengana

There have been protests in Andhra Pradesh for many days

The Indian government is to allow a new state to be carved out of part of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Home Minister P Chidambaram said the process of forming Telangana state would begin soon. Campaigners say the region has long been neglected. Supporters of the state are celebrating after days of violent protests. One of their leaders ended a hunger strike. But many in India fear acceding to the protesters' wishes could fuel demands for other new states across India.

India's 'Tiger of Telangana' feted Biswas: New states needed? Dozens of Andhra Pradesh assembly members and at least one Indian MP with a seat in the state have announced they areresigning in protest at the move. Analysts say the flurry of resignations, mostly from the governing Congress party, could lead to a political crisis in Andhra Pradesh. Correspondents say Telangana state is likely to include one of India's major software hubs, Hyderabad. The city, currently the Andhra Pradesh capital, is home to leading world companies in India like Microsoft and Google. The government announcement came at midnight on Wednesday. "The process of forming the state of Telangana will be initiated. An appropriate resolution will be moved in the state assembly," Mr Chidambaram said after talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi. ANALYSIS Sanjoy Majumder

BBC News, Delhi Many are concerned that the move may open a Pandora's box. They fear that this will only


fuel similar movements in other states and end up significantly redrawing the map of the country. Already one member of parliament from Andhra Pradesh has resigned in protest over the decision to create Telangana. The government appears to have given into the demands of protesters, particularly after the leader of the campaign became dangerously ill following a hunger strike to press home his point. It's clear this is not the last that has been heard on this volatile issue. On hearing the news, crowds in Hyderabad and nine other districts of Telangana erupted in celebration, reports the BBC's Omer Farooq in the state capital. Mr Chidambaram said the government had asked for court cases against leaders, students and others "associated with the present agitation" to be dropped. Healso appealed to protesters to call off their demonstrations. His announcement was greeted with jubilation among protesters, who let off fire crackers, beat drums, danced and sang songs. Some of the celebrations took place outside the Hyderabad hospital where one of the campaign leaders, K Chandrasekara Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) party, had been admitted during his fast. Mr Rao said: "I am happy that this is the victory of 35 million people who live in the Telangana region." Protest rallies seeking a separate state planned for Thursday were called off. Thousands of police had been deployed for the rallies, but after Mr Chidambaram's announcement security was relaxed, our correspondent says. Long campaign Telangana region is spread over 10 northern districts of Andhra Pradesh. INDIA'S NEWEST


STATE Population of 35 million Formed from 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh, including city of Hyderabad Landlocked, predominantly agricultural area One of the most under-developed regions in India Culmination of 50-year campaign More than 400 people died in 1969 crackdown The demand for separate state status for the underdeveloped and drought-prone area dates back 50 years. More than 400 people died in violence over the demand for a Telangana state in 1969. Campaigners say Telangana's economic development has been neglected in favour of the richer and more powerful Andhra region - and that a new state is the only solution. The last three new states in India were formed in 2000: Chhattisgarh was created out of eastern Madhya Pradesh; Uttarakhand was created out of the hilly areas ofmonth for the support of appellant, who was then a student at the University of Arizona. The $200 payments for support of the couple's male child were to terminate when the boy later took up residence with appellee. The $200 payments for support of the female child, Melinda, were to increase to $300 per month after the girl's twelfth birthday. Payments for appellant's support were to terminate December 31, 1980, or when she remarried or graduated from the University, whichever occurred first.
By October 22, 1980, the parties' son had moved in with appellee, appellant had both graduated and remarried, and Melinda was nine years old. On that date, appellee filed a petition for modification of the dissolution decree, alleging that a substantial and continuing change of circumstances had


to sweep the slurry across the polishing surface. While an improvement over conventional slurry dispensers, this approach is not wholly satisfactory for a number of reasons.
One problem with the approach taught in GUTHRIE is that the constant contact between the flexible member and the polishing surface during polishing operations causes rapid wear of the flexible member. This in turn leads to the need to frequently replace the flexible member. In addition to the cost of replacement parts, this results in excessive down time or loss of availability or the apparatus for processing due to the time needed to replace the flexible member and the time need to re-characterize the polishing process or apparatus. Moreover, prior to replacement, as the flexible member wears the amount and distribution of slurrythe surface of the substrate and agglomerations of abrasives from old or dried out slurry. This particularly a problem for CMP apparatuses including polishing surfaces with numerous small, shallow grooves for the distribution of slurry, or porous polishing pads or coverings.
Accordingly, there is a need for an apparatus and method that provides a controlled or uniform distribution of slurry across the polishing surface to provide improved planarization uniformity. There is a further need for an apparatus and method capable of restricting slurry dispensed on the polishing surface to the portion of the polishing surface over which the polishing head passes during the polishing operation, thereby reducing waste of slurry. There is a yet further need for an apparatus and method capable of removing used slurry and polishing byproducts


Joe Allen has requested a $500 PAC contribution for Pat Rosenberg, a
candidate running for HISD.  She is the wife of an Enron employee.  I have
not requested contributions in school board races since our PAC funds are
limited.  (Another Enron employee asked for $1000 PAC contribution for
someone he was personally supporting for school board.)

Elizabeth Linnell gathered some historical data regarding PAC contributions
to education candidates:

 The PAC made contributions to the following organizations in 1997 and 1999
at $1,000 in each case:
  Houston Citizens for Better Education
  Houston Friends for Better Education
  Houston Parents for Better Education
  Houston Taxpayers for Better Education

 In 1995 the PAC gave $500 to Lori Becker, a schoolLabor Day is here. For most of us, that means a day off work, the beginning of school, or a bid adieu to summer. But how did the first Monday of every September become a holiday? From its murky origins to its present day vacation placeholder, the history of Labor Day is a long one.

George Pullman and the Railroad Sleeping Car Company

Outside the melting pot of 1880s urban Chicago, businessman George Pullman founded a “worker’s paradise.” Visionary in its ideals, the company town of Pullman, Illinois, was the largest and earliest of its kind. Some 6,000 company employees bought from company-owned markets, lived in company-owned rentals, and learned and dined at company-owned churches, libraries, and entertainment venues.[i]

This idea of a company town was not new. It was a


the first meat Train leaving Chicago Stock Yards was escorted by United States Cavalry, July 10, 1894.

For about 14 years the town instituted Pullman’s ideas, and they worked. Then the economic panic of 1893 befell the nation. Demand for Pullman cars plummeted. And on May 11, 1894, nearly 4,000 factory employees went on strike.[iii]

The reasons for the Pullman Strike were many: Pullman disallowed any employee from buying or renting a house outside the company town; Pullman had a “paternalistic” governing style, forbidding any democratic initiatives to influence governance; and, as profits and paychecks declined with the demand for Pullman cars, rent remained unmoved.

As the strike gained attention, the American Railways Union (ARU) joined the cause, led by Eugene V. Debs. The ARU called for a nationwide boycott ofPullman cars. Union and non-union members eventually rioted, burning railcars and obstructing railroads.

President Glover Cleveland, under pressure by stifled mail trains and anxious railroad executives, declared the strike a federal crime. 12,000 troops deployed to Illinois to discontinue protests. A story of ensuing violence is told by the Huffington Post.[iv] The clashes between troops and protesters signified an end to the strike. It concluded on August 3, 1894, at peak involving some 250,000 rail employees in over 27 states[v]

When the Pullman Strike ends, the ARU disbands, Debs finds himself in prison for six months, and Pullman employees sign pledges stating they’d never unionize again. The outfall stultified union growth and development across the nation until the Great Depression.

A National Holiday

1894 was an election year. And Cleveland’s tactics for


ending the Pullman strike was looked upon as ignominious. Picking up on sentiment from union workers in New York City, who in September of 1892 took unpaid time off to protest for a national labor holiday, Cleveland sought to appease working voters.

Six days after troops toppled the Pullman strike, a national labor holiday bill appeared on Cleveland’s desk, after passing through Congress with unanimous favorable votes in both houses. Thus Labor Day was born.

A description of Labor Day, found in the PBS archive,[v] is given by Samuel Gompers, then head of the American Federation of Labor, calling it:

“the day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed…that the workers of our day may not only lay down theirtools of labor for a holiday but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it.”

Labor Day Today

Though a century displaced, the spirit of the labor holiday movement can be seen in eight hour work days, overtime pay, vacation days, and many other modern labor laws.

But the intention of Labor Day seems all but lost. According to “Labor Unions in the United States,” only about 11.3% of United States workers belong to unions, down from some 35% at peak membership in 1954.[VI] Seen as vital around the turn of the 20th century, and following massive organizing efforts after WWII, reflections on labor and work seems to have dwindled with union politics.

For many people, Labor Day weekend signifies the unofficial end of summer.


You Know," and an April 2006 series of NBC-produced mock PSAs starring the cast of The Office.  A sketch on Saturday Night Live portrayed the sometimes-fatal effects of CPR. A parody was also on MADtv mentioning the "[nonexistent] danger of conga lines", and another one which spouted random obvious facts. Spliced has a parody of public-service announcements in general (and The More You Know in particular), in brief segments called "Knowing is Growing".

During the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show (which itself was broadcast by NBC), Katy Perry closed her performance with a rendition of "Firework" while riding on a shooting star; following the show, comparisons were drawn to the former logo of The More You Know, as captured by user-created edits of photos from the scene.

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TheIn a first-of-its-kind ruling, a federal judge has ruled that the second of two twin boys born to a same-sex couple has the same rights and protections as a US citizen as his brother currently enjoys.

The two boys, Aiden and Ethan Dvash-Banks, were conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART), with an anonymous egg donor and gestational surrogate in 2016 in Ontario, Canada.

Each boy was conceived using sperm from one of the two fathers: Aiden was conceived via Andrew Dvash-Banks’ sperm, while Ethan’s biological father is Elad.

Both men are recognized as legal parents to the boys and named on each child’s birth certificate.

Elad is an Israeli while Andrew has both American and Canadian citizenship. The couple met in Israel but moved to Canada in 2010 because the U.S. did


not support marriage equality at the time. The pair were married in Canada in August of 2017.

Things became tricky for the family when they attempted to move to the United States. While applying for U.S. passports, the couple argued that both sons should be allowed because Andrew is an American citizen.

Related: Immigration officials asked these gay asylum seekers shocking questions & then rejected them

Andrew is also legally recognized as a father for both of the children, regardless of which of the men provided the sperm.

The State Department disagreed, telling the couple that they would need to have a DNA test for each boy, showing who was the biological father in order to prove citizenship. Once that was complete, the consulate only provided citizenship for Aiden.

The State Department toldMyhelan Film Festival a hit

The 2002 Myhelan Indie (Independent) Film Festival once again
drew films from all over the U.S. and from nine foreign countries
to Hackettstown for its annual three-day event held from March 1
through March 3.

For the forth consecutive year, the Mall Theater, Hackettstown,
hosted Myhelan's festival which screened more than 60 films and
offered workshops in screenwriting, producing and making films in
New Jersey.

Sixteen directors and producers flew in for the event.
Filmmakers participated in workshops, and broke into informal
question and answer sessions with audiences following the screening
of their films.

"Our festival is about bringing great films together with an
audience that otherwise wouldn't have access to them," said Linda
Helm Krapf, Myhelan's executive director. Krapf noted the mission
of this film festival is to be supportive of new and emerging
filmmakers.

Myhelan's festival kicked off with


an all-day Film Symposium,
attended this year by 400 high school film and journalism students
from nine high schools in Morris, Warren, Hunterdon and Somerset
counties. Teens spent the day in the theater screening films,
meeting filmmakers and attending workshops.

"The Directors' Workshop with John Houston was a tremendous
encounter," said Randolph High School Mass Media Teacher Robert
Finning.

Houston, a Canadian documentary film writer/director brought the
second in his Arctic trilogy, Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beast to
the event. Finning said that giving teens a chance to interact with
"a professional in the film industry who is working on both
independent and studio films is an experience that doesn't come
around often for these students."

Houston is also known

for his work on productions like Disney's Never Cry Wolf, and
Fly Away Home.

Jung (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin, winner ofthe 2001
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival's Nestor Almendros
Prize screened to a packed auditorium on Saturday evening. Another
feature film was Academy Award nominee Himalaya. Hypnotic panoramas
and wide frames of grand landscapes in the snow covered Dolpa
region of Nepal provided an epic setting for survival in a sparsely
populated mountain village.

The Next Big Thing closed out the evening on Saturday. Audiences
easily recognized several of the lead actors in this story about a
young painter who finds success and true love only after creating a
false identity in this lighthearted satire of the art world. Chris
Eigeman of the TV sitcom, It's Like, You Know…" plays the role of
New York artist Gus Bishop, and his love interest Connie, is played
by Kate Crowley of The Brothers McMullen, Spin City, and most
recently, The West Wing.

Sunday's crowd


witnessed the screening of two films that just
won awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City,
Utah. Daughter From Danang walked away with the coveted Grand Jury
Prize for best documentary. It's the story of a Vietnamese mother
and her American daughter are reunited in Vietnam after a 22-year
separation. Their hopes for a joyful reunion are quickly shattered
as the harsh reality of cultural differences and the years of
separation take their toll.

Short film Jigsaw Venus by California filmmaker Dean Kapasalis,
won an Honorable Mention at Sundance. Venus is one of 24 short
films that were screened at the festival.

Myhelan's event has never put too much emphasis on awards.
Festival-goers were asked to vote for their choice of favorite full
length or documentary film. A home-grown film by New Jersey
producer Andrea Stein of Asbury Park,and director Doug Bollinger
of Clark, got two thumbs up from the audience, receiving the
Myhelan Viewer's Choice Award for their film Just Lovers.

The only other award went to Randolph High senior, Paul Basile
who submitted his short film, Universal Moments into Myhelan's
Youth Film and Video Expo. Twenty-nine New Jersey teens entered the
expo this year. Basile was selected as the winner of the Myhelan
Young Filmmaker Award, which was juried by a panel of professional
directors and producers from the Festival. The award, sponsored by
Hackettstown Community Hospital, came with a check to Basile for
$200.

The Myhelan Indie Film Festival is a program of the Myhelan
Cultural Arts Center. The center, located at 18 Schooley's Mountain
Road in Long Valley, hosts gallery exhibitions, art and music
classes for adults and children, a monthly concert series as well
as summer


directed specifically at external sexually dimorphic features, which are in constant conflict with the patient's internal psychiatric gender. This high rate of comorbidity of BDD in GID patients results in an estimated suicide attempt rate of 20%; the suicide attempt rate for patients with only BDD is 15%.[3][4]

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History

In 1886, BDD was first documented by the researcher Morselli, who called the condition simply "Dysmorphophobia". BDD was first truly recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1987, and in 1997, BDD was first recorded and formally recognized as a disorder in the DSM.

In his practice, Freud eventually had a patient who would today be diagnosed with the disorder; RussianaristocratSergei Pankejeff, nicknamed "The Wolf Man" by Freud himself in order to protect Pankejeff's identity, had a preoccupation with his nose tomeasure of what counts.

"We want ... a broader understanding that the word 'stability' in the world means defense expenditure, human aid and development aid," said Juncker the EU's chief executive, adding he was against Europeans being "pushed into" the targets.

Allies who do not meet NATO targets to spend 2 percent of GDP on military budgets set out to show Pence and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis how Europeans are dealing with crises they trace back, in part, to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

"France has a readiness to deploy that is hard to match. Spain was leading NATO's new spearhead force last year. Italy is in Afghanistan," said one senior European NATO diplomat. "That isn't already reflected by spending targets."

While Germany says Trump has a point about Europe's


EURO GOAL?

At a NATO summit in Wales in 2014, months after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, allies agreed to end years of defense cuts that left Europeans without vital capabilities, such as refueling airborne fighter bombers.

They agreed all allies should reach the target of spending 2 percent of economic output on defense every year by 2024, although the goal is not legally binding. It aims to reverse a trend that saw defense research spending in the European Union fall by a third, or more than 20 billion euros, since 2006.

Only the United States, Britain, Poland, Estonia and Greece met the target in 2016, although the cuts have stopped and Latvia, Lithuania and Romania are close, NATO officials say.

NATO's 22 European allies and Canada will spend almost 4defense.

Pence maintained the pressure at NATO on Monday, telling allies they had until the end of this year to show "real progress" on spending. Pence cited his spending message as one of the successes of his debut Europe trip, diplomats said.

Europeans say the biggest issue is how money is spent.

Spurred on by Britain's decision to leave the European Union, Germany and France are leading plans to build a so-called European Defense Union that would allow countries to develop and share military assets together, as well as deploying troops.

Collectively the European Union is the world's second-biggest military spender. But fears in Britain of an EU army held back collaboration.

Governments spent in isolation and missed out on savings worth 25 billion euros a year, according to EU data.

Trump's ultimatum is


I've Never Seen Star Wars: Series 3

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I've Never Seen Star Wars: Series 1

I've Never Seen Star Wars is a Radio 4 entertainment series in which Marcus Brigstocke asks his guests of the week to embrace ordinary activities and experiences that they've perhaps always meant to try but haven't had the time, the courage, or possibly the inclination to attempt.

I've Never Seen Star Wars: Series 2

In this second series, MarcusBrigstocke invites his guests to try things they've never done before. Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is all about getting out of our comfort zones and embracing the new. Brigstocke's guests in I've Never Seen Star Wars: Series 2 are Barry Cryer, Arthur Smith, Dame Joan Bakewell, Jan Ravens, Suggs, and Sandi Toksvig.

In the complete third series of the multiaward-winning show, from the makers of Cabin Pressure and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Marcus Brigstocke examines different facets of life by being put in charge of them. Each week he starts out by thinking, Well, it can't be that difficult, surely and ends up with, Oh, turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who knew...?

Mark Steel's in Town: Series 5 & 6: The BBC Radio


4 Comedy Series

In each episode of this BBC Radio 4 series, Mark Steel visits a UK town and researches its history, heritage and culture, after which he performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents. Mark's destinations in series 5 and 6 are Glastonbury, Derry/Londonderry, St. Davids, Southall, Birkenhead, Huddersfield, Melton Mowbray, Fleetwood, Shrewsbury, Barnard Castle and Saint Anne.

In each episode of this BBC Radio 4 series, Mark Steel visits a UK town and researches its history, heritage and culture, after which he performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents. Mark's destinations in series 3 & 4 are Berwick-upon-Tweed; Holyhead; Basingstoke; Douglas on the Isle of Man; Bungay; Wigan; Whitehaven; Tobermory; Corby; Handsworth; Ottery St. Mary and Chipping Norton. There's also a specialof Buckingham, Professor John Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and QI fame), and the comedian Jimmy Carr. The Museum invites three guests, a mixture of entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one item each to the museum and explain why it deserves a place in the museum. Ever since someone gave the museum the Big Bang it's been expanding at an alarming rate, and now there's no looking back without the aid of a huge telescope.

Hancock's Half Hour, Series 6: 14 Episodes of the Classic BBC Radio Comedy Series

Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the legendary BBC Radio comedy series. Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock's Half Hour was the radio vehicle that


made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes mundane life of 'the lad 'imself'.

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 5: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Sketch Show

The complete fifth series of BBC Radio 4's award-winning sketch show, written by and starring the writer of Cabin Pressure. John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme has won a host of awards, including the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy with Live Audience. Written by and starring John Finnemore, this fifth series of the hit show returns with more witty wordplay and laugh-out-loud sketches.

The Museum of Curiosity: The Complete Gallery 3

Prepare to have your synapses twisted into a string theorist's nightmare, as Professor Lloyd and his new curator, the startlingly insightful comedian JonRichardson, hurriedly throw the dust covers off the Museum's clump of empty plinths for a brand new series of the BBC's most improving comedy panel show.

In the complete second hit series from the people who brought you Cabin Pressure and Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, stand-up comedian Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of a big old thing - the European Union, Social Media, the banking system, the farming industry - and each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who knew...?".

The Museum of Curiosity: The Complete Gallery 2

Sean Lock replaces Bill Bailey in this


second series with Professor John Lloyd in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddness's. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside unless it makes you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go 'Hmm'. Secondly, it is almost completely empty. Fortunately, helping to fill its vacant plinths is a gathering of the world's most original minds.

Alanatomy: The Inside Story

In his first novel, Look Who It Is!, Alan told his story ('oh and what a life') with his unique twist of natural, observational and tongue-in-cheek humour that made him famous. Alan Carr described his life story in his own words, from growing up in a football-mad familyin Northampton to his rise as one of Britain's best-loved comedians. And now he is ready to divulge the next chapter in bursts of hilarious Technicolor.

D Coleman says:"Brilliant second book, full of the stuff we want to hear about."

The Brig Society: The Complete Series 1

Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! In each episode, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British fashion, a prison. And in each episode he starts out by thinking "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who knew...?"

Dave Gorman, Genius

Genius is the comedy series, broadcast on Radio 4, that sees Dave Gorman and a


celebrity guest chew over ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes "genius" inventions from the public. Genius invites listeners to air those incredible concepts that strike after one-too-many drinks at the pub: not necessarily ideas that are worthy, or even very well thought through, but have a hint of genius.

The Museum of Curiosity: Complete Series 4

The Museum of Curiosity is, as ever, hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham, John Lloyd. For this fourth series, he is joined by the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman as his Curator. The Museum of Curiosity has a unique method for collecting exhibits. Once a week it welcomes three luminaries from widely different specialist fields and asks them to bring with them their most treasured items to donate.

Absolute Power: The CompleteBBC Radio 4 Radio Comedy Series

Stephen Fry and John Bird star as masters of spin Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in all 22 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series. Prentiss McCabe is a London-based 'government-media relations consultancy', and in each episode Charles and Martin are embroiled in the machinations of the British political system. This complete collection includes all 21 episodes of the four series broadcast between 2000 and 2004, plus the special 2006 episode. Duration: 11 hours approx.

Parsnips, Buttered: Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time

In this book I have attempted to solve each and every one of life's problems. And I have succeeded. Dear Listener, Using letters, emails, tweets and telegrams I will show you how the things in your life that


two of those enjoyed their encounters, one didn't) was wonderful.

Which character – as performed by Marcus Brigstocke – was your favourite?

They all undertook their assignments with gusto and Marcus Brigstocke was the ideal host.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I wish I had been in the audience when Ian Hislop baked a cake or Kathy Burke tried eating seafood but alas, I wasn't.prompt unconsciousness and paralysis, inserting an endotracheal tube with minimal delay, and then releasing the cricoid pressure. "Modified" RSI refers to changes that deviate from the classic pattern, usually to reduce acidosis or improve oxygenation in case of cardiac, neurological and asthmatic patients, but at the expense of increased regurgitation risk [citation needed!!]; examples of modifications include giving ventilations before the tube has been placed, or not using cricoid pressure. The induction agents and muscle relaxants differ in each cases.

The procedure is used where general anesthesia must be induced before the patient has had time to fast long enough to empty the stomach; where the patient has a condition that makes aspiration more likely during induction of anesthesia, regardless of how long they have fasted (such as gastroesophageal


reflux disease or advanced pregnancy); or where the patient has become unable to protect their own airway even before anesthesia (such as after a traumatic brain injury).

The induction drugs traditionally used for RSI have short durations of action, wearing off after only minutes. This confers a degree of fault tolerance on the procedure when it is used in elective or semi-elective settings: if intubation is unsuccessful, and if the clinical condition allows it, the procedure may be abandoned and the patient should regain the ability to protect their own airway sooner than would be the case under routine methods of induction. Conversely, in emergency settings where the patient's condition does not allow for them to be woken up immediately, a failed intubation under RSI places them at veryof research focusing on marijuana — up until very recently in fact — at least (as) to how it affects the brain," said FrancescaFilbey, an associate professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

"There's been a lot more attention toward alcohol, nicotine and other illicit drugs like cocaine," said Filbey, director of cognitive neuroscience research in addictive disorders at the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas. Also, the approaches have varied across studies and the findings have been inconsistent, she noted.

Filbey is the lead author of a recently published study that is similar to the research underway at Indiana University. She and other researchers studied 48 chronic marijuana users and found that they had reduced gray


Yuen`s office in Hong Kong was not immediately available for comment, while Puma denied having a working relationship with the Dongguan plant in a statement to AFP.

The strike comes as the massive factory traditionally gears up production ahead of the summer season in Europe and the US.

"The workers are still striking, and the numbers have probably increased," said Dong Lin, a worker at the Shenzhen Chunfeng Labour Justice Service Department, a rights organisation in close contact with the workers.follows, therefore, is a summary of the facts considered for purposes of this motion. The court views these facts in the light most favorable to plaintiff, the nonmoving party. Henry v. Daytop Village, Inc., 42 F.3d 89, 92 (7th Cir.1994).
In 1990, plaintiff applied to NIU's graduate program in chemistry, at which time it was his desire to work with Dr. Lin. In November 1991, Dr. Lin informally became plaintiffs dissertation director and formally became his research advisor. Dr. Lin informed plaintiff about a project he was directing which involved coatings. In particular, Dr. Lin was adding phosphoric acid to paint to improve the adhesion the paint would have on metal surfaces. Plaintiff agreed to work on this project. In the spring and summer of 1992, Dr. Lin told


Ping Lin, another graduate student in the chemistry department, to continue her work on the use of phenyl phosphoric acid and amines with respect to the project. In the fall of 1992, plaintiff was nominated for a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship, a fellowship provided by the United States Department of Education designed to support minorities and women in certain fields of study. The fellowship carried a yearly stipend of $14,000. Plaintiff received the fellowship from October 1, 1993 to September 30, 1994 and from October 1, 1994 to May 31, 1995.
On November 8, 1993, plaintiff wrote a letter to Larry R. Sill, director of the technology commercialization center at NIU, claiming that Dr. Lin misappropriated his work and engaged in other acts of research misconduct. On November 10,1993, Dean Jerrold H. Zar ("Dean Zar"), Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and dean of NIU's graduate school, met with Dr. Vaughn, chairman of NIU's chemistry department, regarding plaintiffs allegations. The following day, Dr. Vaughn told plaintiff that he would inform Dr. Lin of the charges, after which he spoke with Dr. Lin and gave him a copy of plaintiffs charges. Pursuant to the procedures outlined in a NIU document entitled "Research Integrity at Northern Illinois University" ("Research Integrity Procedures") an informal review committee ("Review Committee") was formed, consisting of faculty members of the chemistry department, to reconcile or conciliate the dispute between the parties involved in the allegations of research misconduct. Dr. Vaughn appointed Dr. Russell, Dr. Dennis Kevil and Dr. James Erman to the Review Committee


on November 15, 1993. These particular faculty members were chosen because they had not published or collaborated with Dr. Lin in his research. Dr. Vaughn was responsible for overseeing the Review Committee.
Plaintiff acknowledged receipt of the Research Integrity Procedures on November 16, 1993, and he met with the Review Committee the following day. During this meeting, Dr. Vaughn informed plaintiff that he may have to surrender his research notebooks. (To date, plaintiff has not surrendered *1104 his research notebooks in their entirety to Dr. Vaughn.) In December 1993, Dr. Lin responded to plaintiffs allegations by letter. On January 3, 1994, plaintiff informed Dr. Vaughn that he would not submit any material to the Review Committee regarding "P69," the formulation plaintiff claims Dr. Lin misappropriated. The Review Committee wasunable to reconcile or conciliate plaintiff's allegations of misconduct, and on February 1, 1994, the committee notified both plaintiff and Dr. Lin of their inability to do so and informed plaintiff that he could refer his complaint to Dean Zar pursuant to the Research Integrity Procedures.
Plaintiff requested Dean Zar to further investigate this matter on February 7, 1994, after which a research standards inquiry committee ("Inquiry Committee") was formed. Vice President and Provost J. Carroll Moody appointed Professor Jon W. Carnahan, Professor Robin Rogers and Professor Charles W. Spangler, all faculty members of the chemistry department, to the Inquiry Committee. Pursuant to the Research Integrity Procedures, Dean Zar was a nonvoting member of the committee. In addition, both plaintiff and Dr. Lin could challenge the appointment of these


individuals to the Inquiry Committee. On May 18, 1994, Dean Zar provided the members of the Inquiry Committee with a memorandum describing the allegations, a copy of plaintiffs letter of November 8, 1993 and Dr. Lin's written response to the allegations. On June 6, 1994, Dean Zar informed plaintiff and Dr. Lin in separate letters that the Inquiry Committee needed more information from each of them. Dean Zar requested that the materials be provided by June 20, 1994. Dr. Lin provided all the information requested of him by that date. Plaintiff, however, did not provide the requested information by that date. On July 6, 1994, Dean Zar sent plaintiff a letter by certified mail, return receipt, informing him that the Inquiry Committee had not yet received the materials.Because plaintiff had not yet provided the materials, Dean Zar cancelled the Inquiry Committee's scheduled meeting.
Also on July 6, 1994, plaintiffs dissertation committee sent him a letter stating that his research report was insufficient to qualify as a dissertation. The dissertation committee suggested that plaintiff sever his relationship with Dr. Lin and select a new thesis advisor as well as a new, mutually acceptable, doctoral project or that plaintiff rewrite the work previously submitted and upon approval, the dissertation committee would accept the work as satisfying the requirement for a master's degree. On July 28, 1994, plaintiff informed Dr. Vaughn that he was not interested in either option suggested by the dissertation committee.
On August 2, 1994, Dean Zar received the requested materials from plaintiff. The materials were forwarded


to the Inquiry Committee. The Inquiry Committee divided plaintiffs allegations into two categories  research misconduct with respect to the patent Dr. Lin was applying for and research misconduct with respect to a paper published by Dr. Lin and co-authored by plaintiff. On September 26, 1994, Dr. Vaughn wrote plaintiff a letter informing plaintiff, as he had earlier, that due to safety and liability reasons, plaintiff would not be permitted to use the laboratory for research until he selected a new dissertation advisor. On November 3, 1994, Dean Zar informed plaintiff that the Inquiry Committee had concluded that a formal investigation was warranted to review the allegations against Dr. Lin. Plaintiff was informed that the Inquiry Committee needed his research notebooks and that he should provide them withinthe next two weeks. To conduct a formal investigation, a separate committee was formed pursuant to the Research Integrity Procedures. This separate committee, the research standards investigation committee ("Investigation Committee"), consisted of three members of the Inquiry Committee (Carnahan, Spangler and Rogers), Dr. Larry Sill, Dr. Parviz Payvar and Dean Zar as a non-voting member. Plaintiff was permitted to challenge the selection of these members and at least one individual challenged by him was not placed on the Investigation Committee. The Investigation Committee would investigate the allegations regarding the patent; the allegations regarding the paper remained with the Inquiry Committee.
*1105 On or about November 16, 1994, plaintiff's dissertation committee informed him that he was not making satisfactory progress toward his doctorate degree. The dissertation committee informed plaintiff that


he had until February 1, 1995 to select a new dissertation advisor and make progress toward his degree and warned him that failure to do so would result in a recommendation that he be terminated from the doctoral program. The dissertation committee also gave plaintiff the option of resubmitting his research report for a master's degree. Also on November 16, 1994, Dr. Vaughn informed plaintiff that Dr. Lin had formally been removed as his dissertation advisor. Despite the fact that plaintiff had found a professor from DePaul University who agreed to be a member of his dissertation committee and to serve as his advisor, plaintiff did not select a new advisor.
On January 6, 1995, Dean Zar sent plaintiff another letter on behalf of the Investigation Committee requesting hisin the Investigation Committee's final report.
Because plaintiff had failed to comply with the requirements set by his dissertation committee and the graduate program, the chemistry department recommended that plaintiff be dismissed from the doctoral program. On May 12, 1995, Dr. Carla Montgomery, Associate Dean, informed plaintiff by letter that his admission to the doctoral program in chemistry was terminated pursuant to NIU's graduate catalog. Plaintiffs termination was based on his documented failure to make satisfactory progress toward his degree. The termination was not based on his allegations made against Dr. Lin. Because one of the conditions to maintaining plaintiff's fellowship was that he make progress toward his degree, plaintiff was no longer able to receive the fellowship. Plaintiff was informed of the fellowship termination on May 31, 1995.

CONTENTIONS
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court makes the following observation. If it is plaintiffs theory that he was denied procedural due process because defendants misused procedures in order to prevent him from making progress toward his degree, resulting in his dismissal, he has not come forth with any affirmative evidence that suggests this in fact occurred. Plaintiff alleges in his amended complaint that he was called to a meeting with Dr. Vaughn and Dr. Russell on December 16, 1993 and told that he must choose a new advisor and dissertation topic and that he was barred from using NIU's chemicals and equipment. In their answer, defendants admit he was told to choose a new advisor but deny the remaining allegations. With respect to this motion, neither plaintiff nor defendants address this meeting, whyplaintiff was told that he must choose a new advisor or if and when plaintiff was first barred from using the laboratory.[3] The first indication in the record (referenced in support of this motion) as to when Dr. Lin was informally removed as his advisor appears in the dissertation committee's letter dated July 6, 1994, after plaintiff had submitted his research report as a dissertation and after it was rejected. The dissertation committee's letter is cryptic as to why it recommended that plaintiff select a new advisor, and defendants have not offered any evidence which explains the letter. Similarly, Dr. Vaughn's letter of September 26, 1994 addressed to plaintiff is the first evidence of his being barred from the laboratory, stating "[a]s you were told some months ago,


Court to extend Pickering and Connick to independent contractors, are not present in a student-university relationship.
The court is not persuaded by defendants' reliance on Kelleher and Siblerud. In Kelleher, the plaintiff was an assistant instructor in addition to being a graduate student and was reassigned to a different teaching assignment allegedly in retaliation for expressing political opinions in the courses she was teaching. Kelleher, 761 F.2d at 1082-83. Thus, the retaliation arose from her activities as an employee of the university making the court's application of government employment precedents appropriate. No similar facts are present here, as plaintiff engaged in his expression as a student and his status as a student allegedly suffered as a result. Similarly, Siblerud involved a student who misrepresented his association with the universityChronological List of Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents of the United States

Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress

This chronological list contains entries for each president with his corresponding first lady and vice president. Note: Multiple entries appear for a president whenever there was a change in the office of vice president.


playoffs. See how he reacts to the question about his "wide open" receiver on the Osi strip sack that came deep in Giants territory. He's entitled and smug.

Tom Brady likes to complain and expects a special treatment from the refs. He's definitely a smug in 2007 and they like to run up the score, it's classless and poor display of sportsmanship.

I don't think he does. You guys just hate Rodgers cause he is a Packer. If he played on an AFC team you would like the guy. It's OK though I have read in the Green Bay newspaper that Rodgers dislikes the Giants alot. He just stated how they fake injuries and he was hoping we would play you guys in the postseason in Lambeau to get revenge.John Peel's The Space online record collection goes live Published duration 1 May 2012

media caption John Peel's wife Sheila Ravenscroft explained the selection process for the archive

The names of the first 100 albums of the late DJ John Peel's record collection have been published online.

The John Peel Centre, in Stowmarket, is behind the project, called The Space, which aims to recreate the late broadcaster's home studio and library.

Peel, who died in 2004, had a collection of about 25,000 vinyl albums. The names of about 100 will be added in alphabetical order each week.

Among the first artists are Abba, ABC, AC/DC and Adam & The Ants.

The website does not allow users to listen to the albums but there will be links to other websites which offer this.

There should be


2,600 album names put online by October, which is the period covered by Arts Council funding for the project.

Covers and cards

The website also features a video interview with Mike Absalom , a singer-songwriter, poet and artist whose Save The Last Gherkin For Me (1968) was 001 in Peel's card index system.

Eye Film & Television, based in Norwich, has produced new films for the project and digitised the album covers and Mr Peel's index cards.

image caption Mike Absalom playing the phonofiddle in Kensington, London, in 1967

Charlie Gauvain, Eye's managing director, said: "These cards have been scanned, often with typos, so we have tried to make it personal and make it feel the way that John kept his LPs.

"People will be able to trawl through the site, find a lotof information, link out and start lots of discussions, but the whole thing is about introducing people to stuff they hadn't heard of."

Andrew Stringer, a director of the John Peel Centre, said: "This is just the first step and a fantastic portal to give the career of John Peel the justice it deserves.

"Whether people listened to his shows or not, their social history has been influenced by him because nothing was deemed 'out of the box' and it encouraged people to expand their horizons.


A shitload of interviews from all the various members of Oasis and selected associates from the start of their career right up to the present day.
These transcripts have been taken from various websites, forums and newsgroups over the years. Credit goes to those people who took the time to put these words online.

Tuesday, July 01, 1997

Noel Gallagher - Rolling Stone - July 1997

Liam Gallagher looks like he could be on stage. Dressed in a natty three-quarter-length blue coat and wearing tinted shades, the Oasis frontman struts across the floor of the band's no-frills office in central London, hands clasped behind his back and chin thrust out in his typical performance pose. But today, Gallagher isn't out to impress a crowd; he's just fawning over his manager's new vintageBella motor scooter. "It's top, really," Gallagher says excitedly, circling the scooter. "I've got three like 'em at home. Top, top, top!" Entering the room, Noel Gallagher, dressed casually in jeans and a maroon Izod shirt, rolls his eyes and blows past his younger brother on his way to the conference room, where Noel begins to wolf down a lunch of pasta salad and grape juice. Sitting in front of him on the table is a prized possession: a cassette of songs from Oasis' third album, "Be Here Now," which is due out Aug. 26. It's a minor miracle that "Be Here Now" exists at all, given the Gallagher brothers' well-documented volatile relationship and the fact that Oasis nearly broke up last September after Noel left the band


with five shows to play on a tumultuous U.S. tour. But after a few months spent cooling off, Oasis regrouped, and "Be Here Now" was recorded between December 1996 and March of this year. Perhaps symbolic of the turmoil surrounding it, the album is far more rowdy and aggressive than 1995's spare "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" "'Morning Glory' was a bit quiet, poppy and clean," the older Gallagher says between bites of pasta. "This time we decided to give it the fucking full-on - as loud as we could get it. It..." He pauses, then leaps to his feet as he overhears Liam confessing his admiration for No Doubt to an office worker in the adjoining room.

"What did you just say?" Noel yells at his brother. "It'ssit in the back drinking, pointing and shouting, 'It's not loud enough, turn it up!'" On the album, throbbing rockers such as "It's Getting Better Man, " "Be Here Now" and the squalor-filled, Sex Pistols-like "My Big Mouth" alternate with quieter guitar ballads like "All Around The World," the gorgeous "Don't Go Away" - many of which are full of layered guitar parts and string arrangements. Though singer Liam recently tested his songwriting chops, penning a tune with the Seahorses' John Squire for that band's album "Do It Yourself," Noel wrote all the songs for "Be Here Now." "I write the fucking songs for Oasis," he says with typical bravado. Oasis began laying down tracks for "Be Here Now" at London's Abbey Road, but the band was soon


kicked out of the studio, Noel says, for "playing too loudly. Can you fucking believe that?" So Oasis ended up recording most of the 12-song, 72-minute album at Ridge Farm Studios, in the southern England countryside. But the genesis of some song stretches back further, to a Caribbean vacation that Noel took last fall. "The first part of 'Fade In/Out' was recorded in a little fucking shack on the beach," Noel Says. The song-the bluesiest thing the band has ever done-features a special guest: Johnny Depp. "We were drunk one night [in the Caribbean], and I borrowed his slide guitar and tried to play this solo, and it was absolutely dreadful," Noel recalls. "So he sat down and played it and got it in one take. He's actuallyit, what are we doing sitting around moaning for?'" With the record finished, Noel has moved to the brainstorming concepts for videos, planning an Oasis tour this fall and editing footage for a concert film (to be released later this year) documenting the band's weekend performances last summer at Knebworth, England. It was the largest concert ever held in Britian, attracting more than 250,000 fans. Still, Noel admits, nothing comes easy for Oasis. "We're back on the treadmill of being a band again," he says. "You'd have thought it would be easier this time, but believe you me..." He trails off with a shrug and a laugh. "I fucking know it won't be."


As he reflects on his first championship with the Boston Celtics, Hall of Fame sharpshooter Ray Allen pauses for a second -- "What was the shoe I was wearing?"

The largely forgotten Team Jordan shoe -- dubbed the "TGIM," short for "The Game Is Mine" -- has long been an afterthought among sneakerheads, casual fans and, apparently, Allen himself. The other shoe Allen wore when winning a title is far more unmistakable.

"As this shoe comes to me, it's like, 'Wow, a boot?'" Allen said at last month's Nike "Art of a Champion" event.

That "boot" was on Allen's feet when he made his iconic game-tying 3-pointer with five seconds left in regulation in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals, a series the Miami Heat would go on to winin seven games.

To celebrate the shot, Jordan Brand is re-releasing the Air Jordan XX8 this weekend in a new colorway, as part of a collection spotlighting the greatest moments in Nike, Converse and Jordan Brand's collective NBA history.

The Air Jordan XX8 was unlike anything before it. A neoprene shroud rose eight inches tall on the ankle, sculpted carbon-fiber wedges offered support, the "Flight Plate cushioning system provided responsive comfort and a bonded zipper pulled the whole thing together.

"It was unique," Allen said. "At the time, you started wondering, 'How different will sneakers be as the years go by?'"

Designer Tinker Hatfield was back for the first time in five years to craft the brand's annual flagship model and wanted to take a risk with the look. The shrouded silhouette


was the starting point for a design that was instantly polarizing.

"I don't really think of these things as basketball shoes," Hatfield said at the time. "I think of these as objects of art and design that just happen to be used in the game of basketball."

Designed for stealth attacks

Back when he started working on what would become the Jordan XX8, Hatfield sat down to watch an Arnold Schwarzenegger '90s action movie on a whim well after its release. Little did he know a specific scene from "True Lies" would become the inspiration for his next Air Jordan design.

"He storms this beach, and he's got a commando suit on," Hatfield said. "And after he kills a few people, he unzips it and steps out of his commando suit, andis wearing a tuxedo."

The insight quickly hit him: The sneaker could take on the look of a performance cloak meant for missions, with the interior boasting the tailored beauty and craftsmanship Hatfield always strived for.

"It was something that you'd see in battle. Michael talks about it all the time," he said. "Playing sports, you're out there and you're going to go do battle with somebody."

Hatfield and his co-designer, Mark Smith, next reached out to Jordan for his input, asking him in an email to define the concept of stealth. In true MJ fashion, he offered up an unfiltered take.

"Stealth is like Black Cat," Jordan wrote back in a text message. "You never hear it coming, but it's deadly as hell. You don't f--- with stealth. My game is


like that. When you see it, it's too f------ late."

Soon after Jordan's colorful feedback, the defiant aesthetic was born, sketched by Hatfield in a matter of minutes on an iPad. It's a first impression that still sticks with Allen.

"Very outside the box," he said. "We always say people don't know what they want until we show them. That was certainly the case."

The Jordan XX8 features a shroud that rises eight inches above the top of the shoe on the ankle. Courtesy Jordan Brand

By the time the shoe was ready to launch in 2013, the Air Jordan XX8 was worn by a revamped list of headliners, from emerging All-Star Russell Westbrook to one of the brand's very first original endorsers in Allen.

Though Jordan Brand signature models have been releasedfor the likes of Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade over the years, Allen always took great pride in donning the latest team model or Air Jordan instead, rather than fighting for his own signature edition.

"It never really mattered to me," said Allen. "I always believed that Michael Jordan made the shoe."

Overcoming fear

With his Air Jordan XX8 exclusives in tow to close out his first season in Miami, the 2013 Finals still presented an unmistakable challenge that Allen wouldn't dare overlook.

"We had an extreme fear playing against San Antonio," he admits. "It seemed like every time they came out, we didn't know who was going to shoot the ball. The way Pop ran his offense, it was so many different things that could happen."

Game 6 served