Metro Jacksonville visits a city that has staked its claim as the original home of Southern Rock: Macon, GA.
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Macon Population 2010: 91,351 (City); 231,576 (Metro) - (incorporated in 1823)
Jacksonville Pop. 2010: 821,784 (City); 1,328,144 (Metro) - (incorporated in 1832)
City Population 1950: Jacksonville (204,517); Macon (70,252)
Metropolitan Area Growth Rate (2000-2009)
Urban Area Population (2000 census)
Macon: 135,170 (ranked 203rd nationwide)
Jacksonville: 882,295 (ranked 43rd nationwide)
Urban Area Population Density (2000 census)
City Population Growth from 2000 to 2010
Convention Center Exhibition Space:
Macon: Macon Centreplex (1968, expanded 1996) - 73,007 square feet
Jacksonville: Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center (1986) - 78,500 square feet
Connected to Convention Center:
Macon: St. Joseph's Catholic Church - 200 feet
Jacksonville: Bank of America Tower - 617 feet
Fortune 500 companies 2010 (City limits only):
Macon: Zero (0)
Jacksonville: CSX (259), Winn-Dixie (306), Fidelity National Financial (366)
Urban infill obstacles:
Macon: A railroad and I-16 cut off the riverfront from the rest of the city.
Jacksonville: State & Union Streets cut off Downtown Jacksonville from Springfield.
Macon: Cherry Street
Jacksonville: East Bay Street
Common Downtown Albatross:
Surface parking lots.
Whose Downtown is more walkable?
Macon: 80 out of 100, according to walkscore.com
Jacksonville: 88 out of 100, according to walkscore.com
City Land Area
Macon: 55.8 square miles
Jacksonville: 757.7 square miles
The Ocmulgee River lies just north of Downtown Macon.
Macon (pronounced /ˈmeɪkən/) is a city located in central Georgia, US. It is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. It lies near the geographic center of Georgia, approximately 85 miles (136 km) south of Atlanta, hence the city's nickname as the Heart of Georgia. As of the 2010 Census, Macon had an estimated population of 91,351; in terms of population, Macon is the seventh-largest city in Georgia (just after Sandy Springs).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon,_Georgia
The city has several institutions of higher education, as well as numerous museums and tourism sites. The area is served by the Middle Georgia Regional Airport and the Herbert Smart Downtown Airport. The current mayor of Macon is Robert Reichert, a former Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Perhaps its most colorful mayor with national recognition was Ronnie Thompson, who served from 19671975 and was the first of thus far two Republicans to have held the position, the other being George Israel (19791987).
The Medical Center of Central Georgia.
This is Bibb County's fourth courthouse. The first was a one-room building built in 1825, the second was a brick building constructed in 1828. The third was a large, three-story structure with a clock tower, completed in 1870. The current courthouse was completed in 1924. A jail was added to the top floor in 1926; the entire structure was remodeled in 1940 as a WPA project. The lobby floors are made of marble.http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/courthouses/bibbCH.htm
About NewTown Macon
For all its beauty and history, Macon is a city in need of tending. Once the heart of economic and social vitality in Middle Georgia, Macons downtown succumbed to urban decline over generations. Run down homes and abandoned houses are found where neighborhoods once thrived. Dilapidated buildings stand where businesses once prospered. But that is not the end of the story. A vision of a dramatically different downtown one where thousands again live, work, learn, play and worship is within reach.
In 1996, a group of forward-thinking business and community leaders established a non-profit, public-private partnership called NewTown Macon to fill a pressing community need: restore downtown Macon to its original beauty and cultivate a prosperous city for a new century.
The organization embarked on a three-year examination of downtown Macons strengths and opportunities. With community input and best practices from similar cities, NewTown Macon identified initiatives that would serve as catalysts for the renaissance of downtown and result in an improved quality of life for the entire community.
In 1999, NewTown Macon launched a $36 million campaign with $6 million in challenge grants from the Robert W. Woodruff and Peyton Anderson Foundations to fund eight strategic revitalization initiatives, one being construction of the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail. The community responded with passion and generosity to complete the campaign in 2002.
NewTown Macon - by engaging the imagination, consolidating planning and marshalling resources - is laying the foundation for the rebirth of downtown Macon. Our work will not be accomplished over night, but in time our center city the heart of Middle Georgia will beat with new life.
To learn more about NewTown Macon and its downtown revitalization initiatives visit our website at www.newtownmacon.com
Macon's 1916 Terminal Station, is Georgia's grandest surviving railroad station. It was designed in the Beaux Arts style by architect Alfred Fellheimer (1875-1959), who with his partners also designed stations in Cincinnati, Buffalo, and other cities.http://trains2u.blogspot.com/2010/02/macon-terminal-station-macon-georgia.html
In 1926-27, the station handled as many as a hundred arrivals/departures each day, primarily trains of the Central of Georgia , Southern Railway, and Georgia Southern & Florida. Passengers accessed the train platforms by way of a tunnel under the tracks.
After closing in 1975, the building stood unused several years until it was purchased by Georgia Power Company in 1982 and used as its local offices in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2002, the City of Macon received one million dollars in TEA funds to purchase the building from Georgia Power and convert it to a retail, office, and transportation center.
The Georgia Music Hall of Fame
The origin of its stake:
Grant's Lounge first opened its doors on February 16, 1971. Located at 576 Poplar Street in Macon, Georgia, the original Grant's Lounge had a seating capacity of 75. From the beginning Grant's Lounge was more than just another night club. It's existence made a loud statement about people and the oneness of human beings. Also, it was from this modest establishment that much of what the world now knows as Southern Rock was conceived.http://www.grantslounge.com/home-of-southern-rock
The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Macon, Georgia, is the countrys largest state sports museum. The 43,000 square feet state-of-the-art museum houses over 3,000 artifacts. From the old style ticket booths to the brick columns in the rotunda and special lighting, the museum invites visitors to experience the history of sports in Georgia with more than 14,000 square feet of high-energy exhibit space and a Hall of Fame corridor that honors the over 300 inductees.http://gshf.org/
The Tubman African American Museum is located in Macon, Georgia. It is located in the city's museum district near the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and Georgia Sports Hall of Fame.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubman_African_American_Museum
Founded in 1981, this 8,500-square-foot (790 m2) museum is dedicated toward preserving and displaying African American art, history, and culture. It also offers an array of exhibitions, programs, and publications geared to adults, families, and students and teachers in grades K-12 and college. It offers dancing, drama, drumming, photography, and visual art classes focused on African American culture.
The museum is also in the process of building a new 49,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) facility.
The Georgia Children's Museum at the intersection of Cherry Street and MLK, Jr. Boulevard
Cherry Street extends from the Macon Terminal and a cluster of cultural attractions (shown above) through to the heart of Downtown Macon.
The tall building in the background is known as the Dempsey Apartments.
One hundred ninety-four apartments are housed in this nine-story high-rise formerly known as the Hotel Dempsey.http://www.thedempsey.com/aboutus.html.
This grand building was reborn in 1981 when it was transformed to create a comfortable and affordable environment for the elderly and disabled residents of Middle Georgia.
Dempsey Apartments is a nine story apartment building with 29 efficiency apartments and 164 one-bedroom apartments. Apartments range in size from 384 square feet to over 700 square feet. There are 23 different floor plans throughout the building.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard is an arterial road that has historically separated the commercial/retail area of Downtown Macon from the industrial area.
Many residents believe that Poplar Street is the perfect place to create a downtown entertainment district because of its many vacant buildings and wide streets with park-like areas in the middle, which would be perfect for events such as street festivals.
Macon City Hall, constructed in 1837, was used as a field hospital during the Civil War and served as the temporary state capitol during the final months of the war.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-6907
Macon City Auditorium
St. Joseph's Catholic Church on Poplar Street.
2nd Street is a major thoroughfare in the heart of Downtown Macon.
The BB&T Building is the second tallest high-rise building in Downtown Macon.
Looking down Cotton Street towards 2nd Street at Macon's tallest, the Fickling & Company Building.
The Capitol Theatre opened its doors for the first time on November 10, 1916. Leather furniture with mushroom air holes under each chair provided a comfortable and quiet motion‐picture experience. The theater screen was made of gold‐fiber, a modern answer to the problem of flickering on older screens. Admission was fifteen cents.In 1976 the Capitol Theatre closed its doors and was neglected for thirty years, soaking up rain water from a hole in the roof, sometimes serving various organizations, but never living up to the potential for which it had been originally built and for which it originally served entertaining the citizens of Middle Georgia in a unique and grand style.The journey that restored the dignity of this magnificent theatre began in 2003 and culminated when the Capitol Theatre reopened its doors as Cox Capitol Theatre in 2006. Since that time, the theatre has become a cornerstone in the revitalization effort of downtown Macon and is once again a symbol of community, operating as a movie house and live entertainment venue.The importance of the theatre to our areas economic growth cannot be understated. According to a National Governors Association 2001 Economic Development Study, cultural activities attract tourists and spur the creation of restaurants, hotels and the services needed to support them. In addition, businesses cite access to the arts, music and entertainment as important quality of life factors when considering a new location.www.coxcapitoltheatre.com/
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Sheep scab has been identified as one of the most important diseases for UK sheep farmers from both financial and welfare perspectives due to: the costs associated with reduced performance, preventative measures and treatment; coupled with the apparent distress, irritation and/or pain caused and a losing cost to the UK sheep industry of over £8 million per year.
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The mite is just about visible to the naked eye and can only remain viable off the host (sheep) for 15-17 days. Sheep with early infestations may show no signs, at these early stages, sheep can look perfectly normal and can unknowingly be introduced to a flock.
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Federal prosecutors unsealed a sweeping indictment Wednesday morning charging dozens of members and leaders of the brutal street gang with a variety of crimes, including murder.
Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra Brown said 44 defendants are facing federal charges, 21 of whom were arrested Wednesday. Those charged include Jose Balmore Romero, 43, who was allegedly the "overall shot-caller" for MS-13 Los Angeles in 2013 and 2014. He's accused of overseeing drug trafficking and extorting so-called "taxes" and "rent," some of which were allegedly distributed to Mexican Mafia members.
Federal prosecutors say he also allegedly conducted gang meetings and ordered the "jumping in" of new members and assaults of members in bad standing. He has reportedly been in local custody since February 2015, accused in a gang-related murder.
Twelve accused senior leaders of the gang, who allegedly lead a majority of the gang's cliques in the Los Angeles region and formed a "de facto leadership council," are also facing charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of California.
A 127-page, 41-count anti-racketeering indictment names 34 people and describes how MS-13 "uses violence and intimidation in an effort to maintain its power and control narcotics trafficking," prosecutors say. Three people accused of murder could face the death penalty, Brown said.
"This gang is responsible for murders – both of rival gangsters and innocent bystanders – as well as drug dealing and extortion in many communities in the Los Angeles area," Brown said in a statement. "With thousands of members here in the Southland, the gang's power is widespread – power which it maintains with severe acts of violence. Today's charges and arrests, however, will deal a critical blow to the top leadership of this criminal organization and will significantly improve safety in neighborhoods across this region."
The 21 taken into custody Wednesday were arrested in pre-dawn raids across Los Angeles. Brown said warrants were served at more than 50 locations. Jail officials around the region also conducted cell searches, as some of those indicted were already in custody on unrelated charges.
Heavily armed agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided a storefront along a strip of dilapidated buildings near downtown just before 4 a.m. and found at least seven people locked in a room. FBI Assistant Director in Charge Deirdre Fike said those people are being investigated as possible human trafficking victims.
The early morning raids and the indictment are part of a multi-agency case led by the FBI that started in 2014. More than half of those arrested and charged in the case are in the country illegally, Fike said. It was unclear how long they had been in the United States or what countries they are from.
MS-13 has become a primary target of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security amid the Trump administration's broader effort to crack down on illegal immigration and violent crime. President Donald Trump and members of his administration have repeatedly said MS-13 poses a particular risk to American communities and is among the most ruthless street gangs.
For MS-13, violence is "a way of life" – a way to maintain order and discipline within their ranks, FBI supervisory special agent Julian Igualada told CBS News' Crimesider last month. The gang's motto is "kill, rape and control." Gang members or recruits use weapons like machetes or knives to carry out killings, and victims are often found with repeated slashes that leave them nearly unrecognizable. Gang members believed to have shown disloyalty, members of rival gangs or anyone who is perceived to have slighted the gang are potential targets for killings.
MS-13, also called Mara Salvatrucha, has migrated east from Los Angeles, where it was founded in the mid-1980s by immigrants fleeing El Salvador's civil war. The gang's true rise began after members were deported from the U.S. back to El Salvador in the 1990s. The gang is headquartered in El Salvador but operates internationally with about 10,000 members in the U.S. and 30,000 abroad, according to the Justice Department.
According to the FBI, MS-13 in the U.S. is comprised mostly of Salvadoran nationals or first-generation Salvadoran-Americans, but also Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans, and other Central and South American immigrants. MS-13 hubs in the U.S. tend to center around pockets of immigrants from Central America. The gang has plagued immigrant communities in and around Washington D.C., on New York's Long Island, Newark, N.J., in Boston, Charlotte, Houston and other areas.
In 2012, MS-13 was designated a transnational criminal organization by the Treasury Department, which said the gang is involved in "serious transnational criminal activities, including drug trafficking, kidnapping, human smuggling, sex trafficking, murder, assassinations, racketeering, blackmail, extortion, and immigration offenses."
MS-13 leaders in El Salvador were targeted for financial sanctions by the Obama administration in 2012 as part of an earlier executive order targeting such groups. Trump signed an executive order in February specifically directing federal law enforcement to focus resources on combating street gangs and transnational criminal organizations.

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An opera singer turned Uniting Church Minister says he was rejected by several Australian parishes because he was gay, before landing a role as Sydney’s first North Shore gay Minister.
Canadian-born Mr Liepold has been married to a United Church of Canada minister, Brian Nicholson, since 2003 and the couple have raised an adopted son together.
After several visits to Australia, he and Mr Nicholson decided to move here permanently.
Mr Nicholson is currently in Toronto seeing his tenure out as minister before he retires and joins Mr Liepold in Sydney in April.
Speaking with The Mosman Daily Mr Liepold said he was open about his same-sex relationship in his application to parishes.
“A couple of churches didn’t want me because I was gay — for some people these issues take time,” he said to The Mosman Daily.
“People need to get to know who I am, that I don’t have an agenda and my work is about the church — that is most important.”
But the Uniting Church at Neutral Bay on Sydney’s North Shore has welcomed him with open arms.
“The Neutral Bay congregation has been fantastic,” Mr Liepold said, adding he has not had one negative comment.
The parish had been struggling without a permanent minister for two years and has been delighted by Mr Liepold’s appointment to lead the historic church in Yeo St.
Initially trained as an opera singer, Mr Liepold has the added bonus of a beautiful tenor voice.
Mr Liepold was a minister in the United Church of Canada for 26 years.
Mr Liepold said he was proud of the Uniting Church’s commitment to social justice and inclusion.
“No one is judged when coming to church,” he said.
In response to religious opposition to homosexuality, Mr Liepold said simply: “We are all God’s children”.
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- Abstract: Despite of the empirical success in various domains, it has been revealed that deep neural networks are vulnerable to maliciously perturbed input data that much degrade their performance. This is known as adversarial attacks. To counter adversarial attacks, adversarial training formulated as a form of robust optimization has been demonstrated to be effective. However, conducting adversarial training brings much computational overhead compared with standard training. In order to reduce the computational cost, we propose a simple yet effective modification to the commonly used projected gradient descent (PGD) adversarial training by increasing the number of adversarial training steps and decreasing the adversarial training step size gradually as training proceeds. We analyze the optimality of this annealing mechanism through the lens of optimal control theory, and we also prove the convergence of our proposed algorithm. Numerical experiments on standard datasets, such as MNIST and CIFAR10, show that our method can achieve similar or even better robustness with around 1/3 to 1/2 computation time compared with PGD.


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Below is a list of exhibitions held at the Newberry from 1995 to present. Please contact Anne Cullen, Program Assistant for Exhibitions, at firstname.lastname@example.org, for information about Newberry exhibitions before 1995.
Bruno Cabanes, a historian of twentieth-century Europe, will give an illustrated talk on the aftermath of the Great War, which brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body.
In partnership with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, the Institut Français in Paris, and the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago, the Newberry presents a public program on Jane Addams, pacifism, and contemporary reflections on anti-war activism, with readings of World War I soldiers’ poetry by DePaul University students.
Join musicologist William Brooks and historian Deniz Ertan as they explore how World War One sheet music was created, reproduced, and received by people who performed and heard it. Music from the exhibition, Chicago, Europe, and the Great War, will be performed as well.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the US Civil War and in conjunction with the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Newberry Library have mounted “Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North,” an exhibition of more than 100 items that focuses on the enormous, and costly, effect the war had on civilians.
In this exhibition you will see a small sample of rare and special books on religion, published from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries that the Newberry collected over the last two decades. In 1991, Newberry Trustee Sister Ann Ida Gannon, president Emerita of Mundelein College, arranged for the transfer of Mundelein’s rare book collection to the Newberry.
Think contemporary American political debate is vicious? Our experience is mild compared with seventeenth and eighteenth-century French political infighting, a period famous for royal claims to divine right and for regicide.
This exhibition displays French pamphlets published during the transitional period from the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution. They served as modes of dissemination and diversion, teaching tools and educational models, and the foundation for current and future scholarly projects.
The Newberry celebrates its quasquicentennial with a can’t-miss exhibition of 125 of the millions of books, maps, manuscript pages, drawings, and photographs in its collection.
When Chicago steel magnate Everett D. Graff walked into Wright Howes’ bookshop on Michigan Avenue in the 1920s he sparked one of the most important friendships in the book world. Their four-decade partnership, which included cross-country road trips in search of books, manuscripts, and maps, resulted in a world-class American history collection, which Graff donated to the Newberry in 1964.
Today most Americans remember the War of 1812 for inspiring Francis Scott Key to write “The Star Spangled Banner.” Many of the conflict’s most familiar events—the battle of New Orleans, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and the British assault on Washington D.C.—took place far away from the Great Lakes.
This exhibition, curated by Dr. Scott Stevens, Director of the McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, features a wide variety of historically and culturally significant items from the Newberry’s world-renowned collection.
This exhibition highlights the ways in which architectural books were developed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to display the military and political power of European rulers and states. Drawing on a collection first assembled in the 1950s and continually enriched with new acquisitions, it also explains how books on military architecture are used by scholars today.
See also the online component of Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books: French Renaissance Gems of the Newberry.
See also the online component of French Canadians in the Midwest.
See also the online component of Approaching the Mexican Revolution: Books, Maps, Documents or our Spanish-language version, Un acercamiento a la Revolución Mexicana: Libros, mapas,...
See also the online component of “Everywhere West”: Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
A Library of Congress traveling exhibition
See also the online component of Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis.
A McCormick Foundation exhibition
An exhibition by Pamela Paulsrud and the late Marilyn Sward
A McKinley Park Elementary School Project
A traveling exhibition
See also the online component of The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico.
See also the online component of Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country.
See also the online component of Outspoken: Chicago’s Free Speech Tradition.
A traveling exhibition from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.
See also the online component of Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend.

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Low libido is the most common sexual disorder in American women, affecting an estimated 22 to 43 percent of the female population. And, according to authors Goldstein (a gynecologist) and Brandon (a clinical psychologist), the problem is more complex than most therapists realize. "A decline in sexual desire seldom has a single cause," they argue. "The collection of factors that influences a womans sex drive is as unique as the woman herself." Drawing upon their experience at the Sexual Wellness Center in Annapolis, Maryland, an institution that they founded, the authors advocate a holistic treatment that addresses four spheres of a womans life: physical health, emotional resilience, intellectual fulfillment and spiritual contentment. Their book covers all the possible factors: weight, diet, exercise, medical conditions, sleep patterns, testosterone, estrogen, dopamine, emotional arousal, stress, sexual trauma and life passages such as motherhood, menopause and divorce. Understanding the mind-body connection can increase sexual pleasure, they emphasize, and the acceptance of some basics?sexual pleasure fluctuates throughout life; a womans experience often doesnt match societys "ideal"can smooth the road to change. Personal stories from the authors patients demonstrate the problems complexity and help make the book more a practical, open-ended discussion about womens sexual desire than a definitive medical manual.
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Between 11 million and 14 million citizens of the countries Washington lists participate in it , who can apply for free on the US Department of State website.
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This year the draw has a particular meaning given that US President Joe Biden lifted the restrictions on the program and in general the immigration bans ordered by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
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The Bluegrass Files: Broken Glass is the final book in a six-volume series. Fans who have read the first five installments have been eagerly awaiting this latest offering (though disappointed that it is the last in the series). For those who have finished the series, I hope that they will take the opportunity to explore Imagine: A Tale of Faith and Courage in a Dangerous World. While telling an exciting story of personal growth, the work also shares a refreshing new view of having a personal relationship with God.
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Early this month, I had the sudden opportunity to attend a talk given by U.S. Congressman John Lewis– Sometimes we have the opportunity to experience a living legend.. Congressman Lewis is one of the group of Civil Rights activists known as the Big Six of the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. My brief historical summary is included here because I did *not* learn about this in school as a child:
Congressman Lewis was one of the leaders of the march that came to be known as Selma, Alabama’s Bloody Sunday in 1965. The non-violent political protest against racial injustice was intended to be a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The march did not get farther than six blocks– met by state troopers at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
At this time, Lewis was an activit, organizer, and leader. The activists on the bridge were ordered to disperse, and when they stopped to pray, they were then met with tear gas and swinging clubs. Before getting admitted to a hospital, Lewis went on national television with a fractured skull asking President Johnson to intervene in Alabama.
(Krista Tippett’s interview with Congressman Lewis on the poignancy of nonviolent protest is very moving—check it out in the NPR archives of the radio show On Being.)
I admit: Being in the same group space as Congressman Lewis was similar to what I experienced when I saw His Holiness the Dalai Lama speak during Losar (Tibetan New Year) in Dharmsala, India years ago. A palpable goodness and spiritual power filled the air.
Congressman Lewis proceeded to be arrested dozens of times in his life, all the while maintaining the dignity of nonviolent protest. The calm and the clarity with which congressman Lewis spoke the evening I saw him was infectious. He urged us all to listen to our hearts and stand up in our lives– and in our country– for what we know is just.
Not only is his nonviolent protest example completely applicable to current times, but there was an even more contemporary aspect to the evening: His primary purpose in visiting our little Vermont city was to encourage young people to read.
Congressman Lewis’s talk was followed by a talk by Andrew Aydin, the co-creator and co-author of Lewis’s graphic novel March. Andrew Aydin is a staffer of Congressman Lewis and a self-proclaimed lifelong comic book geek. March chronicles Lewis’s Civil Rights story in black-and-white graphic novel format, illustrated by Nate Powell. The idea of such a novel about the Civil Rights Movement was once laughed at, and Aydin reported that March is now mandatory reading in all New York City public schools.
The ingenuity and creativity of Congressman Lewis and Ayden, the creation of the March graphic novel trilogy, imprinted me. Creative literacy does not come to mind when I think of politics or political protest. The formula of collaborative passion, creativity, determination, experience, and just intentions can lead to unprecedented and fruitful results, even if a room full of politicians once laughed at you and your fellow creator(s).
It takes courage to be original, to stand up for what you believe in. We are wired to fear public or peer rejection. I regularly work with clients to successfully hold and address this fear of rejection by others.
Congressman Lewis, the son of sharecroppers, loved to read as a boy. He was once denied the right to a library card in his Alabama hometown of Troy. Decades later, he was invited back to his home library, to speak on own book, now in the library. And right as rain, he did finally get issued a library card.
I encourage everyone two things: 1. Keep your eyes peeled for potential living legends who visit your town! The inspiration can leave a living imprint in you, feed your soul.
2. Use the originality of Ayden’s and Lewis’s graphic novel as an example in your own life. Where in your life can you take your geeky passion and apply it to something much larger then yourself? What is it that you were meant to create in your life that can positively affect others? This may especially mean teaming up with others, as Ayden and Lewis did.
Don’t let the potential laughter or dismissal by others dissuade you. Creativity is akin to divinity, and a God-given grace. Co-creating with other people can even upgrade the creative process *and* final result a few notches, or even exponential notches.
One last encouragement: Read! (Former English teacher here) … Specifically, read March!


Harry Maguire has in his words pointed Reece James as the man to be blamed for England defeat after the Chelsea man took down an opponent in the box
England were stunned by Hungary in a 1-0 defeat as Dominik Szoboszlai slotted in from the penalty spot at the 64th minute
Southgate’s men failed to find a goal with Hungary managing to hold them off even after netting the only goal of the game.
The game remained at deadlock until Reece James was subbed on and a slight tackle from the Chelsea man saw Artur Soares soaring on the floor as the Referee wasted not time to penalize the Right-back.
The Three Lions failed to find an equalizer as they now sit on the last place of the Group A after the match day 1.
Speaking after the game, Maguire said; “We didn’t do much to deserve a victory. We have to improve next time.
“We have work to do and we will not stop because this competition is important to everyone of us in this squad.
“We had the game under control and suddenly we slipped when Reece James took down Soares in our box.
“Maybe it was a penalty as said by the Referee maybe not, am not an official so I can’t tell, it’s the officials job and they are the ones who do it.
“The penalty happened to be their only goal which means we could have ended level if not for the penalty awarded to Hungary.
“We have more games to turn things around and we won’t slow down one bit. We need to make it out of the group stage.”
England will face Germany on 7th of June and Maguire believes they will be tougher opponents compared to Hungary.
The Germans will battle Italy tonight and will be looking for an advantage ahead of their England game but surely won’t see Italy as an easy tie.
“Our group is very tough,” Maguire continued. “Germany are very strong opponents, Italy too. Hungary have shown today that they can compete.
“We have to work harder now because it’s no more business as usual. We need to turn things around when face Germany in the next few days.
“They have plans too and I know so it’s not an easy task but we will continue fighting.”


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AN independent Scotland would have its own security service to fight international threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and serious organised crime, the Deputy First Minister has told a Westminster Committee.
The current Scottish Government would seek to establish its own intelligence agency while working closely with agencies in the rest of the UK, such as MI5 and MI6, Nicola Sturgeon told the Foreign Affairs Committee at a meeting in Edinburgh.
Challenged on the cost of setting up such an organisation, Ms Sturgeon told the committee the Government is undertaking work covering the issues of set-up costs, running costs and co-operation with the rest of the UK.
She said: "In terms of security and intelligence, I would envisage Scotland having an independent domestic intelligence machinery, sitting alongside our police service but working very closely, given our sharing of an island, with the rest of the UK."
Asked by Conservative MP Rory Stewart what strategic threats she envisaged an independent Scotland facing, Ms Sturgeon said, in common with other nations, the country could be at risk of "cyber threat, international terrorism, global instability, the possibility of failed states and serious international organised crime".
Mr Stewart went on to quiz the Deputy First Minister about the costs involved in establishing an intelligence agency.
He said: "The UK has inherited an enormous amount of embassies. It's devoted billions over decades to develop a very sophisticated infrastructure. There would have to be a very considerable investment to set it up."
Ms Sturgeon replied: "We are doing a substantial piece of work on some of this just now."
Asked if Scotland would expect to be able to read the rest of the UK's secret intelligence, Ms Sturgeon replied: "There are arrangements with other countries, I think there would be a very close relationship between Scotland and the rest of the UK.
"Scotland and the rest of the UK share an island. It would be not just in Scotland's interest for there to be very close intelligence sharing with the rest of the UK, it would clearly be in the interest of the rest of the UK as well."

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The MoD’s total expenditure in 2011-12 on Defence was 213673 crores and the Pay and Pension out of it was 92971 crores, which was 44% of the Budget. During UPA tenure the percentage remained almost the same. The capital expenditure was 56282 crores which was 26% of the Budget.
Consider the Revised estimates of 2018-19.
The MoD’s total expenditure was 405194 crores. The Pay and Pension out of it was 224522 crores, which is 56% of the budget. The Capital acquisition out of it is 74116 crores which is 18% of the budget.
Even the lethargic A K Anthony was spending a greater percentage of the Defence budget on capital expenditure.
The defence budget of 2018-19 is 1.8 times bigger than the the budget of 2011-12. The Pay and Pension budget is 2.4 times bigger than the budget of 2011-12. The capital acquisition on the other hand has increased only 1.3 times during this period. Thus it is clear that the NDA is using most of its defence budget on pay and pension and less on capital acquisition.
What is the meaning of this?
The UPA was spending 26% of its Defence budget on modernization, but the Modi government spends only 18%of its budget on that count. As a percentage of GDP the Defence Budget without including pensions is just 1.49% which is the lowest since 1962.
(The author of this article is a PhD Scholar of TERI school of advanced studies, New Delhi. Views and figures shared in this article are personal of the author. The Citizen Dialogue doesn’t endorse it.)


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The CO2 Laser engraver machine is highly precision instruments typically used to write, decorate, make logos on the surface of the material by engraving process. This engraving depth can be 0.0001″ to 0.005″. The CO2 laser machine can perform its operation on any hard materials, such as acrylic, wood, paper, metals, plastic, and all other elements. Depending on the power supply, there are types of CO2 laser engravers. But among them, 30W laser, 40W CO2 laser engraver, 50W CO2 laser are noteworthy. The CO2 laser system is a ninth-century invention; still, it’s beneficial in engraving materials. It is prevalent than other laser machines. The design process is a little slow yet captivating.
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There are numerous computer softwares to operate this machine. Install the required drivers for the device. And then draw your design on the software. Determine your required Power, speed, frequencies, and hatch. And practice it if you are a beginner. You can practice it using a metal plate to see if it works properly. There is some feature in the software that will help you to show the marking area before it operates. You can fix your red-bordered light on the object. However, Focal length is another essential thing to consider here. Usually, the zero points are marked on the scale. Let’s say we are working on the 150 x 150 mm. (Normally the more significant range is 200 x 200 mm). And we have 20mm height of the object to mark on it. What can be our focal length ??? well, we will need to move 20 mm upward to adjust the laser gun for the marking.
How does laser marking work? Now, let’s have a look on how laser marking actually works. It’s important to note at the beginning that laser marking is a high-speed process of high precision. Laser marking works by means of a focused beam of light to give the mark on the material veneer. The light beam, essentially, is an atom that is stimulated to release particles of light. Contacting with the material’s surface, the beam will oxidize the laser marking area, bringing change on the color. Generally, the majority of markings will turn black. Moreover, the laser marking also alter the material’s properties and appearance. The energy that is released is measured in wavelengths or nanometers ( NM ). The wavelength is proportional to the strength of laser beam. In other words, the higher the wavelength, the more powerful the laser beam. Read even more information on https://hispeedlaser.com/.


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How to Use NLP In Storytelling
Everybody loves a good story. Wouldn’t you agree? For the generationally impaired, once upon a not so long ago, there was a guy called Max Bygraves whose tag line was “I wanna tell you a story”, And indeed he would and always it was a funny story because he knew how to deliver it. It was for each and every person in the audience and it was personal.
The Best Piece of Storytelling Magic
Every story resonated with something that had occurred in the experience of the listener and the teller made it even more confidential and intimate in the way he leaned toward his audience and used different tonality of voice and facial expression, small movements to lull the audience and make them focus more and they were with him every syllable, every gesture, every pause. Best piece of magic ever seen is someone telling a story someone who knows how to tell a story and why and when it should be told.
The Next Step
So, are you one of life’s storytellers? Can you carry a joke to a raucous end? Or, are you someone who has tried to amuse and enthral at parties or in the pub, but to no avail? Have you been on the journey of self-knowledge and perhaps taken your NLP practitioners certificate, still not quite sure where that has taken you? Perhaps you’re unsure as to progression from there, what to do next, not quite ready for the Masters certificate and would like to take a little detour that explores the map of you in a little more depth?
Put Away Childish Things
It may well be that – you have put away childish things’. But consider, is storytelling a childish thing? Our subconscious is, as a six-year-old child so should we not re learn how to engage it in ourselves and in others. Story telling is a many faceted and vastly satisfying thing to get to know.
Had it not been for my attending a storytelling course run by NLP Scotland I should never have been able to appreciate the creative genius of Mr Bygraves, or indeed of myself.
My Personal Experience
Four days of learning the Art of Storytelling and Metaphor and there are no limits to where my mind can take me. It has enabled me to reach my clients in a way that is all at once disarming, natural, unobtrusive, full of humour but still so deep and allowing the establishment of rapport and trust to develop much sooner with all ages.
I cannot recommend highly enough this course to anyone, especially those working with children, wishing to extend their own boundaries and “get” what is going on with themselves. So, I suggest you get down and get Grimm, the next course is coming soon.


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Developing your home's interior could be extremely gratifying, however this can also be actually nerve-racking if you carry out unknown exactly what to assume. Thankfully, there is a riches of info available that may lead you in the appropriate path. If you carry on going through the post the applies, you are going to locate some from the ideal suggestions.
Make sure that you possess a finances when you are actually organizing to change the interior design from your residence. It is actually very easy to get removed by the beautiful drapes and aesthetic products that you find in home journals. You would certainly not intend to enter big personal debt simply to make your property appear much better.
A great method to invigorate a intricate or or else monotonous space is actually to create a point from focus in the room. This focal point will certainly become the feature of the room, as well as every little thing else that's in the space will definitely function to support the prime focus. Center of attentions to deal with operating about feature hearths, windows, arts pieces as well as magnificent furniture.
Selecting the correct different colors is essential for each layout project. Understand different colors that cooperate as well as which will definitely collide, so your space appears attractive and also well balanced. Overuse of daring colours can generate an area that is actually too loud.
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Learn effective ways to coat a wall structure before painting a wall surface. That may seem like common sense, yet if you are actually certainly not familiar with the quality from your coating, the best ways to apply it effectively, and also the amount of you need, you might make a mess or lose a lot of money. Attempt going to a home-improvement outlet for some tips on procedures and types of paint.
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I recently had a conversation with a friend online and was reminded that codes of ethics are misunderstood and under-utilized.
They aren’t just for professionals. You do NOT want to have to answer for your ethical failures.
Here’s an example code of ethics from the Association for Computing Machinery (an organization I’ve belonged to for decades):
Code of Ethics
— Read on www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
Something to think seriously about.
The modern software delivery organization has a solid CI/CD infrastructure and can push an update to production in minutes. This same pipeline can take in upstream library updates and block zero-day exploits. At scale, delivery systems can simultaneously ingest and update software from the hundreds of projects typical to modern application architecture. The scale is incredible.
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Photos: Fat Jack's now open -- and arty -- in Stapleton
Fat Jack's Supersubs opened its fourth metro location this week, at 3535 Quebec Street in the Shops at Stapleton. The latest link in the growing local sandwich chain, which uses local artists to help create its decor, will host a grand-opening event in March.
All photos by Danielle Lirette
In the meantime, we sent photographer Danielle Lirette to capture this look at the funky space.


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Esti Barnes trained as a graphic artist in her native Istanbul and founded Top Floor in 1998. The company rapidly became a favourite of the interior design world with its distinctive textured rug designs and wide range of materials and production techniques.
Esti’s rugs soon started winning plaudits from the international design world, including British Design of the Year (ELLE Decoration UK) and Best of Year (Interior Design Magazine).
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Avraham Stern was a Jewish urban revolutionary who founded and led the Zionist organization later known as Lehi, and was executed by British soldiers.
Avraham Stern was born in Poland to a learned Zionist family. He moved to Eretz Yisrael [Palestine] in 1925 and studied briefly at the Gymnasia in Jerusalem before entering the Hebrew University. An outstanding student of the humanities, Stern won a scholarship to study classical languages and literature at the University of Florence. He returned to Eretz Yisrael in 1929 and joined the Haganah, and not long after left his studies to devote his energies entirely to fighting for Jewish independence.
In 1931, a group of Haganah fighters, rejecting what they deemed was moderation and restraint in the fight for Jewish independence, broke away from the Haganah and formed an armed resistance movement of their own, known as the Irgun. Stern, whose views had become much more militant following the Arab riots of 1929, became an active member of the Irgun. He took on the underground name of “Yair,” in tribute to the commander of the zealots at Masada, Eliezer Ben Yair.
Stern, who viewed the British, more then the Arabs, as the primary enemy of the Jews and the principal obstacle to Jewish independence, called strongly for an armed struggle against the British. With David Raziel, he compiled a manual on the use of the revolver, the first of its kind in Hebrew. He also wrote the poem “Anonymous Soldiers” (1933) which became the anthem first of the Irgun, and later, of Lehi. A collection of Stern’s underground poetry was published posthumously.
In 1937, following the Arab riots, the Irgun split, with many of its members returning to the Haganah. Stern and others who refused to accept Haganah leadership remained in the Irgun under the command of Jabotinsky and continued their militant activities. Stern went to Poland to establish Irgun training courses there and to obtain arms. Returning to Eretz Yisrael, he was imprisoned by the British from August, 1939 to June, 1940.
Stern insisted that the struggle against the British remain independent of any political linkage, even to Jabotinsky’s Revisionist party. He also vehemently opposed tempering the resistance in any way, and thus, in August, 1940, when the Irgun decided to suspend their attacks on the British during World War II, Stern formed a radical splinter opposition group, known as Lehi, an acronym for “Lohamei Herut Yisrael.” He maintained that, even in the face of the Nazi threat, it was the British who posed the major threat to the Jews; doubting the Allies could win the war, he even advocated an alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, believing these ties would assist the nationalist effort in Eretz Yisrael.
Stern’s extremism, coupled with several robberies committed by members of his group, earned Lehi the resentment of many Jews in Eretz Yisrael, as well as the British. By 1942 the British had offered a reward for Stern’s capture. On February 12, 1942, the British discovered and forced their way into Stern’s hiding place in Tel Aviv, and killed him immediately. The building is now a museum of the Lehi movement.