16- New York City

16- New York City

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This is Matt! I think I may have posted a photo or two of him before. Anyways, Matt is one of my friends from DCAD. He's super cool and nice and I wish I got to see him more often (he commutes and is graphic design). When we went to New York City and Washington, D.C. last year on school trips, we were "bus buddies", and even though we were unfortunately split by majors on buses this year, we all still got to hang out and take pictures after we were done with our assignment. I've never met his girlfriend in real life, but the two of them have been together for quite a few years and just give me hope for younger couples and couples in general. I don't know whether it's knitting or crocheting, but regardless she makes the best things ever and even made a hat for me last winter without knowing me and whenever she makes stuff for Matt he says something like "this was made with love" and it's just really sweet and I just really enjoy them. Lastly, Oliver, Matt's pup, is so cute.

Anyways, New York City was pretty fun. Most of the day was spent doing this stupid "scavenger hunt" for different artwork (so we didn't have really any time to see what we wanted), which was really exhausting. I did get to see five Cindy Sherman photographs, though, which was just so surreal to see in person. When we were done, however, we got to go eat at Panera Bread and then walk back to Central Park and take photos. I rarely get to see Matt, especially in photo-taking situations, so I took quite a few of him. Also, quite a few pictures of this guy blowing huge soap bubbles in Central Park. He wasn't a soap bubble blowing expert, but it was just a really nice change and you could tell that the guy really enjoyed doing it. The bubbles turned out to be really cool colors in the photos.

On the bus ride up to New York, as I said before I didn't get to sit with Matt, but I sat with Dani, and that was lots of fun. On the way up, we watched so many episodes from season one of Adventure Time, which was really rad. I was loaned a Gameboy that plays color games and played the Zelda game that was with it, but ended up just slashing all of the plants because I forgot what to do/how to play it. On the way back home, Dani and I talked about "stuff and things" for a while and joked around and then I just listened to Say Anything on shuffle and played Super Mario Bros. I got farther than I have ever gotten in that game before, but of course it froze and didn't save my game. C'est la vie.

We got back fairly early from the trip, and me, Dani, and Brianna went straight to our apartment and were just lazy. I made food and then we watched Sherlock Holmes, The Benchwarmers, and a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother. I think that I'm going to make a list of all of the movies we have physical copies of and cross them out whenever we finish another one. That way, at the end of the year we know how many we watched. I think that would be pretty cool.

I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow so I don't get behind during the week, so I'm probably going to go to bed now. Not too long ago I ordered a futon with a bunk bed on top of it, and I'm really excited for that to be coming to our apartment soon because my chair is deflating and also I've always wanted my own futon (and I feel like this room could use it). The 5K is on Sunday and I guess I'm supposed to watch movies or whatever with guy on Sunday, so I just need to get things done so I don't get too overly stressed out. Even though most of the New York trip was spent running around the Met Museum, being in New York City was just really nice and I can't wait to call it my home.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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In 1965, Rodham enrolled at Wellesley College, where she majored in political science.[16] During her freshman year, she served as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans;[17][18] with this Rockefeller Republican-oriented group,[19] she supported the elections of John Lindsay and Edward Brooke.[20] She later stepped down from this position, as her views changed regarding the American Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.[17] In a letter to her youth minister at this time, she described herself as "a mind conservative and a heart liberal."[21] In contrast to the 1960s current that advocated radical actions against the political system, she sought to work for change within it.[22] In her junior year, Rodham became a supporter of the antiwar presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy.[23] Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rodham organized a two-day student strike and worked with Wellesley's black students to recruit more black students and faculty.[23] In early 1968, she was elected president of the Wellesley College Government Association and served through early 1969;[22][24] she was instrumental in keeping Wellesley from being embroiled in the student disruptions common to other colleges.[22] A number of her fellow students thought she might some day become the first woman President of the United States.[22] So she could better understand her changing political views, Professor Alan Schechter assigned Rodham to intern at the House Republican Conference, and she attended the "Wellesley in Washington" summer program.[23] Rodham was invited by moderate New York Republican Representative Charles Goodell to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s late-entry campaign for the Republican nomination.[23] Rodham attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami. However, she was upset by how Richard Nixon's campaign portrayed Rockefeller and by what she perceived as the convention's "veiled" racist messages, and left the Republican Party for good.[23]

Returning to Wellesley for her final year, Rodham wrote her senior thesis about the tactics of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky under Professor Schechter (years later while she was First Lady, access to the thesis was restricted at the request of the White House and it became the subject of some speculation).[25] In 1969, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts,[26] with departmental honors in political science.[25] Following pressure from some fellow students,[27] she became the first student in Wellesley College history to deliver its commencement address.[24] Her speech received a standing ovation lasting seven minutes.[22][28][29] She was featured in an article published in Life magazine,[30] due to the response to a part of her speech that criticized Senator Edward Brooke, who had spoken before her at the commencement.[27] She also appeared on Irv Kupcinet's nationally syndicated television talk show as well as in Illinois and New England newspapers.[31] That summer, she worked her way across Alaska, washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in Valdez (which fired her and shut down overnight when she complained about unhealthy conditions).[32]

The Whitewater controversy was the focus of media attention from the publication of a New York Times report during the 1992 presidential campaign,[160] and throughout her time as First Lady. The Clintons had lost their late-1970s investment in the Whitewater Development Corporation;[161] at the same time, their partners in that investment, Jim and Susan McDougal, operated Madison Guaranty, a savings and loan institution that retained the legal services of Rose Law Firm[161] and may have been improperly subsidizing Whitewater losses.[160] Madison Guaranty later failed, and Clinton's work at Rose was scrutinized for a possible conflict of interest in representing the bank before state regulators that her husband had appointed;[160] she claimed she had done minimal work for the bank.[162] Independent counsels Robert Fiske and Kenneth Starr subpoenaed Clinton's legal billing records; she said she did not know where they were.[163][164] The records were found in the First Lady's White House book room after a two-year search, and delivered to investigators in early 1996.[164] The delayed appearance of the records sparked intense interest and another investigation about how they surfaced and where they had been;[164] Clinton's staff attributed the problem to continual changes in White House storage areas since the move from the Arkansas Governor's Mansion.[165] After the discovery of the records, on January 26, 1996, Clinton made history by becoming the first First Lady to be subpoenaed to testify before a Federal grand jury.[163] After several Independent Counsels had investigated, a final report was issued in 2000 that stated there was insufficient evidence that either Clinton had engaged in criminal wrongdoing.[166]

Other investigations took place during Hillary Clinton's time as First Lady. Scrutiny of the May 1993 firings of the White House Travel Office employees, an affair that became known as "Travelgate", began with charges that the White House had used audited financial irregularities in the Travel Office operation as an excuse to replace the staff with friends from Arkansas.[167] The 1996 discovery of a two-year-old White House memo caused the investigation to focus more on whether Hillary Clinton had orchestrated the firings and whether the statements she made to investigators about her role in the firings were true.[168][169] The 2000 final Independent Counsel report concluded she was involved in the firings and that she had made "factually false" statements, but that there was insufficient evidence that she knew the statements were false, or knew that her actions would lead to firings, to prosecute her.[170] Following deputy White House counsel Vince Foster's July 1993 suicide, allegations were made that Hillary Clinton had ordered the removal of potentially damaging files (related to Whitewater or other matters) from Foster's office on the night of his death.[171] Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr investigated this, and by 1999, Starr was reported to be holding the investigation open, despite his staff having told him there was no case to be made.[172] When Starr's successor Robert Ray issued his final Whitewater reports in 2000, no claims were made against Hillary Clinton regarding this.[166] In March 1994 newspaper reports revealed her spectacular profits from cattle futures trading in 1978–1979;[173] allegations were made in the press of conflict of interest and disguised bribery,[174] and several individuals analyzed her trading records, but no formal investigation was made and she was never charged with any wrongdoing.[174] An outgrowth of the Travelgate investigation was the June 1996 discovery of improper White House access to hundreds of FBI background reports on former Republican White House employees, an affair that some called "Filegate".[175] Accusations were made that Hillary Clinton had requested these files and that she had recommended hiring an unqualified individual to head the White House Security Office.[176] Source: Wikipedia.

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Cesar Harada is artist-designer-research coordinator for the Open_Sailing
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Cesar Harada was born in Bayonne 1983 from a french mother in marketing Annie Harada and a japanese father, the sculptor Tetsuo Harada.
As a teenager he studied music at the Saint-Malo choir and navigation, Glass-blowing at the ADAC Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Boulle in 2001 with historical results, entered the ENSAD where he studied Animation film. He studied Product design at the ENSCI Ateliers Saint-Sabin Paris, and graphic design in Central Saint Martins London. He worked as computer graphics teacher in the Architecture school of Versailles, as stage designer, had his films, art and performances in major international Museums and venues. In 2009 he graduated from the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, and won [THE NEXT IDEA] Ars Electronica, the "Sustainable art award", a Helen Hamlyn and Adobe Award and he's a TED fellow 2010. Now coordinating the Open_Sailing team (about 40 people), a group developping software and hardware technologies towards the fabrication of the first International_Ocean_Station.

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