used for any general commentaries made by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and for the advisory opinions made in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

In the preamble of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is established that children require "special care," and in Article 19 of the American Convention on Human Rights ([@B63]), it is indicated that they ought to receive "measures of protection." In the case of children responsible for committing crimes, the universal system of human rights has developed the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (also known as the Beijing Rules), the United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines), and the United Nations Rules for the Protection ofadolescents' rights in their decision-making and understanding of autonomy, such as the minimum ages for voting, buying cigarettes, consuming alcohol, medical consent, and accessing contraception. It is as if, on the one hand, adolescents' capacity to make decisions and to take responsibility for their own actions is recognized, while, on the other hand, when convenient, this is not acknowledged.

This is evident in the application of certain public policies where, for example, the legal smoking and drinking age is established at 18 years old and the legal age for accessing contraception is 14 years. In that sense, countries like the United States set a high drinking age -- 21 years old -- while, as shown by a recent report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the range for the


developmental disorder or psychological/psychiatric problems. The aim of the PIJ-measure is reintegration into society by resocialization. In the Netherlands, juveniles of 12--18 years in principle fall under juvenile criminal law. Juveniles of 16 or 17 may be sentenced according to adult criminal law. Since the new "Adolescent Criminal Law" came into effect, Apr. 1, 2014, adolescents of 18--23 years old may be sentenced according to juvenile criminal law ([@B22]).

In Latin America, there are numerous human rights treaties that have been ratified by the different states and that govern this matter. With this in mind, and in consonance with Article 24 of the American Convention on Human Rights, the principle of equality must be understood to be the obligation to treat equals in the same way. It also means,Trump will deliver the State of Union after the Shutdown

WCD Times – US President Mr.Donald Trump has said in his twitter tweet, He would Deliver the State of the Union address after the Government Shutdown Ends. Mr.Trump has been delaying State of the Union address, as he is doing for the tit-for-tat option between him and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The President speech was planned to be delivered on January 29th 2019, but Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that she would block Trump’s speech if he did not Reopen the Government. It’s been a month still, the Government of US has never been in shutdown this long in its history.

As the Shutdown was going on, Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the Union Address. I agreed. She


The Running Man members revealed how they reacted to Gary‘s unexpected marriage announcement.

Recently, cast members Song Ji Hyo, Kim Jong Kook, HaHa, Lee Kwang Soo and Ji Suk Jin visited Malaysia for a fan meeting. After they entertained fans with performances and gags, the members were eventually asked about Gary’s recent marriage.

On April 5, Gary surprised fans with an announcement about his marriage through Instagram. The sudden news came as a huge surprise as very few people even knew he was in a relationship.

Song Ji Hyo, who was always extremely close with Gary on the show, was asked about her thoughts on Gary’s surprise news.

“I’m a bit sad as I only found out about it from the news. I wish Gary-oppa a happy marriage. He also changed histhat is laughing at us, who will act again.”

Clinton herself, and most of her 2016 campaign team, declined to comment on the indictments after they landed on Friday. The former secretary of state did tweet multiple times in the afternoon, but she kept her commentary to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Mueller’s indictment detailed how the Russians and three entities worked starting as early as 2014 to influence the presidential election, aiming to swing it against Clinton and toward Trump with both online and in-person activity.

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Police have arrested three people on the basis of the pastor's complaint.

Highlights A group of eight men hurled bombs with shouts of "Jai Shri Ram"

The incident occurred at Bhagwanpur in East Midnapore district

Three people have been arrested so far, the police said

Vandals allegedly linked to the RSS and BJP attacked a church in West Bengal on Saturday. A group of eight men hurled bombs with shouts of "Jai Shri Ram", and when worshippers fled, entered the church and vandalised it.

The incident occurred at Bhagwanpur in East Midnapore district, 120 km from Kolkata, around 2 pm. Three people have been arrested so far, the district superintendent of police confirmed. Alok Ghosh, the pastor of the church, filed a police complaint naming eight people who he claimed were local BJPIndian forces again violate ceasefire at LoC

Indian army at first fired with light arms followed by heavy shelling in Kalar sector at the LoC. Indian aggression at the LoC and the Working Boundary is continued for past 12 days.

Two Pakistani citizens were martyred and six injured due to unprovoked firing in Charwah, Harpal and Nakial sectors in these days.

However, the Pakistan Army fully retaliated the Indian fire and silenced all enemy guns.

In August, Indian forces violated ceasefire for 90 times, while in July for 37 such instances occurred resulting in the martyrdom of five Pakistani nationals.

On the other hand, Pakistan has formally taken up the issue at UN Security Council.

Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN Dr Maliha Lodhi in her letter to the president of UN Security Council


Thursday, Jan 10, 2013 - 4:00 AM
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Daniel Waits for Show and Tell - Daniel is so excited to share a book he made with his class at "show and tell," but he's finding it very difficult to wait. He finds that singing on Trolley, playing during science time and imagining make the waiting much easier! A Night Out at the Restaurant - Daniel and his family are going out to dinner, and Katerina is coming too. Daniel and Katerina have a hard time waiting at the restaurant, but soon learn ways to make the waiting time easier. D
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California Rep. Ro Khanna says impeachment vote likely before end of 2019 originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

California Rep. Ro Khanna said Wednesday he would be surprised if the impeachment inquiry didn't end with a vote on articles, opening the door for a formal vote to impeach President Donald Trump.

Khanna told ABC News' "Powerhouse Politics" podcast that while he, along with other House Democrats, believe the impeachment inquiry could be finished as early as Thanksgiving, the ideal goal is to have it wrapped before the Iowa caucuses in February.

"We want to get it done, and then the Judiciary Committee will refer the articles to the House (for a vote)," Khanna, a member of the House Oversight Committee, told ABC News Political Director Rick Klein.

The inquiry, launched Sept. 24 by HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi, began after reports that a whistleblower had filed a complaint expressing national security concerns regarding a July phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The White House released a transcript of the call on Sept. 25, corroborating information found in the whistleblower's complaint.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump arrives to board Air Force One at John F. Kennedy Airport after attending the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2019, in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP) More

Since the process began, the transcript, whistleblower complaint and Intelligence Community inspector general's report have all been made public.

Echoing other lawmakers' push for an inquiry that is expeditious and focused, Khanna said lawmakers can't continue "throwing the kitchen sink" at the president if they want the American people to respect the


U.S. Capitol Visitors Center, Dec. 18, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) More

Khanna supported the decision of some more moderate Democrats, those who won seats in the districts Trump won in 2016, to risk their seats in Congress in support of the inquiry. He also said Democrats are for the most part united in their belief that the president has to be held accountable. That call will be the main focus during the inquiry, and beyond.

"That in itself is an abuse of his office," the congressman said. "He's admitted that. He's bragged about doing that and it's unconstitutional."

(MORE: Read the transcript of Trump's call with the Ukraine president)

As the controversy takes more twists and turns, including Trump's involvement of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney Generalprojected by a Nobel Prize-winning group of international scientists in 2007.

Meanwhile, forests and oceans, which suck up carbon dioxide, are doing so at lower rates than in the 20th century, scientists said. If those trends continue, it puts the world on track for the highest predicted rises in temperature and sea level.

The pollution leader was China, followed by the United States, which past data show is the leader in emissions per person in carbon dioxide output. And while several developed countries slightly cut their CO2 output in 2007, the United States churned out more.

Still, it was large increases in China, India and other developing countries that spurred the growth of carbon dioxide pollution to a record high of 9.34 billion tons of carbon (8.47 billion metric tons). Figures


released by science agencies in the United States, Great Britain and Australia show that China’s added emissions accounted for more than half of the worldwide increase. China passed the United States as the No. 1 carbon dioxide polluter in 2006.

Emissions in the United States rose nearly 2 percent in 2007, after declining the previous year. The U.S. produced 1.75 billion tons of carbon (1.58 billion metric tons).

“Things are happening very, very fast,” said Corinne Le Quere, professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia and the British Antarctic Survey. “It’s scary.”

Gregg Marland, a senior staff scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said he was surprised at the results because he thought world emissions would drop because of the economic downturn. That                             I.

           The insured, General Ceramics, Inc.,1 is a New Jersey

company that manufactures high temperature beryllium oxide

ceramics at its main manufacturing plant in Haskell, New Jersey.

Until 1991, all of General Ceramics's corporate, manufacturing,

marketing, and sales operations were located at the Haskell, New

Jersey facility.   Between December 1977 and October 1978,

approximately five shipments of contaminated waste from the

Haskell facility were transported by private waste haulers to a

resource recovery and processing facility in McAdoo, Pennsylvania

("the McAdoo site").
           In 1981, General Ceramics


  The EPA then filed a civil

action in that court, pursuant to CERCLA, against General

Ceramics and others, seeking damages and injunctive relief, and

incorporating the provisions of the consent decree.     Through

September 1991, General Ceramics had expended approximately

$132,000 in clean-up and remediation costs pursuant to the McAdoo

site consent decree.   In October 1992, General Ceramics notified

its insurers of the environmental claims pending against it.

           Between December 1972 and December 1978, Home Indemnity

Company (referred to in the caption as "Home Insurance Company"

and in this opinion as "Home" or "the insurer") had issued seven

liability polices to General Ceramics, each covering

approximately a one year period.    Home is incorporated in New

Hampshire and has its principal84 (emphasis added).)

            After giving Home notice of the EPA claims against it,

General Ceramics filed an action in the Superior Court of New

Jersey against Home and a number of other insurers seeking a

declaration that any liability in connection with the McAdoo site

environmental claims was covered by General Ceramics's insurance
policies.    After removal to the United States District Court for

the District of New Jersey, summary judgment was granted in favor

of Home, and General Ceramics's cross-motion for summary judgment

was denied. The district court determined that Pennsylvania law

applied, that the discharge of the pollution in this case had

been gradual and not abrupt, and that under Pennsylvania law the

gradual discharge of pollutants was not covered under the "sudden

and accidental"


For the most part, any real success the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team has had under Brian Kelly is when the defense plays well. That's nothing new, and it can be said about any regime at Notre Dame and across the country.

Defense wins championships.

Under defensive coordinator, Brian VanGorder, the Irish were falling behind the rest of the nation's top programs in terms of stockpiling defensive talent. VanGorder didn't like to recruit, and it showed with the results on signing day.

The hiring of Mike Elko already seems to be making a huge difference. Eight of Notre Dame's fifteen commitments for the 2018 class are on the defensive side of the ball, while five of the top seven highest rated commitments are also defensive players.

This past week bolstered thoseheld hostage in suspiciously bondage themed deathtraps.

But anyways, Dan Garrett was on a dig in Egypt a couple weeks before the outbreak of World War II, searching for the lost tomb of a pharaoh named Kha-Ef-Re, who was said to have held an artifact shaped like a blue scarab, granting him incredible powers and dominion over most of Egypt. Over the centuries, none had ever managed to obtain the relic from his ancient tomb, due to traps and curses aplenty. Until one day, Dan Garrett just kinda walked in and got the artifact no problem. I guess the traps and curses just ran out. Naturally, being an archaeologist in the Forties, Dan was obligated to use the amazing powers of the Scarab to fight crime, becoming the Blue


Beetle.

At the original time of publication, Blue Beetle was a part of a large group of characters known as “The Mystery Men”, pulp heroes fighting both crime and the war for Americans everywhere. As an imprint of Fox Feature Syndicate, things were going… well, they were going okay. The character wasn’t an explosive success, but he wasn’t doing incredibly either, in fact, he was pretty middle of the road. Of course, this might have had something to do with his, shall we say, less than inspired original origin. You see, before he was ever an archaeologist with magic powers, he was simply a patrolman who was fed up with crime, donning a bulletproof outfit to clean up the streets. Then, to gain a bit more popularity as actualchain program in Chapter 3 should include an option that produces debugging information such as the seed of the random number generator so that output can be reproduced; another option should allow for setting the seed. Many programs include such options and it is a good idea to include similar facilities in your own programs.

**_Divide and conquer._** Can the input that causes the program to fail be made smaller or more focused? Narrow down the possibilities by creating the smallest input where the bug still shows up. What changes make the error go away? Try to find crucial test cases that focus on the error. Each test case should aim at a definitive outcome that confirms or denies a specific hypothesis about what is wrong.

Proceed by binary search.


program spends its time. Some profiles list each function, the number of times it is called, and the fraction of execution time it consumes. Others show counts of how many times each statement was executed. Statements that are executed frequently contribute more to run-time, while statements that are never executed may indicate useless code or code that is not being tested adequately.

Profiling is an effective tool for finding _hot spots_ in a program, the functions or sections of code that consume most of the computing time. Profiles should be interpreted with care, however. Given the sophistication of compilers and the complexity of caching and memory effects, as well as the fact that profiling a program affects its performance, the statistics in a profile can be only approximate.

In thea station under the assumption that the received frame has been transmitted to another station as a receiving station.
First, referring to FIG. 1A, a frame transmitted through a channel is received by a station without error. A station cannot transmit a frame through a channel while the frame is being received in another station: this method is referred to as physical carrier sensing. A medium access control (MAC) header of the received frame contains duration information. This duration information contains a duration of time taken from transmission of a frame by a transmitting station to reception of an acknowledge (ACK) frame from a receiving station. The receiving station receives the frame transmitted from the transmitting station and transmits the ACK frame after a short duration, known as a


Juanna Green (right) of Flatwoods sits with hundreds of others on Tuesday filling out forms for Disaster Food Stamps at the Rapides Parish Coliseum in Alexandria.

Written by

David Dinsmore
ddinsmore@thetowntalk.com

In the total antithesis of the day following Hurricane Gustav, applicants stood in line in the beating sun on a windless Tuesday to apply for the Disaster Food Stamp program in two Rapides Parish locations.

More than 1,000 people per site shuffled through the lines outside the Rapides Parish Coliseum and the Rapides Parish Office of Family Support on Murray Street in downtown Alexandria, site officials said. The Louisiana Department of Social Services is coordinating the application process through at least Monday for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food stamp program.State Briefs

February 17, 2005

Port administrator won't be removed, Ehrlich says

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is not considering the removal of James J. White as administrator of the port of Baltimore, saying "rumblings" of discontent with his performance were incorrect.

Ehrlich made the explicit denial at a meeting of the Board of Public Works, where Comptroller William Donald Schaefer pressed him about a report in The Sun that three lawmakers had raised concern that White might be forced out.

"That's incorrect. I make the decision ... ," Ehrlich said. "It is not even under consideration."

The concerns were raised by three Dundalk Democrats. White has led the Maryland Port Administration through six years during which the port has seen growth in business.

State board agrees to pay $2 million


Ukrainian Military fired from mortars the territory of the LC

The Kiev Military shelled the positions of the militia proclaimed the people's Republic of Lugansk from mortars, said the headquarters of the defense Ministry LNR."On October 10 to 20. 25 shelling from the direction of Novoaleksandrovka from 82-mm mortar (4 mines) on our positions in the area of Kalinovo ", Greg said, RIA "Novosti" in the Ministry of war of the Republic.

according to staff, the Fire from a mortar of calibre of 120 millimetres and small arms was opened on the positions in residential and from residential settlements Novozvanivka." Only in the area of responsibility of the national police LNR 10 eleven Oct 2016 documented 4 attacks from APU ", Greg said the head of the Department. For itspart, the Ministry of defence of Ukraine informed about the 47 shelling positions of Ukrainian security forces in the Donbass for the last days. According to the Ukrainian security forces came under fire on their position near the settlements of Talakivka, Berdyansk, Sorokino, Marinka, Popasnaya and other. Fire as if were fired from grenade launchers, machine guns, small arms, mortars and APCS. Yesterday the Deputy Minister of Ukraine on Affairs of the "occupied territories" Georgy Tuka said that the militias as if to began a withdrawal of forces in the area of Stanytsia Luhanska, whereas the Ukrainian side, as far as we know, refuses to leave the position. On Sunday, the defense Ministry of Ukraine has again postponed the withdrawal of troops and armaments in the area of


the Village Lugansk in the Donbass, already breaking the fourth attempt breeding forces in the area. October 9, the LC said that units of the national police of the Republic remained in positions in the area of Stanitsa Lugansk due to Kiev's disruption of withdrawal of forces.I found in Hannover that surprised me/gave me lots to think about:

Stolpersteine

The Stolpersteine project is a series of tiny memorials to Holocaust victims. The artist, Gunter Demnig, began the project in Germany, but now Stolpersteine can be found in countries all over Europe. Each steine, the size of a small tile and covered in brass, details the information of a victim who lived at the place where it is installed. In Hannover, there are Stolpersteine everywhere:

Stolpersteine — Goetheplatz, Hannover

I saw so many of them. Most of the ones I saw were dedicated to Jews from Hannover, but many were also for homosexuals, political prisoners, and Romas.

Synagogue Memorial

Hannover was home to a massive synagogue…

Hannover’s former synagogue.

…that was destroyed on Kristallnacht.

In the place where the synagogue stood, there is a


The frozen surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa is seen in extreme detail in this remastered photo made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. A new study suggests that the ice on Europa may move between the moon's poles and its equator.

Ice on Jupiter's moon Europa may drift across the satellite's surface from the equator to the poles, or vice versa, at a literally glacial pace, a new study finds.

Potential future missions to Europa could analyze this ice flow to discover hints about whether the ocean hidden under the ice's surface might be warm enough to support life, researchers said.

Europa is nearly the size of Earth's moon. Under an icy shell up to more than 18 miles (30 kilometers) thick, Europa may possessan ocean perhaps about 100 miles (160 km) deep, scientists have said. [Europa in Pictures: Jupiter's Icy Moons]

Since there is life virtually wherever there is water on Earth, Europa may be one of the most likely places in the solar system to find extraterrestrial life, said the new study's lead author, Yosef Ashkenazy, a climate dynamicist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and his colleagues. The study was detailed Dec. 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy.

Jupiter's ice moon

Europa's icy crust shields the moon's ocean from view. However, clues about how this underground ocean behaves might be deduced from Europa's surface, especially regions known as chaos terrains, where ice has warped and broken into jumbled blocks. These strange areas cover up to 40 percent of Europa's surface,


the model also simulated an ocean heated by a warm core and by friction generated by Jupiter's gravitational pull. [Inside Europa: Jupiter's Icy Moon Explained (Infographic)]

Ice on the move

The model found that if Europa's icy crust was thick enough, temperatures would vary enough within the underground ocean for a kind of churning known as convection to occur. "In Earth's atmosphere and oceans, convection is a quick process, but with the ice of Europa, it would occur over the timescale of millions of years," Ashkenazy said.

If convection occurred within Europa's ocean, heat could flow from the equator to the poles, enough for the equator to become significantly cool compared to the poles, he said. "In this scenario, ice would flow from the equator to the poles," Ashkenazy said, becauseour readership. Reader Simon sent along this set of Flickr pictures, which shows off an entire recreation of the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, complete with glass cub...

This iPhone game borrows its title from Grandmaster Flash, but rather than a game about the perils of drug addiction, it's actually a memory game. Kyle Webster is an illustrator who made this Simon-like drawing challenge. The game offers up a series of white strokes on the screen, and its your job ...

The last time we checked in on Simon, he was moving pretty slowly, moving some blocks from one bin to another, and while he was creepily silent, we still had high hopes for his future. Well, Simon's seemingly come a long way -- if recent footage of him and his


vampires whipped, and o...

It was not by our hands that these action figures were given "flesh." They were brought here by NECA, who wished to pay Castlevania tribute. Simon Belmont, hero of Castlevanias I, II, and (Super) IV, and Alucard, of III, Symphony of the Night, and (spoiler alert, sort of!) Aria and Dawn of Sorrow,...

Sony's Kaz Hirai commented to news site Bloomberg that he expects the company's Playstation 3 to launch with 15 titles this November. This is in contrast to what some third-party higher-ups have been saying, including Sega's Simon Jeffrey and THQ's Brian Farrell. Jeffrey's argument stems from third ...considerably more offensive than Grand Masti.

In this film, as in most of his other films, the female protagonist is a sassed-up version of your typical Bollywood doormat. Chanda (Sonakshi Sinha, who must now appear in three Looteras to redeem herself) is independent and even adept at self-defence – her introductory scene shows her beating up multiple men, which is what attracts Romeo Rajkumar (Shahid Kapoor) to her — but she quickly degenerates to becoming mindless and spineless.

The attempts to dress up regressive ideas with progressive frills are many in R...Rajkumar. In one scene, a love-addled Rajkumar breaks into Chanda’s home and lands up in her room. As she changes her clothes, she discovers Rajkumar in her room and is, predictably, shocked. His response is to take his shirt


signal is digitized and recorded in 10 tracks and one frame of a PAL video signal is digitized and recorded in 12 tracks.
In analog and digital video playback devices, such as a video recorder exhibiting a reproducing mode, the previously recorded video signals may be reproduced in both a "normal" playback mode and in "special" playback modes. In the normal mode, the video tape is transported at a playback speed substantially equal to the speed at which it was driven during a recording operation and, as a result, the heads scan traces which substantially coincide with the previously recorded tracks. However, in a special playback mode, such as in a high speed playback mode, the tape is transported at a much higher speed than the speed at whichcomputer science for the DePaul community. CSS’s goal is to be the most active organization in CDM by 2018 by building a community that computer science students can look to as a resource for academics, networking, career improvement, and enjoyment.
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AIGA is the largest and oldest professional membership organization for design in America. As a pre-professional club, the DePaul chapter promotes design and craft at DePaul and creates a network with Chicago designers. AIGA holds regular events, including presentations from guest speakers, design studio tours, critique sessions, and workshops. Participation from students studying graphic design, animation, ISM, AMD, communication, advertising, and other creative fields is encouraged.
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DePaul Robotics Club

The DePaul Robotics Club strives to create an inclusive environment where robotics are enjoyed and discussed socially and academically. Students do not need prior experience in engineering and programming in order to join, and will be taught the fundamentals of robotics. Teams design, build, and program functioning robots, and then pit their robots against one another at an open, on-campus competition. The Robotics Club’s goal is create an environment where those who enjoy robotics and other nerdy things can commune and seek collaborative input for their enrichment.
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DePaul Virtual Reality Society

TheDePaul Virtual Reality Society is dedicated to creating virtual- and augmented reality-based applications. Students have access to cutting edge software and hardware, which allows the meetings to run like interactive workshops. Dedicated to teaching, the DePaul Virtual Reality Society opens its doors to students with various backgrounds and majors. The focus is on creating games, videos, and other workshop ideas that students bring to the table.
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The Digital Cinema Collaborative (DCC)

The Digital Cinema Collaborative is open to undergraduate and graduate School of Cinematic Arts students who show great skill, desire, and commitment to producing exceptional film work. DCC fosters new collaborations, arming students with focused information, industry opportunities, closer proximity to guest lecturers, and a better sense of what it takes to succeed in


the industry. The organization meets officially only once per quarter with a focus on establishing the philosophy of the group, informing members of upcoming opportunities/events, and providing access to special guest speakers.
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Film Fatales

Film Fatales supports the academic and creative needs unique to women in Digital Cinema; fosters a network of support among women in all areas of film production; and aims to increase the number of films by, for, and about women. Film Fatales holds several social events and movie screenings throughout the year and provides members with information about upcoming film festivals, volunteer opportunities, jobs, and current projects.
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HerCDM is a student organization for women in CDM. The organization supports student success by connecting its members to experiences designed tofoster a safe and welcoming environment in which meaningful networking, career development, service, and leadership development can occur. The goal of HerCDM is to promote the retention, graduation, and future success of women in CDM in hopes of creating a larger impact of women leaders in historically underrepresented industries.
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Security Daemons

Security Daemons is an organization comprised of students who are interested in computer, information, and network security. Throughout the year, Security Daemons provides opportunities for members to learn new skills, gain real world experience, and to have fun. Events include meetings with prospective employers; presentations by current members, alumni, and industry professionals; and participation in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (in 2016, the team won state and regionals and placed 3rd nationally).
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Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE)

Upsilon Pi Epsilon’s mission is to recognize academic excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the computing and information disciplines through higher academic research activities and events. UPE membership provides outstanding students with scholarships in computing science, connections to professionals and employers, ACM membership, and a great addition to their résumé. The CDM honor chapter of UPE was approved by National UPE in 2003 and has since initiated over 1000 members, becoming the largest UPE chapter.

XD Roundtable

A collective of individuals looking to provide a platform for the personal and professional growth of DePaul students in the UX industry, XD Roundtable promotes lifelong independent learning through peer-to-peer workshops and challenges. The group promotes research while working together to gain newJill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, failed to qualify for the Nevada general election presidential ballot despite submitting nearly 3,000 more signatures than legally required.

Questions are being raised as to why she was disqualified in a state where Republican nominee Donald Trump and his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton are said to be in a virtual tie.

The Nevada secretary of State determined that the Greens were 647 signatures short, and an Obama-appointed federal judge earlier this month threw out the party’s lawsuit to gain ballot access. The secretary of State also refused to recount the signatures.

Presumably a segment of the Bernie Sanders constituency would have voted for Stein in the state that also does not permit write-ins. Stein did qualify in 45 states plus the District of Columbia.

According


to the Observer, foul play or sabotage may have allegedly occurred in the signature-collection process.

“One of the biggest obstacles Clinton faced in the swing-state of Nevada against Trump was losing votes from Sanders supporters who switched over to Green Party candidate Jill Stein…The Nevada Green Party had hired Adrienne White, who founded White Paper Solutions in May 2016, to collect signatures. After the ruling that the Nevada Green Party failed to make the ballot, White and White Paper Solutions disappeared. The website listed under the company’s filing with the Nevada Secretary of State is no longer active, and there is no sign of Adrienne White or the company online. White worked with Nicholas Groce during the ballot petitioning, but both White and Groce were featured on an episodeof Divorce Court in February 2016, months before working for the Nevada Green Party. The Nevada Green Party said Stein missed making the Nevada Ballot because of fraudulent signatures turned in by White Paper Solutions.”

Back in February, fraud allegations emerged in the controversial Nevada Democratic Caucus where Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders by 53 percent to 47 percent.

[Image by MPI10 / MediaPunch/IPX via AP Images]

Jill Stein, 66, is a medical doctor who declared in recent interviews that “politics is the mother of all illnesses” and that’s why she now practices what she calls political medicine. Stein was the Green Party standard-bearer in 2012 and also unsuccessfully ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.

With a social justice focus on climate change and eradicating poverty, the far-left Green


political groups "to create a sense of scandal around the groups" and dissuade donors from giving money. The effort was cheered by Accountable America adviser Judd Legum, founder of Think Progress -- the same group leading the attack today on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Yet, Matzzie's group, Accountable America, is itself a 501(c)(4) nonprofit entity that shields the identity of its donors. (The group is required by law to remain nonpartisan, but has described itself as "dedicated to electing Democrats to the state legislature across America.") By targeting direct, hard-money contributors who are required to disclose their occupations, addresses and employers, Matzzie's assault simply created a sunshine-evading incentive to steer campaign donations to soft-money groups that protect donor identities. You know, like Accountable America does.the North to very little indeed, except for the Japanese commotion of 1942 which, even so, was rightly related as a totally unforeseen and even aberrant cataclysm.

In this sort of perspective, the Southeast Asian space naturally remains open to the Indian world, beyond the Gulf of Bengal (which we know had been an area of exchange between Sri Lanka and Burma, as well as between Bengal and Arakan), as well as towards the Melanesian world (which we know begins in Indonesian itself, in Maluku, Irian and Timor). Yet, by contrast, it excludes all relations with the Chinese world. No thought is given here to trying to rethink over the centuries [in the longue durée] the possible contacts between south China and Southeast Asia; at best, historical consideration was


understand the evolution of upper Burma and of Tonkin, and the dynamic of all the Thai peoples who, from the thirteenth century, would deeply influence the whole of the Indochinese peninsula. Yunnan was a regional impulsive force from the Bronze Age (because its chalky karstic soils contained abundant mines of tin). Further, far from being at the ends of the earth, as Europeans might have liked to imagine it in the nineteenth century, Yunnan has almost always been a place of journey crossings and exchanges. Mahayana Buddhism flourished there during the Nanzhao kingdom (which once extended as far as Hanoi) and, when the province was finally and irrevocably attached to the Chinese empire (under the Yuan, in the thirteenth century), Islam appeared there with the caravan traders, atthe same moment that it set foot on Sumatra. At Chieng Mai, in our own times, we can still meet some of those Chinese Muslim families who, among other commercial ventures, are trading jade with Yunnan.

As for the two large islands of Hainan and Taiwan, which are like anchors cast out to sea from the Chinese continent, it is quite fascinating to compare their evolution. Both were initially occupied by non-Chinese populations, in the first case by Thais especially and by Austronesians in the second, so we could say that, from a certain perspective, they were both at base “Southeast Asian”. But if Hainan was Sinicised quite early and has never ceased to form part of the continental system, Taiwan was not really occupied before the seventeenth century,


of Taiwan and Hainan, and earthquakes might damage Fujian or Hong Kong just as easily as the Philippines or Burma. It is also a commonplace that this whole region falls under the monsoon cycle and experiences typhoons, while botanists and zoologists, in parallel with each other, stress the fact that the flora and fauna of southern China bears great analogies to the light forests of Indochina, and that in earlier times elephants were common in the North and the South. Just as in Hainan, the coastal regions of southern China were also covered by tropical forests, the point being that forest felling began here much earlier than further South. Just as with Europe’s Mediterranean, then, the opportunity exists here for historians to study the differential retreat of theChina), the discovery of an impressive number of bronze drums provides us with the outline of what is called Dongson culture, reaching west from the bronze rich southwest of China to the borders of Iran, and to the south passing through Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sumbawa, etc. That other technical information, like the use of braced ridge tiles, [7] could also have spread along with bronze working cannot be doubted. Some pre-historians are currently researching the presence of boat-coffins, found equally in Wuyishan, one of the highest places in northern Fujian, in the Niah cave (northern Borneo), and in several places in the Philippines.[8] Generations of students of mythology have also studied the similarities found among the various folklores of river-valley dwellers.

Dongson drum probably made in Vietnam


designating the Malay Peninsula and southeast Sumatra whose trading centres included Palembang, Jambi, Bangka, Kalah, Ligor—the route passed by the Tioman Island (mentioned as early as the ninth century in an Arab text) before reaching the present coast of central Vietnam, controlled at that time by a series of small and competing Cham principalities that increasingly had to struggle against Vietnamese southern expansion. Further north, the route might go up to Tonkin, or modern northern Vietnam, where in the town of Luy-lau (where Buddhist pilgrims from China met others from India and Central Asia) the existence of a very cosmopolitan society from the third century is well attested. But the route might equally turn to the northeast, to Canton, perhaps touching on the southwest point of Hainan Island,where vestiges of a small Islamised Cham community still persist today. Thus the later “historical” rivalry between the future Vietnam and Guangdong-Guangxi region of south China might possibly be explained by the economic rivalry that grew up between the ports of Tonkin and those of South China in the more distant past.

It is by this Western route that Islam reached China, not very long after the death of its founder; Canton contains the tomb of one of the Prophet’s close relations, Abu Wakkas, as well as an ancient mosque whose minaret, which was also used as a lighthouse, dated from the ninth century. From this era, a good two centuries before it reached Java (whose oldest inscription only dates from the eleventh century) Islam was set to become


other products of the greater East, like parrots that were unknown in Java but well represented on the bas-relief carvings at Borobudur (ninth century).

Borobudur / Detail of frieze depicting parrots

From the tenth and eleventh centuries, we can make out certain changes. In China, the period known as the Five Dynasties (907-960 CE) was characterised by a great level of autonomy in the southern regions, which took advantage of the temporary imperial crisis. Fujian, known for some decades as the kingdom of Min, [13] took off economically, little by little preparing itself to become one of the early economic motors of Southeast Asia; while under the Southern Han (Nan Han) the Guangdong region experienced enormous development, notably in regard to metallurgical production. In the archipelago that later became thePhilippines, we see the emergence of the gold-rich site of Butuan (on the north coast of Mindanao), which starts to exchange Chinese ceramics for its gold. On Java, the centre of gravity moves from the middle to the east; and in the area of modern northern Vietnam, finally freed from Chinese control, war begins with the Chams to the south. This conflict would end with the Cham withdrawal, thus causing the western trade route, which had made possible the first contacts with India, with maritime Buddhism, and with Islam, to become unproductive for a long time.

However, the great turning point for Southeast Asia, as in fact for all of Eurasia, occurred in the thirteenth century, with the “Mongol moment” in world history, [14] and then in the fourteenth


century when, almost immediately after, unrest in the Turkish principalities of Central Asia closed the continental trade route that Marco Polo and Rubriquis had taken (as well as Rabban Sauma, from the other way around). From this era, the “weight of the North” (that is to say, from southern China) scarcely ceased to prevail in Southeast Asia. Until then, the main impacts, whether Buddhist or Muslim, had in reality mostly come from the southwest, with “Indianisation” easily forming the most important such phenomenon. But, henceforth, Chinese ports would make the most obvious impact. From the thirteenth century, there was a Chinese community at Angkor; in the fourteenth century, there were Chinese settled in Siam who founded the new commercial city of Ayutthaya, [15] while we also hear atthat time of communities established on the north coast of Java, notably at Gresik.

Painting of Khubilai Khan

The Mongol conquest is still a rather poorly understood phenomenon, but it is clear that, on leaving Central Asia, Genghis Khan and his successors wanted to organise a sort of world system that would have integrated not only China, eastern Europe, Iran, and India, but also all the islands and countries at its eastern periphery, including Japan, Vietnam, Champa, Burma, and Java. The two centuries that followed would see the emergence of new centres of gravity, the take-off of numerous port cities, and above all the development of an Eastern maritime route, linking the ports of Fujian by various stops to Luzon, Mindoro, the Visayas, and, beyond Mindanao, to Brunei in one


direction, and Sulu and Maluku in the other. On the other shore at this time, the 1471 Vietnamese conquest of the Cham capital of Vijaya confirmed the decline of the Western route.

From this point on, we could say that the circle was closed and that henceforth the Nanyang operated as a Southeast Asia “Mediterranean”. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, we witness the remarkable development of south Fujian’s large ports: Zhangzhou and Quangzhou, then Amoy (or Xiamen). In the last two cases, a wealth of Muslim inscriptions attests to the presence of a large foreign community, comprising Arabs and Persians. Powerful Hokkien merchants now began setting up bases not only in Java, Patani, and the Philippines, but also in Guangdong and Hainan. In parallel, at the sametime, a whole series of independent merchants, Japanese and Chinese (whom we call the wokou), took advantage of the favourable circumstances to develop a private commerce not only between ports in China and Japan but also in Southeast Asia, where no state watched over them.

Statue of Chinese admiral Zheng He (1405-1433)

During the first decades of the fifteenth century, the famous expeditions by Admiral Zhenghe not only crossed the South Seas but went as far as India, Mecca, and even Mogadishu in Africa. They were broken off after 1436, and this interruption has generally been interpreted as a Chinese desire to “withdraw”. This still remains to be proven, for the stopping of the great State expeditions in no way meant Chinese emigration ceased. We can indeed wonder if, fundamentally,


they created important diasporas. Through their multiple diasporas, Chinese people founded the capitalist networks from which originate almost all the “national” bourgeoisies of Southeast Asia today. As for the Japanese, who at the start of the seventeenth century had also created important “Nipponese quarters” (Nihonmachi) at Ayutthya, Faifo (or Hoi An, in modern central Vietnam) and Batavia, all their advantage was lost after the 1638 ruling effectively forbade the departure of private individuals, although they would regain it after Meiji and above all at the start of the 20th century.

Viewed in parallel with this, the story of the European merchants is hardly wonderful. After the “great success” won by the sixteenth-century Portuguese and seventeenth-century Dutch (who had nevertheless been obliged to surrender quite lamentably at Formosa, when opposedfirst published in France in 1949 and reprinted several times since. It was translated into English by Sian Reynolds as The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, published by Collins in 1972-73 and recently reprinted by the University of California Press in 1995.

[5] Mare nostrum is Latin for “our sea”.

[6] Koiné was an ancient Greek mixture of Attic and Ionian elements that became the common Greek language, thus by extension it means any common tongue shared by speakers of difference languages or dialects over a large geographical space.

[15] Charnvit Kasetsiri, The Rise of Ayudhya. A History of Siam in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Oxford University Press-Duang Kamol, Bangkok, 1976.

[16] On the difficulties of the French Company in its trade with China, see


Saba is a young rapper and producer from the West Side of Chicago who has been making a huge impact with his latest album, Bucket List Project. He got his start at open mics around Chicago thrown by Young Chicago Authors and YOUmedia, a scene that also produced talents like Mick Jenkins, Vic Mensa, Noname, and Chance the Rapper.

Saba really came into his own with his 2014 album ComfortZONE, a project that saw him get away from standard brags and boasts and develop a more personal and intimate style. Bucket List Project finds that style fully developed, and people have noticed. Rolling Stone even chose the record as one of its top rap albums of the year.

Tracks featured in this episode:Image copyright PA Media Image caption Designer of Dreams featured more than 200 rare haute couture garments

An exhibition dedicated to fashion house Christian Dior has broken the V&A's attendance record, attracting almost 595,000 people in seven months.

A total of 594,994 visitors came to see the London exhibition, which ran from 2 February and 1 September this year.

The V&A's Alexander McQueen exhibition had held the record, having attracted more than 480,000 visitors in 2015.

However, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty did run for two months less than Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The exhibition closed on Sunday, seven weeks later than originally scheduled

The Victoria and Albert Museum's Dior exhibition traced the history and impact of the brand from 1947 to the present day.

The


Brick by brick in Oklahoma!

EDMOND — It has been more than 40 years since the Tridentine rite has been regularly celebrated in a proper parish of the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. Old St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, built in 1891 and destroyed by fire in 1960, is the historic site near which the new Tridentine parish will be built. [This really is brick by brick!]

Groundbreaking for the unnamed parish was Nov. 2 just east of the foundation of Old St. Patrick’s Catholic Church and Cemetery along Sorghum Mill road between Council and County Line roads.

“The Latin worship of the Church is over 1,500 years old,” said Rev. Howard Remski, pastor of the new parish.

The parish will be a convenient location for the expanding northwest area of Oklahoma City,and the parish welcomes any Catholics who desire to worship in this manner, Remski said.[]Olsen-Coffey Architects has designed a beautiful Spanish Mission-style building, Remski said. Thanks to the parish’s motivated builder, Dan Hilgenberg of Clear Creek Creations, [Clear Creek?] Remski expects to be in the new building in time for solemn Easter ceremonies.

The Tridentine Rite

The Tridentine Rite, or the Traditional Mass, is the way in which worship was conducted for hundreds of years before it was updated in the 1960s during the second Vatican Council, Remski said. The Catholic Mass of the Roman Rite was in Latin throughout the world, and any Catholic would be familiar with how the services were conducted.

The music is predominantly Gregorian Chant and also will contain a rich heritage of Sacred Polyphony such


to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had noStory highlights "Homeland" creator talks about the writing process

He said sometimes spoiler rumors are correct, but more often not

New season will return in September 2013

Mention Showtime's "Homeland" to just about anyone and two things will happen. One, they'll tell you they watch it religiously and two, they won't stop talking about it to you in painstaking detail.

To say the show has a cult following is an understatement. The series has over 2 million viewers weekly, won four Emmy awards this year and received seven Golden Globe Nominations just days ago, including Best Drama, Best Actress in a Drama Series, Best Actor in a Drama Series and Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-series, or Television Film.

The creator of "Homeland" and former co-executive producer of "24," is Alex Gansa.

Before


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Approaching Rosalie Lake

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Approaching Rosalie Lake

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Rosalie Lake
Words cannot describe how cool this place was.
Looking west
The trail continued around the right lakeshore and exited up in the gap
in center of the picture.

I will be coming back and camping here. Soon!

Elevation 9390 feet
Distance hiked today 8.5 miles
Net distance from Red's Meadow on the JMT 8.6 miles
Our total distance hiked due to floundering up Minaret Canyon 16 miles

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Rosalie Lake
Looking south or southwest

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Rosalie Lake

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Rosalie Lake

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Believe it or not Jed was still with us, he just seems to avoid the
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After a brief but unwelcome climb out of Rosalie Lake we were treated
to a lengthy and tiring 600 feet drop into Shadow Lake.
I thought Shadow Lake wasGarnet Lake and to the next campsite... which
hopefully was less full than these were...
The map I was carrying marked relatively few spots for camping, and most of them were near lakes.
I was slowly appreciating that there were very few spots along the JMT
that were good for camping - legally far enuogh away from water
supplies and the trail, but still near water, and flat.

Garnet Lake south campsites
elevation 9,813 feet
Distance hiked today 13.4 miles
Net distance from Red's Meadow on the JMT 13.5 miles
Our total distance hiked due to floundering up Minaret Canyon 20.9 miles

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The River trail apparently comes up the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River and up this drainage to meet the JMT.
The area was gorgeous, this was


Blended Learning Improves Test Scores: Study

High school students who used algebra software to supplement traditional classroom lectures did better on tests than those who didn't in two-year study by Department of Education, RAND.

8 MOOCs Transforming Education

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A new study by the RAND Corporation and the Department of Education gives new credibility to the popular notion that blended learning -- a combination of traditional classroom methods with computer-mediated activities -- can improve students' test scores.

The study was one of the largest of its kind, involving 18,000 students in 147 urban, suburban and rural high schools and middle schools in seven states. It demonstrated the success of blended learning in a high school algebra curriculum.

To randomize the study, schools were matched into similar pairsDETROIT – The Heidelberg Project has released video of the arsonist who targeted its "Taxi House" last month.

The house, which has tires on the outside and paintings of cars, was badly damaged when it was set on fire Nov. 23.

Surveillance clip: Arsonist targets 'Taxi House'

The video shows someone with a hood pulled over their head pouring a substance on the back of the house before igniting it and fleeing.

There is a $15,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and/or conviction.

Tips can be called into the Detroit Fire and Arson Tip Line at 313-628-2900.

The "Taxi House" fire was the 12th fire in 18 months at the Heidelberg Project.

Earlier this year, the project said it has installed several cameras remote monitoring and solar panel streetlights.

Tyree Guyton founded the


activity included insights into the new realm of tech-powered retail fulfilment. What followed across 4 streams of content was a series of engaging presentations and interactive discussions from the likes of Rick Woods (General Manager, Costco), Belinda Hay (Trade Start & Project Lead Ecommerce, AUSTRADE) and Renee Gamble (Industry Lead Retail Technology, Google). Lastly, a candid and insightful discussion from Brittain Ladd (Former Global Head of Expansion, Amazon USA) on Amazon and the future of retail, closed what was a content rich day.

Final Day Highlights

The final day of the event was kicked off by international speaker Bruce Harryman (Head of Network Planning, John Lewis, UK) who inspired and amazed the audience with the scale of John Lewis’ supply chain operations. This was followed by engaging presentations from MargaretEmbedFeedIn a related video, Corbyn says he holds out the 'hand of friendship' to Labour MPsITN

Jeremy Corbyn has been forced to deny that he planned to "apply pressure" on Labour whip Conor McGinn through his father. A spokesperson for the left-wing leader claimed to IBTimes UK that McGinn's accusations were "untrue" after the St Helens North MP alleged Corbyn had planned to phone his father, a former Sinn Fein councillor, for criticising his leadership.

"It transpired that Jeremy, in deliberations about how to respond to my interview, had said that he intended to ring my father to discuss it with him and ask him to speak to me about it," McGinn told PoliticsHome.

"The Leader of the Labour Party was proposing to address an issue with one of his own


MPs by ringing his Dad."

He added: "Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me.

"Thankfully, others dissuaded Jeremy from taking this course of action. The call was not made, and it would not have been well received"

McGinn, first elected to parliament at the 2015 general election, said he shared the claims in a bid to speak out against Corbyn's "hypocrisy" over his pledge to practice a "kinder, gentler politics". The row comes after former shadow cabinet minister Thangam Debbonaire said she was appointed and sacked from Corbyn's top team during her cancer treatment.

"It was not, I admit, well handled," Corbyn told Channel 4 News. "Unfortunately, my wish to appoint her as one ofof youth as well as the heartbreaks, while his family tries to remain functional despite its dysfunction. Mason's life story isn't remarkable, but it's wonderfully told and deeply meaningful thanks to writer/director Richard Linklater's terrific script.

After Slacker and Dazed and Confused but before Bernie, Before Midnight and the soon-to-be-released Boyhood, Richard Linklater made a charming little movie called The Newton Boys. Filmed in Texas and featuring a band of charismatic actors (most of whom have gone on to considerable success in film and/or television), this true story depicts the bank-robbing exploits of four entrepreneurial and adventure-loving brothers in the early 20th century.

Raised in Uvalde County, Texas in a cotton farming family, the Newton brothers are an unruly bunch whose lives tell a one-of-a-kind story of American idealism and


proceed to spend several years joyfully blowing up and clearing out dozens of safes and trains from Texas to Canada.

[Editor's note: Austin Film Society co-founder and filmmaker Richard Linklater recently curated "Jewels in the Wasteland," a series focusing on films of the early 1980s. Today, as a guest columnist for Slackerwood, he recommends other movies he was unable to include in the series.]

We're looking forward to continuing the "Jewels in the Wasteland" series at some point with films from 1984-1986! Below are various titles that would have fit nicely in this first section of 80s films. Before we get going again, we'll likely have some one-off screenings (hopefully Pixote and Baby It's You) that represent additional titles from the first part of the 80s, so keep an eyelocal production company The Bear Media as well as the Austin Film Society to help bring this film to life. Through scenes filmed at Linklater's Bastrop home as well as archival footage, we as the audience can quietly observe these artists discussing their lives, art, and what it means to be a filmmaker.

I got the chance to ask Klinger a few questions via email before the film's debut this weekend. See what he has to say about how he approached these two filmmakers, as well as what his influences were in the process.

Attendees at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival will finally have an opportunity to watch the coming-of-age family drama Boyhood, written and directed by local writer and director Richard Linklater over a period of


Boyhood at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, with a capacity crowd at both the premiere and press screening. Written and directed by Linklater and featuring Ellar Coltrane as the central character Mason, the movie is an opus of 164 minutes portraying the growth and influences on one boy. Mason -- along with his assertive older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) -- faces the challenges of the dysfunctional family structure comprising the fiercely maternal Olivia (Patricia Arquette), who is desperate to provide a father to her children in lieu of an absentee father, Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke).

Boyhood follows the family for 12 years, from 2002 to 2013, with seamless transitions between periods noted by aging of the main and supporting characters as well as by cultural references, music and wardrobes.From the introductory moment of Mason and Samantha engaged in a typical sibling interaction, viewers are engaged by the natural charm of these youngsters. As their father is "off in Alaska," Olivia must meet her children's needs while trying to fulfill her own desires for companionship and better herself through a college education.

This week marks the beginning of a film event that will no doubt turn out to be of lasting importance to many Austin movie lovers and the local film scene in general. The city's own Richard Linklater (if you're reading Slackerwood he needs no introduction) will begin presenting a series of films from the early 80s that, for various reasons, impacted him both as an appreciator and creator of independent cinema.

"Jewels in the Wasteland: A Trip


to get your tickets; if the Austin film community is paying attention, these screenings should all be well attended.

This month's major "Film on Tap" event that I experienced was the "Austin at Sundance Party" at the Wasatch Brew Pub & Brewery. This Main Street brewpub, founded in 1986, was the first brewery in Park City since Prohibition, and features ski and snowboard movies every Monday night. More importantly, Wasatch was a great respite from the frenzy of Sundance premieres and liquor-heavy events elsewhere, with great craft beer and food at the Austin Party.

The party was co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society (AFS) and the Austin Film Commission, in honor of seven films that debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival. AFS founder and writer/director Richard Linklater debuted hislong-awaited film Boyhood last week to a full house at Eccles Theatre with over 1,200 attendees. Linklater is seen above with AFS Associate Artistic Director Holly Herrick, who also produced Ping Pong Summer, a whimsical underdog story written and directed by Michael Tully.

Yesterday, the Austin Film Society announced honorees for the 2014 Texas Film Awards, previously known as the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards. The gala event takes place March 6 this year -- the night before SXSW Film begins -- and tickets are available both for the awards dinner and ceremony, and for the glitzy (and more affordable) after-party.

I've been to the awards (on the red carpet, at the ceremony or both) since 2008, and many of these honorees and presenters have attended before. Others have


VANCOUVER—The first count in Metro Vancouver has revealed a total of 681 youth were homeless in April.

Inspired by the annual Homeless Count conducted on the streets of Vancouver each year, this study led by the BC Non-Profit Housing Association in partnership with many local organizations tallied the number of people between the ages of 13 and 24 who were homeless in Metro Vancouver over nine days in April.

Of the 681 youth found homeless, just over half were living in Vancouver, 106 were in Surrey and the remainder were spread throughout Metro Vancouver. While most people surveyed were between 19 to 24 years old, 37 per cent were between 13 to 18 and 6 per cent were under 13 years old.

Jennifer Hanrahan, director of operations at St. Leonard’s YouthLate last month, the prime minister Hun Sen told garment factory workers that he would pay $500,000 from his own funds to finance a team of 50 lawyers who are to provide legal support to female workers who find themselves in legal disputes, according to the Phnom Penh Post.

He also called on factory owners not to dismiss factory workers as a way to solve conflicts. In January, Phnom Penh-based W and D factory, a supplier of the British retailer Marks and Spencers, fired some 1,200 factory workers after they protested demanding improved work conditions.

Labor Ministry spokesman Heng Sour said the free legal service would start very soon and would be given to vulnerable women, including female workers and be dealt with in regional offices across the country.

On February


11, the European Union announced it had officially begun the withdrawal procedure for Cambodia's Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement, under which least-developed countries such as Cambodia can export to the EU tariff-free.

Ou Tephalin, president of the Cambodian Food and Service Workers' Federation, believes Hun Sen's promise was part of a strategy to prevent the EU's preferential trade agreement from being withdrawn.

I think it's also related to the EBA. He [Hun Sen] wants to show to the international [community] that he tries to reform something because he tries to maintain EBA, she said.

But spokesman Heng Sour denied any connection between the new promises and EBA. There is no linkage of such initiative to the EBA, he said in a message to VOA. It is a complement to some NGOs'service. It is good for the people who are in need.

Unless Cambodia sees substantial improvements in its human rights record, the European Union will suspend the agreement for Cambodia and regular taxes will apply. Over the next six months, the EU will engage in a monitoring mission to Cambodia to assess the situation.

Cambodia relies heavily on trade with the EU, with more than 40 percent of its exports going to countries in the community.

But while Tephalin welcomed the initiative, she said more wide-ranging reforms were needed to prevent corruption and serve justice to the people. Union leaders and workers could only win a court case if the case did not involve someone who has the power, she said.

Kong Athit, vice president of Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers' Democratic


Pothitakis Law Firm assisted F.S. with an Iowa Workers' Compensation claim against one of the biggest retail businesses in the nation. The Claimant tripped and fell at work, and as a result sustained an injury to her right shoulder. The Claimant had to undergo several surgeries because of this injury. The Claimant was employed part-time by this Iowa employer. As well, she held a full-time position at a heavy manufacturing company. Because of the injury sustained at her part-time job with the retailer, the Claimant was unable to return to either job.

Pothitakis Law Firm sought compensation because of the loss of two jobs as a result of this Iowa work-related injury. The Claimant was placed in an immobilizer for some time due to the Iowa work injury toAs popular opposition to Israel spread across the Middle East in the years following its creation in 1948, many Arab governments funded new printings of the Protocols and taught them in their schools as historical fact. They have been accepted as such by many Islamist organizations, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. A 2005 report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center found that Arabic editions issued in the Middle East were being sold as far away as London.[2] There are at least nine different Arabic translations of the Protocols and more editions than in any other language including German.[3] The Protocols also figure prominently in the antisemitic propaganda distributed internationally by the Arab countries and have spread to other Muslim countries, such as Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia.[3]

The


Protocols is a best-seller in Syria[4] and, together with other antisemitic materials published there, is distributed throughout the Arab world.[5] In 1997, the two-volume 8th edition of the Protocols, translated and edited by 'Ajaj Nuwaihed, was published by Mustafa Tlass's publishing house and exhibited and sold at the Damascus International Book Fair (IBF) and at the Cairo IBF. At the 2005 Cairo IBF a stand of the Syrian publisher displayed a new, 2005 edition of the Protocols authorized by the Syrian Ministry of Information.[6][7] In Syria, government-controlled television channels occasionally broadcast mini-series concerning the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, along with several other anti-semitic themes.[8]

The Protocols were featured in a 1960 article published by Salah Dasuqi, military governor of Cairo, in al-Majallaaa, the official cultural journal.[3] In1965, the Egyptian government released an English-language pamphlet titled Israel, the Enemy of Africa and distributed it throughout the English-speaking countries of Africa. The pamphlet used the Protocols and The International Jew as its sources and concluded that all the Jews were cheats, thieves, and murderers.[3]

In a foreword to a translation of Shimon Peres' book The New Middle East, the Egyptian state-owned publisher al-Ahram editorialized in 1995:

When The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were discovered, some 200 years ago, and translated in various languages, including Arabic, the World Zionist Organization attempted to deny the existence of the plot, and claimed forgery. The Zionists even endeavoured to purchase all the existing copies, in order to prevent their circulation. But today, Shimon Peres proves unequivocally that the Protocols are


authentic, and that they tell the truth.

An article in the Egyptian state-owned newspaper al-Akhbar on February 3, 2002 stated:

All the evils that currently affect the world are the doings of Zionism. This is not surprising, because the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which were established by their wise men more than a century ago, are proceeding according to a meticulous and precise plan and time schedule, and they are proof that even though they are a minority, their goal is to rule the world and the entire human race.

In October 2002, a private Egyptian television company Dream TV produced a 41-part "historical drama" A Knight Without a Horse (Fars Bela Gewad), largely based on the Protocols,[9] which ran on 17 Arabic-languagesatellite television channels, including government-owned Egypt Television(ETV), for a month, causing concerns in the West.[10] Egypt's Information Minister Safwat El-Sherif announced that the series "contains no antisemitic material".[11]

On November 17, 2003, an Egyptian weekly al-Usbu‘ reported that the manuscript museum at the Alexandria Library, displayed the first Arabic translation of the Protocols at the section of the holy books of Judaism, next to a Torah scroll. The museum's director Dr. Youssef Ziedan was quoted as saying in an interview:

...it has become one of the sacred [texts] of the Jews, next to their first constitution, their religious law ... more important to the Zionist Jews of the world than the Torah, because they conduct Zionist life according to it ... It is only natural to place the book in the framework of an exhibit of


concluded her article with my exact words, she started it with fabricated, groundless lies. She falsely reported me saying that I placed an edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the center of the museum alongside the Jewish Torah and divine books. Moreover, she claimed that I told her that this book is more significant then the Torah... On my part, I would like to maintain to the visitors of ziedan.com that the Protocols is a racist, silly, fabricated book. Perhaps, I should consider more thoroughly the Jewish issue on the academic level and furnish my vision of the interaction of religions. As civilized people, we totally renounce racism and call for tolerance and constructive interaction between people.[13]

After the publication, director of the Library Dr.Ismail Serageldin issued a statement:

Preliminary investigation determined that the book was briefly displayed in a showcase devoted to rotating samples of curiosities and unusual items in our collection. ... The book is a well-known 19th century fabrication to foment anti-Jewish feelings. The book was promptly withdrawn from public display, but its very inclusion showed bad judgment and insensitivity...[14]

The first Iranian edition of the Protocols was issued during the summer of 1978 before the Iranian Revolution after which the Protocols were widely publicized by the Iranian government. A publication called Imam, published by the Iranian embassy in London, quoted extensively from the Protocols in its issues of 1984 and 1985.[3] In 1985 a new edition of the Protocols was printed and widely distributed by the Islamic Propagation Organization, International


Relations Department, in Tehran. The Astan Quds Razavi Foundation in Mashhad, Iran, one of the wealthiest institutions in Iran, financed publication of the Protocols in 1994. Parts of the Protocols were published by the daily Jomhouri-e Eslami in 1994, under the heading The Smell of Blood, Zionist Schemes. Sobh, a far right monthly newspaper, published excerpts from the Protocols under the heading The text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion for establishing the Jewish global rule in its December 1998 – January 1999 issue, illustrated with a caricature of the Jewish snake swallowing the globe.

Iranian writer and researcher Ali Baqeri, who researched the Protocols, finds their plan for world domination to be merely part of an even more grandiose scheme, saying in Sobh in 1999:

"The ultimategoal of the Jews ... after conquering the globe ... is to extract from the hands of the Lord many stars and galaxies".

In April 2004, the Iranian television station Al-Alam broadcast Al-Sameri wa Al-Saher, a series that reported as fact several conspiracy theories about the Holocaust, Jewish control of Hollywood, and the Protocols.[15] The Iran Pavilion of the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair had the Protocols, as well as The International Jew available.[16] In 2008 The Secret of Armageddon, an Iranian TV "documentary" claiming that "a Jewish Plan for the Genocide of Humanity," includes a conspiracy for the takeover of Iran by local Jewish and Bahá'í communities was based on the Protocols.[17]

On the other hand, Iranian author Abdollah Shahbazi, known for his historical reports of several important events of


Iran's history, has denied the authenticity of the Protocols officially on his website and has referred to several international investigations as the basis of his claim.[18]

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: These are secret resolutions, most probably of the aforementioned Basel congress. They were discovered in the nineteenth century. The Jews tried to deny them, but there was ample evidence proving their authenticity and that they were issued by the elders of Zion. The Protocols can be summarized in the following points:

Upsetting the foundations of the world's present society and its systems, in order to enable Zionism to have a monopoly of world government.

Striving to increase corruption among the present regimes in Europe, as Zionism believes in their corruption and [eventual] collapse.

Controlling the media of publication, propagandaand the press, using gold for stirring up disturbances, seducing people by means of lust and spreading wantonness.

The cogent proof of the authenticity of these resolutions, as well as of the hellish Jewish schemes included therein, is the [actual] carrying out of many of those schemes, intrigues and conspiracies that are found in them. Anyone who reads them—and they were published in the nineteenth century—grasps today to what extent much of what is found there has been realized.[19]

According to Freedom House 2006 report, Saudi "textbook for boys for Tenth Grade on Hadith and Islamic Culture contains a lesson on the "Zionist Movement." It is a curious blend of wild conspiracy theories about Masonic Lodges, Rotary Clubs, and Lions Clubs with antisemitic invective. It asserts that the Protocols of


in the framework of the Protocols of Zion..."[24]

The Grand Mufti of JerusalemSheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri appeared on the Saudi satellite channel Al-Majd on February 20, 2005, commenting on the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. "Anyone who studies The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and specifically the Talmud," he said, "will discover that one of the goals of these Protocols is to cause confusion in the world and to undermine security throughout the world."[25]

In 2005, it was reported that the Palestinian Authority was referring to the Protocols in a textbook for 10th grade students. After media exposure, the PA issued a revised edition of the textbook that does not include references to the Protocols.[26]

The New York Times reported that Palestinian Authority Minister of Informationnotably Kyriakos Velopoulos.

In October 2012, Ilias Kasidiaris, a member of the far-rightultranationalist party Golden Dawn, read a passage from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in parliament. The passage he read, Protocol 19, stated, "In order to destroy the prestige of heroism we shall send them for trial in the category of theft, murder and every kind of abominable and filthy crime." Greek Helsinki Monitor, a human rights organization, noted that there wasn't any reaction to Kasidiaris' reading, which makes "all parties held as accomplices." The Foreign Affairs Network of B'nai B'rith Europe described the reading as "a sign of moral corruption and degradation which must not be overlooked."[29]

The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , the final graphic novel by


famed writer/artist Will Eisner, was about the history of the Protocols and the fact that they had been proven to be false numerous times.

The American retail chainWal-Mart, was criticized for selling The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on its website with a description that suggested it might be genuine.[31] It was withdrawn from sale in September 2004, as 'a business decision'. It was distributed in the United States by Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.[32]

Howard Sachar describes the allegations of global Jewish conspiracy resurrected during the Soviet "anti-Zionist" campaign in the wake of the Six-Day War:

In late July 1967, Moscow launched an unprecedented propaganda campaign against Zionism as a "world threat." Defeat was attributed not to tiny Israel alone, but to an "all-powerful international force" ... In itsflagrant vulgarity, the new propaganda assault soon achieved Nazi-era characteristics. The Soviet public was saturated with racist canards. Extracts from Trofim Kichko's notorious 1963 volume, Judaism Without Embellishment, were extensively republished in the Soviet media. Yuri Ivanov's Beware: Zionism, a book essentially replicated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was given nationwide coverage.[36]

(the mass media) all over the Soviet Union portrayed the Zionists and Israeli leaders as engaged in a world-wide conspiracy along the lines of the old Protocols of Zion. It was, Sovietskaya Latvia wrote 5 August 1967, an 'international Cosa Nostra with a common centre, common programme and common funds'.[37]

Despite stipulations against fomenting hatred based on ethnic or religious grounds (Article 282 of Russia Penal Code), the Protocols have enjoyed numerous reprints in the nationalist


press after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2003, one century after the first publication of the Protocols, an article[38] in the most popular Russian weekly Argumenty i Fakty referred to it as a "peculiar bible of Zionism" and showed a photo of the First Zionist Congress of 1897. The co-president of the National-Patriot Union of RussiaAlexander Prokhanov wrote: "It does not matter whether the Protocols are a forgery or a factual conspiracy document." The article also contained refutation of the allegations by the president of the Russian Jewish congress Yevgeny Satanovsky.

During the presidency of Hugo Chávez, a popular radio presenter with Venezuela's Radio Nacional de Venezuela recommended that listeners read The Protocols in order to understand how Zionists have managed to become as wealthy and powerfulas he claimed them to be.[41][42]

To a great degree, the text is still accepted as truthful in the Middle East, South America, and Asia, especially in Japan where variations on the Protocols have frequently made the bestseller lists.[46]

In Turkey, The Protocols are particularly popular with ultra-nationalist and Islamist circles. The Protocols was first published in the magazine Millî İnkılâb (National Revolution) in 1934 and triggered the Thracian pogroms (Trakya Olayları) the same year. It ran through over 100 editions from 1943 to 2004 and remains a best-seller.[47]

In Romania, The Protocols was published in the early 1990s by nationalist writers and neo-legionar groups as Protocoalele Înţelepţilor Sionului. It was widely read in urban areas and mentioned by the people who were disappointed by the new economic rules and inflation.

In


February 2003, an Australian new age publication Hard Evidence presented the Protocols as factual and claimed that Jews were responsible for 2002 Bali bombing.[48]

The New Zealand National Front sells copies published by their former national secretary, Kerry Bolton. Bolton also publishes (and the NZNF sells) a book titled The Protocols of Zion in Context that seeks to refute the idea that the Protocols are a forgery.

Idi Amin, the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, cited the book as evidence of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, and as justification for his self-proclaimed plans to destroy Israel. He revealed this in an interview during the 1974 documentary Idi Amin Dada.

In Indonesia, a translation of the Protocols is available in Indonesian in a bundle with The InternationalJew. The books were translated and published in 2006 by the Hikmah division of the publisher Mizan. The front cover of The International Jew shows a quote by Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad: "The big question is how can the American government support this despicable Zionist regime".

^CMIP report: The Jews in World History according to the Saudi textbooks. The Danger of World Jewry, by Abdullah al-Tall, pp. 140–141 (Arabic). Hadith and Islamic Culture, Grade 10, (2001) pp. 103–104.


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why
should that be brought up at all?

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escape_goat
I haven't found any indication that he said anything against the Saudi regime.
I brought it up because he appears to have been executed according to a
professional (if bungled) plan reminiscent of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by
the Saudi state. I think it merits contemplation any time anyone with Saudi
connections is professionally murdered and dismembered.

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devalgo
Sure but Khashoggi was a very high profile Journalist and Activist and that
happened on Turkish soil. An assassination like that in the US would be a
dramatic change in their behavior and politically very hazardous.

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electro_blah
lol. dude, Turkish goons beat the shit out of American people in front of
cameras and got way with it.

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dontcarethrow2
I would just like to add, on American soil.

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opportune
Probably too early to speculate on motives but it’s interesting1994's MOST BIZARRE SUICIDE

"On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten- story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this." >>"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds,


even though the mechanism might not be what he intended. That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands. "The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the a window striking Opus.

"When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B inthe attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her - therefore, the killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

"The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the


gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

There was an exquisite twist. "Further investigation revealed that the son [Ronald Opus] had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window.

"The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide."has institutions from Alaska to Connecticut evaluating whether they should continue enshrining the names of historical figures linked to slavery and the Confederacy.
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office docket on verso, with very light overall browning, a few spot-marks and slight weakness at folds, but overall in fine and attractive condition, Weimar, 3 March 1790

Footnotes

A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: GOETHE LAUNCHES FAUST UPON THE WORLD: "Faust has been seen as the paradigmatic text of modernity ever since its conception. By 1836 Karl Gutzkow was claiming that Goethe was 'sent by the gods as a boundary-stone to mark where the past ends and modernity begins', while for Matthew Arnold he was the great manifestation of the modern spirit. Innumerable critics have identified Goethe's most famous work as the beginning of this or that tradition. Whether or not one fully agrees with these characterizations, Faust is undeniably one of those rare works that capturesome major turning point in our history...Faust comprehends far-reaching changes in philosophy, science, political and economic organization, industrialization and technology that might best be summarized as Europe's confrontation with the impact of secularization. Europe entered the eighteenth century with institutions and structures still defined in terms of a cosmos ordered by a divine principle; but increasingly the universe was felt to operate on its own and sometimes seemed entirely the product of natural processes. The resulting sense of crisis as the old institutions no longer corresponded to the naturalized world is reflected in political upheavals - the American and French Revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars...In literature and the arts the upheaval is generally defined as Romanticism, in philosophy as the Kantian Revolution, in economics and technology as the Industrial


Revolution. To understand Faust as modern one must thus read it against these various revolutions" (Jane K. Brown, 'Faust' in The Cambridge Companion to Goethe, edited by Lesley Sharpe, 2002, p.84). Nicholas Boyle has written of Faust: A Fragment in particular, in comparison with its precursor the Urfaust: "Unmoved by the remote and abstract symbols of universal order in the sign of the Macrocosm...Faust was to turn instead to the field of human activity - but of all human activity. Faust was to become the story, not of a man seeking to live free from moral, natural, and theological constraints, but of a man seeking to encompass within himself all the possibilities and achievements of the human race, to incorporate humanity with its 'maxima', its 'crowns' as hehere calls them, into a single individual soul" (Goethe: The Poet and the Age, 1991, p.525).

The present letter was written immediately prior to the first publication of Goethe's Faust in any form; indeed in it Goethe tells Göschen not to write in reply, but rather to send him the book. Faust: A Fragment was to be Göschen's reply to this letter. The writing of Faust spans almost all Goethe's creative life, existing as it does in four versions: the original Urfaust of 1775-1776 (which lay hidden until its rediscovery and publication in 1887), Faust: A Fragment, published in 1790 (of which our letter treats), Faust: Part One, published in 1808, and Faust: Part Two, completed just before Goethe's death and published in 1832.

G.J. Göschen of Leipzig had entered


partnership with Goethe's agent, the Weimar businessman F.J. Bertuch, to bring out an edition of his collected works in eight small volumes; each one containing, as well as pieces already published, something new. Goethe's flat fee was to be a hefty 2,000 dollars, 500 being paid with the appearance of each volume. As soon as Goethe had settled this plan with Göschen in 1786, he disappeared off on his two years' trip to Italy: "he was turning to the German public now...with the greater part of his entire literary output and potential, in book form. It was of course a paradox, but a paradox which had always run through his relations with the public, that in the moment in which he brought himself to face the German nationSETTLED

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